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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SECRETARY FREEMAN, ECONOMIC ADVISOR GARDNER ACKLEY, AND EACH OF THE OTHER PROMINENT AGRICRATS HAVE TRIED, REPEATEDLY AND WITH ZEAL, TO MAKE THE AMERICAN FARMER AND HIS FAMILY THE WHIPPING BOYS FOR THE INFLATION THAT IS STEADILY TAKING MORE AND MORE DOLLARS FROM THE POCKETS OF EVERY AMERICAN. THE HOUSEWIVES OF AMERICA SHOULD BE TOLD THAT 61 PERCENT OF THE COST OF THE FOOD IN THEIR MARKET BASKETS IS ADDED AFTER IT LEAVES THE FARM. I REPEAT-- THE HOUSEWIVES OF AMERICA SHOULD BE TOLD THAT 61 PERCENT OF THE COST OF THE FOOD IN THEIR MARKET BASKETS IS ADDED AFTER IT LEAVES THE FARM. THE COLD HARD FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE RISING COSTS OF LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY CAN BE ATTRIBUTED PRIMARILY TO FORD LIBRARY GERMANY
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.