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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D19, folder \"Erie, PA, February 25, 1965\" of the\nFord Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford\nPresidential 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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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 D19 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\nErie, Pa.\nFor release at time speech\nFeb. 25, 1966\nis delivered\nThe people of this Nation are losing patience with the majority party that is\nbogged down in disagreement on policy and in petty feuds among its lea Lng\nfigures. The people are losing patience with an Administration that vacillates\nand dodges and shifts position in an attempt to please all the conflicting\nelements that make up the Democratic Party.\nThe public has long tolerated the divisions within the majority party that\nproduce conflict in matters of domestic policy--in such fields as economic policy,\ncivil rights, and federal-state relations. Now, however, deep disagreement among\nleading Democrats on foreign policy has appeared. It leaves the public confused,\napprehensive, and angry.\nWhy the uncertainties and misunderstandings and fears about the war in Vietnam?\nIn great part they are the result of the inability of the party in power to\nagree on whether Americans should be in Vietnam at all, what our Nation is trying\nto achieve there, and whether the right means are being used.\nThese divisions among Democrats became very clear recently when a leading\nDemocratic Senator proposed settling the problem of Vietnam as the problems of\nPoland, of Rumania, of Bulgaria, of Czechoslovakia were settled after World War\nII---by admitting the Communists to a share of power and responsibility in\ngovernment. The Administration's attitude toward this proposal of a coalition\ngovernment for South Vietnam--which would pave the way for a Communist government\nas surely as did coalition governments in Poland, Czeckoslovakia, Rumania, and\nHungary---is still not clear. For this proposal has been dealt with by double\ntalk from the White House.\nCan a party so badly divided, torn internally by disagreement about the path\nwhich the Nation should follow, subject to schizophrenic impulses as it tries to\nsatisfy its divergent elements, provide the leadership needed in the present\ncrisis? The answer is no. And this is the answer which the American people will\ngive at the polls in November.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nGERALD FORD VIBRARY"
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