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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D32, folder \"Dinner Honoring Clair W.\nBurgener, San Diego, CA, December 3, 1971\" 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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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.\nNot Used\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE AT 6 P.M. P.S.T.-\nFriday, Dec. 3, 1971\nExcerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford at a dinner honoring Clair W. Burgener\nat San Diego, Calff.\nClair Burgenner has dedicated his life to public service. I know all of you here\nhope he will continue to do so, but in a higher\ncapacity.\nLike Clair, I also was once selected by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as an\noutstanding young man. Do you suppose in mentioning this that I am being prophetic?\nI am very much impressed by Clair's civic and community activities. His leadership\nin Heart Fund and United Fund campaigns and his work on\nbehalf of retarded\nchildren mark him as a man of great compassion, a man who truly cares about people. He\nis just the kind of man we want in high public office.\noffice\nClair has occupied various roles in public\ndating back to 1957. As\na councilman, state representative and state senator he has always been a fighter for\nwhat is right. Currently his\nparty also is engaged in a battle for what is right.\nWe are fighting a massive raid on the U.S.\nTreasury, the campaign contribution scheme\nhatched by Senate Democrats and solidly backed by all of the Democratic presidential\nhopefuls.\nIt's natural that the Democratic presidential aspirants would b ack the give\na\nex-buck-to-the Democrats scheme. It means one of them will buy\nhis\nparty's\nfunds\nnomination with private contributions and then use tax\nto try to buy the White\nHouse.\nIt's natural\nthat it was the Democrats who came up with this tax\nbucks\nvotes\nfon-the Democrats proposition. After all, they've been buying\nfor years with\ntax money.\nThe tax bucks for\npresidential electioneering plan would produce some\ndire consequences. It would underm ine the two-party system. By putting millions of\nwould\ndollars in the hands of minor candidates, it leads to proliferation of political\nparties.\nThis is a monstrous\nproposal. While it masquerades behind the merit of taking\ncampaign funding away\nfrom\nparty donors,\nit destroys the two-party system as we know it.\nI app land the President for announcing his intention to veto the ttax bill if it\ncontains the campaign\ncheckoff provision. He is striking a blow for what is right.\nThe President was not making an idale threat. Dick Nixon keeps his\npromises.\nHe has, for instance, kept every promise he made back in 1968 when he accepted his\nparty's nomination for President of the United States.\nGERA\nLIBRARY\nDigitized from Box D32 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R., Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nIn his acceptanos speech, Richard Nixon said: \"I do not promise the millenium in\nthe morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty, and end discrimination, and\neliminate alli danger of war in the space of four, or even eight years. But, I do promise\naction--a new policy for peace abroad; a new policy for peace and progress and justice\nat home.\"\nHas Dick Nixon delivered on his puromise of action aimed at peace abroad and peace,\nprogress and justice at home? The answer is a resounding \"yes.\"\nIt was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of the war in Vietnam and\nis ending U.S. involvement there in a way that gives a non-Communist South Vietnam a chance\nto survive,\nIt was the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with the Soviet\nUnion on acce SS to West Berlin.\nis\nIt\nthe Nixon Administration that is engaged in promising talks with the Soviet\nUnion on the limitation of strategic arms.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification\nof R.FORD. the LIBRARY\nNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the\nfirst use of chemical warfare.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the\nemplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.\nIt is President Nixon who has transformed the world scene from one of\nconfrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation-who is even now\nplanning summit meetings in Peking and Moscow.\nIt is President Nixon who has developed a new strategy for peace in the\nworld centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help\nthemselves.\nAh, but these are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What about\npeace, progress and justice at home?\nIt was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities\nby devoting a greater part of the Federal budget to human needs than to defense.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant improve-\nments in unemployment insurance in our entire history.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that brought about a massive increase in\nour manpower programs to provide work experience and training for young people of\n(more)\nall races.\n-3-\nIt was the Nixon Administration that quadrupled minority hiring for\ngovernment jobs in higher grades and expanded aid to minority enterprises by more\nthan half and has since proposed an even greater expansion in such aid.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that tripled food assistance programs for\nthe needy from $1.1 million to $3.5 million a year.\nIt was the Nixon Administration which proposed $1.5 billion in funding for\nschool districts with a high concentration of low income families and the doubling\nof aid to black colleges.\nIt was the Nixon Administration which reformed our draft laws to make them\nmore equitable and began moving toward an all-volunteer Army.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that acted to protect the environment by\ncreating a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection\nAgency.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that won passage of legislation to improve\non-the-job safety for America's working men and women.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that put together an organized assault\nagainst organized crime and turned the syndicate into an empire in deep trouble.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that trebled Federal aid to local communi-\nties for law enforcement and court improvements.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that launched the most progressive and\nfar-reaching Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United States.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that adopted a bold New Economic Policy\nto fight Democrat inflation and the unemployment brought on by mistaken Democrat\npolicies of the Sixties and a winding down of the war a Democrat President led us\ninto.\nWecan\nNow we look to the future. more progress--progress toward\npeace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime because\nNH Richard It was Hika the Democrats keeps who his promises us the\ntooly into Victness XXX Now they pose\nthe party of peace. It is easy to have peace if you are willing to make peace\non the enemy is terms.\nIt was a great Roman Cicero, who said What then should be the objective\nof those who are at the helm of government, which they should never lose sight of,\ntoward which they ought to set their course? It is peace with dignity.'\nThat is the kind of peace Richard Nixon is steering us toward in Vietnam\nPeace with dignity. Peace with honor.\n(more)\nGERALD\nLIBRARY"
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