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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. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. 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. ### 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. # # #