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The original documents are located in Box 15, folder "Ford Speeches - Ann Arbor Kickoff"
of the Michael Raoul-Duval Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 14, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JIM CAVANAUGH
FROM:
MIKE DUVAL
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SUBJECT:
MICHIGAN SPEECH
Jim, other than the minor comments I've already given you,
there are two major changes which I believe should be made
in the Michigan speech:
First, on page 4, the President lists as his first priority:
"Our most pressing need in America today is more jobs."
This must be changed. The press will undoubtedly compare
this to Carter's flip-flop from a priority on jobs to
fighting inflation. This will be described as a backward
flip-flop by the President in the opposite direction.
Carter did his flip because his polling shows that the
American people are more worried about inflation than
unemployment. It makes no sense for the President to go
in the other direction when he's right as a matter of
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 14, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JIM CAVANAUGH
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
FROM:
MIKE DUVAL
Mike
SUBJECT:
MICHIGAN SPEECH
Jim, other than the minor comments I've already given you,
there are two major changes which I believe should be made
in the Michigan speech:
First, on page 4, the President lists as his first priority:
"Our most pressing need in America today is more jobs."
This must be changed. The press will undoubtedly compare
this to Carter's flip-flop from a priority on jobs to
fighting inflation. This will be described as a backward
flip-flop by the President in the opposite direction.
Carter did his flip because his polling shows that the
American people are more worried about inflation than
unemployment. It makes no sense for the President to go
in the other direction when he's right as a matter of
politics and policy with the position he has.
I recommend that a clause be added at the beginning of
the above quoted sentence:
"Although we must continue our successful efforts to
reduce inflation, one of our more pressing needs in
America today is more jobs."
Second, there is entirely too much emphasis on the African
policy. Reading that section of the speech, one gets the
impression that our African initiatives are the cornerstone
of the Ford foreign policy. This is not factually true
and it makes no political sense to leave such an impres-
sion. There has to be better balance in the foreign
policy section of this speech.
CC: Dick Cheney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 15, 1976
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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THE PRESIDENT: President Flemming, Senator Griffin,
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faculty and guests:
President Flemming, I am deeply grateful for the
opportunity to be on this great campus. Iam proud of you
as the President of the University of Michigan, and I am
equally proud of the great record of my alma mater.
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I am deeply indebted to Senator Bob Griffin, an
outstanding United States Senator who has been my close
personal friend and loyal supporter from the very beginning
of
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career.
I am delighted to have on the platform with me your
effective and able Congressman Marv Esch, who will be the
next United States Senator from Michigan.
It is great to be back at the University of
Michigan, the home of the number one Wolverines. After
what you did to Wisconsin, I will tell you one thing --
I would rather run against Jimmy Carter than Harlan
Huckleby any day of the week.
I am reminded of another Michigan football game
that I attended in 1948. I had just won my first
Republican nomination. Then, as now, I faced a tough
challenge.
My mind wasn't on politics that Saturday after-
noon. It wasn't even on football. I was on my honeymoon.
Betty and I were married the day before and
tonight I would like to introduce you to my bride,
Betty Ford.
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I have come home to Michigan to share with you
my views of America in 1976 and my hopes for America
in the next four years, and beyond.
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During the last two years, in the aftermath of a
difficult war and a painful ordeal of economic adversity
and political crisis, we reached a critical turning point
in America's history.
Throughout most of your lives, America has faced
turmoil. Some of our most beloved leaders have been
assassinated. There was a war we could not either win
or end. There were destructive riots on our streets and
on our campuses. We suffered runaway inflation and the
worst recession in 40 years. We were betrayed by corruption
at the highest levels of our Government.
Fortunately, the skies are far brighter. My
Administration has restored trust in the White House. My
Administration has turned the economy around. We are in
the midst of a growing prosperity. We have peace and the
capability and the will to keep it.
Through all of this, we found in ourselves a
basic strength which has proven mightier than our armaments,
more precious than our great store of national wealth
and as enduring as our Constitution.
As I said on taking the oath of office as President
two years ago, "Our long national nightmare is over.' In
the last two years, the United States of America has made
an incredible comeback, and we are not through yet.
In 200 years as a free people, much has changed
in our nation, but America's basic goals remain the same:
Americans want a job with a good future.
Americans want homes and decent neighborhoods
and schools where our children can get a quality education.
-- Americans want physical security, safety against
war and crime, safety against pollution in the water we
drink and in the air we breathe.
-- We want medical and hospital care when we are
sick at costs that will not wipe out our savings.
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inalienable rights; the right to speak our minds -- the
right to choose the men and women who enact and enforce
our laws -- the right to stand equal before the law
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It all adds up to the great "American dream.
These are the goals which every politician,
every citizen, has for America. They are not some mystic
vision of the future. They are the continuing agenda for
action.
So, the question in this campaign of 1976 is
not who has the better vision of America. The question
is who will act to make that vision a reality.
The American people are ready for the truth,
simply spoken, about what Government can do for them
and what it cannot and what it should not do. They will
demand performance, not promises; specifics, not smiles.
There are some in this political year who claim
that more Government, more spending, more taxes and more
control on our lives will solve our problems.
More Government is not the solution. Better
Government is.
It is time we thought of new ways to make Govern-
ment a capable servant and not a meddling master.
Let's get down to cases.
Let's talk about jobs.
Today, 88 million Americans are gainfully
employed -- more than ever before in American history.
But, that is not good enough.
My immediate goal is two and a half million new
jobs every year with emphasis on youth, especially the
minority. I don't mean the demeaning, dead-end jobs
paid for out of the Federal Treasury but permanent jobs
with a future generated by the demands of a healthy
economy.
Can we do it? We have done it.
We provéd once and for all that you can cut
inflation in half and add four million new jobs in just
17 months. We did it with tax cuts that allowed Americans
to spend more of their own money. We did it with tax
incentives that encouraged job production. We did it
by letting our free economic system do what it does better
than any other system in the world -- produce.
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But, I won't be satisfied until every American
who wants a job can find a job.
I am particularly concerned that there are too
many young Americans who cannot find a good job or get
the training and the experience they need to find a job.
Americans have long since recognized the importance
of assuring that every high school graduate who is willing,
able and qualified be able to go to college. We have
done so through grants, loans and scholarships.
I believe we can apply the same principle to
create a program for young people who choose not to go to
college, but want a job at which they can learn a trade,
a craft or practical business skills.
It can be done. Let's put America -- all of
America -- to work.
Once a good job is secured, it is an American
tradition to put some of these earnings toward a family
home, but nowadays, with interest rates too high, down
payments too high and even monthly payments too high--
home ownership is not within the reach of many Americans,
particularly young Americans beginning a career or
marriage.
My goal is home ownership for every American
family that wants to own a home and is willing to work
and save for it.
Here is how I will meet that goal: First--I
will continue to pursue economic policies, including
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
tight control of unnecessary Federal spending which will
hold inflation down, reduce interest rates, cut your
taxes, increasing your purchasing power and making more
funds available for home mortgages.
Second it is time we did something more about
the down payment requirements, which so many people
can't afford. I will recommend changes in the FHA loans
to reduce down payments on lower and middle priced homes
by up to 50 percent.
Third- I will direct the Department of Housing
and Urban Development to accelerate implementation of
a new Federal guarantee program to lower monthly payments
in the early years of home ownership and gradually
increase them as the family income goes up.
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A good job; a good home. Now let's talk about
the good health we must have to appreciate both. My
goal is an America where health care is not only the best
in the world but is both accessible and affordable. But
raising Federal taxes by $70 billion a year for Government-
dominated health insurance program is not the way to do
it. That path leads to more bureaucracy, more fraud,
more taxes and second-class medical care.
That is what I am against. Here is what I am
for:
As our first priority, I have recommended
protection against the cost of a catastrophic or
prolonged illness for the aged and the disabled--insuring
that never again will they have to pay more than $750
a year for medical care. People should not have to go
broke to get well.
Next, I proposed to the Congress last spring
a major reform in Federal health programs. We should
combine 16 overlapping and confused Federal health
programs, including the scandal-ridden Medicaid
program, into one $10 billion program that distributes
the Federal funds more equitably among the States and
insures that those who need these services get first-
class care.
It is sad but true, America is still awaiting
action by the Congress on this urgently needed legislation.
Now, let's turn to an area of special concern
to this audience -- education.
One of the most urgent problems is to create
a climate in every classroom where teachers can teach
and students can learn.
Quality education for every young American
is my Administration's goal. Major reforms are necessary
in the relationship between the national, State and
local units of Government, so that teachers can spend
their time teaching instead of filling out Federal forms.
Federal aid is necessary but Federal aggravation must
stop.
Nine months ago I proposed to the Congress that
we replace 24 paper shuffling educational bureaucracies
with a single Federal program which would provide $3
billion 300 million in direct aid to elementary and
secondary schools throughout this country.
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The Congress has not acted. Once again this
Congress has shown itself to be sitting dead in the
water and, I might add, addicted to the status quo. The
American people deserve better representation than that,
and they will demand it on November 2.
We must insure that low income students have
access to higher education.
We must also find ways through the tax system
to ease the burden on families who choose to send their
children to nonpublic schools and to help families cope
with the expenses of a college education. In this
Administration the education needs of America's middle
income families will neither be forgotten or forsaken.
Education is the key to a better life. The
prevention of crime is essential to making our lives
secure.
The Constitution demands that we insure domestic
tranquility and that is what I called for in my crime
message to the Congress about a year ago. Most crimes
are committed by hardened career criminals who know no
other life than the life of crime. The place for those
people is not on our streets but in the jails. The
rights of the law-abiding society, the rights of the
innocent victims of crime must be fully protected.
Finally, we must give Americans the chance to
enjoy America. I have outlined a $1 billion 500 million
program to expand and to improve our national park
system over the next ten years. This means more
national parks, more recreation areas, more wildlife
sanctuaries, more urban parks and historic sites. Let's
LIBRARY GERALD R. FORD
make this America's Bicentennial birthday gift to all of
our future generations.
Today, America enjoys the most precious gift
of all. We are at peace. No Americans are in combat
anywhere on the earth and none are being drafted, and I
will keep it that way.
We will be as strong as we need to be to keep
the peace, to deter aggression and to protect our
national security. to
But if our foreign policy is to have public
support, it must represent the moral values of the
American
people.
What is more moral than peace with freedom and
security in the United States?
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As the leader of the free world, America has a
special responsibility to explore new paths to peace for
all mankind. It is a responsibility we have not shirked.
We have been a force for peace in the Middle East, not
only in promoting new agreements, but in building a
structure for a more lasting peace.
We have worked for peace with the Soviet
Union, not only in resolving our many conflicts, but in
building a world where nuclear armaments are brought
under control.
We are working for peace in Europe where the
armies of two major coalitions confront each other
We will continue to build our relationship with
the People's Republic of Chican, which contributes impor-
tantly to peace and stability -- throughout the world.
Now, in the face of a new challenge, we are
on a mission for peace in southern Africa.
This is the first Administration in America's
history to develop a comprehensive, affirmative African
policy. This policy has won respect and trust on that
troubled continent.
At my direction, Secretary Kissinger is now
engaged in an intensive effort to help all the parties,
black and white, involved in the mounting crisis in
southern Africa, to find a peaceful and just solution
to their many and complex differences.
The African parties in the very grave and
complicated problems of Namibia and Rhodesia have
encouraged us to help them in the search for peace and
justice. We are also backed in our efforts by our
European allies with traditional bonds to the African
Continent. In particular, we are working in close
collaboration with the United Kingdom which has historical
and legal responsibility on Rhodesia.
Success will depend fundamentally on the coopera-
tion of the parties directly concerned. We will not and
we cannot impose solutions, but will depend upon the good-
will and determined efforts of the African parties them
selves to achieve negotiated settlements.
We seek no special advantage for ourselves in
these negotiationsis We share with the people of Africa
these fundamental objectives: a peaceful outcome; a
future of majority rule and minority rights; a prospect
of widening human dignity and economic progress; and a
unified and independent Africa free from outside inter-
vention or threat.
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The tortuous path that leads to these goals
is not an easy one The risks are great. But America's
interests and America's moral purpose summon our efforts.
Despite the rigors of a great national election,
I have persisted in carrying out this new policy toward
Africa not because it is expedient but because it is
right.
I pledge to you that under my Administration,
American foreign policy will serve the interests of our
country and our people -- it will be true to our great
heritage of the past, fulfill our purposes in the present,
and contribute to our best vision of the future.
It is not enough for anyone to say trust me.
Trust must be earned.
Trust is not having to guess what a candidate
means
-- Trust is leveling with the pèople before the
election about what you are going to do after the election.
-- Trust is not being all things to all people,
but being the same thing to all people.
-- Trust is not cleverly shading words so that each
separate audience can hear what it wants to hear, but saying
plainly and simply what you mean -- and meaning what you say.
I am proud of the maturity of the American people
who demand more honesty, truthfulness and candor of their
elected representatives.
The American people, particularly its young people,
cannot be expected to take pride -- or even participate --
in a system of government that is defiled and dishonored --
whether in the White House or in the halls of the Congress.
Personal integrity is not too much to ask of
public servants. We should accept nothing less.
As we enter the last seven weeks of this national
election, a new poll indicates that as many as 65 million
Americans will not vote in November.
Some people have said that they are not excited
about any of this year's candidates. Let them be excited
about America.
Let them be excited about their own capacity to
grow and change -- about our nation's capacity to grow and
change -- and even about the evolution, with their help,
of the candidate of their choice.
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LIBRARY GERALD FORD
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last President of America's first 200 years. But with your
help, I also intend to be the first President of America's
new generation of freedom.
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