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The original documents are located in Box D20, folder "Delaware County General
Republican Rally, Philadelphia, PA, May 9, 1966" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press
Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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INSERT FOR PHILA DELPHIA
JOHNSON-HUMPHREY ADMINISTRATION IS LOSING THE ANTI-POVERTY WAR:
POVERTY WAR POORLY RUN:EX BASIC APPROACH (STATES LEFT OUT) IS WRONG
1. Not too lase to redirect the poverty war into productive channels. This
2. Republicans determined to that the poverty war be won without firs further
wasting of America's substance and its people.
3. Administration anti-poverty program mired in the mud of waste, lavish
spending, absumses, diversion of funds, high operating costs, failure to win
cooperation of the poor themselves.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
2/INSERT FORKM PHILADELPHIA
POVERTY WAR (Cont'd)
4. We need well-run anti-poverty war--new strategy, better approach.
5. Under Republican plan, anti-poverty operations would be run directly by
people who know best how to run it-Head Start by Office of Education, Job
Corps by Labor Department, etc. Only Community Action Program would remain with
Office of Economic Opportunity.
#
6. Community Action could be made to move forward if fulfill two basics requirements
MGive the poor at least one-third
representation on local CAP.
----b. Make states anti-poverty partners, boards. with bonus fed'l funds on matching basis.
Digitized from Box D20 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
3/INSERT FOREN PHILADELPHIA
"THE COMPELLING NEED IN THIS NATION TODAY IS TO BUILD A
GOOD
SOCIETY FOR THE EMPLOYED-BUT-POOR. THEY HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT FROM LYNDON
JOHNSON'S GREAT SOCIETY.
4/INSERT FOR PHILADELPHIA
INFLATION PRESS RES CONTINUING TO MOUNT, JOHNSON KEEPS ASKING FOR ADVICE
1. Wholesale Price Index pre pressed sed upward 1/10th of one per cent in April,
indicating further buildup of inflationary forces in the economy. The
over-all index is now 3.7 per cent higher than a year ago.
2. President Johnson
can't make up his mind what to do about inflation...is
asking his Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Politcy to tellahim what to do.
He's asking them: "If you were presiden t, what would you do?"
BEFORD is LIBRARY 9ERALD
5/INSERT FOR PHILADELPHIA
"PRESIDENT JOHNSON APPEARS TO BE THE - PICTURE OF UNCERTAINTY.
GOVERNMENT BY CONSENSUS IS FAILING HIM, RIPPED INTO SHREDS BY THE
PRESSURES OF WAR AND INFLATION. HE IS FINDING OUT TOO LATE THAT
BUSINESS-AS-USUAL DURING WARTIME IS POOR POLICY, AND THAT THIS, TOO, IS
MISMANAGEMENT."
FORD LIBRARY GLEATO
CARDS
PHILADELPHA, PA.
MAY 9, 1966
Congress of the United States
POVERTY
Herald R. Ford
Office of the Minority Leader
house of Representatives
M.C.
OFFICIAL 15peeak BUSINESS
Cards
Pourty Wär
Phil May?, Pa 1966
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M.
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1966
SPEECH EXCERPTS--GENERAL REPUBLICAN RALLY, PHILADELPHIA, PA., DELAWARE COUNTY
The poor may not be getting poorer in Lyndon B. Johnson's so-called Great
Society, but they're still poor. The promise of the Johnson-Humphrey Administra-
tion's anti-poverty program has not led them into the land of plenty.
Is it too early to expect solid results? It is not too early, nor is it too
late, to redirect the anti-poverty program into productive channels. This is what
we Republicans propose because we are determined that the poverty war be won
without further wasting of America's substance and its people.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration's anti-poverty program has been mired in
the mud of waste, lavish spending, abuses, diversion of funds, excessively high
administrative costs, failure to win the cooperation of the poor themselves.
The anti-poverty program has been poorly administered under the Johnson-
Humphrey Administration.
We need an anti-poverty program, but it must be well run. We Republicans want
to help the poor escape from the poverty cycle and become proud, productive citizens.
We believe the best way to fight the poverty war is to turn going successful
programs like Head Start over to other federal agencies, leaving the community
action program with the Office of Economic Opportunity.
The community action program could be made to move ahead with the proper
direction. The proper approach requires that at least one-third of the community
action board members should be the poor, selected by the poor themselves. The
rest of the board would be made up of local officials and civic leaders.
The second basic requirement is a state bonus plan, giving additional money to
those states which would match it 50-50. This would made the states partners in
the poverty war.
The compelling need in this nation today is to build a good society for the
employed-but-poor. They have been shut out from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
*
(MORE)
***
President Johnson
is confused about how to deal with inflation. He is
so confused that he has simply sat back and tried to tell housewives, the business-
men, the governors and mayors that they can stop inflation if they will only cut
back on their spending.
Meantime the president talks of "disquieting signs" in the economy and of a
possible income tax increase because it appears the overwhelmingly Democratic
Congress will add $3 billion to his $112.8 billion budget.
For a while the president talked about cutting non-military federal spending.
But he certainly hasn't done anything to convince big-spending Democrats in
Congress that he means business. He's just talking economy. He has done that
before.
When the House of Representatives last Thursday approved a $10.5 billion
health-education-welfare money bill, there were no White House lobbyists around to
argue with Democratic congressmen that the amount ran $500 million above the
president's request.
Now Mr. Johnson has asked his Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy
to tell him what to do about the inflation that threatens to wash out three to
five dollars of every hundred Americans earn this year. He either doesn't know
what to do or doesn't want to do it, so he asked each council member to ask himself:
"If you were president, what would you do?"
Mr. Johnson seems to be a very confused man. To add to his confusion, Federal
Reserve Board chairman William McChesney Martin is urging an immediate personal and
corporate income tax increase. At the same time, Commerce Secretary Henry Fowler
says "no, not now," and Gardner Ackley, chairman of the president's Council of
Economic Advisers, says an income tax boost is "virtually inescapable" if the big-
spending Democrats in Congress keep adding to the president's budget.
Mr. Johnson appears to be the picture of uncertainty. Government by consensus
is failing him, ripped into shreds by the pressures of war and inflation. He is
finding out too late that business-as-usual during wartime is poor policy, and that
this, too, is mismanagement.
###
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M.
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1966
SPEECH EXCERPTS--GENERAL REPUBLICAN RALLY, PHILADELPHIA, PA., DELAWARE COUNTY
The poor may not be getting poorer in Lyndon B. Johnson's so-called Great
Society, but they're still poor. The promise of the Johnson-Humphrey Administra-
tion's anti-poverty program has not led them into the land of plenty.
Is it too early to expect solid results? It is not too early, nor is it too
late, to redirect the anti-poverty program into productive channels. This is what
we Republicans propose because we are determined that the poverty war be won
without further wasting of America's substance and its people.
The Johnson-Humphrey Administration's anti-poverty program has been mired in
the mud of waste, lavish spending, abuses, diversion of funds, excessively high
administrative costs, failure to win the cooperation of the poor themselves.
The anti-poverty program has been poorly administered under the Johnson-
Humphrey Administration.
We need an anti-poverty program, but it must be well run. We Republicans want
to help the poor escape from the poverty cycle and become proud, productive citizens.
We believe the best way to fight the poverty war is to turn going successful
programs like Head Start over to other federal agencies, leaving the community
action program with the Office of Economic Opportunity.
The community action program could be made to move ahead with the proper
direction. The proper approach requires that at least one-third of the community
action board members should be the poor, selected by the poor themselves. The
rest of the board would be made up of local officials and civic leaders.
The second basic requirement is a state bonus plan, giving additional money to
those states which would match it 50-50. This would made the states partners in
the poverty war.
The compelling need in this nation today is to build a good society for the
employed-but-poor. They have been shut out from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
* * *
(MORE)
***
President
Johnson
is confused about how to deal with inflation. He is
so confused that he has simply sat back and tried to tell housewives, the business-
men, the governors and mayors that they can stop inflation if they will only cut
back on their spending.
Meantime the president talks of "disquieting signs" in the economy and of a
possible income tax increase because it appears the overwhelmingly Democratic
Congress will add $3 billion to his $112.8 billion budget.
For a while the president talked about cutting non-military federal spending.
But he certainly hasn't done anything to convince big-spending Democrats in
Congress that he means business. He's just talking economy. He has done that
before.
When the House of Representatives last Thursday approved a $10.5 billion
health-education-welfare money bill, there were no White House lobbyists around to
argue with Democratic congressmen that the amount ran $500 million above the
president's request.
Now Mr. Johnson has asked his Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy
to tell him what to do about the inflation that threatens to wash out three to
five dollars of every hundred Americans earn this year. He either doesn't know
what to do or doesn't want to do it, so he asked each council member to ask himself:
"If you were president, what would you do?"
Mr. Johnson seems to be a very confused man. To add to his confusion, Federal
Reserve Board chairman William McChesney Martin is urging an immediate personal and
corporate income tax increase. At the same time, Commerce Secretary Henry Fowler
says "no, not now," and Gardner Ackley, chairman of the president's Council of
Economic Advisers, says an income tax boost is "virtually inescapable" if the big-
spending Democrats in Congress keep adding to the president's budget.
Mr. Johnson appears to be the picture of uncertainty. Government by consensus
is failing him, ripped into shreds by the pressures of war and inflation. He is
finding out too late that business-as-usual during wartime is poor policy, and that
this, too, is mismanagement.
# # #