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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D20, folder \"Lake County GOP Picnic Rally,\nMadison, SD, August 29, 1966\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and\nSpeech 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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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\nFOR RELEASE IN MONDAY A.M.'s, AUGUST 29, 1966\nADDRESS BY REP, GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.\nAt\nLAKE COUNTY GOP PICNIC RALLY\nMADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA\nSouth Dakota is a great farming state. It is fitting, therefore, that we pay\nour respects to the agriculture expert of the Johnson-Humphrey Administration--\nSecretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman.\nI know you share the view that he is the most peculiar Secretary of Agriculture\nwe have had for a long, long time. I cannot salute him as a trail-blazing experimen-\nter or a social revolutionary, but I congratulate him for being a political phrase-\nmaker who was born with a foot in his mouth.\nSecretary Freeman is the only Secretary of Agriculture who has ever asked the\nDepartment of Defense to cut down on its purchases of beef and pork produced by the\nAmerican farmer.\nHe is the only Secretary of Agriculture who has ever publicly expressed\npleasure at a drop in farm prices.\nHe is the Cabinet officer who beamed his approval of an $8 million Export-\nImport Bank deal to help Communist Rumania process 300,000 pigs a year with modern\nAmerican-made equipment and to sell millions of pounds of Communist pork in competi-\ntion with American farmers.\nSecretary Freeman has waged an undeclared war on American agriculture which\nhas driven parity prices from an average of 84.5 per cent under Eisenhower to barely\n79 per cent this year. He, as the agriculture \"boss man\" on the Johnson-Humphrey-\nFreeman team, has helped to increase beef imports and has dumped CCC-stored grains to\nknock down market prices. This Democratic Administration, as you well know, also\ntried to scuttle the school milk and school lunch programs.\nThis is what our fathers used to call \"some punkins.\" But if Secretary Freeman\nhas hurt the farmers and wounded the Democrats, he is to be thanked for providing the\nRepublican campaign slogan for 1966. Recently, at a secret Democratic political\nhuddle at which he brushed off the housewives and the farmers, he gave this slick\nadvice to the desperate Democratic congressional candidates--and I quote:\n\"Slip, slide and duck any question of higher consumer prices if you\npossibly can!\"\nThat's Orbiting Orville. Right out of the horse's mouth. \"Slip, slide and\nduck!\" Perhaps such advice would be helpful if the Democratic hopefuls were dodging\nbaseballs in a carnival concession. But candidates who \"slip, slide and duck!\" won't\n(MORE\n-2-\nsatisfy the American voters in 1966. In the political arena this fall Democrats will\nbe ducking when they should be slipping, and slipping when they should be sliding.\nWe have the opportunity to make this the year of the Elephant. Republicans\nare on the right side of the issues, have the best candidates, real party unity, and\norganization. The Democrats are saddled with higher prices, higher interest rates,\nhigher draft calls, higher crime rates. The Great Society is the High Society. Had\nenough?\nWhat is the state of the Union? Not good with a war in Vietnam and NATO in\ndisarray in Europe. At home we see prices skyrocketing to all-time highs, interest\nrates going out of sight, mortgage money tight and getting tighter, federal spending\nout of control, crime soaring and violence spreading across the land.\nThis is the time for leadership. America needs straight-from-the-shoulder\nanswers, not slip, slide and duck. Despite all the Johnson-Humphrey fanfare and\nhoopla, this nation is not getting decisive and effective leadership at a time when\nit's desperately needed. The \"big daddy\" Johnson-Democrat attitude will not solve\nthe frankenstein mess which is damaging our prestige and power abroad, and ravaging\nour people at home. Democrats talk like Pollyanna. The White House blows with an\nuncertain trumpet, with its credibility at an all-time low.\nWhat are we to believe about Vietnam? There the stakes are high; the\nconsequences are great.\nAmericans are proud of our men in our armed forces. Many of you here have\nhusbands, fathers, sons and brothers fighting for freedom half-way around the world.\nWe must not, we cannot, we will not let them down. Republicans believe we must\nforthrightly and steadfastly meet the challenge of Communist terror and aggression\nin Vietnam, Berlin or elsewhere.\nIt is a grim and difficult war in the jungles, swamps and rice-paddies of\nSoutheast Asia. Already our combat losses have risen to over 30,000--including more\nthan 4,400 Americans killed in action.\nBut, we have the power to be successful on the battlefield and at the peace\ntable, and we should press more vigorously for solutions on both fronts. I commend\nIllinois Senatorial Candidate Chuck Percy for calling for an All-Asian Peace\nConference, with the Asians themselves taking the lead in seeking an honorable peace\nin war-torn Vietnam. This promising proposal is a Republican plan for peace.\nOur soldiers are performing billiantly in Vietnam. But it is tragic that\nmore and more of our young menare being sent to fight and perhaps to die there.\n(MORE)\n-3-\nWe are told there will be 400,000 of our ground troops in Vietnam by the end\nof this year. It is also reported it will take 750,000 Americans to end the Vietnam\nWar within five years.\nThese reports sound utterly fantastic when we recall what President Johnson\ntold the nation just two years ago, when he was seeking election.\n\"We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys,\" Johnson\nthe campaigner said. \"We don't want to get involved with a nation with 700 million\npeople and get tied down in a land war in Asia.\"\nNational Republican leaders urged the President in December, 1965, to make\nmore effective use of the superiority we enjoy in air and sea power to end the Vietnam\nWar more quickly and save our manpower.\nBut the President dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied until 6-1/2 months later\nwhen the polls told him the American people wanted to win in Vietnam and get out.\nOnly then did the President order destruction of the oil depots near Nanoi and\nHaiphong. In explaining the action, Defense Secretary McNamara said the bombings\nwould save American and South Vietnamese lives.\nApparently this Democratic Administration thought the oil depot bombings would\nsave lives in July but not in December.\nThe war in Vietnam is costly both in lives and in dollars. Yet, the Johnson\nAdministration persists in a spending-as-usual attitude. While pumping billions into\nthe Vietnam War, the Johnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration dishes out billions more\nin non-essential domestic spending. The result -- inflation.\nInflation is a big word. But you people know exactly what it means. You find\nout every time you go into the market place and pay more and more for less and less.\nDon't let Big Daddy or any other apologist for his Administration tell you\nyou never had it so good. That's a lot of hooey.\nMr. Johnson went to Nebraska and Des Moines to tell the farmers they never\nhad it so good.\nHe didn't tell them the farmer is caught in a cost-price squeeze. He didn't\ntell them that the average parity ratio over the past five years is the lowest it\nhas ever been for any consecutive five-year period since the big depression.\nHe didn't tell them that farm production costs have gone up $4 billion since\n1960, or that total farm debt stands 60 per cent higher than five years ago.\nHe didn't tell them that farmers are still earning only about 65 per cent as\nmuch as non-farmers.\n(MORE)\n-4-\nThe truth is the Johnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration has been spending\nthe American people silly. This is the chief reason your dollars are slipping away\nin line with Freeman's slip-slide-and-duck philosophy,\nThe Democrats have been drowning this country in red ink for six long years\nDo you know what the deficit for those six years adds up to? Thirty billion -\nan average of $6 billion a year. The last time the Federal budget was balanced\nwas in 1960 under a Republican Administration.\nPresident Johnson pretends to be an economizer. I say \"pretends\" because\nI've got the figures to back up what I say. Mr. Johnson is planning to spend 47.5\nper cent more in fiscal year 1967 than the federal government spent in 1960. Since\nfiscal 1965 -- in just two years -- federal spending is up 17 per cent. That's\nthe great economy record compiled during Mr. Johnson's time in office.\nIt's this kind of reckless spending, the doling out of dollars by the\nJohnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration and its blank-check Democratic Congress,\nwhich is the prime cause of inflation.\nIn their 1960 platform the Democrats promised to maintain price stability.\nHave they kept this promise?\nIn 1960 the Democrats promised to place farmers on the same economic level\nas automobile workers and the taamsters. What happened to that promise? Like all\nthe others, it was for the Democrats to get in on, not to deliver on.\nAnd I ask you. Why does the Administration and its captive Democrat\nCongress act as though there is no problem under the sun which can't be cured by\nspending billions of taxpayer dollars?\nWhy, in short, does the Administration pretend that we can fight an all-\nout war in Vietnam and still pay for any and every sociological brainstorm hatched\nby the kept economists of the Great Society?\nWe're bogged down in Vietnam. We're in a mess with inflation. And now\nwe're getting kicked around by high interest rates.\nDo you know that the Democrats in their 1960 platform had the unmitigated\ngall to attack the Eisenhower Administration as a high-interest administration?\nWell, after barely five years of Democratic control, interest rates in\nthis country have hit a 40-year high--that's right, a 40-year high--and they're\nstill going up.\nThis may be news to you, but the Adminsitration can't even be honest about\ninterest rates, much less keep them from going sky-high.\n(MORE)\n-5-\nHere in my hand I hold a United States Savings Bond. My children and your\nchildren are buying these bonds. So are farmers and industrial workers, people\nwho are demonstrating their faith in America. The U.S. Treasury pays them about\n4.15 per cent interest for the use of their money.\nBut that's only when it comes to taking candy-money from school kids.\nIn contrast, when the Treasury turns to the big investors, it talks another\nlanguage. Here I hold a Participation Sales Certificate, which is an interest\nin various mortgage assets that the federal government owns. Its issuance was\nauthorized by the Participation Sales Act of last May, another Democratic Congress\nblank check.\nAnyone who can afford the $5,000 minimum can buy one of these certificates\nand will draw interest not at the rate of about 4.15 per cent but 5-3/4 - or more.\nThat means the Democratic Administration pays over 40 per cent more to the rich\nthan it pays to the great number of Americans who don't have $5,000 in cash lying\naround for a safe investment. This is Democrat policy -- low interest returns\nfor the poor; high interest returns for the rich.\nThat's Robin Hood in reverse. He stole from the rich to give to the poor.\nThe Administration takes from the have-nots and gives to the haves.\nWhat do we have today in the Democratic Party? We've got the Party of\nBig Business, the Party of Big Government, the Party of Big Bureaucracy, the\nParty of Big Spending, the Party of Big Deficits, the Party of Big Cost of Living,\nthe Party of Big Labor Troubles, the Party of Big Home Foreclosures, the Party of\nBig Scandals, the Party with Big Riots in the Streets, the Party of Big Promises.\nRiots in the Streets. The Democratic Party promised big but failed to\ndeliver.\nThere is an atmosphere of lawlessness in this country. It springs from the\nattitude that Americans should only obey the laws that please them. It stems from\nthe feeling that if you've got more than I have, I can take from you whatever I\nwant. It's the old attitude of the-world-owes-me-a-living gone wild.\nYou read about the riots, the arson, and the looting in our great cities\nand you wonder if America has gone mad. This disregard for law and order breeds\nanarchy.\nI have said it before and I say it again. When high-ranking public figures\nlike Vice President Humphrey talk about leading a revolt themselves, they are\nencouraging a defiance of the law which is inexcusable in a civilized society. Is\nthis a Great Society?\nSome of our big cities are rapidly reverting to the jungle, Lawless\nelements are threatening to make guerrilla warfare with the police a familiar pat-\n-6-\ntern of American life.\nHow long are we going to abdicate law and order--the backbone of any\ncivilization--in favor of a soft social theory that the man who heaves a brick\nthrough your window, or tosses a fire bomb into your car, or snipes at firemen\nis simply the misunderstood and underprivileged product of a broken home?\nVietnam. Inflation. High interest. Violence. These are the issues of\n1966. We did not create them. They are simply there. We would prefer that the\nAdministration had not let them develop.\nBut that is where the two-party system comes in.\nWinston Churchill once said that democracy had many and serious faults but\nwas better than any other system of government man had devised.\nDemocracy in America depends on two-party politics. One-party government\nleads straight to tyranny. A vigorous two-party system is the simplest way of\nbringing about necessary changes in our government without wrecking the country\nor resorting to revolution.\nToday we do not have two nearly-equal-in-strength political parties.\nLopsided government, if allowed to continue, leads only to disaster.\nCompetition is the secret of American economic freedom and social progress.\nCompetition between the two major political parties has been good for America.\nIn 1966 this competition will be re-established, The Democrats' stranglehold will\nbe broken at the polls in November.\nThe easiest and quickest way for the people of this country to clean up\nVietnam, stop inflation, bring down interest rates, and protect the lives, rights\nand property of us all-including all minorities--is to vote Republicans in and\nDemocrats out. It's just as simple as that. It's not a matter of intrigue in\ngovernment, or of contributing $10,000 to the President's Club, or lobbying on\nCapitol Hill.\nOften when I ponder the great land that is America, I think of that day in\nPhiladelphia when Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention.\n\"Which have you given us,\" a bystander asked him, \"a monarchy or a re-\npublic?\" \"A Republic,\" Franklin answered, \"if you can keep it.\"\nThat republic has endured for 177 years because in every age there have\nbeen Americans who gave of their time, of their treasure, and of their faith to\nkeep it.\nIt is for us, the living, to re-dedicate ourselves to that high purpose.\nAnd it is my deep conviction that you--all of you--will pass on the torch of\nfreedom to your children because you dare stand up and be counted for America.\nThank you and God bless each of you.\n###\nFOR RELEASE IN MONDAY A.M.'s, AUGUST 29, 1966\nADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.\nAt\nLAKE COUNTY GOP PICNIC RALLY\nMADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA\nSouth Dakota is a great farming state. It is fitting, therefore, that we pay\nour respects to the agriculture expert of the Johnson-Humphrey Administration--\nSecretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman.\nI know you share the view that he is the most peculiar Secretary of Agriculture\nwe have had for a long, long time. I cannot salute him as a trail-blazing experimen-\nter or a social revolutionary, but I congratulate him for being a political phrase-\nmaker who was born with a foot in his mouth.\nSecretary Freeman is the only Secretary of Agriculture who has ever asked the\nDepartment of Defense to cut down on its purchases of beef and pork produced by the\nAmerican farmer.\nHe is the only Secretary of Agriculture who has ever publicly expressed\npleasure at a drop in farm prices.\nHe is the Cabinet officer who beamed his approval of an $8 million Export-\nImport Bank deal to help Communist Rumania process 300,000 pigs a year with modern\nAmerican-made equipment and to sell millions of pounds of Communist pork in competi-\ntion with American farmers.\nSecretary Freeman has waged an undeclared war on American agriculture which\nhas driven parity prices from an average of 84.5 per cent under Eisenhower to barely\n79 per cent this year. He, as the agriculture \"boss man\" on the Johnson-Humphrey-\nFreeman team, has helped to increase beef imports and has dumped CCC-stored grains to\nknock down market prices. This Democratic Administration, as you well know, also\ntried to scuttle the school milk and school lunch programs.\nThis is what our fathers used to call \"some punkins.\" But if Secretary Freeman\nhas hurt the farmers and wounded the Democrats, he is to be thanked for providing the\nRepublican campaign slogan for 1966. Recently, at a secret Democratic political\nhuddle at which he brushed off the housewives and the farmers, he gave this slick\nadvice to the desperate Democratic congressional candidates-and I quote:\n\"Slip, slide and duck any question of higher consumer prices if you\npossibly can!\"\nThat's Orbiting Orville. Right out of the horse's mouth. \"Slip, slide and\nduck!\" Perhaps such advice would be helpful if the Democratic hopefuls were dodging\nbaseballs in a carnival concession. But candidates who \"slip, slide and duck!\" won't\n(MORE\n-2-\nsatisfy the American voters in 1966. In the political arena this fall Democrats will\nbe ducking when they should be slipping, and slipping when they should be sliding.\nWe have the opportunity to make this the year of the Elephant. Republicans\nare on the right side of the issues, have the best candidates, real party unity, and\norganization. The Democrats are saddled with higher prices, higher interest rates,\nhigher draft calls, higher crime rates. The Great Society is the High Society. Had\nenough?\nWhat is the state of the Union? Not good with a war in Vietnam and NATO in\ndisarray in Europe. At home we see prices skyrocketing to all-time highs, interest\nrates going out of sight, mortgage money tight and getting tighter, federal spending\nout of control, crime soaring and violence spreading across the land.\nThis is the time for leadership. America needs straight-from-the-shoulder\nanswers, not slip, slide and duck. Despite all the Johnson-Humphrey fanfare and\nhoopla, this nation is not getting decisive and effective leadership at a time when\nit's desperately needed. The \"big daddy\" Johnson-Democrat attitude will not solve\nthe frankenstein mess which is damaging our prestige and power abroad, and ravaging\nour people at home. Democrats talk like Pollyanna. The White House blows with an\nuncertain trumpet, with its credibility at an all-time low.\nWhat are we to believe about Vietnam? There the stakes are high; the\nconsequences are great.\nAmericans are proud of our men in our armed forces. Many of you here have\nhusbands, fathers, sons and brothers fighting for freedom half-way around the world.\nWe must not, we cannot, we will not let them down. Republicans believe we must\nforthrightly and steadfastly meet the challenge of Communist terror and aggression\nin Vietnam, Berlin or elsewhere.\nIt is a grim and difficult war in the jungles, swamps and rice-paddies of\nSoutheast Asia. Already our combat losses have risen to over 30,000--including more\nthan 4,400 Americans killed in action.\nBut, we have the power to be successful on the battlefield and at the peace\ntable, and we should press more vigorously for solutions on both fronts. I commend\nIllinois Senatorial Candidate Chuck Percy for calling for an All-Asian Peace\nConference, with the Asians themselves taking the lead in seeking an honorable peace\nin war-torn Vietnam. This promising proposal is a Republican plan for peace.\nOur soldiers are performing billiantly in Vietnam. But it is tragic that\nmore and more of our young menare being sent to fight and perhaps to die there.\n(MORE)\n-3-\nWe are told there will be 400,000 of our ground troops in Vietnam by the end\nof this year. It is also reported it will take 750,000 Americans to end the Vietnam\nWar within five years.\nThese reports sound utterly fantastic when we recall what President Johnson\ntold the nation just two years ago, when he was seeking election.\n\"We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys,\" Johnson\nthe campaigner said. \"We don't want to get involved with a nation with 700 million\npeople and get tied down in a land war in Asia.\"\nNational Republican leaders urged the President in December, 1965, to make\nmore effective use of the superiority we enjoy in air and sea power to end the Vietnam\nWar more quickly and save our manpower.\nBut the President dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied until 6-1/2 months later\nwhen the polls told him the American people wanted to win in Vietnam and get out.\nOnly then did the President order destruction of the oil depots near Hanoi and\nHaiphong. In explaining the action, Defense Secretary McNamara said the bombings\nwould save American and South Vietnamese lives.\nApparently this Democratic Administration thought the oil depot bombings would\nsave lives in July but not in December.\nThe war in Vietnam is costly both in lives and in dollars. Yet, the Johnson\nAdministration persists in a spending-as-usual attitude. While pumping billions into\nthe Vietnam War, the Johnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration dishes out billions more\nin non-essential domestic spending. The result -- inflation.\nInflation is a big word. But you people know exactly what it means. You find\nout every time you go into the market place and pay more and more for less and less.\nDon't let Big Daddy or any other apologist for his Administration tell you\nyou never had it so good. That's a lot of hooey.\nMr. Johnson went to Nebraska and Des Moines to tell the farmers they never\nhad it so good.\nHe didn't tell them the farmer is caught in a cost-price squeeze. He didn't\ntell them that the average parity ratio over the past five years is the lowest it\nhas ever been for any consecutive five-year period since the big depression.\nHe didn't tell them that farm production costs have gone up $4 billion since\n1960, or that total farm debt stands 60 per cent higher than five years ago.\nHe didn't tell them that farmers are still earning only about 65 per cent as\nmuch as non-farmers.\n(MORE)\n-4-\nThe truth is the Johnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration has been spending\nthe American people silly. This is the chief reason your dollars are slipping away\nin line with Freeman's slip-slide-and-duck philosophy,\nThe Democrats have been drowning this country in red ink for six long years\nDo you know what the deficit for those six years adds up to? Thirty billion -\nan average of $6 billion a year. The last time the Federal budget was balanced\nwas in 1960 under a Republican Administration.\nPresident Johnson pretends to be an economizer. I say \"pretends\" because\nI've got the figures to back up what I say. Mr. Johnson is planning to spend 47.5\nper cent more in fiscal year 1967 than the federal government spent in 1960. Since\nfiscal 1965 -- in just two years --- federal spending is up 17 per cent. That's\nthe great economy record compiled during Mr. Johnson's time in office.\nIt's this kind of reckless spending, the doling out of dollars by the\nJohnson-Humphrey-Freeman Administration and its blank-check Democratic Congress,\nwhich is the prime cause of inflation.\nIn their 1960 platform the Democrats promised to maintain price stability.\nHave they kept this promise?\nIn 1960 the Democrats promised to place farmers on the same economic level\nas automobile workers and the teamsters. What happened to that promise? Like all\nthe others, it was for the Democrats to get in on, not to deliver on.\nAnd I ask you. Why does the Administration and its captive Democrat\nCongress act as though there is no problem under the sun which can't be cured by\nspending billions of taxpayer dollars?\nWhy, in short, does the Administration pretend that we can fight an all-\nout war in Vietnam and still pay for any and every sociological brainstorm hatched\nby the kept economists of the Great Society?\nWe're bogged down in Vietnam. We're in a mess with inflation. And now\nwe're getting kicked around by high interest rates.\nDo you know that the Democrats in their 1960 platform had the unmitigated\ngall to attack the Eisenhower Administration as a high-interest administration?\nWell, after barely five years of Democratic control, interest rates in\nthis country have hit a 40-year high--that's right, a 40-year high--and they're\nstill going up.\nThis may be news to you, but the Adminsitration can't even be honest about\ninterest rates, much less keep them from going sky-high.\n(MORE)\n-5-\nHere in my hand I hold a United States Savings Bond. My children and your\nchildren are buying these bonds. So are farmers and industrial workers, people\nwho are demonstrating their faith in America. The U.S. Treasury pays them about\n4.15 per cent interest for the use of their money.\nBut that's only when it comes to taking candy-money from school kids.\nIn contrast, when the Treasury turns to the big investors, it talks another\nlanguage. Here I hold a Participation Sales Certificate, which is an interest\nin various mortgage assets that the federal government owns. Its issuance was\nauthorized by the Participation Sales Act of last May, another Democratic Congress\nblank check.\nAnyone who can afford the $5,000 minimum can buy one of these certificates\nand will draw interest not at the rate of about 4.15 per cent but5-3/4 or more.\nThat means the Democratic Administration pays over 40 per cent more to the rich\nthan it pays to the great number of Americans who don't have $5,000 in cash lying\naround for a safe investment. This is Democrat policy -- low interest returns\nfor the poor; high interest returns for the rich.\nThat's Robin Hood in reverse. He stole from the rich to give to the poor.\nThe Administration takes from the have-nots and gives to the haves.\nWhat do we have today in the Democratic Party? We've got the Party of\nBig Business, the Party of Big Government, the Party of Big Bureaucracy, the\nParty of Big Spending, the Party of Big Deficits, the Party of Big Cost of Living,\nthe Party of Big Labor Troubles, the Party of Big Home Foreclosures, the Party of\nBig Scandals, the Party with Big Riots in the Streets, the Party of Big Promises.\nRiots in the Streets. The Democratic Party promised big but failed to\ndeliver.\nThere is an atmosphere of lawlessness in this country. It springs from the\nattitude that Americans should only obey the laws that please them. It stems from\nthe feeling that if you've got more than I have, I can take from you whatever I\nwant. It's the old attitude of the-world-owes-me-a-living gone wild.\nYou read about the riots, the arson, and the looting in our great cities\nand you wonder if America has gone mad. This disregard for law and order breeds\nenarchy.\nI have said it before and I say it again. When high-ranking public figures\nlike Vice President Humphrey talk about leading a revolt themselves, they are\nencouraging a defiance of the law which is inexcusable in a civilized society. Is\nthis a Great Society?\nSome of our big cities are rapidly reverting to the jungle. Lawless\nelements are threatening to make guerrilla warfare with the police a familiar pat-\n-6-\ntern of American life.\nHow long are we going to abdicate law and order--the backbone of any\ncivilization--in favor of a soft social theory that the man who heaves a brick\nthrough your window, or tosses a fire bomb into your car, or snipes at firemen\nis simply the misunderstood and underprivileged product of a broken home?\nVietnam. Inflation. High interest. Violence. These are the issues of\n1966. We did not create them. They are simply there. We would prefer that the\nAdministration had not let them develop.\nBut that is where the two-party system comes in.\nWinston Churchill once said that democracy had many and serious faults but\nwas better than any other system of government man had devised.\nDemocracy in America depends on two-party politics. One-party government\nleads straight to tyranny. A vigorous two-party system is the simplest way of\nbringing about necessary changes in our government without wrecking the country\nor resorting to revolution.\nToday we do not have two nearly-equal-in-strength political parties.\nLopsided government, if allowed to continue, leads only to disaster.\nCompetition is the secret of American economic freedom and social progress.\nCompetition between the two major political parties has been good for America.\nIn 1966 this competition will be re-established. The Democrats' stranglehold will\nbe broken at the polls in November.\nThe easiest and quickest way for the people of this country to clean up\nVietnam, stop inflation, bring down interest rates, and protect the lives, rights\nand property of us all-including all minorities--is to vote Republicans in and\nDemocrats out. It's just as simple as that, It's not a matter of intrigue in\ngovernment, or of contributing $10,000 to the President's Club, or lobbying on\nCapitol Hill.\nOften when I ponder the great land that is America, I think of that day in\nPhiladelphia when Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention.\n\"Which have you given us,\" a bystander asked him, \"a monarchy or a re-\npublic?\" \"A Republic,\" Franklin answered, \"if you can keep it.\"\nThat republic has endured for 177 years because in every age there have\nbeen Americans who gave of their time, of their treasure, and of their faith to\nkeep it.\nIt is for us, the living, to re-dedicate ourselves to that high purpose.\nAnd it is my deep conviction that you--all of you--will pass on the torch of\nfreedom to your children because you dare stand up and be counted for America.\nThank you and God bless each of you.\n###\nnils Are ( Ben Reful 10m.\nLAKE COUNTY GOP PICNIC RALLY--MADISQN, SOUTH DAKOTA\nAUGUST 29, 1966\nSOUTH DAKOTA IS A GREAT FARMING STATE. IT IS FITTING,\nTHEREFORE, THAT WE PAY OUR RESPECTS TOD THE AGRICULTURE\nEXPERT OF THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY ADMINISTRATION--SECRETARY\nOF AGRICULTURE ORVILLE L. FREEMAN.\nI KNOW YOU SHARE THE VIEW THAT HE IS THE MOST PECULIAR\nSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WE HAVE HAD FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.\nI CANNOT SALUTE HIM AS A TRAIL-BLAZING EXPERIMENTER OR A\nSOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY, BUT I CONGRATULATE HIM FOR BEING A\nPOLITICAL PHRASE-MAKER WHO WAS BORN WITH A FOOT IN HIS\nMOUTH.\nSECRETARY FREEMAN IS THE ONLY SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\n-2-\nWHO HAS EVER ASKED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO CUT DOWN\nON ITS PURCHASES OF BEEF AND PORK PRODUCED BY THE AMERICAN\nFARMER.\nHE IS THE ONLY SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WHO HAS EVER\nPUBLICLY EXPRESSED PLEASURE AT A DROP IN FARM PRICES.\nHE IS THE CABINET OFFICER WHO BEAMED HIS APPROVAL OF\nAN $8 MILLION EXPORT-IMPORT BANK DEAL TO HELP COMMUNIST\nRUMANIA PROCESS 300,000 PIGS A YEAR WITH MODERN AMERICAN-\nMADE EQUIPMENT AND TO SELL MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF COMMUNIST\nPORK IN COMPETITION WITH AMERICAN FARMERS.\nSECRETARY FREEMAN HAS WAGED AN UNDECLARED WAR ON AMERICAN\nAGRICULTURE WHICH HAS DRIVEN PARITY PRICES FROM AN AVERAGE\nOF 84.5 PER CENT UNDER EISENHOWER TO BARELY 79 PER CENT\nTHIS\nYEAR.\nHE, AS THE AGRICULTURE \"BOSS MAN\" ON THE\nGERALD LIBRUSK FORD\n-3-\nJOHNSON-HUMPHREY-FREEMAN TEAM, HAS HELPED TO INCREASE BEEF\nIMPORTS AND HAS DUMPED CCC-STORED GRAINS TO KNOCK DOWN\nMARKET PRICES. THIS DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION, AS YOU WELL\nKNOW, ALSO TRIED TO SCUTTLE THE SCHOOL MILK AND SCHOOL\nLUNCH PROGRAMS.\nTHIS IS WHAT OUR FATHERS USED TO CALL \"SOME PUNKINS.\"\nBUT IF SECRETARY FREEMAN HAS HURT THE FARMERS AND WOUNDED\nTHE DEMOCRATS, HE IS TO BE THANKED FOR PROVIDING THE\nREPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN SLOGAN FOR 1966. RECENTLY, AT A SECRET\nDEMOCRATIC POLITICAL HUDDLE AT WHICH HE BRUSHED OFF THE\nHOUSEWIVES AND THE FARMERS, HE GAVE THIS SLICK ADVICE\nTO THE DESPERATE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES--\nAND I QUOTE:\n\"SLIP, SLIDE AND DUCK ANY QUESTION OF HIGHER\nQERALO FORD LIBRARY\nCONSUMER PRICES IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN.\"\n-4-\nTHAT'S ORBITING ORVILLE. RIGHT OUT OF THE HORSE'S\nMOUTH: \"SLIP, SLIDE AND DUCK.\" PERHAPS SUCH ADVICE WOULD\nBE HELPFUL IF THE DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS WERE DODGING BASEBALLS\nIN A CARNIVAL CONCESSION, BUT CANDIDATES WHO \"SLIP, SLIDE,\nAND DUCK!\" WON'T SATISFY THE AMERICAN VOTERS IN 1966. IN\nTHE POLITICAL ARENA THIS FALL DEMOCRATS WILL BE DUCKING WHEN\nTHEY SHOULD BE SLIPPING, AND SLIPPING WHEN THEY SHOULD BE\nSLIDING.\nWE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THIS THE YEAR OF THE\nfrom the Countr House to the Corgress\nELEPHANT. REPUBLICANS ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ISSUES,\nHAVE THE BEST CANDIDATES, REAL PARTY UNITY, AND ORGANIZATION\nTHE DEMOCRATS ARE SADDLED WITH HIGHER PRICES, HIGHER\nINTEREST RATES, HIGHER DRAFT CALLS, HIGHER CRIME RATES.\nTHE GREAT SOCIETY IS THE HIGH SOCIETY! HAD ENOUGH? --\nBERALO FORD LIBRAGA\n-5-\nWHAT IS THE STATE OF THE UNION? NOT GOOD WITH A WAR\nIN VIETNAM AND NATO IN DISARRAY IN EUROPE. AT HOME WE\nSEE PRICES SKYROCKETING TO ALL-TIME HIGHS, INTEREST RATES\nGOING OUT OF SIGHT, MORTGAGE MONEY TIGHT AND GETTING TIGHTER,\nFEDERAL SPENDING OUT OF CONTROL, CRIME SOARING AND VIOLENCE\nSPREADING ACROSS THE LAND.\nTHIS IS THE TIME FOR LEADERSHIP. AMERICA NEEDS STRAIGHT-\nFROM-THE-SHOULDER ANSWERS SLIP, SLIDE AND DUCK WILL NOT\nSUFFICE\nDESPITE ALL THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY FANFARE AND\nHOOPLA, THIS NATION IS NOT GETTING DECISIVE AND EFFECTIVE\nLEADERSHIP M THE DEMOCRATS AT A TIME WHEN IT'S DESPERATELY\nNEEDED. THE \"BIG DADDY\" JOHNSON-DEMOCRAT ATTITUDE WILL NOT\n-6-\nSOLVE THE FRANKENSTEIN MESS WHICH IS DAMAGING OUR PRESTIGE\nAND POWER ABROAD, AND RAVAGING OUR PEOPLE AT HOME.\nDEMOCRATS TALK LIKE POLLYANNA. THE WHITE HOUSE BLOWS WITH\nAN UNCERTAIN TRUMPET, WITH ITS CREDIBILITY AT AN ALL-TIME\nLOW.\nWHAT ARE WE TO BELIEVE ABOUT VIETNAM? THERE THE STAKES\nARE HIGH; THE CONSEQUENCES ARE GREAT.\nAMERICANS ARE PROUD OF OUR MEN IN OUR ARMED FORCES.\nMANY OF YOU HERE HAVE HUSBANDS, FATHERS, SONS AND BROTHERS\nFIGHTING FOR FREEDOM HALF-WAY AROUND THE WORLD. WE MUST NOT\nWE CANNOT, WE WILL NOT LET THEM DOWN. REPUBLICANS BELIEVE\nWE MUST FORTHRIGHTLY AND STEADFASTLY MEET THE CHALLENGE OF\nCOMMUNIST TERROR AND AGGRESSION IN VIETNAM, BERLIN OR\nELSEWHERE.\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\n-7-\nIT IS A GRIM AND DIFFICULT WAR IN THE JUNGLES, SWAMPS\nAND RICE-PADDIES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA. ALREADY OUR COMBAT\nLOSSES HAVE RISEN TO OVER 30,000--INCLUDING MORE THAN\n4,400 AMERICANS KILLED IN ACTION.\nBUT, WE HAVE THE POWER TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE BATTLE-\nFIELD AND AT THE PEACE TABLE, AND WE SHOULD PRESS MORE\nVIGOROUSLY FOR SOLUTIONS ON BOTH FRONTS. I COMMEND ILLINOIS\nSENATORIAL CANDIDATE CHUCK PERCY FOR CALLING FOR AN\nALL-ASIAN PEACE CONFERENCE, WITH THE ASIANS THEMSELVES TAKING\nTHE LEAD IN SEEKING AN HONORABLE PEACE IN WAR-TORN VIETNAM.\nTHIS PROMISING PROPOSAL IS A REPUBLICAN PLAN FOR PEACE it has\nthe full andorrent of the Republican Congressional Teadership\nOUR SOLDIERS ARE PERFORMING BRILLIANTLY IN VIETNAM.\nBUT, IT IS TRAGIC THAT MORE AND MORE OF OUR YOUNG MEN ARE\nBEING SENT TO FIGHT AND PERHAPS TO DIE THERE.\nWE ARE TOLD THAT THERE WILL BE 400,000\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\n-8-\nOF OUR GROUND TROOPS IN VIETNAM BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.\nSt isalso reported\nIT WILL TAKE 750,000 AMERICANS TO\nEND THE VIETNAM WAR WITHIN FIVE YEARS.\nTHESE REPORTS SOUND UTTERLY FANTASTIC WHEN WE RECALL\nWHAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON TOLD THE NATION JUST TWO YEARS AGO,\nWHEN HE WAS SEEKING ELECTION.\n\"WE DON'T WANT OUR AMERICAN BOYS TO DO THE FIGHTING\nFOR ASIAN BOYS,\" JOHNSON THE CAMPAIGNER SAID. \"WE DON'T\nWANT TO GET INVOLVED\nA NATION WITH 700 MILLION PEOPLE\nAND GET TIED DOWN IN A LAND WAR IN ASIA. Those were Democratic\ncampaign promises in 1964\nNATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEADERS URGED THE PRESIDENT IN\nDECEMBER, 1965, TO MAKE MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF THE SUPERIORITY\nWE ENJOY IN AIR AND SEA POWER TO END THE VIETNAM WAR MORE\nRD\nQUICKLY AND SAVE OUR MANPOWER.\nLIBRARY\n-9-\nBUT THE PRESIDENT DILLY-DALLIED AND SHILLY-SHALLIED\nUNTIL 6-1/2 MONTHS LATER WHEN THE POLLS TOLD HIM THE\nAMERICAN POEPLE WANTED TO WIN IN VIETNAM AND GET OUT.\nONLY THEN DID THE PRESIDENT ORDER DESTRUCTION OF THE\nOIL DEPOTS NEAR HANOI AND HAIPHONG. IN EXPLAINING THE\nACTION, DEFENSE SECRETARY MCNAMARA SAID THE BOMBINGS WOULD\nSAVE AMERICANAND SOUTH VIETNAMESE LIVES.\nthis Democration administration\nAPPARENTLY\nTHOUGHT THE OIL DEPOT BOMBINGS\nWOULD SAVE LIVES IN JULY BUT NOT IN DECEMBER.\nTHE WAR IN VIETNAM IS COSTLY BOTH IN LIVES AND IN\nwith the full corporation sthe Demonito in Longress\nDOLLARS. YET, THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION PERSISTS IN A\nSPENDING-AS-USUAL ATTITUDE. WHILE PUMPING BILLIONS INTO\nTHE VIETNAM WAR, THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY-FREEMAN ADMINISTRATION\n-10-\nDISHES OUT BILLIONS MORE IN NON-ESSENTIAL DOMESTIC SPENDING.\nTHE RESULT--INFLATION.\nyourthy\nINFLATION IS A BIG WORD. BUT YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT IT\nMEANS. YOU FIND OUT EVERY TIME YOU GO INTO THE MARKETPLACE\nAND PAY MORE AND MORE FOR LESS AND LESS.\nDON'T LET BIG DADDY OR ANY OTHER APOLOGIST FOR HIS\nADMINISTRATION TELL YOU YOU NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD. THAT'S\nA LOT OF HOOEY as The coot Inving sperals upward, pincharg the pachitporh of everyone but\nto Des Moines\nMR. JOHNSON WENT\nTO NEBRASKA AND\nTO TELL THE\nFARMERS THEY NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD.\nHE DIDN'T TELL THEM THE FARMER IS CAUGHT IN A COST-\nPRICE SQUEEZE. HE DIDN'T TELL THEM THAT\nTHE AVERAGE\nis\nPARITY RATIO OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS THE LOWEST IT HAS\nLIBRAR,\n-11-\nEVER BEEN FOR ANY CONSECUTIVE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD SINCE THE\nBIG DEPRESSION.\nHE DIDN'T TELL THEM THAT FARM PRODUCTION COSTS HAVE\nGONE UP $4 BILLION SINCE 1960, OR THAT TOTAL FARM DEBT\nSTANDS 60 PER CENT HIGHER THAN FIVE YEARS AGO.\nHE DIDN'T TELL THEM THAT FARMERS ARE STILL EARNING\nONLY ABOUT 65 PER CENT AS MUCH AS NON-FARMERS.\nBERALA FORD LIBRARY\n-12-\nDemocrat\nTHE TRUTH IS THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY-FREEMAN ADMINISTRATION\n1\nHAS BEEN SPENDING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SILLY. THIS IS THE\nCHIEF REASON YOUR DOLLARS ARE SLIPPING AWAY IN LINE WITH\nFREEMAN'S SLIDE-SLIP-AND-DUCK PHILOSOPHY.\nTHE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN DROWNING THIS COUNTRY IN RED\nINK FOR SIX LONG YEARS. YOU KNOW WHAT THE DEFICIT FOR THOSE\nSIX YEARS ADDS UP TO? THIRTY BILLION--AN AVERAGE OF\n$6 BILLION A YEAR. THE LAST TIME THE FEDERAL BUDGET WAS\nBALANCED WAS IN 1960 UNDER A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION.\nPRESIDENT JOHNSON PRETENDS TO BE AN ECONOMIZER. I SAY\n\"PRETENDS\" BECAUSE I'VE GOT THE FIGURES TO BACK UP WHAT I\nSAY. MR. JOHNSON IS PLANNING TO SPEND 47.5 PER CENT MORE\nIN FISCAL YEAR 1967 THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENT IN\n1\nin just two years\n1960. SINCE FISCAL 1965 A FEDERAL SPENDING IS UP 17 PER CENT.\n-13-\nTHAT'S THE GREAT ECONOMY RECORD COMPILED DURING MR. JOHNSON'S\nTIME IN OFFICE. Now his President Johnson admits The Demorato in Congress are spending\nmore more Its buting wen blooked budget. SAVERS/SPENDERS\nIT 19 THIS KIND OF RECKLESS SPENDING, THE DOLING OUT OF\nDOLLARS BY THE JOHNSON-HUMPHREY-FREEMAN ADMINISTRATION AND\nITS BLANK-CHECK DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, WHICH IS THE PRIME\nCAUSE OF INFLATION.\nIN THEIR 1960 PLATFORM THE DEMOCRATS PROMISED TO\nMAINTAIN PRICE STABILITY. HAVE THEY KEPT THIS PROMISE?\nIN 1960 THE DEMOCRATS PROMISED TO PLACE FARMERS ON THE\nSAME ECONOMIC LEVEL AS AUTOMOBILE WORKERS AND THE TEAMSTERS.\nWHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PROMISE? LIKE ALL THE OTHERS, IT WAS\nFOR THE DEMOCRATS TO GET IN ON, NOT TO DELIVER ON.\nGERAB FORD LIBRARY\n-14\nI ASK YOU. WHY DOES THE ADMINISTRATION AND ITS\nCAPTIVE DEMOCRAT CONGRESS ACT AS THOUGH THERE IS NO\nPROBLEM UNDER THE SUN WHICH CAN'T BE CURED BY SPENDING\nBILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS?\nWHY, IN SHORT, DOES THE ADMINISTRATION PRETEND THAT\nWE CAN FIGHT AN ALL-OUT WAR IN VIETNAM AND STILL PAY FOR\nANY AND EVERY SOCIOLOGICAL BRAINSTORM HATCHED BY THE\n\"KEPT ECONOMISTS\"OF THE GREAT SOCIETY?\nWE'RE BOGGED DOWN IN VIETNAM. WE'RE IN A MESS WITH\nINFLATION. AND NOW WE'RE GETTING KICKED AROUND BY HIGH\nINTEREST RATES.\nBALON RALD FORD\n-15-\nDO YOU KNOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS IN THEIR 1960 PLATFORM\nunmitiqated\nHAD THE GALL TO ATTACK THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION AS A\nHIGH-INTEREST ADMINISTRATION?\nWELL,\nAFTER BARELY FIVE YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC CONTROL,\nINTEREST RATES IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE HIT A 40-YEAR HIGH--\nTHAT'S RIGHT, A 40-YEAR HIGH--AND THEY'RE STILL GOING UP.\nTHIS MAY BE NEWS TO YOU, BUT THE ADMINISTRATION CAN'T\nEVEN BE HONEST ABOUT INTEREST RATES, MUCH LESS KEEP THEM\nFROM GOING SKY-HIGH.\nHERE IN MY HAND-----I HOLD A UNITED STATES SAVINGS BOND.\nMY CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDREN ARE BUYING THESE BONDS.\nGERALD FORD UBRARY\nSO ARE FARMERS AND INDUSTRIAL WORKERS, PEOPLE WHO ARE\nDEMONSTRATING THEIR FAITH IN AMERICA. THE U.S. TREASURY\nabout\nPAYS THEM 4.15 PER CENT INTEREST FOR THE USE OF THEIR MONEY.\n-16-\nBUT THAT'S ONLY WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING CANDY-MONEY\nFROM SCHOOL KIDS. IN CONTRAST, WHEN THE TREASURY TURNS TO\nTHE BIG INVESTORS, IT TALKS ANOTHER LANGUAGE. HERE I HOLD--\n#\nA PARTICIPATION SALES CERTIFICATE, WHICH IS AN INTEREST IN\nVARIOUS MORTGAGE ASSETS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNS.\nITS ISSUANCE WAS AUTHORIZED BY THE PARTICIPATION SALES ACT\nOF LAST MAY, ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS BLANK CHECK.\nANYONE WHO CAN AFFORD THE $5,000 MINIMUM CAN BUY ONE\nOF THESE CERTIFICATES AND WILL DRAW INTEREST NOT AT THE\nRATE OF ABOUT 4.15 PER CENT BUT 5-3/4 OR MORE. THAT MEANS\nTHE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION PAYS OVER 40 PER CENT MORE\nTO THE RICH THAN IT PAYS TO THE GREAT NUMBER OF AMERICANS\nWHO DON'T HAVE $5,000 IN CASH LYING AROUND FOR A SAFE\nINVESTMENT. THAT'S DEMOCRAT POLICY--LOW INTEREST RETURNS\nFOR THE POOR; HIGH INTEREST RETURNS FOR THE RICH.\nIDENALD R.FORD VIDRARY\n-17-\nTHAT'S ROBIN HOOD IN REVERSE. HE STOLE FROM THE RICH\nTO GIVE TO THE POOR. THE ADMINISTRATION TAKES FROM THE\nHAVE-NOTS AND GIVES TO THE HAVES.\nWHAT DO WE HAVE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? WE'VE GOT\nTHE PARTY OF BIG BUSINESS, THE PARTY OF BIG GOVERNMENT,\nTHE PARTY OF BIG BUREAUCRACY, THE PARTY OF BIG SPENDING,\nTHE PARTY OF BIG DEFICITS, THE PARTY OF BIG COST OF LIVING,\nTHE PARTY OF BIG LABOR TROUBLES, THE PARTY OF BIG HOME\nFORECLOSURES, THE PARTY OF BIG SCANDALS, THE PARTY WITH\nBIG RIOTS IN THE STREETS, THE PARTY OF BIG PROMISES.\nRIOTS IN THE STREETS! THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PROMISED\nBIG BUT FAILED TO DELIVER.\nBERRLD FORD LIBRARY\n-18-\nTHERE IS AN ATMOSPHERE OF LAWLESSNESS IN THIS COUNTRY.\nIT SPRINGS FROM THE ATTITUDE THAT AMERICANS SHOULD ONLY\nOBEY THE LAWS THAT PLEASE THEM. IT STEMS FROM THE FEELING\nTHAT IF YOU'VE GOT MORE THAN 1 HAVE, I CAN TAKE FROM YOU\nWHATEVER I WANT. IT'S THE OLD ATTITUDE OF THE-WORLD-OWES-\nME-A-LIVING GONE WILD.\nYOU READ ABOUT THE RIOTS, THE ARSON, AND THE LOOTING\nIN OUR GREAT CITIES AND YOU WONDER IF AMERICA HAS GONE MAD.\nTHIS\nDISREGARD FOR LAW AND ORDER BREEDS ANARCHY.\nI HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND I SAY IT AGAIN. WHEN HIGH-\nRANKING PUBLIC FIGURES LIKE VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY TALK\nrevolt\nABOUT LEADING A\nTHEMSELVES, THEY ARE ENCOURAGING A\nDEFIANCE OF THE LAW WHICH IS INEXCUSABLE IN A CIVILIZED\nSOCIETY. IS THIS A GREAT SOCIETY?\nLIBRARY\n-19-\nSOME OF OUR BIG CITIES ARE RAPIDLY REVERTING TO THE\nJUNGLE. LAWLESS ELEMENTS ARE THREATENING TO MAKE GUERRILLA\nWARFARE WITH THE POLICE A FAMILIAR PATTERN OF AMERICAN LIFE.\nHow LONG\nHOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO ABDICATE LAW AND ORDER--THE\nBACKBONE OF ANY CIVILIZATION--IN FAVOR OF A SOFT SOCIAL\nTHEORY THAT THE MAN WHO HEAVES A BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW,\nOR TOSSES A FIRE BOMB INTO YOUR CAR, OR SNIPES AT FIREMEN\nIS SIMPLY THE MISUNDERSTOOD AND UNDERPRIVILEGED PRODUCT OF\nA BROKEN HOME?\nVIETNAM\nINFLATION\nHIGH INTEREST\nVIOLENCE!\nTHESE ARE THE ISSUES OF 1966. WE DID NOT CREATE THEM.\nprefer that\nTHEY ARE SIMPLY THERE. WE WOULD\nTHE ADMINISTRATION\nHAD NOT LET THEM DEVELOP.\nBERALD FORD LIBRARY\n-20-\nBUT THAT IS WHERE THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM COMES IN.\nWINSTON CHURCHILL ONCE SAID THAT DEMOCRACY HAD MANY AND\nSERIOUS FAULTS BUT WAS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM OF\nGOVERNMENT MAN HAD DEVISED.\nDEMOCRACY IN AMERICA DEPENDS ON TWO-PARTY POLITICS.\nONE-PARTY GOVERNMENT LEADS STRAIGHT TO TYRANNY. A VIGOROUS\nTWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS THE SIMPLEST WAY OF BRINGING ABOUT\nNECESSARY CHANGES IN OUR GOVERNMENT WITHOUT WRECKING THE\nCOUNTRY OR RESORTING TO REVOLUTION.\nTODAY WE DO NOT HAVE TWO\nNEARLY-EQUAL-IN-\nSTRENGTH POLITICAL PARTIES.\nLOPSIDED GOVERNMENT, IF ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, LEADS ONLY\nTO DISASTER.\nGERALD\n-21-\nCOMPETITION IS THE SECRET OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC FREEDOM\nAND SOCIAL PROGRESS. COMPETITION BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR\nPOLITICAL PARTIES HAS BEEN GOOD FOR AMERICA. IN 1966 THIS\nCOMPETITION WILL BE REESTABLISHED. THE DEMOCRATS'\nSTRANGLEHOLD WILL BE BROKEN AT THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER.\npeople ofthiscountry\nTHE EASIEST AND QUICKEST WAY FOR\nTO CLEAN UP VIETNAM,\nSTOP INFLATION, BRING DOWN INTEREST RATES, AND PROTECT THE\nLIVES, RIGHTS AND PROPERTY OF US ALL--INCLUDING ALL\nMINORITIES--IS TO VOTE REPUBLICANS IN AND DEMOCRATS OUT.\nIT'S JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT. IT'S NOT A MATTER OF INTRIGUE\nIN GOVERNMENT, OR OF CONTRIBUTING $10,000 TO THE PRESIDENT'S\nCLUB, OR OF LOBBYING ON CAPITOL HILL.\nOFTEN WHEN I PONDER THE GREAT LAND THAT IS AMERICA,\nI THINK OF THAT DAY IN PHILADELPHIA WHEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\n-22-\nLEFT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.\nBystander\n\"WHICH HAVE YOU GIVEN US,\" A MIN ASKED HIM, \" A MONARCHY\nOR A REPUBLIC?\" A REPUBLIC,\" FRANKLIN ANSWERED, \"IF YOU\nCAN KEEP IT.\"\nTHAT REPUBLIC HAS ENDURED FOR 177 YEARS---BECAUSE IN\nEVERY AGE THERE HAVE BEEN AMERICANS WHO GAVE OF THEIR TIME,\nOF THEIR TREASURE, AND OF THEIR FAITH TO KEEP IT.\nIT IS FOR US, THE LIVING, TO REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO\nTHAT HIGH PURPOSE. AND IT IS MY DEEP CONVICTION THAT YOU--\nALL OF YOU--WILL PASS ON THE TORCH OF FREEDOM TO YOUR\nCHILDREN BECAUSE YOU DARE STAND UP AND BE COUNTED FOR AMERICA\neach ofryon,\nTHANK YOU AND GOD BEESS\nYOU\n#.\n--END--\nFORD LIBRARY"
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