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Digitized from Box 17 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 7, 1975
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Chicopee, Massachusetts)
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND
QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
AT
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE
12:35 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: How are you all. It is nice to
see you.
I have a couple of minutes here if you want to
ask a question or two.
QUESTION: Mr. President, we have a great deal of
concern about jobs and unemployment. Do you see any possibility
of the Government as an employer of last resort, especially
in the Northeast, which has been pretty hard hit?
THE PRESIDENT: We have a number of programs, the
CETA program for public service employment. We have a number
of other training programs and, as the economy moves up --
and it is moving up, it is getting stronger and healthier --
I think we will find a downward trend in unemployment in
Rhode Island, in Massachusetts -- in my own State of Michigan,
we are making real headway. In the meantime I think we will
have the kind of programs that are healthy in many, many
instances.
QUESTION: Mr. President, would you see the money
running out, though, by June?
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, no. The appropriation for the
CETA program, if the Congress appropriates what I have
recommended, will fully fund the program through June 30 of
next year.
QUESTION: Mr. President, would you consider a
woman for Vice President?
THE PRESIDENT: Of course I would.
MORE
Page 2
QUESTION: Mr. President, you have given the impression,
you know, with the changes in your Cabinet, that Dr. Kissinger
is being moved out of the national security area and restricted
only to the foreign policy area.
THE PRESIDENT: I didn't hear the last part.
QUESTION: Dr. Kissinger is being moved out of the
national security and substantially restricted to the
foreign policy area.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Kissinger will continue to have
great influence in the overall strategy that we have on a
worldwide basis. As Secretary of State, as an active member
of the National Security Council, he will have tremendous
influence but we will also have an input from other sources --
the Secretary of Defense, head of CIA. It is a combination of
high ranking people, each with specific responsibilities,
and the recommendations will come to me and I will make the
final decisions.
QUESTION: Doesn't that represent some diminution
of Dr. Kissinger's influence?
THE PRESIDENT: I wouldn't think SO. He will have
a very great influence, he has and he will. But there is also
other voices that have to contribute to the recommendations
that come to me and those voices will be heard as well.
QUESTION: Mr. President, who do you see as a
possible running mate in '76?
THE PRESIDENT: We have a wide variety of fine
potential candidates and I couldn't take all the time to
name them, they are all so good and there are so many of them.
THE PRESS: Thank you.
END
(AT 12:38 P.M. EST)