</s>-FOR RELEASE ON RECEIPT -- Moffie Copy Statement by Rep. Gerald R. Ford-R.K.Mich. The President currently is working on the fiscal 1969 budget, which is as I January 9, 1968 understand it will be submitted to the Congress about Jan. 29 in three newly new formal. The new budget consistently will be a consolidation of three budgets formerly presented by Congress by the President-at-Administrative Budget with which more of us are familiar, the National Income Accounts Budget and the Cash Budget. I would be remembered that the Johnson Administration has a habit of changing I would find a note of caution concerning the new budget for fiscal 1969. the rules of the game whenever the office starts to go against it. Too often in the past we have found the Johnson administrationending has been upside down in does not conceal and making estimates fantastically far from the mark. The budgetary budget for the Johnson Administrator has been asymmetrical poor- and the proposed budget for Fiscal 1969 must be viewed in the light of that record. Let us not forget that President may not forecast a fiscal deficit deficit of 89.1 billion in January, 1967, only to raise the deficit estimate. In August to 89.2 billion with a total amount of $22 billion without estimate. Currently, as you know, the out of focus, for a certain amount of personal expenses. know, but for a few dollars, that President Johnson predicted a fiscal year 1967 Let us out of duty, either, that of President Johnson predicted a fiscal 1967 deficit of $18.8 billion in january of 1966 but wound up that fiscal year with an actual deficit of $9.9 millions. This scorecard indicates that you have to take a Johnson deficit estimate and multiply by at least three. This is President Johnson's budget has been recorded as a persistent deficit estimating his his mistakes and butler-butler made by whether looked upon upon as promises or projections, the money was not-butter made for the President as a budget document appear hardly to be worth the paper they are written on. If a housewife managed the family budget was way, way, her husband would say she was suffering from a credibility Gap. This is tragic in a time when the federal budget-financial report to the American people-should be looked upon as the most important financial document in the world. President Johnson's Budget should be a model of integrity. It affects the lives and pocketsbooks of all Americans and the financial underingsings of the western world. Its standards should be the highest. The Johnson Administration's budgetary record can only fill us with maggivings. 099 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Key figures:

* Rep. Gerald R. Ford
* President Lyndon B. Johnson
* Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
* Eugene McCarthy

Important events:
* The President's announcement that he will not seek re-election
* The suspension of bombing in North Vietnam
* The Democratic Party's division over the presidential nomination

Dates:
* April 1, 1968
* April 2, 1968
* April 3, 1968
* November 4, 1968
* November 6, 1968
* December 5, 1968
* December 12, 1968

John F. Kennedy, assassination, investigations, or related individuals and events:

* Names: John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford
* Dates: May 3, 1968, June 1, 1968, June 13, 1968, June 20, 1968
* Locations: Hanoi, Paris, Los Angeles, Washington D.C.
* Significant events:
	+ Initial Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris
	+ President Johnson signs the anti-crime bill
	+ House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford supports the anti-crime bill
	+ The National Law Enforcement Assistance and Criminal Justice Act is signed into law
	+ The crime rate increases by 89% nationwide

Connections to JFK, assassination, or related investigations:
* None mentioned in the provided text

Evidence, testimony, or findings mentioned:
* None mentioned in the provided text

Other features of the proposed Truth-in-Lending Bill:
* Disclosure requirements for credit terms
* Revolving credit provisions
* Protection against loan-sharking and organized crime

A bill sponsored by Rep. Gerald R. Ford has been enacted as part of the 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act, making FIFTH-TYPE loans available for hospital construction by ensuring the mortgage of nonprofit hospitals.

The new program will not supplant the Hill-Burton program but supplement it, recognizing that funds for hospital construction are constantly short. Nonprofit hospitals have found mortgage lenders who are willing to make long-term financing possible without undue pressure on fees.

Rep. Ford believes communities in Michigan and throughout the United States will benefit from improved health care as a result of this new program.

The Housing and Urban Development Act also contains another provision establishing a national flood insurance program, which will make flood insurance available to families and small businesses in areas frequently troubled with flooding.

The people of Grandville may be among the first to become eligible for this new flood insurance because the Army Corps of Engineers has already completed a study of GrandVILLE as a "V-Tod-prone area."

Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, has stated that he will do everything in his power to meet Jim Collins' needs if he is elected to the Third Congressional District of Texas.

Rep. Ford believes Jim Collins will win the special election and that this will be a forerunner of Republican victories throughout the country in November.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits employers from discriminating against workers on account of age, making it unlawful for an employer to refuse to fill a vacancy with an otherwise qualified worker in cases where age is a bona fide occupational qualification necessary in the normal operation of the particular business.

Rep. Gerald R. Ford has assisted Maureen Sycamore and her fiancé Giancarlo Vanin in obtaining a visa, allowing them to be married in Grand Rapids.

Maureen wrote to the Immigration and Naturalisation Service Office in Detroit but received no help, so she appealed to Congressman Ford, detailing how the American consulate officially in Munich insisted there was no assurance that Giancarlo would marry during his visit to the United States and that he would return to Europe with his bride.

Rep. Ford went to work on the case, making four months of seventh letters, three telephone calls, and visitor visits before the American consulate informed him that visitors had been granted to Giancarolo for Ford's assistance.

Maurice and Giancarlo had finally satisfied the consult that they would in fact be married in Grand Rapids and would not leave for Europe.

John F. Kennedy, assassination, investigations, or related individuals and events:

* Names of people: Maureen, Congressman Ford, John Blatnik, Robert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Herbert Humphry, Gerald R. Ford, George Romney, Charles Sycamack, James Catholic Church, Daisy and Bailey
* Dates and locations:
	+ November 5, 1968
	+ Chicago
	+ Grand Rapids
	+ Lansing
	+ Munich
	+ Germany
	+ Chechnovka
	+ Middle East
	+ Israel
	+ Annapolis
	+ West Point
	+ Colorado Springs
	+ New York
	+ London
	+ Connecticut
* Significant events or activities:
	+ Maureen and Giancarlo's marriage in Grand Rapids
	+ Congressman Ford's efforts to help Maureen and Giancarlo obtain a visa
	+ The Democratic National Convention in Chicago
	+ The Army Corps of Engineers' study on flooding hazards in the Grand Rapids area
	+ The introduction of legislation to prohibit the dumping of spoilage from dredging operations into Lake Michigan
	+ The announcement of five-year-expense college scholarships for young men from Kent and Ionia counties

Connections to JFK, the assassination, or related investigations:
* None mentioned

Evidence, testimony, or findings mentioned:
* The Army Corps of Engineers' report on flooding hazards in the Grand Rapids area
* Congressman Ford's statement on the importance of the study
* The introduction of legislation to prohibit the dumping of spoilage from dredging operations into Lake Michigan

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