Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966: 12237637

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WETA-TV DOCUMENTARY ON GREAT SOCIETY, ET AL.

family living in a government-subsidized apartment to stay there the rest of its days and let the government--that's every taxpayer--pay most of the rent.

Where we Republicans have attacked so-called Great Society bills, it has been because this legislation threatened to stifle state, local, and private initiative or launched expensive new programs in a time of inflationary peril. We have made repeated attempts to improve Great Society legislation, and in some instances we have succeeded.

We gave strong support on final passage to the higher education bill, vocational training loan bill, the immigration bill, the Older Americans Act of 1965, various bills in the field of health, manpower development and training, various anti-crime bills, measures for the control of air and water pollution and water resources planning, and the 1965 voting rights bill.

Republicans made a huge contribution to the health care of older Americans in 1965. It was Republicans, not Democrats, who proposed a program of matching contributions to cover the medical expenses of oldsters. The Democrats snatched up the plan--and combined it with their program of hospitalization under social security.

President Johnson for two years now has been tossing around another phrase which is as nebulous as his "Great Society" catchword was originally. He talks about "creative federalism."

Mr. Johnson speaks of creative federalism in terms of working with the states and local communities to solve various problems and of developing new fiscal arrangements to promote that so-called partnership.