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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: ERIC BRITTER, London Times PAULINE FREDERICK, NBC News SELIG HARRISON, Washington Post PHILIP POTTER, Baltimore Sun 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 new Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. She is on her first official visit to this country since taking office. Mrs. Gandhi was the official hostess and close confidante of her father, Prime Minister Nehru, during the seventeen years he served as India's leader. Today she is considered to be the world's most powerful woman. We will have the first question now from Pauline Frederick of NBC News. MISS FREDERICK: Prime Minister Gandhi, on starting your trip to the West you said that you hoped to get India's point of view better understood and you hoped also to learn something from the countries and great leaders you would meet. To what extent have you achieved these goals in the United States? MRS. GANDHI: I found an understanding even before I got here. In my talks with President Johnson, he showed great understanding and knowledge of the problems which existed in India, and I think I was able to fill in the details. The only other leader I have met so far is President de Gaulle. The talks with both of these great leaders were very useful and, I think, did serve the purpose which I had in mind. MISS FREDERICK: On March the third you were reported to have said in the Parliament in Delhi that you were deeply distressed at the exaggerated picture of starving India being portrayed to the world. Would you tell us if you still feel that way and, if so, how you could put the picture of India's hunger need in perspective? MRS. GANDHI: All pictures or words are relative. India has
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.