#speech cards

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Sonic themed communication cards.

Use them if you want to, but please credit!

I made them for myself during verbal shutdowns.

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Part two coming soon!

[fordlibrarymuseum]

President Ford delivered a major foreign policy speech to a Joint Session of Congress on April 10, 1975. About half of the speech was focused on what he described as “a vast human tragedy” in South Vietnam and Cambodia.

The President began his remarks with the statement “I stand before you tonight after many agonizing hours in very solemn prayers for guidance by the Almighty,” a handwritten addition he made to the prepared speech cards. At the end of March he had sent General Fred Weyand to Vietnam to assess developments on the ground there. The grim outlook of General Weyand’s report had weighed heavily on President Ford and led him to make this request for additional aid to Congress.

Based on General Weyand’s recommendations, President Ford requested $722 million for emergency military assistance and an additional $250 million for humanitarian and economic aid. “The national interests of the United States and the cause of world stability require that we continue to give both military and humanitarian assistance to the South Vietnamese,” he stated. “Half-hearted action would be worse than none. We must act together and act decisively.”

Read the full text of President Ford’s speech to Congress here.

Explore related materials in the Selected Documents on the Vietnam War page in the Ford Digital Library.

Images: Speech cards from President Ford’s Foreign Policy Address to a Joint Session of Congress, 4/10/1975 (See excerpts or full speech)

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Part two of the communication cards post!

I tried to add a link to the first post, but Tumblr wouldn't let me.

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