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The original documents are located in Box D6, folder "Ford Press Releases - Campaign
Tours, 1966" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D6 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 7, 1966
House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., will tour the First
Congressional District of Wisconsin April 22 and 23 with Henry C. Schadeberg,
Republican candidate for Congress.
Ford will speak at a campaign kick-off dinner for Schadeberg Friday
evening, April 22, at the new Carthage College Field House in Kenosha
before an expected audience of 1,600 Schadeberg supporters.
Saturday, April 23, Ford will address a Walworth County breakfast
meeting at the Green Shutters Restaurant in Whitewater at 8:30 A. M. and
a luncheon rally at the Aero Park hall in Janesville at 12:30 P. M.
Ford, congressman from the Fifth District of Michigan, is in his
18th year in Congress. He was elected Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives at the opening of the 89th Congress on January 4, 1965.
During the 88th Congress (1963-64) he was Chairman of the Republican
Conference of the House. Before becoming Minority Leader, Ford served on
the committee on Appropriations where he was senior Republican on the
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
9chadeberg is campaigning to return to Congress from the First District
of Wisconsin. From 1961 to 1964 he represented the area composed of Racine,
Kenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties in the 87th and 88th Congresses. A
resident of Burlington, Schadeberg was minister at the Plymouth Congregational
Church before his election to Congress.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE MONDAY P. M., APRIL 11, 1966
WASHINGTON--House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, Mich., will address the
Republican faithful at appreciation dinners for two GOP members of the House in
appearances April 15-16 in California.
Ford will speak the evening of April 15 at Santa Rosa on behalf of Rep. Don H.
Clausen. The Clausen dinner is sponsored by the First District Republican
Committee.
The House GOP leader will be the principal speaker April 16 at a Lincoln-
Day-in-April dinner at Burbank honoring Rep. Ed Reinecke of California's 27th
congressional district.
Prior to the Clausen dinner, Ford will speak to the Republican Associates
of San Diego County at San Diego.
On his swing into Santa Rosa, Ford will arrive at 4:40 p.m. at San Francisco
International Airport, where a press conference is scheduled.
He will spend the night of April 15 at San Francisco and will have another
press conference at 10:30 a.m. April 16 at the Hilton Inn before departing for
Burbank.
Ford will fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where he is due at 3:30 p.m.
There he will be greeted by a Burbank civic committee. Burbank city officials
will be having their own annual dinner-dance that evening and so will be unable
to attend the Ford-Reinecke dinner.
Ford will meet the press at Burbank at 5:30 p.m. and later mingle with
guests at a social hour preceding the dinner for Reinecke.
Ford has made more than 200 speeches throughout the country since becoming
House Republican leader January 4, 1965. Congressman from Michigan's Fifth
District, he is serving his 18th year in the House. During the 88th Congress, he
was Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Before becoming Minority Leader.
he was ranking Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Clausen, of Crescent City, was elected to Congress January 23, 1963, to fill
a vacancy caused by the death of Democratic Rep. Clem Miller. He was reelected
to the 89th Congress.
Reinecke is a first-termer who was named whip of the California Republican
delegation January 6, 1965.
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