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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D33, folder \"Trunk 'n Tusk Dinner, Phoenix,\nAZ, September 16, 1972\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech\nFile 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 The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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.\nDistribution\n20\ncapies\nw/\nMr.\n7 only\nMaffice Copy\nFor Release at 6:00 p.m.\nSaturday, Sept. 16, 1972\nExcerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., before a Trunk 'n Tusk\nDinner at Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday, Sept. 16, 1972.\nRepublicans have two things going for them Nov. 7.\nThe President has written a splendid record of achievement during his first\nterm -- and the vast majority of Americans don't like McGovernment.\nThe majority of Americans know that George McGovern wouldn't just redistribute\nthe wealth. He wouldn't just soak the rich. He'd raise everybody's taxes.\nWhat about this business of redistributing the wealth? What about the fellow\nwho spent long years in school and then worked his fingers to the bone to get where\nhe is? Why should the McGovernites pick his pockets to put more people on public\nassistance and raise the ante?\nTake a hard look at McGovern's major spending and tax proposals. We\nRepublicans in the U.S. House of Representatives did and we found that if all of\nMcGovern's proposals were implemented the result would be a staggering Federal\ndeficit and a massive tax increase that would bankrupt America's middle class. The\nupshot would be runaway inflation followed by economic stagnation. McGovern wouldn't\njust wipe out the rich; he would wipe out middle America.\nTake a hard look at McGovern's foreign policy proposals. He would make peace\nin Vietnam on the enemy's terms. He would also cut off all aid to Greece, which\nsupplies us with naval bases in the eastern Mediterranean. It doesn't seem important\nto George McGovern that without these naval bases the Soviet Union would have control\nover the waters nearest the Middle East, much to the detriment of Israel.\nSen. McGovern has proposed cutting our armed forces by 40 per cent--cutting\nthe Navy in half and the Air Force by more than half--without any similar force\nreductions by the Russians. He would unilaterally pull out more than half of our\nforces in Europe. He would wreck the Atlantic Alliance. He would risk the safety\nof every man, woman and child in this country.\nNow do you see why I call McGovern an extremist? He's Jerry Rubin's\ncandidate-- the candidate of those who espouse victory for the other side and peace at\nany price. He's the author of the most inflationary and socialistic economic schemes\never put forth by a major American Presidential candidate in modern political\nhistory.\n(more)\nDigitized from Box D33 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nThat's Sen. McGovern's track record as culled from the statements he has\nmade in the Senate and in seeking his party's Presidential nomination.\nA man should run on his record. And we--all of us Republicans who are\nseeking public office--invite inspection of our records.\nThe Republican record during the entire time that Richard Nixon has filled\nthe Presidency is a basis for pride. This is a truth we are going to have to carry\nto the American people this election year.\nWe can be proud because we are successfully fighting an inflation that\nroared ahead almost unchecked under the Democrats between 1965 and 1969. The\ninflation rate fell to 1.8 per cent in the second quarter of 1972. This means we\nstand a good chance to hold the overall rise in 1972 to 3 per cent, a sharp improve-\nment over the 4.3 per cent increase in 1971, the 5.5 per cent rise in 1970 and the\n6.1 per cent climb in 1969. There's no doubt about it. The President's bold\nprogram of price and wage controls is working. In fact, it's working mighty well.\nWe can be proud of the President's New Economic Policy, which will push\nunemployment down toward the 5 per cent mark by the end of this year. We have\n83 million people at work--an alltime record. In July of 1972 we had 2.6 million\nmore people at work than in July 1971--the greatest creation of jobs in any\n12-month period in our postwar history. And at the same time the rate of inflation\nslowed down.\nUnder President Nixon we are building genuine prosperity prosperity without\nwar.\nWe have reason to be proud of the Nixon Administration, and we should let\nthe American people know the truth of it.\nThe truth is it was the Nixon Administration that brought more than a half\nmillion men home from Vietnam and ended the U.S. ground combat role there while\nseeking an honorable peace.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that produced a cease-fire in the Middle East\nand prevented a U.S.-Soviet confrontation there.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that reached an historic agreement with\nthe Soviet Union, limiting strategic weapons in the first arms freeze of the\nnuclear age.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with\nthe Soviet Union on access to Berlin.\n(more)\n-3-\nIt is the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification of the\nNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the\nfirst use of chemical warfare.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the\nemplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.\nIt is President Nixon who transformed the world scene from one of\nconfrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation--who traveled to\nMoscow and Peking on missions for peace.\nIt is President Nixon who developed a new strategy for peace in the\nworld centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help\nthemselves.\nThese, of course, are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What\nabout progress at home?\nIt was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities by\ndevoting a greater part of the Federal Budget to human needs than to defense.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant\nimprovements 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\nall races.\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 of 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 now is ending the draft.\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.\n(more)\n-4-\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 communities\nfor law enforcement and court improvements and cut back the rise in crime.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that launched the most progressive and\nmost comprehensive Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United\nStates.\nNow we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward\npeace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.\nWe can realize that progress by electing Richard Nixon to another four years\nin the White House and giving him a Republican Congress to work with.\nThe best way to help Dick Nixon lead this Nation to new greatness is to\nelect Republicans to every office in the land--from the court house to the White\nHouse. That's the team we need to keep America headed in the right direction.\nThe hour of truth is upon us, and the time is now. Truth is our greatest\nweapon in the 1972 campaign. Our success at the polls Nov. 7 will be measured by\nour success in impressing the truth upon the American people.\nSo tell the Republican story. Tell the Richard Nixon story. Let the\nAmerican people know what Dick Nixon has done to bring them peace abroad and progress\nat home.\nThat is the truth you must make clear. So let us do the job. Together we\ncan. We are on the march--we and Dick Nixon. Let us prove that our party is a\nwinning one. Let us move forward together.\n# # #\n20 copies w/Mr.\na office Copy\nFor Release at 6:00 p.m.\nSaturday, Sept. 16, 1972\nExcerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., before a Trunk 'n Tusk\nDinner at Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday, Sept. 16, 1972.\nRepublicans have two things going for them Nov. 7.\nThe President has written a splendid record of achievement during his first\nterm -- and the vast majority of Americans don't like McGovernment.\nThe majority of Americans know that George McGovern wouldn't just redistribute\nthe wealth. He wouldn't just soak the rich. He'd raise everybody's taxes.\nWhat about this business of redistributing the wealth? What about the fellow\nwho spent long years in school and then worked his fingers to the bone to get where\nhe is? Why should the McGovernites pick his pockets to put more people on public\nassistance and raise the ante?\nTake a hard look at McGovern's major spending and tax proposals. We\nRepublicans in the U.S. House of Representatives did and we found that if all of\nMcGovern's proposals were implemented the result would be a staggering Federal\ndeficit and a massive tax increase that would bankrupt America's middle class. The\nupshot would be runaway inflation followed by economic stagnation. McGovern wouldn't\njust wipe out the rich; he would wipe out middle America.\nTake a hard look at McGovern's foreign policy proposals. He would make peace\nin Vietnam on the enemy's terms. He would also cut off all aid to Greece, which\nsupplies us with naval bases in the eastern Mediterranean. It doesn't seem important\nto George McGovern that without these naval bases the Soviet Union would have control\nover the waters nearest the Middle East, much to the detriment of Israel.\nSen. McGovern has proposed cutting our armed forces by 40 per cent cutting\nthe Navy in half and the Air Force by more than half without any similar force\nreductions by the Russians. He would unilaterally pull out more than half of our\nforces in Europe. He would wreck the Atlantic Alliance. He would risk the safety\nof every man, woman and child in this country.\nNow do you see why I call McGovern an extremist? He's Jerry Rubin's\ncandidate the candidate of those who espouse victory for the other side and peace at\nany price. He's the author of the most inflationary and socialistic economic schemes\never put forth by a major American Presidential candidate in modern political\nhistory.\n(more)\n-2-\nThat's Sen. McGovern's track record as culled from the statements he has\nmade in the Senate and in seeking his party's Presidential nomination.\nA man should run on his record. And we--all of us Republicans who are\nseeking public office--invite inspection of our records.\nThe Republican record during the entire time that Richard Nixon has filled\nthe Presidency is a basis for pride. This is a truth we are going to have to carry\nto the American people this election year.\nWe can be proud because we are successfully fighting an inflation that\nroared ahead almost unchecked under the Democrats between 1965 and 1969. The\ninflation rate fell to 1.8 per cent in the second quarter of 1972. This means we\nstand a good chance to hold the overall rise in 1972 to 3 per cent, a sharp improve-\nment over the 4.3 per cent increase in 1971, the 5.5 per cent rise in 1970 and the\n6.1 per cent climb in 1969. There's no doubt about it. The President's bold\nprogram of price and wage controls is working. In fact, it's working mighty well.\nWe can be proud of the President's New Economic Policy, which will push\nunemployment down toward the 5 per cent mark by the end of this year. We have\n83 million people at work--an alltime record. In July of 1972 we had 2.6 million\nmore people at work than in July 1971--the greatest creation of jobs in any\n12-month period in our postwar history. And at the same time the rate of inflation\nslowed down.\nUnder President Nixon we are building genuine prosperity prosperity without\nwar.\nWe have reason to be proud of the Nixon Administration, and we should let\nthe American people know the truth of it.\nThe truth is it was the Nixon Administration that brought more than a half\nmillion men home from Vietnam and ended the U.S. ground combat role there while\nseeking an honorable peace.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that produced a cease-fire in the Middle East\nand prevented a U.S.-Soviet confrontation there.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that reached an historic agreement with\nthe Soviet Union, limiting strategic weapons in the first arms freeze of the\nnuclear age.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that reached agreement in principle with\nthe Soviet Union on access to Berlin.\n(more)\n-3-\nIt is the Nixon Administration that brought about ratification of the\nNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that renounced biological weapons and the\nfirst use of chemical warfare.\nIt is the Nixon Administration that achieved a treaty prohibiting the\nemplacement of nuclear weapons in the world's seabeds.\nIt is President Nixon who transformed the world scene from one of\nconfrontation between the major powers to one of negotiation--who traveled to\nMoscow and Peking on missions for peace.\nIt is President Nixon who developed a new strategy for peace in the\nworld centered around the doctrine of helping those nations willing to help\nthemselves.\nThese, of course, are all actions aimed at promoting peace abroad. What\nabout progress at home?\nIt was the Nixon Administration that reordered our national priorities by\ndevoting a greater part of the Federal Budget to human needs than to defense.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that achieved the most significant\nimprovements 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\nall races.\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 of 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 now is ending the draft.\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.\n(more)\n-4-\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 communities\nfor law enforcement and court improvements and cut back the rise in crime.\nIt was the Nixon Administration that launched the most progressive and\nmost comprehensive Federal attack on drug abuse ever undertaken in the United\nStates.\nNow we look to the future. We look for more progress--progress toward\npeace at home and abroad, and progress toward prosperity in peacetime.\nWe can realize that progress by electing Richard Nixon to another four years\nin the White House and giving him a Republican Congress to work with.\nThe best way to help Dick Nixon lead this Nation to new greatness is to\nelect Republicans to every office in the land--from the court house to the White\nHouse. That's the team we need to keep America headed in the right direction.\nThe hour of truth is upon us, and the time is now. Truth is our greatest\nweapon in the 1972 campaign. Our success at the polls Nov. 7 will be measured by\nour success in impressing the truth upon the American people.\nSo tell the Republican story. Tell the Richard Nixon story. Let the\nAmerican people know what Dick Nixon has done to bring them peace abroad and progress\nat home.\nThat is the truth you must make clear. So let us do the job. Together we\ncan. We are on the march--we and Dick Nixon. Let us prove that our party is a\nwinning one. Let us move forward together.\n# # #"
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