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Remarks at a Meeting With Members of the House Budget Committee To Discuss the Fiscal Year 1977 Defense Budget.

March 08, 1976

THE PRESS is here, and we won't start the business, but I wanted to ask you-Brock and Del and the members of the committee--to come down and talk about the defense budget. It is a very significant part, as you know, of this document in dollars as well as substance.

I have recommended $112.7 billion--a $1.7 billion increase for strategic forces and $4.5 billion increase in general purpose forces--and $1 billion more for conventional readiness and $1 billion more in R. & D. It is an increase, but I think it is important, and I hope we can sit and talk about the pros and cons. But it is something that involves all of us, whether we are Democrats or Republicans.

Note: The President spoke at 4:35 p.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Representatives Brock Adams of Washington, chairman, and Delbert L. Latta of Ohio, ranking minority member, House Budget Committee.

Gerald R. Ford, Remarks at a Meeting With Members of the House Budget Committee To Discuss the Fiscal Year 1977 Defense Budget. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/257529

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