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The original documents are located in Box D16, folder "Aquinas College Republican Club,
October 19, 1962" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at
the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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From the office of
REP. GERALD R. FORD,JR.
For release:
Friday, October 19
Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. declared last night that to
use American tax money to ransom Cuban citizens from a Soviete
controlled government would add another blunder to the sorry
story of Cuba. in an address to the Aquinas College Young
Republican Club Ford said that the "crucial blunder was made
in April of last year when at the last mânute the White House
cancellednecessary U.S. air and sea support included in the
original plan for the recapture of Cuba by Cuban patriots."
While expressing sympathy and concern for the 1100 Cuban
patriots involved Ford pointed out that the issue is whether
the U.S. is to assist in any way the atheistic Communist
conspiracy especially in its takeover of an island nation less
than 100 miles from our own shores.
Ford insisted that to give American tax money to the
Soviet-dominated Communists in Cuba would weaken our moral
fibre at home and our prestige abroad. He called for strong
action against the Castro government including an economic
embargo and the immediate recognition of a Cuban government
in exile.
Ford concluded by saying that "To refuse to pursue a strong
and vigorous policy in Cuba will give credence to Khrushchev's
analysis recently related by Robert Frost that the United States
will not take effective action because of the liberal philosophy
of the present Administration. If the Kremlin is further
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convinced of the truth of this analysis by a payment of a
ransom to Castro, we can only expect more and greater
Communist aggression throughout the world.
(Note: Copy of Ford's complete statement is enclosed.)
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD