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The original documents are located in Box 35, folder "New York - General" of the Philip
Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 35 of the Philip Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
your
WASHINGTON
September 11, 1974
Dear Mr. Lichtensteiger:
Thank you for your letter of August 29, 1974,
to Phil Buchen concerning New York City's
public transit system.
We appreciate your interest in writing about
this important matter and have forwarded
your letter to the Department of Transportation
for further consideration. You will be hearing
from them soon.
Sincerely,
Michael M.R.I.D.P Raoul-Duval
Associate Director
Domestic Council
Mr. Frank Lichtensteiger
230 East 88th
New York, New York 10028
cc: Phil Buchen
FORD is LIBRARY 038870
Fund
routing gay IH
230 East 88
New York 10028
August 29, 1974
Mr. Philip Buchen
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Buchen:
Although New York City's Mayor, Abraham Beame, a
Democrat, has been given the President's ear on New
York City's transportation crisis, various responsible
Republicans and Democrats far more knowledgeable than
Mr. Beame and his staff on the matter of New York City's
real transportation problems. wait to be heard and
consulted on the issue of unnecessary and wasteful
federal spending on the Second Avenue subway and on
other transportation priorities which could save money
and still provide employment.
Although the criginal of the attached letter
was sent special delivery to the White House, there
has been no return enccuragement to gather the voices
which it would surely be helpful to hear before the
majorWhite House-sponsored economic conferences are
held in mid and late September.
FORD & LIBRARY 070830
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
9/3/74 - checked with
Roland Elliott's office to see
where this should be routed.
Jim Holmes will call.
9/4/74 - Jim advises that
this should be sent to Mike Duval.
I / R. FORD LIBRAS
IH
Domestic
Council
230 East 88
New York 10028
August 29, 1974
new york
Mr. Philip Buchen
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Buchen:
Although New York City's Mayor, Abraham Beame, a
Democrat, has been given the President's ear on New
York City's transportation crisis, various responsible
Republicans and Democrats far more knowledgeable than
Mr. Beame and his staff on the matter of New York City's
real transportation problems wait to be heard and
consulted on the issue of unnecessary and wasteful
federal spending on the Second Avenue subway and on
other transportation priorities which could save money
and still provide employment.
Although the criginal of the attached letter
was sent special delivery to the White House, there
has been no return encouragement to gather the voices
which it would surely be helpful to hear before the
majorWhite House-sponsored economic conferences are
held in mid and late September.
Frank Sincerely Lichtensteiger yours,
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
230 East 88
New York 10028
August 14, 1974
Hon. Gerald Ford
Dear President Ford:
In New York City we could help cut back
two billion dollars of unnecesary govern-
ment spending.
The Ford Administration could help New York City set an
example in government economy and the wise use of existing
assets for the rest of the nation.
There is in New York City a project, heavily financed by
the Federal Government, to spend almost two billion dollars
for what a number of responsible people feel is an uncon-
sicnable waste.
The project is to build a new Second Avenue subway line.
Those of us who oppose this construction as unnecessary say
that we should be upgrading existing mass transportation
facilities and supplementing these existing lines with
imaginative new bus service -- which service requires no
costly, capital-construction tunneling or laying of tracks,
and which can use existing roadways.
Our voices are not listened to because there is a fetish
in this city to solve existing problems by building some-
thing new. The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and
local community papers along Second Avenue have raised the
issue.
We need your third ear in the form of a representative
sympathetic and understanding of your great goals to listen
to the scund arguments we raise.
With great hope for the future,
Sincerely yours,
GERALD R. FORD
Frank Lichtensteiger
(212 - 427-4751)
Second Avenue Subway:
Do We Really Need It?
To the Editor:
The City of St. Louis has had the
courage to scrap $721,000 and nine
years' worth of planning a subway and
mass-transit system. Realizing they
were erring, they decided to rethink
their needs. Does New York City have
the
Second Avenue subway. It should re-
view its cost and completion date, ex-
plain why it rejects other alternatives,
solicit and reply to reaction. In the
absence of this, I hope the city will.
JOEL HARNETT
New York March 20, 1974
The writer is chairman of the board of
THE NEW YORK TIMES
trustees, The City Club of New York.
APRIL 2, 1974
GERALD " FORD
Wednesday 3/31/76
2:20 A call came in from George Rieger of T. Rowe Price
(212) 581-0520
in New York -- had a group on a conference call -- and
wanted to talk with someone on the staff about a message
to the President re invoking the Taft Hartley Act in the
transit strike in New York.
Ken Lazarus talked with them.
He said they thought the President should invoke the Taft-Hartley
tonight. If not, he should at least send a letter to the transit
workers.
Apparently just wanted someone to hear them out.