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The original documents are located in Box D26, folder "Westminster Presbyterian Men's
Club, Alexandria, VA, April 16, 1969" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary
and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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NOTES
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
APR. 16, 1969
Congress of the United States
Office of the Minority Leader
Herald R. Ford
House of Representatives
M.C.
Mashington, D.C. 20515
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OFFICIAL BUSINESS
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN
MEN'S CLUB
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Digitized from Box D26 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Notes
for Westminster Presbyterian Men's Club, Alexandria
(april16,1969)
I suggest you discuss foreign and domestic policy briefly
on the order of the GOP Women's Conference speech but
briefed down and focusing on the theme that Nixon has
restored balance to our foreign policy and relative calm
to the domestic scene
Also, that he has clearly set
forth his priorities
1. End the Vietnam War
2. Bring inflation under control
3.
Cuinb crime and make life miserable for the Mafia.
2/ Notes for Alexandria
4. Seek to resolve the urban crisis by greatly
expanding on-the-job training and productive job
opportunities and by sharing federal income tax revenue
with the states and local units of government.
I would develop the theme that President Nixon is laying
down a responsible fiscal policy aimed not only at
bringing inflation under control but at reducing what
everyone recognizes is a too-heavy tax burden
reducing
it at the earliest time consonant with sound policy.
3/ Notes for Alexandria
I suggest you wind up by saying t hat
The Nixon Administration will subtly accomplish an
objective we all ardently wish for--the restoration of
calm and order in this country. This has in some degree
already
been realized. There
has been a change
in atmosphere in this Nation
a change that has resulted
from the calminess of the man in the White House, the
absence of a tumultuous flapping of arms and mouths
an
4/ Notes for Alexandria
excess of motion without merit or meaning.
now
What we are experiencing is Responsible Government, and the
change is like a soothing balm to the American people.
The National Administration has taken on an entirely new
tone. Part of that tone flows from
the
moral fiber of the men in the Administration, from the
President on down. One reason Dwight Eisenhower was so
admired was that he was a man of character, of undoubted
5/ Notes for Alexandria
integrity. I think the American people are finding that
Richard Nixon is a man of character, and that his
Administration is
a moral administration. Someone
remarked that with five clergymen taking part in his
inauguration,
Richard Nixon was the most prayed-over
new President in bur history. This is good. This is
something the Nation needs. Prayer, whether formal or
informal, is linked with faith. And faith is the
6/ Notes for Alexandria
foundation of America's greatness as a people and
a Nation. There is such an entity as national
character, and this is what we are building when we
build and grow on
faith
Let us all
grow
together.
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