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Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966: 12237637

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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.

  • p. 51 …30,000 to 40,000 citizens to cooperate. You can help by signing up as a…
  • p. 55 …one out of five of the Democrats cooperated. Since Democrats in the Congress outnumber the Republicans…
  • p. 71 …In this case, of course, the friendship we have with the British government and the cooperation…
  • p. 85 …take is more friendly relations, more economic cooperation, cultural, social and so on, and it is…

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taxed us about $500 billion, and you're paying every penny of it.

---(BACK TO FORD)--

Your tax burden has already been increased this year through higher social security taxes, higher excise taxes, and advance withholding of income taxes.

We know the fiscal 1967 budget will be far larger than the President has forecast. We know the President will demand another tax increase--after the election. We know that you do not want another tax increase. Taxes are high enough now.

There's a better way out of the mess we're in. Let's cut non-essential federal spending. How do we do that? Vote Republican on November 8.

ANNOUNCER: Had enough of high taxes? Vote Republican. Vote for Congressman Jerry Ford.

GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY

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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.