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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D20, folder \"Dinner for Representative Don H.\nClausen, First District, at Santa Rosa, CA, April 15, 1966\" of the Ford Congressional\nPapers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential 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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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 D20 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nOffice capy\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY OF\nSPEECH ON APRIL 15, 1966\nSPEECH EXCERPTS--DINNER FOR REP. DON H. CLAUSEN AT SANTA ROSA, FIRST DISTRICT\nLet's not kid ourselves. We're in a wartime inflation.\nDuring the four months, November through February, wholesale prices climbed\nat a 6 per cent annual rate. Now the Johnson-Humphrey Administration is trying\nto tell everyone the worst is over because wholesale prices leveled off in March.\nIt's a see-saw pattern, of course. It changes from month to month. But\nlet's face it. We see the cost of living move steadily upward and we see left\nbehind the old saw that \"a penny saved is a penny earned.\"\nInflation is eating away at our savings and eroding the value of the dollar,\nand the primary cause of it is the Johnson-Humphrey Administration's passion for\nspending the taxpayer's dollar.\nI predict the cost of living will jump at least 3 per cent the rest of this\nyear. It all adds up to high living in the Johnson-Humphrey Administration's\nHigh Society--high living that flows from the Johnson-Humphrey Administration's\nhigh spending, high taxes, high prices--high living that is sweeping us toward\nhigher prices, higher taxes, probable wage and price controls, and possibly a\nrecession.\n***\nLyndon Johnson is playing a shell game with the nation's taxpayers. Congress\ncut income taxes in 1964 and excise taxes in 1965, but how is it going to make\nthose tax cuts stick?\nMr. Johnson, that great shell game operator, already has shown how good he\nis at this business of \"now-you-see-it, now-you-don't.\" This spring he forced\nthrough Congress flashback tax boosts on telephone service and automobiles. Now\nhe's talking about a $5 billion income tax increase--and trying to wish it away\nby asking governors and mayors to hold back on spending and big businessmen to\ncut back on expansion plans.\nAs a kind of afterthought, he has even talked about cutting federal spending.\nWe Republicans have tried to help him by proposing a 5 per cent across-the-board\ncut on all 1966-67 appropriations bills. But if Mr. Johnson has any intention of\ncutting federal spending, he hasn't given the word to his rubber-stamp, Democratic-\ncontrolled Congress. On the two House votes taken on the across-the-board cuts\nbefore the Easter Recess, Republicans went on record for spending cuts and\nDemocrats for more spending.\n***\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\nDigitized from Box D20 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nEXCERPTS-SANTA ROSA SPEECH BY HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER GERALD R. FORD.\nWhile the Republican Party is achieving unity, the Democratic Party is\nfalling into disarray. Disunity in the party in power can only hurt the nation.\nThe Democratic Party is torn asunder, particularly over Vietnam. We hear\na Democratic senator speak scathingly about his Democratic president. We hear\ncritical comments made by one Democratic senator about another. We hear Democrats\nin the House backtrack on support for the President on Vietnam.\nThe Democrats are divided and confused. Republicans, determined to keep\nthe nation on the right course in Vietnam and to turn it back to the right path\nat home, are behaving responsibly.\nThere you have the national political picture in brief today--the Divided\nDemocrats and the Responsible Republicans.\n***\nThere is confusion among the Democrats, and the man most responsible for it\nis Lyndon Johnson.\nIn trying to hold down prices, he has flogged business and labor to try to\nkeep them within his 3.2 per cent guidelines while at the same time forcing up\nprices through irresponsible federal spending.\nAfter a bit, he pretty much gave up on labor because AFL-CIO President\nGeorge Meany said to the Democratic Party: We don't need you as much as you need us.\nThen Mr. Johnson started talking about a 5 to 7 per cent income tax increase.\nBut this was bad, he found. It upset everybody, especially Democratic members of\nCongress who will be running for reelection this fall.\nSo Mr. Johnson tried to get off the higher income tax scare by going back to\nhis jawbone technique--talk, talk, talk the nation out of inflation. It isn't\nworking.\nHe only upset a lot more people. He upset housewives by implying they just\nweren't doing a sharp enough job of their shopping. He told them to put on their\nglasses, get out their pencils, buy cheaper cuts of meat. He upset the plans of\nstate and local governments to build for the future. He upset businessmen's\nplans to expand.\nMr. Johnson is really confused. He seems to forget that his $112.8 billion\nbudget calls for $3.2 billion in new spending for Great Society programs while\na war is going on in Vietnam. It's he who should get out the sharp pencil.\nIs Mr. Johnson confused? You bet he is. Is this any way to run the country?\nYou bet it isn't.\nIs there any excuse for raising taxes again this year? There is not. We\ncould avoid a tax increase if Mr. Johnson and the Divided Democrats would\ncooperate with the Responsible Republicans.\n***"
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