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.
“United Press”7 pages
POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH ARE DRIVING FARM PRICES SWIFTLY DOWNWARD AND CONSUMER COSTS HARSHLY UPWARD WITH EACH PASSING DAY. LET THERE BE NO MISTAKE. THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY ADMINISTRATION IS USING AND ABUSING AMERICAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS AS THE SCAPEGOATS OF INFLATION. TO THIS STATEMENT I ATTACH A LISTING OF SPECIFIC EXAMPLES AND I INVITE YOUR ATTENTION TO IT. WHEN THE AGRICRATS OF THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY ADMINISTRATION IMPOSE POLICIES AND PRACTICES WHICH HELP NO ONE AND HARM EVERYONE, THE CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FULLY JUSTIFIED IN THEIR RANGER THE BOILING POINT IS NEAR AT HAND.
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.