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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.
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1966 - INFLATION ANNOUNCER: One of the key issues in this election campaign is inflation. Here is our Congressman, Jerry Ford, to discuss this issue with you. MR. FORD: Inflation is a thief. It robs you of hard-earned wage gains; it steals from your earnings. --(PAN TO INFLATION POSTER NO. 1 BRIEFLY)-- You can't lock your door against it. No use to bar the windows. --(CAMERA BACK TO FORD)-- What is inflation? It's the cost of living going up and up and up. It's price rise after price rise. Your dollar is worth less and less. Are you making more now than you were last year? According to official government figures, the cost of living is going up faster than the average working man's income. --(PAN TO INFLATION POSTER NO. 2)-- This year inflation is on a rampage. Last year the cost of living was creeping upward. This year it's in orbit. Who's to blame for this destructive inflation? Are you? Is labor? Is industry? No, it is primarily President Johnson and his Democrat dollar shrinkers in Washington. Budget deficits and a bigger National Debt equal shrunken money. --(SHIFT TO CLOSE UP OF POSTER NO. 3 AND THEN DRAW AWAY)-- The Johnson Administration and free-spending Democrats in the Congress are primarily responsible for our present frightening inflationary cycle. They could have stopped it, but they didn't. In fact, they encouraged it by continuing excessive spending policies and deficit financing. Now could the Democrats have halted inflation? By cutting back on non-essential federal expenditures before the fires of inflation began roaring out 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.