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Distribution : 50 Capies Mr. Ford
Office Capy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
October 5, 1968
An Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the U.S. House
of Representatives at a dinner honoring Rep. George A. Goodling, R-Pa.,
Saturday evening, Oct. 5, at York, Pa.
It is wonderful to be in George Goodling's district talking with all you
fine people.
It is always a pleasure for me to be in George Goodling's company because
George is one of the really solid members of the U.S. House of Representatives,
a man who is keenly attentive to the needs of his congressional district and
an honest spokesman for the people there. I can assure all of the voters of
the 19th Pennsylvania District that George Goodling is doing a great job on the
House Agriculture Committee and that nobody excels him as a conscientious and
hard-working legislator.
If anyone knows what's best for this congressional district, George
Goodling does. He is looking out for his people every minute of the day. And
he handles every dollar of the taxpayer's money just as though it were coming
out of his own pocket. I can personally testify to the fact that George Goodling
is a great champion of government economy, and the record of the votes he cast
in the 90th Congress will bear me out.
We need men like George Goodling in the Congress--men who will turn over
a tax dollar at least twice before they spend it and then try to make it go
twice as far; legislators who believe ours is a government of laws and not of
men and who will never turn our country over to the forces of anarchy; men who
love the tillers of the soil and all those who work hard and are proud of
working for a living; legislators who believe that the states and local
communities should be strong and vigorous units of government and not appendages
of the federal bureaucratic octopus.
Yes, we badly need men like George Goodling in the House of Representatives,
and so I ask you tonight to do everything possible to return George to Washington
next January. Dick Nixon will need a Republican Congress to carry out his
program. He needs men like George Goodling in Congress.
Tonight I would like the people of Pennsylvania's 19th District to ask
themselves these questions:
(more)
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Digitized from Box D25 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
-2-
Which political party is it which spent this Nation into a financial
crisis without solving the people's problems?
Which party is it which poured billions of dollars into the problems
of the cities only to have them erupt in riots snuffing out 123 lives and
costing nearly a billion dollars just in the last year and a half?
Which party is it which pumped billions of dollars into a War on Poverty--
in which the opening gun was fired just before the 1964 election--only to have
the Poor march on Washington four years later and threaten to turn the Nation's
capital upside down?
Which party is it which has bogged this Nation down in a massive land
war in Vietnam, where more than 32,700 Americans have lost their lives and some
$70 billion of our wealth has been dissipated?
Which party is it which has imposed an income tax increase on the
American people to offset its extravagant federal spending?
The National Democratic Party not only has failed to solve America's
problems, it has created crushing new ones.
I ask the people of this district to look at what has happened to America
in the last seven years.
We have become involved in a no-win war halfway around the world.
The cost of living has raced upward by nearly 20 per cent and while it
used to be said that a fool and his money are soon parted, now this tragedy
happens to all of us under Democrat inflation.
The national crime rate has jumped 89 per cent while our population has
increased 10 per cent.
Our paper money has become exactly that--because the Johnson-Humphrey
Democratic Party has removed the 25 per cent gold backing from our currency.
For more than eight months a fourth-rate Communist power has held a
United States intelligence ship and 82 crewmen captive after attacking the
vessel with impunity and killing one of the crew.
It was clearly a lack of preparedness by the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration to deal with an incident like the Pueblo affair that resulted
in the capture of the ship and the crew.
This is all part of the record of the Democratic Administrations and the
Democratic-controlled Congresses which have guided this country's fortunes and
misfortunes since January 1961 the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the costly
stalemate in Vietnam, the shame of the Pueblo, the deterioration of a North
(more)
-3-
Atlantic Treaty Organization which has been kicked out of France and forced to
take refuge in Belgium, the U.S. non-policy in the Mideast which failed to
prevent the lightning war of June 1967 and now hinders face-to-face peace
negotiations between the Israelis and the Arabs while Soviet influence in the
Middle East grows, the continuing failure of the Alliance for Progress, the waste
and corruption in the foreign aid program, the threat that the Soviet Union is
overtaking us in nuclear capability if she has not already passed US.
This is the kind of bankrupt government that Hubert Humphrey would like
to sell the American people for another four years--a party that has already
plunged the Nation into bankruptcy in foreign affairs and near-bankruptcy in
its financial affairs.
The American people are coming to realize that the National Democratic
Party has mismanaged our foreign affairs and our domestic affairs and brought
this Nation to the brink of ruin. I am confident they will turn to the Republican
Party in November.
Johnson-Humphrey Administration mismanagement of our national affairs
clearly extends to agriculture. It is utterly fantastic that the Administration
would ask Congress to write into permanent law a farm program that has produced
one of the lowest parity ratios of all time.
The Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 has not worked well, and that is why
George Goodling and other Republicans are insisting on something better. When
the Act became effective, the farm parity ratio stood at 81. Since then it has
dropped steadily to the ridiculously low figure of 73. Even the adjusted parity
ratio--the one which includes direct payments to farmers--has dropped to 79
after reaching 87 in January 1966. That's an eight-point drop in two years.
We must do better. Turn the leadership of this country over to the Republican
Party and we will do better.
This is what the Nation desperately needs--a change in national leadership,
Republican leadership that will steer this country in a New Direction, away
from $25 billion deficits and away from the permissiveness that breeds riots,
away from a rising national crime rate and the philosophy that whatever you can
get away with is all right.
We all want a better society. You know and I know that we can build a
better society only if we have a lawful society.
We all want progress. You know and I know that we can make progress only
with a sound dollar, not with the deteriorating dollar of the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration.
(more)
-4-
This is a crucial year for America. I hope that every American who is
inclined to vote Democratic will look at the two major parties and ask himself,
honestly, which party best represents his own thinking. If he will do that,
I do not fear for the outcome--either in the 19th District of Pennsylvania or
elsewhere in America.
I am convinced that America cannot afford another four years of Democratic
rule in Washington.
We need Republican leadership in Washington. We need Republican control
of the Congress. We need Dick Nixon in the White House. We need George
Goodling in the "People's House."
In this age of crisis the Nation sorely needs a new leader with a strong
sense of mission--and that leader is Dick Nixon.
We need Dick Nixon because we need a mature and clear-thinking leader to
bring the Vietnam War to an honorable conclusion, to steer us clear of
humiliating incidents like the Pueblo affair, to curb inflation, to restore
world confidence in the dollar, to turn the national crime rate downward, and to
build a new America.
I say the November election is crucial because this country has come to
a fork in the road and the people must decide--will it be revolution or a new
forward burst of progress for all our people generated by a reaffirmation of
the principles which have made America the great and glorious land that it is?
I think the American people will come up with the right answer on
November 5.
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
October 5, 1968
An Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the U.S. House
of Representatives at a dinner honoring Rep. George A. Goodling, R-Pa.,
Saturday evening, Oct. 5, at York, Pa.
It is wonderful to be in George Goodling's district talking with all you
fine people.
It is always a pleasure for me to be in George Goodling's company because
George is one of the really solid members of the U.S. House of Representatives,
a man who is keenly attentive to the needs of his congressional district and
an honest spokesman for the people there. I can assure all of the voters of
the 19th Pennsylvania District that George Goodling is doing a great job on the
House Agriculture Committee and that nobody excels him as a conscientious and
hard-working legislator.
If anyone knows what's best for this congressional district, George
Goodling does. He is looking out for his people every minute of the day. And
he handles every dollar of the taxpayer's money just as though it were coming
out of his own pocket. I can personally testify to the fact that George Goodling
is a great champion of government economy, and the record of the votes he cast
in the 90th Congress will bear me out.
We need men like George Goodling in the Congress--men who will turn over
a tax dollar at least twice before they spend it and then try to make it go
twice as far; legislators who believe ours is a government of laws and not of
men and who will never turn our country over to the forces of anarchy; men who
love the tillers of the soil and all those who work hard and are proud of
working for a living; legislators who believe that the states and local
communities should be strong and vigorous units of government and not appendages
of the federal bureaucratic octopus.
Yes, we badly need men like George Goodling in the House of Representatives,
and so I ask you tonight to do everything possible to return George to Washington
next January. Dick Nixon will need a Republican Congress to carry out his
program. He needs men like George Goodling in Congress.
Tonight I would like the people of Pennsylvania's 19th District to ask
themselves these questions:
(more)
-2-
Which political party is it which spent this Nation into a financial
crisis without solving the people's problems?
Which party is it which poured billions of dollars into the problems
of the cities only to have them erupt in riots snuffing out 123 lives and
costing nearly a billion dollars just in the last year and a half?
Which party is it which pumped billions of dollars into a War on Poverty--
in which the opening gun was fired just before the 1964 election--only to have
the Poor march on Washington four years later and threaten to turn the Nation's
capital upside down?
Which party is it which has bogged this Nation down in a massive land
war in Vietnam, where more than 32,700 Americans have lost their lives and some
$70 billion of our wealth has been dissipated?
Which party is it which has imposed an income tax increase on the
American people to offset its extravagant federal spending?
The National Democratic Party not only has failed to solve America's
problems, it has created crushing new ones.
I ask the people of this district to look at what has happened to America
in the last seven years.
We have become involved in a no-win war halfway around the world.
The cost of living has raced upward by nearly 20 per cent and while it
used to be said that a fool and his money are soon parted, now this tragedy
happens to all of us under Democrat inflation.
The national crime rate has jumped 89 per cent while our population has
increased 10 per cent.
Our paper money has become exactly that--because the Johnson-Humphrey
Democratic Party has removed the 25 per cent gold backing from our currency.
For more than eight months a fourth-rate Communist power has held a
United States intelligence ship and 82 crewmen captive after attacking the
vessel with impunity and killing one of the crew.
It was clearly a lack of preparedness by the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration to deal with an incident like the Pueblo affair that resulted
in the capture of the ship and the crew.
This is all part of the record of the Democratic Administrations and the
Democratic-controlled Congresses which have guided this country's fortunes and
misfortunes since January 1961 the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the costly
stalemate in Vietnam, the shame of the Pueblo, the deterioration of a North
(more)
-3-
Atlantic Treaty Organization which has been kicked out of France and forced to
take refuge in Belgium, the U.S. non-policy in the Mideast which failed to
prevent the lightning war of June 1967 and now hinders face-to-face peace
negotiations between the Israelis and the Arabs while Soviet influence in the
Middle East grows, the continuing failure of the Alliance for Progress, the waste
and corruption in the foreign aid program, the threat that the Soviet Union is
overtaking us in nuclear capability if she has not already passed US.
This is the kind of bankrupt government that Hubert Humphrey would like
to sell the American people for another four years--a party that has already
plunged the Nation into bankruptcy in foreign affairs and near-bankruptcy in
its financial affairs.
The American people are coming to realize that the National Democratic
Party has mismanaged our foreign affairs and our domestic affairs and brought
this Nation to the brink of ruin. I am confident they will turn to the Republican
Party in November.
Johnson-Humphrey Administration mismanagement of our national affairs
clearly extends to agriculture. It is utterly fantastic that the Administration
would ask Congress to write into permanent law a farm program that has produced
one of the lowest parity ratios of all time.
The Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 has not worked well, and that is why
George Goodling and other Republicans are insisting on something better. When
the Act became effective, the farm parity ratio stood at 81. Since then it has
dropped steadily to the ridiculously low figure of 73. Even the adjusted parity
ratio--the one which includes direct payments to farmers--has dropped to 79
after reaching 87 in January 1966. That's an eight-point drop in two years.
We must do better. Turn the leadership of this country over to the Republican
Party and we will do better.
This is what the Nation desperately needs--a change in national leadership,
Republican leadership that will steer this country in a New Direction, away
from $25 billion deficits and away from the permissiveness that breeds riots,
away from a rising national crime rate and the philosophy that whatever you can
get away with is all right.
We all want a better society. You know and I know that we can build a
better society only if we have a lawful society.
We all want progress. You know and I know that we can make progress only
with a sound dollar, not with the deteriorating dollar of the Johnson-Humphrey
Administration.
(more)
-4-
This is a crucial year for America. I hope that every American who is
inclined to vote Democratic will look at the two major parties and ask himself,
honestly, which party best represents his own thinking. If he will do that,
I do not fear for the outcome--either in the 19th District of Pennsylvania or
elsewhere in America.
I am convinced that America cannot afford another four years of Democratic
rule in Washington.
We need Republican leadership in Washington. We need Republican control
of the Congress. We need Dick Nixon in the White House. We need George
Goodling in the "People's House."
In this age of crisis the Nation sorely needs a new leader with a strong
sense of mission--and that leader is Dick Nixon.
We need Dick Nixon because we need a mature and clear-thinking leader to
bring the Vietnam War to an honorable conclusion, to steer us clear of
humiliating incidents like the Pueblo affair, to curb inflation, to restore
world confidence in the dollar, to turn the national crime rate downward, and to
build a new America.
I say the November election is crucial because this country has come to
a fork in the road and the people must decide--will it be revolution or a new
forward burst of progress for all our people generated by a reaffirmation of
the principles which have made America the great and glorious land that it is?
I think the American people will come up with the right answer on
November 5.
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"ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D25, folder \"Dinner Honoring Representative\nGeorge A. Goodling, York, PA, October 5, 1968\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press\nSecretary 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.\nDistribution : 50 Capies Mr. Ford\nOffice Capy\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\n--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--\nOctober 5, 1968\nAn Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the U.S. House\nof Representatives at a dinner honoring Rep. George A. Goodling, R-Pa.,\nSaturday evening, Oct. 5, at York, Pa.\nIt is wonderful to be in George Goodling's district talking with all you\nfine people.\nIt is always a pleasure for me to be in George Goodling's company because\nGeorge is one of the really solid members of the U.S. House of Representatives,\na man who is keenly attentive to the needs of his congressional district and\nan honest spokesman for the people there. I can assure all of the voters of\nthe 19th Pennsylvania District that George Goodling is doing a great job on the\nHouse Agriculture Committee and that nobody excels him as a conscientious and\nhard-working legislator.\nIf anyone knows what's best for this congressional district, George\nGoodling does. He is looking out for his people every minute of the day. And\nhe handles every dollar of the taxpayer's money just as though it were coming\nout of his own pocket. I can personally testify to the fact that George Goodling\nis a great champion of government economy, and the record of the votes he cast\nin the 90th Congress will bear me out.\nWe need men like George Goodling in the Congress--men who will turn over\na tax dollar at least twice before they spend it and then try to make it go\ntwice as far; legislators who believe ours is a government of laws and not of\nmen and who will never turn our country over to the forces of anarchy; men who\nlove the tillers of the soil and all those who work hard and are proud of\nworking for a living; legislators who believe that the states and local\ncommunities should be strong and vigorous units of government and not appendages\nof the federal bureaucratic octopus.\nYes, we badly need men like George Goodling in the House of Representatives,\nand so I ask you tonight to do everything possible to return George to Washington\nnext January. Dick Nixon will need a Republican Congress to carry out his\nprogram. He needs men like George Goodling in Congress.\nTonight I would like the people of Pennsylvania's 19th District to ask\nthemselves these questions:\n(more)\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\nDigitized from Box D25 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nWhich political party is it which spent this Nation into a financial\ncrisis without solving the people's problems?\nWhich party is it which poured billions of dollars into the problems\nof the cities only to have them erupt in riots snuffing out 123 lives and\ncosting nearly a billion dollars just in the last year and a half?\nWhich party is it which pumped billions of dollars into a War on Poverty--\nin which the opening gun was fired just before the 1964 election--only to have\nthe Poor march on Washington four years later and threaten to turn the Nation's\ncapital upside down?\nWhich party is it which has bogged this Nation down in a massive land\nwar in Vietnam, where more than 32,700 Americans have lost their lives and some\n$70 billion of our wealth has been dissipated?\nWhich party is it which has imposed an income tax increase on the\nAmerican people to offset its extravagant federal spending?\nThe National Democratic Party not only has failed to solve America's\nproblems, it has created crushing new ones.\nI ask the people of this district to look at what has happened to America\nin the last seven years.\nWe have become involved in a no-win war halfway around the world.\nThe cost of living has raced upward by nearly 20 per cent and while it\nused to be said that a fool and his money are soon parted, now this tragedy\nhappens to all of us under Democrat inflation.\nThe national crime rate has jumped 89 per cent while our population has\nincreased 10 per cent.\nOur paper money has become exactly that--because the Johnson-Humphrey\nDemocratic Party has removed the 25 per cent gold backing from our currency.\nFor more than eight months a fourth-rate Communist power has held a\nUnited States intelligence ship and 82 crewmen captive after attacking the\nvessel with impunity and killing one of the crew.\nIt was clearly a lack of preparedness by the Johnson-Humphrey\nAdministration to deal with an incident like the Pueblo affair that resulted\nin the capture of the ship and the crew.\nThis is all part of the record of the Democratic Administrations and the\nDemocratic-controlled Congresses which have guided this country's fortunes and\nmisfortunes since January 1961 the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the costly\nstalemate in Vietnam, the shame of the Pueblo, the deterioration of a North\n(more)\n-3-\nAtlantic Treaty Organization which has been kicked out of France and forced to\ntake refuge in Belgium, the U.S. non-policy in the Mideast which failed to\nprevent the lightning war of June 1967 and now hinders face-to-face peace\nnegotiations between the Israelis and the Arabs while Soviet influence in the\nMiddle East grows, the continuing failure of the Alliance for Progress, the waste\nand corruption in the foreign aid program, the threat that the Soviet Union is\novertaking us in nuclear capability if she has not already passed US.\nThis is the kind of bankrupt government that Hubert Humphrey would like\nto sell the American people for another four years--a party that has already\nplunged the Nation into bankruptcy in foreign affairs and near-bankruptcy in\nits financial affairs.\nThe American people are coming to realize that the National Democratic\nParty has mismanaged our foreign affairs and our domestic affairs and brought\nthis Nation to the brink of ruin. I am confident they will turn to the Republican\nParty in November.\nJohnson-Humphrey Administration mismanagement of our national affairs\nclearly extends to agriculture. It is utterly fantastic that the Administration\nwould ask Congress to write into permanent law a farm program that has produced\none of the lowest parity ratios of all time.\nThe Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 has not worked well, and that is why\nGeorge Goodling and other Republicans are insisting on something better. When\nthe Act became effective, the farm parity ratio stood at 81. Since then it has\ndropped steadily to the ridiculously low figure of 73. Even the adjusted parity\nratio--the one which includes direct payments to farmers--has dropped to 79\nafter reaching 87 in January 1966. That's an eight-point drop in two years.\nWe must do better. Turn the leadership of this country over to the Republican\nParty and we will do better.\nThis is what the Nation desperately needs--a change in national leadership,\nRepublican leadership that will steer this country in a New Direction, away\nfrom $25 billion deficits and away from the permissiveness that breeds riots,\naway from a rising national crime rate and the philosophy that whatever you can\nget away with is all right.\nWe all want a better society. You know and I know that we can build a\nbetter society only if we have a lawful society.\nWe all want progress. You know and I know that we can make progress only\nwith a sound dollar, not with the deteriorating dollar of the Johnson-Humphrey\nAdministration.\n(more)\n-4-\nThis is a crucial year for America. I hope that every American who is\ninclined to vote Democratic will look at the two major parties and ask himself,\nhonestly, which party best represents his own thinking. If he will do that,\nI do not fear for the outcome--either in the 19th District of Pennsylvania or\nelsewhere in America.\nI am convinced that America cannot afford another four years of Democratic\nrule in Washington.\nWe need Republican leadership in Washington. We need Republican control\nof the Congress. We need Dick Nixon in the White House. We need George\nGoodling in the \"People's House.\"\nIn this age of crisis the Nation sorely needs a new leader with a strong\nsense of mission--and that leader is Dick Nixon.\nWe need Dick Nixon because we need a mature and clear-thinking leader to\nbring the Vietnam War to an honorable conclusion, to steer us clear of\nhumiliating incidents like the Pueblo affair, to curb inflation, to restore\nworld confidence in the dollar, to turn the national crime rate downward, and to\nbuild a new America.\nI say the November election is crucial because this country has come to\na fork in the road and the people must decide--will it be revolution or a new\nforward burst of progress for all our people generated by a reaffirmation of\nthe principles which have made America the great and glorious land that it is?\nI think the American people will come up with the right answer on\nNovember 5.\n# # #\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--\nOctober 5, 1968\nAn Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Minority Leader of the U.S. House\nof Representatives at a dinner honoring Rep. George A. Goodling, R-Pa.,\nSaturday evening, Oct. 5, at York, Pa.\nIt is wonderful to be in George Goodling's district talking with all you\nfine people.\nIt is always a pleasure for me to be in George Goodling's company because\nGeorge is one of the really solid members of the U.S. House of Representatives,\na man who is keenly attentive to the needs of his congressional district and\nan honest spokesman for the people there. I can assure all of the voters of\nthe 19th Pennsylvania District that George Goodling is doing a great job on the\nHouse Agriculture Committee and that nobody excels him as a conscientious and\nhard-working legislator.\nIf anyone knows what's best for this congressional district, George\nGoodling does. He is looking out for his people every minute of the day. And\nhe handles every dollar of the taxpayer's money just as though it were coming\nout of his own pocket. I can personally testify to the fact that George Goodling\nis a great champion of government economy, and the record of the votes he cast\nin the 90th Congress will bear me out.\nWe need men like George Goodling in the Congress--men who will turn over\na tax dollar at least twice before they spend it and then try to make it go\ntwice as far; legislators who believe ours is a government of laws and not of\nmen and who will never turn our country over to the forces of anarchy; men who\nlove the tillers of the soil and all those who work hard and are proud of\nworking for a living; legislators who believe that the states and local\ncommunities should be strong and vigorous units of government and not appendages\nof the federal bureaucratic octopus.\nYes, we badly need men like George Goodling in the House of Representatives,\nand so I ask you tonight to do everything possible to return George to Washington\nnext January. Dick Nixon will need a Republican Congress to carry out his\nprogram. He needs men like George Goodling in Congress.\nTonight I would like the people of Pennsylvania's 19th District to ask\nthemselves these questions:\n(more)\n-2-\nWhich political party is it which spent this Nation into a financial\ncrisis without solving the people's problems?\nWhich party is it which poured billions of dollars into the problems\nof the cities only to have them erupt in riots snuffing out 123 lives and\ncosting nearly a billion dollars just in the last year and a half?\nWhich party is it which pumped billions of dollars into a War on Poverty--\nin which the opening gun was fired just before the 1964 election--only to have\nthe Poor march on Washington four years later and threaten to turn the Nation's\ncapital upside down?\nWhich party is it which has bogged this Nation down in a massive land\nwar in Vietnam, where more than 32,700 Americans have lost their lives and some\n$70 billion of our wealth has been dissipated?\nWhich party is it which has imposed an income tax increase on the\nAmerican people to offset its extravagant federal spending?\nThe National Democratic Party not only has failed to solve America's\nproblems, it has created crushing new ones.\nI ask the people of this district to look at what has happened to America\nin the last seven years.\nWe have become involved in a no-win war halfway around the world.\nThe cost of living has raced upward by nearly 20 per cent and while it\nused to be said that a fool and his money are soon parted, now this tragedy\nhappens to all of us under Democrat inflation.\nThe national crime rate has jumped 89 per cent while our population has\nincreased 10 per cent.\nOur paper money has become exactly that--because the Johnson-Humphrey\nDemocratic Party has removed the 25 per cent gold backing from our currency.\nFor more than eight months a fourth-rate Communist power has held a\nUnited States intelligence ship and 82 crewmen captive after attacking the\nvessel with impunity and killing one of the crew.\nIt was clearly a lack of preparedness by the Johnson-Humphrey\nAdministration to deal with an incident like the Pueblo affair that resulted\nin the capture of the ship and the crew.\nThis is all part of the record of the Democratic Administrations and the\nDemocratic-controlled Congresses which have guided this country's fortunes and\nmisfortunes since January 1961 the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the costly\nstalemate in Vietnam, the shame of the Pueblo, the deterioration of a North\n(more)\n-3-\nAtlantic Treaty Organization which has been kicked out of France and forced to\ntake refuge in Belgium, the U.S. non-policy in the Mideast which failed to\nprevent the lightning war of June 1967 and now hinders face-to-face peace\nnegotiations between the Israelis and the Arabs while Soviet influence in the\nMiddle East grows, the continuing failure of the Alliance for Progress, the waste\nand corruption in the foreign aid program, the threat that the Soviet Union is\novertaking us in nuclear capability if she has not already passed US.\nThis is the kind of bankrupt government that Hubert Humphrey would like\nto sell the American people for another four years--a party that has already\nplunged the Nation into bankruptcy in foreign affairs and near-bankruptcy in\nits financial affairs.\nThe American people are coming to realize that the National Democratic\nParty has mismanaged our foreign affairs and our domestic affairs and brought\nthis Nation to the brink of ruin. I am confident they will turn to the Republican\nParty in November.\nJohnson-Humphrey Administration mismanagement of our national affairs\nclearly extends to agriculture. It is utterly fantastic that the Administration\nwould ask Congress to write into permanent law a farm program that has produced\none of the lowest parity ratios of all time.\nThe Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 has not worked well, and that is why\nGeorge Goodling and other Republicans are insisting on something better. When\nthe Act became effective, the farm parity ratio stood at 81. Since then it has\ndropped steadily to the ridiculously low figure of 73. Even the adjusted parity\nratio--the one which includes direct payments to farmers--has dropped to 79\nafter reaching 87 in January 1966. That's an eight-point drop in two years.\nWe must do better. Turn the leadership of this country over to the Republican\nParty and we will do better.\nThis is what the Nation desperately needs--a change in national leadership,\nRepublican leadership that will steer this country in a New Direction, away\nfrom $25 billion deficits and away from the permissiveness that breeds riots,\naway from a rising national crime rate and the philosophy that whatever you can\nget away with is all right.\nWe all want a better society. You know and I know that we can build a\nbetter society only if we have a lawful society.\nWe all want progress. You know and I know that we can make progress only\nwith a sound dollar, not with the deteriorating dollar of the Johnson-Humphrey\nAdministration.\n(more)\n-4-\nThis is a crucial year for America. I hope that every American who is\ninclined to vote Democratic will look at the two major parties and ask himself,\nhonestly, which party best represents his own thinking. If he will do that,\nI do not fear for the outcome--either in the 19th District of Pennsylvania or\nelsewhere in America.\nI am convinced that America cannot afford another four years of Democratic\nrule in Washington.\nWe need Republican leadership in Washington. We need Republican control\nof the Congress. We need Dick Nixon in the White House. We need George\nGoodling in the \"People's House.\"\nIn this age of crisis the Nation sorely needs a new leader with a strong\nsense of mission--and that leader is Dick Nixon.\nWe need Dick Nixon because we need a mature and clear-thinking leader to\nbring the Vietnam War to an honorable conclusion, to steer us clear of\nhumiliating incidents like the Pueblo affair, to curb inflation, to restore\nworld confidence in the dollar, to turn the national crime rate downward, and to\nbuild a new America.\nI say the November election is crucial because this country has come to\na fork in the road and the people must decide--will it be revolution or a new\nforward burst of progress for all our people generated by a reaffirmation of\nthe principles which have made America the great and glorious land that it is?\nI think the American people will come up with the right answer on\nNovember 5.\n# # #"
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