June 6, 1975 - Speaker: Byron Dorgan, NoDak Tax Commissioner. Explains national debt and where the money comes from. Is debt taxpayers owe to themselves. To reduce debt would have to tax average worker and give that money to someone else. We have both recession and inflation. Economic policy not good for people, we can have deficit spending when time is right, has become a way of life rather than economic stimulus tool. New York City almost going bankrupt in next six weeks, could that happen to federal govt? No, fed can print money. People's confidence in money shaken. N Dak has state budget surplus, not affected much by recession. New York gave in to special interests, not paying for services. Term limits would halt Congress longtermers' funding wasteful programs. Environmental concerns will cost money, there's a changing value and ethic, no longer consider pollution as progress, penalize polluters, pass cost on to consumers. People pay costs of pollution one way or another.
June 7, 1975 - The Minnesota Libertarian Party holds state convention this weekend. Libertarian Party philosophy is that government must stay out of human affairs as much as possible. Robin Miller, Minnesota chairman: government must be restricted to definding property and rights or governmentt is immoral. Taxation is armed robbery of citizens, taxes should be eliminated. Kay Harroff, Ohio: those who wish to have government have right to do so. All problems in society result from govt regulation and interference and business subsidy. Best market system is laissez faire. Without govt unemployment would disappear, medical costs would drop, discrimination in employment would disappear because everyone would be needed, crime rate would drop. Example: Whoever wants to set up schools would create schools.
June 12, 1975 - 7th District Congressman Bob Bergland visits with constituents in Detroit Lakes, Bemidji, Brainerd, and Alexandria. On this particular meeting, he speaks with high school teachers and administrators in Detroit Lakes.
June 12, 1975 - Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich says a third political party is in the making and there?s not much difference between the two parties on a national level. Washington is out of touch with spending decisions.
June 13, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on comments by U.S. Senator Walter Mondale Senate investigative committee looking at many government agencies, in addition to the CIA. Mondale thinks there could be a web of illegal activities and talks about the need to obtain classified information, and how classification is abused to shield documents from public scrutiny.
June 20, 1975 - Gray Panthers founder Maggie Kuhn talks about mandatory retirement with MPR’s Bill Siemering. Maggie Kuhn speaks at a North Dakota Seniors United Meeting.
June 25, 1975 - James Reston, poet and former director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, speaks about the poetry of Mao Tse Tung.
July 1, 1975 - Forum re-broadcasts a speech by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The exiled Soviet author made his first major public address in the United States at a banquet in his honor given by the AFL-CIO. Solzhenitsyn ‘s address was titled “Words of Warning to the Western World (aka America: You Must Think About The World).”
July 15, 1975 - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaking at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington, followed by a question and answer period. Speech was titled "The Moral Foundations of Foreign Policy". Event sponsored by the Upper Midwest Council. Opening remarks and introduction by Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Wendell Anderson. Outside protests and an inside heckler can be heard occasionally throughout recording.
July 15, 1975 - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger puts forth the intent of the United States in the Cold War world of the 1970s, including his philosophy on the basis and meaning of detente with the Soviet Union.