Documents / Official release
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.
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REPRESENTATIVE FORD ON MARCH 31ST LAST, THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ORVILLE L. FREEMAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS HAD DROPPED DURING THE PRECEDING WEEKS AND EXPRESSED DELIGHT IN THIS FACT. THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE NATION REPORTED HIS ELATION IN DETAIL AND FARMERS THROUGHOUT AMERICA REACTED ANGRILY. THE NEW YORK TIMES BEGAN ITS REPORT ON THE SITUATION IN THIS WAY: "SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ORVILLE L. FREEMAN EXPRESSED PLEASURE TODAY WITH THE FACT THAT THE PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS HAD DROPPED RECENTLY. "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN THE MEMORY OF FEDERAL FARM OFFICIALS THAT A SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE INDICATED THAT HE WAS PLEASED WITH
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.