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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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## RE1 LANDRIDM-GRIFFIN ACT ANNOUNCER: The only major labor legislation passed by Congress in the last two decades has the name of a Michigan lawmaker on it. It is the Landrum-Griffin Act, co-authored by United States Senator Robert P. Griffin as a congressman in 1959. Michigan labor leaders have made the Landrum-Griffin Act an issue in Sen. Griffin's campaign. Here are Sen. Griffin and Rep. Gerald R. Ford, your Fifth District Congressman, to give you the real facts about the Landrum-Griffin Act. MR. FORD: Bob, I hope you and I together can make known to the people of Michigan just what the Landrum-Griffin Labor Act is all about, because a lot of untruths have been told about it. MR. CHEFFIN: Jerry, I really welcome this opportunity to lay the facts on the line about the Lenin-Griffin Act. The best way to do that, I think, is to remind people that this legislation was conceived during a period of flagrant abuses by labor officials and was simply aimed at cleaning up that situation. MR. FORD: I recall that one of the congressional leaders in the movement to clean up labor scandals in 1959 was the late President John F. Kennedy, who at that time was in the Senate. MR. GRIFFIN: That's right, Jerry. The Senate passed what was known as the Kennedy-Ervin Bill, and the House approved the Landrum-Griffin Bill. The two bills were somewhat different, and so Jack Kennedy, I and certain other members of the House and Senate were given the job of working out a compromise acceptable to both houses of Congress. Jack Kennedy and I worked together very closely on 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.