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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Roberts, John G.: Files
Folder Title: JGR/State of the Union Address
Box: 51
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 10, 1986
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hale:
Thank you for your letter of January 29 to the
President and Mrs. Reagan. We appreciate your support
for the President's efforts to bring Federal spending
under control. The President shares your concern about
the welfare system. In the State of the Union Address
delivered by the President on February 4, he had this
to say about the need to reform the welfare system:
In the welfare culture, the breakdown of
the family, the most basic support system,
has reached crisis proportions -- in female
and child poverty, child abandonment,
horrible crimes and deteriorating schools.
After hundreds of billions of dollars in
poverty programs, the plight of the poor
grows more painful. But the waste in dollars
and cents pales before the most tragic loss
-- the sinful waste of human spirit and
potential.
We can ignore this terrible truth no longer.
As Franklin Roosevelt warned 51 years ago,
standing before this chamber, he said,
"Welfare is a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of
the human spirit." And we must now escape
the spider's web of dependency. Tonight I am
charging the White House Domestic Council to
present me by December 1, 1986, an evaluation
of programs and a strategy for immediate
action to meet the financial, educational,
social, and safety concerns of poor families.
I am talking about real and lasting
emancipation, because the success of welfare
should be judged by how many of its
recipients become independent of welfare
You noted in your letter that you hoped the President
would run again. Under the Twenty-Second Amendment to
the Constitution, no person may be elected to the
office of President more than twice. This will, there-
fore, be President Reagan's last term.
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Thank you again for your supportive comments. We
appreciate hearing from you.
Sincerely,
John G. Roberts
Associate Counsel to the President
Mr. and Mrs. George Hale
235 Bassett Drive
Springfield, Ohio 45506
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January 29,1986
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been out Busident I think
you have done a tremenders
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letter writer as yes can sea.
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that you, should have in there
on your Budget Some of the
Congress just wants to
spend & spend, and Jap and
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the 3rd and 4th generation
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and they get mad
them. when you told about, cutting
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you to know that you have
my wf of In backing 100%
Jof you are ever in springfield
Ohio, we would be proud
to have you an our guest. or &
can read this,
hope one you you staff. and Thanks
again of for a good Jul.
Genger Sincerely Jevel lets Hale
235 Bassett
sprinffuld, 45506 Ohio
O.S.
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