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The original documents are located in Box D32, folder "Dinner Honoring Clair W.
Burgener, San Diego, CA, December 3, 1971" 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 P.M. P.S.T.-
Friday, Dec. 3, 1971
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford at a dinner honoring Clair W. Burgener
at San Diego, Calff.
Clair Burgenner has dedicated his life to public service. I know all of you here
hope he will continue to do so, but in a higher
capacity.
Like Clair, I also was once selected by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as an
outstanding young man. Do you suppose in mentioning this that I am being prophetic?
I am very much impressed by Clair's civic and community activities. His leadership
in Heart Fund and United Fund campaigns and his work on
behalf of retarded
children mark him as a man of great compassion, a man who truly cares about people. He
is just the kind of man we want in high public office.
office
Clair has occupied various roles in public
dating back to 1957. As
a councilman, state representative and state senator he has always been a fighter for
what is right. Currently his
party also is engaged in a battle for what is right.
We are fighting a massive raid on the U.S.
Treasury, the campaign contribution scheme
hatched by Senate Democrats and solidly backed by all of the Democratic presidential
hopefuls.
It's natural that the Democratic presidential aspirants would b ack the give
a
ex-buck-to-the Democrats scheme. It means one of them will buy
his
party's
funds
nomination with private contributions and then use tax
to try to buy the White
House.
It's natural
that it was the Democrats who came up with this tax
bucks
votes
fon-the Democrats proposition. After all, they've been buying
for years with
tax money.
The tax bucks for
presidential electioneering plan would produce some
dire consequences. It would underm ine the two-party system. By putting millions of
would
dollars in the hands of minor candidates, it leads to proliferation of political
parties.
This is a monstrous
proposal. While it masquerades behind the merit of taking
campaign funding away
from
party donors,
it destroys the two-party system as we know it.
I app land the President for announcing his intention to veto the ttax bill if it
contains the campaign
checkoff provision. He is striking a blow for what is right.
The President was not making an idale threat. Dick Nixon keeps his
promises.
He has, for instance, kept every promise he made back in 1968 when he accepted his
party's nomination for President of the United States.
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Digitized from Box D32 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R., Ford Presidential Library
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In his acceptanos speech, Richard Nixon said: "I do not promise the millenium in
the morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty, and end discrimination, and
eliminate alli danger of war in the space of four, or even eight years. But, I do promise
action--a new policy for peace abroad; a new policy for peace and progress and justice
at home."
Has Dick Nixon delivered on his puromise of action aimed at peace abroad and peace,
progress and justice at home? The answer is a resounding "yes."
It was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam and
is ending U.S. involvement there in a way that gives a non-Communist South Vietnam a chance
to survive,
It was the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with the Soviet
Union on acce SS to West Berlin.
is
It
the Nixon Administration that is engaged in promising talks with the Soviet
Union on the limitation of strategic arms.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification
of R.FORD. the LIBRARY
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It was the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the
first use of chemical warfare.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the
emplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.
It is President Nixon who has transformed the world scene from one of
confrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation-who is even now
planning summit meetings in Peking and Moscow.
It is President Nixon who has developed a new strategy for peace in the
world centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help
themselves.
Ah, but these are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What about
peace, progress and justice at home?
It was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities
by devoting a greater part of the Federal budget to human needs than to defense.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant improve-
ments in unemployment insurance in our entire history.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about a massive increase in
our manpower programs to provide work experience and training for young people of
(more)
all races.
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It was the Nixon Administration that quadrupled minority hiring for
government jobs in higher grades and expanded aid to minority enterprises by more
than half and has since proposed an even greater expansion in such aid.
It was the Nixon Administration that tripled food assistance programs for
the needy from $1.1 million to $3.5 million a year.
It was the Nixon Administration which proposed $1.5 billion in funding for
school districts with a high concentration of low income families and the doubling
of aid to black colleges.
It was the Nixon Administration which reformed our draft laws to make them
more equitable and began moving toward an all-volunteer Army.
It was the Nixon Administration that acted to protect the environment by
creating a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection
Agency.
It was the Nixon Administration that won passage of legislation to improve
on-the-job safety for America's working men and women.
It was the Nixon Administration that put together an organized assault
against organized crime and turned the syndicate into an empire in deep trouble.
It was the Nixon Administration that trebled Federal aid to local communi-
ties for law enforcement and court improvements.
It was the Nixon Administration that launched the most progressive and
far-reaching Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United States.
It was the Nixon Administration that adopted a bold New Economic Policy
to fight Democrat inflation and the unemployment brought on by mistaken Democrat
policies of the Sixties and a winding down of the war a Democrat President led us
into.
Wecan
Now we look to the future. more progress--progress toward
peace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime because
NH Richard It was Hika the Democrats keeps who his promises us the
tooly into Victness XXX Now they pose
the party of peace. It is easy to have peace if you are willing to make peace
on the enemy is terms.
It was a great Roman Cicero, who said What then should be the objective
of those who are at the helm of government, which they should never lose sight of,
toward which they ought to set their course? It is peace with dignity.'
That is the kind of peace Richard Nixon is steering us toward in Vietnam
Peace with dignity. Peace with honor.
(more)
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