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The original documents are located in Box G05, folder "Reagan, Ronald, 10/1975-12/1975
(3)" of the President Ford Committee Campaign Records at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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KAYE
President Ford Committee
1828 L STREET, N.W., SUITE 250, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 (202) 457-6400
MEMORANDUM
OCTOBER 31, 1975
TO:
BO CALLAWAY
FROM:
FRED SLIGHT
SUBJECT: REAGAN ATTACK CAMPAIGN
Carolyn Booth represented the PFC on October 25th before a gathering
of Washington, D. C. - Maryland - Virginia College Republicans at
George Washington University.
Attached for your information is a summary of the points made by
David Keene, Southern Regional Director of Citizens for Reagan.
Keene, by the way, arrived after Carolyn's presentation and was not
aware of her presence in the audience. His remarks undoubtedly rep-
resent more than his own personal viewpoint.
Keene is a former member of the staffs of Jim Buckley and Spiro Agnew,
and was once prominently associated with Young Americans for Freedom.
Attachment
CC:
Stu Spencer
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
The President Ford Committee, Howard H. Callaway, Chairman, David Packard, National Finance Chairman, Robert C. Moot, Treasurer. A copy of
our Report is filed with the Federal Election Commission and is available for purchase from the Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C. 20463.
FROM Pete Wilson 2 League of CACIT. cities.
October 31, 1975
Obviously, as a former Assemblyman who had an inside firsthand view of the Reagan
years, you have a better knowledge of his qualifications than I could ever hope to
have. I can only give you my personal viewpoint of those years and point to some
of the highlights as we viewed them. Some of these are favorable and others are
unfavorable and more consistent with what I believe to be Reagan's true philosophy
toward government.
From a municipal viewpoint the only saving quality was that he had as one of his
early subordinates under Bill Clark, Ed Meese who had at least a county viewpoint
of local government although this was heavily weighted toward law enforcement. When
Ed Meese took Bill Clark's place it was helpful to local government, but even
Ed finally caved in as you may recall when he assumed the leadership within the
Administration in supporting Proposition 1 in 1973 and personally directed the
legal and economic efforts to prop up the Governor's position. I am enclosing our
analysis of Proposition 1 to refresh your memory. This concept alone which Reagan
has tried to peddle to other states disqualifies him, in my opinion, from holding
any leadership position.
When Reagan arrived in Sacramento it was with a total business orientation and very
little concern for even a moderate viewpoint. While he sought and used the League's
Annual Conference in San Diego in 1966 to present his views to city officials
throughtout the state, he wouldn't even appear at the 1967 Annual Conference in
San Francisco and each year we went through the same hassle in trying to get him
to attend what had been a traditional "Governor's" luncheon. This is an intangible,
but his conduct has to be contrasted with that of his predecessors who built the
tradition. The current Governor isn't much better, but he is not discriminatory
and Reagan found no problem in attending any of the conventions held by business R.
FORD
people in 1967 or thereafter. The only other Annual Conference he missed was
GERALD
LIBRARY
1972 in Anaheim.
Reagan's concern for home rule was largely lip service and again primarily against
state government rather than for local government. His pervasive attitude that
governmental employees couldn't succeed in private business is something that does
not show in any record other than statements he repeatedly made at Host breakfasts
or other business dominated conferences. We lost many good career people as a
result of this attitude, but, more importantly, it was bad for public employee
morale and is one of the factors with which you must contend in current employer-
employee relations legislation. He left other legacies that will long outlive
his memory such as the penny-wise but pound foolish idea that you could stop the
growth of government by stopping the construction of public buildings necessary
to house governmental agencies. In this area I suppose that Alan Post's annual
budget analysis and special reports during the Reagan years would be the best
source of information.
I have enclosed the 1967-1974 Highlights of Legislation: "The Reagan Years." I
am sure that you and the members of your staff will be interested in your own
assessment of bills Reagan either signed or vetoed or worked against during those
years.
Meanwhile, I will simply point out some of the good and bad bills, most of which
you will readily remember and all of which are referred to in the enclosure.
Highlights of 1967 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 1. Gas Tax. This was a plus for Reagan and probably wouldn't have been
signed except that his business advisors overruled Department of Public Works
opposition.
2. Page 3. Cigarette Tax. While SB 556 (Deukmejian) was the Governor's tax program,
FORD
the Governor cannot take credit for this because it was simply a part of a much
bigger tax program and the price of Frank Lanterman's participation. Besides
LIBRART
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Brown had vetoed an earlier separate cigarette tax bill which Lanterman had
carried for the League.
3. Page 5. Real Property Transfer Tax. Another Reagan plus because there was uncertainty
over opposition from interested parties, most of whom were aligned with Reagan.
The single major factor was that the author was Steve Teale.
4. Page 8. Annexation. Reagan vetoed AB 1632 which would have solved the unin-
habited island problem. He was influenced primarily by business interests and
by Frank Lanterman. It set the Reagan pattern on annexation for the next
eight years and was one of the reasons why California has such backward laws
on annexation.
5. Page 10. Reorganization.
a. State Air Resources Board.
b. Water Resources Control Board.
You can better assess these two programs than I can. I believe that Reagan
generally favored an interested party voice and interested parties on pollution
usually included municipal government.
6. Page 11. Sewage Treatment Facility Financing. Reagan refused to fund this
important legislation even though he did approve Dolwig's bill to authorize
state participation for the first time since the 1947 $90 million fund.
7. Page 14. CCCJ. This is a plus even though its administration under Reagan
never was and this simply points up the fact that he never gave much of a voice
to local government in his Administration even though he appointed a few city
attorneys to the Bench and late in his second term appointed some city offials
to key positions in a few state agencies.
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8. Page 15. P.O.S.T. Funds. He deleted $782,500 from a League bill which would
have provided additional assistance on training peace officers.
August 7, 1968, Legislative Bulletin
1. Page 1. Summer Employment. He vetoed a bill which would have established a
policy of state assistance for an extremely important municipal program. This
veto was the forerunner of others to come and seemed to me at the time to be
inconsistent with his law enforcement efforts.
2. Page 2. P.O.S.T. Training. On the plus side, he did approve another League
bill to increase the fund available for Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Highlights of 1969 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-3. Tax Reform. It is important to note on the referenced pages the
basic differences between the Governor's program and Bagley's and that proposed
by State Controller Hugh Flournoy. The Governor's was basically anti-local
government, Bagley's was barely neutral and Flournoy's was positive and favored
the local government base. It must be remembered that Reagan really believed
that there were too many cities and too many local governments and in his
usual simplistic way felt that all of our problems would be solved if we put
them under one tent. However, these feelings were tempered by his feelings about
regional government and creating a new level of bureaucracy.
2. Page 8. B.C.D.C. While I personally favored and recommended AB 2057 as finally
approved by the Legislature, it was opposed by the League Board and cities generally
and it was approved by Governor Reagan. This was the first basic measure giving
a state agency land use control formerly exercised exclusively by either a
county or city. It set the pattern for your coastline bills and for others
more
&
FORD
and it is my feeling that the Governor was influenced/ by Howard Way and the
business dominated Bay Area Council than he was by concepts of regional necessity.
LIBRARY
- 4 -
This assessment is certainly uncharitable and could also be erroneous. It
was, however, his first and last support of a regional mechanism to solve a
regional problem.
3. Page 9. Disclosure of Assets. He probably didn't have much choice in approving
the Unruh legislation subsequently declared unconstitutional in the Carmel case.
4. Page 12. Transportation.
a. State Transportation Board.
b. Aircraft Noise Standards.
I believe that both of these are on the plus side as is the relocation assistance
measure which follows on page 13.
5. Page 15. Water Quality. Again, I believe that this is on the plus side for
Reagan because the long range effect imposed a substantial burden on business
and, of course, local public agencies.
6. Page 19. Preemption. You may recall that the Governor often declared his support
for measures which would restore to local government the authority to regulate
personal conduct (prostitution, pornography, etc.). In other words, he was
against state preemption and for local control of local affairs. Both he and
Bill Richardson did a 180 degree turn when they authored and approved the
legislation which reversed a Supreme Court decision upholding a San Francisco
gun registration ordinance. Both of them recognized the popularity of their
position and refused to acknowledge its inconsistency with every previous position
they had taken.
Highlights of 1970 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-3. Tax Reform. Reagan failed to provide the leadership necessary to
get a tax reform bill through and this is on the referenced pages.
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2. Pages 7-8. Planning. Your AB 2070 was a landmark bill about which no further
comment is required. The same thing is true of AB 2131. It is interesting to
note on the same pages reference to AB 2045, Chap. 1433, "Environmental Impact
Reports," and the fact that we thought the bill applied only to public projects
utilizing state or federal funds. Do you suppose Reagan would have signed the
bill if he had known what the Supreme Court was going to do in the Mammoth
decision?
3. Page 9. Water Quality. The Clean Water Bond Law of 1970 is another plus for
the Governor because, as I recall, he actually supported it on the ballot.
4. Page 12. Regional Government. Knox's AB 2310 was opposed by the Governor and
this is probably one of the principal reasons it was defeated.
Hightlight of 1971 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-6. In Lieu Tax Veto. Although the League had total bi-partisan support
in obtaining the passage of SB 565 (Stiern & Deukmejian), the bill was nevertheless
vetoed by the Governor. The purpose of the bill was to require automobiles to
pay the same average property tax rate paid by all other forms of property. The
equity of such a proposal is apparent, but the veto was largely the result of
Vern Orr's opinion that automobile owners are already paying enough taxes and
shouldn't be required to pay more. This veto has cost local government more than
$100 million annually since 1971 and has required the owners of other forms
of property to pay increased costs of government which should have been equitably
shared by automobile owners. Notwithstanding certain assurances of favorable
consideration at a later date, the Governor refused in each following year to
approve similar measures even though authored by Republican legislators. He did,
however, approve SB 325 (sales tax on gasoline) and AB 522 (grade separation
is
FORD
financing). It should be noted that the Governor's persistent refusal to consider GER/D
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local government's revenue problems as serious always considered reduction of
business taxes as having the highest priority. A temporary relief of business
inventory from 15% to 30% was made permanent and as we will find later was in-
creased to 50%. He did recognize the burden which would be placed on local
government by a mandatory retirement bill when he vetoed AB 1098 (page 24).
2. Page 11. Coastline Control. Again, I would simply refresh your memory on
AB 16 et al. and the lack of support given you by the Administration. There were,
of course, other factors involved, but I would say that was a. principal one.
Highlights of 1972 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 2. Tax Reform. SB 90. Even though we accepted and urged the support of
this program, the Governor refused flatly to make the automobile in lieu tax
a part of the program and we didn't have any leverage to force him to accept
the in lieu tax.
2. Page 6. Coastline Protection. Here I can be a little more certain that the
lack of leadership on the part of the Governor was primarily responsible for the
defeat of all legislation and the adoption of Proposition 20.
3. Page 11. Subdivision Map Act Revision. Because it was the League's and Senator
Gregorio's bill and because it was opposed by the California Real Estate
Association and the Home Builders, the Administration offered no help whatsoever
in the enactment of this essential legislation. It is my own guess, and only a
guess, that if the bill had passed it would have been vetoed.
4. Page 25. Housing. This was the first of several vetoes by the Governor of
housing legislation which simply delayed approval of a bill ultimately signed
by the current Governor.
&
FORD
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LIBRARY
Highlights of 1973 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 2. SB 90 Clean-up. Continued disagreement with the Administration (Reagan)
prevented a full clean-up measure providing administrative procedures for
reimbursement for state-mandated costs. The Reagan Administration would never
acknowledge an open-ended liability for mandated costs and wanted to be able
in the final analysis to say no even if the costs had been mandated by the
state. This was consistent with the Reagan philosophy from inauguration to
retirement.
2. Page 5. In Lieu Tax. Senator Deukmejian's motor vehicle in lieu tax bill,
although approved by the policy committee, was held in the Senate Committee on
Finance because of Proposition 1. After the defeat of Proposition 1 by the
voters, the Governor and his Director of Finance continued to oppose applying
the average property tax rate to automobiles and local government continued
to receive less as a result of such opposition.
3. Page 6. Summer Youth Employment. Governor vetoed.
4. Page 8. State Preemption of Local Sales Tax. The most serious threat to local
solvency in California was the Administration's support of a Bagley bill which
would have attempted to suspend all Bradley-Burns local sales and use tax
ordinances. The seriousness of this proposal outweighs any other pro-local
government legislation the Governor may have gone along with.
5. Page 11. South Coast Air Pollution Control District. Vetoed.
6. Page 15. Use of Eminent Domain to Acquire Open Space. Vetoed.
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7. Page 50. Local Government Reorganization. A bill appropriating three quarters
of a million dollars to provide grants to counties and cities for the purpose
assisting in promoting the reorganization of local governments was vetoed
becuase the Governor's Task Force which ultimately buried its report was at
that time considering the same subject.
Highlights of 1974 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 5. South Coast Air Basin. Vetoed.
2. Page 7. State Fees Required of Local Governmental Agencies. Process fees in
applying for sewage treatment construction grants were consistent with the Reagan
philosophy that local government should pay the state for any services provided
by the state even where there was a state interest. See also page 16 - Year-
Round Registration Fee. Administrative Costs; page 28 - State Law Enforcement
Assistance Fees; page 35 - Increased Retirement Benefits for Retired Employees.
3. Page 7. EIR Reports. Veto of bill authorizing cities to require economic
impact statement.
4. Page 8. State Assistance for Environmental Protection Costs. Veto of $50 million
appropriation to assist local governments.
5. Page 10. Assistance for Cost of Maintaining Beaches Used by Non-Residents.
Governor vetoed $3 million appropriation to reimburse beach cities with
extraordinary costs.
6. Page 11. Business Inventory Exemption. Governor fully supported Senate approved
attempt to give more relief to business inventories without full reimbursement
of local government costs.
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7. Page 48. State and Local Scenic Highways. Governor vetoed a bill to appropriate
$1 million annually for allocation to local government to protect scenic
corridors.
8. Page 49. State Involvement in Local Transit Systems. Governor vetoed bill which
would have enabled the state to retain some of its engineers to be used on
contract basis with local government. The bill was approved by the current
Governor at the 1975 Session.
It is obvious that you could pick both good and bad things out: of the record depending
upon which way you want to go. My own gut feeling, backed up by some of the examples
I have given, is that Reagan strongly believed that persons permanently involved in
a governmental capacity were failures (the we - they concept) and except for a few
good people that he appointed would have been totally against giving local govern-
mental agencies the authority and financing required to do an adequate job of
municipal administration. Ed Meese would probably come up with the opposite conclusion.
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FROM Pete Wilson 2 League of CACIT. cities.
October 31, 1975
Obviously, as a former Assemblyman who had an inside firsthand view of the Reagan
years, you have a better knowledge of his qualifications than I could ever hope to
have. I can only give you my personal viewpoint of those years and point to some
of the highlights as we viewed them. Some of these are favorable and others are
unfavorable and more consistent with what I believe to be Reagan's true philosophy
toward government.
From a municipal viewpoint the only saving quality was that he had as one of his
early subordinates under Bill Clark, Ed Meese who had at least a county viewpoint
of local government although this was heavily weighted toward law enforcement. When
Ed Meese took Bill Clark's place it was helpful to local government, but even
Ed finally caved in as you may recall when he assumed the leadership within the
Administration in supporting Proposition 1 in 1973 and personally directed the
legal and economic efforts to prop up the Governor's position. I am enclosing our
analysis of Proposition 1 to refresh your memory. This concept alone which Reagan
has tried to peddle to other states disqualifies him, in my opinion, from holding
any leadership position.
When Reagan arrived in Sacramento it was with a total business orientation and very
little concern for even a moderate viewpoint. While he sought and used the League's
Annual Conference in San Diego in 1966 to present his views to city officials
throughtout the state, he wouldn't even appear at the 1967 Annual Conference in
San Francisco and each year we went through the same hassle in trying to get him
to attend what had been a traditional "Governor's" luncheon. This is an intangible,
but his conduct has to be contrasted with that of his predecessors who built the
tradition. The current Governor isn't much better, but he is not discriminatory
&
FORD
and Reagan found no problem in attending any of the conventions held by business
people in 1967 or thereafter. The only other Annual Conference he missed was
GERALD
LIBRARY
1972 in Anaheim.
Reagan's concern for home rule was largely lip service and again primarily against
state government rather than for local government. His pervasive attitude that
governmental employees couldn't succeed in private business is something that does
not show in any record other than statements he repeatedly made at Host breakfasts
or other business dominated conferences. We lost many good career people as a
result of this attitude, but, more importantly, it was bad for public employee
morale and is one of the factors with which you must contend in current employer-
employee relations legislation. He left other legacies that will long outlive
his memory such as the penny-wise but pound foolish idea that you could stop the
growth of government by stopping the construction of public buildings necessary
to house governmental agencies. In this area I suppose that Alan Post's annual
budget analysis and special reports during the Reagan years would be the best
source of information.
I have enclosed the 1967-1974 Highlights of Legislation: "The Reagan Years." I
am sure that you and the members of your staff will be interested in your own
assessment of bills Reagan either signed or vetoed or worked against during those
years.
Meanwhile, I will simply point out some of the good and bad bills, most of which
you will readily remember and all of which are referred to in the enclosure.
Highlights of 1967 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 1. Gas Tax. This was a plus for Reagan and probably wouldn't have been
signed except that his business advisors overruled Department of Public Works
opposition.
2. Page 3. Cigarette Tax. While SB 556 (Deukmejian) was the Governor's tax program,
FORD
the Governor cannot take credit for this because it was simply a part of a smuch
bigger tax program and the price of Frank Lanterman's participation. Besides
LIBRARY
- 2 -
Brown had vetoed an earlier separate cigarette tax bill which Lanterman had
carried for the League.
3. Page 5. Real Property Transfer Tax. Another Reagan plus because there was uncertainty
over opposition from interested parties, most of whom were aligned with Reagan.
The single major factor was that the author was Steve Teale.
4. Page 8. Annexation. Reagan vetoed AB 1632 which would have solved the unin-
habited island problem. He was influenced primarily by business interests and
by Frank Lanterman. It set the Reagan pattern on annexation for the next
eight years and was one of the reasons why California has such backward laws
on annexation.
5. Page 10. Reorganization.
a. State Air Resources Board.
b. Water Resources Control Board.
You can better assess these two programs than I can. I believe that Reagan
generally favored an interested party voice and interested parties on pollution
usually included municipal government.
6. Page 11. Sewage Treatment Facility Financing. Reagan refused to fund this
important legislation even though he did approve Dolwig's bill to authorize
state participation for the first time since the 1947 $90 million fund.
7. Page 14. CCCJ. This is a plus even though its administration under Reagan
never was and this simply points up the fact that he never gave much of a voice
to local government in his Administration even though he appointed a few city
attorneys to the Bench and late in his second term appointed some city offials
to key positions in a few state agencies.
- 3 —
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
8. Page 15. P.O.S.T. Funds. He deleted $782,500 from a League bill which would
have provided additional assistance on training peace officers.
August 7, 1968, Legislative Bulletin
1. Page 1. Summer Employment. He vetoed a bill which would have established a
policy of state assistance for an extremely important municipal program. This
veto was the forerunner of others to come and seemed to me at the time to be
inconsistent with his law enforcement efforts.
2. Page 2. P.O.S.T. Training. On the plus side, he did approve another League
bill to increase the fund available for Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Highlights of 1969 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-3. Tax Reform. It is important to note on the referenced pages the
basic differences between the Governor's program and Bagley's and that proposed
by State Controller Hugh Flournoy. The Governor's was basically anti-local
government, Bagley's was barely neutral and Flournoy's was positive and favored
the local government base. It must be remembered that Reagan really believed
that there were too many cities and too many local governments and in his
usual simplistic way felt that all of our problems would be solved if we put
them under one tent. However, these feelings were tempered by his feelings about
regional government and creating a new level of bureaucracy.
2. Page 8. B.C.D.C. While I personally favored and recommended AB 2057 as finally
approved by the Legislature, it was opposed by the League Board and cities generally
and it was approved by Governor Reagan. This was the first basic measure giving
a state agency land use control formerly exercised exclusively by either a
county or city. It set the pattern for your coastline bills and for others
more
and it is my feeling that the Governor was influenced/ by Howard Way and the
business dominated Bay Area Council than he was by concepts of regional necessity.
FORD & DERALO LIBRARY 39
- 4 -
This assessment is certainly uncharitable and could also be erroneous. It
was, however, his first and last support of a regional mechanism to solve a
regional problem.
3. Page 9. Disclosure of Assets. He probably didn't have much choice in approving
the Unruh legislation subsequently declared unconstitutional in the Carmel case.
4. Page 12. Transportation.
a. State Transportation Board.
b. Aircraft Noise Standards.
I believe that both of these are on the plus side as is the relocation assistance
measure which follows on page 13.
5. Page 15. Water Quality. Again, I believe that this is on the plus side for
Reagan because the long range effect imposed a substantial burden on business
and, of course, local public agencies.
6. Page 19. Preemption. You may recall that the Governor often declared his support
for measures which would restore to local government the authority to regulate
personal conduct (prostitution, pornography, etc.). In other words, he was
against state preemption and for local control of local affairs. Both he and
Bill Richardson did a 180 degree turn when they authored and approved the
legislation which reversed a Supreme Court decision upholding a San Francisco
gun registration ordinance. Both of them recognized the popularity of their
position and refused to acknowledge its inconsistency with every previous position
they had taken.
Highlights of 1970 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-3. Tax Reform. Reagan failed to provide the leadership necessary to
get a tax reform bill through and this is on the referenced pages.
- 5 -
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
2. Pages 7-8. Planning. Your AB 2070 was a landmark bill about which no further
comment is required. The same thing is true of AB 2131. It is interesting to
note on the same pages reference to AB 2045, Chap. 1433, "Environmental Impact
Reports,' and the fact that we thought the bill applied only to public projects
utilizing state or federal funds. Do you suppose Reagan would have signed the
bill if he had known what the Supreme Court was going to do in the Mammoth
decision?
3. Page 9. Water Quality. The Clean Water Bond Law of 1970 is another plus for
the Governor because, as I recall, he actually supported it on the ballot.
4. Page 12. Regional Government. Knox's AB 2310 was opposed by the Governor and
this is probably one of the principal reasons it was defeated.
Hightlight of 1971 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Pages 2-6. In Lieu Tax Veto. Although the League had total bi-partisan support
in obtaining the passage of SB 565 (Stiern & Deukmejian), the bill was nevertheless
vetoed by the Governor. The purpose of the bill was to require automobiles to
pay the same average property tax rate paid by all other forms of property. The
equity of such a proposal is apparent, but the veto was largely the result of
Vern Orr's opinion that automobile owners are already paying enough taxes and
shouldn't be required to pay more. This veto has cost local government more than
$100 million annually since 1971 and has required the owners of other forms
of property to pay increased costs of government which should have been equitably
shared by automobile owners. Notwithstanding certain assurances of favorable
consideration at a later date, the Governor refused in each following year to
approve similar measures even though authored by Republican legislators. He did,
however, approve SB 325 (sales tax on gasoline) and AB 522 (grade separation
financing). It should be noted that the Governor's persistent refusal to
- 6 -
GERALD consider FORD LIBRARY
local government's revenue problems as serious always considered reduction of
business taxes as having the highest priority. A temporary relief of business
inventory from 15% to 30% was made permanent and as we will find later was in-
creased to 50%. He did recognize the burden which would be placed on local
government by a mandatory retirement bill when he vetoed AB 1098 (page 24).
2. Page 11. Coastline Control. Again, I would simply refresh your memory on
AB 16 et al. and the lack of support given you by the Administration. There were,
of course, other factors involved, but I would say that was a. principal one.
Highlights of 1972 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 2. Tax Reform. SB 90. Even though we accepted and urged the support of
this program, the Governor refused flatly to make the automobile in lieu tax
a part of the program and we didn't have any leverage to force him to accept
the in lieu tax.
2. Page 6. Coastline Protection. Here I can be a little more certain that the
lack of leadership on the part of the Governor was primarily responsible for the
defeat of all legislation and the adoption of Proposition 20.
3. Page 11. Subdivision Map Act Revision. Because it was the League's and Senator
Gregorio's bill and because it was opposed by the California Real Estate
Association and the Home Builders, the Administration offered no help whatsoever
in the enactment of this essential legislation. It is my own guess, and only a
guess, that if the bill had passed it would have been vetoed.
4. Page 25. Housing. This was the first of several vetoes by the Governor of
housing legislation which simply delayed approval of a bill ultimately signed
by the current Governor.
- 7 -
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
Highlights of 1973 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 2. SB 90 Clean-up. Continued disagreement with the Administration (Reagan)
prevented a full clean-up measure providing administrative procedures for
reimbursement for state-mandated costs. The Reagan Administration would never
acknowledge an open-ended liability for mandated costs and wanted to be able
in the final analysis to say no even if the costs had been mandated by the
state. This was consistent with the Reagan philosophy from inauguration to
retirement.
2. Page 5. In Lieu Tax. Senator Deukmejian's motor vehicle in lieu tax bill,
although approved by the policy committee, was held in the Senate Committee on
Finance because of Proposition 1. After the defeat of Proposition 1 by the
voters, the Governor and his Director of Finance continued to oppose applying
the average property tax rate to automobiles and local government continued
to receive less as a result of such opposition.
3. Page 6. Summer Youth Employment. Governor vetoed.
4. Page 8. State Preemption of Local Sales Tax. The most serious threat to local
solvency in California was the Administration's support of a Bagley bill which
would have attempted to suspend all Bradley-Burns local sales and use tax
ordinances. The seriousness of this proposal outweighs any other pro-local
government legislation the Governor may have gone along with.
5. Page 11. South Coast Air Pollution Control District. Vetoed.
6. Page 15. Use of Eminent Domain to Acquire Open Space. Vetoed.
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7. Page 50. Local Government Reorganization. A bill appropriating three quarters
of a million dollars to provide grants to counties and cities for the purpose
assisting in promoting the reorganization of local governments was vetoed
becuase the Governor's Task Force which ultimately buried its report was at
that time considering the same subject.
Highlights of 1974 Legislation Affecting Cities
1. Page 5. South Coast Air Basin. Vetoed.
2. Page 7. State Fees Required of Local Governmental Agencies. Process fees in
applying for sewage treatment construction grants were consistent with the Reagan
philosophy that local government should pay the state for any services provided
by the state even where there was a state interest. See also page 16 - Year-
Round Registration Fee. Administrative Costs; page 28 - State Law Enforcement
Assistance Fees; page 35 - Increased Retirement Benefits for Retired Employees.
3. Page 7. EIR Reports. Veto of bill authorizing cities to require economic
impact statement.
4. Page 8. State Assistance for Environmental Protection Costs. Veto of $50 million
appropriation to assist local goveruments.
5. Page 10. Assistance for Cost of Maintaining Beaches Used by Non-Residents.
Governor vetoed $3 million appropriation to reimburse beach cities with
extraordinary costs.
6. Page 11. Business Inventory Exemption. Governor fully supported Senate approved
attempt to give more relief to business inventories without full reimbursement
of local government costs.
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7. Page 48. State and Local Scenic Highways. Governor vetoed a bill to appropriate
$1 million annually for allocation to local government to protect scenic
corridors.
8. Page 49. State Involvement in Local Transit Systems. Governor vetoed bill which
would have enabled the state to retain some of its engineers to be used on
contract basis with local government. The bill was approved by the current
Governor at the 1975 Session.
It is obvious that you could pick both good and bad things out. of the record depending
upon which way you want to go. My own gut feeling, backed up by some of the examples
I have given, is that Reagan strongly believed that persons permanently involved in
a governmental capacity were failures (the we - they concept) and except for a few
good people that he appointed would have been totally against giving local govern-
mental agencies the authority and financing required to do an adequate job of
municipal administration. Ed Meese would probably come up with the opposite conclusion.
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THE RONALD REAGAN COLUMN
(For Release In Papers Of Friday, Nov. 7, or Thereafter)
By RONALD REAGAN
Copley News Service
Everything from chicken manure to windmills is being
touted as America's great energy hope. Most of the talk is
just that. All the exotic energy sources put together won't
provide more than a fraction of U.S. energy needs in the next
several decades.
Solar power is the most talked about exotic source.
It is being used today to heat a few buildings and swimming
pools. Its advocates conjure up visions of heating the whole
country with it. They ignore its limitations, which are great.
The sun's power is very diluted when it reaches US.
It takes about 10 square feet to gather enough energy for a
single kilowatt of power.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
a
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 2
While a building's roof may be large enough to hold
solar "collectors" for a nearby swimming pool, the size
requirements for the collectors are staggering when you begin
talking about power plants.
A nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1,000
megawatts needs a 25-acre site. A solar power plant with the
same capacity would need 50 square miles of collectors, and
to equal the nation's projected nuclear capacity by the
mid-1980s (200,000 megawatts), you'd need an area larger than
the state of New York to hold all the collectors!
Like other exotic energy sources, solar power has some
useful limited applications, mostly in warm weather areas.
In fact, any discussion of its merits and risks should include
a calculation of the number of people in heavy winter areas
who would fall off their roofs trying to scrape snow from
their solar collectors.
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 3
Some power companies are considering limited efforts
to extract methane gas from
manure, but it would be hard
to find a scientist who would bet that this "source" ever
will amount to more than a small percentage of our needs.
Windmills are in the same category. They can be useful
where strong winds prevail, but their cost per kilowatt is
high and it's hard to imagine Americans covering their
landscapes with them.
Harnessing the tides, though feasible, would provide
for only a small amount of the nation's energy needs, even
if a massive, expensive development program were undertaken.
Tapping the heat of the earth's core is many years
away, although use of steam near the surface is today
providing a small percentage of our energy.
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 4
While talks go on about "alternative sources" to
fossil fuels, the United States has the largest proved
reserve (not total reserve) of oil it's ever had--enough
for 11 years' supply. On the continental shelf alone,
there are an estimated 98 billion barrels of oil, plus
natural gas. The bulk of it has been tied up, not by lack
of technology but by bureaucratic red tape and the political
maneuvering of so-called environmentalists.
Dr. P. Beckman, a quiet but plain-speaking University
of Colorado professor who specializes in the study of energy,
says this about solving our short-range needs:
"Use all the oil you can get till other sources come
in." He's referring, of course, to domestic oil. Those
"other sources" are coal and nuclear power.
But why not use conservation to combat energy
scarcity?
GERALD LIBRARY ? FORD
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 5
Because politically inspired scarcity, which we've
been wrestling with for two years, cannot be solved by
legislated conservation, such as rationing and price controls.
They only rearrange the problem.
The forces of a free marketplace are the best means
of achieving conservation, Dr. Beckman observes.
"There is no rule that says you can't throw diamonds
out the window, but people just don't do it," he says. "If
gasoline costs more, people will conserve it and economize
in other areas. "
Coal, of which we have a huge reserve, may offer the
best alternative to gasoline for powering our automobiles
not too many years from now, if political roadblocks can be
cleared away.
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 6
Pilot projects have shown that by drilling down into
a coal field, exploding the coal and reducing it to rubble,
injecting water and oxygen, you produce methane gas. Piped
out, it can be refined into methanol, which can power an
internal-combustion engine. Its heating value is only that
of gasoline, so cars would need larger tanks, but this is
outweighed by its potential abundance and the fact that it is
nearly pollution-free. We could do away with costly gadgets
such as catalytic converters, which replace one type of
pollution with another.
The methanol-from-coal program suffers primarily
from investment anemia at present.
FORDO & GERALD LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 7
And, should serious talks begin on developing such
a fuel to replace gasoline, it probably would trigger a
major campaign by the environmental extremists, who seem
intent on reducing the mobility and freedom of choice of
the workingman in order to recapture for themselves a bucolic
past that never was.
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FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
THE RONALD REAGAN COLUMN
(For Release In Papers Of Friday, Nov. 7, or Thereafter)
By RONALD REAGAN
Copley News Service
Everything from chicken manure to windmills is being
touted as America's great energy hope. Most of the talk is
just that. All the exotic energy sources put together won't
provide more than a fraction of U.S. energy needs in the next
several decades.
Solar power is the most talked about exotic source.
It is being used today to heat a few buildings and swimming
pools. Its advocates conjure up visions of heating the whole
country with it. They ignore its limitations, which are great.
The sun's power is very diluted when it reaches us.
It takes about 10 square feet to gather enough energy for a
GER
BARY
single kilowatt of power.
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 2
While a building's roof may be large enough to hold
solar "collectors" for a nearby swimming pool, the size
requirements for the collectors are staggering when you begin
talking about power plants.
A nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1,000
megawatts needs a 25-acre site. A solar power plant with the
same capacity would need 50 square miles of collectors, and
to equal the nation's projected nuclear capacity by the
mid-1980s (200,000 megawatts), you'd need an area larger than
the state of New York to hold all the collectors!
Like other exotic energy sources, solar power has some
useful limited applications, mostly in warm weather areas.
In fact, any discussion of its merits and risks should include
a calculation of the number of people in heavy winter areas
who would fall off their roofs trying to scrape snow from
GERAED FORD
their solar collectors.
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 3
Some power companies are considering limited efforts
to extract methane gas from
manure, but it would be hard
to find a scientist who would bet that this "source" ever
will amount to more than a small percentage of our needs.
Windmills are in the same category. They can be useful
where strong winds prevail, but their cost per kilowatt is
high and it's hard to imagine Americans covering their
landscapes with them.
Harnessing the tides, though feasible, would provide
for only a small amount of the nation's energy needs, even
if a massive, expensive development program were undertaken.
Tapping the heat of the earth's core is many years
away, although use of steam near the surface is today
providing a small percentage of our energy.
FORD & GERALO LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 4
While talks go on about "alternative sources" to
fossil fuels, the United States has the largest proved
reserve (not total reserve) of oil it's ever had--enough
for 11 years' supply. On the continental shelf alone,
there are an estimated 98 billion barrels of oil, plus
natural gas. The bulk of it has been tied up, not by lack
of technology but by bureaucratic red tape and the political
maneuvering of so-called environmentalists.
Dr. P. Beckman, a quiet but plain-speaking University
of Colorado professor who specializes in the study of energy,
says this about solving our short-range needs:
"Use all the oil you can get till other sources come
in. " He's referring, of course, to domestic oil. Those
"other sources" are coal and nuclear power.
But why not use conservation to combat energy
scarcity?
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 5
Because politically inspired scarcity, which we've
been wrestling with for two years, cannot be solved by
legislated conservation, such as rationing and price controls.
They only rearrange the problem.
The forces of a free marketplace are the best means
of achieving conservation, Dr. Beckman observes.
"There is no rule that says you can't throw diamonds
out the window, but people just don't do it," he says. "If
gasoline costs more, people will conserve it and economize
in other areas. =
Coal, of which we have a huge reserve, may offer the
best alternative to gasoline for powering our automobiles
not too many years from now, if political roadblocks can be
cleared away.
&
FORD
GERALD
LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 6
Pilot projects have shown that by drilling down into
a coal field, exploding the coal and reducing it to rubble,
injecting water and oxygen, you produce methane gas. Piped
out, it can be refined into methanol, which can power an
internal-combustion engine. Its heating value is only that
of gasoline, so cars would need larger tanks, but this is
outweighed by its potential abundance and the fact that it is
nearly pollution-free. We could do away with costly gadgets
such as catalytic converters, which replace one type of
pollution with another.
The methanol-from-coal - program suffers primarily
from investment anemia at present.
FORDO & GERALD LIBRARY
The Ronald Reagan Column -- 7
And, should serious talks begin on developing such
a fuel to replace gasoline, it probably would trigger a
major campaign by the environmental extremists, who seem
intent on reducing the mobility and freedom of choice of
the workingman in order to recapture for themselves a bucolic
past that never was.
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November 12, 1975
MEMORANDUM
TO:
BO, STU, BOB
FROM: PETER KAYE
This is how I believe we should conduct the counter-Reagan
program next week:
I:
Before He Announces
A. A statement from U.S. senators supporting the President.
Stress the President's experience in world and national
Judy
affairs and his skill in dealing with Congress. The
confidence they have in him as a party, national and
world leader.
B. A detailed story naming our new finance chairman and
PK
activities. I'll have it written and ready to go to
counter any Reagan financial story.
PK
C. Circulate among Reagan press on Wednesday. night informally.
STU
Stu and I calready have such plans. Another we should plant
in and around the Madison is Cliff White.
II. During the Announcement Time
PK
A. A release by Bob Wilson explaining why a majority of
California congressmen support Ford.
Judy B. Anything positive we can get out of John Rhodes and Hugh
Scott similar to Senate positions (above).
PK C. Bo will be in El Paso and will have a news conference on
this as soon as we can brief him on Reagan's announcement.
prel. Judy D. We should have available in Washington and ready for
reaction -- Burch, Laird, Scranton, Dole, etc. -- our best
political spokesmen. I'd like to offer them up for TV
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talk and news programs too.
TAP
Gov.
Judy E. Same thing on the road. e.g. Anne Armstrong in St.
Louis etc. Let me know and we 11 coordinate details.
PK
F.
The President should tend strictly to business - -
hopefully of a major headline-making nature -- in the
White House and avoid any reaction. Nexen
G. We should have someone at Press Club taping Reagan.
PK
Handouts supporting President Ford should be available
from sources on the Hill and us.
III. Immediately After Washington
A. Reagan goes to Miami. I suggest our PR guy there
B.
distribute handout from four (or all five if we get
them) Florida congressmen supporting the President.
I advise against a news conference but believe the
release must be distributed statewide and most important
to prèss traveling with Reagan at planeside.
B. Same thing with Cleveland in New Hampshire. A release
for local and traveling press at Manchester Town Meeting
that night and perhaps a Cleveland news conference to
Breen
follow Reagan's if he has one, as planned, in Manchester
the next day. Both the Florida and New Hampshire
releases should stress solidarity, party unity, Ford's
experience and by implication Reagan's lack. But they
should be upbeat. We'll hit Reagan harder later.
C. The next day in Charlotte. Another statewide release
from Holsheuser - - copies at planeside to press. News
Gene anderson
MM. King*
pk
conference by governor in Raleigh after Reagan's appear-
ance in Charlotte. Point up President as moderate
conservative; Reagan as more extreme. We. might also
feed Holshauser a few tidbits on Reagan's record as
governor.
D. Same thing in Chicago with Ogilvie. Release at plane-
Bruce-brot
side for press conference and statement or press
M.Ke Hudson
B.
conference following. Again, Ogilvie, as governor,
can put President in more moderate stance than Reagan.
E. Finally, Los Angeles rally. Younger and Carpenter.
STU-
More emphasis on Reagan' California record. Airport
PK
rally. Releases at planeside to press and earlier
locally.
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IV. Way After.
Keep courterattacking on national radio and TV and statewide
in key areas.
Tred.
A few afterthoughts:
What we are trying to do is to coopt as much of the
Reagan story as we can. Also to set an early tone as aggressive
campaigners. We don't need to zero in negatively just yet.
Only in generalities stressing Reagan's lack of experience with
Congress, dealing with national and international issues and over-
all extremism and ego trip in seeking nomination. Also we should
keep pointing up party unity; quote Goldwater and Rockefeller in
need for eliminating squabbling in forging winning ticket. for
minority party.
As for technique. It is important that releases be
coordinated but not written by the same person. They should come
from many sources inside and outside of PFC. Press conferences
and other public radio and TV appearances should be undertaken
only by our most experienced and skilled people. President should
remain aloof and minding the store.
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Nov. 13, 75
pushed President Ford to the right on sev-
He attacks the treaty that the U.S. and
eral issues, including across-the-board
Rerun on the Right
other nations signed last summer with the
spending cuts in social programs, and in ef-
Soviet Union at Helsinki-a treaty that for-
fect he has pushed Vice President Nelson
malized Russia's post-World War II revision
Reagan's Campaign,
Rockefeller right off the 1976 GOP ticket.
of Eastern European boundaries. "The U.S.
Maneuvers by the President and his men
said to the captive nations: 'Give up any
have only seemed to whet Mr. Reagan's ap-
Like Goldwater's in 64,
hope of freedom,' Mr. Reagan charges.
petite for primary races. "It's time for a
Thus, in both the domestic and foreign
change, it's time for a crusade," he told a
arenas, his boldly stated conservatism
Raps Big Government
country club gathering of Florida Republi-
makes President Ford look relatively bland.
cans last week. In this and other speeches
The Californian and his advisers. are con-
around the country, Mr. Reagan has pre-
vinced an uncompromising conservative
sented in breathtaking detail the kind of
gospel will have winning appeal in pri-
He Cites California Record
"drastic change" he will espouse as a candi-
maries to the conservatives who dominate
date.
the GOP.
(With Some Omissions)
He urges the abolishing, over an unidenti-
Mr. Reagan has substantial campaign as-
fied period, of major social programs cur-
sets in his bid to upset the President. His as-
And Paints Ford Futile
rently costing $90 billion a year. He says
sured and articulate style contrasts with Mr.
flatly that he would end federal aid to edu-
Ford's dull and sometimes bumbling man-
cation and abolish welfare programs such as
ner. Mr. Reagan has an enthusiastic follow-
Welfare, Taxes and Detente
food stamps and Medicaid. He indicates also
ing among grassroots conservatives that as-
that he would stop subsidies for housing and
sures him of ample campaign funds.
end federal revenue-sharing with states.
He appears to be in vigorous health. Al-
By NORMAN C. MILLER
Job for the States
though in person his age shows, on television
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Responsibility for these programs should
he looks much younger than 64. The Reagan
ORLANDO, Fla.-Close your eyes, cast
be "systematically transferred" to the
campaign organization, which is already in
your mind back a dozen years, and you can
states, and the states could continue them or
place, appears to be operating more effec-
believe that the candidate exhorting the con-
not as they choose, Mr. Reagan says. He ac-
tively than the Ford camp in early primary
servative faithful at a rally here is Barry
knowledges that this transfer would result in
states-New Hampshire, Florida and North
Goldwater.
higher state and local taxes to pay for con-
Carolina.
He heaps scorn on Repubicans who em-
tinued programs. But he promises that a
Mr. Reagan's immediate goal is to defeat
brace Democratic-type programs swelling
massive reduction of Washington's role
Mr. Ford in these early primaries, hoping
Washington's power. He pledges to abolish
would remove "the dead hand of federal in-
that such blows would destroy the Presi-
huge sections of the federal bureaucracy,
terference" and also produce huge savings
dent's campaign effort in later primaries or
cut taxes, balance the budget and begin pay-
as much of the federal bureaucracy is wiped
even cause him to withdraw. While Mr. Rea-
ing off the national debt.
out.
gan must be rated an underdog, the strength
"We have come to a watershed moment
"With such a savings, it would be possi-
of his challenge may be measured by the
-a, moment in which government must be
ble to balance the federal budget, make an
fact that the Ford campaign manager, How-
turned around and take a different direc-
initial $5 billion payment on the national
ard (Bo) Callaway, already is trying to dis-
tion," he tells his applauding partisans.
debt and cut the federal income tax burden
count possible early primary losses by the
This isn't Barry Goldwater but Ronald
of every American by an average of 23%,"
President.
Reagan, speaking in the final warm-up
Mr. Reagan declares.
stages before formally declaring his candi-
Further, the gradual switch of states to
President Ford, Mr. Reagan implies, will
dacy against Gerald Ford for the Republi-
never really chop down the federal bureau-
primaries instead of state conventions,
can presidential nomination. Mr. Reagan's
cracy because he is part of that "Wash-
bringing the number of primary states to 30,
decision to run seems certain, and he proba-
means that a majority of delegates will be
ington establishment" and is just playing
bly will announce it next week.
political games when he talks conserva-
elected by GOP voters instead of politicians.
The 64-year-old former governor of Call-
tively.
This factor enhances the chances of a skilled
fornia, who many think is the most polished
Thus, of the President's tax-and-spend-
challenger like Mr. Reagan and diminishes,
stump speaker in American politics today,
ing-cut proposal, Mr. Reagan says: "My
to some degree, the advantage the President
then will take to the hustings with a mes-
simple interpretation is that the $28 billion
has through his control of government and
sage that adds up to this: President Ford is
cut is in the proposed increase of the budget
party machinery.
an ineffectual leader who isn't up to the job
(which the President will submit in Janu-
Reagan advisers are confident their can-
of reversing government to a truly conser-
ary). Now, if there is $28 billion that can be
didate can cope with the charge by Ford
vative direction.
cut from the proposed increase, why the hell
men that the Californian is SO conservative
Not-So-Velled References
is it in there in the first place? It has a little
that his nomination would result in defeat ri-
Although Mr. Reagan says he will avoid
bit of the sound of the fellow who advertises
valing the GOP's Goldwater disaster of 1964.
personal attacks on the President, his mean-
a big sale, 20% off, but he raises the prices
For one thing, they say, the time has fi-
ing is clear in his indirect statements. "I
40% before he cuts them back."
nally come for a true conservative. "In 1964,
don't see that there is any real effort being
Assault on Detente
about 75% of the people thought the federal
made in Washington at any level to make
In foreign policy, Mr. Reagan accuses the
government was doing a good job," one
the drastic change that needs to take
President of being soft on Communism. De.
Reagan adviser says. "Now, about 75%
place," he tells an interviewer. "Maybe it's
tente with the Russians "has deteriorated
think it is doing a bad job."
because they're all part of the interlocked
into a one-way street in which the enemy is
Pointing to the Record
Washington establishment."
using it to further his aims toward the even-
For another, they say, unlike Sen. Gold-
Mr. Reagan has had considerable impact
tual domination of the world and the de-
water, Mr. Reagan has governed the na-
even before declaring his candidacy. He has
struction of this way of life of ours," he
tion's most populous state and demon-
asserts.
FORD
GERALD
ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESIDENT FORD COMMITTEE
DEAN BURCH CHAIRMAN
331-8566 (0)
229-5020 (H)
ANNE ARMSTRONG, TEXAS
512-592-1491
RAY BLISS, OHIO
216-762-8903 (0)
216-864-4563 (H)
BOB DOLE, KANSAS
224-6521 (0)
333-6280 (H)
MAX FISHER, MICHIGAN
313-871-8000
BRYCE HARLOW, D.C.
833-9504 (0)
524-1346 (H)
DICK HERMAN, NEBRASKA 402-346-8092 (0)
402-391-0831 (H)
GOVERNOR JIM HOLSHAUSER,
NORTH CAROLINA
919-829-2127
MELVIN LAIRD, D.C.
223-1642 (0)
652-4449 (H)
LEON PARMA, CALIF.
714-291-7311 (0)
714-459-2284 (H)
JOHN RHODES, ARIZONA
225-6324 (0)
320-4141 (H)
HUGH SCOTT, PENN.
224-6324 (0)
337-1975 (H)
?
WILLIAM SCRANTON,
PENNSYLVANIA
717-961-7137 (0)
717-563-1121 (H)
BOB DOUGLASS, N.Y.
212-422-2660 (0)
212-422-3240
212-422-2679
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
MEMORANDUM
TO:
PETER
FROM: STU
There is a Governors Conference approximately Wichita the same
time RR is announcing in St. Louis. The following
governors are supporting the President:
HolsHouseR
N.C.
Evans
Washington
MARE W.Va
Bowen
Indiana
Bond
Missouri
Ray
Iowa
Moore
West Virginia
Rhodes
Ohio
Milliken
Michigan
BeNNeTT
KANSAS
We might be smart to use spokesman (as relates to
announcement) at the Governors Conference.
Edwards S.C.
Thompson
I
N.H.
HAMMOND
ALASKA
FORD i LIBRARY GERALD
Weekly expense
Under #250./matchalle
Convention figure.
GERALD R. FORD
LIBRARY
RR
Before
Finance U.S. Senators - Brock, Dhe, Baker, Taft
CliffWente at Madrion
During
Steemy Crute X etc.
as Pers Cant
are in Sd.Loo
Rhodes/Scott Hit WH on Nyete
Bo in Texas a Nebraska
Scranton
after
By state
Way after
mm
FORDO & DERALD LIBRARY
what
Ford + enteress
Party unity
PF as stateman
Upleat
extremish in world affairs
others enal out
PRECINCT LEVEL
agan in Race Would Turn
By ANDREW GLASS
Journal Constitution Washington Burr hus
WASHINGTON - On Nov.
it's every American's right to
20 or thereabouts, former
be stupid," he told the under-
California Gov. Ronald Rea-
graduates.
Heat
gan is expected to make it
Yet, in New Haven or else-
official that he'll run for the
where, Reagan rarely ducks a
Republican nomination for
It is precisely that kind of
welfare rolls when he infl pl.
question on the issues, al-
attack from conservatives on
president.
fice in January 1975 than
though he usually digs a
Congross and elsewhere that
And when he does, he is
when he took over, "although
channel in which he can re-
convinced the Ford adminis-
sure to turn up the heat on
grants to the truly needy were
treat if pressed too hard. The
tration the canal treaty is too
President Ford.
up by 43 per cent."
only question he avoids nowa-
volatile an issue to deal with
While Reagan still main-
days are those that deal with
Reagan also makes much of
in an election year. A high
tains that he basn't decided
the fact that Ford had named
THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 19, 75
David S. Broder
What Means to Reagan's Conservative Ends?
With the entry of Ronald Reagan into the
Republican presidential race this week.
the question of means and ends in the 1976
election is now posed in its sharpest
possible form. Bringing that question to
the forefront of political consciousness is
so important that Reagan's candidacy can
be welcomed even by those who do not
share his vision of what the American
future should be.
The purpose of Reagan's running is very
clear: to lead a conservative coun-
terrevolutio against the 40-vear growth of
Reagan ould End
By THOMAS W. OTTENAD
Washington Correspondent
CAMPAIGN76
WASHINGTON
"WE HAVE COME to a wat-
ershed in history," Ronald Reagan
was saying to about 300 persons
gathered in a park in Orlando, Fla.,
the other afternoon. "Government
must be turned around and headed
in another direction."
he's to the right of Barry Goldwater.'
To turn away from what he sees
Senator Goldwater (Rep.), Arizona, the
as excessive federal dominance of
first high priest of the Far Right in
American life, the former Califor-
modern times to become a presidential
nominee, was buried in a landslide in
nia governor favors action SO dras-
1964 when his proposals - like making
tic that it would reverse political
Social Security voluntary and selling the
history of the last half century by
Tennessee Valley Authority - proved
shattering the power, authority and
too conservative and scary for the
primacy of the Federal Govern-
country.
Even some of those closest to Goldwa-
ment in many fields of social
ter's campaign concede that he never
welfare,
offered anything as far-reaching as
In his forthcoming run for the Renub-
Reagan's proposal to wipe out social
nomination for the lency, he is
service programs accounting for slightly
ready to seek a sweeping, revolutionary
more than one fourth of this year's
break with the past that would abolish
federal budget.
outright federal programs ranging from
The scheme is a sweeping one. The
welfare to school aid and costing 90
poor and the elderly would be hard hit.
billion dollars this year. State and local
So would some special interests like
governments would have the option of
airlines, road builders and mass transit.
continuing or modifying any of the
Cities would lose heavily. National de-
programs, but if they did they would
fense would be untouched except for a
have to pay for them.
minor saving through a change in the
In an interview with the Post-Dis-
retirement program for civilian em-
patch, Reagan, who is scheduled to
ployes.
announce his candidacy Thursday, re-
BIGGEST OF ALL is a cut of 21.6
peatedly expressed concern about a
billion dollars in federal welfare and
potential totalitarian take-over unless
related aid to the poor. He would wipe
the nation removes the federal presence
out such major programs as Aid to
that he believes intrudes on many
Families with Dependent Children, rent
aspects of American life. He warned:
subsidies, interest supplements, school
"THE DANGER is that if there is not.
lunch program, food stamps and special
unemployment assistance. Left un-
soon a beginning of an answer, a fellow
CAROLINA FAVORITE: Ron
touched are Social Security, medicare,
on the white horse could come in and
the new Supplemental Security Income
Raleigh, N.C., with Senator
say, 'Put it in my hands.' I don't think
payments, veterans' benefits and retire-
America is at that point yet, but it could
ment programs.
make the label "to the right of Barry
happen."
The federal programs he would end
Goldwater" stick.
In the political community, the Cali-
include many that are highly popular:
They want their man perceived
fornian is rated as the most serious kind
All aid to elementary and secondary
reformer bent on making government
of threat to President Gerald R. Ford's
schools, grants and work payments to
more effective instrument, not on
hopes for the Republican nomination
needy college students, as well as
stroying it or repealing the social
next year. After listening to Reagan's
manpower training and temporary jobs
economic gains made since the New
polished, easy performance the other
for the unemployed and disadvantaged
Deal.
day, a woman in that charmed crowd in
(13.7 billion dollars); all expenditures
From a political standpoint, a hard
Orlando suddenly called out, "Do you
for mass transit, highway construction
Right position of this kind is likely to
realize you could make mincemeat of
except on the Interstate Highway Sys-
most damaging if Reagan becomes the
Jerry Ford?"
tem and for subsidizing the Postal
Republican presidential nominee. It
"Do you mind if I don't answer that?"
Service (5.8 billion dollars); flood con-
make it difficult for him to compete ne
Reagan replied with a grin, as the crowd
trol and other river development
fall against a Democrat for votes from
laughed and applauded.
projects as well as subsidies for the
the Center and the Left.
Reagan's winning way with a crowd
Tennessee Valley Authority (4.7 billion
In the race against Mr. Ford for th
- most aficionados rate Senator Ed-
dollars).
nomination, however, it probably will
ward M. Kennedy (Dem.), Massachu-
Other principal federal activities that
far less harmful. The President is
setts, his only close competitor as a
Reagan would scrap include: The 7.2-
conservative himself, and SO is "
political orator - is only one reason that
billion-dollar medicaid program, which
Republican Party. At least since 10
many analysts believe Reagan may
helps to pay for medical care for almost
conservatives generally have domina
succeed at the always difficult task of
26,000,000 low-income Americans; the
party decisions, including the choice of
unseating an incumbent President.
6.3-billion-dollar general revenue shar-
presidential candidate The issue
Among other strengths, he is well
ing program; equalization payments (6
be used against Reagan only if Mr. Fo
known. he is a long-time darling of
billion dollars) to compensate state and
could convince his party that his ODT
conservatives and he has been making
local governments for increased energy
nent is too far to the right to have
recent political moves skillfully in con-
costs; aid to cities (4 billion dollars)
chance of winning next November
trast to Mr. Ford's series of blunders.
under a recent revision of such familiar
Reagan clearly believes the country
In a confidential poll taken for the
programs as urban renewal and Model
ready to reverse the course it
Californian, voters rated him higher
Cities, and federal aid for construction
followed since 1932 of giving the Fede
than Mr. Ford in possessing what they
of hospitals and other health facilities.
Government increasing authority
regarded as ideal presidential traits.
In speaking about his proposal, Rea-
responsibility over social welfare
The surveys indicated, too, that Mr.
gan appeals, to the anti-spending mood
many other aspects of individual
Ford's support was even softer than
that many see in the nation. "With such
business life
most analysts had thought; more than 70
a savings,' he told nearly 1000 persons
"I think the people have changed
per cent of the President's supporters
at a Republican fund-raising dinner in
sald recently as he sat in his hotel If
were rated as transferable to Reagan in
Clearwater, Fla., the other night, "it
in Coral Springs, Fla., with three rep
a race against the Democrats.
would be possible to balance the federal
ers. "There has been no change in
On the early form sheet, Reagan Is
budget, make an initial 5-billion dollar
basic philosophy of Congress over
the underdog if for no other reason than
payment on the national debt and cut
past 40 years. There has been
precedent. But in political circles, whis-
the federal personal income tax burden
pressure on them to change.
pers are beginning that Mr. Ford has
of every American by an average of 23
performed SO badly that he might have
per cent."
"THE NEW DEAL syndrome 11
to withdraw from the race.
had people believing they yould get
HE USUALLY DOES not point out
federal this and free federal that
ON THE OTHER HAND, once Reagan
that these gains would be offset in part
people see they are earning mor
becomes a candidate, his life will get
by whatever spending would be needed
saving less. We went through
tougher as his views receive wide
for any programs that might be carried
as the cause. Now we see that
analysis. In the end his chances are
on at state or local levels under his local
reason is the cost of government
likely to rest on how he is perceived.
option provision. The net effect, he is
gone higher than anything el
he
substantial
savings
His lodestar is a return
MS MAGAZINE
November, 1975
78/Ms.
WHY
aureen Reagan's relationship with her
paigns. She is currently a member of the media
M
father, former California governor
chapter of the bipartisan National Women's Politi-
Ronald Reagan (her mother is actress
cal Caucus. In 1971 she landed her own radio talk
Jane Wyman) has always been one of
show on California's KABC.
mutual support-both personal and political; and
She declared herself a feminist on the air, and
when she told this story about Elizabeth Cady Stan-
received a call from her father. He told her, "I'm all
ton a few months ago, she could not have known
for you I liked you better as a militant mod-
how ironic it would sound to her later. Daniel Cady,
erate than as a feminist." Of her own commitment,
it seemed, encouraged his daughter's independent
she says, "There are no equals in fervor to re-
spirit and inquisitive intellect as a child. He insisted
formed smokers and philosophical converts, and I
that his daughter have a good education, and later
am both."
invited her to work in his law office. When young
She was asked to do a pro-ERA commentary, to
Elizabeth learned about the injustices and inequities
be aired along with her father's views, for his radio
in the property, inheritance, and real estate laws as
show, "Viewpoint," heard nationally on 320 sta-
they pertained to women, she became angry. Her
tions. By then, he had already modified his original
father told her, "When you are grown, you can go to
position favoring the ERA, but she tried to per-
the state capital and change those laws." And yet,
suade him to reconsider. "Then, a few davs later, I
when Elizabeth Cady Stanton became an adult and
learned that he had taped an anti-ERA speech,
an independent human being, her father openly op-
which was first publicly aired as part of an NBC-TV
posed her political career.
documentary." The argument included such state-
In August of this year, Maureen Reagan and her
ments as "Human beings are not animais, and I do
father found themselves in direct (and public) op-
not want to see sex and sexual differences treated
position to each other on one important issue: the
as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts
Equal Rights Amendment.
treat them. I believe this could happen under the
In 1973, when the ERA came up for ratification
ERA
I favor balanced budgets, I want to get
in California, it was approved (with the full support
government off your back and mine; and I think
of Governor Reagan). The radio station where
Communists are bad guys. I also find myself against
Maureen Reagan hosted a talk show was swamped
the ERA.
I believe that [it] would take away laws
with calls: many implied sinister applications of the
that were passed especially to make sure that
Amendment that simply did not exist, and others
women were not put upon by men."
indicated vague misunderstandings and misinfor-
"His statement came as a complete surprise," says
mation. "I began to realize," says Maureen, "how
Maureen Reagan. "Before I had a chance to discuss
little I knew about women's political history. The
it with him further privately, it became public con-
more I learned, the more I felt that the statement,
versation, and we have had no personal discussion
'I'm not a Women's Libber, but.
is
a
cop-out.
I
about it since. I feel somehow that my powers of
know now that my responsibility lies in giving my
political persuasion failed me. I made it very clear
political skills and energy to the Movement, not just
about how strongly I feel on this issue, and I'm sure
in seeing what it can do for me. The ERA is a
he has no idea how really hurt I am. I respect his
rallying point for women to write themselves into
right to disagree, but I wish he had better argu-
the Constitution."
ments. You just don't tell fifty-one percent of the
No stranger to political activism, Maureen
population that you'd rather protect them than
Reagan has tried, for the past 10 years, to combine
grant them true independence.
the two careers of acting and politics. Since 1964,
"But it's not all that easy-for he is my father
she has been a fund-raising speaker for the Repub-
and that transcends all politics."
lican Party and has worked in many political cam-
-Susan K. Berman
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PEOPLE MAGAZINE
December, 1975
REAGAN'S DAUGHTER MAUREEN
STUMPS FOR SOME CAUSES
THAT SHIVER DADDY'S TIMBERS
Maureen Reagan climbed into an air-
port limousine, plopped her corduroy
hat on her blond head and screwed up
her face into an impish Bronx cheer
(right). That gesture from the 34-year-
old daughter of Republican presiden-
tial candidate Rona d Reagan summed
up her feelings about the icy reception
PICTURES
she just had faced in Manhasset,
Long Island, a Republican enclave that
lies within her father's political turf.
Maureen had harangued 200 upper-
middle-class women for 35 minutes with
a speech in support of the Equal Rights
Amendment, a proposal most of
In 1946 Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman
were the Ideal Hollywood couple with
them were dead against.
Maureen, 5, and Michael, 1. Two years lat-
"She really threw a bomb at the old
er, they were divorced.
gals," said club president Isabel Hag-
gerson. "I think she may have lost
her father some votes."
"That's the toughest house I've
had," Maureen said, obviously relieved
to be heading home to Los Angeles af-
ter her nine-day lecture swing.
Ironically, just two years ago Rea-
gan's daughter was an anti-libber. Her
conversion took place when she was
serving as host on a LOS Angeles radio
talk show. One guest accused her of
copping out on the movement. "You're
absolutely right," Maureen admitted.
"As of this moment, I'm a women's lib-
erationist." Almost immediately, her
telephone rang. "I think," said the call-
er, "I liked you better as a militant
moderate." It was her father.
That anecdote now has become part
of Maureen's lecture spiel, for which
Reagan will win but is cagey about her
she gets a minimum of $500. (Last year
relationship with him (11 see him when I
she earned $12,000.) And while she
see him"), and she calls her stepmother,
hopes to convince other GOP women
Nancy, "a traditional political wife" who
-she joined the party in 1960, two
"is quite a lady."
years before Governor Reagan-to
By all accounts, Maureen has had a
support ERA, she has yet to win over
bumpy life. Born in Los Angeles, she
her father. "I respect his right to
was 7 when her parents divorced (her
disagree," Maureen says. "But I wish
mother is actress Jane Wyman).
he had better arguments. You just don't
After 10 lonely years in boarding
tell 51 percent of the population you'd
schools, Maureen quit Marymount Col-
rather protect them than grant them
lege in Virginia to become a secretary.
true independence."
"My folks were very disappointed in
Maureen also was unsuccessful at
me," she admits. The next decade
discouraging Reagan from running for
brought two brief marriages-to a po-
President. "It was diff.cult to see my fa-
liceman and a lawyer-and a series of
Maureen waits for a Manhattan cab. Un-
ther when he was governor," she
careers-actress, singer, publicist, lec-
like her dad, she supports handgun control
says. "It would be absolutely impossi-
turer, political consultant and cam-
and the right to abortion.
ble if he's President." She thinks
paigner for the Republican party. She
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