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Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966: 12237637
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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.
“Johnson”28 pages
- p. 5 …you harpooning my Democratic friends or President Johnson and his Administration, except to point out what…
- p. 12 …you harpooning my Democratic friends or President Johnson and his Administration, except to point out what…
- p. 20 …The budget from President Johnson threatens to make the lurking shadow of inflation a monster of…
- p. 25 …President Johnson has seized upon a phrase--the Great Society--and has given it propaganda value…
- p. 26 …The Republican attitude toward what President Johnson calls his "Great Society" program is based on the…
- p. 27 …President Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union message defined his Great Society program as…
- p. 28 …President Johnson for two years now has been tossing around another phrase which is as nebulous…
- p. 30 …program is an example of what Mr. Johnson calls "creative federalism." It passed the House a…
- p. 31 …President Johnson has seized upon a phrase--the Great Society--and has given it propaganda value…
- p. 32 …The Republican attitude toward what President Johnson calls his "Great Society" program is based on the…
- p. 33 …President Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union message defined his Great Society program as…
- p. 34 …President Johnson for two years now has been tossing around another phrase which is as nebulous…
- p. 36 …program is an example of what Mr. Johnson calls "creative federalism." It passed the House a…
- p. 41 …THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY ADMINISTRATION IS USING AND ABUSING AMERICAN FARMERS AND RANCHERS AS THE SCAPEGOATS OF…
- p. 44 The Johnson-Humphrey Administration is using and abusing American farmers and ranchers as the scapegoats of…
- p. 45 …He knows full well that the Johnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration is entirely to blame for the…
- p. 53 …3 AND THEN DRAW AWAY)--
The Johnson Administration and free-spending Democrats in the Congress are…
- p. 54 …Johnson had this comment to make on the problem of inflation--
--(CLIP OF JOHNSON SAYING: "So…
- p. 57 …interest payment comes to more than President Johnson has budgeted for health, welfare and education all…
- p. 60 …When inflation began its insidious attack upon the American economy last year, President Johnson refused to…
- p. 61 …Today all Americans are paying the high cost of Johnson. They're paying for Johnson-Democrat…
- p. 63 …Lyndon Johnson,
who then was the Senate Democratic Leader, voted for it. So did Gun. Phil…
- p. 65 …Bob, the most fantastic statements I have heard a Johnson Administration official make in recent weeks…
- p. 66 …That's when President Johnson and the Democrats in Congress should have held down on non…
- p. 67 …that statement. Or would he, like Mr. Johnson, blame the housewife, the farmer, industry and labor…
- p. 83 …In my talks with President Johnson, he showed great understanding and knowledge of the problems which…
- p. 84 …President Johnson has spoken to Dutch Foreign Minister Luns about the possibility of calling an international…
- p. 86 …We appreciated President Johnson's stoppage of the bombing, and I think that could have led…
The original documents are located in Box D37, folder "Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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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.