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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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The action of Congress in supporting the President in South Viet Nam policy and military measures so far has other far-reaching effects. In wartime, we have learned from experience, the American people cannot have both butter and guns...when uncle Sam puts on his combat gear, he must take off his Santa Claus suit...as military spending skyrockets, we must retrench somewhere along the line. America is a rich country, but the riches are not unlimited. It has been a dream of the Communist world that sooner or later America would spend itself into bankruptcy...In this crucial time, I am confident Americans are prepared to do the best they can in a financial way even if it means doing without some devices , or " gorbles " That can come next month or next year Although the President so far has been given strong Congressional support in his actions against Communist aggression, I am concerned that the Administration has failed to take firm steps toward correcting the situation in Cuba. Caribbean - which is Contra Cuba . The Administration has failed to carry out the original attack against Communism in Cuba which John F. Kennedy demanded. Piggs was a failure in April 1961 but this set back should not prevent America from During the 1960 Presidential campaign and at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the late President insisted on removal of all Soviet forces from Fidel Castro's spawning ground for Communism. He called for support of free Cuban forces both inside and outside of that country. And, he demanded has an end to the export of Communism from the strategic island, which is almost within sight of our shoreline. Those prompts outweigh by the late President are sound today -- they should be implemented or there will be additional trouble upon living supra or subjugating in the European . Roughness will support a policy of strength in this hemisphere as we have elsewhere in
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.