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The original documents are located in Box D25, folder "Dinner Honoring Representative
Ancher Nelsen, Sleepy Eye, MN, October 7, 1968" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press
Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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NOTES FOR ANCHER NELSEN, SIEEPY EYE, MINN.
The 2nd Congressional District of Minn.> is the most
heavily agricultural district in the state. However,
Nelsen is not on the Ag. Committee but on the Commerce
Committee and the D.C. Committee. He is a five-termer,
seeking a sixth, afe a former Minn. Lt. Gov., former
state senator, former township board and school board
member, and former Administrator of REA in the Eisenhower
Administration.
Nelsen would like you to stress his committee work in
any laudatory comments you make about him in his district.
2/ NOTES FOR ANCHERNEX NELSEN TRIP
If Republicans win control of the House, Nelsen will be-
come chairman of the House *** District Committee.
He also is ranking Republican on the Public Health and
Welfare Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee. As such
he has been one of the most effective workers for
improvements in rural health in Congress.
Nelsen was instrumental this year in passage of Health
Manpower Act amendments and the Mental Health and
Retardation Act.
One issue in the district is the freeze on highway
construction. Nelsen has protested the Administration's
freeze of highway funds. He wants you to praise him for
this fight against the tie-up of highway funds and to
point out that the Administration didit it for purely
political purposes since the money does not come out of
the general fund but from highway taxes already in hand.
3/ ANCHER NELSEN
Nelsen also would like tym you to talk, as he does,
about the need for quota systems to protect the
American farmer from forming foreign competition.
He has been saying that rural America is "in terrible
shape, with parity at 73 for months. He blames the
Johnson-Humphrey Administration.
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Digitized from Box D25 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R: Ford Presidential Library
Office
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. MONDAY--
October 7, 1968
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the
U.S. House of Representatives, at a dinner honoring Rep. Ancher Nelsen, R-Minn.,
Monday evening, Oct. 7, 1968, at Sleepy Eye, Minn.
I have always enjoyed speaking in farm areas because farm people talk straight,
and they want you to talk straight to them. They want you to tell it like it is--
and, in fact, that's what all Americans want after all the phony talk they've heard
out of Washington for the last five years.
If we tell it like it is, what do we find? 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 national crime
rate, 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 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 producing
nothing but 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, danger that the Soviet Union will upset the balance of power throughout 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-Humphrey
Administration has tried to put the best possible face on its mistakes.
We all remember when the Johnson-Humphrey Administration made the farmer the
scapegoat of inflation in 1966. Republicans know that never before have our farmers
produced so much and been paid so little for it. We know that Johnson-Freeman
(more)
-2-
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.
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.
Only the kind of leadership that the Republican Party can provide will bring
this Nation genuine peace and prosperity again--peace at home and abroad, and the
prosperity that flows from a sound dollar.
During the past three years, the Republican Party has been building a program
that will meet the needs of the American people and solve the problems which have
defied the Democratic Party's federal planners and spenders.
Republicans have built this program in the free enterprise-human incentive
image of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Taft and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
We are laying before the people our positive proposals, drafted not to catch
votes but to solve problems and meet human needs. Our program is a human renewal
program, aimed at improving the quality of American life in the cities and in our
rural communities.
We would cut back low-priority federal spending and at the same time launch
a Human Renewal Action Program.
We would enlist all of the creativity and know-how of private enterprise in
the solution of America's social problems through the imaginative use of tax credits.
We would help our cities and states meet their problems through a system of
federal revenue-sharing.
Republicans propose a National Economic Opportunity Corporation to mix the
genius of government and business in providing jobs for unskilled workers.
We propose a Domestic Development Bank to make investment capital available
for white and non-white businessmen in the central cities.
We would fashion a farm program which would give farmers 100 per cent of
opportunity to share fully in the economic riches of America.
We propose to rejuvenate our rural areas through realistic incentives for
business expansion which will stem the heavy tide of migration to the cities.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration and the Democrats in Congress have
repeatedly said NO to these Republican initiatives. The party in power is wedded
to the past which has produced the failures of the present. The people--I believe--
will say YES in November.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. MONDAY--
October 7, 1968
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the
U.S. House of Representatives, at a dinner honoring Rep. Ancher Nelsen, R-Minn.,
Monday evening, Oct. 7, 1968, at Sleepy Eye, Minn.
I have always enjoyed speaking in farm areas because farm people talk straight,
and they want you to talk straight to them. They want you to tell it like it is--
and, in fact, that's what all Americans want after all the phony talk they've heard
out of Washington for the last five years.
If we tell it like it is, what do we find? 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 national crime
rate, 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 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 producing
nothing but 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, danger that the Soviet Union will upset the balance of power throughout 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-Humphrey
Administration has tried to put the best possible face on its mistakes.
We all remember when the Johnson-Humphrey Administration made the farmer the
scapegoat of inflation in 1966. Republicans know that never before have our farmers
produced so much and been paid so little for it. We know that Johnson-Freeman
(more)
LIBRARY
-2-
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.
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.
Only the kind of leadership that the Republican Party can provide will bring
this Nation genuine peace and prosperity again--peace at home and abroad, and the
prosperity that flows from a sound dollar.
During the past three years, the Republican Party has been building a program
that will meet the needs of the American people and solve the problems which have
defied the Democratic Party's federal planners and spenders.
Republicans have built this program in the free enterprise-human incentive
image of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Taft and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
We are laying before the people our positive proposals, drafted not to catch
votes but to solve problems and meet human needs. Our program is a human renewal
program, aimed at improving the quality of American life in the cities and in our
rural communities.
We would cut back low-priority federal spending and at the same time launch
a Human Renewal Action Program.
We would enlist all of the creativity and know-how of private enterprise in
the solution of America's social problems through the imaginative use of tax credits.
We would help our cities and states meet their problems through a system of
federal revenue-sharing.
Republicans propose a National Economic Opportunity Corporation to mix the
genius of government and business in providing jobs for unskilled workers.
We propose a Domestic Development Bank to make investment capital available
for white and non-white businessmen in the central cities.
We would fashion a farm program which would give farmers 100 per cent of
opportunity to share fully in the economic riches of America.
We propose to rejuvenate our rural areas through realistic incentives for
business expansion which will stem the heavy tide of migration to the cities.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration and the Democrats in Congress have
repeatedly said NO to these Republican initiatives. The party in power is wedded
to the past which has produced the failures of the present. The people--I believe--
will say YES in November.
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