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Digitized from Box 25 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 29, 1976
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Conroe, Texas)
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
TO THE
PFC RECEPTION
HOLIDAY INN
1:30 P.M. CDT
It is great to be in this part of Texas and to
see so many enthusiastic, so friendly supporters of Jerry
Ford for the Presidency of the United States, and I thank
you very much.
Did you know this is the second visit I have made
to Texas in the last several weeks? We were down here
earlier, we came back and started on Tuesday afternoon
with a drop-by at Shreveport so we could get some good
exposure in East Texas. And then we went to Longview
and to Tyler, and we have been to Houston, and we are going
to have two full more days coming down the road because
we think that although we started as an underdog we have
got the momentum going, I think we are getting awful close,
and I think we might win next Saturday.
I was very pleased to meet the four delegates
that are running as President Ford delegates, and I thank
each and every one of them for being on the ballot and we
will do everything we can to make certain that they get
elected. But let me say a word or two about all of you
wonderful volunteers.
First, John Tower has been a "tower of strength" --
if I can coin a word -- because he has given the leadership
and his tremendous record of being the senior Senator from
Texas certainly has been extremely helpful, and I want to
thank John for his unselfishness and his great leadership
on my behalf.
Secondly, I want to thank all of you for volunteering
your efforts to help in this very crucial election, and we
consider the election on Saturday as crucial, if not more so,
than any other election in all the 31 or 32 primaries. It
is a very important date, an important date I think for the
future of the Republican Party, an important date for the
philosophy that all of us believe in and espouse, the kind
of philosophy that can give this country in the next century
the leadership, the progress, the strength, the freedom
that we want for ourselves but, more importantly, to these
young people who are here with us.
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So May 1 is an important date. I know you are
dedicating a lot of time -- you have made hundreds of
telephone calls, you have talked to your friends, you
have done everything -- but we have got about 70-some
hours left and that is when the final whistle blows. So
everybody you can get to the polls, everybody that you
can convince to vote the right way can make a critical
difference, for those four delegates, for our success
in Kansas City in August, and for the success of our
election process in November.
I know, after I get the nomination, I can win
in November. And that means I can win against Hubert
Humphrey or Jimmy Carter or any one of the other Democratic
candidates. I don't care whether they elect them or
nominate them in the election process or they do it in
the smoke-filled rooms in New York City when they get
down there for their convention.
We are going to win. But the crucial vote
comes right here in the State of Texas so we want your
maximum help.
But there is one thing you might use in talking
to the many people you see from Montgomery County -- I
think we have had programs that have been successful for
the good of America.
As you can recall just a year ago, 12 months,
we were in the depths of the worst economic recession in
40 years in this country. But by steady, constructive
programs we have been able to turn that around. Instead
of having inflation of 12 percent or more, for the first
3 months of this calendar year it is down to less than
3 percent. That is a 75 percent reduction in the rate of
inflation, and that is progress, by any standards.
Also, I think it is worthy of considerable
mention, in the last year, from April or May to the present
time, we have added 2,600,000 more people on payrolls
throughout this country, so that as of March we had
86,700,000 people gainfully employed in this great country --
an all-time record, and the Ford Administration can claim
the credit for it.
So I think when you talk to your friends, by
phone or in person, you have got something to sell -- an
affirmative, constructive record -- and I promise you, as
I said to all the good people of Conroe, that I think
that our third century can be the greatest century in
the history of America, and if we can have an opportunity
to participate in the first four years of it, with a kind
of leadership, we will be off on the right start.
Thank you very, very much.
END (AT 1:37 P.M. CDT)