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The original documents are located in Box D33, folder "Erie Area Republican League
Rally, Sandusky, OH, October 7, 1972" 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 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
October 7, 1972
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford at an Erie Area Republican League
Rally at Sandusky, Ohio.
The credibility gap which has been plaguing George McGovern has become a
canyon--because Sargent Shriver has widened and deepened it.
First, McGovern himself wielded the shovel, beginning with the Tom Eagleton
affair. Remember Tom? George said he supported Tom 1000 per cent--and then he
dumped him.
Then there was the day McGovern told reporters he had "no plans to meet with
Mayor Daley" at the very moment that he was on his way to a closed-door meeting
with the mayor at Daley's suite in the Hotel Rocsevelt in New Orleans during a
gathering of the U. S. Conference of Mayors.
And we mustn't forget the famous mission to Paris of McGovern aide Pierre
Salinger. Salinger, you'll remember, asked the North Vietnamese--on McGovern's
behalf--for the release of U. S. war prisoners. The plea was rejected. McGovern
at first denied any knowledge of the Salinger mission and said he had given him
"no instructions whatsoever." About two hours later, McGovern issued a three-
paragraph statement admitting that Salinger had met with North Vietnamese
representatives at his direction.
Then there is the case of the thousand-dollar handout--the famous McGovern
plan to give every man, woman and child in the United States a thousand dollars
apiece. When McGovern saw this crazy scheme boomerang in a clash with public
opinion, he backed away from it. And this is where Sargent Shriver comes in.
Shriver insisted McGovern never made such a proposal. Yet the Jan. 19, 1972,
Congressional Record contains a statement by McGovern proposing "that every man,
woman and child receive from the Federal Government an annual payment." McGovern
went on to say that "a payment of almost $1,000 per person would be required."
Now comes Sargent Shriver to claim that George McGovern never advocated a
general amnesty for Americans who have fled the country to avoid military service.
McGovern, Shriver says, has never embraced a "blanket amnesty" for anyone. As
Shriver tells it, all McGovern wants to do is to "study the cases of people who
refuse to fight and give a presidential pardon where it's deserved." "That's all
he's ever said," according to Shriver.
(more)
Digitized from Box D33 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
-2-
The facts are that George McGovern flatly stated on Sept. 25, 1971, in a
speech at the Los Angeles Convention Center that he would "declare a general amnesty
for everyone" who went to prison or fled the country to avoid military service. The
only exception he made was that he would insist on case-by-case consideration for
deserters. He made similar statements in an interview with "The Capital Times" of
Madison, Wis., on Jan. 24, 1972.
So much for George McGovern's credibility--and Sargent Shriver's.
Yet McGovern and Shriver have the gall to attack Nixon Administration
economic policy--a policy which has cut inflation in half and has generated
2,600,000 new jobs in the past 12 months and has pushed employment to a record high
of nearly 82 million.
It is ironic that McGovern would attack Richard Nixon's record on living
costs when his own so-called anti-inflation program is an invitation to a new
round of disastrous inflation.
Again helping to widen the credibility gap into a canyon, McGovern at first
promised he would end wage-and-price controls and return to a free-market economy
but now he calls for wage-price guidelines.
McGovern would turn to the discredited wage-price guidelines of the 60's to
solve the economic problems of the '70s. He rejects evidence which clearly shows
that the Kennedy-Johnson wage-price program was a miserable failure. He ignores
the fact that it was the Walter Heller-inspired guidelines which gave us the
skyrocketing inflation of the latter 60's.
Let's make it known that a vote for McGovern is a vote for runaway
inflation.
In attacking the Administration on its economic policy, McGovern has opened
ever wider the credibility gap of his promises versus his performance. He changes
positions as easily as a chameleon changes colors.
Americans aren't buying this kind of irresponsible clap-trap. They know
McGovernment means misgovernment--and they want no part of it.
Americans on Nov. 7 will stick with Richard Nixon because he is steering a
steady course which means continued progress for the Nation.
The voters want prosperity based on sound economic policies, not a phony
prosperity tied to make-work projects bought with hard-earned tax dollars.
They want a President who will hold down Federal spending and hold the line
on taxes, not one who would wildly expand Federal outlays and double the average
citizen's tax bill.
They want a President they can be proud of. That's what they've got--and
they're going to keep him.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
October 7, 1972
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford at an Erie Area Republican League
Rally at Sandusky, Ohio.
The credibility gap which has been plaguing George McGovern has become a
canyon--because Sargent Shriver has widened and deepened it.
First, McGovern himself wielded the shovel, beginning with the Tom Eagleton
affair. Remember Tom? George said he supported Tom 1000 per cent--and then he
dumped him.
Then there was the day McGovern told reporters he had "no plans to meet with
Mayor Daley" at the very moment that he was on his way to a closed-door meeting
with the mayor at Daley's suite in the Hotel Roosevelt in New Orleans during a
gathering of the U. S. Conference of Mayors.
And we mustn't forget the famous mission to Paris of McGovern aide Pierre
Salinger. Salinger, you'll remember, asked the North Vietnamese--on McGovern's
behalf--for the release of U. S. war prisoners. The plea was rejected. McGovern
at first denied any knowledge of the Salinger mission and said he had given him
"no instructions whatsoever." About two hours later, McGovern issued a three-
paragraph statement admitting that Salinger had met with North Vietnamese
representatives at his direction.
Then there is the case of the thousand-dollar handout--the famous McGovern
plan to give every man, woman and child in the United States a thousand dollars
apiece. When McGovern saw this crazy scheme boomerang in a clash with public
opinion, he backed away from it. And this is where Sargent Shriver comes in.
Shriver insisted McGovern never made such a proposal. Yet the Jan. 19, 1972,
Congressional Record contains a statement by McGovern proposing "that every man,
woman and child receive from the Federal Government an annual payment." McGovern
went on to say that "a payment of almost $1,000 per person would be required."
Now comes Sargent Shriver to claim that George McGovern never advocated a
general amnesty for Americans who have fled the country to avoid military service.
McGovern, Shriver says, has never embraced a "blanket amnesty" for anyone. As
Shriver tells it, all McGovern wants to do is to "study the cases of people who
refuse to fight and give a presidential pardon where it's deserved." "That's all
he's ever said," according to Shriver.
(more)
-2-
The facts are that George McGovern flatly stated on Sept. 25, 1971, in a
speech at the Los Angeles Convention Center that he would "declare a general amnesty
for everyone" who went to prison or fled the country to avoid military service. The
only exception he made was that he would insist on case-by-case consideration for
deserters. He made similar statements in an interview with "The Capital Times" of
Madison, Wis., on Jan. 24, 1972.
So much for George McGovern's credibility--and Sargent Shriver's.
Yet McGovern and Shriver have the gall to attack Nixon Administration
economic policy--a policy which has cut inflation in half and has generated
2,600,000 new jobs in the past 12 months and has pushed employment to a record high
of nearly 82 million.
It is ironic that McGovern would attack Richard Nixon's record on living
costs when his own so-called anti-inflation program is an invitation to a new
round of disastrous inflation.
Again helping to widen the credibility gap into a canyon, McGovern at first
promised he would end wage-and-price controls and return to a free-market economy
but now he calls for wage-price guidelines.
McGovern would turn to the discredited wage-price guidelines of the 60's to
solve the economic problems of the '70s. He rejects evidence which clearly shows
that the Kennedy-Johnson wage-price program was a miserable failure. He ignores
the fact that it was the Walter Heller-inspired guidelines which gave us the
skyrocketing inflation of the latter 60's.
Let's make it known that a vote for McGovern is a vote for runaway
inflation.
In attacking the Administration on its economic policy, McGovern has opened
ever wider the credibility gap of his promises versus his performance. He changes
positions as easily as a chameleon changes colors.
Americans aren't buying this kind of irresponsible clap-trap. They know
McGovernment means misgovernment--and they want no part of it.
Americans on Nov. 7 will stick with Richard Nixon because he is steering a
steady course which means continued progress for the Nation.
The voters want prosperity based on sound economic policies, not a phony
prosperity tied to make-work projects bought with hard-earned tax dollars.
They want a President who will hold down Federal spending and hold the line
on taxes, not one who would wildly expand Federal outlays and double the average
citizen's tax bill.
They want a President they can be proud of. That's what they've got--and
they're going to keep him.
###