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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.
“Price”20 pages
- p. 37 …FREEMAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS HAD DROPPED DURING THE PRECEDING WEEKS AND EXPRESSED…
- p. 38 A DECREASE IN FARM PRICES. LIKE MR. FREEMAN, THE OFFICIALS WERE HAPPY TO NOTE THAT CONSUMERS…
- p. 41 POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH ARE DRIVING FARM PRICES SWIFTLY DOWNWARD AND CONSUMER COSTS…
- p. 42 …PRESIDENT, ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP PRICES DOWN ON THE FARM?
GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
- p. 44 …production costs;
(2) by market price manipulations which have decreased prices received by farmers, with the…
- p. 45 …and duck any question of higher consumer prices if you possibly can." I am not surprised…
- p. 49 …Too many Democrats in Congress means too much federal spending, high prices in the marketplace, skyrocketing…
- p. 53 …It's price rise after price rise. Your dollar is worth less and less.
Are you…
- p. 54 …higher taxes at the same time that prices are going up. --(GO TO CLOSEUP OF POSTER…
- p. 55 …Had enough of higher prices? Vote Republican, and return Jerry Ford to Congress.
CAMERON R. FOND…
- p. 59 …They show up in the form of price boosts all along the line. They hit the…
- p. 60 …Prices continued going up, up, up. --(PAN TO PRICE SKYROCKET)-- The Johnson Administration kept spending, spending…
- p. 61 …You're paying and paying--every penny of it, in high prices, high interest, and high…
- p. 65 ## 1111111111
INFLATION--the steady and continuing rise in prices--is rubbing
Michigan's citizens of their…
- p. 66 …Here is what's happened to prices in black and white. Starting with the figure of…
- p. 67 …PORE! Bob, I think the people of Michigan vote to bring down high prices. I believe…
- p. 77 …I don't think that we could maintain a six percent price increase for very long…
- p. 78 …Ackley? Price pressures are very great today-as you would acknowledge over the last few months…
- p. 79 …We talk about various things, including prices, price problems, price prospects. Where there does seem to…
- p. 80 …We have a vast complex of voluntary controls, on prices, wages investment abroad, loans abroad. My…
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.