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 The original documents are located in Box D35, folder “Fifth District Weekly Radio 
Reports, 1966” of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the 
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. 
 
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5th District radio tape 
Jan. 26, 1966 
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Translating the complicated budget into simple terme ••••• it would :mean 
Americans will pay more for everything. Under the spending program 
contempli*ed by the White House, the cost of living would increase 
two percent. 
In its decisions on the budget• Congress must consider the impact of the 
sharp increase in Federal spending on the economf in which inflationar,y 
pressures are alread;y strong. 
If the White House will not tackle the problem of higher living costs 
by restraining federal spending, the Congress must. 
I believe Congre…

I find it hard to understand how the national government can ask 
business and labor to avoid price and wage increases, which are 
measured in terms of millions of dollars, when it is increasing 
non-defense spending by many billions of dollars. 
~ regret that the President did not see fit to indicate in his 
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budget any ._.. system of priority to >J' t Congress in reducing 
the less essential and less urgent items of expenditures. 

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Fifth District Radio Talk 
(tor taping WEmESDAY 1 JANUARY 261 1966) 
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This is your Congressman Jerry Ford reporting to you from Washington tor 
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the first time by radio since the second session of the 89th Congress 
opened. Thanks to the splendid cooperation of GpaQ1 aapids radio 
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stations in broadcasting these messages as a public service, I can keep 
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you informed on major happenings in the Congress. 
A most important topic of conversation is the tll2.8 billion-dollar-budget 
Preside…

Fifth District Radio Message 
(for taping Feb. 2, 1966) 
This is your Congressman Jerr.y Ford reporting to you from the Nation's 
Capitol. 
There is much comment here and I'm cer:ain elsewhere about the 
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President ' s recommendation that the term of a Representative in Congress 
be extended from two to four years. 
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Most of the arguments ••r- in favor of the idea stress the convenience 
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it would provide legislators and their families. Some say the longer term 
would reduce the energy and money spent in campaigning every other year. 
Others argue that a Representative would become mor…

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5th Dist. radio message 2/2/66 
Our Constitution separates the legislative and executive powerse It 
sets up a system or ~,~, 
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to exercise independent judgment and protect us from one-party or one-man 
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are aJ!IIt to have the four-year tern, at least one-half or the 
Representatives should be elected every two years. 
Another major issue is the President' s proposal to alter the present 
electoral college system. He would simply eliminate electors as such in 
order to prevent any member of the Electoral College from vot…

5th District radio tape 
If 14r. Johnson is truly devoted to the principle of "one-man,one-vote," he 
would advocate the election of the President by direct popular vote with a 
11run off" if necessary to obtain majority rule. 
An alternative proposal calls for proportional representation in 
the electoral college. If two candidates receive 60 percent and 
40 per:;ent of a state's popular vote, they would get 60 and 40 percent 
respectively of the state's electoral vote. I supported this plan when I 
first came to Congress and I endorse it today. 
Thank you for listening. This is your Congress…

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Fifth ~istrict Radio message 
(for taping Feb. 7 or 8) 
This is your Congressman Jerry Ford with a report from Washington. 
When President Johnson described his proposed foreign aid program 
as one---in his words--- •to cBrry forward the best of what we are now 
doing in the less-developed world, and to cut out the worst," I believe 
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most agreed with him. 
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However, the "cuts" entioned by the President must be ~g~~!!!e genuine, 
effective and m.a.,•E deep. 
Our mutual security program---with some exceptions---has served a useful 
purpose and I have supported its basic principle…