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President Gerald R. Ford's handwritten reflections, 1977 or 1978
Scanned from the collection Gerald R. Ford: Materials from the writing of A Time
To Heal at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
While writing his autobiography, A Time to Heal (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), President
Gerald R. Ford composed a series of personal reflections on twenty-seven topics. What makes
these documents so unusual is not only their introspection but also their form. President Ford
recorded these observations by hand, writing in blue ball point on his favored yellow writing
tablets. He did not expend time and energy to polish and edit his writing, apparently planning to
do so when incorporating them into the book. Therefore occasional spelling or grammatical
errors or incomplete thoughts appear.
For each reflection the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has scanned President Ford's
handwritten document and added a Library-produced transcription below to aid in reading the
reflection.
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photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald R. Ford donated to the United
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Regulatory Agencies invariably come into being because of real or alleged abuse against the
public. Nowadays the abuses are not as clear cut but the capability to high-light a problem &
propagandize it is greater to-day than at the time the ICC was first established. This capability
may in itself result in un-needed new federal regulation & the perpetuation of no-longer needed
regulation.
However born, whether needed or not, a federal regulatory agency without out exception grows
in employees, dollar cost, the proliferation of its rules & actions and the expansion of its
jurisdiction. The latter takes place whether Congress authorizes a broadening of its charter. This
general trend results from human nature - those who work for a regulatory agency are usually
deeply interested in the problems under the jurisdiction of the commission or agency and
conscientiously believe the arm of govt can do a better job for the public than any other tool. In
addition in some cases those regulated themselves cause problems, legal, technical or otherwise,
that add to the work-load. Finally Congress is not immune from blame. It oftentimes piles on
new jurisdiction, new paper-work.