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The original documents are located in Box D16, folder "Attacking Democrats, 1964" 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
REP. GERALD R. FORD (MICH IGAN)
There is substantial evidence today that Republicanism is "on the march."
Republicans in every state are learning that party unity is essential for
Republican victory. Republican success locally, statewide, or nationally results
in constructive, progressive, and fiscally responsible government. Divided we
cannot win; united we cannot fail.
What about 1964 - A Republican team can win. The New Frontier,
especially the Texas version, is vulnerable. Just because it has developed a Texas
drawl is not reason for us to take cover or run to the boondocks. The New Frontier
must be challenged and can be defeated.
The Republican Party at our national convention in San Francisco selected
Barry Goldwater and Bill Miller to lead us to victory. A victory, not for
Republicans, but for America. To preserve our way of life, to make a better America
for young and old, for the farmer, the miner, the factory worker, the businessman
the Republican candidates must prevail in November.
Let me say with emphasis as I peer into the crystal ball - no Administration
has promised more and will produce less. In the State of the Union Spe ech some-
thing was promised to everyone and we were assured that "all this and more can...
be done without any increase in spending." Some tall tales have come out of Texas
but this may top them all.
Despite the campaign promises of new prestige and greater success abroad, the
Democratic Administrati on has:
1) waited whi le the Wall was built in Berlin
2) waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into Cuba
3) dilly-dallied in Laos
4) let NATO in Europe drift into disarmayand conflict, and now seems unable
to prevent this first-line organization from coming apart at the seams.
5) and, now, after announcing an attack in advance responds to the Communist
aggression against U. S. naval forces in Viet Nam. The Johnson Administra-
tion strategy, if you can call it that, telegraphs our punches to the
enemy. All Americans should ask the President is this the way to win
against the Kremlin, against Peking or Communists anywhere. Is this the
way to protect the lives of our sons, our husbands who are defending our
LIBRARY
priceless heritage in far-off lands?
(more)
-2-
We must forcefully remind our fellow citizens that under 8 years of the
Eisenhower-Republican Administration our military strength and strategy success-
fully met the Communist challenge in Berlin, at Quemoy and Matsu, and in Lebanon
in the Middle East.
We must remind our fellow citizens that there was NO wall in Berlin when we
turned over the government to the New Funtiersmen, NO coalition in Laos, No Communist
soldiers nor Communist military hardware in Cuba.
Domestically the New Front ier policies at home have deviated widely from their
campaign promises.
Despite recent gestures and promises of economy this will be the most
fiscally irresponsible four years in the nation's history.
In the first 36 months the spenders in the White House will have
(1) collected more taxes
(2) spent more federal funds
(3) accumulated the largest federal deficit of any other
Administration in PEACE or WAR. The Johnson Administration will
never balance the federal budget. The Democrats since
January 1961 have accumulated federal deficits of $24 billion
and L.B.J. has no plans to balance the budget in the next three
years.
Our fellow citizens should ask - what is Republican policy on federal fiscal
matters. Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it from 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. 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. Under the Democratic Party 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
promises won't do it.
(more)
-3-
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.
If we diligently follow these Republican principles Barry Goldwater and a
Republican Congress can deliver
1) a federal tax reduction
2) a balanced budget
3) Economic prosperity and sound economic growth for the future, and
4) new jobs in every state
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
three years we find that Secretary Freeman spent 86% more than Ike's Secretary of
Agriculture did in a similar period. TH S leads to only one conclusion: Secretary
Freeman is the most expensive commodity ever produced by the Department.
His policies (1) have been no help to the consumer
(2) disastrouse to the taxpayer
(3) ruinous to the farmer
I think it significant when the farmers of America had the choice, they voted
for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
And then we have their Bobby Baker. Bobby seems to have learned too well from
the master teachers on wheeling and dealing. As a nation we suffered through the
New Deal and the Fair Deal. Now we have the Fast Deal.
It's been a clever deal but it's a raw deal. Now it's time for an Honest Deal.
The Bobby Baker case is going to be a campaign issue and it should be.
Baker is a product of the slick deal in the high echelons of the national
Democratic Party.
Baker's contemptuous behavior since being caught reflects an attitude which
must be removed from government.
-- The Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee covered up ---
the American people want a clean-up!
BERALD
Excerpts from Address
REP. GERALD R. FORD (MICHIGAN)
There is substantial evidence today that Republicanism is "on the march."
Republicans in every state are learning that party unity is essential for
Republican victory. Republican success locally, statewide, or nationally results
in constructive, progressive, and fiscally responsible government. Divided we
cannot win; united we cannot fail.
What about 1964 - A Republican team can win. The New Frontier,
especially the Texas version, is vulnerable. Just because it has developed a Texas
drawl is not reason for us to take cover or run to the boondocks. The New Frontier
must be challenged and can be defeated.
The Republican Party at our national convention in San Francisco selected
Barry Goldwater and Bill Miller to lead us to victory. A victory, not for
Republicans, but for America. To preserve our way of life, to make a better America
for young and old, for the farmer, the miner, the factory worker, the businessman
the Republican candidates must prevail in November.
Let me say with emphasis as I peer into the crystal ball - no Administration
has promised more and will produce less. In the State of the Union Spe ech some-
thing was promised to everyone and we were assured that "all this and more can...
be done without any increase in spending." Some tall tales have come out of Texas
but this may top them all.
Despite the campaign promises of new prestige and greater success abroad, the
Democfatic Administrati on has:
1) waited whi le the Wall was built in Berlin
2) waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into Cuba
3) dilly-dallied in Laos
4) let NATO in Europe drift into disarmyand conflict, and now seems unable
to prevent this first-line organization from coming apart at the seams.
5) and, now, after announcing an attack in advance responds to the Communist
aggression against U. S. naval forces in Viet Nam. The Johnson Administra-
tion strategy, if you can call it that, telegraphs our punches to the
enemy. All Americans should ask the President is this the way to win
against the Kremlin, against Peking or Communists anywhere. Is this the
way to protect the lives of our sons, our husbands who are defending GERAL our
priceless heritage in far-off lands?
(more)
-2-
We must forcefully remind our fellow citizens that under 8 years of the
Eisenhower-Republican Administration our military strength and strategy success-
fully met the Communist challenge in Berlin, at Quemoy and Matsu, and in Lebanon
in the Middle East.
We must remind our fellow citizens that there was NO wall in Berlin when we
turned over the government to the New Funtiersmen, NO coalition in Laos, No Communist
soldiers nor Communist military hardware in Cuba.
Domestically the New Frontier policies at home have deviated widely from their
campaign promises.
Despite recent gestures and promises of economy this will be the most
fiscally irresponsible four years in the nation's history.
In the first 36 months the spenders in the White House will have
(1) collected more taxes
(2) spent more federal funds
(3) accumulated the largest federal deficit of any other
Administration in PEACE or WAR. The Johnson Administration will
never balance the federal budget. The Democrats since
January 1961 have accumulated federal deficits of $24 billion
and L.B.J. has no plans to balance the budget in the next three
years.
Our fellow citizens should ask - what is Republican policy on federal fiscal
matters. Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it from 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. 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. Under the Democratic Party 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 pions
promises won't do it.
(more)
-3-
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.
If we diligently follow these Republican principles Barry Goldwater and a
Republican Congress can deliver
1) a federal tax reduction
2)
a balanced budget
w
Economic prosperity and sound economic growth for the future, and
4) new jobs in every state
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
three years we find that Secretary Freeman spent 86% more than Ike's Secretary of
Agriculture did in a similar period. Thi 8 leads to only one conclusion: Secretary
Freeman is the most expensive commodity ever produced by the Department.
His policies (1) have been no help to the consumer
(2) disastrouse to the taxpayer
(3) ruinous to the farmer
I think it significant when the farmers of America had the choice, they voted
for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
And then we have their Bobby Baker. Bobby seems to have learned too well from
the master teachers on wheeling and dealing. As a nation we suffered through the
New Deal and the Fair Deal. Now we have the Fast Deal.
It's been a clever deal but it's a raw deal. Now it's time for an Honest Deal.
The Bobby Baker case is going to be a campaign issue and it should be.
Baker is a product of the slick deal in the high echelons of the national
Democratic Party.
Baker's contemptuous behavior since being caught reflects an attitude which
must be removed from government.
-- The Democrate on the Senate Rules Committee covered up ---
the American people want a clean-up!
GERALD
attacking Dem admin
Excerpts - Address by Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
What about 1964 - "A Republican team can win. The New Frontier, especially
the Texas version, is vulnerable. Because it has developed a Texas drawl is
not reason for us to take cover. The New Frontier 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.
If I am a delegate to the Republican National Convention this year, 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
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 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.
Let me say with emphasis as I peer into the crystal ball - no Administration
has promised more and will produce less. In the State of the Union Speech
something was promised to everyone and we were assured that "all this and more
can. be done without any increase in spending." Some fabulous tales have come
out of Texas but this may top them all.
Despite the campaign promises of new prestige and greater success abroad,
the Democratic Administration has conducted our foreign relations so that crises
get clearer as they get cloudier, or to put it another way, international problems
are clearly improving as they obviously worsen. The New Frontier has:
1) waited while the Wall was built in Berlin
2) waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into Cuba, and we
still have a "going and getting stronger" communist conspiracy" based
and active less that 100 miles from our shores.
GERADA R.FORD LIBRARY
-2-
4) let NATO in Europe drift into disarray and conflict and now seems
unable to prevent this first line organization from coming apart
at the seams.
5) tip-toed from one end of the teeter-totter to the other, with an
"on again-off again" policy in Viet Nam.
6) were trapped into a.Panama gap by having no U. S. Ambassador in that
important Latin American country for the past 5 months.
We must forcefully 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 there was NO wall in Berlin when
we turned over the government to the New Frontier, NO coalition in Laos, NO
Communist soldiers nor Communist military hardware in Cuba,
In the last six weeks under President Johnson "double talk" has been on
the increase:
1) Just before Christmas President Johnson demanded that Congress
appropriate $3.4 billion for the foreign aid appropriations - a program allegedly
designed "to bury Communism" and win for freedom.
At the same time, on the same legislation, President Johnson vigorously
fought against a Republican amendment to force Communists to pay cash on the
barrel head for American commodities and products.
Republicans nn the other hand fight Communism across the board.
The Johnson Administration in contrast, in the same bill, wanted over
$3 billion to fight Communism and the authority to use your hard-earned tax
dollars, as credit, for the sale of wheat and other commodities to the faltering
Communist economies.
This typical Democratic Party inconsistency the American people do not and
will not understand.
There has been recent double talk on our Defense and Space Programs.
It is difficult to see how we can increase our military capability,
maintain our margin of military superiority over the Soviet Union by:
a) Procuring a conventionally powered aircraft carrier and eliminating a
nuclear powered carrier. A "less than the best" concept in weapons systems will
not preserve the peace or win a war.
b) By cutting back our Minuteman ICBM program and limiting our nuclear
production.
c) By cancelling the DYNA-SOAR military space program with a loss of $400
million and substituting a study program in Research and Development with a MANNED
ORBITAL laboratory.
-3-
Domestically the New Frontier policies at home have deviated widely from the
campaign promises.
1). Despite recent gestures and promises of economy this will be the most fiscally
irresponsible four years in the nation's history.
a) In the first 36 months the spenders in the White House will have -
(1) collected more taxes (2) spent more federal funds. (3) accumulated
the largest federal deficit of any other Administration in PEACE OR WAR. In 1961
they said they'd balance the budget $4 billion deficit. In 1962, said it was a
mistake but they'd balance it that year, but ended up with a $6 billion deficit.
In 1963 they promised a 1/2 billion surplus but ended up with a $6 billion deficit.
Now they've given up. They will have a $9 billion deficit this year and plan a
$4.5 billion deficit next year.
(
Our fellow citizens should ask - what is Republican policy on federal
fiscal matters. Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it
from 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, 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. Under the Democratic Party 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 re-
duction requires determination and forthrightness by each of us, Lip service and
pious promises won't do it.
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.
If we diligently follow these principles as Republican fiscal policy - America
can have
1) Federal tax reduction
2) A balanced budget
3) Economic prosperity for the future, and
4) Sound economic growth.
-4-
2) This Democratic Administration's record on Agriculture is even worse -
If one takes a careful look at the budgets for the Dept. of Agriculture
for the past 3 years there is no doubt that Sec. Freeman is the most expensive
commodity ever produced by the Department.
His policies (1) have been no help to the consumer
(2) disastrous to the taxpayer
(3) ruinous to the farmer.
I think it significant when the farmers of America had the choice - they
voted for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
BERALD
Excerpts - Address by Gerald R. Ford, M.C.
What about 1964 - "A Republican team can win. The New Frontier, especially
the Texas version, is vulnerable. Because it has developed a Texas drawl is
not reason for us to take cover. The New Frontier 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.
If I am a delegate to the Republican National Convention this year, 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
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 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.
Let me say with emphasis as I peer into the crystal ball no Administration
has promised more and will produce less. In the State of the Union Speech
something was promised to everyone and we were assured that "all this and more
can. be done without any increase in spending." Some fabulous tales have come
out of Texas but this may top them all.
#*******************
Despite the campaign promises of new prestige and greater success abroad,
the Democratic Administration has conducted our foreign relations so that crises
get clearer as they get cloudier, or to put it another way, international problems
are clearly improving as they obviously worsen. The New Frontier has:
1) waited while the Wall was built in Berlin
2) waited while Soviet troops and arms were shipped into Cuba, and we
still have a "going and getting stronger" communist conspiracy" based
and active less that 100 miles from our shores.
-2-
4) let NATO in Europe drift into disarray and conflict and now seems
unable to prevent this first line organization from coming apart
at the seams.
5) tip-toed from one end of the teeter-totter to the other, with an
"on again-off again" policy in Viet Nam.
6) were trapped into asPanama gap by having no U. S. Ambassador in that
important Latin American country for the past 5 months.
We must forcefully 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 there was NO wall in Berlin when
we turned over the government to the New Frontier, NO coalition in Laos, NO
Communist soldiers nor Communist military hardware in Cuba.
In the last six weeks under President Johnson "double talk" has been on
the increase:
1) Just before Christmas President Johnson demanded that Congress
appropriate $3.4 billion for the foreign aid appropriations - a program allegedly
designed "to bury Communism" and win for freedom.
At the same time, on the same legislation, President Johnson vigorously
fought against a Republican amendment to force Communists to pay cash on the
barrel head for American commodities and products.
Republicans nn the other hand fight Communism across the board.
The Johnson Administration in contrast, in the same bill, wanted over
$3 billion to fight Communism and the authority to use your hard-earned tax
dollars, as credit, for the sale of wheat and other commodities to the faltering
Communist economies.
This typical Democratic Party inconsistency the American people do not and
will not understand.
There has been recent double talk on our Defense and Space Programs.
It is difficult to see how we can increase our military capability,
maintain our margin of military superiority over the Soviet Union by:
a) Procuring a conventionally powered aircraft carrier and eliminating a
nuclear powered carrier. A "less than the best" concept in weapons systems will
not preserve the peace or win a war.
b) By cutting back our Minuteman ICBM program and limiting our nuclear
production.
c) By cancelling the DYNA-SOAR military space program with a loss of $400
million and substituting a study program in Research and Development with a MANNED
ORBITAL laboratory.
-3-
Domestically the New Frontier policies at home have deviated widely from the
campaign promises.
1). Despite recent gestures and promises of economy this will be the most fiscally
irresponsible four years in the nation's history.
a) In the first 36 months the spenders in the White House will have . -
(1) collected more taxes (2) spent more federal funds. (3) accumulated
the largest federal deficit of any other Administration in PEACE OR WAR. In 1961
they said they'd balance the budget - $4 billion deficit. In 1962, said it was a
mistake but they'd balance it that year, but ended up with a $6 billion deficit.
In 1963 they promised a 1/2 billion surplus but ended up with a $6 billion deficit,
Now they've given up. They will have a. $9 billion deficit this year and plan a
$4.5 billion deficit next year.
(
Our fellow citizens should ask - what is Republican policy on federal
fiscal matters. Let me summarize this complicated problem as Republicans see it
from 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, 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. Under the Democratic Party 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 re-
duction requires determination and forthrightness by each of us, Lip service and
pious promises won't do it.
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.
If we diligently follow these principles as Republican fiscal policy - America
can have
1) Federal tax reduction
2) A balanced budget
3) Economic prosperity for the future, and
4) Sound economic growth.
GERALD
ABRARY
-4-
2) This Democratic Administration's record on Agriculture is even worse -
If one takes a careful look at the budgets for the Dept. of Agriculture
for the past 3 years there is no doubt that Sec. Freeman is the most expensive
commodity ever produced by the Department.
His policies (1) have been no help to the consumer
(2) disastrous to the taxpayer
(3) ruinous to the farmer.
I think it significant when the farmers of America had the choice - they
voted for FREEDOM and against FREEMAN.
GERALD
ABRARY