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Digitized from Box 4 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 13, 1974
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT THE
SIGNING OF THE WIN CONSUMER PROCLAMATION
THE CABINET ROOM
1:13 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Before signing, I would like to
read a statement that has been prepared.
Mrs. Ford and I are signing today the first
Consumer's Pledge prepared for Americans by the Non-
partisan Citizens Committee to Fight Inflation. The
WIN committee is asking mayors and principal county
officials across this country to set up local action
committees for distribution in the near future of similar
pledges for citizens to sign in a concerted mass effort
to stop inflation.
The committee has also prepared a businessman
and businesswoman's pledge and a worker's pledge for
local distribution. Each Governor is being asked to
establish one Statewide committee to determine ways
and means to slow inflation and to save energy in each
State.
If all Americans will pull together to hold
down prices, to buy wisely, to increase productivity
and to save energy, this citizen's mobilization to
slow inflation can and will work. Inflation is sapping
the economic strength of this country, and it must be
brought under control.
So, at this point Betty will sign the first
plege and I will join her.
Q
Mr. President, what are you going to do
to carry out this plan?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the things that I buy,
I will be very careful in purchasing. I think we have
got to increase our productivity -- that includes me.
We have to be Yankee traders when we buy, and we have to
cooperate individually and collectively, and Mrs. Ford
has pledged to me as well as here she will do the same.
END
(AT 1:16 P.M. EST)