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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
A DECREASE IN FARM PRICES. LIKE MR. FREEMAN, THE OFFICIALS WERE HAPPY TO NOTE THAT CONSUMERS WOULD BENEFIT FROM LOWER PRICES BY THIS SUMMER." LET ME REPEAT THAT LAST SENTENCE: "LIKE MR. FREEMAN, THE OFFICIALS WERE HAPPY TO NOTE THAT CONSUMERS WOULD BENEFIT FROM LOWER PRICES BY THIS SUMMER." THERE IS ONLY ONE FLAW IN THIS STATEMENT. IT SIMPLY ISN'T TRUE. PARADOXICALLY, AS FARM PRICES HAVE MOVED STEADILY DOWNWARD, RETAIL FOOD PRICES HAVE RISEN EVEN MORE RAPIDLY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR'S COST OF LIVING INDEX HAS CONTINUED TO CLIMB TO RECORD HIGHS. GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
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.