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The original documents are located in Box H32, folder "Carter Quotes - Senior Citizens" of
the President Ford Committee Campaign Records at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library.
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Library.
ELDERLY/INFLATION
"We've got a group of senior citizens here from the Williams Nursing
Home Golden Age Manor and they 've come to express their confidence
in me and I appreciate it. For quite often they live on a fixed
income and when they can't have control of inflation what they
live on has to be spent on , stretched a little further. Their
food is not quite as good. Sometimes they have to leave their own
homes because of high property taxes and increased costs for
electricity and heating and telephone services. The cost of our
country's health care has gone up 250 percent in the last 8 years
and when they have had small savings and when they take their money
out of a savings account at the end of 10 years they find their
money is not as worth as much as when they put it in there.
That hurts. And when they give gifts to their grandchildren at
Christmas, the gift is not quite as nice as they would like for it
to be."
Houston, Texas, rally
September 24, 1976
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
SENIOR CITIZENS/PROMISES
"And I havepromised the retired citizens in Florida, during the
primary there last March, that when I'm elected President, in the
White House on my top staff, always at my shoulder there will be
someone who has only one responsibility -- to the senior citizens
of our nation. And everytime I make a decision about housing or
transportation or welfare or Social Security or health care or
taxation, I want to be sure that the senior
citizens are always remembered when those decisions are
made."
Phoenix, Arizona
September 14, 1976
FORD & GERALD LIDRARY
SENIOR CITIZENS/Mondale
Speaking to an elderly group here the other day, Mondale reeled off
a long list of supposedly anti-elderly votes cast by President Ford
and Senator Dole during their years in Congress.
"They must believe you don't listen. They must believe that you don't
read, or they must believe that you don't care, to think they'll get
your vote after the record they have established."
Wall Street Journal
August 31, 1976
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
SENIOR CITIZENS
I have proposed that the Social Security system be strngthened
through an ncrease in the maximum earnings base and an increase
in benefits in proportion to earnings before retirement. I
likewise favor strngthening and broadening the laws against age
discrimination and discouraging the trend by employers toward
early forced retirement.
I support a comprehensive, universal national health care
program, with interim relief until the system is fully implemented
through expansion of Medicare coverage.
R.
FORD
Expand housing construction for the elderly under Section
GERALD
202 of the Housing Act, and we must strengthen the protection
ADVERIT
the elderly need against displacement by landlords seeking to
convert rental housing into condominiums and cooperatives.
We should encourage public transportation systems receiving
federal funds to provide reduced fare programs for the elderly.
We should consider establishment of a national senior citizen's
service corps and broaden the use by senior citizens of senior
multi-purpse centers.
SENIOR CITIZENS (cont.)
We need to protect American workers against the uncertainties
presented by existing pension laws.
CARTER'S PLATFORM
SENIOR CITIZENS
"The idea that they are protected by Medicare is false. 11
"The federal government must adopt an active and aggressive policy to
eradicate employment discrimination against older people and to encourage
those who wish to continue working to do so. Our health care delivery
system must be restructured to hold down the cost of services, to make
care available to those who do not find it available because of geography
or income and to improve the quality of medical care. In this last area, a major
investment in research and implementation of preventive medicine can begin
immediately."
Carter campaign release
January 26, 1976
LISBARY GERALD R. FORD