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The original documents are located in Box D26, folder "Metropolitan Dinner Club,
Sarasota, FL, April 18, 1969" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and
Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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air Mail - 4:30 p.m. 4 /17/69
M Office Copy
Copies Mr. Ford
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY--
8:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, 1969
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, before the Sarasota, Fla., Metropolitan Dinner Club,
at 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, 1969, at the Sarasota (Fla.) Motor Hotel.
After careful study and deep thought, President Nixon has sent Congress
the outlines of his domestic program -- a program which I believe marks a turn-
ing point in American life.
The President's program marks a turning point because if it is implemented
by the Congress it will take this Nation into new paths leading to a better life
for all our citizens.
After seeing America explode in bitter frustration because ambitious
programs have fallen far short of objectives, President Nixon has charted a bold
new course. It is a common sense course directed toward attainable goals.
To reach those goals, the President has assumed the role of crusader and
reformer.
The President is blazing a new trail into the jungle of the urban crisis,
a trail he believes will cut through to the hard core of our urban problems.
To get the fullest possible aid from business and industry in attacking
our social ills, Mr. Nixon has asked Congress to provide tax credits to businesses
tackling urban and ghetto projects. The aim is to bring massive amounts of
private funds into a large-scale attack on this country's most urgent social
problems.
Nixon the crusader also seeks to give the states and cities more financial
muscle to fight problems that have plagued them for decades. And so he has
proposed the sharing of Federal income tax revenue with the states and local
units of government, confident that administrators at those levels know best
how to use the additional funds.
These are New Directions a course the Congress may resist unless the
American people strongly support a President seeking new solutions for persistent
problems that have defied total government approaches.
Nixon the crusader also proposes new programs of airport and mass transit
development. These will be based on the trust fund concept which has proved so
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Digitized from Box D26 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
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successful in the interstate highway program launched by the late President
Eisenhower.
Nixon the reformer has taken up the sword against another wide range of
problems which continue to plague the American people.
He is the first President to personally tackle the thorny problem of tax
reform.
He has set forth a responsible tax policy and has lopped $4 billion from
President Johnson's fiscal 1970 budget. The goal: To bring inflation under
control and save the dollar. President Nixon will be successful in battling
inflation only if Americans join the fight, recognizing as Mr. Nixon does that
if we do not save the dollar we will be inviting economic collapse and deep
unemployment.
Nixon the reformer has set out to revamp the Nation's welfare system and
end the dismal cycle of dependency.
Nixon the reformer is determined to reorganize the Post Office Department
from top to bottom and improve mail service for us all.
Nixon the reformer is determined to shackle the mobsters, the narcotics
traffickers, and the pornography peddlers and he has already moved to expand
the FBI and other Federal law enforcement forces in his drive to do SO.
Nixon the reformer has consolidated the eight manpower training programs
operated by the Department of Labor and has greatly expanded the on-the-job
training program directed by the National Alliance of Businessmen, knowing full
well that the way to bring a dropout citizen into our society is to give him a
stake in it.
Our new President has carefully studied the staggering array of problems
he inherited and has come up with a carefully planned domestic program after
dealing initially with problems demanding immediate action.
Promptly upon assuming office, President Nixon began laying down and
pursuing a strategy designed to end United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Peace has been his first priority. And, I am sure the American people agree,
properly SO.
There is a new atmosphere of calm and confidence in America despite the
great problems facing us and the fresh crises that arise. That atmosphere
emanates from the new man in the White House. Let us help him move America
forward.
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY--
8:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, 1969
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, before the Sarasota, Fla., Metropolitan Dinner Club,
at 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, 1969, at the Sarasota (Fla.) Motor Hotel.
After careful study and deep thought, President Nixon has sent Congress
the outlines of his domestic program -- a program which I believe marks a turn-
ing point in American life.
The President's program marks a turning point because if it is implemented
by the Congress it will take this Nation into new paths leading to a better life
for all our citizens.
After seeing America explode in bitter frustration because ambitious
programs have fallen far short of objectives, President Nixon has charted a bold
new course. It is a common sense course directed toward attainable goals.
To reach those goals, the President has assumed the role of crusader and
reformer.
The President is blazing a new trail into the jungle of the urban crisis,
a trail he believes will cut through to the hard core of our urban problems.
To get the fullest possible aid from business and industry in attacking
our social ills, Mr. Nixon has asked Congress to provide tax credits to businesses
tackling urban and ghetto projects. The aim is to bring massive amounts of
private funds into a large-scale attack on this country's most urgent social
problems.
Nixon the crusader also seeks to give the states and cities more financial
muscle to fight problems that have plagued them for decades. And so he has
proposed the sharing of Federal income tax revenue with the states and local
units of government, confident that administrators at those levels know best
how to use the additional funds.
These are New Directions -- a course the Congress may resist unless the
American people strongly support a President seeking new solutions for persistent
problems that have defied total government approaches.
Nixon the crusader also proposes new programs of airport and mass transit
development. These will be based on the trust fund concept which has proved so
ORD
(more)
LIBRARY
-2-
successful in the interstate highway program launched by the late President
Eisenhower.
Nixon the reformer has taken up the sword against another wide range of
problems which continue to plague the American people.
He is the first President to personally tackle the thorny problem of tax
reform.
He has set forth a responsible tax policy and has lopped $4 billion from
President Johnson's fiscal 1970 budget. The goal: To bring inflation under
control and save the dollar. President Nixon will be successful in battling
inflation only if Americans join the fight, recognizing as Mr. Nixon does that
if we do not save the dollar we will be inviting economic collapse and deep
unemployment.
Nixon the reformer has set out to revamp the Nation's welfare system and
end the dismal cycle of dependency.
Nixon the reformer is determined to reorganize the Post Office Department
from top to bottom and improve mail service for us all.
Nixon the reformer is determined to shackle the mobsters, the narcotics
traffickers, and the pornography peddlers.. and he has already moved to expand
the FBI and other Federal law enforcement forces in his drive to do SO.
Nixon the reformer has consolidated the eight manpower training programs
operated by the Department of Labor and has greatly expanded the on-the-job
training program directed by the National Alliance of Businessmen, knowing full
well that the way to bring a dropout citizen into our society is to give him a
stake in it.
Our new President has carefully studied the staggering array of problems
he inherited and has come up with a carefully planned domestic program after
dealing initially with problems demanding immediate action.
Promptly upon assuming office. President Nixon began laying down and
pursuing a strategy designed to end United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Peace has been his first priority. And, I am sure the American people agree,
properly SO.
There is a new atmosphere of calm and confidence in America despite the
great problems facing us and the fresh crises that arise. That atmosphere
emanates from the new man in the White House. Let us help him move America
forward.
# # #