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The original documents are located in Box D18, folder "10th National Legislative
Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, Washington
Hilton, May 3, 1965" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at
the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D18 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R, Ford (R-Mich)
10th National Legislative Conference
Building and Con struction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
May 3, 1965-Washington Hilton--11:30 a.m,
FOR RELEASE AT 11:30 A.M. EDST
MAY 3, 1965
I want to talk to you this morning about the needs of our traditional two-
party system, as they relate to American labor, But first, let me make this point
regarding President Johnson's statement of last evening on the situation in the
Dominican Republic.
As House Minority Leader, I can say with some assurance that the overwhelming
majority of Republicans in Congress stand solidly behind the President's declared
purpose of preventing the establishment of another Communist regime in the
Americas,
By his timely action in meeting the threat of life, property and hemispheric
security which has been posed by disruptive forces in the Dominican Republic,
President Johnson has avoided a repetition of the debacle of indecision at the
Bay of Pigs.
All evidence indicates that had the President hestitated to act, the results
would have been tragic in terms of human life and the long-range security interests
of the Western Hemisphere. If the Dominican Republic were to go the way of Castro's
Cuba, the Caribbean itself would be converted into a Communist-held lake,
When the national interest is at stake, partisanship under our system ends.
No President need ever fear that Republicans would fail to support firm and
decisive action in defense of American life or property, or to meet our
responsibilities as the leader of the Western Hemisphere nations.
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Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich)
10th National Legislative Conference
Building and Con struction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
May 3, 1965-Washington Hilton--11:30 a,m,
FOR RELEASE AT 11:30 A.M. EDST
MAY 3, 1965
I want to talk to you this morning about the needs of our traditional two-
party system, as they relate to American labor. Buthfirst, let me make this point
regarding President Johnson's statement of last evening on the situation in the
Dominican Republic.
As House Minority Leader, I can say with some assurance that the overwhelming
majority of Republicans in Congress stand solidly behind the President's declared
purpose of preventing the establishment of another Communist regime in the
Americas,
By his timely action in meeting the threat of life, property and hemispheric
security which has been posed by disruptive forces in the Dominican Republic,
President Johnson has avoided a repetition of the debacle of indecision at the
Bay of Pigs.
All evidence indicates that had the President hestitated to act, the results
would have been tragic in terms of human life and the long-range security interests
of the Western Hemisphere. If the Dominican Republic were to go the way of Castro's
Cuba, the Caribbean itself would be converted into a Communist-held lake.
When the national interest is at stake, partisanship under our system ends.
No President need ever fear that Republicans would fail to support firm and
decisive action in defense of American life or property, or to meet our
responsibilities as the leader of the Western Hemisphere nations.
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FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
Excerpts from speech by Rep. erald R. Ford (R-Mich)
10th National Legislative Conference
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
May 3, 1965 ashington Hilton Hotel 11:30 a.m.
FOR RELEASE AT 11:30 A.M. EDST
MAY 3, 1965
There is an urgent need for leadership of organized labor in the United States
to reappraise its role in the political affairs of our country.
Just as organized labor's political voice has become more powerful in recent
years, so has the danger posed by the existence of a one-party labor movement
increased.
The country cannot maintain its free institutions under one-party rule. And,
organized labor must beware of the danger of hitching its aspirations to the star
of one party, no matter how ascendant at the moment.
To have the labor movement a hip-pocket adjunct of one party is neither in
the country's interest, not is it in the interests of the working man.
By the ame token, it is not in any of our interests to have a political
party a hip-pocket adjunct of organized labor or of any single economic or social
grouping.
In making a careful, new appraisal of its role, the labor movement might
consider that political positions fixed by conditions of a former time do not
necessarily reflect the realities of American political and economic life in
the fast-moving Sixties.
Business and ind/ystry appear to be adjusting their sights to what they consider
the needs of the time. I do not credit this change to the blandishments of our
consensus-minded Administration, as do some others.
Is it not time then that organized labor's leadership seek a similar adjustment
to its political needs, not only for today, but for the future?
It is indeed. For the free institutions of our country rest on the strength of
a two-party system, not merely on Capitol Hill--- but in labor, business and every
area of America's social and economic life.
building and consludion trades organization
Your has long taken pride in being politically non-partisan.
I see this position as really being a reflection of a strong two-party
philosophy,
which it seems to me should be adopted by many other organized labor groups.
This practical outlook is one strong way to overcome powers which use one-party
influence, millions of dollars paid by rank-and-file workers in the form of dues,
and the strength of centralized control to command legions of American workers.
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BERALD FORD LIBRARY