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The original documents are located in Box D21, folder "GOP Dinner, Reno, NV, October
30, 1966" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald
R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D21 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT 7 P.M.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30, 1966
EXCERPTS FROM A SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH., AT GOP DINNER, RENO, NEVADA
Two of the President's aides--one of them a Postmaster General--last week
engaged in a bit of braggadocio that carried a ring of truth.
They boasted that the Democratic 89th Congress had approved 181 of President
Johnson's 200 major legislative proposals for a White House batting average of .905.
I'll accept that. I have been warning the American people for months that
they now have a rubber-stamp Congress in Washington--not independent-minded men
and women who think for themselves and then legislate in the best interests of all
citizens, but an automatic Democratic Congress.
This Democratic Congress is completely subservient to the President. The
fact that he got more than nine-tenths of the legislation he asked for is clear
proof of that.
Is there danger in this situation? Of course there is. Right now we're as
close to one-man government as we have ever been in the history of this nation.
Is this healthy? Of course not. No man or group of men in the Executive
Branch of the government are so endowed with wisdom that they automatically know
what's best for the American people.
If the people elect more rubber stamps to Congress on November 8, the White
House will improve on its 1966 batting average. The President might even bat a
thousand. And for the American people that would mean the spending of extra
billions on more social welfare experiments--even while thousands of Americans
are dying in a little country halfway around the world.
Whatever throttling-down of wild spending enthusiasm occurred in the 89th
Congress just ended was primarily the result of Republican efforts. It was
Republicans who prevailed when blows were struck for economy and for a holdback
on unnecessary spending. Unfortunately we were overwhelmed most of the time by
the big spenders because we were so few in number.
In the burst of campaign oratory, Mr. Johnson recently bragged about giving
the American people "more" than any other President. He hasn't given the
American people anything. They will be paying for it for years and years and so
will their children and grandchildren.
FORD
(MORE)
-2-
SPEECH EXCERPTS
Mr. Johnson said if the people vote Republican on November 8 "we could falter
and fall back and fail." No doubt he meant he should have obtained the full $3.4
billion in foreign aid he asked Congress for instead of the $2.9 billion his
request was reduced to, largely through Republican efforts. No doubt he meant that
the school lunch and school milk programs should have been cut as he proposed in his
budget, No doubt he meant that the demonstration cities program should have been
authorized at the $2.3 billion level he asked instead of being reduced to $900
million. No doubt he meant the National Teacher Corps should have been funded at
the $31.4 million he asked instead of the $7.5 million it got. No doubt he meant
that the anti-poverty program, riddled with waste and political favoritism, should
have received $1-and-3/4 billion instead of $1-and-a-half billion.
No doubt Mr. Johnson believes we will "falter and fall back and fail" if we
do not repeal state right-to-work laws and do not federalize the unemployment
compensation system.
Let the President brag and then scream for "more, more, more" while trying
to scare the people into thinking we will "falter and fall back and fail" if they
vote for Republicans. He is giving the country the best reason in the world for
electing Republicans on November 8.
He is giving the people every reason to move away from fiscal insanity in this
country and to move on to fiscal responsibility, to vote for progress and prosperity
with sound dollars and not a crumbling economic structure built on the quicksand
of Johnson-Democrat inflation.
We know that excessive government spending generates inflation, that it spills
printing press dollars into the economy and thus forces up prices. We know this
makes the dollar shrink, chips away at its value. We have seen the 1957-59 dollar
drop in value under Mr. Johnson and the Democrats until right now it is worth less
than 86 cents. And we have seen Mr. Johnson and his top lieutenants act unconcerned
about inflation in recent weeks.
Inflation isn't just a threat. It's here, and it's planting the seeds of a
future recession.
Do you want to stop it? The American people can do exactly that by voting
Republican on November 8. That's when we'll have a Grand Opportunity for the
People--an opportunity to reduce the number of rubber stamps in the Congress and
send a Responsible Congress to Washington in January.
# # #
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
FOR RELEASE AT / P.M.
SUNDAY, OCT. 30, 1966
EXCERPTS FROM A SPEECH BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH., AT GOP DINNER, RENO, NEVADA
Two of the President's aides--one of them a Postmaster General--last week
engaged in a bit of braggadocio that carried a ring of truth.
They boasted that the Democratic 89th Congress had approved 181 of President
Johnson's 200 major legislative proposals for a White House batting average of .905.
I'll accept that. I have been warning the American people for months that
they now have a rubber-stamp Congress in Washington--not independent-minded men
and women who think for themselves and then legislate in the best interests of all
citizens, but an automatic Democratic Congress.
This Democratic Congress is completely subservient to the President. The
fact that he got more than nine-tenths of the legislation he asked for is clear
proof of that.
Is there danger in this situation? Of course there is. Right now we're as
close to one-man government as we have ever been in the history of this nation.
Is this healthy? Of course not. No man or group of men in the Executive
Branch of the government are so endowed with wisdom that they automatically know
what's best for the American people.
If the people elect more rubber stamps to Congress on November 8, the White
House will improve on its 1966 batting average. The President might even bat a
thousand. And for the American people that would mean the spending of extra
billions on more social welfare experiments--even while thousands of Americans
are dying in a little country halfway around the world.
Whatever throttling-down of wild spending enthusiasm occurred in the 89th
Congress just ended was primarily the result of Republican efforts. It was
Republicans who prevailed when blows were struck for economy and for a holdback
on unnecessary spending. Unfortunately we were overwhelmed most of the time by
the big spenders because we were so few in number.
In the burst of campaign oratory, Mr. Johnson recently bragged about giving
the American people "more" than any other President. He hasn't given the
American people anything. They will be paying for it for years and years and so
will their children and grandchildren.
(MORE)
-2-
SPEECH EXCERPTS
Mr. Johnson said if the people vote Republican on November 8 "we could falter
and fall back and fail." No doubt he meant he should have obtained the full $3.4
billion in foreign aid he asked Congress for instead of the $2.9 billion his
request was reduced to, largely through Republican efforts. No doubt he meant that
the school lunch and school milk programs should have been cut as he proposed in his
budget. No doubt he meant that the demonstration cities program should have been
authorized at the $2.3 billion level he asked instead of being reduced to $900
million. No doubt he meant the National Teacher Corps should have been funded at
the $31.4 million he asked instead of the $7.5 million it got. No doubt he meant
that the anti-poverty program, riddled with waste and political favoritism, should
have received $1-and-3/4 billion instead of $1-and-a-half billion.
No doubt Mr. Johnson believes we will "falter and fall back and fail" if we
do not repeal state right-to-work laws and do not federalize the unemployment
compensation system.
Let the President brag and then scream for "more, more, more" while trying
to scare the people into thinking we will "falter and fall back and fail" if they
vote for Republicans. He is giving the country the best reason in the world for
electing Republicans on November 8.
He is giving the people every reason to move away from fiscal insanity in this
country and to move on to fiscal responsibility, to vote for progress and prosperity
with sound dollars and not a crumbling economic structure built on the quicksand
of Johnson-Democrat inflation.
We know that excessive government spending generates inflation, that it spills
printing press dollars into the economy and thus forces up prices. We know this
makes the dollar shrink, chips away at its value. We have seen the 1957-59 dollar
drop in value under Mr. Johnson and the Democrats until right now it is worth less
than 86 cents. And we have seen Mr. Johnson and his top lieutenants act unconcerned
about inflation in recent weeks.
Inflation isn't just a threat. It's here, and it's planting the seeds of a
future recession.
Do you want to stop it? The American people can do exactly that by voting
Republican on November 8. That's when we'll have a Grand Opportunity for the
People--an opportunity to reduce the number of rubber stamps in the Congress and
send a Responsible Congress to Washington in January.
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