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The original documents are located in Box D26, folder "Spring Dinner, DuBois Area
Council of Republican Women, DuBois, PA, April 26, 1969" of the Ford Congressional
Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Distribution Full
Halleries 3:15p.m. 4/25/69
3:50p. 4/25/69
copies Mr. Ford
M Office Copy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
April 26, 1969
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, at a Spring Dinner of the DuBois Area Council of
Republican Women, DuBois, Pa.
In the months and years of turmoil preceding the election of Richard M.
Nixon as President of the United States, the leaders of various groups talked in
militant tones of "turning America around."
Under the Nixon Administration, Republicans are doing exactly that. Slowly
but surely we are turning the country around.
We are turning America toward peace
toward an end to our involvement in the Vietnam War.
toward a settlement in the Middle East.
toward arms control.
toward strengthening of our deterrence to nuclear war through deploy-
ment of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic-Missile System.
We are turning America toward a sound prosperity
by fighting inflation with every reasonable weapon at our disposal.
by cutting back on Federal spending plans and redirecting available
funds into problem areas of greatest human need.
We are turning America toward progress based on justice and order
by stepping up the war on crime, on the overlords of crime known as the
Mafia and the thugs and other criminal types who make the streets of our great
cities pavements of fear.
by rebuilding our riot-ravaged ghetto areas and establishing an Office
of Minority Business Enterprise in the Department of Commerce.
by seeking to build far better lives for our deprived children from
the start through an Office of Child Development in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Under the banner of Richard M. Nixon, we are making progress in all the
areas vital to our national well-being -- progress toward peace, progress toward
a sound prosperity, progress toward fiscal responsibility, progress toward
efficiency in government, progress toward crime control, progress toward tax
(more)
GEBALOR FORD LIBRARY
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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reform, progress toward greater national security, and progress toward
rebuilding our cities and our national spirit.
There is a great need for unity in America today, a crying need for
national solidarity.
This kind of unity flows from the strength given off by a great national
leader and amplified millions of times as it ripples throughout the American
people.
America has been blessed with many leaders of tremendous strength, moral
men, men of character who strengthened the fiber of the entire nation by their
example.
The names ring out in the national consciousness, for these were men of
steel. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, an advocate of Republican principles.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President. Theodore Roosevelt, another
Republican. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat. And General of the Armies and 34th
President of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower, who added to the luster
imparted to Gettysburg by Honest Abe.
America has suffered in recent years from a sickness of the soul, a
draining away of the moral strength a Nation needs to move forward as a people.
But now there is a new spirit emanating from the White House. We have a
strong new national leader in the 37th President of the United States, Richard M.
Nixon.
President Nixon has occupied the Oval Office in the White House for just
three months. But I can tell you from my weekly meetings with the President and
my analysis of the actions taken by his Administration that America is getting
the strong new leadership it needs in a time of great stress.
America will find that President Nixon is the kind of President who will
lead us out of turmoil and trouble, chaos and confusion into a new era of reason
and reconciliation, peace and prosperity.
In President Nixon the American people have a peacemaker, a crusader and
a reformer. Under his leadership we will, as a people, move forward together.
I would add just this. President Nixon needs solid support in Congress
to implement his program and build a better America. With a Republican majority
in the Congress, he would be assured of the backing he needs to lead us to our
goals.
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. SATURDAY--
April 26, 1969
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, at a Spring Dinner of the DuBois Area Council of
Republican Women, DuBois, Pa.
In the months and years of turmoil preceding the election of Richard M.
Nixon as President of the United States, the leaders of various groups talked in
militant tones of "turning America around."
Under the Nixon Administration, Republicans are doing exactly that. Slowly
but surely we are turning the country around.
We are turning America toward peace
toward an end to our involvement in the Vietnam War.
toward a settlement in the Middle East.
toward arms control.
toward strengthening of our deterrence to nuclear war through deploy-
ment of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic-Missile System.
We are turning America toward a sound prosperity
by fighting inflation with every reasonable weapon at our disposal.
by cutting back on Federal spending plans and redirecting available
funds into problem areas of greatest human need.
We are turning America toward progress based on justice and order
by stepping up the war on crime, on the overlords of crime known as the
Mafia and the thugs and other criminal types who make the streets of our great
cities pavements of fear.
by rebuilding our riot-ravaged ghetto areas and establishing an Office
of Minority Business Enterprise in the Department of Commerce.
by seeking to build far better lives for our deprived children from
the start through an Office of Child Development in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Under the banner of Richard M. Nixon, we are making progress in all the
areas vital to our national well-being -- progress toward peace, progress toward
a sound prosperity, progress toward fiscal responsibility, progress toward
efficiency in government, progress toward crime control, progress toward tax
(more)
FORD & LIBRARY AERALD
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reform, progress toward greater national security, and progress toward
rebuilding our cities and our national spirit.
There is a great need for unity in America today, a crying need for
national solidarity.
This kind of unity flows from the strength given off by a great national
leader and amplified millions of times as it ripples throughout the American
people.
America has been blessed with many leaders of tremendous strength, moral
men, men of character who strengthened the fiber of the entire nation by their
example.
The names ring out in the national consciousness, for these were men of
steel. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson, an advocate of Republican principles.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President. Theodore Roosevelt, another
Republican. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat. And General of the Armies and 34th
President of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower, who added to the luster
imparted to Gettysburg by Honest Abe.
America has suffered in recent years from a sickness of the soul, a
draining away of the moral strength a Nation needs to move forward as a people.
But now there is a new spirit emanating from the White House. We have a
strong new national leader in the 37th President of the United States, Richard M.
Nixon.
President Nixon has occupied the Oval Office in the White House for just
three months. But I can tell you from my weekly meetings with the President and
my analysis of the actions taken by his Administration that America is getting
the strong new leadership it needs in a time of great stress.
America will find that President Nixon is the kind of President who will
lead us out of turmoil and trouble, chaos and confusion into a new era of reason
and reconciliation, peace and prosperity.
In President Nixon the American people have a peacemaker, a crusader and
a reformer. Under his leadership we will, as a people, move forward together.
I would add just this. President Nixon needs solid support in Congress
to implement his program and build a better America. With a Republican majority
in the Congress, he would be assured of the backing he needs to lead us to our
goals.
# # #