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The original documents are located in Box D16, folder "Indiana Republican Editorial
Association, September 28, 1963" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and
Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D16 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
EXCERPTS FROM ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD (R-MICH)
A "Republican team" can win in 1964. The New Frontier is vulnerable; it must be
challenged and can be defeated. The Republican Party has an outstanding stable of
top grade potential candidates. Among them there may be some, and I emphasize "some,"
divergence of individual views but the basic philosophy of each falls clearly within
the political, economic and foreign policy blueprint of Republicanism which in all
instances is in sharp contrast to the radicalism of the New Frontier. Because a
Republican team can win in '64, it is vitally important for the future of America
that whe n the "chips are down," each and every potential candidate be available and
eager for the fray.
I hope we will have a wide open, unbossed national convention where the will
of the majority of the Republican delegates will prevail in order to reflect the
true view of rank and file Republicans nationwide. If I am a delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1964, I will of course support one candidate over
the others, but let me assure you, without hesitation or qualification, if my
candidate loses I will wholeheartedly work and vote for the Republican nominee.
We as Republicans should not be so committeed to a single personality or so limited
in our Republican ideals and philosophy that we leave the fray to insure victory for
the radicals and big-city politicians who now dominate and control the Democratic
Party. Let us never forget that the Republican Party is the only vehicle today
by which the best traditions of America can be preserved and expanded.
*
*
*
Democratic record is vulnerable. In this complicated, controversial and
turbulent world, the radical Democratic policies are inadequate at home and abroad.
Let me say with emphasis - no Administration promised more and produced less.
Furthermore when the President's policies are weak, vacillating and unsound, Republicans
have a responsibility to spotlight errors and be critical of failures. In history
this Democratic Administration will best be known for its failures rather than its
accomplishments. The New Front ier is like touch football. It touches everything
and tackles nothing.
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
In 1960 during the political campaign the Democrats promised to devise a new
national strategy allegedly designed to increase the strength of the non-communist
world. Tragically for the United States and our allies, in the past two years and
nine months the Democratic Administration has simply resurrected the discredited
"wait and see" or "let the dust settle" foreign policy that lost China and eastern
-2-
Europe in the 1940s to the Communist dictators in the Kremlin. Despite the campaign
promises of new prestige abroad, the Democratic Administration has waited while the
Wall was built in Berlin, waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into
Cuba, dilly-dallied in Laos, let NATO drift into disarray and conflict, removed
ballistic missiles from Italy and Turkey, and is "off again, on again" in its policy
in Viet Nam.
We must remind our fellow citizens that under 8 years of the Eisenhower-
Republican Administration our military strength and strategy successfully met the
Communist challenge in Berlin, at Quemoy and Matsu, and in Lebanon in the Middle East.
We must remind our fellow citizens that America's prestige and success in the 1950s
has deteriorated under the vacillating indecision of the "wait and see" policies of
the Democrats in the "60s." We must remind our fellow citizens that this Administration
has been strong on fine phrases but woefully weak on decisive action.
While on the subject of foreign policy it is appropriate tospeak of the tragedy
of Cuba. Under this Democratic Administration it has been one nightmare after another:
Bay of Pigs, prisoner ransom, Soviet military build-up, loss of initiative since
November 1962. Present Democratic policy, if there is one, is to let the "dust settle"
and hope for a break. This didn't work in China in the 1940s. It will be a failure
in Cuba. Tragically in the meantime there is increasing Communist infiltration and
subversion in all of Latin America which threatens our friends in the Caribbean and
South America.
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Domestically the New Frontier policies at home have deviated widely from the ir
campaign promises. This will be the most fiscally irresponsible Administrati on in
the nations history. In the first 32 months the Whiz Kids in the White House have
collected more taxes, spent more federal funds, and accumulated larger federal deficits
than any other Administration in PEACE or WAR. This Administration will never balance
the federal budget; they plan it that way with ever increasing federal payrolls,
mounting federal interest payments.
All the delightful talk about the $11 billion tax cut producing a balanced
budget in 1967 or 1968 is just so much wishful thinking. No New Frontier Treasury
official can produce any facts or even come up with an estimate of what federal
revenues and expenditures will be in 1967. But we do know this much: in 1962 and 1963
the public debt went up $17 billion. Another $18 billion is forecast for this year
and next. This adds up to an increase in the debt of $35 billion in four years of
-3-
the Kennedy Administratio An increase of $35 billion in the public debt means an
increase of over $1.1 billion in annual interest charges for American taxpayers.
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Our fellow citizens should ask: what is Republican policy on federal fiscal
matters? Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it in the
House of Representatives. To have a tax cut unmatched by an expenditure cut is to
endanger the economy, not improve it. We don't get stronger by depleting the
Treasury. If budget deficits were the way out, we should now be enjoying economic
paradise, since we have had sizable deficits in 25 of the last 31 years. But we
know from history what happens to nations that persist in living beyond their means.
Spending more than we take in does put more dollars into the economy. But
that is not the equivalent of more purchasing power, or more purchases. A deep-
rooted anxiety, reaching out to the entire Western World, is not about the quantity
of our dollars, but their quality. Quantity without quality places in jeopardy the
savings bonds, life insurance policies, bank balances, and pension benefits of our
own people. Adding deficit on deficit may get the country moving again -- but in
the wrong direction. Under the Ken nedy policy of borrowing money for a tax reduction
America will go down not up to a higher economic plateau. The road to tax reduction
is in expenditure reduction. Expenditure reduction requires determination and
forthrightness by each of us. Lip service and pious resolutions won't do it. We
must stop calling for, or condoning, the spending of money we don't have.
We must realize that today's promises become tomorrow's taxes. We must
therefore turn a deaf ear to rosy pictures of lavish and extravagant programs, and
other spending that we just can't afford. If we diligently follow these principles
as Republican policy, America can have federal tax reduction, a balanced budget,
economic prosperity for the future, and sound economic growth.
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
This Democratic Administration's record on Agriculture is even worse. If one
takes a careful look at the budgets for the Department of Agriculture for the past
2½ years there is no doubt that Secretary Freeman is the most expensive commodity
ever produced by the Department. His policies have been no help to the consumer,
disastrous to the taxpayer, and ruinous to the farmer. I think it significant when
the farmers of America had the choice they voted for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
-4-
A few suggestions for the months ahead:
Tell the Truth - Tell it Often - Tell it with Conviction
It is beginning to get through to the American people that there is very little
substance to the fog of publicity put out by the mimeograph machines in the White
House. Folks at home are beginning to realize that an Administration can manage
the news just so long. The American people are catching on. By the time of the
1964 election, if we do our job, all Americans will know there is a shaky, shifty
foundation under the House that Jack built.
Point out basic differences between Democrats and Republicans
While today's Democratic Party is dominated by radicalism and "big-city
politicians, 11 the G.O.P. continues to represent modern, progressive, common sense
conservatism with party control resting in the rank and file membership.
The Democratic Party today is the party of "big government" demanding more
and more government power over every citizen. As Republicans we defend and insist
upon individual initiative, free enterprise, and limited government.
Our Republican Party is a unified, national party with achievable goals. Our
opponents form a peculiar coalition with no unity in purpose and little mutual respect.
What Republicans must do to win
We Republicans must start walking across America block by block, stopping at
every home and farm and factory and dockside along the way, pointing out the failure of
the Democrats and selling these basic Republican principles I have been talking about.
If we do this, we will get rid of the Galbraiths, the Rostows, the Hellers,
the Schlessingers, the Adlai Stevensons, the Soapy Williams, the F.D.R. Jrs. and the
Chester Bowles.
If we do this, we will retire the Kennedys from the White House to Glen Ora,
or Newport, or Hyannis Port, or Palm Beach, Rattlesnake Mountain, or wherever else
they may have homes by that time.
The people who are going to put the wheels under the Kennedy rocking chair and
push him out of the White House are right here in this group. You have an important
state. You have the enthusiasm and the desire. You can get the money. You have the
independent spirit of the Abe Lincolns and Teddy Roosevelts and Dwight Eisenhowers
and other greats of our Republican Party. You have all the ingredients so that you
can bring victory to us and to the nation in 1964. The question is -- will you accept
the challenge??
####
EXCERPTS FROM ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD (R-MICH)
Indiana Republ icen Editorial Auminist in
September 22, 1963
A "Republican team" can win in 1964. The New Frontier is volmerable; it must
be chellenged and can be defeated. The Republican Party has an outstanding stable of
top grade potential candidates. Among them there may be some, and I emphasize "some, "
divergence of individual views but the basic philosophy of each falls clearly within
the political, economic and foreign policy blueprint of Republicanism which in all
instances is in sharp contrast to the radicalism of the New Frontier. Because a
Republican team can win in '64, it is vitally important for the future of America
that when the "chips are down," each and every potential candidate be available and
eager for the fray.
I hope we will have a wide open, unbossed national convention where the will
of the majority of the Republican delegates will prevail in order to reflect the
true view of rank and file Republicans nationwide. If I am a delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1964, I will of course support one candidate over
the others, but let me assure you, without hesitation or qual if ication, if my
candidate loses I will wholeheartedly work and vote for the Republican nomines.
We as Republicans should not be so committed to a single personality or so limited
in our Republican ideals and philosophy that we leave the fray to insure victory for
the radicals and big-city politicians who now dominate the control the Democratic
Party. Letikus never forget that the Republican Party is the only vehicle today
by which the best traditions of Americancan be preserved and expanded.
*.....
Democratic record is valnerable. In this complicated, @entroversial and
turbulent world, the radical Democratic policies are inadequate at home and abroad.
Let me say with emphasis - no Administration promised more and produced less.
Furthermore when the President's policies are weak, vacilating and unsound,
Republicans have a responsibility to spotlight errors and be critical of failures.
In Asotory wild-ressed, while this Democratic Administration will best be known for its
failures rather than its accomplishments. The New Frontier is like touch football.
It touches everything and tackles nothing.
*.....
In 1960 during the political campaign the Democrats promised to devise a new
national strategy allegedly designed to increase the strength of the non-communist
world. Tragically for the United States and our allies, in the past two years and
nine months the Democratic Administration has simply resurrected the discredited
FORD
"wait and see" or "let the dust settle" foreign policy that lost China and eastern
Europe in the 1940s to the Communist dictators in the Kremlin. Despite the campaign
LIBRARY
2
promises of new prestige abroad, the Democratic Administration has waited while the
Wall was built in Berlin, waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into
Cuba, dilly-dallied in Laos, let NATO drift into disarray and conflict, removed
ballistic missiles from Italy and Turkey, and is "off again, on again" in its policy
in Viet Nam.
We must remind our fellow citizens that under 8 years of the Eisenhower=
Republican Adminis tration our military strength and strategy successfully met the
Communist challenge in Berlin, at Quemoy and Metsu, and in Lebanon in the Middle East.
We must remind our fellow citizens that America's prestige and success in the 1950's
has deteriorated under the vacillating indecision of the "wait and see" policies of
the Democrats in the "60s." We must remind our fellow citizens that this Administration
has been strong on fine phrases but woefully weak on decisive action.
While on the subject of foreign policy it is appropriate to speak of the tragedy
of Cuba. Under this Democratic Administration it has been one nightmare after another:
Bay of Pigs, prisoner ransom, Soviet military build-up, loss of initiative since
November 1962. Presdat Democratic policy, if there is one, is to let the "dust
settle" and hope for a break. This didn't work in China in the 1940s. It will be a
failure in Cuba. Tragically in the meantime there is increasing Communist infiltration
and subversion in all of Latin America which threatens our friends in the Caribbean
and South America.
Domestically the New Front ier policies at home have deviated widely from their
campaign promises This will be the most fiscally irresponsibile Administration in
the nation's history. In the first 32 months the Whis Kids in the White House have
collected more taxes, spent more federal funds, and accumulated largest/federel
deficit the then any other Administration in PEACE or WAR. This Administration will
never balance the federal budget ; they plan it that way with ever increasing federal
payrolls, mounting federal interest payments.
All the delightful talk about the $11 billion tax cut producing a balanced
budget in 1967 or 1968 is just so much wishful thinking. No New Frontier Treasury
official can produce any facts or even come up with an estimate of what federal
revenues and expenditures will be in 1967. But we do know this much: in 1962 and 1963
the public debt went up $17 billion. Another $18 billion is forecast for this year
and next. This adds up to an increase in the debt of $35 billion in four years of the
Kennedy Administration. An increase of $35 billion in the public debt means an increase
(
of over $1.1 billion in annual interest charges for American taxpayers.
*
*
*
Our fellow citizens should ask what is Republican policy on federal fiscal
LIBRARY
7
matters. Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it in the
6
House of Representatives. To have a tax cut unmatched by an expenditure cut is to
endanger the economy, not improve it. We don't get stronger by depleting the
Treasury. If budget deficits were the way out, we should now be enjoying economic
paradise, since we have had sizable deficits in 25 of the last 31 years. But we
know from history what happens to nations that persist in living beyond their means.
Spending more than we take in does put. more dollars into the economy. But
that is not the equivalent of more purchasing power, or more purchases. A deep~
rooted anxiety, reaching out to the entire Western World, is not about the quantity
of our dollars, but their quality. Quantity without quality places in jeopardy the
savings bonds, life insurance policies, bank balances, and pension benefits of our
own people. Adding deficit on deficit may get the country moving again -- but in
the wrong direction. Under the Kennedy policy of borrowing money for a tax reduction
America@ will go down not up to a higher economic plateau. The road to tax reduction
is in expend* ure reduction. Expenditure reduction requires detemination and
forthrightness by each of us. Lip service and pious resolutions won't do tt. Vedmust
stop chaling for, or condoning, the spending of money we don't have.
We must realize that today's promises become tomorrow's taxes. We must
therefore turn a deaf ear to rosy pictures of lavish and extravagant programs, and
other spending that we just can't afford. If we diligently follow these principles
as Republican policy, America can have federal tax reduction, a balanced budget,
economic prosperity for the future, and sound economic growth.
This Democratic Adminis tration's record on Agriculture is even worse. If one
takes a careful look at the budgets for the Department of Agriculture for the past
2½ years there is no doubt that Secretary Freeman is the most expensive commodity
ever produced by the Department. His policies have been no help to the consumer,
disastrous to the taxpayer, and ruinous to the farmer. I think it significant when
the farmers of America had the choice they voted for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
A few suggestions for the months ahead:
Tell the Truth - Tell it Often . Tell it with Conviction
It is beginning to get through to the American people that there is very little
substance to the fog of publicity put out by the mimograph machines in the White
House. Folks at home are beginning to realize that an Administration can manager
the news just so long. The Amer ican people are catching on. By the time of the
1964 election, if we do our job, all Americans will know there is a shaky, shifty
foundation under the House that Jack built.
Point out basic differences between Democrats and Republicans
While today's Democratic Party is dominated by radicalism and "big city
politicians," the G.O.P. continues to represent modern, progressive, common sense,
conservatism with party control resting in the rank and file membership.
The Democratic Party today is the party of "big government" demanding more
and more government power over every citizen. As Republicans we defend ard insist
upon individual initiative, free enterprise, and limited government.
Our Republican Party is a unified, national party with achievable goals. Our
opponents form a peculiar coalition with no unity in purpose and little mutual
respect.
What Republicans must do to win
We Republicans must start walking across America block by block, stopping at every
home and farm and factory and dockside along the way, pointing out the failure of the
Democrats and selling these basic Republican principles I have been talking about.
If we do this, we will get rid of the Galbraiths, the Rostows, the Hellers,
the Schlessingers, the Adlai Stevensons, the Soapy Williams, the F.D.R. Jrs. and the
Chester Bowles.
If we do this, we will retire the Kenedys from the White House to Glen Ora,
or Newport, or Hyannis Port, or Palm Beach, Rattlesnake Mountain, or wherever else
they may have homes by that time.
The people who are going to put the wheels under the Empody rocking chair and
push him out of the White House are right here in this room. You have an important
state. You have the enthusisem and the desire. You can get the money. You have the
independent spirit of the Abe Lincolns and Toddy Roosevelts and Dwight Eisenhowers and
other greats of our Republican Party. You have all the ingredients so that you can
bring victory to us and to the nation in 1964. The question is -- will you accept
the challenge ??
033ALD FORD LIBRARY