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This Gerald R. Ford Library folder of Ford Congressional Papers holds material from Ford's broadcasts in 1965 and 1966. It contains correspondence with WJR station manager James H. Quello and drafts of Ford's June 1965 "Your Government" radio report on congressional imbalance, Vietnam and Cuba, along with budget remarks. It also includes Ford's March 25, 1966 on-air statement calling for a congressional investigation of UFO sightings near Ann Arbor, Michigan, a Great Society documentary script and a Meet the Press transcript with Indira Gandhi.
“United Press”7 pages
WETA-TV DOCUMENTARY ON GREAT SOCIETY, ET AL. Look at some of the facets of the anti-poverty program. The Job Corps is the old Civilian Conservation Corps of depression days reshaped to fit a nation of big cities. The college work-study program is the old National Youth Administration idea. The Community Action Program is the local community uplift program hooked to federal money and, not incidentally, to federal dictation. We Republicans have not opposed all phases of the President's so-called particularly need start "Great Society" program. We have voted for parts of it, and we have improved some of the legislation implementing it as it moved through Congress. Most of the objectives are desirable, but the end does not always justify the means. This is true just as much in government as in individual conduct. When Republicans are returned to power in Washington, we also will offer the people a program that promises great progress toward realization of this nation's goals and dreams. The Republican attitude toward what President Johnson calls his "Great Society" program is based on the difference in philosophy between the two major political parties. We feel that we are the Party of the People because of this difference in philosophy. Republicans want to help people do more for themselves. Democratic Administrations just want to do things for people. This is epitomized by the cynical question asked by those whose votes can be bought: "What have you done for me lately?" (MORE)
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.