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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
THE EXCESSIVE, RECKLESS SPENDING OF OUR PEOPLE'S MONEY FOR WASTEFUL, TOO OFTEN UNNECESSARY PROGRAMS CONCEIVED BY THE SO-CALLED GREAT SOCIETY PLANNERS AND CONCURRED IN BY THE GREAT MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS. SECRETARY FREEMAN HAS ALLEGED THAT DURING HIS TENURE OF OFFICE THE AMERICAN FARMER HAS ENJOYED A FIFTY PERCENT INCREASE IN HIS INCOME. WILL ALL THE FARMERS WHO HAVE ENJOYED A REAL INCOME INCREASE OF FIFTY PERCENT PLEASE STAND UP? OR, BETTER YET, LET THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE CONGRESS HEAR FROM YOU BY LETTER, WIRE, OR TELEPHONE. FARM ORGANIZATIONS, FARM STATE NEWSPAPERS, FARM LEADERS AND COUNTLESS INDIVIDUAL FARMERS FROM COAST TO COAST ARE BOILING WITH ANGER OVER THE
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.