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March 26, 1971 (Includes diagram of TU-144 supersonic plane)" of the Ford Congressional
Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY--
March 26, 1971
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford
The times change, and political parties and governments must change with them.
I find that change has swept through the Republican Party, ripping away the
cobwebs of reaction and the resistance to reform.
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be championing the first major overhaul of the welfare system in four decades?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be advocating a massive sharing of Federal income tax revenue with the cities
and states?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be proposing to reshape the entire Federal Government by cutting the number
of Federal cabinet departments?
The Republican Party has become the party of daring and imagination--the party
of boldness and reform--the party of the future--the party of hope for America.
The Republican Party is alive with new ideas and programs for meeting the
needs of the people, for restoring our environment, for bringing the best possible
health care to the people, for improving the quality of life in America.
Despite Democratic Party roadblocks to change, the Republican Party has
brought great progress to the American people in the past two years.
Despite the fact that Richard Nixon was the first President since Zachary
Taylor to enter office with Congress firmly in control of the opposition party, the
wheels of progress have been turning steadily and the record is there to prove it.
It was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam;
that developed a new strategy for peace in the world centered on the Nixon Doctrine;
that brought about ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; that entered
into serious negotiations with the Soviet Union on the limitation of strategic arms;
that renounced biological weapons and the first use of chemical warfare; that
achieved a draft treaty prohibiting the emplacement of nuclear weapons in the seabed;
that reordered our national priorities by devoting a greater part of the Federal
budget to human needs than to defense spending; that pushed through major reforms in
the postal system, in the executive office of the President, and in many other areas
of the Federal bureaucracy; that achieved the most significant improvements in the
BRARY
history of unemployment insurance; that acted to protect the environment by creating
a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection Agency;
that brought about more school desegregation in two years than in the entire period
between 1954 and 1969; that won passage of legislation to improve on-the-job safety
for America's working men and women; and that got a reluctant Democratic Congress to
adopt legislation for a stepped-up fight against organized crime and the drug menace.
Republicans in the last Congress can point to a formidable list of accomplish-
ments--among them postal reform, draft reform, the Occupational Health and Safety
Act, and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Control Act.
Now we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward peace,
and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.
In his State of the Union Message of last Jan. 22, the President laid a
blueprint for progress before the Congress and the Nation.
He set forth six great goals--prosperity in peacetime, welfare reform, the
restoration of our environment, the best possible health care for all Americans,
Federal revenue sharing with the cities and states to put the money where the problems
are, and complete reform of the Federal Government through an overhaul of cabinet
departments.
With one stroke, the President has challenged the Nation to scrap what has
failed and to turn instead toward meeting the needs of tomorrow in tomorrow's terms.
What the President is asking for is a chance to prove that Government can work.
He is seeking to do this by moving to replace the present scandalous welfare
system, to establish work incentives and work requirements, to aid the working as
well as the non-working poor with an income floor, to bolster state and local govern-
ments, to overhaul job training and job placement programs, to share Federal income
tax revenue with cash-starved cities and states whose taxes are climbing
toward the sky.
Republicans want to reform government itself--so that instead of sliding
further into musclebound ineffectiveness it at last can bridge the gap between
promise and performance.
There is opposition to revenue sharing and to overhaul of the Federal
departments. We all know that old Federal programs never die; they don't even
fade away.
But the American people will be heard--and they should be heard, at all
levels of government.
The problems of Michigan are not the same 8.S those of New York. The problems
of Ann Arbor are not identical with those of Albany. That is why we need Federal
revenue sharing.
We must think in terms of people, not just programs. Moving money back to
the cities and states means a flow of power back to the people. This is where the
power belongs.
Abraham Lincoln said: "This country. with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhabit it."
Let's make this country belong 0 the people again. Let's build a new
America.
# # #
Distribution: 20 copies of Mr. Ford
3/25/71
moffice Copy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY--
March 26, 1971
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford [Ann Arbor, Mich]
The times change, and political parties and governments must change with them.
I find that change has swept through the Republican Party, ripping away the
cobwebs of reaction and the resistance to reform.
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be championing the first major overhaul of the welfare system in four decades?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be advocating a massive sharing of Federal income tax revenue with the cities
and states?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be proposing to reshape the entire Federal Government by cutting the number
of Federal cabinet departments?
The Republican Party has become the party of daring and imagination--the party
of boldness and reform--the party of the future--the party of hope for America.
The Republican Party is alive with new ideas and programs for meeting the
needs of the people, for restoring our environment, for bringing the best possible
health care to the people, for improving the quality of life in America.
Despite Democratic Party roadblocks to change, the Republican Party has
brought great progress to the American people in the past two years.
Despite the fact that Richard Nixon was the first President since Zachary
Taylor to enter office with Congress firmly in control of the opposition party, the
wheels of progress have been turning steadily and the record is there to prove it.
It was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam;
that developed a new strategy for peace in the world centered on the Nixon Doctrine;
that brought about ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; that entered
into serious negotiations with the Soviet Union on the limitation of strategic arms;
that renounced biological weapons and the first use of chemical warfare; that
achieved a draft treaty prohibiting the emplacement of nuclear weapons in the seabed;
that reordered our national priorities by devoting a greater part of the Federal
budget to human needs than to defense spending; that pushed through major reforms in
the postal system, in the executive office of the President, and in many other areas
of the Federal bureaucracy; that achieved the most significant improvements in the
LIBRARY
history of unemployment insurance; that acted to protect the environment by creating
a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection Agency;
that brought about more school desegregation in two years than in the entire period
between 1954 and 1969; that won passage of legislation to improve on-the-job safety
for America's working men and women; and that got a reluctant Democratic Congress to
adopt legislation for a stepped-up fight against organized crime and the drug menace.
Republicans in the last Congress can point to a formidable list of accomplish-
ments--among them postal reform, draft reform, the Occupational Health and Safety
Act, and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Control Act.
Now we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward peace,
and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.
In his State of the Union Message of last Jan. 22, the President laid a
blueprint for progress before the Congress and the Nation.
He set forth six great goals--prosperity in peacetime, welfare reform, the
restoration of our environment, the best possible health care for all Americans,
Federal revenue sharing with the cities and states to put the money where the problems
are, and complete reform of the Federal Government through an overhaul of cabinet
departments.
With one stroke, the President has challenged the Nation to scrap what has
failed and to turn instead toward meeting the needs of tomorrow in tomorrow's terms.
What the President is asking for is a chance to prove that Government can work.
He is seeking to do this by moving to replace the present scandalous welfare
system, to establish work incentives and work requirements, to aid the working as
well as the non-working poor with an income floor, to bolster state and local govern-
ments, to overhaul job training and job placement programs, to share Federal income
tax revenue with cash-starved cities and states whose taxes are climbing
toward the sky.
Republicans want to reform government itself--so that instead of sliding
further into musclebound ineffectiveness it at last can bridge the gap between
promise and performance.
There is opposition to revenue sharing and to overhaul of the Federal
departments. We all know that old Federal programs never die; they don't even
fade away.
But the American people will be heard--and they should be heard, at all
levels of government.
The problems of Michigan are not the same as those of New York. The problems
of Ann Arbor are not identical with those of Albany. That is why we need Federal
revenue sharing.
We must think in terms of people, not just programs. Moving money back to
the cities and states means a flow of power back to the people. This is where the
power belongs.
Abraham Lincoln said: "This country. with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhabit it."
Let's make this country belong 10 the people again. Let's build a new
America.
###
Brian Connolly
Nany Chase
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY--
March 26, 1971
Excerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford
Ray tount
The times change, and political parties and governments must change with them.
I find that change has swept through the Republican Party, ripping away the
cobwebs of reaction and the resistance to reform.
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be championing the first major overhaul of the welfare system in four decades?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be advocating a massive sharing of Federal income tax revenue with the cities
and states?
Who would have thought just a few short years ago that the Republican Party
would be proposing to reshape the entire Federal Government by cutting the number
of Federal cabinet departments?
The Republican Party has become the party of daring and imagination--the party
of boldness and reform--the party of the future--the party of hope for America.
The Republican Party is alive with new ideas and programs for meeting the
needs of the people, for restoring our environment, for bringing the best possible
health care to the people, for improving the quality of life in America.
Despite Democratic Party roadblocks to change the Republican Party has
brought great progress to the American people in the past two years.
Despite the fact that Richard Nixon was the first President since Zachary
Taylor to enter office with Congress firmly in control of the opposition party, the
wheels of progress have been turning steadily and the record is there to prove it.
It was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam;
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that developed a new strategy for peace in the world centered on the Nixon Doctrine;
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that brought about ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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that entered
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that renounced biological weapons and the first use of chemical warfare / that
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achieved a draft treaty prohibiting the emplacement of nuclear weapons in the seabed
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that reordered our national priorities by devoting a greater part of the Federal
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budget to human needs than to defense spending; that pushed through major reforms in
the postal system, in the executive office of the President, and in many other areas
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of the Federal bureaucracy, that achieved the most significant improvements in the
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history of unemployment insurance; that acted to protect the environment by creating
LIBRAR
a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection Agency;
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that brought about more school desegregation in two years than in the entire period
between 1954 and 1969 that won passage of legislation to improve on-the-job safety
for America's working men and women; and that got a reluctant Democratic Congress to
adopt legislation for a stepped-up fight against organized crime and the drug menace.
Republicans in the last Congress can point to a formidable list of accomplish-
ments--among them postal reform, draft reform, the Occupational Health and Safety
Act, and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Control Act.
Now we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward peace,
and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.
In his State of the Union Message of last Jan. 22, the President laid a
blueprint for progress before the Congress and the Nation.
He set forth six great goals--prosperity in peacetime, welfare reform, the
3.
restoration of our environment, the best possible health care for all Americans,
Federal revenue sharing with the cities and states to put the money where the problems
are, and complete reform of the Federal Government through an overhaul of cabinet
departments.
With one stroke, the President has challenged the Nation to scrap what has
failed and to turn instead toward meeting the needs of tomorrow in tomorrow's terms.
What the President is asking for is a chance to prove that Government can work.
He is seeking to do this by moving to replace the present scandalous welfare
system, to establish work incentives and work requirements, to aid the working as
well as the non-working poor with an income floor, to bolster state and local govern-
ments, to overhaul job training and job placement programs, to share Federal income
tax revenue with cash-starved cities and states whose taxes are climbing
toward the sky.
Republicans want to reform government itself--so that instead of sliding
further into musclebound ineffectiveness it at last can bridge the gap between
promise and performance.
There is opposition to revenue sharing and to overhaul of the Federal
departments. We all know that old Federal programs never die; they don't even
fade away.
But the American people will be heard--and they should be heard, at all
levels of government.
The problems of Michigan are not the same as those of New York. The problems
of Ann Arbor are not identical with those of Albany. That is why we need Federal
revenue sharing.
We must think in terms of people, not just programs. Moving money back to
the cities and states means a flow of power back to the people. This is where the
power belongs.
Abraham Lincoln said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the
people who inhabit it."
Let's make this country belong 10 the people again. Let's build a new
America.
# # #
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
February 25, 1971
Honorable Gerald Ford
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Gerry:
Secretary Volpe had some of these little anecdotes
researched and thought some of you folks on the Hill
might find them useful in combating all the bunk being
circulated by the anti-SST forces.
Sincerely,
Laurence Carry J. Burton, Director
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FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
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One-Liners
--In 1829 the then-Governor of New York, Martin Van Buren,
wrote a letter to President Andrew Jackson expressing his
belief that the government should "protect the American
people from the evils of railroads. " Van Buren exclaimed,
"railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of
15 miles per hour by engines which,
...
snort their way through
the countryside setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock,
and frightening women."
Brigadier General "Chuck" Yaeger, first test pilot to break
the sound barrier in 1947 was told by "experts" before his
historic flight that he would "disintegrate" or become a
"vegetable" or that his "bone marrow might demineralize."
--At the direction of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella,
a panel of Spanish sages looked at Columbus' plan for a
voyage to the Indies, and in 1490 came up with six good
reasons why it was impossible.
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
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--A group of Aristotelian professors once told Galileo that
that "Jupiter's moons are invisable to the naked eye, and
therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore
would be useless, and therefore does not exist."
--So called rail experts in the 19th century said railroads
would kill passengers. Anyone, they said, travelling at
30 mph could not breath and would die of suffocation.
One week before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk,
the New York Times editorially advised Samuel Langley (a
Wright brothers competitor) to turn his talents to "more
useful employment.
--In 1940 the editor of Scientific American wrote Willy Ley,
prophet of space travel, that the notion of a rocket bomb
was "too farfetched to be considered."
In 1945 Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific
Research and Development, said that intercontentental missles
would not be possible for a "very long period of time. The
American public," he said, "should not even think about them.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
- 3 -
-French historian Emile Faguet wrote in the late 19th
century that, "The chances are that from now on history
will be less filled with vicissitudes, less colorful. The
great conqueror, the great reformer, and the great statesmen
will become increasingly rare." So much for Lenin, Mussolini,
Stalin, Hitler, Wilson, Gandhi, Churchill and Roosevelt.
-Arthur Clarke, the science and science fiction writer,
says, "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states
that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.
When he states that something is impossible, he is very
probably wrong."
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Elegant and streamlined in shape, the TU-144
жирского лайнера ТУ-144. Обладая превосходными летно-тех-
supersonic airliner has perfect flying qualities: it cruises
ническими качествами, скорость 2500 час, дальность бес-
at a speed of 2,500 km per hour a hight of 20,000 me-
посадочного полета 6500 KM, высота полета до 20000 ca-
tres, and has a range of 6,500 km.
молет может доставить пассажиров из Москвы B Хабаровск
3a 3 часа, B Дели 3a 2,5 часа, B Париж или Лондон 3a 1,5 ча-
In 3 hours it will whisk you from Moscow to Khaba-
ca. Скоротечность воздушного путешествия открывает широ-
rovsk-that's right across the Soviet Union. London or
кие перспективы для деловых поездок и туризма.
Paris takes 1.5 hours and you can do Delhi-Moscow
in just 2.5 hours. Highspeed, time saving travel like
B двух просторных салонах лайнера, цветовая ΓaMMa OT-
this is a boon for businessmen and tourists alike.
делки которых может быть выполнена c учетом традиций OT-
дельных авиалиний, свободно размещается 120 пассажиров.
The liner's two spacious cabins can comfortably
При необходимости салоны легко переоборудуются из пер-
seat 120 passengers and, if necessary, they can be
BoΓo класса B туристский, что позволяет увеличить число пасса-
rearranged to accommodate 130-150 Tourist Class
жиров до 130-150 человек.
passengers.
Мягкие, удобные кресла, принципиально новая система
кондиционирования воздуха, современный бар-буфет c ши-
The décor is in line with the best traditions of air-
роким ассортиментом холодных и горячих блюд, прохладитель-
line design: You just sink into your seat, there's a new
ных напитков, наконец, почти полное отсутствие шума и вибра-
system for air-conditioning, a bar with a wide variety
ции предоставляют пассажирам максимальный комфорт B no-
of hot and cold dishes and iced drinks, and hardly any
лете.
noise or vibration to bother you so that you feel really
comfortable during your flight.
Совершенная система управления B сочетании c пило-
тажно-навигационным, комплексом обеспечивают автомати-
The sophisticated apparatus provides for automatic
ческое управление самолетом Ha взлете, B полете и при посадке
control of take-off, during flight and for landing in
B сложных метеорологических условиях. Благодаря этому эки-
almost any kind of weather. Because we have auto-
паж самолета состоит BceΓo лишь из двух летчиков и борт-
mated so much, the crew only needs two pilots and a
инженера.
flight engineer.
Радиокомплекс лайнера позволяет осуществлять устойчи-
The liner's communication system ensures a con-
вую связь c международной системой навигационных и поса-
stant link with all international aeronautical centres
дочных маяков, обеспечивая полет по любым международ-
and localiser beacons so it can fly on any international
ным авиалиниям. Bce основные системы самолета имеют MHoΓo-
route.
KpaTHoe резервирование, поэтому нарушение работы любой
из них He оказывает влияния Ha режим полета.
All main aircraft systems have repeated stand-by so
any fault is taken care of and flight safety is guar-
Вэлетно-посадочные характеристики TY-144 делают Bo3-
anteed.
можным eΓo эксплуатацию Ha Bcex международных аэродро-
Max, B ToM числе и высокогорных a также B условиях высокой
With a performance like the TU-144's on take-off
температуры окружающего воздуха.
and landing every international airport, even high in
Техническое обслуживание самолета осуществляется одно-
the mountains or in a very hot climate can cater for it.
BpeMeHHo всеми наземными службами, что B сочетании aBTo-
матизированной контейнерной погрузкой багажа позволяет
Ground servicing is done by all ground staff simul-
taneously and this, in combination with container
подготовить самолет K вылету B промежуточном аэропорту 3a
30-40 минут, a B конечном аэропорту - 3a один час. Про-
loading of luggage cuts flight preparation down to a
mere 30 or 40 minutes at an intermediary airport and
BepKa Bcex систем, запуск двигателя, кондиционирование ca-
лонов MoΓyT производиться aBToHoMHo, без использования
an hour at a terminal airport. Checking out of all
аэродромных средств обслуживания.
systems, starting up engines and air-conditioning in the
cabins are all controlled independent of ground crew
Самолет ТУ-144 создан B соответствии международными
services.
нормами летной годности, предъявляемыми K пассажирским
The TU-144 liner is built in accordance with interna-
самолетам.
tional flying fitness standards.
Малое время B пути, высокая регулярность полетов, oT-
личный комфорт для пассажиров, гибкость и оперативность B
Time-saving, on-schedule flights, exclusive comfort,
использовании самолета - Bce это открывает большие BO3-
ease of operation-all this makes the TU-144 a must for
можности для ero эксплуатации Ha многих авиалиниях.
every airline.
BERALD FORD LIBRARY
ОСНОВНЫЕ ЛЕТНО-ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ ДАННЫЕ
FLYING CHARACTERISTICS
Дальность полета
KM
Range
-6500 km
Высота полета
M
Altitude
-18000 m
Крейсерская скорость
10089
км/час
Cruising speed
-2500 km/h
CCCP-68001
Количество пассажирских MecT - -98 - 120
Number of passenger seats
CCCP
E
СКОРОСТЬ И КОМФОРТ
SPEED AND COMFORT
MM
$7439
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of 16$
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KPEH,
TA
АЭРОФЛОТ
Soviet airlines
TV.144
0
0
0
CCCP-68001
1114
CCCP-68001
КИЙ САМОЛЕТ