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The original documents are located in Box D32, folder "Republican Dinner, Cassopolis,
MI, April 17, 1972" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at
the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Distribution: 20 capies to Mr. Tody
Office Capy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M.--
Monday, April 17, 1972
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, before a Republican Dinner at Cassopolis, Michigan.
The entire Republican record during the three years that Richard Nixon
has filled the Presidency is a basis for pride. This is a truth we are going to
have to carry to the American people this election year.
We can be proud because we are successfully fighting an inflation that
roared ahead almost unchecked under the Democrats between 1965 and 1969. The cost
of living rose 4.3 per cent in 1971. That is a marked improvement over the
5.5 per cent increase in 1970 and the 6.1 per cent rise in 1969. Through the
President's bold program of price and wage controls- a program that is working--we
stand a good chance to hold the rise in 1972 to 3 per cent.
We can be proud of the President's New Economic Policy, which will push
unemployment down toward the 5 per cent mark by the end of 1972. We are moving
from a wartime to a peacetime economy, and the dislocations are severe. Meantime,
employment has topped 80 million, an all-time high. With employment steadily
growing, unemployment will drop. Sound growth in the economy will soak up the
increased number of job-seekers. The economic indicators are pointing upward.
We have to work to make truths like this known because the Democrats are
playing a game they are very good at. It's called "viewing with alarm seeing the
worst of things and blaming the Republicans for it.
There's really only one way to beat the Democrats at their game. That is
to recite the real-life accomplishments of our Republican Administration.
We have reason to be proud of the Nixon Administration, and we should let
the American people know the truth about it.
The truth is it was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of
the Vietnam War and is ending U.S. involvement in that war in an honorable way.
It is the Nixon Administration that brought about a cease-fire in the
Middle East and has helped prevent an outbreak of fresh fighting there.
(more)
Digitized from Box D32 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
-2-
It is the Nixon Administration that is engaged in strategic arms limitation
talks with the Soviet Union--talks that carry the promise of a near-future agree-
ment.
It was the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with
the Soviet Union on access to Berlin.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It was the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the
first use of chemical warfare.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the
emplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.
It is President Nixon who transformed the world scene from one of
confrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation-who has made the
long journey to China on a mission for peace.
It is President Nixon who has developed a new strategy for peace in the
world centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help
themselves.
These, of course, are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What
about progress at home?
It was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities by
devoting a greater part of the Federal Budget to human needs than to defense.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant
improvements in unemployment insurance in our entire history.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about a massive increase in
our manpower programs to provide work experience and training for young people of
all races.
It was the Nixon Administration that quadrupled minority hiring for
government jobs in higher grades and expanded aid to minority enterprises by more
than half--and has since proposed an even greater expansion of such aid.
It was the Nixon Administration that tripled food assistance programs for
the needy from $1.1 million to $3.5 million a year.
It was the Nixon Administration which proposed $1.5 billion in funding for
school districts with a high concentration of low income families and the doubling
of aid to black colleges.
(more)
-3-
It was the Nixon Administration which reformed our draft laws to make them
more equitable and began moving toward an all-volunteer Army.
It was the Nixon Administration that acted to protect the environment by
creating a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection
Agency.
It was the Nixon Administration that won passage of legislation to improve
on-the-job safety for America's working men and women.
It was the Nixon Administration that put together an organized assault
against organized crime and turned the syndicate into an empire in deep trouble.
It was the Nixon Administration that trebled Federal aid to local communities
for law enforcement and court improvements and cut back the rise in crime.
It was the Nixon Administration that has launched the most progressive and
most comprehensive Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United States.
Now we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward
peace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.
There is much more that Richard Nixon is determined to accomplish.
By a stroke of fate, he has been afforded an opportunity to change the
direction in which the Supreme Court was travelling during years when more
attention was paid to the rights of criminal defendants than the rights of society.
Richard Nixon is keeping all of his promises to the American people. He
wants to do much more than he has already achieved. What he needs to write his
whole program into law is a Republican Congress.
There is a whole host of Nixon Administration reforms awaiting congressional
action: A workfare program in place of the welfare scandal; Federal revenue
sharing, giving the States and cities a percentage slice of Federal tax receipts
so they can zero in on their own problems free from Federal red tape; reorganization
of cabinet departments so government will be more responsive to the people; a
consolidation of manpower training programs, to be turned over to the states and
local communities as they become equipped to handle them; a re-examination of
Federal aid to schools to achieve quality education; and a revamping of our labor
laws to improve handling of national emergency labor disputes in transportation.
Every one of these reforms will be an issue in the 1972 campaign unless
the Democrats in Congress join Dick Nixon in his crusade to improve the quality
of life in America.
(more)
-4-
The best way to help Dick Nixon is to elect Republicans to Congress next
November 7 so he will have the team he needs to turn America in the right direction.
The hour of truth is upon us, and the time is now. Truth is our greatest
weapon in the 1972 campaign. Our success at the polls will be measured by our
success in impressing the truth upon the American people.
So tell the Republican story. Tell the Richard Nixon story. Let the
American people know what Dick Nixon has done to bring them peace abroad and
progress at home.
That is the truth you must make clear. So let us do the job. Together we
can. We are on the march--we and Dick Nixon. Let us prove that our party is a
winning one. Let us move forward together.
###
20 capies to m.F.aly
Office Copy
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M.--
Monday, April 17, 1972
Excerpts from a speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., Republican Leader, U.S.
House of Representatives, before a Republican Dinner at Cassopolis, Michigan.
The entire Republican record during the three years that Richard Nixon
has filled the Presidency is a basis for pride. This is a truth we are going to
have to carry to the American people this election year.
We can be proud because we are successfully fighting an inflation that
roared ahead almost unchecked under the Democrats between 1965 and 1969. The cost
of living rose 4.3 per cent in 1971. That is a marked improvement over the
5.5 per cent increase in 1970 and the 6.1 per cent rise in 1969. Through the
President's bold program of price and wage controls-- a program that is working--we
stand a good chance to hold the rise in 1972 to 3 per cent.
We can be proud of the President's New Economic Policy, which will push
unemployment down toward the 5 per cent mark by the end of 1972. We are moving
from a wartime to a peacetime economy, and the dislocations are severe. Meantime,
employment has topped 80 million, an all-time high. With employment steadily
growing, unemployment will drop. Sound growth in the economy will soak up the
increased number of job-seekers. The economic indicators are pointing upward.
We have to work to make truths like this known because the Democrats are
playing a game they are very good at. It's called "viewing with alarm seeing the
worst of things and blaming the Republicans for it.
There's really only one way to beat the Democrats at their game. That is
to recite the real-life accomplishments of our Republican Administration.
We have reason to be proud of the Nixon Administration, and we should let
the American people know the truth about it.
The truth is it was the Nixon Administration that reversed the course of
the Vietnam War and is ending U.S. involvement in that war in an honorable way.
It is the Nixon Administration that brought about a cease-fire in the
Middle East and has helped prevent an outbreak of fresh fighting there.
(more)
-2-
It is the Nixon Administration that is engaged in strategic arms limitation
talks with the Soviet Union--talks that carry the promise of a near-future agree-
ment.
It was the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with
the Soviet Union on access to Berlin.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It was the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the
first use of chemical warfare.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the
emplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.
It is President Nixon who transformed the world scene from one of
confrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation-who has made the
long journey to China on a mission for peace.
It is President Nixon who has developed a new strategy for peace in the
world centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help
themselves.
These, of course, are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What
about progress at home?
It was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities by
devoting a greater part of the Federal Budget to human needs than to defense.
It was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant
improvements in unemployment insurance in our entire history.
It was the Nixon Administration that brought about a massive increase in
our manpower programs to provide work experience and training for young people of
all races.
It was the Nixon Administration that quadrupled minority hiring for
government jobs in higher grades and expanded aid to minority enterprises by more
than half--and has since proposed an even greater expansion of such aid.
It was the Nixon Administration that tripled food assistance programs for
the needy from $1.1 million to $3.5 million a year.
It was the Nixon Administration which proposed $1.5 billion in funding for
school districts with a high concentration of low income families and the doubling
of aid to black colleges.
(more)
-3-
It was the Nixon Administration which reformed our draft laws to make them
more equitable and began moving toward an all-volunteer Army.
It was the Nixon Administration that acted to protect the environment by
creating a new Council on Environmental Quality and a new Environmental Protection
Agency.
It was the Nixon Administration that won passage of legislation to improve
on-the-job safety for America's working men and women.
It was the Nixon Administration that put together an organized assault
against organized crime and turned the syndicate into an empire in deep trouble.
It was the Nixon Administration that trebled Federal aid to local communities
for law enforcement and court improvements and cut back the rise in crime.
It was the Nixon Administration that has launched the most progressive and
most comprehensive Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United States.
Now we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward
peace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.
There is much more that Richard Nixon is determined to accomplish.
By a stroke of fate, he has been afforded an opportunity to change the
direction in which the Supreme Court was travelling during years when more
attention was paid to the rights of criminal defendants than the rights of society.
Richard Nixon is keeping all of his promises to the American people. He
wants to do much more than he has already achieved. What he needs to write his
whole program into law is a Republican Congress.
There is a whole host of Nixon Administration reforms awaiting congressional
action: A workfare program in place of the welfare scandal; Federal revenue
sharing, giving the States and cities a percentage slice of Federal tax receipts
so they can zero in on their own problems free from Federal red tape; reorganization
of cabinet departments so government will be more responsive to the people; a
consolidation of manpower training programs, to be turned over to the states and
local communities as they become equipped to handle them; a re-examination of
Federal aid to schools to achieve quality education; and a revamping of our labor
laws to improve handling of national emergency labor disputes in transportation.
Every one of these reforms will be an issue in the 1972 campaign unless
the Democrats in Congress join Dick Nixon in his crusade to improve the quality
of life in America.
(more)
-4-
The best way to help Dick Nixon is to elect Republicans to Congress next
November 7 so he will have the team he needs to turn America in the right direction.
The hour of truth is upon us, and the time is now. Truth is our greatest
weapon in the 1972 campaign. Our success at the polls will be measured by our
success in impressing the truth upon the American people.
So tell the Republican story. Tell the Richard Nixon story. Let the
American people know what Dick Nixon has done to bring them peace abroad and
progress at home.
That is the truth you must make clear. So let us do the job. Together we
can. We are on the march--we and Dick Nixon. Let us prove that our party is a
winning one. Let us move forward together.
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