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The original documents are located in Box D24, folder "Livingston County Republican
Fund-Raising Dinner, Pontiac, IL, March 11, 1968" of the Ford Congressional Papers:
Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. MONDAY--
March 11, 1968
in March 15, 1968 folder]
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., at a Republican Fund-
Raising Dinner Mon. evening, March 11, 1968, at Pontiac (Livingston Co.), Ill.
The Republican Party is going to make big gains in the November elections.
Indeed great victories will be ours if we do everything possible to capital-
ize on our opportunities--the opportunity to win the White House, capture control
of the U.S. House of Representatives and move up sharply in the U.S. Senate.
Our prospects are bright because the American people are becoming convinced
of the fact that the Republican Party is best equipped to end the war and win the
peace both at home and abroad, and to restore genuine prosperity in this Nation.
Our outlook is good because if you flip the coin over you see that the
Democratic Party has failed the American people on almost every one of the basic
promises it made in 1960 and 1964.
J
The Democratic Party has failed the young men who were promised they would
never be sent to do the job Asian boys should be doing.
2
The Democratic Party has failed the farmer who was promised his fair share
of the fruits of the American economy.
3
The Democratic Party has failed the consumer who was promised price stability.
4
The Democratic Party has failed the worker who was promised increased
purchasing power.
In sum, the Democratic Party has failed all of the American people on all
of the counts that add up to peace and real prosperity.
Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, who will be masterminding Lyndon Johnson's
reelection campaign, recently said the President will seek reelection on the basis
of his record. That is wonderful news.
Let's look at that record and tell it like it is--not as the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration would like people to believe.
If we tell it like it is we see that the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has
brought us a constant and continuing deterioration of the dollar, some of the
highest interest rates in a hundred years, a spiraling crime rate that has made
streets of fear of our city pavements, a breakdown of law and order which has
made nearly every major American city the seedbed for racial riot and a potential
war between the races, price inflation and cost inflation that make special
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victims of the pensioner and the farmer while hurting every American, strikes
that have threatened the Nation's health, education and welfare as Americans
tried to catch up with Johnson-Humphrey inflation, inflation that wipes out the
worker's wage gains, massive and repeated federal deficits that cause other
nations to view the dollar with distrust, a gold outflow that threatens to drain
away our entire gold stock, moves to restrict the freedom of Americans to travel
and to invest abroad, a limited war fought in a way that is pointing toward
unlimited disaster, stalemate in Vietnam, humiliation at the hands of North Korea,
the distrust of both Israelis and Arabs because of our non-policy in the Middle
East, drift in Europe and a sundering of the once-strong ties that bound NATO
together, danger that the Soviet Union will upset the balance of power through-
out the world and surpass us in nuclear capability.
That is a long list...and there's more. Kind of leaves you breathless,
doesn't it? It should leave the Administration speechless.
But this Administration, from the President on down, has been doing plenty
of talking in the past four years--and that's on the record, too. That record
is one of serious misjudgments both on the war and the home front, misleading
statements if not deliberate distortions, and direct contradictions.
The farmer has been caught squarely in the middle as the Johnson-Freeman
Administration has tried to put the best possible face on its mistakes.
We all remember when the Johnson-Freeman Administration made the farmer the
scapegoat of inflation in 1966. We know, too, that never before have our
farmers produced so much and been paid so little for it. We know that Johnson-
Freeman Administration policies forced the Nation's farmers to take a $1½ billion
pay cut this past year while increased profits to the middlemen and the handlers
pushed food prices upward.
We need consumer protection, and the greatest consumer protection we can
provide is to assure the farmer an adequate income.
The message I bring you tonight is that no country, no matter how rich or
powerful, can follow the Johnson-Freeman-Humphrey path of continuous inflation
without inviting financial disaster. I invite America to follow Republicans
on the road to genuine prosperity and peace.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. MONDAY--
March 11, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., at a Republican Fund-
Raising Dinner Mon. evening, March 11, 1968, at Pontiac (Livingston Co.), Ill.
The Republican Party is going to make big gains in the November elections.
Indeed great victories will be ours if we do everything possible to capital-
ize on our opportunities--th opportunity to win the White House, capture control
of the U.S. House of Representatives and move up sharply in the U.S. Senate.
Our prospects are bright because the American people are becoming convinced
of the fact that the Republican Party is best equipped to end the war and win the
peace both at home and abroad, and to restore genuine prosperity in this Nation.
Our outlook is good because if you flip the coin over you see that the
Democratic Party has failed the American people on almost every one of the basic
promises it made in 1960 and 1964.
The Democratic Party has failed the young men who were promised they would
never be sent to do the job Asian boys should be doing.
The Democratic Party has failed the farmer who was promised his fair share
of the fruits of the American economy.
The Democratic Party has failed the consumer who was promised price stability
The Democratic Party has failed the worker who was promised increased
purchasing power.
In sum, the Democratic Party has failed all of the American people on all
of the counts that add up to peace and real prosperity.
Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, who will be masterminding Lyndon Johnson's
reelection campaign, recently said the President will seek reelection on the basis
of his record. That is wonderful news.
Let's look at that record and tell it like it is--not as the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration would like people to believe.
If we tell it like it is we see that the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has
brought us a constant and continuing deterioration of the dollar, some of the
highest interest rates in a hundred years, a spiraling crime rate that has made
streets of fear of our city pavements, a breakdown of law and order which has
made nearly every major American city the seedbed for racial riot and a potential
war between the races, price inflation and cost inflation that make special
(more)
-2-
victims of the pensioner and the farmer while hurting every American, strikes
that have threatened the Nation's health, education and welfare as Americans
tried to catch up with Johnson-Humphrey inflation, inflation that wipes out the
worker's wage gains, massive and repeated federal deficits that cause other
nations to view the dollar with distrust, a gold outflow that threatens to drain
away our entire gold stock, moves to restrict the freedom of Americans to travel
and to invest abroad, a limited war fought in a way that is pointing toward
unlimited disaster, stalemate in Vietnam, humiliation at the hands of North Korea,
the distrust of both Israelis and Arabs because of our non-policy in the Middle
East, drift in Europe and a sundering of the once-strong ties that bound NATO
together, danger that the Soviet Union will upset the balance of power through-
out the world and surpass us in nuclear capability.
That is a long list and there's more. Kind of leaves you breathless,
doesn't it? It should leave the Administration speechless.
But this Administration, from the President on down, has been doing plenty
of talking in the past four years--and that's on the record, too. That record
is one of serious misjudgments both on the war and the home front, misleading
statements if not deliberate distortions, and direct contradictions.
The farmer has been caught squarely in the middle as the Johnson-Freeman
Administration has tried to put the best possible face on its mistakes.
We all remember when the Johnson-Freeman Administration made the farmer the
scapegoat of inflation in 1966. We know, too, that never before have our
farmers produced so much and been paid so little for it. We know that Johnson-
Freeman Administration policies forced the Nation's farmers to take a $11/2 billion
pay cut this past year while increased profits to the middlemen and the handlers
pushed food prices upward.
We need consumer protection, and the greatest consumer protection we can
provide is to assure the farmer an adequate income.
The message I bring you tonight is that no country, no matter how rich or
powerful, can follow the Johnson-Freeman-Humphrey path of continuous inflation
without inviting financial disaster. I invite America to follow Republicans
on the road to genuine prosperity and peace.
###
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. MONDAY--
March 11, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., at a Republican Fund-
Raising Dinner Mon. evening, March 11, 1968, at Pontiac (Livingston Co.), Ill.
The Republican Party is going to make big gains in the November elections.
Indeed great victories will be ours if we do everything possible to capital-
ize on our opportunities--the opportunity to win the White House, capture control
of the U.S. House of Representatives and move up sharply in the U.S. Senate.
Our prospects are bright because the American people are becoming convinced
of the fact that the Republican Party is best equipped to end the war and win the
peace both at home and abroad, and to restore genuine prosperity in this Nation.
Our outlook is good because if you flip the coin over you see that the
Democratic Party has failed the American people on almost every one of the basic
promises it made in 1960 and 1964.
The Democratic Party has failed the young men who were promised they would
never be sent to do the job Asian boys should be doing.
The Democratic Party has failed the farmer who was promised his fair share
of the fruits of the American economy.
The Democratic Party has failed the consumer who was promised price stability.
The Democratic Party has failed the worker who was promised increased
purchasing power.
In sum, the Democratic Party has failed all of the American people on all
of the counts that add up to peace and real prosperity.
Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, who will be masterminding Lyndon Johnson's
reelection campaign, recently said the President will seek reelection on the basis
of his record. That is wonderful news.
Let's look at that record and tell it like it is--not as the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration would like people to believe.
If we tell it like it is we see that the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has
brought us a constant and continuing deterioration of the dollar, some of the
highest interest rates in a hundred years, a spiraling crime rate that has made
streets of fear of our city pavements, a breakdown of law and order which has
made nearly every major American city the seedbed for racial riot and a potential
war between the races, price inflation and cost inflation that make special
(more)
-2-
victims of the pensioner and the farmer while hurting every American, strikes
that have threatened the Nation's health, education and welfare as Americans
tried to catch up with Johnson-Humphrey inflation, inflation that wipes out the
worker's wage gains, massive and repeated federal deficits that cause other
nations to view the dollar with distrust, a gold outflow that threatens to drain
away our entire gold stock, moves to restrict the freedom of Americans to travel
and to invest abroad, a limited war fought in a way that is pointing toward
unlimited disaster, stalemate in Vietnam, humiliation at the hands of North Korea,
the distrust of both Israelis and Arabs because of our non-policy in the Middle
East, drift in Europe and a sundering of the once-strong ties that bound NATO
together, danger that the Soviet Union will upset the balance of power through-
out the world and surpass us in nuclear capability.
That is a long list and there's more. Kind of leaves you breathless,
doesn't it? It should leave the Administration speechless.
But this Administration, from the President on down, has been doing plenty
of talking in the past four years--and that's on the record, too. That record
is one of serious misjudgments both on the war and the home front, misleading
statements if not deliberate distortions, and direct contradictions.
The farmer has been caught squarely in the middle as the Johnson-Freeman
Administration has tried to put the best possible face on its mistakes.
We all remember when the Johnson-Freeman Administration made the farmer the
scapegoat of inflation in 1966. We know, too, that never before have our
farmers produced so much and been paid so little for it. We know that Johnson-
Freeman Administration policies forced the Nation's farmers to take a $1½ billion
pay cut this past year while increased profits to the middlemen and the handlers
pushed food prices upward.
We need consumer protection, and the greatest consumer protection we can
provide is to assure the farmer an adequate income.
The message I bring you tonight is that no country, no matter how rich or
powerful, can follow the Johnson-Freeman-Humphrey path of continuous inflation
without inviting financial disaster. I invite America to follow Republicans
on the road to genuine prosperity and peace.
# # #