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The original documents are located in Box D25, folder "GOP Tea, Red Hook, NY, June 22,
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 IN SATURDAY PM's--
June 22, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., House Republican Leader,
at a GOP Tea at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Red Hook, N.Y.
It has been said there is always a woman at the beginning of all great
things. Great things are happening in the Republican Party. Women not only were
in on the beginning of those things but are going to follow through, I know, until
the Republican victory celebration in November.
We need women to reach the goal of victory on Nov. 5--and I know you will be
there pitching all the way.
We won some great victories in 1966. We now are only 31 sears away from
Republican control of the United States House of Representatives as a result. One
of the most important ingredients of those victories was unity. In unity they were
conceived, in unity they were pursued and in unity they were achieved. In this most
crucial political year of 1968 we must never forget the need for unity. And we
must never forget that as we get near the goal line the last five yards are the
hardest.
Women's participation in Republican Party politics is the surest way to
victory for the GOP.
Devotion, dedication and hard work. These are the qualities that distinguish
Republican women, and this is why GOP women are a source of inspiration to all those
who carry the standard of the Republican party throughout the nation.
I am sure you are an inspiration, too, to Hamilton Fish Jr. and that he is
counting on you to help him win the 28th Congressional District seat. You will do
your utmost, I know, to bring him victory on Nov. 5.
Your efforts are vital, for this is a crucial election year not only for the
Republican Party but for the Nation.
Our country desperately needs the kind of enlightened and responsible leader-
ship only the Republican Party can provide.
The American people want the Vietnam War ended on honorable and lasting
terms. They want proper action taken to halt inflation and fiscal irresponsibility
at home. And, above all, they want the kind of national leadership that will return
morality and credibility to our government, law and order to our streets and college
(more)
Digitized from Box D25 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
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campuses, and a sense of purpose and responsibility to our people and our Nation.
Lyndon Johnson demonstrated once again this week why the American people are
eager for new national leadership and why they must look to the Republican Party
to restore law and order in the United States.
When Lyndon Johnson signed the omnibus anti-crime bill which Republicans
were instrumental in shaping into a strong measure he said the wiretapping provision
would not be used to fight crime at the federal level.
Lyndon Johnson made that statement despite the fact that the national crime
rate has risen 88 per cent since 1960, nearly nine times faster than our population
has grown.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration will not use electronic surveillance to
attack major crime despite the fact that law enforcement officials in metropolitan
areas have declared it a valuable weapon against the crime syndicates.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration refuses to use wiretapping to fight
organized crime despite the fact that the President's Crime Commission recommended
that electronic surveillance be employed against crime as well as espionage.
In my view, the Johnson-Humphrey Administration is soft on crime.
I say this because the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has demonstrated no
real sense of urgency in launching a war on crime.
This is why a strong omnibus anti-crime bill has not been enacted into law
until June 19, 1968.
This is why the national crime rate has soared in recent years.
This is why there is a general atmosphere of lawlessness in America, a feeling
on the part of some Americans that they can get away with arson and looting in the
central cities and seizure of university buildings on college campuses.
Some social critics have viewed conditions in America today and talked of a
"sick society."
I say most American are good, sound people who have no reason to engage in
self-recrimination.
Sick? Yes, Americans are sick of an Administration that refuses to get tough
with bigtime criminals and lawbreakers who use slum conditions as an excuse for
criminal activity.
If violence has become commonplace in America today, it is because those who
turn to violence to achieve their ends believe they can get away with it.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration invited the disorder which plagues
America.
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE IN SATURDAY PM's--
June 22, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., House Republican Leader,
at a GOP Tea at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Red Hook, N.Y.
It has been said there is always a woman at the beginning of all great
things. Great things are happening in the Republican Party. Women not only were
in on the beginning of those things but are going to follow through, I know, until
the Republican victory celebration in November.
We need women to reach the goal of victory on Nov. 5--and I know you will be
there pitching all the way.
We won some great victories in 1966. We now are only 31 sears away from
Republican control of the United States House of Representatives as a result. One
of the most important ingredients of those victories was unity. In unity they were
conceived, in unity they were pursued and in unity they were achieved. In this most
crucial political year of 1968 we must never forget the need for unity. And we
must never forget that as we get near the goal line the last five yards are the
hardest.
Women's participation in Republican Party politics is the surest way to
victory for the GOP.
Devotion, dedication and hard work. These are the qualities that distinguish
Republican women, and this is why GOP women are a source of inspiration to all those
who carry the standard of the Republican party throughout the nation.
I am sure you are an inspiration, too, to Hamilton Fish Jr. and that he is
counting on you to help him win the 28th Congressional District seat. You will do
your utmost, I know, to bring him victory on Nov. 5.
Your efforts are vital, for this is a crucial election year not only for the
Republican Party but for the Nation.
Our country desperately needs the kind of enlightened and responsible leader-
ship only the Republican Party can provide.
The American people want the Vietnam War ended on honorable and lasting
terms. They want proper action taken to halt inflation and fiscal irresponsibility
at home. And, above all, they want the kind of national leadership that will return
morality and credibility to our government, law and order to our streets and college
(more)
-2-
campuses, and a sense of purpose and responsibility to our people and our Nation.
Lyndon Johnson demonstrated once again this week why the American people are
eager for new national leadership and why they must look to the Republican Party
to restore law and order in the United States.
When Lyndon Johnson signed the omnibus anti-crime bill which Republicans
were instrumental in shaping into a strong measure he said the wiretapping provision
would not be used to fight crime at the federal level.
Lyndon Johnson made that statement despite the fact that the national crime
rate has risen 88 per cent since 1960, nearly nine times faster than our population
has grown.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration will not use electronic surveillance to
attack major crime despite the fact that law enforcement officials in metropolitan
areas have declared it a valuable weapon against the crime syndicates.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration refuses to use wiretapping to fight
organized crime despite the fact that the President's Crime Commission recommended
that electronic surveillance be employed against crime as well as espionage.
In my view, the Johnson-Humphrey Administration is soft on crime.
I say this because the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has demonstrated no
real sense of urgency in launching a war on crime.
This is why a strong omnibus anti-crime bill has not been enacted into law
until June 19, 1968.
This is why the national crime rate has soared in recent years.
This is why there is a general atmosphere of lawlessness in America, a feeling
on the part of some Americans that they can get away with arson and looting in the
central cities and seizure of university buildings on college campuses.
Some social critics have viewed conditions in America today and talked of a
"sick society."
I say most American are good, sound people who have no reason to engage in
self-recrimination.
Sick? Yes, Americans are sick of an Administration that refuses to get tough
with bigtime criminals and lawbreakers who use slum conditions as an excuse for
criminal activity.
If violence has become commonplace in America today, it is because those who
turn to violence to achieve their ends believe they can get away with it.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration invited the disorder which plagues
America.
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