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The original documents are located in Box D20, folder "Republican Dinner for Catherine
May, Yakima, WA, May 14, 1966" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and
Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Yakima wash.
NEWS
CONGRESSMAN
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE IN SUNDAY A.M's
(6:30 p.m. Saturday, MAY 14)
EXCERPTS FROM SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICHIGAN,
The Johnson-Freeman Administration has slammed the door on the American farmer,
and Republicans in Congress are not going to let the Democrats get away with it.
With his orders to various government agencies to drive down food prices,
Mr. Johnson has made the farmer the whipping boy of inflation. Declining in
numbers as they are, America's farmers must all the more vigorously demand that the
Johnson-Freeman Administration halt all of its moves to roll back prices paid the
nation's food producers. And I can tell you that Republicans in Congress are going
to help them.
First the President took a whack at the farmer in worried reaction to consumer
grumbling over high food prices. When Republicans pointed out that prices received
by the farmer account for only 31 per cent of the grocery store price tag on food-
stuffs, Mr. Johnson did a double-take. Now he is wooing the country's wheat
farmers with a 15 per cent increase in the national acreage allotment for the 1967
crop.
The increase in the wheat acreage allotment is simply a fact of economic life
for which the wheat farmer owes nobody any thanks--not Mr. Johnson, Mr. Freeman,
or anyone else. If the market couldn't take the additional production, the farm
planners in Washington wouldn't be telling the farmer he can plant more.
At the same time, the series of actions taken by the Johnson-Freeman
Administration to depress farm prices in a desperate move to soothe the consumer
remains on the record and cannot be expunged.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which held down prices to thousands
of sugar producers by opening the door to greater sugar imports.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which cost grain farmers millions of
dollars in lost income by dumping Commodity Credit Corporation grain on the market.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which hurt the dairy industry by
ordering an expansion of dairy imports.
The farmer is the victim of inflation along with the consumer--not the villain
the Johnson-Freeman Administration would make him out to be. That is the unpleasant
truth, the tragic truth.
Today's farm prices are not the push behind the inflation that is stealing three
to five dollars of every hundred an American earns this year.
GERALD LISAARY
(MORE)
-2-
SPEECH EXCERPTS
***
The dismal truth for the farmer under the Johnson-Freeman Administration is that
farm prices today are 13 per cent lower than they were during the Korean War. But
food prices have gone up 16 per cent during that period.
Where is the inflated food dollar going? The farmer certainly isn't getting it.
He isn't even getting his fair share.
***
If Orville Freeman now crows about the increase in national wheat acreage
allotments, it will come with poor grace from a man who recently announced he was
"pleased to report" drops in farm prices.
***
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about Johnson-
Freeman Administration fiscal policies which have pushed up farm production costs
by 15 per cent since 1952.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about market price
manipulations which have pushed down prices received by farmers, dropping them
6 per cent since 1952.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about Johnson-Freeman
Administration policies which have resulted in a parity ration for April of only 80.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and the Democrats in Congress what happened to
all the promises of full parity they made during the 1964 election campaign.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and the Democrats in Congress about the
excessive federal spending which is the major cause of the inflation for which the
farmer is being blamed.
***
Mr. Johnson talks economy but doesn't do anything about it. And while he talks,
the free-spending Democrats in Congress go right on fattening the $112.8 billion
Johnson budget, which was phoney in the first place.
I believe a substantial majority of the American people favor fiscal caution,
particularly at this time when we are fighting a billion-dollar-a-month war in
South Vietnam.
But big-spending Democrats in the Congress obviously believe they should go
Mr. Johnson one or two or three billions better on domestic vote-buying legislation.
It's time the American people called a halt to excessive federal spending. They
can do that by electing more Republicans to Congress.
###
REPUBLICAN DINNER- CATHERINE MAY
FARM
YAKIMA, WASH.
(No GEN Dist.)
NEWS
CONGRESSMAN
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE IN SUNDAY A.M's
(6:30 p.m. Saturday, MAY 14)
EXCERPTS FROM SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICHIGAN.
The Johnson-Freeman Administration has slammed the door on the American farmer,
and Republicans in Congress are not going to let the Democrats get away with it.
With his orders to various government agencies to drive down food prices,
Mr. Johnson has made the farmer the whipping boy of inflation. Declining in
numbers as they are, America's farmers must all the more vigorously demand that the
Johnson-Freeman Administration halt all of its moves to roll back prices paid the
nation's food producers. And I can tell you that Republicans in Congress are going
to help them.
First the President took a whack at the farmer In worried reaction to consumer
grumbling over high food prices. When Republicans pointed out that prices received
by the farmer account for only H per cent of the grocery store price tag on food-
stuffs, Mr. Johnson did a louble-take. Now he is wooing the country wheat
farmers with a 15 per cent increase in the national acreage allotment for the 1967
crop.
The increase in the wheat acreage allotment is simply a fact of economic life
for which the wheat farmer owes nobody any thanks--not Mr. Johnson, Mr. Freeman,
or anyone else. If the market couldn't take the additional production, the farm
planners in Washington wouldn't be telling the farmer he can plant more.
At the same time, the series of actions taken by the Johnson-Freeman
Administration to depress farm prices in a desperate move to soothe the consumer
remains on the record and cannot be expunged.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which held down prices to thousands
of sugar producers by opening the door to greater sugar imports.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which cost grain farmers millions of
dollars in lost income by dumping Commodity Credit Corporation grain on the market.
It was the Johnson-Freeman Administration which hurt the dairy industry by
ordering an expansion of dairy imports.
The farmer is the victim of inflation along with the consumer--not the villain
the Johnson-Freeman Administration would make him out to be. That is the unpleasant
truth, the tragic truth.
Today's farm prices are not the push behind the inflation that is stealing three
to five dollars of every hundred an American earns this year.
GERALD
LIBRARY
(MORE)
-2-
SPEECH EXCERPTS
***
The dismal truth for the farmer under the Johnson-Freeman Administration is that
farm prices today are 13 per cent lower than they were during the Korean War. But
food prices have gone up 16 per cent during that period.
Where is the inflated food dollar going? The farmer certainly isn't getting it.
He isn't even getting his fair share.
***
If Orville Freeman now crows about the increase in national wheat acreage
allotments, it will come with poor grace from a man who recently announced he was
"pleased to report" drops in farm prices.
***
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about Johnson-
Freeman Administration fiscal policies which have pushed up farm production costs
by 15 per cent since 1952.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about market price
manipulations which have pushed down prices received by farmers, dropping them
6 per cent since 1952.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and Democrats in Congress about Johnson-Freeman
Administration policies which have resulted in a parity ratio for April of only 80.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and the Democrats in Congress what happened to
all the promises of full parity they made during the 1964 election campaign.
The farmer should ask Mr. Freeman and the Democrats in Congress about the
excessive federal spending which is the major cause of the inflation for which the
farmer is being blamed.
***
Mr. Johnson talks economy but doesn't do anything about it. And while he talks,
the free-spending Democrats in Congress go right on fattening the $112.8 billion
Johnson budget, which was phoney in the first place.
I believe a substantial majority of the American people favor fiscal caution,
particularly at this time when we are fighting a billion-dollar-a-month war in
South Vietnam.
But big-spending Democrats in the Congress obviously believe they should go
Mr. Johnson one or two or three billions better on domestic vote-buying legislation.
It's time the American people called a halt to excessive federal spending. They
can do that by electing more Republicans to Congress.
###