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The original documents are located in Box D19, folder "Orange County Republican
Executive Committee, November 3, 1965" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press
Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D19 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
READING TEXT
Orlando, Florida
Nov. 3, 1965
Orange County Republican Executive Committee
It is a special pleasure to be in the Sunshine State.
When John Rushing sent the invitation, I had some reservations about
accepting the speaking engagement. John's letter went something like
this:
"Dear Congressman Ford:
"The Orange County Republican Executive Committee has a reputation
for excellent programs and outstanding speakers."
John then listed several fine orators.
His letter concluded: "I hope you will accept the invitation....
until now our programs have been exceptionally good."
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(GOVERNOR OF VIRGIN ISLANDS)
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Orlando GOP
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Looking back on what I call the speed-of-sound Congress and its
first session which ended not so long ago, I canrecall many amusing
incidents.
From our side of the aisle, it was laughable to watch the huge mass of
humanity on the other side when the White House fired off messages to
Capitol Hill.
The Democrats didn't know whether to clap their hands or click their
heels most of the time.
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The Administration's poverty program among others has amusing
phases. The story goes----not verified by Bill Moyers of course--that
a
White House official saw some men busy whittling with their pocket
knives when he visited a small town.
"What can we--in the poverty program---- do for you?" the official asked.
The reply was: "Nothing---just leave us alone."
The White House official answered: "Well, we have the money appropriated
already----can't we do something?
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Orlando GOP
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One of the whistlers stopped rocking in his chair, looked up at
the man from Washington and said: "Yes...go back and read the
26th chapter of Proverbs, the 17th verse."
For those who cannot recall the exact words in that verse, they
read: "He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to
him, is like one that takes a dog by the
ears."
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We can be thankful that there are many rugged individualists
in America.
(INCOME TAE STORY)
There are strong indio ations of Republican victories in 1966.
Tonight for a few minutes I will discuss some of the major issues
and how our Party can experience a resurgence of strength at
all hair levels of government.
(INTO GOP SPEECH)
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
Excerpts from a speech
Release for Ams
Orlando, Fla. Nov. 3, 1965
or at time of
speech delivery
At the root of America's domestic problems today is an Administration
more interested in creating a welfare state than in the state of the welfare.
We need only to look at the poverty program, which has already become a
top-heavy bureaucracy.
Republicans, Democrats and political independents alike are concerned about
poverty, but with the way things are going under the Great Society's plan
it is time to take the profit out of poverty.
The Great Society is a shambles of contradiction. Its programs are dressed
in purity of name. And, in fiscal I966 its new programs will cost American
taxpayers an estimated additional $16.7 billion over and above the so-called
regular expenditures. Meanwhile, our national debt is not the $320 billion
appearing on the record books, Actually it is $800 billion in committments
for future spending that requires no new laws or programs.
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The President has predicted that this Congress "will leap into history as
the most effective and most rewarding Congress for all the people in all the
history of America."
Is it rewarding to have skyrocketing living costs and the threat of
spiraling inflation, to have state and local governments crumbling under the
heavy hand of federalism? Is it effective to have reckless spending by the
Administration and its irresponsible economic policies that could lead the way
toward national and personal bankruptcy?
At this point, we recall that it was Dwight D. Eisenhower who said that one
answer to bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
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The record of President Johnson presents the Republican Party with a
magnificant opportunity to return sound, sensible and responsible government.
It gives us the issues of reckless spending, bureaucratic sprawl, inflationary
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pressures and higher hidden taxes
and the loss of individual freedom and
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identity.
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Speech excerpts
Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich)
The common cause the cause of good government is great enough and
big enough to over-shadow all the minor differences that sometimes separate
us.
There are plenty of Democratic political scalps available without us
having to sharpen our hatchets in each other's back.
For us to win the chance to restore balance to government and return
dignity to the individual, for us to seize the golden opportunity that the
Administration's record has given us, we must present the American people
with a broad-based, united Republican Party.
We need to develop strong fund-raising campaigns. We should enlist more
articulate, personable and knowledgable candidates. By our record we must
earn the respect of the electorate to regain stewardship of government in
state houses, counties, townships and ultimately, in Washington,
I propose a neighbor-to-neighbor crusade to tell the facts of the
alleged Great Society. We should ask our neighbors some questions about the
Administration's claim of progress.
Is it progress to retreat from the principles of the Constitution? Is it
progress to perpetuate poverty by political exploitation and purpose? Is it
progress to stifle individual incentive? Is it progress to set a record for
a national debt?
We should remind the electorate that millions of Americans, under the
Democrat Administration, have less money to spend on necessities, slimmer
savings accounts, and more taxes arbitrarily taken from their paychecks.
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With one party dominating Congress and controlling the White House, millions
of Americans have nothing to say about the conduct of the Nation's business.
In the coming elections they will have an opportunity to make our society
not a G reat one, but a good one.
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Let's get on with the job, Let's forget 1964. Let's become once again
one Republican Party. This does not mean a huge monolithic political
organization. Certainly we can have responsible disagreement. We should have
intelligent dialogue.
Together---shoulder-to-shoulder- we can win Republican victories.
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