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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D6, folder \"Ford Press Releases - Campaign\nTours, 1966\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the\nGerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDigitized from Box D6 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nAPRIL 7, 1966\nHouse Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., will tour the First\nCongressional District of Wisconsin April 22 and 23 with Henry C. Schadeberg,\nRepublican candidate for Congress.\nFord will speak at a campaign kick-off dinner for Schadeberg Friday\nevening, April 22, at the new Carthage College Field House in Kenosha\nbefore an expected audience of 1,600 Schadeberg supporters.\nSaturday, April 23, Ford will address a Walworth County breakfast\nmeeting at the Green Shutters Restaurant in Whitewater at 8:30 A. M. and\na luncheon rally at the Aero Park hall in Janesville at 12:30 P. M.\nFord, congressman from the Fifth District of Michigan, is in his\n18th year in Congress. He was elected Minority Leader of the House of\nRepresentatives at the opening of the 89th Congress on January 4, 1965.\nDuring the 88th Congress (1963-64) he was Chairman of the Republican\nConference of the House. Before becoming Minority Leader, Ford served on\nthe committee on Appropriations where he was senior Republican on the\nDefense Appropriations Subcommittee.\n9chadeberg is campaigning to return to Congress from the First District\nof Wisconsin. From 1961 to 1964 he represented the area composed of Racine,\nKenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties in the 87th and 88th Congresses. A\nresident of Burlington, Schadeberg was minister at the Plymouth Congregational\nChurch before his election to Congress.\n###\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE MONDAY P. M., APRIL 11, 1966\nWASHINGTON--House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, Mich., will address the\nRepublican faithful at appreciation dinners for two GOP members of the House in\nappearances April 15-16 in California.\nFord will speak the evening of April 15 at Santa Rosa on behalf of Rep. Don H.\nClausen. The Clausen dinner is sponsored by the First District Republican\nCommittee.\nThe House GOP leader will be the principal speaker April 16 at a Lincoln-\nDay-in-April dinner at Burbank honoring Rep. Ed Reinecke of California's 27th\ncongressional district.\nPrior to the Clausen dinner, Ford will speak to the Republican Associates\nof San Diego County at San Diego.\nOn his swing into Santa Rosa, Ford will arrive at 4:40 p.m. at San Francisco\nInternational Airport, where a press conference is scheduled.\nHe will spend the night of April 15 at San Francisco and will have another\npress conference at 10:30 a.m. April 16 at the Hilton Inn before departing for\nBurbank.\nFord will fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where he is due at 3:30 p.m.\nThere he will be greeted by a Burbank civic committee. Burbank city officials\nwill be having their own annual dinner-dance that evening and so will be unable\nto attend the Ford-Reinecke dinner.\nFord will meet the press at Burbank at 5:30 p.m. and later mingle with\nguests at a social hour preceding the dinner for Reinecke.\nFord has made more than 200 speeches throughout the country since becoming\nHouse Republican leader January 4, 1965. Congressman from Michigan's Fifth\nDistrict, he is serving his 18th year in the House. During the 88th Congress, he\nwas Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Before becoming Minority Leader.\nhe was ranking Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.\nClausen, of Crescent City, was elected to Congress January 23, 1963, to fill\na vacancy caused by the death of Democratic Rep. Clem Miller. He was reelected\nto the 89th Congress.\nReinecke is a first-termer who was named whip of the California Republican\ndelegation January 6, 1965.\n# # #"
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