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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D27, folder \"15th Biennial Convention, National\nFederation of Republican Women, Washington, DC, September 27, 1969\" of the Ford\nCongressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential\nLibrary.\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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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 D27 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nBEFORE THE 15TH BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF THE\nNATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN\nWOMEN, WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL,\nWASHINGTON, D.C., 7 P.M. SATURDAY,\nSEPTEMBER 27, 1969.\nMRS. NIXON, MAMIE, TRICIA, JULIE,\nDAVID, MADAM PRESIDENT, OFFICERS AND MEMBERS\nOF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL\nFEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN, HONORED\nGUESTS, AND LEADERS OF THE WORLD;\nI CALL YOU LEADERS OF THE WORLD\nBECAUSE I HAVE LONG FELT THAT IT IS REALLY\nTHE WOMEN WHO ARE RUNNING THE SHOW. MAYBE\nIT'S A BEHIND-THE-SCENES SORT OF OPERATION\nIN MANY CASES, BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION\nTHAT THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD...AND\nPARTICULARLY WOMEN IN AMERICA...WIELD\nTREMENDOUS POWER.\nIT COULD BE YOU DON'T QUITE KNOW\nFORD\nJUST HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE, AND THAT'S A\nLIBRARY\nLUCKY CIRCUMSTANCE FOR US MEN.\n-2-\nYOU TAKE INTELLIGENCE, FOR INSTANCE.\nWOMEN ARE SMARTER THAN MEN, AND THEY HAVE\nTHE FIGURES TO PROVE IT.\nYOU OUTLIVE THE MEN, AND THAT GIVES\nYOU GREATER STAYING POWER.\nOFFICIAL GOVERNMENT FIGURES SHOW\nTHAT YOU OUTNUMBER MEN, SO YOU HAVE THE\nEDGE THERE, TOO.\nAMERICAN WOMEN ARE GETTING MARRIED\nYOUNGER NOW, WHICH MEANS THEY START RUNNING\nTHE MEN SOONER THAN THEY USED TO.\nWOMEN HAVE TAKEN AN INCREASINGLY\nPROMINENT PLACE IN THE WORLD OF WORK, TOO.\nTODAY NEARLY FOUR OUT OF 10 AMERICAN WOMEN\nARE EMPLOYED OUTSIDE THE HOME. IN 1920\nIT WAS ONLY TWO OUT OF 10. TODAY THE\nAVERAGE WOMAN WORKER IS MARRIED AND\n41 YEARS OLD. IN 1920 SHE WAS SINGLE AND 28.\nNO WONDER THAT YEARS AGO SOMEBODY WROTE A\nSONG CALLED, \"HEAVEN HELP THE POOR WORKING\nGIRL.\"\n-3-\nAMERICAN WOMEN HAVE MADE TREMENDOUS\nSTRIDES IN THE LAST HALF CENTURY. AND\nIT SEEMS ALTOGETHER AMAZING THAT IT IS\nLESS THAN 50 YEARS THAT WOMEN HAVE HAD THE\nVOTE IN THIS COUNTRY.\nOF COURSE THE LACK OF NATIONWIDE\nWOMAN SUFFRAGE DIDN'T STOP JEANETTE RANKIN\nOF MONTANA FROM WINNING ELECTION TO CONGRESS.\nSHE WAS ELECTED TO THE HOUSE IN 1916, THE\nFIRST WOMAN EVER TO WIN A SEAT IN CONGRESS.\nAND SHE WAS A REPUBLICAN.\nTHAT IS HOW/IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH\nREPUBLICAN WOMEN. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN\nTHE FOREFRONT OF EVERY FORWARD-LOOKING\nMOVEMENT IN AMERICA.\nREPUBLICAN WOMEN HAVEN'T COME UP WITH\nA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THEIR OWN SEX\nYET. BUT, THEN,/NEITHER HAS THE OTHER MAJOR\nFORD\nPARTY PRODUCED A WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR THE\nLIBRARY\nWHITE HOUSE. THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY THREE\n-4-\nWOMEN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT. THE EQUAL\nRIGHTS PARTY FIELDED WOMEN CANDIDATES IN\n1872 AND 1884. AND IN 1952 MRS. LINEA\nJENSEN WAS THE CANDIDATE OF THE GEORGE\nWASHINGTON PEACE PARTY / WHICH CLAIMED TO BE\nIN COMMUNICATION WITH THE FATHER OF OUR\nCOUNTRY.\nWE CAN LAUGH ABOUT SOME OF THE FOIBLES\nIN POLITICS, BUT I SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THE\nit with understandable applosis\nDAY IS NOT TOO DISTANT -- IT WON T BE 1972 --\nWHEN WE WILL SEE A BONA FIDE WOMAN CANDIDATE\nFOR THE PRESIDENCY.\nA REVOLUTION HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE\nAMONG AMERICAN WOMEN, NOW THAT THEY HAVE\nFINISHED STEPPING DOWN FROM THEIR PEDESTALS --\nFOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.\nONE OF THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THAT\nREVOLUTION/IS THAT WOMEN TODAY TEND TO HAVE\nthe Fords were an expertion\nTHEIR LAST CHILD BY THE AGE OF 30. THIS\nFORD LIE\nMEANS THAT BY THE TIME THE YOUNGEST CHILD IS\n-5-\nIN SCHOOL, A MOTHER MAY LOOK FORWARD TO\n30 OR 35 MORE ACTIVE YEARS AND MUCH OF THAT\nTIME CAN BE SPENT IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT.\nTHIS IS ONE ASPECT OF THE WOMEN'S\nREVOLUTION I THOROUGHLY AGREE WITH -- GIVING\nWOMEN THE PLACE THEY DESERVE IN AMERICAN\nGOVERNMENT AND IN THE POLITICAL SPHERE.\nOUR WHOLE SOCIETY TODAY CALLS FOR\nWOMEN TO PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN NEARLY\nEVERY WAY -- NOT JUST AS WIVES AND MOTHERS\nBUT INTELLECTUALLY AND POLITICALLY.\nWHO SHAPES THE AMERICAN POINT OF\nVIEW TODAY. WOMEN DO, AS MUCH AS MEN.\nTHAT'S WHY I AM PLEASED THAT\nPRESIDENT NIXON HAS NAMED 118 WOMEN TO\nPOSITIONS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR\nRELATED POSTS.\nTHOSE APPOINTED TO POSITIONS OF\nPROMINENCE INCLUDE SUCH WOMEN AS\nMRS. PATRICIA REILLY HITT, ASSISTANT\n-6-\nSECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE,\nMRS. RITA HAUSER AND MRS. SHIRLEY TEMPLE\nBLACK, BOTH U.S. REPRESENTATIVES TO THE\nUNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL,\nMRS. ELIZABETH KOONTZ, DIRECTOR OF THE\nLABOR DEPARTMENT'S WOMEN'S DIVISION,\nMRS. C. WAYLAND BROOKS, DIRECTOR OF THE MINT,\nMRS. DOROTHY ELSTON, TREASURER OF THE\nUNITED STATES, MRS. VIRGINIA KNAUER, SPECIAL\nASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR CONSUMER\nAFFAIRS, MRS. ELIZABETH FARRINGTON,\nDIRECTOR OF TERRITORIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT\nOF INTERIOR, NANCY HANKS, CHAIRMAN OF THE\nNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, AND MRS.\nHELEN BENTLEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL\nMARITIME COMMISSION.\nTHESE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE NEW\nAMERICAN WOMAN, THE KIND OF WOMEN WHO HAVE\nMADE THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN\nWOMEN A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH IN\n-7-\nAMERICAN POLITICS. WOMEN LIKE YOU NEED\nNEVER TAKE A BACK SEAT TO A MAN. IN FACT,\nI HAVE NEVER KNOWN YOU TO MAKE EXCUSES OF\nANY KIND -- OR TO HAVE TO, FOR THAT MATTER.\nTHAT REMINDS ME OF THE FELLOW WHO RAN\nFOR CONGRESS AND GOT BEAT. HE TOOK HIS\nDEFEAT LIKE A MAN. HE BLAMED IT ON HIS\nWIFE.\nYES, WOMEN HAVE COME A LONG WAY IN\nTHIS COUNTRY SINCE THAT DAY A CENTURY AGO\nWHEN THE MENFOLK IN MONTANA TERRITORY HAD\nTHE GOOD SENSE TO GIVE WOMEN THERE THE\nRIGHT TO VOTE.\nAND THIS COUNTRY HAS COME A LONG WAY\nSINCE JAN. 20, 1969. WHEN RICHARD NIXON\nWAS SWORN IN AS THE 37TH PRESIDENT OF THE\nUNITED STATES.\nWHY DO I SAY THIS NATION HAS COME A\nLONG WAY SINCE LAST JAN. 20.\nALD FORD LIBRARY\nTO SEE THE STRONG PROOF FOR THAT\n-8-\nSTATEMENT WE NEED ONLY LOOK AT THE\nDEMOCRATIC LEGACY -- THE SITUATION THAT\nRICHARD NIXON INHERITED WHEN HE ENTERED THE\nWHITE HOUSE. LOOK AND COMPARE.\nI'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AN ASSESSMENT OF\nOUR COUNTRY IN JANUARY 1969 THAT NO AMERICAN\nCAN QUARREL WITH, REGARDLESS OF HIS POLITICAL\nAFFILIATION.\nDICK NIXON ASSUMED THE LEADERSHIP OF\nA COUNTRY DEEPLY ENMESHED IN A JUNGLE WAR\nHALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD./A COUNTRY WHICH HAD\nSUFFERED ESCALATING INFLATION FOR NEARLY\nFOUR YEARS, COUNTRY IN WHICH THE CRIME\nRATE HAD CLIMBED NEARLY 10 TIMES AS FAST AS\nTHE POPULATION A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE WERE\nPUTTING THE TORCH TO SOME OF AMERICA'S\nGREATEST CITIES./A COUNTRY IN WHICH THE\nHAVE-NOTS CONTINUED TO BE THE HAVE-NOTS\nDESPITE BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF FEDERAL\nAID AND THE WELFARE SYSTEM WAS LIKE A FESTERING\n-9-\nSORE ./ A COUNTRY IN WHICH LOCAL, STATE AND\nFEDERAL TAXES HAD DRIVEN TAXPAYERS TO THE\nWALL AND THE POINT OF REVOLT ALTHOUGH TAX\nREVENUES WERE NOT SOLVING THE HORRENDOUS\nPROBLEMS RUSHING IN ON OUR CITIZENS FROM\nALL SIDES.\nNIXON HAS COOLED IT. IN BOTH\nFOREIGN AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS,\nTHE FIRES\nHAVE BEEN DAMPENED DOWN\nDOMESTICALLY, THE PRESIDENT HAS\nSUCCEEDED IN GETTING PEOPLE TO LOWER THEIR\nVOICES. % AND THEIR ARMS, TOO. WE HAVE\nENTERED INTO A PERIOD OF HEALING AND RENEWAL,\nALTHOUGH NOBODY CAN SAY THAT ALL STORMS AND\nUPHEAVAL ARE PAST.\nAGAIN IN QUEST OF DOMESTIC\nTRANQUILLITY, THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION HAS\nLAUNCHED A STRONG CRACKDOWN AGAINST\nORGANIZED CRIME. THE PRESIDENT HAS SENT\nCONGRESS A' DETAILED PROGRAM FOR DEALING\n-10-\nWITH ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE NEED FOR\nREORGANIZATION OF THE COURTS. THE NIXON\nADMINISTRATION HAS MADE THE FIGHT AGAINST\nCRIME ONE OF ITS CENTRAL CONCERNS. WHILE\nOTHER DEPARTMENTAL BUDGETS HAVE BEEN CUT IN\nA HOLD-DOWN ON FEDERAL SPENDING, THE JUSTICE\nDEPARTMENT BUDGET HAS BEEN INCREASED AND\nTHE LEVEL OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY AND\nNARCOTICS CONTROL HAS BEEN STEPPED UP.\nAT\nTHE SAME TIME, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE\nADMINISTRATION HAS REVISED ITS PROCEDURÉS\nTHE BETTER TO ASSIST THE STATES AND LOCAL\nGOVERNMENTS IN FIGHTING STREET CRIMES AS\nWELL AS ORGANIZED CRIME\nTHE NIXON ADMINISTRATION RECOGNIZES,\nAS DO ALL OF YOU, THAT THE FIRST CIVIL\nRIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN -- BLACK OR WHITE --\nIS THE RIGHT TO PROTECTION FROM CRIME AND\nVIOLENCE.\nIT IS SAID THAT THERE CAN BE NO\nFORD CERRABY\n-11-\nPROGRESS WITHOUT ORDER. I SUBSCRIBE TO\nTHAT. I WOULD ADD/THAT THERE CANNOT LONG\nBE ORDER WITHOUT PROGRESS. AND I BELIEVE\nTHE NIXON ADMINISTRATION IS PROMOTING THE\nKIND OF ORDER AND THE KIND OF PROGRESS WHICH\nWILL OPERATE TOGETHER TO MOVE THIS COUNTRY\nFORWARD.\nPRESIDENT NIXON HAS ADOPTED A\nRESPONSIBLE COMMON-SENSE APPROACH TO OUR\nURBAN PROBLEMS. HIS ANSWER IS JOBS AND\nJOB TRAINING. THE ACCENT IS ON THE SOLID\nAMERICAN ETHIC OF WORKING FOR A LIVING. THE\nPRESIDENT'S APPROACH IS BASED ON THE IDEA\nTHAT A MAN NEVER STANDS SO TALL AS WHEN HE\nSTANDS ON HIS OWN TWO FEET. WORKFARE\nINSTEAD OF WELFARE. THAT IS THE AMERICAN\nWAY. THAT IS DICK NIXON'S WAY. A HAND UP\nINSTEAD OF A HANDOUT. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY\nTO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE HAVES AND\nTHE HAVE-NOTS IN AMERICA.\n-12-\nPRESIDENT NIXON HAS MANAGED TO\nPROMOTE ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE HE HAS\nBROUGHT ORDER TO THE PRESIDENCY. THE DAYS\nOF GOVERNMENT BY CRISIS HAVE BEEN REPLACED\nV\nBY CRISIS PREVENTION. THE SCATTER-GUN\nAPPROACH IS YIELDING TO AN ASSEMBLING OF NEW\nPRIORITIES.\nBUT THE OBSTACLE TO THE NEW\nPRIORITIES REMAINS. VIETNAM REMAINS.\nPRESIDENT NIXON HAS DONE MUCH TO MOVE\nTHE VIETNAM PROBLEM TOWARD THE PEACE TABLE.\nUNFORTUNATELY HIS MOVES HAVE NOT BEEN\nMATCHED EVEN IN SMALL DEGREE BY THE OTHER\nSIDE.\nWE ARE ENGAGED IN WINDING DOWN THE\nreplacing americans with Smith Vretnamen, lover draft calls,\nWAR, 1N VIETNAMIZING IT. ALREADY THIS HAS\nRESULTED IN CANCELLATION OF THE NOVEMBER AND\nDECEMBER DRAFT CALLS AND A STRETCHOUT OF THE\nOCTOBER CALL OVER THREE MONTHS. YET THERE\nARE THOSE IN THE CONGRESS AND ELSEWHERE WHO\n-13-\nBY THEIR ACTIONS ARE ENCOURAGING THE ENEMY\nTO BELIEVE THAT IF THEY CONTINUE TO REFUSE\nTO NEGOTIATE AT PARIS AND CONTINUE TO DRAG\nOUT THE WAR WE WILL ABANDON ALL WE HAVE\nFOUGHT FOR IN VIETNAM AND GO HOME.\nI PERSONALLY BELIEVE -- AND I SAY\nTHIS KNOWING THERE ARE MOTHERS OF YOUNG MEN\nIN THIS AUDIENCE -- I PERSONALLY BELIEVE A\nMAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BACKS\nPRESIDENT NIXON IN HIS RESOLVE THAT THE FATE\nOF SOUTH VIETNAM BE SETTLED THROUGH FREE\nELECTIONS AND NOT THROUGH CAPITULATION TO\nCOMMUNIST AGGRESSION.\nMR. NIXON'S CRITICS ARE NOT CHARGING\nHIM WITH MAKING THE MESS -- ONLY/WITH ONLY WITH NOT\nCLEANING IT UP OVERNIGHT.\nIN vietnam./on THE CRIME FRONT IN\nFIGHTING ESCALATING prices./president NIXON\nCANNOT CORRECT OVERNIGHT WHAT PILED UP FOR\nYEARS UNDER A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.\n-14-\nTHE TRAGIC CONDITIONS MR. NIXON FACES ARE\nDUE TO MISTAKES OF THE PAST -- AND THE\nPRESENT EFFECTS OF THOSE MISTAKES ARE\nDIFFICULT TO OVERCOME.\nTHE GRADUALISM OF LYNDON JOHNSON DID\nNOT WORK IN VIETNAM, BUT I BELIEVE THE\nCONSTRUCTIVE GRADUALISM OF RICHARD NIXON\nWILL WORK ON INFLATION. IF WE FIGHT\nINFLATION IN THE NIXON WAY WE HAVE AN\nEXCELLENT CHANCE OF COOLING DOWN THE ECONOMY\nWITHOUT A RECESSION -- AND THE COOLING-OFF\nPROCESS IS ALREADY TAKING HOLD.\nMR. NIXON INHERITED A MESS WHEN HE\nTOOK OVER THE WHITE HOUSE. HE HAS PLOWED\nINTO AND ANALYZED THAT MESS, AND THE RESULT\nIS A BATCH OF REFORM PROPOSALS.\nNOW IT IS NOT THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION\nTHAT IS ON TRIAL, IT IS THE DEMOCRATIC-\nCONTROLLED CONGRESS.\nPRESIDENT NIXON HAS LAID AN\n-15-\nEXCELLENT PROGRAM OF REFORMS BEFORE THE\n91ST CONGRESS -- WELFARE REFORM WHICH WILL\nTURN ALL ABLE-BODIED AMERICANS FROM WELFARE\nTO WORKFARE %/ DRAFT REFORM WHICH WILL MAKE\nTHE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM AS FAIR AS\nPOSSIBLE UNTIL WE CAN ESTABLISH A TRULY\nVOLUNTEER ARMY POSTAL REFORM WHICH WILL\nCREATE A GOVERNMENT-OWNED SELF-SUPPORTING\nPOSTAL CORPORATION IN PLACE OF THE PRESENT\nIMPOSSIBLE SYSTEM:/ POVERTY PROGRAM REFORM\nWHICH KEEPS THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC\nOPPORTUNITY AS AN INNOVATIVE AGENCY BUT\nSPINS OFF SUCCESSFUL ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS\nTO OLD-LINE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS\n/\nMANPOWER TRAINING REFORM WHICH CONSOLIDATES\nFEDERAL MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR\nGREATER FLEXIBILITY IN FUNDING AND OFFERS\nTHE ADMINISTRATION OF MANPOWER TRAINING\nCENTERS TO THE STATES AS THEY ARE READY\nTO HANDLE IT: TAX REFORM WHICH TAKES MILLIONS\n-16-\nOF POOR CITIZENS OFF THE TAXROLLS, REDUCES\nTAXES FOR MILLIONS OF OTHER LOW-INCOME\nAMERIC\nAMERICANS AND PREVENTS THE WEALTHY FROM\nESCAPING TAXATION A NEW FEDERALISM WHICH\nPROVIDES A PERCENTAGE SLICE OF FEDERAL\nINCOME TAX REVENUE FOR CITIES AND STATES\nWITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED.\nTHIS PROMISES TO BE THE AGE OF\nREFORM IN AMERICA, BUT MANY OF THESE\nPROGRAMS MAY BE BLOCKED BY THE OPPOSITION\nPARTY IN CONGRESS. THESE ARE PEOPLE'S\nPROGRAMS AND THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION IS A\nPEOPLE'S ADMINISTRATION. THE AMERICAN\nPEOPLE HAVE GOOD REASON TO EXPECT THE\nDEMOCRATIC-CONTOLLED CONGRESS TO RESPOND\nTO REFORM PROPOSALS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION\nWHICH ARE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST.\nTHE PRESIDENT CANNOT IMPLEMENT HIS\nLEGISLATIVE PROGRAM. THAT IS UP TO THE\nLIBRARY\nCONGRESS. THAT IS WHY WE ARE LOOKING HERE\n-17-\nTONIGHT TO 1970. WE ARE LOOKING TO 1970\nBECAUSE THE PRESIDENT NEEDS MORE REPUBLICANS\nIN THE CONGRESS AND THAT/IS WHEN THE\nAMERICAN PEOPLE CAN PASS JUDGMENT. PRESIDENT\nNIXON NEEDS MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CONGRESS\nWHO WILL HELP HIM ACHIEVE THE GOALS HE HAS\nSO PROPERLY ADVANCED.\nNOW, THE WOMEN! AH, YES, THE WOMEN!\nWHAT A TREMENDOUS FORCE YOU CAN BE IN 1970!\nLATEST CENSUS BUREAU FIGURES SHOW THAT YOUR\nPOTENTIAL VOTER TURNOUT TOPS THE MEN BY\n7 1/2 MILLION.\nLET'S HELP RICHARD NIXON AND THE\nREPUBLICAN PARTY.\nWE CAN APPROACH THE VOTERS WITH\nCONFIDENCE IN 1970. WE WILL BE LAYING\nTHE NIXON PROGRAM ALONGSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC\nPARTY'S RECORD -- A LONG CHAOTIC RECORD\nOF BROKEN promises./spendthrift FAILURES\nAND BUNGLED FOREIGN ADVENTURES.\n-18-\nTHE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT A PARTY\nOF PROMISES, NOT A PARTY OF IDLE CONVERSATION,\nBUT A PARTY OF ACTION. OURS IS NOT ONLY\nA PARTY OF ACTION, BUT A PARTY OF IDEAS. IT\nIS GOOD FOR AMERICA THAT THE REPUBLICAN\nPARTY IS ALIVE AND WELL BECAUSE THE\nDEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS FAILED AMERICA -- AND WE\nARE NOW APPROACHING THE SEVENTIES, A DECADE\nOF DECISION.\nHERE'S WHAT WE MUST REMEMBER AS WE\nAPPROACH 1970, WE ARE FOR; / THE DEMOCRATS\nARE AGAINST. WE ARE COOPERATING WITH EACH\nOTHER, NOT CONDEMNING FELLOW REPUBLICANS.\nAND IT IS IN THAT SPIRIT THAT WE WILL\nCAMPAIGN -- AND CAMPAIGN TO WIN.\nWE ARE LOOKING TO PRESIDENT NIXON\nFOR LEADERSHIP -- AND WE ARE GETTING IT.\nAS FOR US, WE ALL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO\nHELP HIM CORRECT THIS NATION'S PAST\nFAILURES BY INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY\n-19-\nSEEKING THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST\nNUMBER.\nTHE GREAT ENGLISH POET JOHN DONNE\nDECLARED THAT \"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND UNTO\nHIMSELF.\"\nGEORGE BERNARD SHAW PUT IT ANOTHER\nWAY. \"WE ARE ALL DEPENDENT ON ONE ANOTHER,\nEVERY SOUL OF US ON EARTH.\"\nTHE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MOLDING THE\nFUTURE OF AMERICA LIES WITH ALL OF US, WITH\nYOU AS WELL AS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND THE\nCONGRESS. TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ALL LIVE\nTHE GOOD LIFE, THE UNSELFISH LIFE, THE\nLIVES OF ALL OTHERS WILL BE ENRICHED.\nSO IN KEEPING WITH THE THEME OF\nYOUR CONVENTION, I SAY, WE ALL BELIEVE IN\nTHE AMERICAN DREAM...NOW LET US LIVE SO THAT\nALL MAY SHARE IN IT.\"\n-- END --\nGERALD FORD MORART\nDistribution:\nGalleries yelleries 6:15 p.m. 9/26/69\nair Mail 10:30 a.m. 9/29/69\nM Office Copy\nA SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD\nREPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\nBEFORE THE 15th BIENNIAL CONVENTION\nOF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN\nAT THE WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D.C.\nAT 7 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1969\nFOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY\nMrs. Nixon, Mamie, Tricia, Julie, David, Madam President, Officers and\nmembers of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of Republican Women,\nhonored guests, and leaders of the world:\nI call you leaders of the world because I have long felt that it is really\nthe women who are running the show. Maybe it's a behind-the-scenes sort of opera-\ntion in many cases, but there's no question that the women of the world\nand\nparticularly women in America\nwield tremendous power.\nIt could be you don't quite know just how powerful you are, and that's a\nlucky circumstance for us men.\nYou take intelligence, for instance. Women are smarter than men, and they\nhave the figures to prove it.\nYou outlive the men, and that gives you greater staying power.\nOfficial government figures show that you outnumber men, so you have the\nedge there, too.\nAmerican women are getting married younger now, which means they start\nrunning the men sooner than they used to.\nWomen have taken an increasingly prominent place in the world of work,\ntoo. Today nearly four out of 10 American women are employed outside the home.\nIn 1920 it was only two out of 10. Today the average woman worker is married\nand 41 years old. In 1920 she was single and 28. No wonder that years ago\nsomebody wrote a song called, \"Heaven Help the Poor Working Girl.\"\nAmerican women have made tremendous strides in the last half century. And\nit seems altogether amazing htat it is less than 50 years that women have had the\nvote in this country.\nOf course the lack of nationwide woman suffrage didn't stop Jeanette Rankin\nof Montana from winning election to Congress. She was elected to the House in\n1916, the first woman ever to win a seat in Congress. And she was a Republican.\nThat is how it has always been with Republican women. They have always\nbeen in the forefront of every forward-looking movement in America.\n(more)\nBERRED FORD VIBRARY\n-2-\nRepublican women haven't come up with a presidential candidate of their\nown sex yet. But, then, neither has the other major party produced a woman\ncandidate for the White House. There have been only three women candidates for\nPresident. The Equal Rights Party fielded women candidates in 1872 and 1884.\nAnd in 1952 Mrs. Linea Jensen was the candidate of the George Washington Peace\nParty, which claimed to be in communication with the Father of our Country.\nWe can laugh about some of the foibles in politics, but I seriously believe\nthe day is not too distant -- it won't be 1972 -- when we will see a bona fide\nwoman candidate for the Presidency.\nA revolution has been taking place among American women, now that they have\nfinished stepping down from their pedestals -- for better or for worse.\nOne of the developments in that revolution is that women today tend to\nhave their last child by the age of 30. This means that by the time the youngest\nchild is in school, a mother may look forward to 30 or 35 more active years and\nmuch of that time can be spent in politics and government.\nThis is one aspect of the women's revolution I thoroughly agree with --\ngiving women the place they deserve in American government and in the political\nsphere.\nOur whole society today calls for women to play a significant role in\nnearly every way -- not just as wives and mothers but intellectually and\npolitically.\nWho shapes the American point of view today? Women do, as much as men.\nThat's why I am pleased that President Nixon has named 118 women to positions\nin the Federal Government or related posts.\nThose appointed to positions of prominence include such women as\nMrs. Patricia Reilly Hitt, assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,\nMrs. Rita Hauser and Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, both U.S. representatives to the\nUnited Nations' Economic and Social Council, Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, director of\nthe Labor Department's Women's Division, Mrs. C. Wayland Brooks, director of the\nMint, Mrs. Dorothy Elston, treasurer of the United States, Mrs. Virginia Knauer,\nspecial assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs, Mrs. Elizabeth Farrington,\ndirector of territories for the Department of Interior, Nancy Hanks, chairman of\nthe National Endowment for the Arts, and Mrs. Helen Bentley, chairman of the\nNational Maritime Commission.\nThese are examples of the New American Woman, the kind of women who have\nmade the National Federation of Republican Women a force to be reckoned with in\n(more)\n-3-\nAmerican politics. Women like you need never take a back seat to a man. In fact,\nI have never known you to make excuses of any kind -- or to have to, for that\nmatter.\nThat reminds me of the fellow who ran for Congress and got beat. He took\nhis defeat like a man. He blamed it on his wife.\nYes, women have come a long way in this country since that day a century\nago when the menfolk in Montana Territory had the good sense to give women there\nthe right to vote.\nAnd this country has come a long way since Jan. 20, 1969, when Richard\nNixon was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.\nWhy do I say this Nation has come a long way since last Jan. 20?\nTo see the strong proof for that statement we need only look at the\nDemocratic legacy -- the situation that Richard Nixon inherited when he entered\nthe White House. Look and compare.\nI'm going to give you an assessment of our country in January 1969 that no\nAmerican can quarrel with, regardless of his political affiliation.\nDick Nixon assumed the leadership of a country deeply enmeshed in a jungle\nwar halfway around the world, a country which had suffered escalating inflation\nfor nearly four years, a country in which the crime rate had climbed nearly\n10 times as fast as the population, a country where people were putting the torch\nto some of America's greatest cities, a country in which the Have-Nots continued\nto be the Have-Nots despite billions upon billions in Federal aid and the welfare\nsystem was like a festering sore, a country in which local, state and Federal\ntaxes had driven taxpayers to the wall and the point of revolt although tax\nrevenues were not solving the horrendous problems rushing in on our citizens from\nall sides.\nNixon has cooled it. In both foreign and domestic affairs, the fires have\nbeen dampened down.\nDomestically, the President has succeeded in getting people to lower their\nvoices\nand their arms, too. We have entered into a period of healing and\nrenewal, although nobody can say that all storms and upheaval are past.\nAgain in quest of domestic tranquillity, the Nixon Administration has\nlaunched a strong crackdown against organized crime. The President has sent\nCongress a detailed program for dealing with organized crime and the need for\nreorganization of the courts. The Nixon Administration has made the fight against\n(more)\n-4-\ncrime one of its central concerns. While other departmental budgets have been\ncut in a hold-down on Federal spending, the Justice Department budget has been\nincreased and the level of enforcement activity and narcotics control has been\nstepped up. At the same time, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has\nrevised its procedures the better to assist the states and local governments in\nfighting street crimes as well as organized crime.\nThe Nixon Administration recognizes, as do all of you, that the first civil\nright of every American -- black or white -- is the right to protection from\ncrime and violence.\nIt is said that there can be no progress without order. I subscribe to\nthat. I would add that there cannot long be order without progress. And I\nbelieve the Nixon Administration is promoting the kind of order and the kind of\nprogress which will operate together to move this country forward.\nPresident Nixon has adopted a responsible common-sense approach to our\nurban problems. His answer is jobs and job training. The accent is on the solid\nAmerican ethic of working for a living. The President's approach is based on the\nidea that a man never stands so tall as when he stands on his own two feet.\nWorkfare instead of welfare. That is the American way. That is Dick Nixon's way.\nA hand up instead of a handout. That's the only way to bridge the gap between\nthe Haves and the Have-Nots in America.\nPresident Nixon has managed to promote order in this country because he\nhas brought order to the Presidency. The days of government by crisis have been\nreplaced by crisis prevention. The scatter-gun approach is yielding to an\nassembling of new priorities.\nBut the obstacle to the new priorities remains. Vietnam remains.\nPresident Nixon has done much to move the Vietnam problem toward the peace\ntable. Unfortunately his moves have not been matched even in small degree by the\nother side.\nWe are engaged in winding down the war, in Vietnamizing it. Already this\nhas resulted in cancellation of the November and December draft calls and a\nstretchout of the October call over three months. Yet there are those in the\nCongress and elsewhere who by their actions are encouraging the enemy to believe\nthat if they continue to refuse to negotiate at Paris and continue to drag out the\nwar we will abandon all we have fought for in Vietnam and go home.\nI personally believe -- and I say this knowing there are mothers of young\nmen in this audience -- I personally believe a majority of the American people\n(more)\n-5-\nbacks President Nixon in his resolve that the fate of South Vietnam be settled\nthrough free elections and not through capitulation to Communist aggression.\nMr. Nixon's critics are not charging him with making the mess -- only with\nnot cleaning it up overnight.\nIn Vietnam, on the crime front, in fighting escalating prices, President\nNixon cannot correct overnight what piled up for years under a Democratic\nadministration. The tragic conditions Mr. Nixon faces are due to mistakes of\nthe past -- and the present effects of those mistakes are difficult to overcome.\nThe gradualism of Lyndon Johnson did not work in Vietnam, but I believe\nthe constructive gradualism of Richard Nixon will work on inflation. If we fight\ninflation in the Nixon way we have an excellent chance of cooling down the economy\nwithout a recession -- and the cooling-off process is already taking hold.\nMr. Nixon inherited a mess when he took over the White House. He has plowed\ninto and analyzed that mess, and the result is a batch of reform proposals.\nNow it is not the Nixon Administration that is on trial, it is the\nDemocratic-controlled Congress.\nPresident Nixon has laid an excellent program of reforms before the 91st\nCongress --- welfare reform which will turn all able-bodied American from welfare\nto Workfare; draft reform which will make the selective service system as fair as\npossible until we can establish a truly volunteer army; postal reform which will\ncreate a government-owned self-supporting postal corporation in place of the present\nimpossible system; poverty program reform which keeps the Office of Economic\nOpportunity as an innovative agency but spins off successful anti-poverty programs\nto old-line Government departments; manpower training reform which consolidates\nFederal manpower training programs for greater flexibility in funding and offers\nthe administration of manpower training centers to the states as they are ready\nto handle it; tax reform which takes millions of poor citizens off the taxrolls,\nreduces taxes for millions of other low-income Americans and prevents the wealthy\nfrom escaping taxation; a New Federalism which provides a percentage slice of\nFederal income tax revenue for cities and states with no strings attached.\nThis promises to be the Age of Reform in America, but many of these programs\nmay be blocked by the opposition party in Congress. These are People's Programs\nand the Nixon Administration is a People's Administration. The American people\nhave good reason to expect the Democratic-controlled Congress to respond to\nreform proposals of this administration which are in the national interest.\n(more)\n-6-\nThe President cannot implement his legislative program. That is up to the\nCongress. That is why we are looking here tonight to 1970. We are looking to\n1970 because the President needs more Republicans in the Congress and that is\nwhen the American people can pass judgment. President Nixon needs men and women\nin the Congress who will help him achieve the goals he has so properly advanced.\nNow, the women! Ah, yes, the women! What a tremendous force you can be\nin 1970: Latest Census Bureau figures show that your potential voter turnout tops\nthe men by 7 1/2 million.\nLet's help Richard Nixon and the Republican Party.\nWe can approach the voters with confidence in 1970. We will be laying the\nNixon program alongside the Democratic Party's record -- a long chaotic record\nof broken promises, spendthrift failures and bungled foreign adventures.\nThe Republican Party is not a party of promises, not a party of idle\nconversation, but a party of action. Ours is not only a party of action, but a\nparty of ideas. It is good for America that the Republican Party is alive and\nwell because the Democratic Party has failed America -- and we are now approaching\nthe Seventies, a decade of decision.\nHere's what we must remember as we approach 1970. We are for; the Democrats\nare against. We are cooperating with each other, not condemning fellow Republicans.\nAnd it is in that spirit that we will campaign -- and campaign to win.\nWe are looking to President Nixon for leadership -- and we are getting it.\nAs for us, we all have a responsibility to help him correct this Nation's past\nfailures by individually and collectively seeking the greatest good for the greatest\nnumber.\nThe great English poet John Donne declared that \"no man is an island unto\nhimself.\"\nGeorge Bernard Shaw put it another way: \"We are all dependent on one\nanother, every soul of us on earth.\"\nThe responsibility for molding the future of America lies with all of us,\nwith you as well as with the President and the Congress. To the extent that we\nall live the good life, the unselfish life, the lives of all others will be\nenriched.\nSo in keeping with the theme of your convention, I say, we all believe in\nthe American dream\nnow let us live so that all may share in it.\"\n###\nA SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD\nREPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\nBEFORE THE 15th BIENNIAL CONVENTION\nOF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN\nAT THE WASHINGTON HILTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D.C.\nAT 7 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1969\nFOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY\nMrs. Nixon, Mamie, Tricia, Julie, David, Madam President, Officers and\nmembers of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of Republican Women,\nhonored guests, and leaders of the world:\nI call you leaders of the world because I have long felt that it is really\nthe women who are running the show. Maybe it's a behind-the-scenes sort of opera-\ntion in many cases, but there's no question that the women of and\nwomen in America\nwield tremendous power.\nIt could be you don't quite know just how powerful you are, and that's a\nlucky circumstance for us men.\nYou take intelligence, for instance. Women are smar than men, and they\nhave the figures to prove it.\nThey\noutlive the men, and that gives staying power.\nOfficial government figures show that they outnumber men, so they you have the\nedge there, too.\nAmerican women are getting married younger now, which means they start\nrunning the men sooner than they used to.\nWomen have taken an increasingly prominent place in the world of work,\ntoo. Today nearly four out of 10 American women are employed outside the home.\nIn 1920 it was only two out of 10. Today the average woman worker is married\nand 41 years old. In 1920 she was single and 28. No wonder that years ago\nsomebody wrote a song called, \"Heaven Help the Poor Working Girl.\"\nAmerican women have made tremendous strides in the last half century. And\nIt seems altogethe amazing Mat it is less than 50 years that women have had the\nvote In this country\nOf course the lack of nationwide woman suffrage didn't stop Jeanette Rankin\nof Montana from winning election to Congress. She was elected to the House in\n1916, the first woman ever to win a seat in Congress. And she was a Republican.\nThat is how it has always been with Republican women. They have always\nbeen in the forefront of every forward-looking movement in America.\n(more)\n-2-\nRepublican women haven't come up with a presidential candidate of their\nown sex yet. But, then, neither has the other major party produced a woman\ncandidate for the White House. There have been only three women candidates for\nPresident. The Equal Rights Party fielded women candidates in 1872 and 1884.\nAnd in 1952 Mrs. Linea Jensen was the candidate of the George Washington Peace\nParty, which claimed to be in communication with the Father of our Country.\nWe can laugh about some of the foibles in politics, but I seriously believe\nthe day is not too distant -- it won't be 1972 -- when we will see a bona fide\nwoman candidate for the Presidency.\nA revolution has been taking place among American women, now that they have\nfinished stepping down from their pedestals -- for better or for worse.\nOne of the developments in that revolution is that women today tend to\nhave their last child by the age of 30. This means that by the time the youngest\nchild is in school, a mother may look forward to 30 or 35 more active years and\nmuch of that time can\nbe spent The businessand professionalworld.\nThis is aspect of the women's revolution I thoroughly agree with --\ngiving\nwomen\nthe\nplace\nthey\ndeserve\nin\nand\nthe\npolitical\nOur whole society today calls for women to play a significant role in\nnearly every way -- not just as wives and mothers but intellectually and\npolitically.\nWho shapes the American point of view today? Women do, as much as men.\nThat's why I am pleased that President Nixon has named 118 women to positions\nin the Federal Government or related posts.\nThose appointed to positions of prominence include such women as .\nMrs. Patricia Reilly Hitt, assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,\nMrs. Rita Hauser and Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, both U.S. representatives to the\nUnited Nations' Economic and Social Council, Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, director of\nthe Labor Department's Women's Division, Mrs. C. Wayland Brooks, director of the\nMint, Mrs. Dorothy Elston, treasurer of the United States, Mrs. Virginia Knauer,\nspecial assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs, Mrs. Elizabeth Farrington,\ndirector of territories for the Department of Interior, Nancy Hanks, chairman of\nthe National Endowment for the Arts, and Mrs. Helen Bentley, chairman of the\nNational Maritime Commission.\nThese are examples of the New American Woman, the kind of women who have\nBasiness Propersinal\nmade the National Federation of Republican Women a force to be reckoned with in\n(more)\n-3-\nAmerican\nWomen like you need never take a back seat to a man. In fact,\nI have never known you to make excuses of any kind -- or to have to, for that\nmatter.\nThat reminds me of the fellow who ran for Congress and got beat. He took\nhis defeat like a man. He blamed it on his wife.\nYes, women have come a long way in this country since that day a century\nago when the menfolk in Montana Territory had the good sense to give women there\nthe right to vote.\nAnd this country has come a long way since Jan. 20, 1969, when Richard\nNixon was sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.\nWhy do I say this Nation has come a long way since last Jan. 20?\nTo see the strong proof for that statement we need only look at the\nDemocratic legacy -- the situation that Richard Nixon inherited when he entered\nthe White House. Look and compare.\nI'm going to give you an assessment of our country in January 1969 that no\nAmerican can quarrel with, regardless of his political affiliation.\nDick Nixon assumed the leadership of a country deeply enmeshed in a jungle\nwar halfway around the world, a country which had suffered escalating inflation\nfor nearly four years, a country in which the crime rate had climbed nearly\n10 times as fast as the population, a country where people were putting the torch\nto some of America's greatest cities, a country in which the Have-Nots continued\nto be the Have-Nots despite billions upon billions in Federal aid and the welfare\nsystem was like a festering sore, a country in which local, state and Federal\ntaxes had driven taxpayers to the wall and the point of revolt although tax\nrevenues were not solving the horrendous problems rushing in on our citizens from\nall sides.\nNixon has cooled it. In both foreign and domestic affairs, the fires have\nbeen dampened down.\nDomestically, the President has succeeded in getting people to lower their\nvoices\nand their arms, too. We have entered into a period of healing and\nrenewal, although nobody can say that all storms and upheaval are past.\nAgain in quest of domestic tranquillity, the Nixon Administration has\nlaunched a strong crackdown against organized crime. The President has sent\nCongress a detailed program for dealing with organized crime and the need for\nreorganization of the courts. The Nixon Administration has made the fight against\n(more)\n-4-\ncrime one of its central concerns. While other departmental budgets have been\ncut in a hold-down on Federal spending, the Justice Department budget has been\nincreased and the level of enforcement activity and narcotics control has been\nstepped up. At the same time, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has\nrevised its procedures the better to assist the states and local governments in\nfighting street crimes as well as organized crime.\nThe Nixon Administration recognizes, as do all of you, that the first civil\nright of every American -- black or white -- is the right to protection from\ncrime and violence.\nIt is said that there can be no progress without order. I subscribe to\nthat. I would add that there cannot long be order without progress. And I\nbelieve the Nixon Administration is promoting the kind of order and the kind of\nprogress which will operate together to move this country forward.\nPresident Nixon has adopted a responsible common-sense approach to our\nurban problems. His answer is jobs and job training. The accent is on the solid\nAmerican ethic of working for a living. The President's approach is based on the\nidea that a man never stands so tall as when he stands on his own two feet.\nWorkfare instead of welfare. That is the American way. That is Dick Nixon's way.\nA hand up instead of a handout. That's the only way to bridge the gap between\nthe Haves and the Have-Nots in America.\nPresident Nixon has managed to promote order in this country because he\nhas brought order to the Presidency. The days of government by crisis have been\nreplaced by crisis prevention. The scatter-gun approach is yielding to an\nassembling of new priorities.\nBut the obstacle to the new priorities remains. Vietnam remains.\nPresident Nixon has done much to move the Vietnam problem toward the peace\ntable. Unfortunately his moves have not been matched even in small degree by the\nother side.\nWe are engaged in winding down the war, in Vietnamizing it. Already this\nhas resulted in cancellation of the November and December draft calls and a\nstretchout of the October call over three months. Yet there are those in the\nCongress and elsewhere who by their actions are encouraging the enemy to believe\nthat if they continue to refuse to negotiate at Paris and continue to drag out the\nwar we will abandon all we have fought for in Vietnam and go home.\nI personally believe -- and I say this knowing there are mothers of young\nmen in this audience -- I personally believe a majority of the American people\n(more)\n--5--\nbacks President Nixon in his resolve that the fate of South Vietnam be settled\nthrough free elections and not through capitulation to Communist aggression.\nMr. Nixon's critics are not charging him with making the mess -- only with\nnot cleaning it up overnight.\nIn Vietnam, on the crime front, in fighting escalating prices, President\nNixon cannot correct overnight what piled up for years under a Democratic\nadministration. The tragic conditions Mr. Nixon faces are due to mistakes of\nthe past -- and the present effects of those mistakes are difficult to overcome.\nThe gradualism of Lyndon Johnson did not work in Vietnam, but I believe\nthe constructive gradualism of Richard Nixon will work on inflation. If we fight\ninflation in the Nixon way we have an excellent chance of cooling down the economy\nwithout a recession -- and the cooling-off process is already taking hold.\nMr. Nixon inherited a mess when he took over the White House. He has plowed\ninto and analyzed that mess, and the result is a batch of reform proposals.\nNow it is not the Nixon Administration that is on trial, it is the\nDemocratic-controlled Congress.\nPresident Nixon has laid an excellent program of reforms before the 91st\nCongress --- welfare reform which will turn all able-bodied American from welfare\nto Workfare; draft reform which will make the selective service system as fair as\npossible until we can establish a truly volunteer army; postal reform which will\ncreate a government-owned self-supporting postal corporation in place of the present\nimpossible system; poverty program reform which keeps the Office of Economic\nOpportunity as an innovative agency but spins off successful anti-poverty programs\nto old-line Government departments; manpower training reform which consolidates\nFederal manpower training programs for greater flexibility in funding and offers\nthe administration of manpower training centers to the states as they are ready\nto handle it; tax reform which takes millions of poor citizens off the taxrolls,\nreduces taxes for millions of other low-income Americans and prevents the wealthy\nfrom escaping taxation; a New Federalism which provides a percentage slice of\nFederal income tax revenue for cities and states with no strings attached.\nThis promises to be the Age of Reform in America, but many of these programs\nmay be blocked by the opposition party in Congress. These are People's Programs\nand the Nixon Administration is a People's Administration. The American people\nhave good reason to expect the Democratic-controlled Congress to respond to\nreform proposals of this administration which are in the national interest.\n(more)\n-6-\nThe President cannot implement his legislative program. That is up to the\nCongress. That is why we are looking here tonight to 1970. We are looking to\n1970 because the President needs more Republicans in the Congress and that is\nwhen the American people can pass judgment. President Nixon needs men and women\nin the Congress who will help him achieve the goals he has so properly advanced.\nNow, the women! Ah, yes, the women! What a tremendous force you can be\nin 1970: Latest Census Bureau figures show that your potential voter turnout tops\nthe men by 7 1/2 million.\nLet's help Richard Nixon and the Republican Party.\nWe can approach the voters with confidence in 1970. We will be laying the\nNixon program alongside the Democratic Party's record -- a long chaotic record\nof broken promises, spendthrift failures and bungled foreign adventures.\nThe Republican Party is not a party of promises, not a party of idle\nconversation, but a party of action. Ours is not only a party of action, but a\nparty of ideas. It is good for America that the Republican Party is alive and\nwell because the Democratic Party has failed America -- and we are now approaching\nthe Seventies, a decade of decision.\nHere's what we must remember as we approach 1970. We are for; the Democrats\nare against. We are cooperating with each other, not condemning fellow Republicans.\nAnd it is in that spirit that we will campaign -- and campaign to win.\nWe are looking to President Nixon for leadership --- and we are getting it.\nAs for us, we all have a responsibility to help him correct this Nation's past\nfailures by individually and collectively seeking the greatest good for the greatest\nnumber.\nThe great English poet John Donne declared that \"no man is an island unto\nhimself.\"\nGeorge Bernard Shaw put it another way: \"We are all dependent on one\nanother, every soul of us on earth.\"\nThe responsibility for molding the future of America lies with all of us,\nwith you as well as with the President and the Congress. To the extent that we\nall live the good life, the unselfish life, the lives of all others will be\nenriched.\nSo in keeping with the theme of your convention, I say, we all believe in\nthe American dream\nnow let us live SO that all may share in it.\"\n# # #"
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