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Pool Report from New City to Paramus and Paramus to Liberty Hall
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Pool Report from New City to Paramus and Paramus to Liberty Hall
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Digitized from Box 32 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
OCTOBER 13, 1976
POOL REPORT FROM NEW CITY TO PARAMUS AND PARAMUS TO
LIBERTY HALL
The President left the New City Courthouse waving to the crowd, he stood
up in his car talking to the crowd and waving as he left town. The New
City Police Department provided a mounted police escort instead of the
usual motorcycles and the clip-clop of the horses hoofs provided an inter-
esting counterpoint to the music of the engines. The President stood up
all the way to the edge of the town greeting the people gathered around
the route. Your pool learned that Walter Cronkite of CBS News interviewed
the President shortly before the departure, and probably will use the inter-
view tonight in competition with that other middle income personality,
Barbara Walters. Cronkite also drew applause when he left the courthouse
but the applause for the President was considerably louder.
The President traveled to the Garden State Plaza Shopping Center in
Paramus without incident. He worked the crowd and greeted local
candidates, received a key to the city, a King James version of the Bible
from someone in the crowd, and a bouquet of red and white carnations
from a girl in a polish costume carrying a sign which said "I love you"
in Polish. He also kissed two babies and this was one of the best crowds
of this trip. Police Chief John Michland of Paramus estimated the crowd
to be fifteen thousand.
Among the signs were "Jersey Loves Jerry" to which the President made
reference in his speech, "Ford is no Playboy, which the President
acknowledged with a wink and a three ring Ballantine sign. "Ford Keeps
the Country Running, " "Elephants Eat Peanuts. The Secret Service
ordered a local policeman trying to operate a videotape machine from
the roof of the shopping center.
After the speech, with Senator Clifford Case following close behind, the
President worked the crowd and stopped to chat with a man in a wheelchair,
then posed for pictures with some of the candidates before leaving.
On route to Liberty Hall, Ron Nessen told the pool the President has no
plans to travel next week prior to the Williamsburg trip for the third
debate. Nessen said there have been a lot of entreaties for him to go
all over the country but he will resist traveling once he returns from
St. Louis because of the press of legislative bills awaiting action and
in order to prepare for the debate.
Nessen said the President would review Carter's statements from the
first two debates and would polish his own presentation for the third.
Nessen said things are so tight at the White House that Cheney spent the
entire stop at Paramus checking on the President's schedule for tomorrow.
He said things were so crowded on the schedule that some things had to
be postponed from tomorrow until next week, and that the President
will have to work on three bills when he arrives back at the White House
tonight. Nessen would not say which bills are involved.
Kohler/Talbott/Comptor
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