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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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than the cost of living is going up about 5 per cent this year. That's twice as fast as in 1965 and 1965 was bad enough. That's right, Bob. Nobody in Michigan is going to be taken in by Mr. Wirts' ridiculous statement because his own Bureau of Labor Statistics under reports which show he's telling fairy tales. --- (MN 79 PRICE GRAPH)--- It's all here on this cost-of-living short—a short dream from official figures furnished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Look at the way that cost-of-living line has seemed upward. It shows a sharp climb, particularly in 1965 and this year. That's when President Johnson and the Democrats in Congress should have held down on non-defense spending but didn't. Here is what's happened to prices in black and white. Starting with the figure of 100 in the 1957-59 period, we see that consumer prices have increased until in August—the latest figure we have here—the price the meter has eight-year high, the 113.8 mark. (CASEDA 007 POSTER AND ON GRIPPER) Mr. GRIFFIN: Our people in Michigan should realize that what all this means is just this: The 1957g19 dollar-on which our present Consumer Price Index is based is new worth only 06 cents. This is like paying a 14% federal value tax, That's right, Bob. We've got cheap dollars today - cheap Johnson dollars. They just don't go very far. Every homewife on a budget and every senior citizen struggling to live on Social Security is painfully aware of that. (MARK DAVIS) Bob, what this country is suffering from right now is Johnson inflation.
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.