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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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years. This makes it more expensive for you to buy a house or to buy a car. They don't tell you that the National Debt now exceeds $325 billion, up $8 billion over a year ago (as of September 30). --(PAN TO DEBT POSTER)-- They don't tell you that each billion dollars in debt adds more than $33 million per year to interest charges. They don't tell you that the interest on the National Debt now totals a staggering $13 billion a year. These Democratic spenders don't tell you that you pay over $1 billion a month in taxes just to pay the interest on the National Debt. They don't tell you that this interest payment alone takes all the federal income taxes paid by everybody earning $6,000 a year or less. --(BACK TO FORD)-- They talk about the Great Society, but they don't tell you that this $13 billion interest payment comes to more than President Johnson has budgeted for health, welfare and education all lumped together. And if the Democrats do not balance the budget in times such as these, when will they ever do it? President Johnson keeps telling the American people how much he and his lopsided Democratic majorities in Congress are giving the American people. Anything you get you have paid for--and your future and that of your children and grandchildren are mortgaged to the hilt in the bargain. The next time Mr. Johnson tells you what he is giving you, remember your tax bill and think about that $13 billion in interest on the National Debt. And if the Democrats do not balance the budget in times such as these, when will they ever do it? --(PAN TO TAX POSTER NO. 2)---- All of the Presidents and Congresses through World War II taxed the 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.