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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.
“United Press”7 pages
Panel EDWIN L. DALE, The New York Times LAWRENCE FERTIG, New York World Telegram and Sun AUSTIN KIPLINGER, Changing Times SANDER VANOCUR, NBC News Moderator: LAWRENCE E. SPIVAK Permission is hereby granted to news media and magazines to reproduce in whole or in part. Credit to NBC's MEET THE PRESS will be appreciated. # MEET THE PRESS MR. SPIVAK: Our guest today on MEET THE PRESS is the President's top economic adviser, Gardner Ackley, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Now we will have the first question from Sander Vanocur of NBC News. MR. VANOCUR: Mr. Ackley, two weeks ago the Washington Post conducted a survey of the nation's economists in business, labor and the universities, 32 of them. Twenty-two of them said they favored an immediate tax increase. Do you, and does the Administration? MR. ACKLEY: Mr. Vanocur, I saw that survey. The answer to your question is that the Administration does not favor a tax increase now, and neither do I. MR. VANOCUR: Why is that, sir? MR. ACKLEY: Because it is not necessary. We are watching the economic situation very closely. The President has repeatedly said that if the economic situation evolves in such a way that a tax increase is appropriate, he won't hesitate to ask for it, but our judgment as of this time is that it is not called for. MR. VANOCUR: But, sir, to the degree that the economy, its excesses or whatever you want to call them, is dependent upon defense spending—the war in Vietnam—doesn't this make this kind of projection very difficult? For example, who would have said back in 1964, in November, that a year and a half later we would have increased our troop commitment by more than a
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.