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.
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Inflation was threatening to destroy the economy, but most Democrats in Congress kept right on spending as usual. They resisted all Republican attempts to make deep non-military spending cuts--the best way to fight inflation. Instead they poured millions into such non-essential projects as Alaska's centennial celebration and Florida's Interama exposition. Scorning all Republican plans for economy, the Democrats rammed through bills to spend $9.5 million in taxpayer money on the Florida Interama and $4.6 million on the Alaska centennial. Today all Americans are paying the high cost of Johnson. They're paying for Johnson-Democrat inflation; they're paying Johnson-Democrat interest rates. You're paying and paying--every penny of it, in high prices, high interest, and high taxes. ANNOUNCER: Want to change the high interest picture? Went to keep down prices and taxes? Vote Republican. Vote to reelect Jerry Ford to Congress. GLENALO 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.