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The original documents are located in Box H31, folder "Carter Quotes - Reagan, Ronald"
of the President Ford Committee Campaign Records at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library.
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Carter would "leave open the option of normalizing relations with North
Vietnam after they have assured me of a full accounting" of the MIAs.
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He said the Vietnam incident was "just the latest example of weak,
vacillating national leadership on the part of Mr. Ford
we cannot afford
to have the foreign policy of the United States determined by a
calculation of political expediency in each succeeding Republican primary."
Washington Post
April 25, 1976
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
REAGAN
"Reagan would be like Sen. Goldwater, I believe. He would
divide the Republicans."
Atlanta Constitution
March 17, 1976
FORD : LIBRARY 938870
REAGAN/VIETNAM/MIAs/FORD/FOREIGN POII CY
Carter charged today that President Ford has "yielded weakly to pressure"
from Republican challenger Reagan in saying the United States would not
"normalize'trelations with North Vietnam in return for an accounting
of American missing in action from the Vietnam war.
He accused Ford of "playing internal Republican Party politics with
American foreign policy and the hopes of MIA dafamilies."
He called Ford's comments in Indiana as proof that the President "has turned
our Indochina policy over to his opponent, Mr. Reagan.'
Carter said that "in announcing that the administration would refuse to normalize
diplomatic relations with Vietnam, even in return for a complete accounting
of our missing in action
Mr. Ford has again yielded weakly to pressure
from Reagan."
"But that was six weeks before the Texas primary. Now,
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
to deprive Mr. Reagan of an issue in that primary, the administration has
deprived the MIA families of their best chance to know the fate of their sons.
That policy may possible gain a few votes for Mr. Ford, which I doubt,
but it will gain nothing for our country."
more
REA GAN
"I don't believe I'll lose the South. Reagan willbe much more formidable, say,
in Texas. That's the only state I could think of where I have any concern
if Reagan were nominated
You saw what happened to Reagan in Kentucky,
and in Tennessee he only narrowly won against Ford."
New York Times
June 16, 1976
LIBRARY GERALD $ . FORD
REAGAN/TAXES
In Detroit, Carter attacked Reagan for refusing to disclose whether or not
he paid income tax in 1970.
Carter said Reagan's income averages $150,000 to $200,000 a year, and his
net worth is $1.4 million. He added that 24 people who had $1 million
income each paid no taxes the year before last, and "there were about
300 people who made $200,000 and paid no taxes. And when they don't pay
taxes, you know who pays the taxes for them."
Atlanta Constitution
May 18, 1976
FORDS è LIBRARY 02V330