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The original documents are located in Box D25, folder "Annual Dutchess County Young
Republican Clambake, near Poughkeepsie, NY, September 21, 1968" of the Ford
Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library.
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Mayive Copy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 3 P.M. SATURDAY--
September 21, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the
U.S. House of Representatives, at the annual Dutchess County, N.Y., Young
Republican Clambake, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
A Republican Clambake is bound to be a happy affair this year, and I am
delighted to see that the Dutchess County Clambake is living up to that promise.
We have good reason to be happy. The polls are running in favor of Dick Nixon
and Ted Agnew, and there is an excellent chance that Republicans will win a majority
of the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in November. I might add there
is also an excellent chance that Hamilton Fish Jr. will help to make up that majority.
I think what the polls reflect is this: The American people desperately yearn
for peace--peace at home and peace abroad. And they are convinced--rightly so--that
the Republican Party can best achieve those precious goals.
Order is the number one issue in America today--order at home and order in the
world.
America does not have the capacity, singly, to maintain order in the world but
certainly the American people have the capacity to keep order among themselves.
When I speak of order at home, I talk of order, with justice, under law--as
does any decent American.
I speak for the overwhelming majority of Americans who want to live at peace
with their fellowmen and to get ahead in this world.
I speak for all the law-abiding Americans who are shocked by violence in the
streets and on the campuses and by the 89 per cent rise in the national crime rate
in the last seven years.
I speak for all of those Americans who know that blind repression is not the
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answer to violence in America but that permissiveness likewise is no solution.
I speak of all those Americans who are horrified by slum conditions but who
know it is wrong to lay the blame for riots on everyone except the rioters.
I speak of all those Americans who believe that anyone who breaks the law should
pay the appropriate penalty.
I speak for all those Americans who believe it is wrong for anyone, including a
Vice-President of the United States, to say at any time that if he had to live under
slum conditions he could "lead a mighty good revolt" himself.
This is not to excuse slum conditions. We must attack social ills with the
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GERALE FORD LIBRARY
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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same dedication and fervor with which we seek order in this country. Progress and
order go hand in hand.
But order is the first requisite, because there can be no progress without
order. There can be no progress under conditions of chaos, confusion and destruction.
This is the year of change in American politics. It is the year of change
because the American people know they must have a new kind of leadership to meet the
challenge of America's problems. The old kind of leadership has been tried and found
sorely wanting. The old politics--offered the voters of New York's 28th congres-
sional district in the persons of Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent congressman--has
produced more problems than it has solved.
I believe the people will elect a Republican President and a Republican House
of Representatives on Nov. 5--and there are many reasons why.
The people want to win the peace in Vietnam and restore domestic tranquillity
at home. They want a strong leader, a man of reason and responsibility who knows how
to deal with the Communist leaders of the world and the apostles of violence in
America.
They want to improve the moral tone of our society, to erase the attitude that
whatever you can "get away with" is all right, the atmosphere of governmental
permissiveness and self-permissiveness. They want a disciplined society in America,
and they know that will require a strong leader. They know that the LBJ Society has
become the LSD Society--license, sin and destruction--and that just elevating the
No. 2 man to the top spot wouldn't change a thing.
I think the people know, too, that a new Republican President will need a
Republican House of Representatives to work with him--to implement a sensible war on
poverty, fight crime effectively and not just talk about it, clean up our air and
streams, make real problem-solving partners of our cities and states by sharing
federal income tax revenue with them, rebuild our central cities and the people of
the inner cities by using tax credits to enlist industry in a war against slummism,
stop federal government waste and give the taxpayers their money's worth, and in
time cut taxes so people can keep more of what they make.
A Republican House working with a Republican President will keep these
promises. And we need Hamilton Fish to help us make good on them. Won't you
help him?
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 3 P.M. SATURDAY--
September 21, 1968
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the
U.S. House of Representatives, at the annual Dutchess County, N.Y., Young
Republican Clambake, near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
A Republican Clambake is bound to be a happy affair this year, and I am
delighted to see that the Dutchess County Clambake is living up to that promise.
We have good reason to be happy. The polls are running in favor of Dick Nixon
and Ted Agnew, and there is an excellent chance that Republicans will win a majority
of the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in November. I might add there
is also an excellent chance that Hamilton Fish Jr. will help to make up that majority.
I think what the polls reflect is this: The American people desperately yearn
for peace--peace at home and peace abroad. And they are convinced--rightly so--that
the Republican Party can best achieve those precious goals.
Order is the number one issue in America today--order at home and order in the
world.
America does not have the capacity, singly, to maintain order in the world but
certainly the American people have the capacity to keep order among themselves.
When I speak of order at home, I talk of order, with justice, under law--as
does any decent American.
I speak for the overwhelming majority of Americans who want to live at peace
with their fellowmen and to get ahead in this world.
I speak for all the law-abiding Americans who are shocked by violence in the
streets and on the campuses and by the 89 per cent rise in the national crime rate
in the last seven years.
I speak for all of those Americans who know that blind repression is not the
answer to violence in America but that permissiveness likewise is no solution.
I speak of all those Americans who are horrified by slum conditions but who
know it is wrong to lay the blame for riots on everyone except the rioters.
I speak of all those Americans who believe that anyone who breaks the law should
pay the appropriate penalty.
I speak for all those Americans who believe it is wrong for anyone, including a
Vice-President of the United States, to say at any time that if he had to live under
slum conditions he could "lead a mighty good revolt" himself.
This is not to excuse slum conditions. We must attack social ills with the
DR.FORD VIBRARY
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same dedication and fervor with which we seek order in this country. Progress and
order go hand in hand.
But order is the first requisite, because there can be no progress without
order. There can be no progress under conditions of chaos, confusion and destruction.
This is the year of change in American politics. It is the year of change
because the American people know they must have a new kind of leadership to meet the
challenge of America's problems. The old kind of leadership has been tried and found
sorely wanting. The old politics--offered the voters of New York's 28th congres-
sional district in the persons of Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent congressman--has
produced more problems than it has solved.
I believe the people will elect a Republican President and a Republican House
of Representatives on Nov. 5--and there are many reasons why.
The people want to win the peace in Vietnam and restore domestic tranquillity
at home. They want a strong leader, a man of reason and responsibility who knows how
to deal with the Communist leaders of the world and the apostles of violence in
America.
They want to improve the moral tone of our society, to erase the attitude that
whatever you can "get away with" is all right, the atmosphere of governmental
permissiveness and self-permissiveness. They want a disciplined society in America,
and they know that will require a strong leader. They know that the LBJ Society has
become the LSD Society--license, sin and destruction--and that just elevating the
No. 2 man to the top spot wouldn't change a thing.
I think the people know, too, that a new Republican President will need a
Republican House of Representatives to work with him--to implement a sensible war on
poverty, fight crime effectively and not just talk about it, clean up our air and
streams, make real problem-solving partners of our cities and states by sharing
federal income tax revenue with them, rebuild our central cities and the people of
the inner cities by using tax credits to enlist industry in a war against slummism,
stop federal government waste and give the taxpayers their money's worth, and in
time cut taxes so people can keep more of what they make.
A Republican House working with a Republican President will keep these
promises. And we need Hamilton Fish to help us make good on them. Won't you
help him?
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