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The original documents are located in Box D18, folder "Moral Re-Armament, Mackinac
Island, September 3, 1965" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech
File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Moral Re-Armament
The late Peter D. Howard, leader of Moral Re-Armament, described the
spiritual movement as believeing in "sound homes, teamwork in
industry, unity in the Nation, and a rebuilt world" being the normal
committment for every person in a free society.
Also he said: "Anti-Communism is not enough. We have to offer
men everywhere the hope of social and economic justice, peace and the
building of a new world."
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Moral Re-Armament
Irresponsible young people formed a human chain across railroad tracks
attempting to block a troop train from reach a California port of
embarkation.
Pickets shouting peace at any price march in fron of the White House.
Pheard-carrying pickets marbh on Capitol Hill threatening to invade
Congress in an attempt to work their will witha display of strength.
A large section of Los Angeles is burned and looted.
BERALD R.FORD LIBRARY
Digitized from Box D18 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Moral Re-Armament
College students riot protesting an alleged breech of freedom of speech.
Hoodlums invade a quiet eastern city bringing fear and violence.
Young people arrested in a raid on a home where police found narcotics
laugh at the officers, defying them and flaunting the law.
Showing a lack of patriotism, young people try to "beat" the deadline
for marriage after the President cracks down on letting wedded men
escape the draft
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Moral Re-Armament
A motion picture advertisement urges readers to "Think Rotten"
The crime rate soars
an elderly man is brutally murdered
byes
with his
tongue cut out
citizens watch an attack and fail to help or to
call police
a President is assassinated and a man takes the law
in his hands to murder the killer.
# # #
GERALD
Moral Re-Armament
Yet, the balance of good and poor citizenship is tilted for the better.
Many examples of individual achievement.
Robert Manry, the Cleveland newspaperman who sailed the Atlantic
in a tiny boat, said this: "There comes a time that one must decide
of one's dreams, either to risk everything to achieve them, or sit for
the rest of one's life in the backyard."
College students rushed to flooding Mississippi River to fill sandbags,
is
FORD
and work around the clock to successfully hold back the rampaging waters.
GERA
LIBRARY
Moral Re-Armament
In a lange city, a citizen group put a great deal of time and effort
into a study of attitudes and programs involving the public and police.
Thousands of young people choose careers in servize to mankind.
nursing, the ministry, social service, teaching.
Colleges and universities experiencing record enrollments.
Great bulk of Americans mind their own business, work hard, ask no favors,
make their own way, in their own time, to goals of their own choosing.
GERALD
CARDS
MORAL RE-ARMAMENT SEP. 3, 1965
Congress of the United States
Office of the Minority Leader
Herald R. Ford
house of Representatives
M.C.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Speech cards
moral Re-armament
Sept. 3, 1965
Mackinac Island
also statement
and,LBJs worning
of MORE Riots +
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