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The original documents are located in Box 21, "1/14/76 - Talking Points: Western States
Republican Chairmen's Meeting" of the President's Speeches and Statements: Reading
Copies at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 21 of President's Speeches and Statements: Reading Copies at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
TALKING POINTS FOR WESTERN STATES REPUBLICAN CHAIRMEN'S
MEETING, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1976, THE WHITE HOUSE
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome the Western States
Republican Chairmen to the White House this evening.
Arthur Chapman once wrote that the West begins "out where
the handclasp's a little stronger, out where the smile dwells a little
a longer. " It is obvious that you have brought that extra measure of
friendliness and fellowship back East with you.
I may only be a mid-westerner myself, but I have always had
great admiration and affection for the American West. That beautiful
region of our country could have no better representatives than you
here tonight.
As the Western leaders of the Republican Party, you have played
a major, highly effective role in expanding our party's influence, in the
continuing battle to increase its numbers and helping us win some very
important elections at the local, statewide and national levels.
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We will be counting once again on your good efforts in the
coming campaign -- a campaign in which the American people will
be faced with a very fundamental choice. They will be asked to
choose between more -- and more expensive -- government, and
less -- and more responsive -- government.
They will be asked to decide whether they want the Federal
Government in Washington to make their decisions and their plans
for them, or whether they want to regain a measure of the indepen-
dence their ancestors fought so desperately to win for us 200 years
ago.
I believe the American people, whether they live in Texas or
Tennessee, New Mexico or New Hampshire, Colorado or Connecticut,
will choose less government and more independence.
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And fortunately for us, we stand today -- as our party has
always stood -- firmly on the side of less government control over
the lives of people and more individual freedom for all Americans.
The effort to reduce the power and the cost and the intrusions
of government has already begun in this Administration. We have
undertaken this effort with a commitment to sweeping reform -- not
in any unrealistic way, not in a way that seeks to dismantle government
services that truly help the people. Instead, we have charted a careful,
orderly and positive course designed to enable the government to do
better what it must do for people -- and to get the government off the
backs of the American people, away from their pocketbooks -- - - and out
of their hair!
That is our commitment, that is our promise, that is our
record which we will present to the people in your states and in
every State of the Union.
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I am confident that, with your help, we can make 1976 a
great year for the Republican Party by making it a great year for
the American people -- a year in which the people's burdens are
made lighter while their ambition is made greater, their lives made
richer, their future made brighter and more secure.
Let's work together. Let's win a great victory in 1976 -- -
for the people. Thank you for coming.