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Mike Laudich
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636-
1990
Grant/Nappo
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REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
mike
2
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Landed
317
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here, 636
1990
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm. pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats. X
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but Laudich
pre advance
I've really lost my appetite. On the way over I was notified
that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. III They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
Throughout the eighties -- the decade which saw the greatest
X
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economic expansion in U.S. peacetime history, and fires of
freedom begin to burn all over the world -- throughout this Polaemanac
turbulent decade, the people of Indiana had two great men
1990
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representing them in the United States Senate. Dick Lugar, and
of course, Dan Quayle -- a foreign policy duo that have been
instrumental to the progress we've seen internationally. Dick
Lugar's tenure X on the Senate Foreign Relations X Committee X has been 401
p397
nothing short of superb, and I continue to depend on his wise
counsel as we wrestle with XXX a world in XX change.
X
2
I don't have to tell you -- you already know -- how
important Dan Quayle's outstanding leadership has been in crucial tups
areas like Central and Latin America. He's served our
Administration well, and he's served our Nation well. 11
Indiana's got a lot to be proud of in her favorite son -- Dan
Quayle. Now it's time for Dan Coats to step into that legacy
of leadership in the Senate. 11
For the last ten years, Dick Lugar and Dan Quayle have Polalmona
built a dynasty of Republican leadership in Indiana -- with a
1990
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command of the issues that has kept America number one. In 1986,
Dan Quayle was re-elected by the largest winning margin of any 61%
Repor
Jany
Republican in Indiana history. Yet two years later, Senator 68%
Lugar broke the record with an even bigger margin. And come
sem
November, my common sense tells me the voters of Indiana will
wince peater p.133
continue the tradition and give Dan Coats a great victory. 11
state
I'm here, "Back Home in Indiana," -- in what natives call
the "Crossroads of America" -- to talk to you today about common
Indiana proflip
237
sense, something Hoosiers know a lot about. Indiana is the heart
of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle of the
American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
American society. Our Administration has placed the family at
the Doen
the center of its agénda for the 1990s -- to build an America
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
3
challenge and support our kids and our teachers; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment. Dán has been one author
to families like yours with hopes and dreams for their children's act
of the biggest supporters of our pro-family agenda, reaching out Pro-Fandy
futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values. III
And it's a strong voice. His work in Congress sponsoring
House
important pro-family legislation was crucial to the progress ranting was Rep
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we've already made in strengthening the family in this country. on
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Dan Coats has helped people in areas like educational reform,
committe on Children
family support, help for "at risk" children, and families in
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need. In fact, the Republican Party felt SO strongly about his
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legislation, that we made it part of the National Platform.
press
release
Mainstream values that all Americans care about -- that's why I
believe we need Dan Coats in the Senate. III And I think you all
agree. III
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Our National Drug Strategy, which I announced last X September,
Pres Papers
Sept 5, 1990
deals with all sides of the issue -- from education and
prevention to expanded treatment to stronger penalties and
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stepped-up enforcement. It's a tough approach, but it's a
sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off every street and out of every school in America.
And it's time we got more federal resources into the hands of
4
those in the thick of the fight -- those on the front lines. If
we are to build a better future for this country, America first
must be drug-free.
As the Republican leader of XX the Senate subcommittee that
X
Polalmana 4/02/990
deals with drugs, Dan knows the road ahead won't be easy, but
that's why /I need him XXXX back in the Senate. I need Dan's
coats also pual profle
experience and intelligence as we fight to take back our
streets.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana Factsalm
Republicán who brought those values to Washington, President Pres 257
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then -- still is.
But since then, Congressional spending has spiralled out of state
control -- 1.2 trillion right now. And common sense tells us the the Orion
American people aren't over-taxed. We need a budget process that
Public
aftairs
can deal rationally with wasteful government spending. We need a
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liné-item veto. 111 Give me what 43 governors X have -- the power 624-5300
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to cut unnecessary spending. One of the first things Dan Coats Pres Papers
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did when he arrived in the Senate was to introduce important
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line-item veto legislation. " In fact, I haven't seen anybody
move that adeptly since the Indianapolis Colts snuck XXX out of
Indiana
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Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
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spending down. Now that's what I call common sense.
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Americans want to keep the longést peacetime economic
BABA
expansion ever moving forward -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both
Tomight
Tomorrow in Washington, there's a lot at stake: clean X air, a
safe environment, economic growth, and the jobs of thousands of
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Americans. The Senate will cast an historic vote on our
amendments to the Clean Air Act, a vote which will affect
Legations affairs
generations to come as we work to build a cleaner, safèr America.
It's going to take a lot of work to protect this great planet
without throwing hard-working Americans out of work.
But common sense tells us this too. We must find that
balance. And we will find that balance.
Tomorrow, Dan Coats will be in the Senate tó cast one of the
most important votes of his life. And I know I can count on him.
But I need to count on his experience, his judgment, and his
8pm
concern for people not just tomorrow, or the day after that --
but in the months and years to come. And that's why I'm counting
on each of you in this room to give your áll for Dan Coats. 11
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: as the world changes, issues will change but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who will be
a voice for your values. III
I know Hoosier values, and I admire them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. And on November 6,
6
when the voters of Indiana think of Dan Coats, I know they'll
think of the song X by another Hoosier, the great Cole Porter,
-- called "You're the X Top." 11
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This man, Dan Coats, gives voice to the values of the
heartland. Nothing could be more important as we head into a
new century of challenge and change. Let's keep Indiana great,
and keep the dynasty of Republican leadership going strong.
Let's continue the tradition and give Dan a huge victory. 11
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
mk
Dr. R. Byron Crozier
from Labernacle Presl. church
in Indianapolis
will be giving the invocation
(per mike Laudich) not = Father Mallory
I 4:00
March 20, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR MARY KATE GRANT
JEANNIE NAPPO
FROM:
STEPHANIE BLESSEY
SUBJECT:
DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
The following is information gathered from the Indianapolis
pre-advance:
LOGISTICS:
Time: 12:20
Introduction: Dan Coats
POTUS Remarks and leaves before lunch
Prices: $100-$1,000
LOCAL POLITICS:
-The Republicans have a slight majority in the St. Leg.
51-49 State Senate
26-24 State Legislature
-Economy is doing well
3-4% unemployment
-Highest infant mortality rate
-#1 Toxic waste importer
-#1 Garbage importer
-Drugs are #1 issue according to poll
DAN COATS
-Supports President's Crime and Drugs and Education
packages. Supports the President's Clean Air Proposal
NOT the Senate's
-13,000 individuals have contributed to Coats' campaign
Opponent only has a few big donors -- The people
are behind Coats.
-Coats wants to bring Hoosier values to Washington
-Once Coats was a 1/2 an hour late to a White House
briefing. When he arrived they hustled him to the
front of the room and introduced him as the guest
singer.
-Coats was a pre-med student and a tennis player at
Wheaton College in Illinois until he had to make a
choice. His organic chemistry professor informed him
that it was a rare breed that can do both sports and
medicine, and Coats was not a rare breed.
LOCAL COLOR:
- The Vice President's office is down the street
- Indianapolis is home of the Hoosier Dome
- Basketball
Purdue Boilermakers
Indiana University Hoosiers
CONTACT:
Mike Laudick
(317) 636-1990
Speech at: Convention Center
Indianapolis
12:20 (speah before lunch; depart)
2,000 people attending
tichets: $150-$1,000 per person
Sendugar will introduce Sen Coats
Sen Coats will introduce President
(President of Univer of notre Dame will
be giving invocation)
acknowledgements: (those sitting at dias)
new Republican State Chairman Keith dure
who has really begun to turn things around
others will be confirmed by Monday a.m.
1-2.
Bulletin
New NGA
NGA, 1987).
People, Produc-
Making
NGA, 1986).
Report on
Time for
(Washington,
"The Transi-
Office of State
iew (Washing-
and the New
(Washington,
Table 2.1
THE GOVERNORS
1988
Maximum
Joint election
consecu-
of governor
Length of
Number
tive terms
and lieu-
Official
regular
of
allowed
tenant
who
State or
term in
Date of
Present
previous
by con-
governor
succeeds
Birth-
other jurisdiction
Name and party
first service
term ends
terms
stitution
(a)
governor
Birthdate
place
years
Alabama
Harold Guy Hunt (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
No
LG
6/17/33
Ala.
Alaska
Steve Cowper (D)
4
12/86
12/90
2
Yes
LG
8/21/38
N.C.
Arizona
Rose Mofford (D)
4
4/88
(u)
(b)
SS
6/10/22
Ariz.
Arkansas
Bill Clinton (D)
4
1/79
1/91
3(c)
2(c)
No
LG
8/19/46
Ark.
California
George Deukmejian (R)
4
1/83
1/91
1
No
LG
6/6/28
N.Y.
Colorado
Roy Romer (D)
4
1/87
1/91
Yes
LG
10/28/28
Colo.
Connecticut
William A. O'Neill (D)
4
12/80
1/91
1(d)
Yes
LG
8/11/30
Conn.
Delaware
Michael N. Castle (R)
4
1/85
1/89
2(e)
No
LG
7/2/39
Del.
Florida
Bob Martinez (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
12/25/34
Fla.
Georgia
Joe Frank Harris (D)
4
1/83
1/91
2
No
LG
2/26/36
Ga.
5/19/46
Hawaii
Hawaii
John D. Waihee III (D)
4
1/86
1/90
2
Yes
LG
Idaho
Cecil D. Andrus (D)
4
1/71
1/91
2(k)
No
LG
8/25/31
Ore.
Illinois
James R. Thompson (R)
4
1/77
1/91
3(f)
Yes
LG
5/8/36
III.
Indiana
Robert D. Orr (R)
4
1/81
1/89
1
2
Yes
LG
11/17/17
Ind.
Iowa
Terry Branstad (R)
4
1/83
1/91
1
No
LG
11/17/46
Iowa
Kan.
Kansas
Mike Hayden (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
3/16/44
Kentucky
Wallace G. Wilkinson (D)
4
1/88
1/92
(g)
No
LG
12/12/41
Ky.
Louisiana
Buddy Roemer (D)
4
3/88
3/92
2
No
LG
10/4/43
La.
Maine
4
1/87
1/91
2
(b)
PS
5/20/48
Maine
GOVERNORS
John R. McKernan Jr. (R)
Maryland
William Donald Schaefer (D)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
11/2/21
Md.
5 5
Mass.
Massachusetts
Michael S. Dukakis (D)
4
1/75
1/91
2(h)
Yes
LG
11/3/33
Michigan
James J. Blanchard (D)
4
1/83
1/91
1
Yes
LG
8/8/42
Mich.
Minnesota
Rudy Perpich (DFL)
4
12/76
1/91
1(i)
Yes
LG
6/27/28
Minn.
Mississippi
Ray Mabus:(D)
4
1/88
1/92
1
No
LG
10/11/48
Miss.
Missouri
John Ashcroft (R)
4
1/85
1/89
2(e)
No
LG
5/9/42
Mo.
The Council of State Governments 35
Mont.
Montana
Ted Schwinden (D)
4
1/81
1/89
1
Yes
LG
8/31/25
Nebraska
Kay A. Orr (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
1/2/39
Iowa
Nevada
Richard H. Bryan (D)
4
1/83
1/91
1
2
No
LG
6/16/37
D.C.
New Hampshire
John H. Sununu (R)
2
1/83
1/87
1
(b)
PS
7/2/39
Cuba
New Jersey
Thomas H. Kean (R)
4
1/82
1/90
1
2
(b)
PS
4/21/35
N.Y.
New Mexico
Garry E. Carruthers (R)
4
1/87
1/91
(g,v)
Yes
LG
8/29/39
Colo.
New York
Mario M. Cuomo (D)
4
1/83
1/91
1
Yes
LG
6/15/32
N.Y.
North Carolina
James G. Martin (R)
4
1/85
1/89
2(e)
No
LG
12/11/36
Ga.
North Dakota
George A. Sinner (D)
4
1/85
1/89
Yes
LG
5/29/28
N.D.
Ohio
Richard F. Celeste (D)
4
1/83
1/91
1
2
Yes
LG
11/11/37
Ohio
THE GOVERNORS-Continued
Maximum
Joint election
36 The Book of the States 1988-89
consecu-
of governor
Length of
Number
tive terms
and lieu-
Official
regular
of
allowed
tenant
who
State or
term in
Date of
Present
previous
by con-
governor
succeeds
Birth-
other jurisdiction
Name and party
years
first service
term ends
terms
stitution
(a)
governor
Birthdate
place
Oklahoma
Henry Bellmon (R)
4
1/63
1/91
1(j)
2
No
LG
9/3/21
Okla.
Oregon
Neil Goldschmidt (D)
4
1/87
1/91
2(1)
(b)
SS
6/16/40
Ore.
Pennsylvania
Robert P. Casey (D)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
1/9/32
N.Y.
Rhode Island
Edward D. DiPrete (R)
2
1/85
1/89
No
LG
7/8/34
R.I.
South Carolina
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
No
LG
7/24/40
S.C.
South Dakota
George S. Mickelson (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
1/31/41
S.D.
Tennessee
Ned Ray McWherter (D)
4
1/87
1/91
2
No
SpS(n)
10/15/30
Tenn.
Texas
William P. Clements Jr. (R)
4
1/79
1/91
1(m)
No
LG
4/13/17
Texas
Utah
Norman H. Bangerter (R)
4
1/85
1/89
Yes
LG
1/4/33
Utah
Vermont
Madeleine Kunin (D)
2
1/85
1/89
1
No
LG
9/28/33
Switz.
Virginia
Gerald L. Baliles (D)
4
1/86
1/90
(g)
No
LG
7/8/40
Va.
Washington
Booth Gardner (D)
4
1/85
1/89
No
LG
8/21/36
Wash.
West Virginia
Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R)
4
1/69
1/89
2(o)
2(p)
(b)
PS
4/16/23
W.V.
Wisconsin
Tommy Thompson (R)
4
1/87
1/91
Yes
LG
11/19/41
Wis.
Wyoming
Michael (Mike) J. Sullivan (D)
4
1/87
1/91
(b)
SS
9/22/39
Neb.
American Samoa
A.P. Lutali (t)
4
1/85
1/89
2(r)
Yes
LG
12/24/19
A.S.
Guam
Joseph Ada (R)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
12/11/27
Guam
No. Mariana Is.
Pedro P. Tenorio (R)
4
1/82
1/90
1
3(s)
Yes
LG
4/18/34
Puerto Rico
Saipan
Rafael Hernandez-Colon (PDP)
4
1/73
1/89
1(x)
(b)
SS
10/24/36
P.R.
Virgin Islands
Alexander A. Farrelly (D)
4
1/87
1/91
2
Yes
LG
12/29/33
V.I.
Key:
DC
(g) Successive terms forbidden.
D-Democrat
(h) Served 1975-79 and 1983-87.
GOVERNORS
DFL-Democrat-Farmer-Labor
(i) Succeeded to governor's office December 1976 to serve remainder of unexpired term. Elected to
I-Independent
first full term November 1982.
PDP-Popular Democratic Party
(j) Served 1963-67.
R-Republican
(k) Resigned in 1977 to accept appointment as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
LG-Lieutenant governor
(1) Prohibited from serving more than eight years out of a twelve year period.
SS-Secretary of state
(m) Served 1979-83.
PS-President of the senate
(n) Official bears the additional statutory title of "lieutenant governor."
SpS-Speaker of the senate
(o) Served 1969-73, and 1973-77.
(a) The following also choose candidates for governor and lieutenant governor through a joint nomina-
(p) Prohibited from serving in the term immediately following two consecutive terms regardless of
tion process: Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, American
whether the terms were filled in whole or in part.
Samoa, and Guam.
(q) American Samoa has no political party system.
(b) No lieutenant governor.
(r) Limit is statutory.
(c) Served 1979-81, 1983-85, and 1985-87. In 1984, a constitutional amendment passed which changes
(s) Absolute three-term limitation, but not necessarily consecutive.
to four years the length of the governor's term, with a maximum of two terms (effective with the 1986
(t) Served 1973-77.
election).
(u) Succeeded to governor's office April 1988 as a result of her predecessor's impeachment.
(d) Succeeded to governor's office December 1980. Elected to first full term November 1982.
(v) Beginning in 1991, governor limited to 2 consecutive 4-year terms.
(e) Absolute two-term limit, but not necessarily consecutive.
(f) First term was for two years, four years thereafter.
GOVERNORS
Number of
agencies
8
0(d)
6
9
7
16
5
5
6
8
2
0
5(f)
6
6
6
7
10
0
3
6
7
5
6
5
6
8
L
-
0
19
3
6
=
9
Travel
Official
allowance
residence
(b)
*
Other statewide elected
officials(c)
(b)
*
(b)
(c)
*
Number of
officials
17
I
8
6
9
4
5
5
6
12
14
6
14
6
6
15
L
21
0
3
5
35
5
13
5
10
26
23
5
0
8
3
6
(c)
13
28
(d)
(e)
*
(e)
*
$ 18,500(c)
*
(b)
*
(e)
*
(e)
*
(e)
(i)
Authoriza-
tion for
reorganiza-
tion through
executive
order(b)
C
S
C
C
S
(e)
C
C
S
S
C
C
C
S
S
C
S
C
220,000(b)
*
0
*
(b)
*
(e)
*
(b)
*
32,000(c)
*
Item veto-
at least
2/3 legisla-
tors elected
to override
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
(e)
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
(e)
*
(e)
(c)
*
(e)
*
24,017(c,e)
*
(c)
*
Item veto-
3/5 legisla-
tors elected
to override
*
*
*
*
(b)
*
(b)
*
(c)
*
(e)
*
(m)
(i)
(c)
*
(b)
*
11,500
*
(e)
*
Table 2.4
THE GOVERNORS: POWERS
Veto power(a)
Item veto-
majority
legislators
elected to
to override
*
*
*
(e)
*
(e)
*
0
*
(b)
*
8,500(c)
(i)
20,000
*
Item veto-
2/3 legisla-
tors present
to override
*
*
*
*
(e)
*
(e)
*
(b)
*
(c)
(e)
(b)
*
N.A.
*
No item
veto
(h)
(n)
(e)
(c)
*
(c)
*
N.A.
*
N.A.
*
N.A.
*
Shares
Budget-making power
responsibility
*
*
state, $9,389 out of state. New
state. Utah-$9,600 in state,
in state; $46,158 out of state.
Residence Foundation, a
residence for the governor of
and operational costs are
Full
responsibility
(8)
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
General Services.
budget.
of National Guard's.
and Budgeting and a number
office of governor for budget
20 during the year.
Justice Coordinating Coun-
39.
State or
system.
other jurisdiction
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
or with staff of 9.
The Council of State Governments 39
THE GOVERNORS: POWERS-Continued
Veto power(a)
Authoriza-
40 The Book of the States 1988-89
Item veto-
Item veto-
tion for
Other statewide elected
Budget-making power
Item veto-
majority
Item veto-
at least
reorganiza-
officials(c)
2/3 legisla-
legislators
3/5 legisla-
2/3 legisla-
tion through
State or
Full
Shares
No item
tors present
elected to
tors elected
tors elected
executive
Number of
other jurisdiction
Number of
responsibility
responsibility
veto
to override
to override
to override
to override
order(b)
officials
agencies
Oklahoma
*
S
9
7
Oregon
*
5
5
Pennsylvania
*
*
4
4
Rhode Island
*
*
4
4
South Carolina
*
*
8
10(i)
South Dakota
*
C
9
Tennessee
7
*
S
3
Texas
1
*
*
29
Utah
8
*
14
Vermont
4
S
5
5
Virginia
S(j)
2
Washington
2
8
West Virginia
8
(k)
S
Wisconsin
5
5
5
Wyoming
5
*
4
4
American Samoa
*
S
Guam
1
1
No. Mariana Is.
36
3
Puerto Rico
C
1
1
Virgin Islands
0
0
1
1
Sources: The National Governors' Association 1985 survey of governors' offices; The Council of
State Governments; and state constitutions and statutes.
(c) Includes only executive branch officials who are popularly elected either on a constitutional or
GOVERNORS
Key:
statutory basis (elected members of state boards of education, public utilities commissions, university
C-Constitutional
regents, or other state boards or commissions are also included); the number of agencies involving these
officials is also listed.
S-Statutory
(a) In all states, except North Carolina, governor has the power to veto bills passed by the state
(d) Lieutenant governor's office is part of governor's office.
legislature. The information presented here refers to the governor's power to item veto-veto items
(e) Implied through a broad interpretation of gubernatorial authority; no formal provision.
within a bill-and the votes needed in the state legislature to override the item veto. For additional
(f) Governor has administrative control over agencies.
information on vetoes and veto overrides, as well as the number of days the governor is allowed to
(g) Full to propose; legislature adopts or revises; and governor signs or vetoes.
consider bills, see Table 3.14, "Enacting Legislation: Veto, Veto Overrides and Effective Date."
(h) Governor has no veto power.
(b) For additional information on executive orders, see Table 2.5, "Gubernatorial Executive
(i) Divisions within governor's office.
Orders: Authorization, Provisions, Procedures."
(j) For shifting agencies between secretarial offices; all other reorganizations require legislative approval.
(k) For budget and supplemental appropriations bills, 2/3 legislators elected necessary to override.
Table 2.5
GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS: AUTHORIZATION, PROVISIONS, PROCEDURES
Provisions
Procedures
Authorization
State or
for executive
Civil defense
disasters, public
emergencies
Energy emergencies
and conservation
Other emergencies
Executive branch
reorganization plans
and agency creation
Create advisory,
coordinating, study
or investigateive
committees/commissions
Respond to federal
programs and
requirements
State personnel
administration
Other administration
Filing and publication
procedures
Subject. to administrative
procedure act
Subject to legislative
review
other jurisdiction
orders
Alabama
S,I(a)
(b)
(c,d)
Alaska
C
*
*
Arizona
S,I
(a)
(a)
(a)
* (c)
Arkansas
S,I(e)
*
*
*
*
*
California
S
*
*
*
*
*
Colorado
S
(f)
Connecticut
S
Delaware
C
*
*
*
(g,h)
*
Florida
C,S
(i)
Georgia
S,I(e)
*
*
Hawaii
I(a)
(h,j)
Idaho
S
(c)
Illinois
C
(c)
(k)
Indiana
I
GOVERNORS
Iowa
S
Kansas
S
*(I)
(c,d,m)
Kentucky
S
(n)
(k,o,p,q)
* (c)
*
Louisiana
S(r)
(j,s,t)
(m)
(s,t)
Maine
S
(u,v)
(d)
Maryland
C,S
*
*
*
* (w)
*
*
(x)
The Council of State Governments 41
Massachusetts
C.I
(f,u)
(m)
Michigan
C,S
(q)
(c)
*
(y)
Minnesota
S
*(z)
(c,m)
(x)
Mississippi
S
*
*
*
* (c)
*
(aa,bb)
Missouri
C
*
* (x)
(x,cc)
Montana
S,I
(q)
* (c)
Nebraska
S
*
Nevada
I
New Hampshire
S
(a)
*
*(q)
*
New Jersey
S
*
*
(dd)
(bb)
Sources: Massachusetts, Legislative Research Council, "Report Relative to Gubernatorial Executive
.-No formal provision
Orders," House Document No. 6557, April 3, 1981, pp. 89-94; E. Lec Burnick, Department of Political
(a) Broad interpretation of gubernatorial authority.
Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; The Governors Center at Duke University (Survey,
(b) To activate or veto environmental improvement authorities.
March 1984); The National Governors' Association 1985 survey; The Council of State Governments.
(c) Executive orders must be filed with secretary of state or other designated officer. In Idaho, must
Key:
also be published in state general circulation newspaper.
C-Constitutional
(d) Governor required to keep record in office. In Maine, also sends copy to Legislative Counsel,
S-Statutory
State Law Library, and all county law libraries in state.
I-Implied
(e) Some or all provisions implied from constitution.
*-Formal provision
(f) To regulate distribution of necessities during shortages.
GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS-Continued
Provisions
Procedures
42 The Book of the States 1988-89
Authorization
State or
for executive
Civil defense
disasters, public
emergencies
Energy emergencies
and conservation
Other emergencies
Executive branch
reorganization plans
and agency creation
Create advisory,
coordinating, study
or investigative
committees/commissions
Respond to federal
programs and
requirements
State personnel
administration
Other administration
Filing and publication
procedures
Subject to administrative
other jurisdiction
orders
procedure act
Subject to
legislative review
New Mexico
S
*
*
*
New York
I
North Carolina
S,I
S
S
S
S,C
I
S
S
S
S
(x)
North Dakota
S,I
*
(bb)
*
Ohio
S
*
*
*
Oklahoma
S,I
(u)
*
*
(ee)
(c)
*
(x)
Oregon
S
*
Pennsylvania
S
(i,n,u,w)
* (ff)
(c,m)
Rhode Island
S(a)
*
*
(I)
South Carolina
I(e)
(bb)
*
(h,i)
*
(c,d,gg)
South Dakota
C
*
(s)
*
Tennessee
S,I
*
(hh)
*
*
(c)
*
*
Texas
S
*
*
Utah
S
Vermont
S,1
*
*
(ii)
(jj)
GOVERNORS
Virginia
S,I
*
*
*
(r)
(kk)
*
*
*
(h,ff,ll,mm) * (c)
Washington
S
West Virginia
S,I(e)
*
*
*
*
(nn)
(c,m)
Wisconsin
S
*
*
*
*
(bb,oo,p)
* (c)
Wyoming
I
American Samoa
C,S
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
(pp)
(pp)
No. Mariana Is.
C
(g) To reassign state attorneys and public defenders.
(z) To assign duties to lieutenant governor, issue writ of special election.
(h) To suspend certain officials and/or other civil actions.
(aa) To control prison and pardon administration.
(i) To declare water, crop and refugee emergencies.
(bb) To administer and govern the armed forces of the state.
(j) To designate game and wildlife areas or other public areas.
(cc) For meeting federal program requirements.
(k) Only if involves a change in statute.
(dd) To declare air pollution emergencies.
(1) To transfer allocated funds.
(ee) Relating to local governments.
(m) Included in state register or code.
(ff) To transfer funds in an emergency.
(n) To give immediate effect to state regulations in emergencies.
(gg) Must be published in register if they have general applicability and legal effect.
(o) To control administration of state contracts and procedures.
(hh) Can reorganize, but not create:
(p) To impound or freeze certain state matching funds.
(ii) Filed with legislature.
(q) To reduce state expenditures in revenue shortfall.
(jj) Only executive branch reorganization.
(r) Broad grant of authority.
(kk) To shift agencies between secretarial offices; all other reorganizations require legislative approval.
(s) Appointive powers.
(II) To control state-owned motor vehicles.
(t) To suspend rules and regulations of the bureaucracy.
(mm) Delegate powers to secretaries and other executive branch officials.
(u) For fire emergencies.
(nn) Regarding annual reports of state agencies.
(v) For financial institution emergencies.
(oo) To transfer functions between agencies.
(w) To control procedures for dealing with public.
(pp) If executive order fits definition of rule.
(x) Reorganization plans and agency creation.
(y) Legislative appropriations committees must
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1988
As Lugar has concentrated on foreign affairs and rational issues, monitoring elections in the
Philippines and commenting on the Reykjavik summit, Quayle has tended to Indiana matters,
working with local congressmen on projects from the Indiana Dunes on Lake Michigan to the
fate of shipping on the Ohio River. He took the lead in urging the confirmation of Indiana
Republican Daniel Manion as a federal judge. His visibility in the state surely helped in the 1986
election. His Democratic opponent, Valparaiso council member Jill Long, was underfinanced
and scarcely visible in the state; she got 38% of the vote, which many consider the Democratic
minimum in this partisan state. Quayle's 61% is the highest percentage any Indiana senator has
ever received. He seems to have a chance to beat another record, if Lugar doesn't beat him to it:
no Indiana Senator has been elected to a fourth term. But that is looking ahead to 1994 and
1998, which may be too far even in tradition-minded Indiana.
Presidential politics. In presidential elections Indiana is, to paraphrase A. J. Liebling, more
Republican than any state that is larger and larger than any state that is more Republican. It
always goes Republican, except in landslide Democratic years when the Democrats don't need
the votes anyway. Indiana has a presidential primary that was once one of the earlier contests: in
May 1968, for example, it was the scene of an epic battle between Robert Kennedy, Eugene
McCarthy, and Roger Branigin, the hapless governor who was a stand-in for President Johnson.
In 1984 Indiana's primary was overshadowed by Ohio's the same day; the results, as it
happened, were almost identical. Gary Hart actually carried old-fashioned Indiana, but his
victory was little noticed and in the end availed him very little.
Congressional districting. Indiana's 1981 redistricting was the most partisan Republican plan
in the nation. Passed early in 1981 by Indiana's organization-dominated legislature, it may have
been counterproductive by convincing Democrats in other states to proceed accordingly. The
Indiana plan was the subject of a 1986 Supreme Court decision that, with typical intellectual
confusion, said that state legislatures can draw lines for partisan advantage but that courts can
overturn them if they're egregious; it then went on to uphold Indiana's lines, although it's not
likely that anyone could come up with a clearer case of partisan motivation. The better course
would have been to uphold these lines and any that meet the equal-population standard, because
the advantage any party can get from district-drawing is limited severely by the one-person-one-
vote rule. Indiana is the best example of this. In 1982 Republicans won 51% of House votes and
5 of the 10 seats. In 1984 they won 53% of the House votes and 5 seats, counting the bitterly
contested 8th District the way the House did, for Democrat Frank McCloskey. In 1986 they won
49% of House votes and 4 of the 10 seats. Altogether under their own plan Republicans have won
51% of the votes but only 13 of 30 seats; and even if you count the 8th District for them, as the
Republican secretary of state did in 1984, and assume they would have held it in 1986, that's
only a 15-15 split for the party that won the majority of the votes. And if the Democratic vote
should climb much more, almost every Republican seat would be vulnerable: Secretary of State
Evan Bayh, with a less-than-landslide statewide percentage of 54%, nonetheless carried 9 out of
10 of the Republican-designed districts. Some partisan bonanza.
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 5,504,000; Pop. 1980: 5,490,224, up 0.2% 1980-86 and 5.7% 1970-80;
2.28% of U.S. total, 14th largest. 12% with 1-3 yrs. col., 12% with 4+ yrs. col.; 9.7% below poverty level.
Single ancestry: 13% German, 12% English, 4% Irish, 1% Polish, French, Dutch, Italian. Households
(1980): 76% family, 42% with children, 64% married couples; 28.3% housing units rented; median
monthly rent: $166; median house value: $37,200. Voting age pop. (1980): 3,871,906; 7% Black, 1%
Spanish origin. Registered voters (1986): 2,878,498; no party registration.
1986 Share of Federal Tax Burden: $15,822,200,000; 2.10% of U.S. total, 15th largest.
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party has going back to 1954, when Kenneth Gray-auctioneer, magician, pork barrel
politician-first won the district. It continues through 1974, when Gray retired for health
reasons and newspaper editor and reform legislator Paul Simon, now U.S. Senator, won it, and
through 1984, when Simon ran for the Senate and Gray returned to win. It finishes off (for now)
INDIANA
with Gray's second retirement for health reasons and Poshard's win. When Gray announced in
November 1987 that he wasn't running, Poshard was so strong that he drew no Democratic
primary opponents; Republican Randy Patchett, who had given Gray a couple of good fights,
In August 1940, Wendell Willkie, the Republican nominee for President, returned home to
did not run, and Poshard won the general election by nearly 2 to 1.
Indiana. At his mother-in-law's in Rushville, as his biographer Steve Neal tells the story, he ate
Like a number of his contemporaries who have won House seats in their 40s (Jerry Costello of
his favorite meal of fried chicken and hot cherry pie; on that hot evening they may have sat on
the 21st district is another), and unlike many born in the same years who won them in their 20
the darkened porch, listening to the soft thud of moths hitting screens while heading for light.
and 30s in the 1970s, Poshard does not have an elite background: he went into military service
The next day Willkie went to his boyhood home town of Elwood, to formally accept the
after high school, graduated from college a little late, does not share the liberal views on cultural
Republican nomination for President before a crowd of 150,000 in 103 degree heat. As 60,000
and foreign issues that were obligatory on Ivy League campuses half a generation ago. But
cars came into this town of 10,000, 55 miles north of Indianapolis, the streets were designated
Poshard is not a rube either: he has a Ph.D., he won an Illinois Senate seat over serious
one-way, food prices were jacked up 20%, Willkie hats and tie clips and tumblers were sold
competition, he rose to chair a committee, he worked to cut down pollution from coal use. He
everywhere, and Homer Capehart, later a U.S. Senator, boasted to H. L. Mencken that each of
seems to have no bias against government spending, especially when it is directed at southern
the latrines he had set up in Callaway Park where the nominee would speak was "a 32-holer!"
Illinois; he can be expected to be a bread-and-butter Democrat, devoted to helping his district.
Willkie was not the hayseed he liked to appear; "the barefoot boy from Wall Street," as Harold
There is no reason to expect that he will not make this a safe Democratic seat.
Ickes called him, lived in a Fifth Avenue apartment across from the Metropolitan Museum, was
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 523,600, up 0.4% 1980-86; Pop. 1980: 521,303, up 9.3% 1970-80
knowledgeable enough to appear on "Information Please," and was given to naive-sounding
Households (1980): 73% family, 37% with children, 62% married couples; 25.6% housing units rented,
political statements that were actually very popular.
median monthly rent: $131; median house value: $29,500. Voting age pop. (1980): 381,684; 6% Black,
But the backdrop was authentic. Indiana in 1940 was the center of population in the United
1% Spanish origin.
States; it was where sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd conducted their study of "Middletown"
1988 Presidential Vote:
Dukakis (D)
(actually Muncie); in partisan politics, it was a fulcrum point, a crucial state since the Civil War
113,071
(52%)
Bush (R)
104,885
(48%)
in the struggles between Republicans and Democrats. Willkie was a politician who held himself
above party, but Indiana-then and now-had some of the toughest and most professional
Rep. Glenn W. Poshard (D)
political machines in the United States. Party identification was handed down with religious
Elected 1988; b. Oct. 30, 1945, White Cnty.; home, Carterville; $
affiliation-the Lynds noted that the Presbyterians had little to do with Methodists, but that
IL U., B.A. 1970, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1984; Baptist; married (Jo).
was nothing next to Republicans and Democrats-in a state that had relatively few immigrants
since it was first settled by Yankees from Ohio and the Northeast and "Butternuts" (as they
Career: Army, Korea 1962-65; State Senator 1984; Dir., Area
were called in the Civil War years) from Kentucky and the South.
Service Center for Educators of Gifted, 1974-84.
But if Indiana was classically Middle American long before that term was coined, it has
Offices: 1229 LHOB 20515, 202-225-5201. Also 234 W. Main.
always celebrated its distinctiveness. It is the Hoosier state-a unique word, about whose origins
West Frankfort 62896, 618-937-6402; 110 N. Division, Carterville,
and meanings you can get plenty of argument-with its own poet in James Whitcomb Riley, its
62918, 618-985-6300; 4831 Bond Ave., Alorton 62207, 618-271-
7500.
own novelist in Booth Tarkington, and its own politics in its two still surprisingly hardy political
party machines. While other states have long since moved away from their political heritage,
Committees: Education and Labor (16th of 22 D). Subcommit-
splitting over the economic issues of the 1930s or the cultural conflicts that started in the 1960s,
tees: Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education; Human
Indiana has stuck to its Civil War alignments: a map of the results of the 1980 Senate campaign
Resources; Postsecondary Education. Small Business (26th of 27
show liberal Democratic Senator Birch Bayh carrying half the counties south of the old National
D). Subcommittees: Procurement, Tourism and Rural Develop
ment; Environment and Labor.
Road (later U.S. 40) that bisects the state, while conservative Republican Dan Quayle carried
all but four of the counties to the north-a result eerily similar to that of 1868. Indiana's
machines have lost some of their control: the mandatory 2% contributions by state employees to
Group Ratings and Key Votes: Newly Elected
the state party were banned in the 1980s by the Republicans (in anticipation of a 1988 defeat,
Election Results
the Democrats said). The Republican machine which had controlled the state government for 20
1988 general
Glenn Poshard (D)
139,392
(65%)
($392,791)
years, since Dan Quayle was looking for a state job to work his way through law school, finally
Patrick J. Kelly (R)
75,462
(35%)
($80,675)
lost the governorship and control of one house of the legislature to the son of the Senator that
1988 primary
Glenn Poshard (D), unopposed
Quayle beat, Evan Bayh, in the year in which Quayle was elected Vice President of the United
1986 general
Kenneth J. Gray (D)
97,585
(53%)
($304,950)
States.
Randy Patchett (R)
85,733
(47%)
($220,564)
Indiana politics has changed less because life here has changed less than in other states. The
cultural and ethnic patterns in Indiana today are not much different from what the Lynds found
in the 1920s and 1930s. Ethnically, except for the steel area around Gary-really an extension of
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INDIANA Congressional Districts, Counties, and Selected Places - (10 Districts)
of the state, if you leave the northwest industrial zone from Gary to South Bend aside; it went
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4
5
66"
6
7
65*
6
9
84"
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nearly 2 to 1 for Reagan in 1984 and Bush in 1988. And while the northwest's share of the
42"
42"
statewide vote is falling, the share of booming and growing metro Indianapolis, which extends
MICHIGAN
Michigan
A
City,
Mishawsha
into eight counties, is growing. The auto factory towns of Kokomo and Anderson, Muncie and
A
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Rest Chicago
D
(tery
Eikhart
DIFIEN
Fort Wayne, though once Democratic and suffering from some of the nation's highest
Hammoned
Bouth
LAGRANGE
(.)
ELKHART
Highlanding
Merrilivities
Portage
LA PORTE
OSEPH
unemployment in the early 1980s, nevertheless voted for Reagan-Bush in 1984 and Bush-Quayle
3
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DE KALB
LAKE
NOBLE
B
STARKE
in 1988. In the 1920s the Lynds, liberal academics influenced by Marx's idea that political acts
B
Fort
WHITLEY
were determined by economic interests, were puzzled as to why the factory workers didn't vote
Wayne
JASPER
O
PULASKI
FULTON
41"
ALLEN
41"
against the bosses; in the 1930s, they were cheered by signs that they were. Why don't they now?
5
WABASH
The answer is that cultural identity and personal values have usually been more important
WHITE
CASS
MIAMI
c
WELLS
ADAMS
c
CARROLL
Marion
determinants changeable. of political allegiance in an America where economic status is so often readily
BENTON
Kokomo
BLACKFORD
GRANT
HOWARD
JAY
Lafayette
OHIO
WARREN
This does not mean that the Republicans always win-although they have held national
TIPTON
D
CLINTON
DELAWARE
D
ILLINOIS
Democratic tickets to no more than 40% of the vote in all but three elections since 1952. Evan
Muficie
RANDOLPH
a
TON
40"
BOONE
6
Bayh's capture of the governorship in 1988 was presaged by his defeat of former Governor and
40"
Indianapolis
MARION
HENRY
Lawrence
Richmond
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen's son for secretary of state in 1976, and
E
VERMILLION
PARKE
WAYNE
E
despite a fiercely partisan Republican redistricting plan, the Democrats have held half or more
PUTNAM
10
RUSH
UNION
SHELBY
of the state's U.S. House delegation throughout the 1980s. In 1988, they won an even split in the
Terry
B
MORGAN
2
FAYETTE
FRANKLIN
state House-each party will have a "speaker du jour," alternating in the chair-and cut the
VIGO
CLAY
OWEN
DECATUR
F
Columbus
F
Republican margin in the state Senate to 26-24. Over the long run the large number of Hoosiers
BROWN
Bloomingto
MONROE
RIPLEY
with ancestral ties to each party has given both a base and the ability of the out-party to adapt to
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BARTHOLOMEW
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JENNINGS
JACKSON
OHIO,
local circumstances and attack the ins' shortcomings has assured a pretty regular rotation in
LAWRENCE
WASHINGTON
JEFFERSON
G
G
office. The national Republicans' occasional emphasis on free market economics has not played
KNOX DAVIESS
SCOTT
SWITZERLAND
very well in this factory state, which lost jobs during much of the decade; and the national
ORANGE
CLARK
emphasis on conservative cultural values does not help Republicans against local Democrats
PIKE
DUBOIS
GIBSON
FLOYD
CRAWFORD
Newl
N
H
because they represent no challenge to them. So after a long and mostly successful 20 years in
H
Albamy
VANDERBURGH
HARRISON
WARRICK
PERRY
office, the Republicans fell victim in 1988 to the forces which for 150 years have produced
POSEY
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closely contested two-party politics in Indiana.
LEGEND
KENTUCKY
2
Congressional district number
Governor. In 1988 Indiana exchanged the nation's oldest governor, Robert Orr (born in 1917),
I
I
Congressional district boundery
Place of 100,000 or more inhabRants
for the youngest, Evan Bayh (born in 1955). Orr, barred from a third term, vigorously supported
Piece of 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitients
Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, and Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut did not run. (Indiana
Place of 25,000 50,000 inhabitants
SCALE
State capital underlined
parties for years nominated statewide candidates in conventions dominated by party officials;
0
20
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-g
-8
100
Kilometers
J
J
of
40
8
-g
100 Miles
now there can be primaries, but usually they don't amount to much.) Mutz had run Orr's
U.S. Department Commerce
BUREAU THE CERTUS
campaign to encourage and attract businesses and new jobs; he had an encyclopedic knowledge
1
88°
2
3
87*
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of Hoosier businesses and could claim considerable success. But the Republicans wasted much
Congressional districts established September 1961; all other boundaries are as of January 1960
time charging that Bayh didn't meet the state residency requirement, and Bayh put them on the
defensive on abolishing the 2% fee, even though a Republican law did end it in July 1988. Bayh
in the meantime charged that the Republicans had made too many concessions to attract a
the Chicago metropolitan area-Indiana has relatively few ethnics from the 1840-1924 wave of
Subaru-Isuzu plant and campaigned for spending and tax controls and, though the issue was
immigration. It has no great metropolitan areas: greater Indianapolis now has more than one
largely moot, against overpoliticization. In effect he got on the opposite side of two issues on
million people, but nothing like the singles and gay cultures of other metropolises. The divorce
which national Democrats are usually poorly positioned.
rate here is lower than the American average, and the percentage of households occupied by
The result was a comfortable, though not huge, Bayh victory, accompanied by Democratic
families and married people higher. The percentage of households with children is also high and,
gains in the legislature. An interesting question is whether Bayh will stick with the traditionally
if the population weren't a little older than the national average, would be among the highest in
the United States. Even the singles ads in Indianapolis Monthly emphasize physical fitness and
will. low levels of state taxes and services. The likelihood is that he, like earlier Democratic governors,
Christian values. This is a state not far from the more innocent America of barbershop quartets
Senators. If you had told almost anyone in Washington in early 1988 that an Indiana Senator
and ice cream socials.
would have been George Bush's choice for Vice President, the immediate assumption would
These patterns have important political consequences in a time when the old economic
have been that you were talking about Richard Lugar. As chairman of the Senate Foreign
antagonisms between union members and management supporters seem to have dissipated.
Relations Committee in 1985 and 1986, after the defeat of Charles Percy and before
Indianapolis, by far the largest metropolitan area, is consistently more Republican than the rest
Republicans lost their Senate majority, Lugar was a national and international figure of great
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stature. He did as much as anyone in Congress, perhaps as much as anyone in government, to get
rather than a deep resonance. That he has brains and works hard are quickly apparent, but his
Ferdinand Marcos out of the Malacanang Palace in Manila and a democratic government,
strength of character and quiet persistence show up only over time. Yet perhaps it is only a
headed by Corazon Aquino, in. He fought the Democrats on contra aid and the Reagan
machine that would advance a man of this demeanor, in the confidence that his competence
Administration on South African sanctions, yet he seems better positioned to-and more
would sustain his career. It has, and over a few bumps. Republican Party leaders slated him for
interested in-establishing a genuinely bipartisan foreign policy. He has long taken time out
mayor of Indianapolis in 1967, when he was 35; he consolidated the city and county into Unigov,
each day to read and write, and his 1988 book, Letters to the Next President, is thoughtful and
which added tax resources to the city and also had the happy effect of adding more Republican
definitely not ghost-written.
votes to city elections. In the late 1960s, Lugar bucked fashion among big-city mayors and called
On one issue after another his philosophy and his analysis have led him into positions that are
for fewer rather than more federal programs, and nonetheless upset the much-ballyhooed John
politically risky. He led the 1978 filibuster against the AFL-CIO's labor law reform bill; like
Lindsay for the presidency of the National League of Cities in 1970. He became known as
most Indiana Republicans, he has always been an adversary of organized labor, but he went out
Richard Nixon's favorite mayor-not a political asset in 1974, when he ran against and lost
of his way to antagonize a group that then had a large constituency in the state. He provided key
51%-46% to Senator Birch Bayh. But in the more favorable climate of 1976 and against a
support in 1978 for the loan guarantees to Chrysler, a big employer in Indiana, but he also
weaker Democratic incumbent, Vance Hartke, he won 59%-40%.
insisted on requiring bigger wage and benefit concessions than the UAW wanted. He voted
In 1988 Lugar's reelection campaign set records. Against an underfinanced Democrat who
against several versions of the Civil Rights Restoration Act because he believed it impinged on
never got any ads on the air, Lugar won 68% of the vote-well above the record for Indiana, Dan
the free exercise of religious beliefs. He voted against the 1988 trade bill in a midwestern state
Quayle's 61% in 1986. This was far better than Lugar's 54% against incumbent Congressman
where workers have been trained to think that foreigners are taking their jobs-though, as he
Floyd Fithian in the recession year of 1982; this time, Lugar lost Lake County (Gary and the
pointed out, Indiana exports plenty of agricultural products, pharamaceuticals, steel, and auto
adjacent steel towns) and carried the other 91 counties in the state, all but 8 of them with more
parts.
than 60% of the vote. No Indiana senator has ever been elected to a fourth term. Lugar will
He has also taken some leadership positions in the Senate. He chaired the Republican Senate
surely break that jinx if he runs again in 1994.
campaign committee in the 1983-84 cycle, and held control for the Republicans. He became an
For eight years Lugar's Hoosier colleague in the Senate was Dan Quayle, now Vice President.
admirer and close lieutenant of Majority Leader Howard Baker, and ran for majority leader
Now the junior Senator is Dan Coats, Quayle's aide when he was a congressman and his
himself after the 1984 election, running behind Bob Dole and Ted Stevens but ahead of James
successor in the House, appointed in his stead by outgoing Governor Robert Orr. But Coats is
McClure. Then he became the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
not Quayle's creature or anyone else's. When Quayle won his House seat in 1976, he hired Coats
became a major and positive force in American foreign policy. Lugar quickly took command
as his district representative, and it was Coats, an insurance man with a strongly traditional
over a committee sharply divided between Jesse Helms, who tends to conduct his own foreign
religious background, who put Quayle in touch with conservative Christians and others
policy, and liberal Democrats. Lugar supported the Reagan foreign policy generally and is a
concerned about moral issues at a time when most Indiana Republicans' personal contacts were
vigorous advocate of aid to the Nicaraguan contras. But on the Philippines he was ahead of the
with economic, not cultural, conservatives. When Quayle ran for the Senate in 1980, Coats ran
Administration: keeping in touch with Corazon Aquino as well as Ferdinand Marcos, and
for the House and after beating Paul Helmke, now the mayor of Fort Wayne, in the primary,
observing the elections. Lugar quickly concluded that Marcos's "victory" was fraudulent and, at
won the general election easily: the once marginal district around Fort Wayne had become by
a decisive point, called on him to leave office; the Administration followed. On South Africa
then heavily Republican.
Lugar backed the Senate bill that Reagan vetoed and then led the fight to override the veto. For
In the House Coats sat on the hyperactive Energy and Commerce Committee, where he
all this he received some criticism from the right. But he had done much to forge a bipartisan
opposed total natural gas decontrol and zeroing out Amtrak. But he spent much of his time as
consensus to advance democracy abroad and to oppose dictatorship, and Lugar is the first
the ranking Republican on the Select Committee on Children. There he shared the desire of
Foreign Relations chairman since William Fulbright to genuinely move the mind of the nation.
Democrats like George Miller to do something to help children, but opposed what he considered
He also seems to have moved Senate Republicans.
the Democrats' overbureaucratic schemes and favored Republican plans to raise the income tax
After the 1986 elections, Republicans lost control of the Senate, and Helms invoked his
exemption and provide tax credits for child care. He and other committee Republicans split
seniority to take the ranking minority position on Foreign Relations rather than Agriculture.
sharply from Miller and the Democrats over the issue of teenage pregnancy; Coats believes that
Helms claimed he was released from a 1984 campaign promise because he was seeking not the
sex counseling in schools that includes dispensing of contraceptives encourages premarital sex,
chair but the ranking position. In early January 1987 committee Republicans voted 7-0 for
and believes the emphasis should be put on encouraging abstinence until marriage. He has
Lugar, but that victory was overturned by the whole body of Republican Senators, 24-17.
sponsored an amendment to cut off federal education funds to states banning voluntary school
Helms quickly threw out Lugar's staff and installed his own; Lugar, who got the ranking position
prayer.
on Agriculture Helms had vacated, did likewise. This diminishes Lugar's central position on
In the Senate, Coats inherited Quayle's committee assignments, Labor and Armed Services
foreign policy in the short run and makes it harder for him to establish himself as the spokesman
and can be expected to have a similar voting record. Under Indiana law, although Quayle was
for his party. But the committee vote, and the narrowness of the wider vote despite the seniority
elected in 1986, Coats must face the voters again in 1990 for the remaining two years of the
principle, shows that Lugar in the long run is in the stronger and more respected position. In the
term. A few years older than Quayle, not as telegenic or effervescent, he has not been tested in a
meantime he has the ranking position on Agriculture which Helms abandoned-which means
statewide forum, and the Democrats are upbeat after their recent victories; so the 1990 contest
that he will have a major role in the difficult business of fashioning a 1989 farm bill, just as he
could turn out to be the kind of spirited contest Indiana was used to up to 1980, rather than the
did in the farm credit law of 1987.
much tamer and more one-sided campaigns it has had since. Marion County Prosecutor Stephen
Lugar is not the sort of man you would expect to rise out of a machine politics. He is bookish
Goldsmith, widely known after 10 years on Indianapolis TV, wants to run for the Republican
rather than gregarious, more unimposing than charismatic, his voice has a nasal undertone
nomination; but present law, according to state chairman Gordon Durnil, says the state
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committee chooses the nominee. Possible Democratic nominees include Congressman Frank
1988 Presidential Vote
McCloskey and former Secretary of State Larry Conrad.
Presidential politics. Indiana remains one of the most Republican of states in presidential
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presentatives)
Dukakis (D).
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elections. Did Dan Quayle's popularity make it more Republican in 1988? Maybe in his old
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congressional district, the 4th, where the Bush-Quayle ticket ran even with Reagan-Bush '84;
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but not in the rest of the state. Indiana has a presidential primary that was once one of the earlier
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76%
contests: in May 1968, for example, it was the scene of an epic battle between Robert Kennedy,
Gore.
Eugene McCarthy and Roger Branigin, the hapless governor who was a stand-in for President
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Johnson. In 1984 Indiana's primary was overshadowed by Ohio's the same day; curiously
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9) SDI Research
FOR
9%
enough, Gary Hart won both by similar margins. In 1988 Indiana voted after both parties'
10) Ban Chem Weaps
FOR
2811) Aid to Contras
nominees had been determined.
GOVERNOR
1988
Congressional districting. Indiana's 1981 redistricting went up to the Supreme Court in 1986.
1861
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2) Nuclear Testing
AGN
It's decision was a classic muddle: it ruled that state legislatures can draw lines for partisan
Gov. Evan Bayh (D)
National
advantage but that courts can overturn them if they're egregious; then it went on to uphold
Economic
(61%)
($1,979,561)
Indiana's lines, although it's not likely that anyone could come up with a clearer case of partisan
(38%)
($127,187)
motivation. The better course would have been to uphold these lines and any that meet the
b,
equal-population standard, because the advantage any party can get from district-drawing is
($2,289,838)
limited severely by the one-person-one-vote rule. Indiana is a fine example of this. In 1982
Care.
Republicans won 51% of House votes and 5 of the 10 seats. In 1984 they won 53% of the House
votes and 5 seats, counting the bitterly contested 8th District the way the House did, for
Election Rt
Key " 2) THE THE Aged
($2,773,254)
Office:
Democrat Frank McCloskey. In 1986, they won 49% of House votes and in 1988, 48%, and each
1988 gen.
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time took 4 of the 10 seats. Altogether under their own plan Republicans have won 51% of the
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votes but only 17 of 40 seats. And by trying to maximize the number of seats they can carry, they
1988 prim.
Evan
Election general
tury ago called
also maximized their vulnerability by spreading their strength too thin: Governor Evan Bayh
Stephen.
astern edge of
carried 9 of the 10 districts while winning statewide with just 53% in 1988.
Frank O'L
anufacturing
The prospects for 1990, with a Democratic governor and a legislature that the Democrats do
1984 gen.
Robert D. L
efinery, and
not yet control, are for a compromise plan, protecting most incumbents, with little change in
W. Wayne Ton
te or heavy
district lines.
DanGreat gas, gas
The People: Est. Pop. 1988: 5,575,000; Pop. 1980: 5,490,224, up 1.5% 1980-88 and 5.7% 1970-80;
Sen.
and out
2.28% of U.S. total, 14th largest. 12% with 1-3 yrs. col., 12% with 4+ yrs. col.; 9.7% below poverty level.
SENATORS
ver the
Single ancestry: 13% German, 12% English, 4% Irish, 1% Polish, French, Dutch, Italian. Households
(1980): 76% family, 42% with children, 64% married couples; 28.3% housing units rented; median
Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R)
ment
anks,
monthly rent: $166; median house value: $37,200. Voting age pop. (1980): 3,871,906; 7% Black, 1%
Elected 1976, seat up 1994; b. Apr. 4, 1932
Spanish origin. Registered voters (1988): 2,865,870; no party registration.
of
Indianapolis; Denison U., B.A. 1954; Rhodes
M.A. 1956; Methodist; married (Charlene).
1988 Share of Federal Tax Burden: $17,634,000,000; 1.99% of U.S. total, 16th largest.
Career: Navy, 1957-60; V.P. and Treas., Thomas
Co., 1960-67; Indianapolis Bd. of Sch. Commissioner.
1988 Share of Federal Expenditures
Mayor of Indianapolis, 1968-75; Repub. Nominee for U.L
Total
Non-Defense
Defense
1974; Visiting prof., U. of Indianapolis, 1976.
Total Expend
$14,807m
(1.67%)
$11,661m
(1.78%)
$2,559m
(1.12%)
St/Lcl Grants
Offices: 306 HSOB 20510, 202-224-4814. Also 46 E. Ohio, 1
1,960m
(1.71%)
1,199m
(1.05%)
Om
(0.43%)
Salary/Wages
447, Indianapolis 46204, 317-269-5555; Fed. Bldg., 1300 S. Han.
1,606m
(1.20%)
901m
(1.34%)
706m
(1.34%)
Pymnts to Indiv
son St., Rm. 340, Fort Wayne 46802, 219-422-1505; Fed. Bldg.,
8,583m
(2.10%)
8,414m
(2.15%)
168m
(0.90%)
Procurement
101 N.W. 7th St., Rm. 103, Evansville 47708, 812-465-6313; Fed.
1,681m
(0.89%)
173m
(0.37%)
1,681m
(0.89%)
Ctr., Rm. 103, 1201 E. 10th St., Jeffersonville 47132, 812-288-
Research/Other
977m
(2.62%)
974m
(2.63%)
3m
(2.63%)
3377; and Fed. Bldg., 5500 Sohl Ave., Hammond 46320, 219-937-
5380.
Political Lineup: Governor, Evan Bayh (D); Lt. Gov., Frank O'Bannon (D); Secy. of State, Joseph
Hogsett (D); Atty. Gen., Linley E. Pearson (R); Treasurer, Marjorie H. O'Laughlin (R); Auditor, Ann
Committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Ranking
DeVore (R). State Senate, 50 (26 R and 24 D); State House of Representatives, 100 (50 R and 50 D).
Member of 9 R). Foreign Relations (2nd of 9 R). Subcommittees: International Economic Policy,
Senators, Richard G. Lugar (R) and Daniel R. Coats (R). Representatives, 10 (6.I and 4 R).
Trade, Oceans and Environment; East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps
Affairs (Ranking Member).
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Group Ratings
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1988 LIB - 1988 CONS
1987 LIB - 1987 CONS
1988
10
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11
50
40
88
71
90
92
56
Economic
27%
-
72%
0%
-
89%
1987
5
-
10
33
-
72
-
-
88
64
Social
20%
-
78%
0%
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90%
Foreign
27%
-
71%
20%
-
76%
National Journal Ratings
Key Votes (as Member of the U.S. House of Representatives)
1988 LIB - 1988 CONS
1987 LIB - 1987 CONS
Economic
I) Homeless $
FOR
9%
6% -
5) Ban Drug Test
FOR
81%
9) SDI Research
FOR
-
87%
70%
2) Gephardt Amdt
AGN
Social
6) Drug Death Pen
FOR
28%
26%
10) Ban Chem Weaps
FOR
-
-
73%
3) Deficit Reduc
AGN
7) Handgun Sales
FOR
Foreign
31%
11) Aid to Contras
FOR
-
66%
27%
-
71%
4) Kill Plnt Clsng Notice AGN
8) Ban D.C. Abort $
FOR
12) Nuclear Testing
AGN
Key Votes
Election Results
1) Cut Aged Housing $
AGN
5) Bork Nomination
FOR
9) SDI Funding
FOR
1986 general
J. Danforth (Dan) Quayle (R)
936,143
(61%)
($1,979,561)
2) Override Hwy Veto
AGN
6) Ban Plastic Guns
FOR
10) Ban Chem Weaps
FOR
Jill Long (D)
595,192
(38%)
($127,187)
3) Kill Plnt Clsng Notice FOR
7) Deny Abortions
FOR
11) Aid To Contras
FOR
1986 primary
J. Danforth (Dan) Quayle (R)
357,612
(100%)
4) Min Wage Increase
AGN
8) Japanese Reparations
FOR
12) Reagan Defense $ FOR
1980 general
J. Danforth (Dan) Quayle (R)
1,182,414
(54%)
($2,289,838)
Birch E. Bayh, Jr. (D)
1,015,922
(46%)
($2,773,254)
Election Results
1988 general
Richard G. Lugar (R)
1,430,525
(68%)
($3,244,601)
Jack Wickes (D)
668,778
(32%)
($314,233)
FIRST DISTRICT
1988 primary
Richard G. Lugar (R), unopposed
1982 general
Richard G. Lugar (R)
978,301
(54%)
($2,987,573)
"Striking by day and beautiful by night," the writer of the WPA Guide half a century ago called
Floyd Fithian (D)
828,400
(46%)
($870,023)
"the 16-mile crescent of the lake shore, from the Illinois line on the west to the eastern edge of
Gary." It was and is "broken only by three small parks, a continuous array of manufacturing
plants. Over the entire district are the smoke of the steel mill, the smell of the oil refinery, and
the glow of the blast furnace. Column after column of stacks pour forth steamy white or heavy
Sen. Daniel R. Coats (R)
black smoke. Giant steel towers supporting high-tension cables stride over the region. Great gas
Appointed Jan. 1989 to fill term of Vice President J. Danforth
reservoirs move imperceptibly up and down in huge steel frameworks. Cranes, oil distilleries,
Quayle, term up 1990; b. May 16, 1943, Jackson, MI; home, Fort
collieries, and giant factories stand silhouetted against the sky. Freight engines weave in and out
Wayne; Wheaton Col., B.A. 1965, IN U., J.D. 1971; Baptist;
with long strings of cars. Great banks of coal lie waiting for blast furnaces. Bridges lift over the
married (Marcia).
ship canal so that steamers and ore boats may pass. Everywhere in the composite of movement
Career: Army Corps of Engineers, 1966-68; Asst. V.P. and Coun-
and noise thousands of workers hurry in and out. At night, myriads of light outline shafts, tanks,
sel, Mutual Security Life Ins., Co., 1972-76; Dist. Rep. for U.S.
and framework. Flames from open hearth furnaces light the sky for miles." This is the heart of
Rep. J. Danforth Quayle, 1976-80; U.S. House of Reps., 1980-88.
the 1st Congressional District of Indiana, the northwest corner of Hoosier America.
Offices: 411 RSOB 20515, 202-224-5623. Also 46 E. Ohio St.,
Steel created this part of the Midwest in the first half of this century. The largest city, Gary,
Rm. 247, Indianapolis 46204, 317-226-5555; Fed. Bldg., 1300 S.
was founded in 1906 on the sand dunes by the shores of Lake Michigan by J. P. Morgan's
Harrison St., Rm. 340, Fort Wayne 46802, 219-422-1505; 1201 E.
colossal United States Steel Corporation and named for one of Morgan's partners, Chicago
10th St., Bldg. 66, Rm. 103, Jeffersonville 47132, 812-288-3377;
Judge Elbert Gary. The site chosen seemed ideal. Iron ore from the Lake Superior ranges could
127 N.W. 7th St., Evansville 47708, 812-465-6313; and 5500 Sohl
be carried on Great Lakes freighters to the huge man-made port at the southern tip of Lake
Ave., Hammond 46320, 219-937-5380.
Michigan. Coal from West Virginia and Pennsylvania could be shipped in by rail on the great
Committees: Armed Services (9th of 9 R). Subcommittees: Con-
east-west rail lines that pass through Gary, Hammond and East Chicago on their way to
ventional Forces and Alliance Defense; Defense Industry and
Chicago. The local political environment was favorable: Indiana has always been a low-tax state,
Technology; Readiness, Sustainability and Support. Labor and Human Resources (4th of 7 R).
and for years the Lake County assessor let the steel companies' own auditors set their
Subcommittees: Aging; Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism.
assessments. For nearly 70 years the steel mills attracted a diverse work force, much like that in
Chicago and quite unlike the rest of Indiana-Irish, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians and blacks from
Group Ratings (as Member of the U.S. House of Representatives)
the American South. These groups live today in uneasy proximity, and much of the politics in
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the area has reflected ethnic and racial rivalries.
COC
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1988
10
13
13
64
38
92
75
80
93
60
Today the steel country of the Indiana dunes is in trouble. Some mills stand cold and silent;
1987
8
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11
7
-
91
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100
74
storefronts are empty block after block; unemployment is high and population declining. Yet
there has been some recovery and adaptation. As total U.S. steel production sinks to the amount
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COMMITTEES.
DAN COATS
ARMED SERVICES
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LABOR AND HUMAN
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(202) 224-5623
INDIANAPOLIS orrier
United States Senate
ROOM 447. an FAST OHIO STREET
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(317) 226-5556
FROM THE OFFICE OF
U.S. SENATOR DAN COATS
407 Russell Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
phone: 202/224-5623
TO:
JEANNIE NAPPO
CURT SMITH
FROM:
MESSAGE:
1. VETO INTRO
2. VETO VOTE
3. AFA INTRO (3PG)
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U.S. Senator Dan Coats
of Indiana
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CURT SMITH
202-224-8733
August 4, 1989
COATS' BILL AIMED AT CUTTING CONGRESSIONAL PORK:
President Bush Gives Support at White House
Washington -- "Congressional spending is wildly out of
control and one of the major ways to curb it is to give the
President a legislative line item veto." With that, Senator Dan
Coats today introduced ma jor legislation giving the President
more power to impound or cancel appropriated funds.
"In a nutshell, what my bill does is give back to the
President the ability to swing the axe when it comes to
Congressional pork," said Coats. "The time has come to
declare that enough is enough."
The Budget Control and Impoundment Act, passed in 1974,
weakened the President's hand by allowing Congress the right to
say no to recommended cuts (recissions) without having to go on
record.
"Under current law, the President sends up his recommended
cuts," said Coats, "and if Congress does not act to approve
them, they become meaningless. The cuts simply die on the vine
while Congress spends more and more."
Congress' attitude towards Presidential recissions has
become one of nearly total neglect. "For instance, in 1987,
President Reagan sent to Capitol Hill 73 recissions but only
3 percent of that amount was approved,' said Coats. "And the
year before? Five percent. Let's face it: the only time
Congress has shown much interest in the President's requested
cuts has been in a new Administration's first year. That is not
acceptable."
The Coats' bill puts the responsibility back on Congress
because it requires a vote to disapprove any recissions occur, or
they go into effect. The President would send up recissions with
his annual budget submission and the Congress would have 20 days
to react. If Congress does not pass a disapproval resolution the
recissions would go into effect.
"The burden is on Congress to say publicly why fat should
not be cut," said Coats. "I welcome this and hope my colleagues
would as well. Congress will now have to do more than accuse
everyone but themselves of fearing tough spending choices.'
Coats noted he has 32 co-sponsors on his bill already, and
he expects additional support. Coats went to the Oval Office
todav and gained the support of President Rush.
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today and gained the support of President Bush.
The Coats' bill also gives the President power to line-item
veto appropriated funds within 20 days of signing a spending
bill. Then Congress again has 20 days to say no, or the cuts
would be made. "This is similar to the power many of the
nation's governors have," said Coats. "It allows the Chief
Executive to cut the pork from these huge, continuing resolutions
fattened by last-minute goodies added by Congress."
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"My proposal puts the ball in Congress' court and allows the
President to have another tool with which to trim the federal
deficit," said Coats. "No longer can the Congress simply ignore
the President's spending priorities and then blame the growing
deficit on the Chief Executive."
Coats worked with a wide-ranging group of Capitol Hill
budget leaders in crafting the Legislative Line Item
Veto/Enhanced Recission Proposal.
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U.S. Senator Dan Coats
of Indiana
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CURT SMITH
202-224-8733
September 13, 1989
COATS' LINE-ITEM VETO BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
Would Cut Congressional Pork-Barrel Spending
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Dan Coats' Legislative Line Item
Veto bill was introduced in the House of Representatives today.
Coats introduced the bill in the Senate last month.
"Runaway federal spending continues to fuel talk of tax
increases on Capitol Hill," Coats said. "This legislation would
substantially reform the federal budget process, because we don't
need more taxes. We need a budget process that strikes out at
wasteful and unnecessary government spending.
Coats is proposing a modified line item veto, which would
permit the President to pull 'pork-barrel projects' from federal
spending bills and send them back to Congress for a second vote.
Under current law, the President is allowed to recommend
such cuts, but Congress is not required to act on them. As a
result, it seldom does.
Coats' bill would give Congress 20 days in which to approve,
or disapprove suggested cuts. If Congress fails to act, or fails
to summon the majority needed to overturn the President's
recommendations, the cuts would go into effect.
Coats' bill would also give the President the power to line-
item veto appropriated funds within 20 days of signing a spending
bill. Again, Congress would have 20 days to say no, or the cuts
would be made.
"Congress has been playing pork-barrel politics with
taxpayers' money for too long," Coats said. "It's time we give
the President the power he needs to trim the bloated federal
budget.
Coats' legislation is cosponsored in the Senate by John
McCain (R-AZ) and 32 other Senators, and in the House by Tom
Tauke (R-IA) and Tim Penny (D-MN).
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U.S. SENATOR FOR INDIANA
DAN COATS
.......
NEWS RELEASE
407 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510-1403 (202) 224-8733
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CURT SMITH
202-224-8733
November 9, 1989
SENATE VOTES ON COATS BUDGET REFORM MEASURE
Legislative Line-Item Veto Would Cut
Wasteful and Nonessential Spending
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate today voted on Senator Coats'
budget reform measure, the Legislative Line-Item Veto. The
measure failed to gain a majority on a procedural vote of 40-51.
"The debate today was valuable, and I will continue to push
for this reform," Coats said after the vote. "My supporters and
I believe that the Line-Item Veto for the President is the way to
put a halt to Congressional pork-barrel spending and restore
order and fiscal responsibility to the budgeting process.
"For the first time in U.S. history, the budget deficit now
tops $3 billion. Our budget deficit is larger than the Gross
National Product of 158 of the world's 167 nations," Coats said.
"Fifteen percent of the budget is spent just to finance that
debt-- at a rate of $5,000 a second."
Under Coats' proposal, the President is allowed to veto
"pork-barrel" projects from federal spending bills and send them
back to Congress. Every spending cut made by the President would
take effect in 20 days unless Congress specifically disapproves
of it in a vote. To keep its pork projects, Congress must vote
to overturn the proposed cuts. If Congress does nothing, the
cuts stand.
Under current law, the President is allowed to recommend
such cuts, but Congress is not required to act on them. As a
result, it seldom approves the President's recommended cuts.
The Budget Control and Impoundment Act, passed in 1974,
weakened the President's hand by allowing Congress the right to
say no to recommended cuts (rescissions) without having to go on
record.
"In a nutshell, what my bill does is give back to the
President the ability to swing the axe when it comes to
Congressional pork," Coats said. "The burden would be on
Congress to say publicly why fat should not be cut.
"By this reform, Congress would no longer be able to protect
its excess by simply avoiding a vote on wasteful spending--
hiding behind a shield of practiced indecision. Congress, in
short, would have to put itself on record. If it does nothing,
the cut stands.
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"We have a budget process that simply doesn't work. When
Congress sends spending to the President that cannot be justified
on its merits, it is attached to important appropriations bills.
This ties the President's hands, leaving him with a take-it-or-
leave-it decision on the entire bill. It also obscures such
pork-barrel spending in the shuffle of the budgeting process.
Such deception cannot continue, and my bill would put a stop to
it."
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U.S. Senator Dan Coats
of Indiana
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CURT SMITH
202-224-5623
MAY 11, 1989
COATS INTRODUCES AMERICAN FAMILY ACT - A COMPREHENSIVE
APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS FACING AMERICA'S FAMILIES
WASHINGTON -- Senator Dan Coats, R-IN, in a press conference
with House and Senate leaders, today unveiled an omnibus bill
designed to address the needs of America's families.
"Families are the cornerstone of American society," said
Coats, "and yet Congress has always addressed the needs of
families in a piecemeal fashion - when those needs were even
considered at all.
"For the past few decades, the American family has been
crippled by the destructive backfire of our best intentions. The
time has come to retire these exhausted notions and create a
comprehensive policy to strengthen our families - those vital
shelters for civilized standards. What is required is a new
agenda for the American family - a rational framework for
thoughtful activism."
The package introduced by Coats, entitled the American
Family Act, is comprised of twenty-six separate pieces of
legislation. It is an outgrowth of Coats' work as the Republican
leader of the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families
during his service in the House of Representatives and his
current position as ranking Republican on the Senate Labor and
Human Resources Subcommittee on Children, Families, Drugs and
Alcoholism. His proposals are the result of two years of field
work studying innovative programs that have been effective in
communities across the country.
The provisions of the bill cluster around educational
reform, family support, "at-risk" children, and families in need.
It addresses the problems of gangs, expands parental choice,
encourages diversity, targets the needy, and recognizes that the
essentials of civility and patriotism are as important as the
essentials of math and literature. The bill also includes
legislation to provide tax credits for child care expenses, and
despite its wide-ranging nature, will cost $2.5 billion - less
than the ABC child care bill alone.
Coats was joined at the press conference by Rep. Jerry
Lewis, Chairman of the House Republican Conference and House
sponsor of the bill; Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole; and House
Minority Leader Bob Michel. The legislation is similar to a
package introduced by Coats last year in the House which was
adopted, in part, by the Republican Platform Committee RR well AR
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adopted, in part, by the Republican Platform Committee as well as
President Bush's campaign.
"While it is true that these proposals are innovative, they
are not hasty experiments bred of impatience or despair," said
Coats. "They are, instead, confident reforms, rooted in tested
principals of choice and excellence. They set a new course. But
the direction is really a return to ideas we should never have
forgotten in the first place."
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sonally and substantially in any fed-
Costello. in an Interview with
congressional etines HUCS 511 use
Butte
Washington Post staff writer
administration could replace them
Image
eral agency procurement" from
George C. Wilson, called the ethics
with the president's bill.
dealing with contracts they have
rules a "fuszy law." They were
"They assured me that this was
District
awarded to private firms after they
passed in connection with the re-
not the case." Glenn said.
leave the government. The regu-
Educ:
Subce
secon
Suber
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GOP Welfare Plan, With a Difference
priva
Subcr
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Sen. Coats Ties Federal Seed Money, Local Initiatives
Subcr
envire
Subci
For example, Coats and his allies
touris
By Spencer Rich
said schools are being run by rote
Washington Post Staff Writer
under stifling bureaucratic rules, so
Forei
Liberal-leaning policy groups and
small grants should be made to help
Task
school districts experiment with
contro
Democrats like Rep. George Miller
(D-Calif.) often recommend big fed-
letting each school divvy up its bud-
Gove
eral welfare increases to shore up
get and construct its curriculum to
Subc
the American family. Only yester-
meet the specific needs of its stu-
intern
day, a Ford Foundation panel pro-
dents.
Sur
posed $29 billion annually in new
Coats and his group also strongly
nation
federal spending.
favor stimulating open enrollment
But * bloc of Republicans led by
policies in which each family can
Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Rep.
choose the school in the local dis-
Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) has come up
trict that its child will attend. Thus,
5-12-89
with a different approach.
schools will have to compete with
To many it may sound like the
attractive programs tailored to stu-
"traditional" conservative Repub-
with a big potential payoff. it can
dent needs.
lican stance of absolute opposition
provide federal seed money for
About $450 million would be al-
to almost all federal involvement in
demonstration grants and other
lotted to stimulating "bootstrap.
family and personal matters and to
ways of spreading the information
schools" in low-income areas that
big infusions of federal funds, but
to more communities.
experiment with merit pay. open
there is a difference.
One example: stimulate remedial
enrollment and increasing the ratio
Coats, who before coming to the
reading programs for low-income
of teachers to non-teachers on staff.
Senate was senior Republican of the
parents who then also work with
The program proposes grants to
their children on reading. Both ben-
schools to stimulate "character ed-
IDEAS AND FINDINGS
efit.
ucation" and traditional values: pa-
Another: substitute some form of
triotism (including reciting the
House Select Committee on Chil-
reasonable law enforcement for big
federal spending. While many Dem-
Pledge of Allegiance), personal in-
dren, made clear at a news confer-
ocralls favor raising welfare pay-
tegrity, respect for others' rights,
ence yesterday, backed by House
GOP Leader Robert H. Michel (R-
ments, Hyde proposed making it a
pride in one's work, respect for the
III.). Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-III.) and
crime (or an absentee father to
family.
The most costly item ($1.9 bil-
THE WASHINGTON POST
others, that he does not believe the
cross a state line to evade child-
government should simply back way
support. The package also would
lion) is President Bush's $1,000
tax-credit for low-income-family
from the problems of family disso-
spur a variety of local effort to con-
trol juvenile gangs, such as allowing
child-care. Conts and Lewis said
lution.
Coats says he thinks the federal
courts to hold parents liable for
regulations that would deny use of
harm done by their children.
such money for care by "religious
government can play an effective
role without pumping in anything
Instilling "civility and patriotism"
centers, neighbors or parents who
and traditional values of responsi-
don't work is unacceptable."
like $29 billion a year and without
setting nationwide rules that stifle
bility and effort "are as important as
To make it easy for a low-income
the essentials of math and litera-
family to benefit from existing pro-
local initiative.
Nestled in local communities. he
ture" in holding the family and so-
grams, the legislation would help
said, is R wealth of Ideas and expe-
ciety together, Coats and Lewis
subsidize neighborhood "family sup-
rience about what works best in
said.
port centers," which at a single site
local situations. The best role for
This, ultimately more effective
would include prenatal and postua-
than massive federal monetary in-
tal health care, nurse-practitioner
the national government, Coats
tervention, Coats said, can be done
health services, Head Start. food
said, to seek out what local active
ists have been learning about "steps
for little. He laid down a package of
programs, parenting education
that would make a difference, that
26 bills with an annual federal cost
courses and drug-prevention pro-
do work." Then, at modest cost
of $2.5 billion.
grams.
THE NEW REGIME
contirmed
for
the
V11,
that
Indiana
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STEUBEM
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STATE THE OF OF INDIANA SEAL
Acturn
ALLEN
and
ADAMS
1816
December
JAY
STATE OF INDIANA
RANDOLPH
Name: Latin form of "Indian" meaning
Evansville (130,000 - 1984)
"land of the Indians."
South Bend (107,000 - 1984)
Nickname: Hoosier State
Hammond (93,714 - 1980)
WAYNE
Capital:-Indianapolis
Muncie (77,216 - 1980)
Motto: The Crossroads of America
Area: 36,185 sq. mi.
Richmond
UNION
Rank: 38th
PAYMENTE
Symbols and Emblems:
Lawry
Highest Point: 1,257 ft.
Bird: Cardinal
FRAMKLIN
1
Flower: Peony
Lowest Point: 320 ft., Ohio River
Tree: Tulip Poplar
H.S. Completed: 66.4% (1980)
RPLEY
DEARBORN
Stone: Limestone
Song: "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far
Four Yrs. College Completed: 12.5%
(1980)
OHIO
Away"
Sun
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SWITZERLAND
Population:
STATE GOVERNMENT
1985: 5,499,000 (1985)
ELECTED OFFICIALS (4 year
Rank: 14th
terms, expiring Jan. 1989):
Gain or Loss (1970-80): + 295,000
GOVERNOR: $66,000 plus discretionary
Projection (1980-2000): + 189,000
expenses (1986)
Density: 153 per sq. mi. of land (1984)
LT. GOV.: $51,000 plus discretionary ex-
In 3. as, 50
Percent urban: 64.2% (1980)
penses (1986)
miles
Racial Makeup (1980):
SEC. OF STATE: $46,000 (1986)
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White: 91.14%
GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
Black: 7.5%
#
E
Meetings: Annually in Indianapolis
Hispanic: 87,020 persons
Salary: $11,600 per annum plus $75 a day
S
Indian: 7,800 persons
while in session and $15 a day when not in
Others: 63,200 persons
session (1986)
= Facts On File. Inc 1964
Largest City:
Senate: 50 members
Indianapolis (710,000 - 1984)
House: 100 members
Other Cities:
Congressional Representatives
Fort Wayne (165,000 - 1984)
Senate: Terms expire 1989, 1993
Gary (143,000 - 1984)
House of Representatives: Ten members
238
Indiana, Early Peoples
of the state's western segment are Early
largest manufacturer of auto lighting equip-
Paleazoic; the eastern third, with a small finger
ment.
extending to the northwest corner, belongs to
Famed Indiana limestone provides the most
the Late Paleozoic period. Beginning with the
important mineral industry. Bedford limestone
Permian period, Indiana's geology was little
is particularly cherished for its ability to take
changed through Tertiary times.
fine carving, as well as for its sturdy building
Meteorologists classify the state's climate as
qualities. The Bedford-Bloomington region
moderate, with four distinct seasons. Consider-
produces over eighty percent of the country's
ing the lowest recorded temperature at minus
dimensional, or building, limestone, being the
35 degrees and the highest at 116 degrees, some
material of such structures as the Empire State
Indianans might quarrel with the "temperate"
Building and the ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO.
classification.
Despite the prominence of limestone, how-
The outstanding physical feature of Indiana
ever, COAL is still the leading mineral product of
is its Lake Michigan shoreline, with its
the state, followed by petroleum and natural
cherished sand dunes. This area is said to be. in
gas.
a number of ways, unlike any other in the
River traffic on the Ohio and several internal
world, with its unique topography and several
rivers, and shipbuilding are important trans-
unique plant types. The lakeshore also provides
portation factors. VINCENNES and TERRE HAUTE
Indiana with its invaluable toehold on the
are leading river ports, and barge traffic
GREAT LAKES, offering access to the world's
continues to increase on the Ohio. The new
oceans by way of the ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY.
Lake Michigan port of BURNS HARBOR added to
The soils above the surface and the minerals
the state's ability to absorb lake and ocean
below combine to form the most substantial
traffic by way of the St. Lawrence Seaway, as
natural assets of the state. Indiana ranks
well as the other Great Lakes. Indianapolis
eleventh among the states in total income from
plays an increasing role as a leading interior
farm products, fifth in the Midwest in farm
transportation center and is the largest U.S.
income. The state usually holds third rank in
city not on navigable water.
CORN production, its principal crop. SOYBEANS.
Indiana's population of 5,499,000 in 1985
HOGS and dairy products are the other ranking
showed an increase of only 9,000 over the
agricultural products.
figures for the 1980 census, but the small
Until the 20th Century, northwest Indiana
increase followed a three-year drop in popula-
seemed a nearly worthless swampy wasteland.
tion. Projections for the year 2000 are placed at
Then, with the coming of the steel mills at GARY.
5,679,000.
the area quickly became one of the world's
The population of Indiana is predominately
leading production centers. While steel produc-
white, of European origin. The black popula-
tion in the U.S. in general has faltered, Indiana
tion of slightly over 400,000 represents less
continues to be the country's second most
than one percent of the total.
important producer of steel and steel products.
Most of the information about prehistoric
The northwest sector is also a leader in
Indiana comes from the mounds found in the
petroleum processing, with major refineries of
state. MOUNDS STATE PARK preserves what is left
several of the largest oil companies.
of one of the more interesting of them. These
Indiana also holds leadership among the
mounds served different purposes, as sites for
states in the production of musical instruments.
temples, burial places and fortifications. Most
biological products and prefabricated buildings.
common of the mounds are the refuse dumps,
ELKHART, band instrument capital of the world,
called kitchen middens. From the other mounds
produces almost a third of the woodwind, brass
have come copper work, polished stone, textiles,
and percussion instruments manufactured in
basketry, evidences of the use of bow and arrow
the United States. Miles Laboratories, also at
and domestication of animals. Remains of the
Elkhart, is a major U.S. producer of pharma-
cultures of the HOPEWELL, ADENA and FORT
ceuticals.
ANCIENT have been found, but all of these appear
Indiana firms were pioneers in automobile
to have died off before European incursion.
production, beginning in 1899 with the Stude-
By the time European settlements were
baker car, and continuing with such once-well-
appearing in the American East, Indiana seems
known names as Duesenburg, Cord, Stutz
to have been almost bereft of human inhabit-
Auburn and Overland. The automobile industry
ants. Vagrant tribes profited from the fine
continues with important centers producing
hunting and fishing in the unpopulated area.
equipment and supplies, including the world's
However, by the time white explorers reached
239
Indiana, History
auto lighting equip-
the area, a number of tribes had settled. The
over. The king forbade further settlement east
POTAWATAMI and MIAMI were most important in
of the APPALACHIANS in order to preserve the
one provides the most
numbers. Other groups included the WYANDOT,
wilderness for fur bearing. However, the
try. Bedford limestone
SHAWNEE, OTTAWA, CHIPPEWA, Piankashaw, WEA,
stricture was mostly ignored.
for its ability to take
KICKAPOO and ILLINI.
Because the British treated the Indians
for its sturdy building
The Miami had a relatively high degree of
badly, Chief PONTIAC (1720?-1769) roused his
-Bloomington region
organization, operating with a man and woman
people to fight back, captured Fort Miami and
rcent of the country's
war chief and a different man and woman civil
drove the British forces out of the region, until
limestone, being the
chief for each tribal group. Principal evidence
they returned in 1777, during the Revolution.
es as the Empire State
of the Indian presence today is found only in
They were soon driven out again by the tiny
ITUTE OF CHICAGO.
such names as KoKoMo, Kankakee, Wawausee
force of American Revolutionaries under the
ce of limestone, how-
and, of course, the name of the state itself.
brilliant direction of George Rogers CLARK
ing mineral product of
Legends tell of Scandinavian explorers in the
(1752-1818), who captured Vincennes from the
betroleum and natural
area as early as 1200 A.D., resulting in a fabled
cruel British leader, Henry HAMILTON (-1796).
race of "white" Indians. Some of the Indian
The end of the Revolution did not end
io and several internal
languages are said to have words resembling
British hopes to hold the region. They
are important trans-
those in the Welsh language. Another dis-
encouraged their Indian allies to resist all
NNES and TERRE HAUTE
counted claim is that Samuel de CHAMPLAIN
American attempts to settle the area. Neverthe-
S, and barge traffic
(1567-1635) came inland as far as the site of
less, in 1783-84 Clark was able to establish
n the Ohio. The new
FORT WAYNE. Other French explorers probably
CLARKSVILLE as the first American settlement in
BURNS HARBOR added to
touched present Indiana, but firm records tell of
Indiana.
osorb lake and ocean
the arrival, first, of Robert Cavalier, Sieur de LA
When the eastern states gave up their claims
Lawrence Seaway, as
SALLE (1643-1687), at the mouth of the St.
to areas east of the Mississippi, Indiana came
Lakes. Indianapolis
Joseph River in 1679. He reached the present
under the famed NORTHWEST ORDINANCE, which
as a leading interior
site of SOUTH BEND on December 3rd. He and his
established the right of territories to become
d is the largest U.S.
men portaged across to the Kankakee River and
states when certain conditions had been
ater.
sailed down it out of present Indiana.
reached.
of 5,499,000 in 1985
At a great council with the Indians at South
As more and more of their lands were taken,
only 9,000 over the
Bend two years later, La Salle reached
the Miami formed a confederacy under Chief
ensus, but the small
agreement with the Indian leaders on setting up
LITTLE TURTLE (1752-1812) and made several
-year drop in popula-
trading posts and fortifications. However, the
successful attacks. They finally were defeated
ear 2000 are placed at
first fort, FORT OF THE MIAMIS at present Fort
by General "Mad" Anthony WAYNE (!745-1796)
Wayne, was not built until 1700, some say as
in the BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS (1794), waged
iana is predominately
late as 1714.
just east of the Indiana border.
n. The black popula-
Sometime in the period 1727-1732, VINCENNES
General Wayne then established Fort Wayne
0,000 represents less
was started by Francois Morgane de VINCENNES
and forced the Indians to sign the Treaty of
total.
(1700-1736). The coming of several families to
GREENE VILLE (1794), which opened much of
ion about prehistoric
Vincennes soon after the fort was established
Indiana to settlement. Indiana Territory, a
mounds found in the
supports its claim as the first permanent
much larger area than the present state, was
preserves what is left
European settlement in Indiana (1732-1733).
established under Governor William Henry
esting of them. These
Along with FORT QUIATENON and several others,
HARRISON.
purposes, as sites for
these forts were designed to protect the French
However, still more trouble with the Indians
d fortifications. Most
trade routes from Canada to New Orleans.
was ahead. Led by the renowned Chief
are the refuse dumps,
Paddling down the Maumee River, licensed
TECUMSEH (1768-1813), he and his Indian
rom the other mounds
travelers called VOYAGEURS, crossed the Fort
confederates tried to organize all the western
olished stone, textiles,
Miami portage, launched into the Little
Indians to oppose white advances. Governor
use of bow and arrow
Wabash and from there had a water passage to
Harrison defeated them in the minor Battle of
mals. Remains of the
the mouth of the Mississippi. The Indians
TIPPECANOE (1811), but much more trouble was
LL, ADENA and FORT
traded their furs for ammunition, utensils,
to follow during the WAR OF 1812, with sieges at
but all of these appear
blankets, hatchets and glittering trinkets. The
forts Harrison and Wayne and a massacre at
European incursion.
French settlers around the fort treated the
Pigeon's Roost. The end of the war brought
an settlements were
Indians as equals and always got along well with
most Indian dangers to a close, and Indiana was
them.
n East, Indiana seems
made a state on December 11, 1816.
ft of human inhabit-
Into this establishment more and more
In 1820 the site of Indianapolis, then with
ofited from the fine
British traders were intruding. When the
only two white settlers, was chosen as the state
he unpopulated area.
French had to give up their entire North
capital. Settlement continued, with such strik-
ite explorers reached
American holdings in 1763, the British took
ing new communities as Harmonie, founded as
240
Indiana, Personalities
At the Republican nominating convention in
CHICAGO in 1860, the Indiana delegation gave
Abraham LINCOLN all of its 26 votes on the first
ballot, which may have assured his nomination.
Under Governor Oliver P. MORTON. the
contributions of Indiana to the CIVIL WAR were
said to rank with those of states many times its
size. Several small battles were fought in
southern Indiana, and Indiana troops fought in
308 engagements of the war elsewhere.
During and after the war, Indiana prospered,
building particularly from the contributions of
the flood of immigrants from England, Scot-
land, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Italy, Austria,
France and, most importantly, Canada. The
present capitol was completed in 1878, and
WABASH became the world's first city to be
lighted with electricity, in 1880.
WORLD WAR I was brought home to Indiana
with the death of James Gresham of EVANSVILLE,
one of the first three Americans to be lost in the
war. Altogether 130,670 Indianans participated
in the war.
The short success of the Ku Klux Klan in
Indiana after the war and the worst Ohio River
FLOOD in history in 1937 were hallmarks of the
post-war decades.
WORLD WAR II brought another burst of pros-
perity but cost the lives of 10,000 from Indiana.
Some 338,000 men and women from Indiana
served in that war.
Burns Harbor opened for shipping in 1970.
The Indiana Capitol, Indianapolis.
Large portions of the valuable Lake Michigan
dunes area were preserved as INDIANA DUNES
a model religious community by the Rappites
NATIONAL LAKESHORE, and the area was expanded
under the leadership of George RAPP (1757-
in 1976. In the election of 1984, Ronald REAGAN
1847). Ten years later the settlement was sold
easily won the Indiana vote, and Robert Orr
to Robert OWEN (1801-1877), who converted it
was returned to the governor's chair in 1986.
into an even more unusual community called
Some authorities have stated that Indiana
NEW HARMONY. In 1826, Owen brought in a group
has been the birthplace of or had substantial
of artists, scientists, educators and philosophers
influence on more prominent Americans than
who floated down the Ohio River to their new
any other state. Abraham LINCOLN (1809-1865)
home on a flatboat called the Boatload of
spent his formative years there, maturing for
Knowledge. Their efforts in setting up trade
fourteen years in the Little Pigeon Creek
schools, infant school, public libraries, science
region. The family began its life in Indiana in a
clubs and women's clubs gave Harmony a
lean-to shelter and moved on to slightly more
reputation as one of the world villages which
comfortable but still rugged pioneer life.
have made history.
During that time Lincoln's mother, Nancy
New roads and RAILROADS, canal building, a
Hanks Lincoln, died of "milk sick" poisoning,
new state constitution (1851) and other
an affliction brought on by drinking milk from
improvements continued to enhance the growth
cows which have eaten white snakeroot.
of the state.
Abraham's father soon married Sarah Bush
SLAVERY in Indiana had disappeared by 1843.
Johnson. The new stepmother gave great
From that time on, the people grew more and
encouragement to Lincoln's fierce desire for an
more opposed to slavery, playing a leading part
education, although his father did not approve.
in the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, among other anti-
In Indiana, Lincoln's experience included jobs
slavery roles.
as carpenter, cabinetmaker, ploughman, baby
Cole Porter
Indiana, Attractions
241
ominating convention in
sitter and ferryman. When the family left
BEVERIDGE (1862-1927), who was also a U.S.
Indiana delegation gave
Indiana in 1830, Lincoln was ready for greater
senator, George ADE (1866-1944), Charles Aus-
its 26 votes on the first
things.
assured his nomination.
tin BEARD 1874-1948), and his wife Mary were
Lincoln was one of three presidents asso-
all prominent in the literary scene.
Oliver P. MORTON, the
ciated with Indiana, although none of these was
One of America's most controversial authors
to the CIVIL WAR were
born in the state. William Henry HARRISON
was Lew WALLACE (1827-1905), who was a Civil
of states many times its
(1773-1841) gained much of his fame while
battles were fought in
War general, general in the Mexican army,
governing the area, and his grandson, Benjamin
Indiana troops fought in
territorial governor of New Mexico, Crawfords-
HARRISON, began the practice of law in Indiana
he war elsewhere.
ville lawyer, and Ambassador to Turkey. While
in 1854, was a Civil War general, was a U.S.
in New Mexico, Wallace wrote the novel Ben
war, Indiana prospered,
senator from Indiana, was elected to the
the contributions of
presidency from the state in 1888 and returned
Hur (1880), which has been recreated many
from England, Scot-
times on stage and in movies and has become
to live there until he died in 1901.
Russia, Italy, Austria,
one of the best known works of all time.
One of the neglected figures of American
portantly, Canada. The
history is Civil War Governor Oliver P. MORTON
Famed journalist Ernie PYLE. cartoonists Kin
completed in 1878, and
(1823-1877), called "...the Gibraltar of the
HUBBARD (1868-1930) and John T. MC CUTCHEON
vorld's first city to be
government" by historian Thomas Beveridge.
(1870-1949), composers Cole PORTER (1893
in
1880.
He "held aloft the hands of Lincoln until
1964) and Hoagland J. (Hoagy) CARMICHAEL
ought home to Indiana
victory came. So far as deeds and facts could
(1899-1981) and lesser known songwriters
Gresham of EVANSVILLE,
make it so, Morton was deputy president of the
Thomas Paine Westendorf and Albert von
mericans to be lost in the
United States in active charge of the Ohio
Tilzer were all creative Hoosiers.
Indianans participated
Valley. No man can tell what the results would
Industrialists Charles G. Conn, who founded
have been had not some man like our Morton
a major musical instrument company, and Dr.
the Ku Klux Klan in
been what and where our Morton was." In 1867
Franklin Miles, founder of the pharmaceutical
and the worst Ohio River
Morton resigned as governor to serve in the
company, Miles Laboratories, the five BALL
were hallmarks of the
U.S. Senate and was active there until he died
brothers who founded a vast glassmaking
in 1877.
operation, carriage and automobile manufactur-
another burst of pros-
Unsuccessful 1940 presidential candidate
ers Henry and Clement Studebaker (1831-1901)
of 10,000 from Indiana.
Wendell Lewis Wilkie, was a native of ELWOOD,
and farm implement magnate James Oliver all
women from Indiana
where he accepted the Republican nomination.
contributed to the economic growth of Indiana.
Few Indian leaders achieved the reputation
Most spectacular of all, perhaps, in that aspect
for shipping in 1970.
of Chief Tecumseh, an honorable and vastly
of achievement was Elbert GARY (1846-1927),
valuable Lake Michigan
able man, whose first interest in life was to
instigator of the great industrial area of
served as INDIANA DUNES
preserve his native soil for his people. He
northwest Indiana and founder of GARY.
the area was expanded
organized great confederations of Indians and
Inventor Elwood HAYNES (1857-1925) was a
of 1984, Ronald REAGAN
might have been far more successful except for
pioneer in the development of gasoline engine-
vote, and Robert Orr
the inevitability of the white man's advance.
powered automobiles. George H. Hammmond,
overnor's chair in 1986.
His half-brother, Tenskwatawa, called the
originated the idea of refrigerated freight cars
ave stated that Indiana
PROPHET (1770-1834) (1866-1944), was also a
and developed a meat-packing operation at
of or had substantial
person of great energy and ability, but he
HAMMOND, which bears his name. In a different
minent Americans than
tended to be erratic and undependable. He
field, Ben Wallace of Peru became one of the
LINCOLN (1809-1865)
gained great fame when he pretended to make
world's best-known circus showmen.
there, maturing for
the sun stand still during the eclipse of June 16,
Among Indiana attractions, the Indianapolis
Little Pigeon Creek
1806. Chief Tecumseh's life ended in Canada
500 auto race has gained world renown and
its life in Indiana in a
while he was fighting as a British officer in the
continues to rank among the nation's top ten
on to slightly more
War of 1812.
annual attractions. The city itself is centered
rugged pioneer life.
Indiana may well hold the record among the
around the striking Soldiers and Sailors
Lincoln's mother, Nancy
states for producing prominent literary figures.
monument which gives its name to imposing
of "milk sick" poisoning,
From his birth in a log cabin at GREENFIELD,
Monument Circle. The area is thought to be the
by drinking milk from
Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb RILEY (1849-
first anywhere to be dedicated to the memory of
white snakeroot.
1916) went on to international fame. The books
enlisted personnel. The central shaft rises 284
married Sarah Bush
of Gene Stratton PORTER (1863-1924) were the
feet. Not far from Monument Circle is the
stepmother gave great
best sellers of her day. A native of TERRE HAUTE,
imposing capitol. Another outstanding Indian-
fierce desire for an
Theodore DREISER ((1871-1945) was known for
apolis feature is World War Memorial Plaza,
father did not approve.
his sketches of Indiana boyhood as well as for
dedicated to the memory of those who died in
experience included jobs
his best-known work, An American Tragedy
the two world wars. The Childrens Museum is
maker, ploughman, baby
(1925). Pultizer Prize winning Albert J.
still another unique attraction.
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Indiana Central - Indianapolis
One of the most popular tourist attractions in
marshes, swamps and prairie remants; historic
the region is BROWN COUNTY, where. in the
sites include an 1822 homestead and 1900
season of autumn color, all highways are
family farm, both partially restored.
blocked for miles by tourists' cars. Center of the
county is quaint and attractive NASHVILLE,
INDIANA DUNES STATE PARK. Three
home of many artists, whose work is displayed
and one-half square miles on the southern shore
in dozens of galleries. This crossroads village
of Lake MICHIGAN midway between GARY and
now also houses gift and antique shops and
MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana. Nine trails allow visitors
restaurants of great variety. Also adding to the
access through sandhills, marshes, and forests
attraction of Brown County are the towns of
to unique and valuable regions.
GNAW BONE and BEAN BLOSSOM.
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. Publicly
To the east of Brown County is COLUMBUS,
supported, founded in 1865 and located in
where local boosters encouraged and supported
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana. Undergraduate and grad-
the work of many world-renowned architects,
uate programs are available as well as practical
with the result that the city has more
arts programs which are specialized, but may
remarkable works of modern ARCHITECTURE than
not lead to a degree. Degree programs are
any other of its size.
offered in the sciences, humanities. and teacher
New Harmony has its own unique architec-
education. In 1985-1986 the university enrolled
ture in the Roofless Church. Much of the
11,491 students and employed 806 faculty
original community is associated both with its
members.
religious and cultural foundations, and many
visitors are attracted to a town which is
INDIANA UNIVERSITY. Publicly sup-
perhaps the most complete restoration of an
ported, in BLOOMINGTON, Indiana. Founded in
early planned community.
1820, Indiana University has a two-thousand-
PERU has been labeled "Circus City," building
acre main campus. The Indiana University
on the memories of circus-great Ben Wallace.
Medical Center is located fifty miles away in
An entirely different personality is remembered
INDIANAPOLIS. The tenth largest university in the
at Johnny Appleseed (CHAPMAN, 1774-1845)
nation, Indiana University offers a state-wide
Memorial Park at Fort Wayne.
system of higher education, including: College
Three Indiana cities are especially notable for
of Arts and Sciences, Schools of Dentistry,
universities. NOTRE DAME, SOUTH BEND, built a
Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Nursing,
reputation on its athletic teams, but its
Public and Environmental Affairs, Social
academic reputation has kept pace. INDIANA
Work, and Physical Education. In 1985-1986
UNIVERSITY, with headquarters in BLOOMINGTON,
the university enrolled 30,579 students and had
and PURDUE UNIVERSITY at LAFAYETTE are espe-
1,615 faculty members.
cially noted for their music departments and
great music halls, but they also maintain high
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
academic standards.
Name: From the latinized word Indiana
meaning "land of the Indians" and the
INDIANA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY. Pri-
Greek word polis, "city."
vately supported university in INDIANAPOLIS,
Indiana. Established in 1902, Indiana Central
Nickname: none
grants associate, bachelor's, and master's de-
Area: 375.2 square miles.
grees. It maintains a cooperative plan with
Duke University in forestry, Methodist Hospi-
Elevation: 840 feet
tal, Indianapolis, in medical technology, and
Population:
PURDUE UNIVERSITY in engineering. The campus
is located on sixty acres and has thirteen
1984: 710,280
buildings. During the 1985-1986 academic year
Rank: 13th
the university enrolled 2,995 students and had
Percent change (1980-1984): 1.4%
347 faculty members.
Density (city): 1,893 per sq. mi.
Metropolitan Population: 1,195,000
INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKE-
SHORE. Magnificent dunes rise as high as 180
Percent change (1980-1984): 2.4%
feet above Lake MICHIGAN'S southern shore.
Race and Ethnic (1980):
Other natural features include beaches, bogs,
White: 77%
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Porter, Cole
musical, Fanny. Singer, guitarist in TV,
"An Old-Fashioned Garden"; "I'm in
1951. Daughter of Phil Ponce. Mem
duo, Ponce Sisters; sang in vaude
Italy. Songs: "I Don't Cry."
Love Again"; "Two Little Babes In the
Wood": "Let's Do It"; "Let's Misbehave";
on radio, records: then pianist in
groups. Music teacher in private
Popiolkowski, Louis, composer, pianist,
"Which?": "You Do Something To Me";
Works: 3 Dialogues for Piano,
arranger; b. Canonsburg, Pa., Sept. 1,
"You've Got That Thing"; "Find Me a
Instrumentals: "Happy Landing"
1927. ASCAP 1960. Educ: U. of Pitts-
Primitive Man"; "What Is This Thing
"iday"; "Blue Haze"; "A Light in the
burgh, BA, Ed. M. Asst. principal, Can-
Called Love?"; "Looking at You"; "Miss
flow." Also Bell Telephone comml.
onsburg Jr. HS, 1960. Pianist, arr. with
Otis Regrets"; "Love for Sale"; "Let's
Russ Romero orch. Also arr. for the Four
Fly Away"; "After You"; "Night and
Phil, composer, author, publish
Coins. Chief collaborator, Al Marino.
Day"; "How's Your Romance?"; "I've
adio exec.; b. Cambridge, Mass
Songs: "Everytime We Kiss": "Coming
Got You on My Mind"; "Experiment";
15, 1886; d. New Haven, Conn.,
Home From School"; "A Silver Medal";
"Nymph Errant"; "I Get a Kick Out of
21, 1945. ASCAP 1929. Father of
"Break the Glass."
You"; "All Through the Night"; "You're
Ponce. Exec., artists' bureau of natl.
the Top"; "Anything Goes"; "Blow, Ga-
chain; prof. mgr., singing groups;
Popplewell, Mary, composer, author; b.
briel, Blow"; "Why Shouldn't I?"; "Begin
publisher, New Haven. Chief collab
Italy, Tex., Oct. 15, 1920. ASCAP 1961.
the Beguine"; "Just One of Those Things";
W. C. Polla, Dan Dougherty.
Educ: Business Coll. Songs: "How Softly
"Down In the Depths"; "It's De-Lovely";
"Dancing Tambourine"; "I'd
a Heart Breaks": "It's a Crying Shame."
"Red, Hot and Blue"; "Ridin' High";
Cry Over You Than Smile at
"Easy to Love"; "I've Got You Under
body Else"; "Oh, You Have No
Porter, Cole, composer, author; b. Peru,
My Skin": "In the Still of the Night":
"Oh the Last Rose of Summer Was
Ind., June 9, 1892; d. Santa Monica,
"Who Knows?"; "Rosalie"; "At Long
eveetest Rose of All"; "Let's Don't
Cal., Oct. 15, 1964. ASCAP 1931. Educ:
Last Love"; "Get Out of Town": "Most
Say We Did"; "Underneath the
Worcester (Mass.) Acad.: Yale U., BA;
Gentlemen Don't Like Love"; "From
"Sugar Rose."
Harvard Law School; Harvard School
Now On"; "My Heart Belongs to Dad-
of Music; Schola Cantorum, Paris; stud-
dy": "Do I Love You?"; "Well, Did
Jr., Charles D., composer, author.
ied with Vincent d'Indy. Joined French
You Evah!"; "Katie Went to Haiti";
Prester, Pa., Mar. 5, 1931. ASCAP
Foreign Legion: World War I, gunnery
"Friendship"; "It Was Written in the
Educ: Pa. Mil. Coll., BA. Formed
instr. Lived mostly in Europe until 1928.
Stars"; "I Concentrate on You"; "I've
group, The Channels.
Bway stage scores: See America First;
Got My Eyes on You"; "I've Still Got
Hitchy Koo, 1919; Greenwich Village
My Health"; "Let's Be Buddies"; "Make
George E., composer, conductor.
Follies of 1924; Paris; Fifty Million
It Another Old-Fashioned, Please";
arranger; b. Columbus, Neb
Frenchmen; Wake Up and Dream; The
"Ev'rything I Love"; "Ace In the Hole";
21, 1904. ASCAP 1960. Educ:
New Yorkers; Gay Divorce; Nymph
"Don't Fence Me In"; "You'd Be So
tutors. Flutist in dance bands
Errant (London); Anything Goes; Jubilee;
Nice to Come Home To"; "Something
with WGN, Chicago, (10 years); ABC
Red, Hot and Blue!; You Never Know;
For the Boys"; "Sing to Me, Guitar";
(15 years). Also leads own
Leave It to Me; DuBarry Was a Lady;
"I Love You"; "Ev'rytime We Say Good-
Panama Hattie; Let's Face It!; Some-
bye"; "Pipe-Dreaming"; "Love of My
thing For the Boys; Mexican Hayride;
Life"; "Be a Clown"; "Another Op'ning,
Γ. L., composer, author: b. States
Seven Lively Arts; Around the World In
Another Show"; "Wunderbar"; "So in
Aug. 23, 1904. ASCAP 1964.
Eighty Days; Kiss Me, Kate (Tony award,
Love"; "Were Thine That Special Face";
Savannah State Coll., BSA. Works
1949); Out of This World; Can-Can; Silk
"Too Darn Hot"; "Brush Up Your
dept., Western Electric Co., since
Stockings. Film scores: Born to Dance;
Shakespeare"; "Always True to You in
Chief collaborators: Harry Stitz
Rosalie; Broadway Melody of 1940; You'll
My Fashion"; "Where Is the Life That
De Rosa. Songs: "Please Tell Mi
Never Get Rich; Something to Shout About;
Late I Led?"; "Where, Oh Where"; "I
"This Eventide"; "Lord. My
The Pirate; High Society; Les Girls. TV
Am Loved"; "From This Moment On";
Paries to Thee."
score, Aladdin. Biographies: Cole Porter:
"C'est Magnifique"; "I Am in Love":
the Life that Late He Led by Geo. Eells;
"It's All Right With Me"; "I Love Paris";
William, composer, author. singer,
The Cole Porter Story by Richard Hubler.
"Paris Loves Lovers"; "All of You";
b. Hurricane Twp., III., Mar
Film biography Night and Day. Songs:
"Without Love"; "True Love"; "Ca, c'est
CAP 1964. Appeared in Bway
"Yale Bulldog Song"; "Bingo Eli Yale";
l'amour"; "Come to the Supermarket."
INDIANA
INDIANA
the territory he controlled and then fostered the Battle
of Tippecanoe to create a legal reason to support his
seizure of territory. Since then Indiana has played a
role as an agricultural and industrial stalwart for the
rest of the nation, not a leader in ideas or personality,
but a good worker and exceptionally reliable.
By the way, no one knows what a Hoosier is or
why the name came to be applied to residents of this
state.
Capital: Indianapolis
THE STATE
Became a territory: May 7, 1800
Entered the union (with rank): Dec. 11, 1816 (19)
"Indiana! A lovely name, musical and lingering
State motto: The Crossroads of America
upon the tongue. It is a beautiful state, in many ways
State flower: Peony
the most typical of our entire country, or so I feel,
State bird: Cardinal
when I am traveling through it."
State song: "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far
Pearl S. Buck
Away"
America
State tree: Tulip tree
1971
Nickname: Hoosier State
***
Origin of state name: Means "land of the Indians"
"The morning glory [a symbol of Indiana], climb-
ing the morning long
Prairie-dotted in the north, hilly in the south and
Over the lintel on its wiry vine,
covered by plains throughout, Indiana was at first
Closes before the dusk, furls in its song."
covered mainly by hardwood forests. Settlers who
Hart Crane
flooded in after Harrison's efficient land grabs
"Indiana"
cleared the timber; and agriculture, primarily grain
1933
and livestock, remains the central activity of a still
largely rural state. The major industrial area is the
***
northwestern Calumet section, where Hammond and
"There is about [Indiana] a charm I shall not be able
Gary form a contiguous extension of Chicago's me-
to express
This is a region not unlike those
tropolis. Gary's large steel industry has cast a severe
which produce gold or fleet horses or oranges or
pall of air pollution over southern Lake Michigan,
adventurers."
which residents seem inclined (perhaps out of lack of
Theodore Dreiser
choice) to live with.
A Hoosier Holiday
Indiana is commonly thought of as typical Amer-
1916
***
ica, the quintessence of the middle American charac-
ter. By and large that characterization is apt. When
"Ain't God good to Indiana?
sociologists wanted to study Middletown, the per-
Folks, a feller never knows
fectly average American community, they came to
Just how close he is to Eden
Indiana. Indiana residents are, however, far from
Till sometimes he up and goes
monochromatic. The state stretches from the edges
Seeking fairer, greener pastures
of the South to the fringes of the industrial North,
Than he has right here at home.
and the people vary accordingly. Southern Indianans
Where there's sunshine in th' clover,
are startlingly southern, in spite of the fact that they
An' there's honey in the comb;
live north of the Mason-Dixon line. In the industrial
Where the ripples on th' river
upper reaches of the state, strong urban ethnic com-
Kind of chuckle as they flow...."
munities display all the tough, voluble spirit common
William Herschell
in New York or Chicago.
Poem inscribed on plaque in Statehouse of Indiana
Historically Indiana was the scene of one of Amer-
***
ica's earliest and most cunning land grabs from the
"I'm a poor little squaw from Indiana,
Indians, which makes the state's name rather ironic.
Who embarked on a trip for fun,
Gen. William Henry Harrison, later to become presi-
I'm a poor little squaw who'll sing 'Hosanna,'
dent, cleverly annexed huge tracts of Indian land in
When the dog-gone trip is done.
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INDIANA
and then fostered the Battle
No. no more shall I roam
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a legal reason to support his
From my comfy, cozy, Hoosier home!"
"Summer in northwest Indiana has been known to
ce then Indiana has played a
Cole Porter
and industrial stalwart for the
produce wistful longings for hell."
"By the Mississinewah"
leader in ideas or personality,
Bill Moyers
1943
exceptionally reliable.
Listening to America
1971
knows what a Hoosier is or
be applied to residents of this
THE LANDSCAPE
***
"Indiana: no blustering summit or coarse gorge;
"Round my Indiana homestead wave the corn-
No flora lurid as disaster-flares;
fields,
No great vacuities where tourists gape
In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool.
Nor mountains hoarding their height like million-
Often times my thoughts revert to scenes of child-
aires.
hood,
More delicate: the ten-foot knolls
ame, musical and lingering
Where I first received my lessons, nature's school.
Give flavor of hill to Indiana souls."
beautiful state, in many ways
But one thing there is missing in the picture,
John F. Nims
entire country, or so I feel,
Without her face it seems so incomplete.
"Midwest"
rough it."
I long to see my mother in the doorway,
Heartland (ed. Lucien Stryk)
Pearl S. Buck
As she stood there years ago, her boy to greet!
1967
America
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1971
Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash,
"It [southern Indiana] was a wild region, an area of
From the fields there comes the breath of new-
dense forests and grapevine thickets so entangled that
symbol of Indiana], climb-
mown hay
travelers often had to cut their way with axes."
Thro' the sycamores the candle lights are gleam-
Stephen B. Oates
iry vine,
ing,
With Malice Towards None
furls in its song."
On the banks of the Wabash, far away."
1977
Hart Crane
Paul Dresser
***
"Indiana"
"On the Banks of the Wabash"
"All northern and central Indiana is as flat as a
1933
1897
board. Neat farms checker it, and the roads are
***
straight as a ruler. Big barns and regular fences and
a] a charm I shall not be able
"[I came to] a small town fastened to a field in
waving fields of grain splash across the endless
a region not unlike those
Indiana. Twice there have been 1,200 people here to
landscape. But some 30 miles south of Indianapolis
fleet horses or oranges or
answer to the census. The town is outstandingly neat
the land begins to undulate, the hills are covered
and shady, and always puts its best side to the
thick with forest, the roads wind, and the fields
Theodore Dreiser
highway. On one lawn there's even a wood or plastic
become patches on slopes. It is hill country because
A Hoosier Holiday
iron deer.
this is where the great glacier stopped and melted
1916
You can reach us by crossing a creek. In the spring
away and left its giant rubble piled."
the lawns are green, the forsythia is singing, and
Ernie Pyle
diana?
even the railroad that guts the town has straight bright
Home Country
ows
rails which hum when the train is coming, and the
1947
Eden
train itself has a welcome horning sound.
nd goes
Down the back streets the asphalt crumbles into
"Indiana felt the ice,
pastures
gravel. There's Westbrook's, with the geraniums,
Horsefall's, Mott's. The sidewalk shatters. Gravel
yet holds wide lakes against that pain:
at home.
in th' clover,
dust rises like breath behind the wagons. And I am in
I lived in Indiana once,
retirement from love."
put these hands into those lakes
e comb;
William Gass
of counties near Fort Wayne
"
river
William Stafford
flow. "
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
"Conservative"
William Herschell
1968
***
Heartland (ed. Lucien Stryk)
que in Statehouse of Indiana
"The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that
1967
night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered
***
V from Indiana,
husks."
"A mile and a half away, across woods and swamps,
p for fun,
Jack Kerouac
the boy could see hills of gold shining in the sun.
who'll sing 'Hosanna,'
On the Road
They were the crests of the great Indiana dunes
is done.
1955
which lifted their mountains of wind-blown sand
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INDIANA
signal effect of this dark time was to
***
"Civic officials claim Muncie is built in concentric
and bring a new era of caution and
"Castles? Indianapolis is full of them."
rings and that each ring is represented by a road,
or there is a good deal of Scotch-Irish
Kurt Vonnegut
although some of those show only as orange smears
Hoosier], and he cannot be fooled
Palm Sunday
on plastic-covered maps of the city to indicate they
same bait. During the period of
1981
have yet to be built. If that is the official image of
own lost its zest for gayety."
Muncie, it is because that is how Muncie would like
Meredith Nicholson
***
to see itself. Orderly. There is a suggestion of care
Atlantic Monthly
" Indianapolis, an alien, bustling city oddly out
and thoughtfulness, of tranquillity and steady growth
June, 1904
of place in the dreamy Hoosier-land of [bucolic poet]
in such a community self-image, as though the town
***
James Whitcomb Riley."
had spread by man's will in accordance with God's
like Jerusalem, 'a city at unity with
Douglas Waitley
order of the universe."
tribes assemble, and where the seat
Portrait of the Midwest
Leon Mandel
established-is in every sense the
1963
Driven
e Hoosiers. With the exception of
1977
fidence, it is the largest state capital
Muncie
and no other American city without
***
ation is as large."
"Thus Middletown [Muncie around 1924] may
"The ambiance of downtown Muncie is not much of
Meredith Nicholson
be observed to employ in the main the psychology of
a match for the artistry of the new mall, for the center
Atlantic Monthly
the last century in training its children in the home
of the city leaves an after-image of dirty brick and
June, 1904
and psychology of the current century in persuading
stone, of buildings slumped haphazardly together as
***
its citizens to buy articles from its stores
A
man
though for mutual support. If Muncie sparkled in
ft Indianapolis in 1880, returned in
may get his living by operating a twentieth-century
1924, luring the farmers of central Indiana to its big
apolitan, like the cat in the ballad,
machine and at the same time hunt for a job under a
city ways, it gives off the aesthetic effluvia of an old
ack, he cannot be successfully
laissez-faire individualism which dates back more
New England mill town today."
"
find himself a stranger in a strange
than a century
Leon Mandel
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
Driven
Meredith Nicholson
Middletown
1977
Atlantic Monthly
1929
June, 1904
***
***
where the practice of the arts was
** both business men and working men seem to be
Other Cities
asion of real life by means of parlor
running for dear life in this business of making the
money they earn keep pace with the even more rapid
Kurt Vonnegut
growth of their subjective wants. A Rip Van Winkle
Gary:
Palm Sunday
who fell asleep in the Middletown [Muncie] of 1885
1981
to awake today would marvel at the change as did the
"One seasoned observer of the Indiana scene sug-
French economist Say when he revisited England at
gested to us there was only one place on the globe
***
the close of the Napoleonic Wars; every one seemed
comparable to Lake County-Hong Kong. 'The two
randfather] was told by his family
to run intent upon his own business as though fearing
places suffer jointly,' he said, 'from "I don't-care-
r him to come home to Indianapo-
a woman from a nice German
to stop lest those behind trample him down."
itis," a disease for which no serum has been found.
surrender to the gravitational pull
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
Whether it's vice, prostitution, politics, or crime,
mass of respectability which his
Middletown
everybody in Lake County has a stake in the action or
r had amassed in the American
1929
he's a victim of the same.'
Quoted by Neil R. Peirce and John Keefe
e should have stayed in New
The Great Lakes States of America
***
1980
Kurt Vonnegut
"A man of wide experience who had grown up in
Palm Sunday
Middletown [Muncie] and is highly regarded by the
1981
city said that the two things he felt most upon coming
Richmond:
***
back to Middletown from a distant country were its
an obituary in an Indianapolis
prejudice and superficiality. 'These people are all
"Richmond, Indiana, where the principles of the
ecause I am related to people who
afraid of something,' he said. 'What is it?' "
American Legion are as deeply rooted as the oil
in of hardware stores."
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
depletion allowance in Texas."
Kurt Vonnegut
Middletown
Bill Moyers
Palm Sunday
1929
Listening to America
1981
***
1971
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The following is information gathered from the Indianapolis
pre-advance:
LOGISTICS:
Rep leader of Subcom
Time: 12:20
Introduction: Dan Coats
POTUS Remarks and leaves before lunch
dialing w/ dings
Prices: $100-$1,000
LOCAL POLITICS:
-The Republicans have a slight majority in the St. Leg.
51-49 State Senate
26-24 State Legislature
-Economy is doing well
Indepent thinks
3-4% unemployment
-Highest infant mortality rate
-#1 Toxic waste importer
Thoughtful
-#1 Garbage importer
common sense value
-Drugs are #1 issue according to poll
common sense
DAN COATS
-Supports S Crime and Drugs and Education
President drug testing
business approach
packages. Supports the President's Clean Air Proposal reto
NOT the Senate's
jobs vs trank
enviroz
-13,000 individuals have contributed to Coats' campaign
(w
Opponent only has a few big donors -- The people
allies
are behind Coats.
on this
-Coats wants to bring Hoosier values to Washington
ash curt
-Once Coats was a 1/2 an hour late to a White House
briefing. When he arrived they hustled him to the
front of the room and introduced him as the guest
singer.
-Coats was a pre-med student and a tennis player at
Wheaton College in Illinois until he had to make a
choice. His organic chemistry professor informed him
that it was a rare breed that can do both sports and
medicine, and Coats was not a rare breed.
all Americans want clean envir DC too
balance seek b/t wan unhiron
LOCAL COLOR:
- The Vice President's office is down the street
- Indianapolis is home of the Hoosier Dome
- Basketball
Purdue Boilermakers
Indiana University Hoosiers
CONTACT:
Mike Laudick
(317) 636-1990
- named Head Start man of you
for Midwert region
- Drugs : Dan Coates has been a
under in
Indiana
U.S. CONGRESS
SENATE 2R
HOUSE 7D, 3R
LEGISLATURE
Senate 24 D, 26 R
House 50 D, 50 R
ELECTIONS
1988 Presidential Vote
Bush
60%
Dukakis
40%
1984 Presidential Vote
Reagan
62%
Mondale
38%
1980 Presidential Vote
Gov. Evan Bayh (D)
Reagan
56%
Of Indianapolis - Elected 1988
Carter
38%
Born: Dec. 26, 1955, Terre Haute, Ind.
Anderson
5%
Education: Indiana U., B.S. 1978; U. of
Turnout rate in 1984
56%
Virginia, J.D. 1981.
Turnout rate in 1986
39%
Occupation: Lawyer.
Turnout rate in 1988
53%
Religion: Christian.
(as percentage of voting age population)
Political Career: Ind. secretary of state,
1986-89.
Next Election: 1992.
POPULATION AND GROWTH
1980 population
5,490,224
1988 population estimate
5,556,000
WORK
(14th in the nation)
Percent change 1980-1988
+1%
Occupations
White-collar
47%
Blue-collar
DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN
38%
Service workers
13%
White
91%
Government Workers
Black
8%
(Spanish origin)
Federal
2%
41,109
State
96,132
Urban
64%
Local
220,047
Rural
36%
Born in state
71%
MONEY
Foreign-born
2%
Median family
MAJOR CITIES
income
$20,535 (18th)
Tax burden
Indianapolis
719,820
per capita
$789 (33rd)
Fort Wayne
172,900
Gary
136,790
Evansville
129,480
EDUCATION
South Bend
107,190
Spending per pupil
through grade 12
$3,275 (34th)
AREA AND LAND USE
Persons with
Area
college degrees
13% (45th)
35,932 sq. miles (38th)
Farm
71%
Forest
CRIME
19%
Federally owned
2%
Violent crime rate
329 per 100,000 (33rd)
484
Indiana - Senior Senator
Richard G. Lugar (R)
Of Indianapolis - Elected 1976
Born: April, 4, 1932, Indianapolis, Ind.
Education: Denison U., B.A. 1954; Oxford U., B.A.,
M.A. 1956.
Military Career: Navy, 1957-60.
Occupation: Agricultural industries executive.
Family: Wife, Charlene Smeltzer; four children.
Religion: Methodist.
Political Career: Indianapolis School Board, 1964-67;
mayor of Indianapolis, 1968-75; Republican nomi-
nee for U.S. Senate, 1974.
Capitol Office: 306 Hart Bldg. 20510; 224-4814.
In Washington: The fates have not been
Helms. Helms won 24-17, due to Republican
kind to Lugar in recent years. Through no fault
respect for the seniority system and to Helms
of his own, and quite in spite of his considerable
behind-the-scenes support from Republican
talents, he finds himself in a most unworthy
leader Bob Dole, who was then currying the
position. Once a virtual shadow secretary of
right's favor for his presidential campaign.
Lu
state, the second or third most influential for-
gar was left with the Agriculture consolation
eign policy voice in the nation, by 1987 he was
prize.
laboring chiefly as minority leader on the Agri-
Lugar's widely acclaimed work as Foreign
culture Committee.
Relations chairman made the transition all the
And that was before George Bush reached
more painful for him. After only two years, be
over him to tap Dan Quayle of Indiana, Lugar's
had regained for the panel much of the influ-
junior colleague in Senate years and influence,
ence lost in recent years. The next two years
to be vice president. Suddenly Lugar, one of the
under Democratic Chairman Claiborne Pell and
most presidential senators in either party, a
ranking Republican Helms, marked a return to
man who first announced his desire for the
the days of stalemate. Lugar occasionally
presidency while he was mayor of Indianapolis,
emerges as the administration's point man on
had a younger home-state rival complicating
foreign policy, and he acts as a sort of leader-in
whatever hopes he still held of one day seeking
exile for mainstream Republicans, working
the White House.
often against Helms' right-wing obstructionism
Yet whatever disappointment Lugar feels,
as against the Democratic majority.
he harbors it behind a reserved, dispassionate
That was the case during Senate ratifica
bearing. Meanwhile, being nothing if not duti-
tion of the intermediate-range nuclear force
ful, he has devoted himself to his duties on
(INF) treaty in 1988. Helms was one of a small
Agriculture, where he previously had not shown
conservative band dedicated to larding the pact
much interest, while continuing to play a role
with amendments that would be unacceptable
on the Foreign Relations Committee that he
to the Soviets. Lugar, working with Democrate
once chaired with aplomb.
leaders, helped block such amendments, first
In late 1984, Lugar placed third in a five-
Foreign Relations and then on the floor. At the
man race for majority leader. After that set-
same time, he also led the GOP defense against
back, however, he became Foreign Relations
a Democratic amendment to bar presidents
chairman, and the next two years were the most
from later reinterpreting treaties.
celebrated of his career. On Central America,
That provision was aimed not at the INF
the Philippines, South Africa and beyond, Lu-
treaty, but at the 1972 anti-ballistic missile
gar became an influential leader - too influen-
pact; Democrats were aiming to prevent
Presi
tial by some Republicans' reckoning. Then
dent Reagan from reinterpreting the 1972
came the GOP's loss of Senate control after the
cord in a way that would allow space-
1986 elections; no Republican fell further as a
tests of weapons from his strategic defens
result than Lugar.
initiative. Lugar said Democrats were
He not only lost his chairmanship, but also
in "a deliberate attempt to embarrass the prest
the top Republican seat. The more senior Jesse
dent." Finally, however, he helped negotiate that
Helms, who previously had opted to chair Agri-
a compromise amendment, recognizing
culture, reasserted his right to lead Republicans
Democrats would delay the treaty's ratification
on Foreign Relations. That sparked a bruising
unless the issue was resolved.
ideological battle between the pragmatic con-
The reputation for forceful, effective
servative Lugar and doctrinaire conservative
ardship that Lugar had earned as chairman
486
Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind.
Foreign Relations is ironic considering that, in
about those episodes, and their jealousy about
the 1984 GOP leadership race, the one private
the media attention Lugar drew as a result,
misgiving senators had was that he was too nice
were secondary factors in his ultimate defeat by
and accommodating to be a strong leader. Even
Helms for the Foreign Relations seat.
those colleagues who agreed with Lugar that "to
Early in 1986, Reagan asked Lugar to head
ask people to follow in lock step is not going to
a U.S. delegation monitoring the Philippines
work." questioned whether he would exercise
presidential election between Ferdinand E.
the kind of discipline many craved after the
Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino. Lugar
parliamentary chaos under the easygoing re-
quickly concluded that Marcos was stealing the
gime of Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr.,
election. Privately he implored Reagan to de-
Lugar's mentor. Lugar trailed two more aggres-
nounce Marcos, but Reagan argued instead that
sive rivals, Ted Stevens and the eventual win-
there had been fraud on both sides.
ner. Dole.
Lugar persisted. Eventually the adminis-
But once installed as chairman of Foreign
tration pressured Marcos to leave office peace-
Relations, Lugar showed clear leadership,
fully, in what came to be regarded as one of
establishing consensus on a deeply divided
Reagan's chief foreign policy achievements. But
panel and brokering between Reagan and a
in 1989, Aquino gave the credit to Lugar.
Congress often hostile to the president. He
"Without him," she said, "there would be no
reined in the autonomous subcommittees, tak-
won 24-17, due to Republicans
Philippine-U.S. relations to speak of by now."
mg from one the responsibility for the divisive
seniority system and to Helms
Lugar's relations with Reagan over the
topic of arms control. Though one of Congress'
support from Republican
issue of sanctions against South Africa followed
most conservative members, he showed a knack
who was then currying the
a similar pattern, but ended radically different.
for building coalitions and a willingness to
his presidential campaign. Lu-
Throughout 1985, Lugar pressed the adminis-
listen to opposing points of view.
with the Agriculture consolation
tration to accommodate the overwhelming sen-
The consensus policy quickly bore fruit; in
timent in Congress against South Africa's racist
1985 Congress approved a two-year foreign aid
videly acclaimed work as Foreign
policies by imposing economic penalties. Fi-
bill. the first since 1981. Lugar worked out a
made the transition all the
nally, with Congress on the verge of clearing its
compromise on funding with committee Demo-
for him. After only two years, he
own bill, Reagan responded with mild penalties
crats, and steered the bill through the Senate
for the panel much of the influ-
and thus blunted the measure's momentum.
with ease after persuading members not to offer
years. The next two years
Then Lugar and Dole took the unusual - and,
controversial amendments. In contrast, after
Chairman Claiborne Pell and
for Lugar, highly uncharacteristic - step of
Logar's departure from the chair in the 100th
Helms, marked a return to
preventing action on the bill by locking it in the
Congress, House-passed foreign aid bills died in
stalemate. Lugar occasionally
Foreign Relations safe.
the Senate in both 1987 and 1988.
administration's point man on
But as South Africa's repression increased,
In 1986, the genocide treaty that had lan-
and he acts as a sort of leader-in-
the drive for sanctions resumed with greater
guished for years finally was approved after
nstream Republicans, working as
force the next year. Once again Lugar pleaded
Lugar resolved conservatives' objections. With
Helms' right-wing obstructionism
with Reagan to respond positively, but Reagan
Democratic majority.
delicate negotiations and a bit of hardball, he
was adamant against further steps. Faced with
steered through the Senate a controversial ex-
the case during Senate ratifica-
losing control of the issue to Democrats, Lugar
tradition agreement with Great Britain. The
intermediate-range nuclear-force
pushed his own sanctions bill. He crafted a
1988. Helms was one of a small
treaty. which eased the British government's
compromise with broad support in Foreign Re-
and dedicated to larding the pact
ability to capture Irish Republican Army ter-
lations, and held off stringent Democratic
rorists who had fled to the United States, faced
that would be unacceptable
amendments on the floor. Then he got House
opposition from liberal and conservative sena-
Lugar, working with Democratic
leaders to accept the Senate bill unchanged to
tors. At one point, Lugar held up action on a
block such amendments, first in
avoid a conservative filibuster against the con-
House bill for aid to Northern Ireland until he
and then on the floor. At the
ference report.
cot a deal.
also led the GOP defense against
Reagan's veto set the stage for Lugar's
But Lugar's most difficult and controver-
amendment to bar presidents
confrontation with the president he had served
nterpreting treaties.
al accomplishments were in mediating be-
so faithfully. Meanwhile, his long-running
was aimed not at the INF
tween Senate majorities and Reagan. He several
fights with Helms exploded into open antipa-
times helped save the president from embar-
the 1972 anti-ballistic missile
thy. Helms arranged for the South African
were aiming to prevent Presi-
cassing defeats. In 1985, for example, he per-
foreign minister to lobby two farm-state sena-
from reinterpreting the 1972 ac-
unded Reagan to withdraw a proposal to sell
tors, to warn of retaliation against U.S. farm
that would allow space-based
irms to Jordan, thereby avoiding certain rejec-
products if sanctions were enacted. Outraged,
fain. The next year, Lugar was instrumental
from his strategic defense
Lugar denounced the attempts as "despicable,"
said Democrats were engaged
with in winning Senate approval by a one-vote
and condemned Helms' move as "an affront to
margin for Reagan's proposed missile sale to
attempt to embarrass the presi-
the decency of the American people."
however, he helped negotiate
Sandi Arabia. and in guiding his request for
amendment, recognizing that
100 million in contra aid through Congress.
In the end, Lugar won easily, dealing Rea-
gan one of the most serious congressional de-
delay the treaty's ratification
Though his overall record consistently
tanked him as one of Reagan's most loyal
feats of his presidency. The victory was deeply
was
resolved.
distressing for Lugar, who seemed to blame
importers, Lugar became best known for his
for forceful, effective stew.
himself: Reagan "didn't take my advice the
Lugar had earned as chairman of
are and personally painful splits with the ad-
ministration. Some Republicans' resentment
first, second, third or even fourth time," he said
wearily. "I simply wish we had been more
487
Indiana - Junior Senator
Daniel R. Coats (R)
Of Fort Wayne - Appointed 1988
Born: May 16, 1943, Jackson, Mich.
Education: Wheaton College, B.A. 1965; Indiana U.,
J.D. 1971.
Military Career: Army Corps of Engineers, 1966-68.
Occupation: Lawyer.
Family: Wife, Marcia Anne Crawford; three children.
Religion: Baptist.
Political Career: U.S. House, 1981-89.
Capitol Office: 411 Russell Bldg. 20510; 224-5623.
In Washington: It is not unusual for one
less frequently with the conservative coalition
politician to be carried some distance by the
of Republicans and Southern Democrats than
career successes of another, but few have come
he had the year before. His ratings by ideologi-
as far this way as Coats.
cal interest groups also moderated that year.
Starting as a staff aide to Dan Quayle when
On issues, Coats has become well-known
Quayle represented northeast Indiana in the
primarily as a serious social conservative given
House, Coats has moved up behind his boss.
to pondering the implications of his Christian-
When Quayle went to the Senate in 1980, Coats
based, "pro-family" politics. He argues for the
ran for and won his House seat. And after
need to move beyond such issues as school
Quayle was elected vice president in 1988, Indi-
prayer and abortion to a concern for the mate-
ana's retiring GOP Gov. Robert D. Orr ap-
rial welfare of children and the poor. But his
pointed Coats to succeed Quayle in the Senate.
role is limited by his reluctance to depart from
There is, of course, nothing wrong with
the conservative orthodoxy and suspicion of
being appointed to the Senate in place of one's
government he brought with him to Congress.
political mentor. That was how Senate Majority
In the House, Coats spent much of his time
Leader George J. Mitchell of Maine first ar-
at the Select Committee on Children, Youth
rived in 1980. The key is how one proceeds from
and Families, where he was ranking Republi-
there.
can. He defended programs for underprivileged
Like his former boss, Coats now confronts
families that some conservatives assail as too
a political challenge that has broadened as
expensive. In 1985, Coats argued for eight
much as his horizon. Just as Quayle must prove
controversial education and health programs
himself on a national and international stage,
for the poor. "These strands of the social safety
his protégé must make himself at home in the
net - from the Head Start program to prenatal
Senate and compete statewide in less than two
care to education for the handicapped - are
years.
working as intended," Coats said.
Coats' appointment only lasts through the
In 1988, worrying that government deci-
101st Congress; it must be ratified by the voters
sions had "aggravated trends" by which fam-
in November 1990. If he wins then, he must
ilies across the economic spectrum were "losing
defend the seat in its regular re-election cycle in
ground," Coats backed a spending plan on
1992 (Quayle was re-elected in 1986). So Coats
education, nutrition and health that he called
will be acquainting himself not only with unfa-
"a coming together of conservatives who want
miliar committee territory (his assignments are
to be cost-conscious and liberals who want to be
Quayle's old ones, including Armed Services)
compassionate."
but with unfamiliar voters, as well.
During the 1988 presidential campaign, he
That may require a kind of energy and
and California GOP Rep. Jerry Lewis proposed
focus beyond what Coats has had to muster
a $1.9 billion "American Family Act," which
thus far. On the other hand, Coats has been one
included tax credits for low-income families
of the class of 1980 who not only survived
with children younger than 6.
electorally but established a kind of détente
Easing the family's tax burden has been a
with the government he opposed in getting
longstanding interest for Coats. In 1985, he
elected. Many of his classmates who had ridden
began talking about a "Tax Fairness to Fam-
Ronald Reagan's 1980 coattails came a cropper
ilies" bill, which would raise the personal ex-
in the recession of 1982; Coats actually ran
emption from $1,040 to $2,000. The tax-revision
stronger that year than in either of Reagan's
bill that became law in 1986 does exactly that,
landslides.
increasing the exemption on a gradual basis.
He did it, in part, by watching out for the
Coats was not a major player in the tax debate,
district's economic interests. In 1982 he voted
but his early efforts helped frame the issue.
490
Daniel R. Coats, R-Ind.
But when new programs involving direct
both had helped build. Coats actually ran ahead
governmental service are proposed, he tends to
of Quayle that November in the 4th.
be against them. He characterizes himself as
By tradition, appointed senators have not
reluctant to support federal involvement in
fared well in defending their windfall before the
child-care services, for example.
voters. And the timing of Coats' ascent might
Coats had a prize committee assignment at
have been better. Among the more reliably GOP
Energy and Commerce. Over his years there, he
states in recent years, Indiana has shown signs
allied with moderates and liberals seeking to
of restiveness of late. In 1988 it elected its first
protect consumers from price increases during
Democratic governor in two decades and gave
natural-gas deregulation, and with conserva-
Democrats a share of control in the Legislature.
tives in behalf of cuts in the Amtrak rail system.
More disturbing yet, when Coats vacated
During his early years in the House, Coats
his and Quayle's old House seat in the 4th
was identified most with the issue of school
District, their chosen successor failed to hold it
prayer. In 1984, he attempted to attach an
in a special election. The new occupant, Jill
amendment to an omnibus education bill that
Long, had been beaten by Coats in 1988 and by
would have cut off federal aid to schools and
Quayle two years earlier. Her upset win gave
states banning voluntary school prayer. Coats'
Democrats seven of the state's 10 House seats.
the conservative coalition
amendment was defeated on the floor.
Coats, however, should be stronger than
Southern Democrats than
At Home: When Orr named Coats to re-
most. He has a base in his old district and he
His ratings by ideologi-
place Quayle in the Senate a month after the
can expect to run with no serious opposition for
moderated that year.
1988 presidential election, he was formalizing
the GOP nomination. He will also enjoy the
has become well-known
what many Indiana observers had considered a
obvious backing of the vice president; and the
social conservative given
fait accompli. Coats was presumed to be
president, too, can be expected to take a special
olications of his Christian-
Quayle's choice, just as he had been when
interest in holding this seat.
politics. He argues for the
Quayle left the House eight years earlier.
When he first ran for Congress in 1980,
such issues as school
As Quayle's district representative from
Coats was still a relative newcomer to the
to a concern for the mate-
1978 through 1980, Coats cultivated the role of
district. He had to get past a bitter GOP primary
and the poor. But his
surrogate congressman. He handled constitu-
against two candidates with much stronger local
reluctance to depart from
ents' problems personally, and sometimes
roots. But he easily surmounted that problem,
thodoxy and suspicion of
stepped in for Quayle to give a "government is
winning the primary by carrying every county.
with him to Congress.
too big" speech. When Quayle ran for the Senate
In November, Coats smashed Democrat John D.
spent much of his time
in 1980, Coats had a spot on the ballot just below
Walda in Walda's second try. Four re-election
on Children, Youth
him and shared the highly effective organization
campaigns produced no surprises.
he was ranking Republi-
ograms for underprivileged
conservatives assail as too
Committees
1988
Coats argued for eight
Approve aid to Nicaraguan contras
Y
Armed Services (9th of 9 Republicans)
Enact civil rights restoration bill over Reagan veto
N
and health programs
Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense; Defense Industry and Technol-
Kill 60-day plant-closing notification measure
N
strands of the social safety
ogy: Readiness, Sustainability and Support
Pass omnibus trade bill over Reagan veto
N
Labor and Human Resources (4th of 7 Republicans)
Approve death penalty for drug-related murders
Y
Start program to prenatal
Children. Family, Drugs and Alcoholism (ranking); Aging
Bar federal funds for abortions in cases of rape and incest
Y
the handicapped - are
Oppose seven-day waiting period for purchase of handguns
Y
Coats
said.
Elections
that government deci-
Voting Studies
1988 General *
trends" by which fam-
Presidential
Party
Conservative
Daniel R. Coats (R)
spectrum were "losing
132,843
(62%)
Support
Unity
Coalition
will Long (D)
80,915
(38%)
Year
a spending plan on
S
o
S
o
S
o
Previous Winning Percentages:
1986
(70%)
1984
(61%)
House Service
and health that he called
1982
(64%)
1980
(61%)
1988
59
38
77
20
84
11
of conservatives who want
House elections.
1987
64
36
83
16
86
12
and liberals who want to be
1986
70
29
84
15
84
16
1985
74
26
81
17
80
20
Campaign Finance
1984
67
30
92
8
90
10
presidential campaign, he
1983
78
21
88 t
12 t
84
16
Receipts
1982
71
Expend-
29
84
13
82
18
Rep. Jerry Lewis proposed
Receipts
from PACs
1981
itures
74
26
86
14
91
9
erican Family Act," which
1988
t Not eligible for all recorded votes.
for low-income families
Coats (R)
$351,827
$190,152 (54%)
$266,016
-cng (D)
$115,103
than
6.
$42,690 (37%)
$114,454
tax burden has been a
for Coats. In 1985, he
Key Votes
Interest Group Ratings
Year
ADA
a "Tax Fairness to Fam-
House Service
ACU
AFL-CIO
CCUS
1987
House Service
vould raise the personal ex-
Paise speed limit to 65 mph
1988
10
Y
92
29
to $2,000. The tax-revision
93
Approve Gephardt "fair trade" amendment
1987
8
N
91
0
100
in 1986 does exactly that,
Ban testing of larger nuclear weapons
1986
10
Delay 're-flagging'' of Kuwaiti tankers
N
82
14
94
1985
20
N
86
18
86
emption on a gradual basis.
Approve tax-raising deficit-reduction bill
1984
5
N
92
0
69
player in the tax debate,
1983
10
87
6
85
1982
30
73
15
73
helped frame the issue.
1981
10
93
20
100
491
Indiana - Congressional Districts
India
South Bend
Elkhart
STEUBEN
LAGRANGE
Gary
ST. JOSEPH
ELKHART
LA PORTE
LAKE
3
KOSCIUSKO
DE KALB
PORTER
NOBLE
STARKE
MARSHALL
WHITLEY
4
Fort
Wayne
JASPER
PULASKI
FULTON
ALLEN
5
NEWTON
WHITE
WABASH
CASS
MIAMI
AUTHINGTON
WELLS
ADAMS
CARROLL
Marion
BENTON
Kokomo
GRANT
BLACK-
TIPPECANOE
FORD
HOWARD
JAY
WARREN
Lafayette
TIPTON
Gov. Evan Bayh (D)
CLINTON
ianapolis - Elected 19
MADISON
DELAWARE
MONT-
Muncle
RANDOLPH
GOMERY
Anderson
26, 1955, Terre Haute
HAMILTON
FOUNTAIN
BOONE
Indiana U., B.S. 1978;
MARION
6
J.D.
1981.
HENRY
Lawyer.
VERMILLION
7
Indianapolis
HANCOCK
Richmond
PARKE
Christian.
HENDRICKS
WAYNE
10
Career: Ind. secretary of
PUTNAM
RUSH
Terre
SHELBY
FAYETTE
UNION
1992.
Haute
MORGAN
CLAY
JOHNSON
VIGO
2
FRANKLIN
OWEN
DECATUR
Columbus
DEAR-
Bloomington
BORN
SULLIVAN
BROWN
MONROE
BARTHOL
RIPLEY
GREENE
OMEW
JENNINGS
JACKSON
OHIO
LAWRENCE
SWITZER-
Workers
KNOX
8
JEFFERSON
LAND
WASHING-
TON
SCOTT
MARTIN
DAVIESS
ORANGE
CLARK
PIKE
DUBOIS
GIBSON
FLOYD
New Albany .
CRAWFORD
VANDER-
HARRISON
$20,535
BURGH
WARRICK
PERRY
POSEY
Evanaville
SPENCER
$789
pupil
12
$3,275
13%
329 per 100,000
485
'90-03-22 11:45 DOUG GAMBLE
P.1
DOUG GAMBLE
MKG
424- 36th Place
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
March 22/90
(213) 546-6409
TO: KRISTEN GEAR
INDIANAPOLIS (Curt Smith)
IF BOBBY KNIGHT IS HERE (SINCE BOBBY KNIGHT IS HERE), I HOPE THE CHAIRS ARE
BOLTED DOWN.
IF BOBBY KNIGHT EVER DECIDES TO LEAVE BASKETBALL, HE MIGHT MAKE A GREAT WHITE
HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF.
I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO RUNNING WITH DAN QUAYLE AGAIN IN 1992, AND SWEEPING TO
VICTORY HERE IN INDIANA ON HIS COATTAILS.
DAN QUAYLE HAS X TAKEN A LOT OF UNFAIR KNOCKS BUT HE ALWAYS BOUNCES BACK,
BECAUSE THERE'S ONE THING THE CRITICS FORGET: IT TAKES A LOT MORE THAN THEY
CAN THROW AT HIM TO BE A MATCH FOR HOOSIER SPIRIT.
DAN QUAYLE'S DOING A GREAT JOB, AND HE'LL PROVE TO BE ONE OF AMERICA'S OUTSTANDING
VICE PRESIDENTS. I HOPE THE CRITICS ENJOY FOULING HIM TODAY, BECAUSE HE'S
GOING TO SLAMDUNK THEM TOMORROW.
THE CRITICS JUST NEVER SEEM TO GET IT RIGHT. THOSE WHO SAY DAN QUAYLE IS TOO
YOUNG WE ARE THE SAME ONES WHO SAID RONALD REAGAN WAS TOO OLD. (AND LOOK HOW FAR
CAME IN THE 1980'S)
Who Made Chicago (1943)
and Michigan Canal (1918)
INDIANA
the Old Northwest, 1673-1835
One Hundred Years Ago (1918)
and New (1923)
Wigwam to Modern City, 1673-
Lakes series) (1944)
THE
STATE
Waves: An Insider's Analysis of
OF
OF
Viskochil (eds.) Chicago and
Farm Security Administration
SEAL
INDIANA
(1975)
graphy of Illinois (1921)
Indiana, an east north central state, is
anging Chicago: A Photodocumen-
bordered on the north by Lake Michigan
and the state of Michigan; on the east by
Race Riots (1919, rpt. 1969)
Prairie Years 2 vols. (1926)
1816
Ohio; on the south by the Ohio River and
Kentucky; and on the west by the Wa-
Movement in Illinois, 1880-1896
bash River and Illinois.
Bank
(1953)
a
Portrait
(1931)
FULL NAME State of Indiana
hills. In the left foreground is a buffalo
Prairie State: A Documentary
POSTAL ABBREVIATION IN
jumping over a log; in the right, a woods-
INHABITANT Hoosier
man felling a sycamore tree. The light blue
in Old Chicago (1941)
ADMITTED TO THE UNION Dec. 11, 1816.
border bears the legend, in white letters,
Fields: A Study in Wealth (1947)
19th state
"Seal of the State of Indiana, 1816."
of the McCormicks, Medills, and
POPULATION (est. 1987) 5,531,000.
Percent of US total: 2.27%. Rank: 14th
MOTTO The Crossroads of America
New Salem (1934)
Pioneer Family: The Birkbecks in
CAPITAL CITY Indianapolis, the largest city in
SONG "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far
the state, located on the White River in
Away," lyrics and music by Paul Dresser.
of Chicago (1966)
central Indiana; population 710,280 (est.
econd World War 2 vols. (1951,
1984). It was founded in 1821 on a site
SYMBOLS
previously selected for the state capital and
Flower peony
llinois Reader (1970)
was laid out on a radical plan similar to that
Tree tulip tree
My Parlor: A Biography of the
of the nation's capital. The city formally
Bird cardinal
Chicago (1936)
became the seat of government in 1825.
Stone limestone
Black Hawk War, 1831-1832
Language English
STATE NAME AND NICKNAMES The name "In-
Poem "Indiana" by Arthur Franklin Mapes
and Free: The Historic Struggle
diana," meaning "Land of the Indians,"
was coined by Congress in 1800 when it
LICENSE PLATE Blue on white, with horizon-
of Men: Another Story of Chicago
established the new territory. Also known
tal blue bars top and bottom and the legend
as the Hoosier State. The word Hoosier is
"Back Home Again," and on the white
variously said to have been derived from
background the gold torch-and-stars de-
the name of a contractor, Sam Hoosier;
sign of the state flag.
from "husher," a riverboat worker; or from
the question "Who's here?"
FLAG On a blue field, a gold torch sur-
rounded by a circle of 13 stars and an inner
STATE SEAL A pioneer scene showing a green
half-circle of five stars, and above it a larger
field with the sun setting behind distant
star under the legend "Indiana."
133
Facts About the States
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE
As a typical state of the Central Lowlands,
LAND USE
Indiana is primarily flat, fertile agricultural
Thousands of acres
land, with some highlands along the Ohio
Urban (1982)
1,192
River, which forms the state's southern
Rural (1982)
20,597
border. Northern Indiana contains large
Cropland (1982)
13,781
deposits of sandy gravel from heavy glaci-
Pastureland (1982)
2,212
ation during the last Ice Age; much of the
Rangeland (1982)
0
state also sits on a bed of porous limestone
Forestland (1982)
3,640
and sandstone. Early summer tornadoes
State parks and recreation
are a regular feature of what is otherwise a
areas (1983)
54
temperate climate.
National park system (1984)
10
National forest system (1984)
645
AREA 36,185 square miles. Rank: 38th
Tribal lands (1984)
0
INLAND WATER 253 square miles
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER Boone, 14 miles NNW
TEMPERATURES The highest recorded tem-
of Indianapolis
perature was 116°F on July 14, 1936, at
ELEVATIONS Highest point: Franklin Town-
Collegeville. The lowest was -35°F on
ship, Wayne County, 1,257 feet. Lowest
February 2, 1951, at Greensburg.
point: Ohio River, Posey County, 320 feet.
Mean elevation: 700 feet
NATIONAL SITES
MAJOR RIVERS Wabash, Ohio, White
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK George Rogers
Clark
MAJOR LAKES AND RESERVOIRS Michigan, Wa-
NATIONAL MEMORIAL Lincoln Boyhood
wasee, Monroe, Patoka, Salamonie, Mis-
NATIONAL LAKESHORE Indiana Dunes
sissinewa
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Muscatatuck
HISTORY
1679
December 5. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reaches the approximate site of
South Bend, on his way to the Illinois River.
1681
May. On a second trip, La Salle holds a council with Miami and Illinois Indians
at the same site.
1708
Possible founding date of Vincennes, the center of French settlement in
present-day Indiana.
1720
A fort is built at Ouiatenon, near present-day Lafayette.
1722
The French build Fort Miami at the site of present-day Fort Wayne.
1763
By the terms of the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War, France
cedes to Great Britain the territory that includes present-day Indiana.
Indians capture the fort at Ouiatenon and Fort Miami.
1778
Aided by disaffected French settlers, George Rogers Clark, a Virginian, and his
band of frontiersmen take Vincennes from the British. It is recaptured on
December 17.
1779
February 25. British troops at Vincennes surrender to 170 American and French
volunteers serving under Clark.
1791
November 4. Miami war chief Little Turtle defeats federal troops and militia near
Fort Miami; close to 1,000 are killed or wounded.
1794
August 20. The defeat of the Miami in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, near
present-day Toledo, Oh., opens the way for white settlement in Indiana.
1795
August 3. By the Treaty of Greenville, Indians cede lands that include a portion
of what is now east-southeast Indiana.
1800
May 7. Indiana Territory created, with Vincennes as its capital. Territory
population is 5,641.
1805
January 11. Michigan is detached from Indiana Territory.
1807
First federal land sale in Indiana, at Vincennes.
1809
February 9. Illinois Territory organized, reducing Indiana to its present borders.
Governor William Henry Harrison buys 3 million acres from the Miami, Wea, and
Delaware for $10,000 and a small annuity.
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Indiana
1811
November 7. Harrison defeats the Shawnee confederacy at the Battle of Tippe-
canoe.
housands
of
1812
acres
September 3. Twenty-four white settlers in Scott County are killed by Indians in
1,192
the Pigeon Roost Massacre.
20,597
December 17-18. Miami Indians defeated near Peru in the last battle fought in
13,781
Indiana.
2,212
1816
December 11. Indiana admitted to the Union as the 19th state. The constitution
0
excludes slavery.
3,640
1818
Most of central Indiana is bought from Indian tribes.
1820
June. Indianapolis replaces Corydon as the permanent state capital.
54
1825
The utopian colony of New Harmony is founded by Robert Owen.
10
1826
Indians cede most of their lands north and west of the Wabash River.
84)
645
1838
A group of 859 Potawatomi is forcibly expelled from Indiana, virtually clearing
0
the state of Indians.
1851
The new constitution contains a provision that no blacks be allowed to settle in
recorded
tem-
the state.
14,
1936,
at
1853
-35°F
Opening of the Wabash and Erie Canal, linking Toledo, Ohio, on Lake Erie, with
was
on
Evansville on the Ohio River.
nsburg.
1855
Eight rail lines are using Union Depot in Indianapolis; rail mileage rises from 212
in 1850 to 2,163 in 1860.
1860
Indiana is first among states in hogs raised, second in wheat production, fourth
George Rogers
in corn production.
The state ranks sixth in population, with 1,350,428.
Boyhood
1861-1865
Indiana contributes 196,363 men to the Union cause in the Civil War, of whom
a
Dunes
25,028 die. Indiana troops take part in 308 engagements.
Iuscatatuck
1863
July 8-13. Confederate cavalrymen under General John Hunt Morgan raid
southern Indiana.
1869
Eighteen percent of all US lumber comes from Indiana.
roximate
site
of
1877
James Whitcomb Riley becomes a regular contributor of verse to the Indianapolis
Journal, establishing a career as the state's virtual poet laureate.
Illinois Indians
1888
Indianapolis resident Benjamin Harrison, a former senator, is elected president
of the United States.
settlement
in
1889
The Standard Oil Company builds one of the world's largest oil refineries in
Whiting.
1894
July 4. Early auto pioneer Elwood Haynes successfully tests his horseless carriage
ayne.
in Kokomo.
War, France
1900
Peak number of farms in Indiana-221,897.
1901
The Socialist party is founded in Indianapolis, with Hoosier native Eugene V.
Debs as its president.
rginian, and his
1905
Gary is founded as the site of the US Steel Corporation's largest plant.
recaptured
on
1911
May 30. First Indianapolis 500 Memorial Day weekend auto race.
1919
and
French
Indiana ranks third among states in iron and steel production.
1923
The Ku Klux Klan has 300,000 members in Indiana. Its political power wanes
after 1924.
and
militia
near
1933
To finance the needy of the Great Depression, the state legislature adopts a gross
Timbers, near
income tax-a combination of income tax and sales tax.
Indiana.
1934
July 23. Shooting of John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater ends his
clude a portion
gang's string of Indiana bank robberies.
1937
January 31. The Ohio River reaches its highest level ever recorded in Indiana.
pital. Territory
Entire cities are inundated, hundreds drown.
1948
Indiana University biologist Alfred Kinsey stirs controversy with the publication
of the first of his two surveys on human sexual behavior.
1949
Indiana's schools are fully desegregated.
borders.
1957
A state right-to-work law abolishes the closed and union shops.
Wea,
and
1965
The Studebaker auto plant in South Bend shuts its doors after 63 years of
producing automobiles.
135
Facts About the States
1967
Richard D. Hatcher of Gary becomes the first black mayor of an Indiana city.
1970
A constitutional amendment establishes annual General Assembly sessions.
Consolidation of Indianapolis and its suburbs raises the city's population to
736,856.
1974
April 3. Tornadoes kill about 48 people and cause property damage of over $200
million.
1984
Professional football's Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis to play in that city's
Hoosier Dome.
DEMOGRAPHY
Population (est. 1987)
5,531,000
Divorce rate per 1,000
Population (1980)
5,490,260
residents
7.7
Population density in persons
Birth rate per 1,000
per square mile (1980)
151.7
residents (1985)
14.7
Infant mortality rate per 1,000
POPULATION BY RACE (1980)
births (1985)
10.3
American Indian/Aleut/
Abortion rate per 1,000
Eskimo
7,835
live births (1985)
202
Asian/Pacific Islander
21,488
Crime rate per 100,000
Black
414,732
residents (1985)
Hispanic
87,000
Violent
307.7
White
5,004,567
Property
3,547.1
Other
42,557
Federal and state prisoners per
100,000 residents (1984)
170
POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS (1980)
Alcohol consumption in gallons
Percent of state population
per capita (1985)
36.5
Urban
64.2
Deaths from motor vehicle accidents
Rural
35.8
per 100,000 residents (1985)
17.7
Under 18
29.4
65 or older
10.7
MAJOR CITIES
College-educated
12.4
1984 population (est.)
Families below poverty line
7.3
Anderson
61,771
Public assistance recipients
3.7
Bloomington
52,219
Evansville
130,333
Per capita personal
Fort Wayne
165,415
income (1986)
$12,944
Gary
143,096
Millionaires per 100,000
Hammond
89,364
residents (1982)
82.1
Indianapolis
710,280
Average life expectancy
Muncie
74,190
in years (1980)
73.8
South Bend
107,117
Marriage rate per 1,000
Terre Haute
58,767
residents (1986)
9.2
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Number of US Representatives
10
Benjamin Harrison* (R)
1888 P
Electoral votes
12
Benjamin Harrison (R)
1892 P
Eugene Victor Debs (Social-
POLITICAL PARTY NOMINEES FROM STATE
*
Democratic)
1900 P
winner
Charles Warren Fairbanks* (R) 1904 VP
George Washington Julian
Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist) 1904 P
(Free Soil)
1852 VP
John Worth Kern (D)
1908 VP
Schuyler Colfax* (R)
1868 VP
Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist) 1908
P
Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Samuel Williams (People's)
1908 VP
(D)
1876 VP
Thomas Riley Marshall* (D)
1912 VP
William Hayden English (D)
1880 VP
Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist) 1912
P
Thomas Andrews Hendricks*
Thomas Riley Marshall* (D)
1916 VP
(D)
1884 VP
Charles Warren Fairbanks (R) 1916
VP
136
Indiana
of an Indiana city.
James Franklin Hanley (Prohi-
Republican delegates to the national con-
ssembly
sessions.
bition)
1916 P
ventions.
city's population to
Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist)
1920
P
CONSTITUTION Indiana has had two consti-
John Zahnd (Greenback)
1924 P
tutions: 1816 and the present one, adopted
damage of over $200
John Zahnd (Greenback)
1928 P
in 1851.
John Zahnd (National Green-
LEGISLATURE The General Assembly is di-
to play in that city's
back)
1936 P
vided into the Senate (50 members, 4-year
John Zahnd (Greenback)
1940 P
term, minimum age 25) and the House of
Granville B. Leeke (Green-
Representatives (100 members, 2-year
back)
1948 VP
term, minimum age 21). In 1987, the salary
Edward J. Bedell (Greenback)
1952 VP
was $80 per diem.
William Ezra Jenner (Texas
JUDICIARY The highest court is the Supreme
7.7
Constitutional)
1956 P
Court, with 5 judges serving terms of two
William Ezra Jenner (States'
years initially and ten years upon retention.
14.7
Rights Party of Kentucky)
1956 VP
In 1987, the annual salary was $66,000.
per
1,000
EXECUTIVE The governor serves a 4-year
10.3
term; the minimum age for holding office is
00
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION In 1988, In-
30. In 1987, the annual salary was $77,200.
202
diana sent 85 Democratic delegates and 51
There are 6 other elected officials.
00
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE 1948-1988 (in percents)
307.7
3,547.1
Year
State Winner
Democratic
Republican
soners
per
1948
Dewey (R)
48.8
49.6
1984)
170
1952
Eisenhower (R)
41.0
58.1
in
gallons
1956
Eisenhower (R)
39.7
59.9
36.5
1960
Nixon (R)
44.6
55.0
chicle accidents
1964
Johnson (D)
56.0
43.6
its
(1985)
17.7
1968
Nixon (R)
38.0
50.3
1972
Nixon (R)
33.3
66.1
1976
Ford (R)
45.7
53.3
1984 population (est.)
1980
Reagan (R)
37.7
56.0
61,771
1984
Reagan (R)
37.7
61.7
52,219
1988
Bush (R)
40.0
60.0
130,333
165,415
143,096
GOVERNORS
Abram A. Hammond (D)
1860-1861
Henry S. Lane (R)
1861
89,364
710,280
Territorial Governors
Oliver P. Morton (R)
1861-1867
John Gibson (acting)
1800-1801
74,190
Conrad Baker (R)
1867-1873
107,117
William Henry Harrison
1801-1812
Thomas A. Hendricks (D)
1873-1877
58,767
John Gibson (acting)
1812-1813
James D. Williams (D)
1877-1880
Thomas Posey
1813-1816
Isaac P. Gray (D)
1880-1881
Albert G. Porter (R)
1881-1885
State Governors
Isaac P. Gray (D)
1885-1889
Jonathan Jennings
Alvin P. Hovey (R)
1889-1891
(Jeffersonian-Republican)
1816-1822
Ira J. Chase (R)
1891-1893
)
1888 P
Ratliff Boon (Jeffersonian-
Claude Matthews (D)
1893-1897
1892 P
Republican)
1822
James A. Mount (R)
1897-1901
locial-
William Hendricks
Winfield T. Durbin (R)
1901-1905
1900 P
(Jeffersonian-Republican)
1822-1825
J. Frank Hanly (R)
1905-1909
aks* (R) 1904 VP
James B. Ray (Independent)
1825-1831
Thomas R. Marshall (D)
1909-1913
ocialist)
1904
P
Noah Noble (National
Samuel M. Ralston (D)
1913-1917
1908 VP
Republican-Whig)
1831-1837
James P. Goodrich (R)
1917-1921
ocialist)
1908
P
David Wallace (Whig)
1837-1840
Warren T. McCray (R)
1921-1924
le's)
1908 VP
Samuel Bigger (Whig)
1840-1843
Emmett F. Branch (R)
1924-1925
(D)
1912 VP
James Whitcomb (D)
1843-1848
Ed Jackson (R)
1925-1929
pcialist)
1912
P
Paris C. Dunning (D)
1848-1849
Harry G. Leslie (R)
1929-1933
(D)
1916 VP
Joseph A. Wright (D)
1849-1857
Paul V. McNutt (D)
1933-1937
(R)
1916
VP
Ashbel P. Willard (D)
1857-1860
M. Clifford Townsend (D)
1937-1941
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Facts About the States
Henry F. Schricker (D)
1941-1945
Ralph F. Gates (R)
soybeans, wheat, and cattle. Other crops
1945-1949
Henry F. Schricker (D)
include oats, rye, hay, barley, tobacco,
1949-1953
truck vegetables, and varieties of mint.
George N. Craig (R)
1953-1957
Farm cash receipts were $5.4 billion in
Harold W. Handley (R)
1957-1961
Matthew E. Welsh (D)
1983. Mining yields bituminous coal, oil,
1961-1965
Roger D. Branigin (D)
granite, marble, sandstone, limestone,
1965-1969
peat, clay, sand, and gravel. Manufactured
Edgar D. Whitcomb (R)
1969-1973
Otis R. Bowen (R)
products include steel, auto parts, ceramic
1973-1981
Robert D. Orr (R)
and glass items, food processing (primarily
1981-1989
Evan Bayh (D)
meat packing), and electrical machinery.
1989-
The total value added by manufacture for
the state was $26 billion in 1982.
MINIMUM AGES
Majority
18
Marriage with parental consent
17
EMPLOYMENT (1984)
Marriage without parental consent
18
Thousands of persons
Making a will
18
Total number of employed
Buying alcohol
21
workers
2,400
Jury duty
18
Construction
80.7
Leaving school
16
Finance, insurance, and
Driver's license
16
real estate
103.6
Government
330.3
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Manufacturing
621.1
Number executed 1976-88: 2
Mining
10.2
On death row Aug. 1, 1988: 48
Services
387.3
Transportation, communications,
MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
and utilities
105.5
Total number: 11
Wholesale and retail trade
492.7
Major bases:
Army: 2
Percent of civilian labor force
Navy: 1
unemployed (1984)
8.6
FINANCES
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (1985)
Thousands of dollars
Civilian workers employed
15,436
GENERAL REVENUE (1985)
Military personnel
6,576
Total general revenue
7,102,450
Contract awards
$3.177 billion
Total tax revenue
4,336,068
Sales and gross receipts
2,632,614
Individual income taxes
1,287,050
ENERGY SOURCES FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES (1983)
Corporate net income taxes
Percent
178,345
Coal
98.8
Gas
GENERAL EXPENDITURE (1985)
0.4
Total general expenditure
6,624,083
Hydroelectric
0.6
Education
Nuclear
2,908,024
0.0
Public welfare
Petroleum
1,009,370
0.3
Health
182,607
Hospitals
263,390
TRANSPORTATION
Natural resources
119,493
Motor vehicles registered
Highways
769,020
in state (1986)
4,173,614
Police
60,271
Miles of roads, streets,
Corrections
145,760
and highways (1986)
91.462
Miles of Class I railway
FEDERAL AID (1985)
1,825,318
operated (1986)
4,813
Airports (1983)
498
ECONOMY
Major aviation hubs (1983)
2
The traditional mainstays of Indiana's ag-
Largest hub: Indianapolis
ricultural economy, corn and hogs, are still
Major ports, with gross tonnage in
thousands (1985):
the biggest cash producers, along with
Indiana Harbor
13,549
138
Indiana
and cattle. Other crops
hay, barley, tobacco,
CULTURE AND EDUCATION
and varieties of mint.
were $5.4 billion in
Native American tribes
Snite Museum of Art, University of
bituminous coal, oil,
Indiana was formerly home to the Dela-
Notre Dame, Notre Dame
sandstone, limestone,
ware, Erie, Illinois, Neutral, Ofo, Ojib-
gravel. Manufactured
way, Ottawa, Peoria, Piankashaw,
Major arts organizations
auto parts, ceramic
Potawatomi, Seneca, Shawnee, Wea, and
Fort Wayne Ballet
processing (primarily
Wyandot tribes. Groups that continue to
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
electrical machinery.
live in the state include the Miami.
Indianapolis Ballet Theatre
by manufacture for
Indianapolis Opera
illion
in
1982.
Religions, ethnicities, and languages
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis
About 95 percent of Indiana's population
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
was born in the state; for the most part,
Thousands of persons
they are descended from the early settlers,
Colleges and universities
hployed
of English, Scotch-Irish, and German
Number public (1986-87) 29
2,400
stock. The cities have large Black, Polish,
Number private (1986-87) 47
80.7
Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Mexican
Total enrollment, in full-time equivalent
and
populations. In 1980, 4.1 percent of Indi-
students (1985) 195,600
103.6
ana's population spoke a language other
330.3
than English at home. The majority are
Protestant, with a concentration of Catho-
Public elementary and secondary schools
621.1
10.2
lics in the urban areas; there are rural
Expenditure per pupil in average daily
387.3
communities of Amish and Mennonites.
attendance (1986-87) $3,310
Pupil-teacher ratio (1987) 18.3
munications,
Average teacher salary (1986-87) $26,557
105.5
Major museums and libraries
trade
492.7
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
Major league sports teams
bor
force
Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
Basketball: Indiana Pacers
)
8.6
Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Football: Indianapolis Colts
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis
Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis
Holidays
(1985)
Indianapolis Museum of Art
State Fair, Indianapolis. Mid-August
bloyed
15,436
6,576
INDIANA IN LITERATURE
$3.177 billion
Ronald L. Baker Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana
Edward Fischer Notre Dame Remembered: An Autobiography
(1986)
(1987)
LECTRIC UTILITIES (1983)
Richard E. Banta (comp.) Indiana Authors and Their Books,
William H. Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968)
Percent
1816-1916
(1949)
The title story of this collection consists of sketches of life
98.8
(ed.) Hoosier Caravan: A Treasury of Indiana Life and
in a small Indiana town.
Lore (2d ed. 1975)
0.4
Millard F. Kennedy Schoolmaster of Yesterday: A Three-
J. Richard Beste The Wabash; or, Adventures of an English
Generation Story (1940)
0.6
Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America 2 vols. (1855)
Detailed memoir by a Johnson County teacher, covering
0.0
the years 1820-1919.
Jan H. Brunvand (comp.) A Dictionary of Proverbs and
0.3
Proverbial Phrases from Books Published by Indiana Authors
Harlow Lindley (ed.) Indiana as Seen by Early Travelers
Before 1890 (1961)
(1916)
Carol Burke (ed.) Plain Talk (1983)
Ross Lockridge, Jr. Raintree County (1948)
Humorous anecdotes and rural folklore.
A lengthy historical novel describing the life of a school-
teacher and Civil War veteran from a small town.
Linda Dean (ed.) Indiana Folklore: A Reader (1980)
4,173,614
Robert Lynd Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American
Theodore Dreiser A Hoosier Holiday (1916)
Culture (1929); Middletown in Transition (1937)
A jaundiced account of the writer's youth that caused
Lynd's two studies of Muncie, written in collaboration with
91.462
offense in Dreiser's home state by its portraits of his
his wife Helen, were landmarks in American sociology.
contemporaries. Includes a sketch of Dreiser's brother Paul
Their methods of observation had hitherto been used only
4,813
Dresser, composer of the state song.
in studies of primitive peoples.
498
Jacob P. Dunn True Indian Stories (1908)
Charles Major The Bears of Blue River (1901); A Forest
Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties (1903)
983)
2
Edward Eggleston The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The
A successful writer of romances with European settings,
apolis
Hoosier Schoolboy (1883)
Major also applied his unrealistic style to the pioneer life of
Sentimental but realistic accounts of pioneer community
his home state.
tonnage in
life, noted for their portrayal of Scottish and Irish dialect
and manners.
Thomas Riley Marshall Recollections
a Hoosier Salad
(1925)
13,549
Logan Esarey The Indiana Home (2d ed. 1953)
Memoirs of the Indiana lawyer who twice served as
Essays on pioneer life in the state.
Vice-President.
139
488 / CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN, DAVID RALPH
(R)
b Chicago, III, Jan 15, 52; Frank J Christian & Ann Branand C; single. Educ:
Govt Pos: US Repr, Dist 4, Ind, 80-89, mem, Energy, Com. Trans
Nikon Sch Photography, Cincinnati, Ohio, 73; Ind State Univ, Terre Haute,
Telecommunications, Consumer Protection & Finance Comts, $
BS, 74; Van Dorn Plastics Technical Sch, Cleveland, Ohio, 79; Order Omega;
Fossil & Synthetic Fuels, Rep Policy Comt, ranking monority I)
Kappa Sigma. Polit & Govt Pos: Media consult, John Hiler for Cong Comt,
Comt on Children, Youth & Families, 81-89, US House Repr; U
80-; co-coordr, Cong Dist 3 Adv Comt, 81; bd mem, Ind Local Govt Tax
89-, mem, Armed Serv Comt, Labor & Human Resources Com
Control Bd, 82-; treas, Cong Dist Three Rep Comt, 82-; coordr, LaPorte
US Senate. Bus & Prof Pos: Asst to vpres & counsel, Mutual Secur
County, Ed Simcox for Secy State Re-elec Comt, 82; deleg, Ind State Rep
Co, formerly; bd mem, Anthony Wayne Rehabilitation Ctr, cui
Conv, 82; dist repr, La Porte County Rep Comt, Ind, 85-; Rep chmn, City of
Serv: Army, 66-68. Mem: Big Brothers & Big Sisters: Quest <
LaPorte, Ind, 83; chmn, LaPorte County Rep Comt, 83; mem, Indiana's
Baptist. Legal Res: Fort Wayne IN Mailing Add: SR-11 Ru
Office Bldg Washington DC 20510-1403
White House Conf on Small Bus, 84. Bus & Prof Pos: Dir sales activities, Indy
500 Radio Network, Avery-Knodel, Inc & acct exec, 74-75; mkt exec, WFTL
COCHRAN, WILLIAM C
Radio, 75-76; vpres, Am Metal Products Corp, 76-86, pres, 86-; pres,
Kriterion Plastics Corp, 76-; dir, Ind Mfr Asn, 81-, mem bd gov, Polit Action
Ind State Repr
Comt, 81-; asst secy, bd trustees, Ind State Univ, 82-86; mem bd dir, Casket
Polit & Govt Pos: Clerk circuit court, 67-74; Ind State Repr, D
Mfr, 85-89. Honors & Awards: Ruth Tirey Award, Ind State Univ, 73; Hon
ranking mem, Interstate Coop Comt, mem, Judiciary Comt, Waj
Secy State, Ind Secy State, 81. Mem: Kiwanis; Casket Mfr Asn; Soc Vacuum
Comt, currently, Ind House Repr. Bus & Prof Pos: Realtor, Brool
Coaters; Soc Plastic Engr; Sigma Delta Chi; LaPorte County Men's Club
currently. Honors & A wards: Outstanding Community Serv Award
(vpres, 83). Relig: Roman Catholic. Legal Res: 1015 S Westwood Dr LaPorte
Elks; March Dimes; Jefferson Lodge Masons; VFW; Fraternal O
IN 46350 Mailing Add: PO Box 28 LaPorte IN 46530
Manzanita Tribe Redmen; Sign Writers Local No 512. Relig:
Mailing Add: 4330 Green Valley Rd New Albany IN 47150
CHURCH, RUTH JOAN
(R)
VChmn, Miami County Rep Comt, Ind
COLDREN, JOHN
b Lake County, Ind, Dec 28, 27; di Gordon A Graper & Erma Rice Tullis G;
b Portland, Ind, Jan 6, 44; S Colwell Coldren & Nilah May C; m 19
m 1949 to Paul B Church, Jr; c Paula (Mrs Watkins), Timothy & Karen. Educ:
Wiley; C Jade, Eric & Julie. Educ: Manchester Col, BS, 66: Ind Uni
Ind Univ, Bloomington, BS, 70; Alpha Lambda Delta; Beta Gamma Sigma;
Bloomington, JD, 69; Phi Alpha Delta. Polit & Govt Pos: Ind
Delta Zeta. Polit & Govt Pos: Vchmn, Miami County Rep Comt, Ind, 76-85;
75-78; legis asst, Gov Bowen, 79-80; chmn, Ind Sch Tax C
vpres, Miami County Rep Women's Club, 76-; mem, Fifth Cong Dist Rep
currently; chief counsel, Ind House Repr, 81- Bus & Prof Pos:
Comt, Ind, 76-; mem coord, Exec Bd, Ind Fedn Rep Women, 80-82. Bus &
Fraser Law Off, Portland, Ind, 69-71 & Coldren & Frantz, 71-
Prof Pos: Pvt secy, Sch Educ, Ind Univ, 46-49; travel agent, Burger Travel
County, Ind State & Am Bar Asns; Portland Found (pres, 77-80
Serv, Youngstown, Ohio, 50-51; substitute teacher, LaPorte High Sch, Ind,
Lions. Relig: Methodist. Mailing Add: Box 1013 Portland IN 47
65-70; employee, Peru License Br, Ind, 77-81, mgr, 81- Honors & Awards:
Scholar, Tri Kappa, Gamma Theta Chap, 46, 47 & 48, Delta Zeta, Epsilon
COLEMAN, THOMAS D
Chap, 47 & 48; Sagamore of Wabash, Gov, Ind, 77; Hon Secy of State, State
Polit & Govt Pos: Ind State Repr, Dist 54, formerly. Bus
&
of Ind, 80. Mem: Nat Notary Asn; Ind Symphony Soc; Tri Kappa. Relig:
Salesman, currently. Mem: Mason. Relig: Methodist. Mailing Ad
United Methodist. Mailing Add: Rte 3 Peru IN 46970
Ave New Castle IN 47362
CLARKSON, C JACK
CONRAD, LARRY A
(R)
Chmn, Rush County Rep Comt, Ind
m 1957 to Mary Lou Hoover; c Jeb Allyn, Amy Lou, Andrew Bi
b Rushville, Ind, Dec 18, 30; S Harold L Clarkson & Dorothy V C; c Jean, Jon
McDade. Educ: Ball State Univ, AB, 57; Ind Univ Sch Law, LD
& Ann. Educ: Butler Univ, BA, 57; Ind Univ Law Sch, JD, 58; Order of Coif;
& Govt Pos: Legis Asst to US Sen Birch Bayh, 63-64; chief counsel
Phi Delta Phi. Polit & Govt Pos: Prosecuting attorney, Rush County, Ind,
Subcomt Const Amendments, 64-69; Secy of State, Ind, 70-78;
59-66; chmn, Rush County Rep Comt, Ind, 64- Mailing Add: PO Box 279
Nat Conv, 80 & 84; co-chmn, Ind Carter for President Comt, 80
Rushville IN 46173
comt, Dem Cong Campaign Comt, formerly; chmn, Indianapolis N
President Comt, 84, Ind Mondale-Ferraro Comt, 84. Bus & Pro
CLAWSON, FLORENCE ELIZABETH
(R)
Clerk, 57-61; pvt law practice, Conrad & Hafsten, 78-83; vpres
Vice Chairwoman, Warren County Rep Comt, Ind
Melvin Simon and Assoc, Inc, 83- Honors & Awards: Citation of
b Warren Co, Ind, Dec 9, 21; d Alva Glenn Ault & Bonnie Barr R; m 1940
Voc Rehabilitation Serv, 72; Man of the Year, Indianapolis Pres
to Virgil Cash Clawson; c Susan (deceased) & John. Educ: Williamsport High
Sagamore of the Wabash. Mem: Am & Ind Bar Asns; NAACP
Sch, 38. Polit & Govt Pos: Dep clerk, Warren County, Ind, 60-62, auditor, 62-
UAW, hon life mem; Indianapolis CofC; Indianapolis Press Clu
70, assessor, 71-; vice chairwoman, Warren County Rep Comt, Ind, currently.
Ind Soc of Chicago. Mailing Add: 7153 N Meridian St Indianapoli
Honors & Awards: Sagamore of the Wasbash, Gov Robert Orr, Ind, 82;
Tribute to Rep Women, Ind Rep Women, 82; Art Himsel Award, Ind Asn
COOK, GEORGE EDWARD
Counties, 84; Ky Colonel, Gov Martha Collins, 86. Mem: Nat Asn of
Ind State Repr
Counties, Ind Rep; Home Demonstration Club (pres, 54); County Officials of
b Decatur, Ind, Apr 24, 27; S George Clyde Cook & Dorof
Ind (pres, 81-83); Eastern Star. Relig: Protestant. Legal Res: Rte 2 Box 98
McCloskey C; m 1950 to Lois Anne Barrett; c Gary Lee, Par
Attica IN 47918 Mailing Add: Box 155 Williamsport IN 47993
Douglas Edward & Jerry Alan. Educ: Grovertown High Sch, 45. P
Pos: County councilman, Marshall, Ind, 62-74; treas, Marshall a
CLEMENTS, SHIRLEY ANN
(D)
Dem Comt, 68-72; treas, Michiana Area Coun of Govts, 70-74
Chmn, Huntington County Dem Comt, Ind
Repr, Dist 17, 74-, co-chmn, Roads & Transp Comt, mem, Cou
b Huntington, Ind, July 26, 35; d George Mitchell Gundy & Mable
Comt, Environ Affairs Comt, currently, Ind House Repr: mem, Sc
Spickelmier G; m 1957 to Everett Leroy Clements; C Anne Louise, Samuel
Tax Control Bd, 75-76; mem, Governor's Traffic Safety Adv Co
Wayne, Daniel Ray & Randall Lee. Educ: IBM Mach Oper Sch, Ind, 54;
Bus & Prof Pos: Co-owner, Cook Bros Furniture, Plymouth, Ind, 4
Huntington Col, 77-78. Polit & Govt Pos: Precinct committeeman,
C&S Enterprises, Plymouth, 68-; sales repr, Espich Trucking
Huntington County Dem Comt, Ind, 61-67, secy, 61-80, vchmn, 80-82, chmn,
currently. Mil Serv: Entered as A/S, Navy, 45, released as Coxswa
82-; Dem repr, Huntington County Elec Bd, 76-80. Bus & Prof Pos: Federalist
serv in CMBU 630, Pac Theatre, 45-46; World War II, vet: Pac T
party leader & legis adv, Am Legion Auxiliary's Hoosier Girls State, 77-
Award; Good Conduct Medal. Mem: VFW; Am Legion; Norther
Honors & Awards: Nat Conv Page, Am Legion Auxiliary, Dept Ind, 77;
Develop Asn; CofC; Moose; Rotary (past pres); Eagles; E
Appreciation Award, Amvets Post 8, Huntington, 78, First United Church of
Presbyterian. Mailing Add: 622 Rex St Plymouth IN 46563
Christ, Huntington, 81; Americanism Award, Am Legion Auxiliary Nat, 80;
Educ Award, Am Legion Nat, 82. Mem: Am Legion Auxiliary Unit 7 (secy,
COONS, HAROLD MEREDITH
77-83); 8 et 40 Salon 490. Relig: Church of Christ. Mailing Add: 815 Elm St
Judge, Floyd County Superior Court, Ind
Huntington IN 46570
b New Market, Ind, July 31, 11; S Merle F Coons & Clara Van G
1938 to Margaret Louise Richman; c Stephen M & Philip M. Ed
CLINGAN, LEE
b Kingman, Ind, Oct 11, 21; S Roy Clingan & Edna C; m 1958 to Thelma (D)
Col, AB, 32; Ind Univ Law Sch, Bloomington, JD. 36; Sr
Panhellenic Coun, Wabash Col; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Delta Phi. P
Tyhurst; c Lynne Suzanne, Gregory Lee & David William. Educ: Purdue
Univ, Ins Mkt Course, 48; Reppert's Sch Auctioneering; Miller Real Estate
Pos: Chmn, Crawfordsville Young Rep, Ind, 32; various precin
Sch. Polit & Govt Pos: Ind State Sen, 60-68; Ind State Repr, Dist 42, formerly.
county offices, Crawfordsville, Indianapolis & New Albany,
Bus & Prof Pos: Ins agency owner, gen auctioneer, formerly; real estate bus,
chmn, Floyd County Rep Comt, 68-77; alt deleg, Rep Nat Conv,
livestock farmer, currently. Mil Serv: Entered Army, 41, released as 1st Lt,
76. Bus & Prof Pos: Lawyer, Crawfordsville, Ind, 36-37 & 68-;
45; Purple Heart; Combat Infantryman's Badge; Bronze Star. Mem: Mason;
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co, Indianapolis, 37-43; partner & c
Consistory; Shrine; DAV; Am Legion. Relig: Protestant. Mailing Add: 121
Pruyn & Coons Ins Adjust, 46-59; pres & claims atty, Coons & H
Elm Dr Covington IN 47932
New Albany, 60-68; judge, Floyd Superior Court, 78- Mil Serv:
Pvt, Army, 43, released as Cpl, 46, after serv in 870 Field Artil Bn
COATS, DANIEL R
7th Mil Police Criminal Invest Detachment, ETO, 44-46; Maj(l
(R)
US Sen, Ind
Res; Good Conduct Medal; ETO & Victory Medals. Honors
b May 16, 43; m 1965 to Marcia Anne Crawford; C Laura, Lisa, & Andrew.
Sagamore of the Wabash, 69 & 75; Award of Merit, Wabash Col 1
Educ: Wheaton Col, BA, 65; Ind Univ Sch Law, JD(cum laude), 71. Polit &
Mem: Ind & Floyd County Bar Asns; Rotary; Am Legion. Relig: Pr
Mailing Add: 1312 Riddle Rd New Albany IN 47150
THE WHITE HOUSE
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
WASHINGTON
4/2/90
1990 MAR 30 MM: 06
March 30, 1990
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON cw
FROM:
MARY KATE GRANT mkg
or/
SUBJECT:
DAN COATS FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON
I. SUMMARY
Attached are proposed remarks for the Dan Coats fundraising
luncheon to be held at the Indianapolis, Indiana Convention
Center on Tuesday, April 3rd at 12:30 p.m. You will arrive after
lunch has been served and deliver the remarks from teleprompter,
before a crowd of approximately 2,000 supporters.
II. DISCUSSION
Senator Lugar will introduce Senator Coats, who will
introduce you. After voicing your support for Indiana's
Republican team of Dick Lugar, Dan Quayle and Dan Coats, you
focus on renewing family values, fighting drug use, and passing
the Clean Air amendments and line-item veto legislation.
The campaign will be filming your speech for use in
television ads.
Grant/Nappo
March 30, 1990
Draft five
A:coats
REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
Isitrallay
12:30 P.M.
Fri
imouh
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
alsoifthm
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
PNG
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
2
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats.
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but
I wantit allowed to
I've really lost my appetite. On the way over I was notified
man
non
that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. 111 They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
Throughout the eighties -- the decade which saw the greatest
economic expansion in U.S. peacetime history, and fires of
freedom begin to burn all over the world -- throughout this
turbulent decade, the people of Indiana had two great men
representing them in the United States Senate. Dick Lugar, and
of course, Dan Quayle -- a foreign policy duo that have been
instrumental to the progress we've seen internationally. Dick
Lugar's tenure on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been
nothing short of superb, and I continue to depend on his wise
counsel as we wrestle with a world in change.
2
I don't have to tell you -- you already know -- how
important Dan Quayle's outstanding leadership has been in crucial
areas like Central and Latin America. He's served our
Administration well, and he's served our Nation well.
there 2 fine mean
Indiana's got a lot to be proud of in her favorite son
Quayl Now it's time for Dan Coats to step into that legacy
of leadership in the Senate. 11
For the last ten years, Dick Lugar and Dan Quayle have
built a dynasty of Republican leadership in Indiana -- with a
command of the issues that has kept America number one. In 1986,
Dan Quayle was re-elected by the biggest landslide of any Senate
candidate in Indiana history. Yet two years later, Senator Lugar
broke the record with an even bigger winning margin. And come
November, my common sense tells me the voters of Indiana will
continue the tradition and give Dan Coats an even greater victory
margin. 11
I'm here, "Back Home Again" in Indiana, -- in what natives
call the "Crossroads of America" -- to talk to you today about
common sense, something Hoosiers know a lot about. Indiana is
the heart of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle
of the American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have
made this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
American society. Our Administration has placed the family at
the center of its agenda for the 1990s -- to build an America
3
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
challenge and support our kids and our teachers; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment. Dan has been one
of the biggest supporters of our pro-family agenda, reaching out
to families like yours with hopes and dreams for their children's
futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values.
And it's a strong voice. His work in Congress sponsoring
important pro-family legislation was crucial to the progress
we've already made in strengthening the family in this country.
Dan Coats has helped people in areas like educational reform,
family support, help for "at risk" children, and families in
need. In fact, the Republican Party felt so strongly about his
legislation, that we made it part of the National Platform.
Mainstream values that all Americans care about -- that's why I
believe we need Dan Coats in the Senate. III And I think you all
agree. III
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Our National Drug Strategy, which I announced last September,
deals with all sides of the issue -- from education and
prevention to expanded treatment to stronger penalties and
stepped-up enforcement. It's a tough approach, but it's a
sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off every street and out of every school in America.
4
And it's time we got more federal resources into the hands of
those in the thick of the fight -- those on the front lines. If
we are to build a better future for this country, America first
must be drug-free. 11
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that
deals with drugs, Dan knows the road ahead won't be easy, but
that's why I need him back in the Senate. I need Dan's
experience and intelligence as we fight to take back our
streets. 11
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana
Republican who brought those values to Washington, President
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then -- still is.
But since then, Congressional spending has spiralled out of
control -- 1.2 trillion right now. And common sense tells us the
American people aren't under-taxed. We need a budget process
that can deal rationally with wasteful government spending. We
need a line-item veto. III Give me what 43 governors have -- the
power to cut unnecessary spending. One of the first things Dan
Coats did when he arrived in the Senate was to introduce
important line-item veto legislation. (( In fact, I haven't seen
anybody move that adeptly since the Pacers' Chuck Person last
slam-dunked an opponent at Market Square Arena.))
6
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who will be
a voice for your values. 111
I know Hoosier values, and I admire them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. And on November 6,
when the voters of Indiana think of Dan Coats, I know they'll
think of the song by another Hoosier, the great Cole Porter,
-- called "You're the Top." 11
sex
This
Dan Coats, gives voice to the values of the
heartland. Nothing could be more important as we head into a
new century of challenge and change. Let's keep Indiana great,
and keep the dynasty of Republican leadership going strong.
Let's continue the tradition and give Dan a huge victory. 11
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
5
Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
spending down. Now that's what I call common sense. 11
Americans want to keep the longest peacetime economic
expansion ever moving forward -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both.
This morning here in Indianapolis, I planted a tree to help
kick off a great community effort to protect and preserve the
beauty of this wonderful city. Today in Washington, there's also
a lot at stake: clean air, a safe environment, economic growth,
and the jobs of thousands of Americans. The Senate will cast an
historic vote on our amendments to the Clean Air Act, a vote
which will affect generations to come as we work to build a
cleaner, safer America. It's going to take a lot of work to
protect this great planet without throwing hard-working Americans
out of work. I mject the extrements in the romental
movement who would burden om economy down by mmdless
needed
But common sense tells us this tools We must find that regulation
a
balance. And We will find that balance.
and 4 rejce
Tonight, Dan Coats will be back in the Senate to cast one of
those in inder
the most important votes of his life. And I know I can count on
who to
him. But I need to count on his experience, his judgment, and
not their recogn
his concern for people not just tonight or tomorrow -- but in the obligate
months and years to come. And that's why I'm counting on each of clean
you in this room to give your all for Dan Coats. 11
up the
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
environment
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: as the world changes, issues will change but principles
24
I
State Names, Seals, Songs, and Symbols
Hawaii
Motto: Ua Mau ke Ea 0 ka Aina i ka Pono¹⁷
Translation: "The Life of the Land Is Perpetuated in Righteousness"
Origin: Before becoming the state of Hawaii's official motto, these words
were part of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the
seals of the Republic of Hawaii and the Territory. King Kamehameha
III issued this motto upon the restoration of the Hawaiian flag to
the kingdom by the British in 1843.¹⁸
Idaho
Motto: Esto Perpetua¹⁹
Translation: "It Is Forever"
Origin: This motto is attributed to Venetian theologian and mathematician
Pietro Sarpi (1552-1623) who, in 1623, applied it to the Republic
of Venice.²⁰ This motto was chosen by the Grange in 1867 and by
the state of Idaho in 1891.
Illinois
Motto: "State Sovereignty, National Union"
Origin: These words were inscribed on the original state seal adopted in
1818. The seal that came into use in 1868, contrary to an amendment
disallowing it, reversed the motto and placed "National Union"
above "State Sovereignty." Nevertheless, the official motto places
"State Sovereignty" first.²¹
Indiana
Motto: "The Crossroads of America"
Origin: The 1937 law designates "The Crossroads of America" as Indiana's
official state motto or slogan. When this motto was chosen, the
theoretical center of the United States was in Indiana; furthermore,
a number of north-south and east-west routes intersect in Indiana.
Iowa
Motto: "Our Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We will Maintain"²³
Origin: This motto, expressing the sentiment of Iowans as they entered the
Union in 1846, was placed on the state seal by the first General
Assembly in 1847.
Sept. 5 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
And we have a national strategy, and I
consulted broadly as our strategy was being
commend Bill Bennett [Director of National
conceived and formulated these past 6
Drug Control Policy], who has coordinated
months. I ask that this spirit of bipartisan
this strategy, fathered a lot of it himself.
cooperation now be extended to the diffi-
And the entire Cabinet-thank you for your
cult but necessary work that lies ahead: full
cooperation. We must be in the forefront in
swift funding and implementation of the
helping solve this problem.
many proposals and initiatives contained in
So, tonight I challenge the country and
this report. On behalf of those Americans
unveil this new national strategy-the first
most directly suffering from the scourge of
time we really have had such a strategy.
drugs-and all the many more who must be
And I just wanted to thank everybody here
further protected from it-I ask for your
who has been helping, working with Bill, in
help and support.
coming up with this strategy. Thank you all
Sincerely,
very much.
George Bush
Note: The President spoke at 2:17 p.m. in
the Cabinet Room at the White House prior
Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas
to a Cabinet meeting.
S. Foley, Speaker of the House of Represent-
atives, and Dan Quayle, President of the
Senate.
Letter to the Speaker of the House and
the President of the Senate
Transmitting the National Drug
Address to the Nation on the National
Control Strategy Report
Drug Control Strategy
September 5, 1989
September 5, 1989
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Good evening. This is the first time since
Consistent with section 1005 of the Anti-
taking the oath of office that I felt an issue
Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 1504), I
was so important, so threatening, that it
am today pleased to transmit my Adminis-
warranted talking directly with you, the
tration's 1989 National Drug Control Strate-
American people. All of us agree that the
gy for congressional consideration and
gravest domestic threat facing our nation
action.
today is drugs. Drugs have strained our
This report is the product of an unprece-
faith in our system of justice. Our courts,
dented national effort over many months.
our prisons, our legal system are stretched
America's fight against epidemic illegal
to the breaking point. The social costs of
drug use cannot be won on any single front
drugs are mounting. In short, drugs are sap-
alone; it must be waged everywhere-at
ping our strength as a nation. Turn on the
every level of Federal, State, and local gov-
evening news or pick up the morning paper
ernment and by every citizen in every
and you'll see what some Americans know
community across the country. Accordingly,
just by stepping out their front door: Our
we have conducted a thorough, intensive,
most serious problem today is cocaine and,
and unflinching review of Federal anti-drug
in particular, crack.
efforts to date. And we have solicited
Who's responsible? Let me tell you
advice and recommendations from hun-
straight out: everyone who uses drugs, ev-
dreds of interested and involved anti-drug
eryone who sells drugs, and everyone who
leaders outside the Federal Government.
looks the other way.
The result is a comprehensive blueprint for
Tonight, I'll tell you how many Ameri-
new direction and effort-and for success in
cans are using illegal drugs. I will present to
the near- and long-term future.
I am especially grateful for the valuable
you our national strategy to deal with every
aspect of this threat. And I will ask you to
contributions made during this process by
get involved in what promises to be a very
Members of the Congress, with whom we
difficult fight.
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Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Sept. 5
strategy was being
This is crack cocaine seized a few days
million people have used cocaine in the
these past 6
ago by Drug Enforcement agents in a park
past year. Almost 1 million of them used it
spirit of bipartisan
just across the street from the White House.
frequently-once a week or more. What
tended to the diffi-
It could easily have been heroin or PCP. It's
this means is that, in spite of the fact that
that lies ahead: full
as innocent looking as candy, but it's turn-
overall cocaine use is down, frequent use
blementation of the
ing our cities into battle zones, and it's mur-
has almost doubled in the last few years.
tiatives contained in
dering our children. Let there be no mis-
And that's why habitual cocaine users, espe-
of those Americans
take: This stuff is poison. Some used to call
cially crack users, are the most pressing,
from the scourge of
drugs harmless recreation. They're not.
immediate drug problem.
more who must be
Drugs are a real and terribly dangerous
What, then, is our plan? To begin with, I
it-I ask for your
threat to our neighborhoods, our friends,
and our families.
trust the lesson of experience: No single
No one among us is out of harm's way.
policy will cut it, no matter how glamorous
When 4-year-olds play in playgrounds
or magical it may sound. To win the war
George Bush
strewn with discarded hypodermic needles
against addictive drugs like crack will take
and crack vials, it breaks my heart. When
more than just a Federal strategy: It will
vere sent to Thomas
cocaine, one of the most deadly and addict-
take a national strategy, one that reaches
House of Represent-
ive illegal drugs, is available to school kids—
into every school, every workplace, involv-
President of the
school kids-it's an outrage. And when hun-
ing every family.
dreds of thousands of babies are born each
Earlier today I sent this document, our
year to mothers who use drugs-premature
first such national strategy, to the Congress.
babies born desperately sick-then even the
It was developed with the hard work of our
most defenseless among us are at risk.
nation's first Drug Policy Director, Bill Ben-
These are the tragedies behind the statis-
nett. In preparing this plan, we talked with
on
the
National
tics, but the numbers also have quite a story
State, local, and community leaders, law en-
to tell. Let me share with you the results of
forcement officials, and experts in educa-
the recently completed Household Survey
tion, drug prevention, and rehabilitation.
of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It
We talked with parents and kids. We took a
the first time since
compares recent drug use to 3 years ago. It
long, hard look at all that the Federal Gov-
that I felt an issue
tells us some good news and some very bad
ernment has done about drugs in the past-
threatening, that it
news. First, the good.
what's worked and, let's be honest, what
with you, the
As you can see in the chart, in 1985 the
hasn't. Too often, people in government
of us agree that the
Government estimated that 23 million
acted as if their part of the problem-
facing our nation
Americans were using drugs on a "current"
whether fighting drug production or drug
have
strained
our
basis; that is, at least once in the preceding
smuggling or drug demand-was the only
justice. Our courts,
month. Last year that number fell by more
problem. But turf battles won't win this
system are stretched
than a third. That means almost 9 million
war; teamwork will.
The social costs of
fewer Americans are casual drug users.
Tonight, I'm announcing a strategy that
short, drugs are sap-
Good news.
reflects the coordinated, cooperative com-
nation. Turn on the
Because we changed our national attitude
mitment of all our Federal agencies. In
the morning paper
toward drugs, casual drug use has declined.
short, this plan is as comprehensive as the
Americans know
We have many to thank: our brave law en-
problem. With this strategy, we now finally
front door: Our
forcement officers, religious leaders, teach-
have a plan that coordinates our resources,
oday is cocaine and,
ers, community activists, and leaders of
our programs, and the people who run
business and labor. We should also thank
them. Our weapons in this strategy are the
Let me tell you
the media for their exhaustive news and
law and criminal justice system, our foreign
who uses drugs, ev-
editorial coverage and for their air time and
policy, our treatment systems, and our
and everyone who
space for antidrug messages. And finally, I
schools and drug-prevention programs. So,
want to thank President and Mrs. Reagan
the basic weapons we need are the ones we
how many Ameri-
for their leadership. All of these good
already have. What's been lacking is a strat-
I will present to
people told the truth: that drug use is
egy to effectively use them.
to deal with every
wrong and dangerous.
Let me address four of the major ele-
nd I will ask you to
But as much comfort as we can draw
ments of our strategy. First, we are deter-
romises to be a very
from these dramatic reductions, there is
mined to enforce the law, to make our
also bad news, very bad news. Roughly 8
streets and neighborhoods safe. So, to start,
1305
Sept. 5 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
I'm proposing that we more than double
The $65 million emergency assistance an-
Federal assistance to State and local law en-
nounced 2 weeks ago was just our first step
forcement. Americans have a right to safety
in assisting the Andean nations in their fight
in and around their homes. And we won't
against the cocaine cartels. Colombia has
have safe neighborhoods unless we're tough
already arrested suppliers, seized tons of co-
on drug criminals-much tougher than we
caine and confiscated palatial homes of
are now. Sometimes that means tougher
drug lords. But Colombia faces a long,
penalties, but more often it just means pun-
uphill battle, so we must be ready to do
ishment that is swift and certain. We've all
more. Our strategy allocates more than a
heard stories about drug dealers who are
caught and arrested again and again, but
quarter of a billion dollars for next year in
military and law enforcement assistance for
never punished. Well, here the rules have
changed: If you sell drugs, you will be
the three Andean nations of Colombia, Bo-
caught. And when you're caught, you will
livia, and Peru. This will be the first part of
be prosecuted. And once you're convicted,
a 5-year, $2 billion program to counter the
you will do time. Caught. Prosecuted. Pun-
producers, the traffickers, and the smug-
ished.
glers.
I'm also proposing that we enlarge our
I spoke with President Barco just last
criminal justice system across the board-at
week, and we hope to meet with the lead-
the local, State, and Federal levels alike. We
ers of affected countries in an unprecedent-
need more prisons, more jails, more courts,
ed drug summit, all to coordinate an inter-
more prosecutors. So, tonight I'm request-
American strategy against the cartels. We
ing-altogether-an almost $1.5 billion in-
will work with our allies and friends, espe-
crease in drug-related Federal spending on
cially our economic summit partners, to do
law enforcement.
more in the fight against drugs. I'm also
And while illegal drug use is found in
asking the Senate to ratify the United Na-
every community, nowhere is it worse than
tions antidrug convention concluded last
in our public housing projects. You know,
December.
the poor have never had it easy in this
To stop those drugs on the way to Amer-
world. But in the past, they weren't
ica, I propose that we spend more than a
mugged on the way home from work by
billion and a half dollars on interdiction.
crack gangs. And their children didn't have
Greater interagency cooperation, combined
to dodge bullets on the way to school. And
with sophisticated intelligence-gathering
that's why I'm targeting $50 million to fight
and Defense Department technology can
crime in public housing projects-to help
help stop drugs at our borders.
restore order and to kick out the dealers for
And our message to the drug cartels is
good.
this: The rules have changed. We will help
The second element of our strategy looks
any government that wants our help. When
beyond our borders, where the cocaine and
requested, we will for the first time make
crack bought on America's streets is grown
available the appropriate resources of
and processed. In Colombia alone, cocaine
America's Armed Forces. We will intensify
killers have gunned down a leading states-
our efforts against drug smugglers on the
man, murdered almost 200 judges and 7
high seas, in international airspace, and at
members of their Supreme Court. The be-
our borders. We will stop the flow of chemi-
sieged governments of the drug-producing
cals from the United States used to process
countries are fighting back, fighting to
drugs. We will pursue and enforce interna-
break the international drug rings. But you
tional agreements to track drug money to
and I agree with the courageous President
the front men and financiers. And then we
of Colombia, Virgilio Barco, who said that if
will handcuff these money launderers and
Americans use cocaine, then Americans are
jail them, just like any street dealer. And
paying for murder. American cocaine users
for the drug kingpins-the death penalty.
need to understand that our nation has zero
The third part of our strategy concerns
tolerance for casual drug use. We have a
drug treatment. Experts believe that there
responsibility not to leave our brave friends
are 2 million American drug users who may
in Colombia to fight alone.
be able to get off drugs with proper treat-
1306
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Sept. 5
assistance
an-
just
our
first
ment. But right now only 40 percent of
step
the next 3 years-a billion dollars worth of
them are actually getting help. This is
in their fight
Colombia
simply not good enough. Many people who
advertising, all to promote the antidrug
has
message.
need treatment won't seek it on their own.
seized
tons
of
co-
And some who do seek it are put on a
As President, one of my first missions is to
palatial homes of
faces
waiting list. Most programs were set up to
keep the national focus on our offensive
a
long,
deal with heroin addicts, but today the
against drugs. And so, next week I will take
be
ready
to
do
major problem is cocaine users. It's time we
the antidrug message to the classrooms of
more
than
a
expand our treatment systems and do a
America in a special television address, one
for next year in
better job of providing services to those
that I hope will reach every school, every
assistance
for
who need them.
young American. But drug education
of Colombia, Bo-
And so, tonight I'm proposing an increase
doesn't begin in class or on TV. It must
be the first part of
of $321 million in Federal spending on drug
begin at home and in the neighborhood.
am
to
counter
the
treatment. With this strategy, we will do
Parents and families must set the first ex-
and
the
smug-
more. We will work with the States. We
ample of a drug-free life. And when families
will encourage employers to establish em-
are broken, caring friends and neighbors
Barco just last
ployee assistance programs to cope with
must step in.
with
the
lead-
drug use. And because addiction is such a
These are the most important elements in
an
unprecedent-
cruel inheritance, we will intensify our
our strategy to fight drugs. They are all
ordinate an inter-
search for ways to help expectant mothers
designed to reinforce one another, to mesh
the
cartels.
We
who use drugs.
into a powerful whole, to mount an aggres-
and friends, espe-
Fourth, we must stop illegal drug use
sive attack on the problem from every
partners, to do
before it starts. Unfortunately, it begins
angle. This is the first time in the history of
drugs. I'm also
early-for many kids, before their teens.
our country that we truly have a compre-
the
United
Na-
But it doesn't start the way you might
hensive strategy.
concluded
last
think, from a dealer or an addict hanging
As you can tell, such an approach will not
around a school playground. More often,
come cheaply. Last February I asked for a
the
way
to
Amer-
our kids first get their drugs free, from
$700 million increase in the drug budget
bend
more
than
a
friends or even from older brothers or sis-
for the coming year. And now, over the
on
interdiction.
ters. Peer pressure spreads drug use. Peer
past 6 months of careful study, we have
eration, combined
pressure can help stop it. I am proposing a
found an immediate need for another bil-
elligence-gathering
quarter-of-a-billion-dollar increase in Feder-
lion and a half dollars. With this added $2.2
technology
can
al funds for school and community preven-
billion, our 1990 drug budget totals almost
tion programs that help young people and
$8 billion, the largest increase in history.
he
drug
cartels
is
adults reject enticements to try drugs. And
We need this program fully implemented—
We
will
help
I'm proposing something else. Every school,
right away. The next fiscal year begins just
our help. When
college, and university and every workplace
26 days from now. So, tonight I'm asking
first
time
make
must adopt tough but fair policies about
the Congress, which has helped us formu-
resources
of
drug use by students and employees. And
late this strategy, to help us move it for-
We will intensify
those that will not adopt such policies will
ward immediately. We can pay for this fight
not get Federal funds. Period.
smugglers on the
against drugs without raising taxes or
airspace, and at
The private sector also has an important
adding to the budget deficit. We have sub-
the flow of chemi-
role to play. I spoke with a businessman
named Jim Burke who said he was haunted
mitted our plan to Congress that shows just
used
to
process
how to fund it within the limits of our bi-
enforce
interna-
by the thought-a nightmare, really-that
partisan budget agreement.
drug money to
somewhere in America, at any given
moment, there is a teenage girl who should
Now, I know some will still say that we're
And
then
we
launderers and
be in school instead of giving birth to a
not spending enough money. But those who
treet
dealer.
And
child addicted to cocaine. So, Jim did some-
judge our strategy only by its price tag
thing. He led an antidrug partnership, fi-
simply don't understand the problem. Let's
death penalty.
nanced by private funds, to work with ad-
face it, we've all seen in the past that
strategy concerns
there
vertisers and media firms. Their partnership
money alone won't solve our toughest prob-
believe
that
is now determined to work with our strate-
lems. To be strong and efficient, our strate-
users
who
may
gy needs these funds. But there is no match
with
gy by generating educational messages
proper
treat-
for a united America, a determined Amer-
worth a million dollars a day every day for
ica, an angry America. Our outrage against
1307
Sept. 5 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
drugs unites us, brings us together behind
answers, "I don't want to sell drugs, but I'll
this one plan of action, an assault on every
probably have to."
front.
Well, Dooney does not have to sell drugs.
This is the toughest domestic challenge
No child in America should have to live like
we've faced in decades. And it's a challenge
this. Together as a people we can save
we must face not as Democrats or Republi-
these kids. We've already transformed a na-
cans, liberals or conservatives, but as Ameri-
tional attitude of tolerance into one of con-
cans. The key is a coordinated, united
effort. We've responded faithfully to the re-
demnation. But the war on drugs will be
quest of the Congress to produce our na-
hard won, neighborhood by neighborhood,
tion's first national drug strategy. I'll be
block by block, child by child.
looking to the Democratic majority and our
If we fight this war as a divided nation,
Republicans in Congress for leadership and
then the war is lost. But if we face this evil
bipartisan support. And our citizens deserve
as a nation united, this will be nothing but a
cooperation, not competition; a national
handful of useless chemicals. Victory, victo-
effort, not a partisan bidding war. To start,
ry over drugs is our cause, a just cause. And
Congress needs not only to act on this na-
with your help, we are going to win.
tional drug strategy but also to act on our
Thank you, God bless you, and good
crime package announced last May, a pack-
night.
age to toughen sentences, beef up law en-
forcement, and build new prison space for
Note: The President spoke at 9 p.m. from
24,000 inmates.
the Oval Office at the White House. His
You and I both know the Federal Gov-
address was broadcast live on nationwide
ernment can't do it alone. The States need
radio and television.
to match tougher Federal laws with tougher
laws of their own: stiffer bail, probation,
parole, and sentencing. And we need your
help. If people you know are users, help
them, help them get off drugs. If you're a
White House Fact Sheet on the
parent, talk to your kids about drugs-to-
National Drug Control Strategy
night. Call your local drug prevention pro-
September 5, 1989
gram. Be a Big Brother or Sister to a child
in need. Pitch in with your local Neighbor-
The National Drug Control Strategy de-
hood Watch program. Whether you give
scribes a coordinated and comprehensive
your time or talent, everyone counts: every
plan of attack involving all basic antidrug
employer who bans drugs from the work-
initiatives and agencies. The strategy rec-
place; every school that's tough on drug
ommends the largest dollar increase in the
use; every neighborhood in which drugs are
history of the drug war: nearly $2.2 billion,
not welcome; and most important, every
39 percent above the fiscal 1989 level.
one of you who refuses to look the other
Throughout, the strategy emphasizes the
way. Every one of you counts. Of course,
principle of user accountability-in law en-
victory will take hard work and time. But
forcement efforts focused on individual
together we will win. Too many young lives
users; in decisions regarding sentencing and
are at stake.
parole; in school, college, and university
Not long ago, I read a newspaper story
policies regarding the use of drugs by stu-
about a little boy named Dooney, who, until
dents and employees; in the workplace; and
recently, lived in a crack house in a suburb
in treatment.
of Washington, DC. In Dooney's neighbor-
The strategy also calls for increased ef-
hood, children don't flinch at the sound of
forts in cocaine source countries and a more
gunfire. And when they play, they pretend
active international campaign by the United
to sell to each other small white rocks that
States to engage other nations in the fight
they call crack. Life at home was so cruel
against drugs. Interdiction efforts will be
that Dooney begged his teachers to let him
better targeted on key individuals in the
sleep on the floor at school. And when
drug organizations and on high-value ship-
asked about his future, 6-year-old Dooney
ments.
1308
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Sept. 5
to sell drugs, but I'll
Another major priority is increasing the
explore expanded use of "civil commit-
capacity of the drug treatment system and
have to sell drugs.
ment" whereby addicts are sent by the
making it more accountable for results. Sig-
buld have to live like
courts to residential treatment facili-
nificant emphasis is also given to providing
ties;
eople we can save
increased support for prevention and edu-
transformed a na-
improve drug treatment services for
cation efforts aimed at helping young
pregnant women.
nce into one of con-
people and others resist and reject drugs.
ar on drugs will be
The strategy embodies the following ele-
d by neighborhood,
ments:
Place heavier emphasis on targeted
child.
international efforts closer to production
as a divided nation,
Expand the criminal justice system
and trafficking sources
if we face this evil
provide funds for larger police forces
elevate the drug issue as a foreign
vill be nothing but a
and increased numbers of jails, pros-
policy priority;
icals. Victory, victo-
ecutors, and courts;
dismantle drug trafficking organiza-
se, a just cause. And
develop alternatives for incarceration,
tions;
toing to win.
such as boot camps to free up jail and
reduce trafficking profits by focusing
you, and good
prison space;
increased efforts on money laundering.
require drug testing of prisoners, parol-
ees, and arrestees.
Take a fresh approach to interdiction
ke at 9 p.m. from
White House. His
Hold users, whether casual or heavy users,
create interagency and interdiscipli-
live on nationwide
accountable for their actions
nary teams to analyze and target smug-
gling modes, methods, and routes;
Undertake a vigorous program to eradicate
target key individuals and high-value
domestically grown marijuana
shipments;
enhance border interdiction systems,
Mobilize communities in the war on drugs
operations, and activities.
et on the
emphasize community-level preven-
Strategy
tion of drug use before it starts;
Improve the quality of research,
require schools and colleges to imple-
information, and technological capabilities
ment firm drug-free policies in order
available for drug control efforts
ontrol Strategy de-
to receive Federal funds;
nd comprehensive
clean up and secure public housing.
establish a Federal Drug Control Re-
search and Development Committee;
all basic antidrug
Expand drug-free workplace policies
develop a more current and flexible
The strategy rec-
information base.
lar increase in the
promote drug-free workplace policies
nearly $2.2 billion,
in the private sector;
fiscal 1989 level.
recommend testing for job applicants
Improve coordination of Federal antidrug
y emphasizes the
and employers in safety and sensitive
policy and intelligence support
ability-in law en-
positions;
establish interagency working groups
ed on individual
aggressively implement Executive
chaired by the Office of National Drug
ng sentencing and
Order 12564 to assure drug-free work-
Control Policy to coordinate supply
(e, and university
place plans and policies within the
and demand reduction efforts;
e of drugs by stu-
Federal government.
establish an interagency working group
he workplace; and
chaired by the Office of National Drug
Expand treatment and target services to
Control Policy to develop plans for an
for increased ef-
improve the number of individuals served
intelligence center to unite U.S. drug-
intries and a more
and the effectiveness of treatment
related analytical capabilities, and to
aign by the United
hold federally funded treatment pro-
improve intelligence capabilities.
ations in the fight
grams accountable for their effective-
n efforts will be
ness by establishing performance crite-
Recommend a $2.2 billion increase in drug
individuals in the
tia;
funding to $7.9 billion in 1990. The major
n high-value ship-
require drug testing in treatment pro-
changes over 1989 are shown on the
grams receiving Federal funds;
following chart:
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Sept. 5 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
DRUG RESOURCES, FISCAL YEAR 1990
[Budget authority (dollars in millions)]
Feb 9
Drug
FY1989
Feb 9
Budget Plus
FY89-
Strategy
Drug
FY90
FY89-
Enacted
Budget
FY1990 1
September
Portion of
Percent
FY90 $
Crime Bill 2
FY1990 2
Increase
Increase
Corrections
734
894
1,601
1,601
118
867
International
250
306
306
449
80
199
State and Local
Grants
150
150
156
350
133
200
Judiciary
209
242
250
250
20
41
Other Law
Enforcement
2,779
3,018
3,058
3,113
12
334
Prevention/
Education
943
1,041
1,041
1,176
25
233
Treatment
604
735
735
925
53
321
Total
5,669
6,386
7,147
7,864
39
2,195
1 These columns include resources for the U.S. Court and make other minor adjustments to the
figures 2 presented in the "Building a Better America" document issued in February 1989.
These columns include the "drug portion" ($0.8 billion) of the President's $1.2 billion crime
initiative announced in May 1989. The administration supports enactment of the crime initiative (The
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1989) in its entirety.
The drug portion of prison construction is based on the projected share of drug offenders in
Federal prison at the time the construction is completed. This new methodology reflects more
accurately the likely impact of drug offenses. For consistency with prior years, the historical prison
construction numbers have been adjusted to reflect this new methodology.
Proclamation 6015-National Check-
during the early 1970's. The first step in
Up Week, 1989
identifying and treating such a health risk
September 5, 1989
as high blood pressure is often a routine
medical check-up.
By the President of the United States
Similarly, medical science has shown that
of America
the early detection of some forms of
cancer-long before symptoms develop-
A Proclamation
can save lives. For example, deaths in this
country from cancer of the cervix have
Many of the leading causes of death and
disability in the United States are diseases
fallen dramatically since 1950, due, in part,
that could be treated effectively-if detect-
to routine screening tests performed by
ed early. That is why periodic medical ex-
doctors. The prognosis for victims of other
aminations are important for all Americans.
forms of cancer, such as breast cancer, can
also be improved when the disease is de-
Heart disease, which claims the lives of
tected early through periodic medical
more than 500,000 Americans each year
check-ups.
and represents the leading cause of death in
In addition to the early detection of ill-
our country, can be reduced in severity or
ness, regular medical check-ups play an im-
even prevented through such measures as
portant role in disease prevention. For ex-
the control of high blood pressure and the
ample, highly effective vaccines adminis-
maintenance of a healthy diet. In fact, im-
tered to young children have led to the
proved treatment for high blood pressure
virtual elimination of certain childhood dis-
has reduced the frequency of strokes in the
eases, such as polio, that were common af-
United States to one-half the rate recorded
flictions only one generation ago.
1310
1986
INDIANA
405
404
INDIANA
Wayne faced rough times in the early 1980s: double-digit unemployment and plant closings like
Rep. John P. Hiler (R)
that at International Harvester which wiped out 4,500 jobs in one fell swoop. But as the decade
Elected 1980; b. Apr. 24, 1953, Chicago, IL; home, La Porte;
Williams Col., B.A. 1975, U. of Chicago, M.B.A. 1977; Roman
went on, it kept a big General Electric plant that was threatening to move, attracted a new
Catholic; married (Katherine).
General Motors plant, and got unemployment down to 6%.
Yet then and in the less dramatic economic revival, voters here remained solidly Republican
Career: Marketing Dir., Charles O. Hiler and Sons, Accurate
in national and congressional elections. Ancestrally, this part of northern Indiana is heavily
Castings, Inc., 1977-81; Delegate, White House Conf. on Small
Republican: people here speak with hard R accents, and their ancestors supported and fought
Business, 1980.
for the Union in the Civil War. In the years following the New Deal and the unionization of
Offices: 407 CHOB 20515, 202-225-3915. Also 120 River Glenn
many plants here, Fort Wayne and the surrounding area would turn to the Democrats in
Ofc. Plaza, 501 E. Monroe, South Bend 46601, 219-236-8282.
recession years like 1958 and 1970, and up to 1976 the 4th District was represented by a
Committees: Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (11th of 20
Democrat. But the Democrats' nomination of a southerner for President in 1976 seemed to
R). Subcommittees: Consumer Affairs and Coinage (Ranking
stimulate a residual regional Republicanism here, and the increasing importance of cultural
Member); Financial Institution Supervision, Regulation and Insur-
patterns in voting has helped the Republicans in this corner of America where traditional family
ance; Housing and Community Development. Small Business (5th
patterns still prevail.
of 17 R). Subcommittee: Antitrust, Impact of Deregulation and
The current congressman, Dan Coats, served as an aide to Dan Quayle, the young newspaper
Privatization (Ranking Member).
scion who captured the district from the Democrats in 1976 and was elected to the Senate in
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1980. Coats won the House scat that year easily, and had even less trouble winning reelection.
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In the House Coats sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the most sought-
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1986
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94
1985
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6
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67
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air pollution regulations. Coats is occasionally liberal on economic issues, but generally votes
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with the Republicans. Like other members from energy consuming states, Coats did not support
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energy industry efforts to have all sources of natural gas decontrolled (though he didn't side fully
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with consumer groups either). In 1985 he was distancing himself from Administration proposals
Economic
0%
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94%
0%
-
95%
to eliminate subsidies for Amtrak. But he usually takes the view that businesses have been
Social
0%
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89%
0%
-
76%
overregulated, that the economy as a result has been hurt, and that consumers and the public
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Foreign
16%
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79%
24%
66%
would be better off with less onerous restriction of economic activity.
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He is more distinctive as an advocate of cultural conservatism, an enthusiastic backer of
1) Lmt Cln Water- Act
FOR
5) Retain Gun Cont
AGN
9) Aid Angola Reb
FOR
school prayer and the ranking Republican on the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and
2) Rpl Tobac Sub
FOR
6) Contra Aid
FOR
10) Tax Reform
FOR
Families. There he has worked with Chairman George Miller on reports about poverty among
3) Grm-Rdmn Def Red
FOR
7) Lmt Text Imp
AGN
11) S Africa Sanc
FOR
children, but he and other committee Republicans split sharply from Miller and the Democrats
4) Ban Polygraph
AGN
8) Limit SDI
AGN
12) Immig Reform
AGN
over the issue of teenage pregnancy; Coats believes that sex counseling in schools that includes
dispensing of contraceptives encourages premarital sex, and believes the emphasis should be put
Election Results
on encouraging abstinence until marriage.
1986 general
John P. Hiler (R)
75,979
(50%)
($336,768)
Thomas W. Ward (D)
75,932
(50%)
($189,509)
1986 primary
John P. Hiler (R)
31,599
(100%)
1984 general
John P. Hiler (R)
115,139
(52%)
($460,238)
Michael P. Barnes (D)
103,961
(47%)
($260,517)
Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
1985-86
Direct Cont. 1985-86
PACS Breakdown 1983-84
Receipts
$400,335
Indiv.
$235,837
Corp.
$64,650
T/M/H
$60,750
The People: Pop. 1980: 553,698, up 7.2% 1970-80. Households (1980): 76% family, 43%. with
Expend.
$336,768
Party
$9,611
Labor
$0
Agr.
$3,000
children, 66% married couples; 24.4% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $168; median house
Unspent
$115,830
PACS
$135,199
Ideo.
$5,500
CWOS
$1,299
value: $38,100. Voting age pop. (1980): 382,150; 4% Black, 1% Spanish origin.
FOURTH DISTRICT
The 4th Congressional District of Indiana centers on Fort Wayne, technically the state's second
largest city, but actually just the largest of several small industrial towns; the metropolitan areas
that rival Indianapolis are Indiana's portions of greater Chicago and Louisville. Fort Wayne
cannot be mistaken for either big city, but is instead a typical medium-sized midwestern
1984 Presidential Vote:
Reagan (R)
144,009
(67%)
community, with a small black ghetto and nondescript frame houses that belong to people who
Mondale (D)
70,300
(33%)
work-or used to-in the factories and small businesses. Like many other such cities, Fort
406
INDIANA
INDIANA
Rep. Daniel R. Coats (R)
unemployment, people there remain confident that most Americans are competent,
Elected 1980; b. May 16, 1943, Jackson, MI; home, Fort Wayne;
sensible people who will do the right thing in time of crisis. This is a part of America w
Wheaton Col., B.A. 1965, IN U., J.D. 1971; Baptist; married
immigrant heritage, with relatively few blacks, with only a handful of the Latin an
(Marcia).
immigrants who are so prominent in other parts of the country.
Career: Army, 1966-68; Econ. consulting firm, 1968-70; Legal
This is the land of the 5th Congressional District of Indiana, which extends most of
Intern, American Fletcher Natl. Bank, 1970-72; Asst. Vice Pres. &
across northern Indiana from the suburbs of Gary to the factory town of Marion and t
Legal Counsel, Mutual Security Life Insur. Co., 1972-76; Dist.
smaller town of North Manchester, home of Thomas R. Marshall, Woodrow Wils
Rep. for U.S. Rep. J. Danforth (Dan) Quayle, 1976-80.
president. There are notes of discord here and there: echoes in the northwest corner of t
Offices: 1417 LHOB 20515, 202-225-4436. Also 326 Fed. Bldg.,
animosities that dominate Gary politics, very high unemployment rates in Kokomo, w
Fort Wayne 46802, 219-424-3041.
Chrysler plant nearly closed down. But basic values have not been shaken so much h
many other parts of the nation: fully 79% of the households here contain families
or
Committees: Energy and Commerce (9th of 17 R). Subcommit-
tees: Health and the Environment; Oversight and Investigations;
married couples-among the highest figures in the Midwest-and 45% have children
Telecommunications and Finance. Select Committee on Children,
percentage given the rather old age structure.
Youth, and Families (Ranking Member of 10 R).
In 1986 the 5th District was the scene of an open House race that pitted candida
typified the most aggressive politicians of both parties and, in this historically Re
district, the Democrat won. The occasion was the retirement after 16 years of Re
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Elwood Hillis, and the first headlines came when evangelical Christian Jim Butcher, af
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endorsed by Pat Robertson, won an upset victory in the Republican primary over th
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endorsed state treasurer. Butcher was not an entirely unconventional candidate. H
1985
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member of the state Senate, based in Kokomo, an industrial city that is about
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Democratic part of the district; he boasted about his sponsorship of a Chrysler Reco
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that channeled state aid to the ailing automaker. Dedicated evangelicals provided the
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6%
90%
12%
85%
asm behind Butcher's primary win, but in the general he said, "I'm a politician who ha
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be a Christian."
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25%
74%
35%
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But it turned out he was not as active or aggressive a politician as Democrat Jim Jont
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out of school, at age 22, Jontz was elected to the Indiana House by beating its majority 1
Key Votes
two votes; this was in a Democratic year but in a very Republican part of rural nort)
1) Lmt Cln Water Act
FOR
5) Retain Gun Cont
AGN
9) Aid Angola Reb
FOR
Indiana. Single, interested almost exclusively in politics, he has been politically succes
2) Rpl Tobac Sub
FOR
6) Contra Aid
FOR
10) Tax Reform
FOR
since. He has a flair for trademarks, riding his bicycle in parades and handing out poth
3) Grm-Rdmn Def Red
FOR
7) Lmt Text Imp
AGN
11) S Africa Sanc
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4) Ban Polygraph
AGN
8) Limit SDI
AGN
12) Immig Reform
AGN
voters. He has a flair as well for issues. In a district where General Motors move
operations from Kokomo to Matamoros, Mexico, Jontz ran ads denouncing the "theft
Election Results
jobs through unfair foreign trade; he attacked Butcher, who said he would not vote to rd
1986 general
Daniel R. Coats (R)
99,865
(70%)
($225,157)
generous 1985 farm bill, as being satisfied with current agricultural policies; he accused
Greg Scher (D)
43,105
(30%)
($20,082)
of absenteeism and of changing positions on issues.
1986 primary
Daniel R. Coats (R)
35,554
(100%)
Republican strategists thought Butcher started with a big lead, but no one had strong
1984 general
Daniel R. Coats (R)
129,674
(61%)
($201,659)
and Jontz plain outcampaigned Butcher. Nor was this a return of blue-collar voters
Michael H. Barnard (D)
82,053
(39%)
($35,267)
ancestral Democratic allegiance. Jontz got 52% in the counties containing Kokomo and
Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
but he also got 51% in the counties just south of Gary and 51% in the large rural area in
PACS Breakdown 1985-86
that casts most of the district's votes. Jontz actually spent more money than Butcher, the
1985-86
Direct Cont. 1985-86
Receipts
$139,888
Indiv.
$139,888
Corp.
$72,920
T/M/H
$59,376
difference was marginal; but this was one of many districts where the Democrat equal
Expend.
$225,157
Party
$2,849
Labor
$1,275
Agr.
$0
money factor or better thanks to heavy PAC contributions, orchestrated in part by Tony
Unspent
$147,443
PACS
$142,526
Ideo.
$7,785
CWOS
$1,170
Thus Jontz got $305,000 in PAC money to Butcher's $161,000, in a district not represe
Cand.
$25,835
Democrat for decades. Jontz will probably have a serious challenge in 1988, but he has $
has the know-how and energy to win. Republican strategists puzzled at why, during the
years, the Democrats have continued to hold a majority in the House should come he
FIFTH DISTRICT
heartland of America, and look at the 5th District of Indiana and see the reason why:
People in the flatlands of northern Indiana think of themselves as living in the heartland d
talent.
America, and for many good reasons. They live on the divide between the Great Lakes and
Mississippi River systems, on the major east-west railroads and highways that connect the
nation's largest cities and industrial areas. They also live in small cities and large towns whose
The People: Pop. 1980: 548,257, up 13.2% 1970-80. Households (1980): 79% family,
geometric regularity and neatness bespeak the virtues we think of as peculiarly American; and
thildren, 69% married couples; 24.4% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $166; med
those same cities and towns contain a few criminals, or if they suffer now from layoffs and
value: $40,300. Voting age pop. (1980): 380,248; 2% Black, 1% Spanish origin.
Aug. 3 / Administration of George Bush, 1989
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Aug. 4
majority and minority leaders of the
two of our members have signed it. We
that will have some real teeth, some real
Q. Well, surely, you must see this as a
Senate; and Robert H. Michel, minority
want to present it to you this morning and
meaning. And we're pleased that you're en-
leader of the House of Representatives.
golden opportunity now-you have the mo-
pledge our very best efforts to get this en-
dorsing it. Thank you.
mentum, you have a diplomatic flurry going
acted into law. And we hope in a very short
Hostage Crisis in Lebanon
on in Damascus, International Red Cross,
time we are back here standing with you
and you have a pen in your hand and
Q. Mr. President, what do you make of
apparently. I mean, is there a new impetus?
you're signing this into law.
Rafsanjani's [President and Speaker of the
The President. I'm encouraged, but I
Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater
The President. Well, thank you Senator
Parliament of Iran] offer to help resolve the
don't want to get the hopes of the hostages'
on Joseph J. Cicippio and the Hostage
hostage crisis?
Coats. And first, let me thank Senators
loved ones up once again to have those
Situation in the Middle East
The President. We have engaged in an
hopes dashed. This is a brutal process,
Armstrong, Coats, Humphrey, McCain. Sen-
ator Dole was to be here, but I understand
extraordinarily broad exercise of diplomacy
where you see people paraded before cam-
August 3, 1989
he's very enthusiastic about all of this. And
here in the last couple of days, and let me
eras and their families get their hopes up.
say, I am pleased about that. I don't know
We have seen the statement this after-
I'm delighted to endorse the legislative line-
My heart is still with Mrs. Higgins. We can't
what it means fully, but I think the world is
noon declaring a "freeze" of the sentence
tell her with any definition what-of her
item veto act of 1989. And I'm especially
familiar with our policy. But there will be
issued earlier against hostage Joseph Cicip-
husband's fate. And I have made appeal
pleased that we have now more than 30
nothing that will be done ever that will
pio. We regard this as an encouraging and
after appeal for the return of Colonel Hig-
sponsors, cosponsors, for the legislation. It's
hopeful development. But it still does not
create a new incentive for taking somebody
gins's remains, if, indeed, he has been
a long-overdue budget reform piece of leg-
else hostage.
killed.
answer our continuing concern for release
islation.
of all hostages. We urge that all parties in
But I feel the burden of going to every
And on February 9th, I asked Congress to
And so you deal with what you have out
end possible to try to find-get the return
the region use whatever influence they
enact reform legislation to give the Presi-
there, and what is foremost on my mind are
of these Americans to their loved ones and
have to end the tragedy of hostage taking
dent greater control over spending. And
the families and the hostages themselves.
and to release those remaining in captivity.
find out the truth about Colonel Higgins.
present law allows for the cancellation of an
And I don't want to raise hopes beyond
And we express our appreciation to all
Q. What do you think was the motivating
appropriation only through rescission. But
fulfillment, but there's reason to be some-
factor for the freeze on the execution? And
those who have been thus far trying to
Congress can reject a presidential rescission
what encouraged. But I think of the brutal-
where do you go from here?
help.
simply by inaction. And that's precisely
The President. I like to think that a
ity of the process: a man condemned to die
at 11:00 and then it's moved to 3:00 in the
what's happened to the vast majority of re-
broad-spread appeal to nations in every
Note: Joseph J. Cicippio, acting comptroller
scission proposals submitted by three presi-
corner of the globe had something to do
afternoon. Put yourself in the position of
at the American University of Beirut, was
dents since the present law went into effect
with it. And many-
these families; think of the hurt that just
abducted from the campus on September
in 1974. And so I asked Congress to pass a
Q. You don't know?
that 4 hours of experience causes some-
12, 1986.
budget reform proposal that would require
The President. I don't know for sure. And
body. And I would just appeal to the civil-
an up or down vote by Congress on presi-
the response that I have had on my person-
ized world or any country anywhere in the
dential rescissions. And this legislation really
al calls and that the Secretary has had on
world to lay aside this holding of people
gets to the heart of that goal. It's a tough
his has been heartwarming. It's come from
against their will hostages, and do what is
Remarks on the Legislative Line-Item
bill. It forces Congress to act on rescissions.
all sectors. And I've been very, very en-
right and decent and honorable in terms of
Veto and a Question-and-Answer
And if Congress does not act, the rescissions
couraged by that. And where we go from
the release of those hostages that are still
Session With Reporters
take effect. And if they do act, then the bill,
here, though, we'll just keep on trying.
held, and a full accounting in the case of
August 4, 1989
of course, would be subject to a veto. So
Q. Mr. President, what has Iran's role
Colonel Higgins, a distinguished officer who
this is one of the tools the President of the
been in this? And do you see an opening in
was wearing the uniform of the United Na-
Senator Coats. Mr. President, it's a pleas-
United States needs to do what the Ameri-
the structure here to allow you to work for
tions.
ure for me to present to you on behalf of
can people want, and that is to control
the release of the hostages?
As the Foreign Minister of Bahrain [Mu-
these senators with us here-Senator Hum-
spending.
The President. Well, I just answered I was
hammad bin Mubarak Al Khalifa] said in
phrey, Senator McCain, Senator Arm-
And I've said the President needs the
certainly pleased that that brutal murder
this office yesterday or day before, this is
strong-a bill which we think will move us
power to make the tough calls on spending,
that had been threatened was set aside. I
the business of the whole world. Sitting at
toward spending control from the Execu-
to take the heat. I'm perfectly prepared to
don't know the total role of any individual
this desk, it is-you ask what I feel about
tive branch and in the Congress, a much
do that. And that's what, in my view, this
country in that area in all of this, but when
it-I feel for the families and for those that
needed tool that you must have and that
forward-looking legislation does. So I en-
you see a statement that offers hope for the
are held.
we want to give you to enact some fiscal
dorse this legislation. And I want to thank
return of our hostages, I want to explore it
Q. Mr. President, this hostage, Mr. Cicip-
discipline in our spending process. Thirty-
each and every one of you for playing a
to the fullest.
pio, was among those who stayed on in
two senators have signed this piece of legis-
significant part in it. And I look forward to
Q. Have you made a decision to take mili-
Beirut after the United States had warned
lation, a legislative line-item veto. Senator
working with you to see it enacted. Thank
tary action if another American hostage is
him to get out-had warned all Americans
McCain and I have worked very closely
you very much.
killed?
to get out or stay at their own risk. What
with Senator Humphrey and Senator Arm-
Senator Coats. Well, this is the result of
The President. I have made-I
kind of a claim should such a person have
strong and others to put together what we
some very tough negotiations between all of
wouldn't-if I had made such a decision, I
on the diplomatic resources of this country
think is a terrific piece of legislation. Thirty-
us, and I think we've fashioned a bill here
expect this would be the last place I'd be
when they act against the wishes of the
talking about it.
government?
Administration of George Bush, 1989 / Aug. 4
The President. We have put people in
The legislation the President has en-
that-in the past, people in that part of the
dorsed, was developed by leading propo-
Nomination of James M. Strock To Be
Ms. Tamposi graduated from the Univer-
world on notice. But that doesn't fulfill my
nents of previous bills, and would reform
an Assistant Administrator of the
sity of New Hampshire (B.A., 1978) and
obligation as President if a person is held
the rescission process by requiring that
Environmental Protection Agency
Harvard University (M.P.A., 1984). She was
against his will, in the case of Mr. Cicippio.
Congress take affirmative action to disap-
August 4, 1989
born February 13, 1955, in Nashua, NH.
That doesn't mean we wash our hands of it.
prove any rescission. The legislation would
Ms. Tamposi is married, has two children,
He's an American, and he is entitled to the
provide two periods during which the Presi-
The President today announced his inten-
and resides in Nashua, NH.
concern of the President and every one of
dent could propose rescissions. First, after
tion to nominate James M. Strock to be an
these Senators and everybody in our admin-
the signing of individual appropriations
Assistant Administrator of the Environmen-
istration. And he's got a great, big, wonder-
bills, the President would have 20 days to
tal Protection Agency (Enforcement and
ful family up there that are eating their
propose rescissions. The rescissions would
Compliance Monitoring). He would succeed
Nomination of Sidney L. Jones To Be
hearts out in Norristown, Pennsylvania-
go into effect after a specified period, up to
Thomas Lynch Adams, Jr.
an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Q. Did you call them?
Since 1988 Mr. Strock has served as Gen-
35 days in length, unless Congress passes,
eral Counsel at the Office of Personnel
August 4, 1989
The President.-and we're very much
and there is enacted into law, a bill disap-
concerned about it. I've not talked to Mr.
Management. Prior to this he served as
proving the rescissions.
The President today announced his inten-
Cicippio. And the State Department has
senior associate at the law firm of Davis,
Second, the President could also forward
tion to nominate Sidney L. Jones to be an
been in daily contact with them-daily.
Graham and Stubbs in Denver, CO, 1986-
rescissions at the time of his budget submis-
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Eco-
All right, thank you all. Anybody got any
1988; special counsel on the Committee on
sion to Congress each fiscal year. Again, the
nomic Policy). He would succeed Michael
questions on the line-item veto legislation? I
Environment and Public Works in the
rescissions would go into effect unless a law
R. Darby.
would like to speak up once again for that.
United States Senate, 1986; associate coun-
is enacted disapproving the rescissions. The
sel on the Committee on Environment and
Since 1986 Dr. Jones has served as an
Note: The President spoke at 10:34 a.m. in
legislation also provides expedited Congres-
associate faculty member for the Center for
Public Works in the United States Senate,
sional procedures to speed consideration of
Public Policy Education at The Brookings
the Oval Office at the White House. Lt.
1985; and Special Assistant to the Adminis-
the President's rescission proposals.
Institution, and as a professor of public
Col. William R. Higgins, USMC, chief of
trator at the Environmental Protection
policy at Georgetown University, Washing-
the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern
Agency, 1983-1985. In addition, he served
ton, DC. Prior to this he was Under Secre-
Lebanon, was kidnaped on February 17,
as senior political analyst in the issues and
tary for Economic Affairs at the Depart-
1988, and allegedly hanged by pro-Iranian
research division on the Reagan-Bush cam-
ment of Commerce, 1983-1986.
terrorists on July 31, 1989. Joseph J. Cicip-
Nomination of William L. Jacobsen To
paign, 1984; special consultant to the Office
Be United States Ambassador to
of the Majority Leader in the United States
Dr. Jones graduated from Utah State Uni-
pio, acting comptroller at the American
versity (B.S., 1954) and Stanford University
University of Beirut was abducted from the
Guinea-Bissau
Senate, 1982-1983; law clerk with the law
(M.B.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1960). He was born
campus on September 12, 1986.
firm of Fulbright and Jaworski in London,
August 4, 1989
September 23, 1933, in Ogden, UT. Mr.
England, 1981-1982; and a teaching fellow
Jones is married, has five children, and re-
at the Department of Government at Har-
The President today announced his inten-
sides in Potomac, MD.
vard University, 1980.
tion to nominate William Ludwig Jacobsen,
Mr. Strock graduated from Harvard Col-
Statement by Press Secretary Fitzwater
Jr., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
lege (A.B., 1977); and Harvard Law School
on the Legislative Line-Item Veto
Plenipotentiary of the United States of
(J.D., 1981). He resides in Arlington, VA.
August 4, 1989
America to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
Nomination of Reginald J. Brown To
He would succeed John Dale Blacken.
Be an Assistant Administrator of the
The President today endorsed legislation
Mr. Jacobsen is a career member of the
Agency for International Development
providing legislative line-item veto author-
Senior Foreign Service with the rank of
ity, which would enable the President to
Counselor. From 1988 to 1989, he served as
Nomination of Elizabeth M. Tamposi
August 4, 1989
rescind appropriations deemed to be waste-
Director of African Affairs on the National
To Be an Assistant Secretary of State
The President today announced his inten-
ful or unnecessary. This legislation will pro-
Security Council. Prior to this, Mr. Jacobsen
August 4, 1989
tion to nominate Reginald J. Brown to be
vide needed reforms in the budget proce-
was a member and then Director of the
an Assistant Administrator of the Agency
dure known as rescission. Present law
President's Task Force on Southern and
The President today announced his inten-
for International Development, U.S. Inter-
allows for cancellation of an appropriation
South Africa at the State Department in
tion to nominate Elizabeth M. Tamposi to
national Development Cooperation Agency
only through the rescission process. Con-
Washington, DC, 1985-1988.
be Assistant Secretary of State for Consular
(Bureau for Program and Policy Coordina-
gress, however, can thwart a Presidential
Mr. Jacobsen received a bachelor's degree
Affairs. She would succeed Joan M. Clark.
tion). He would succeed Richard E. Bissell.
proposal for rescission simply by inaction. In
from the University of Washington and a
Ms. Tamposi is currently vice president
Since 1982 Mr. Brown has served as a
fact, the vast majority of rescission proposals
master's degree from Harvard University.
and partner of the Tamposi Co. in Nashua,
senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and
submitted by three Presidents since passage
He was born in Seattle, WA, on December
NH, a family owned development company.
International Studies in Washington, DC.
of the present law in 1974 were never
2, 1936. He is married, has three children,
Ms. Tamposi is also president and sole
Prior to this he served as executive vice
acted upon.
and resides in Washington, DC.
stockholder of Hollis Crossing Realty, Inc., a
president of DECA Group, Inc., in Miami,
real estate marketing and sales company.
FL, 1979-1982: From 1974 to 1979, Mr.
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REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who'll bring Hoosier
common sense and ideas to Washington, Senator Dan Coats. 11
At the White House, there's a story about Senator Coats.
Apparently, he once walked in half an hour late to an important
briefing. Well, our aides saw that this very distinguished man
had arrived, hurried him to the front of the room, and introduced
him as the guest singer. III (( I was confused on the way here,
whether this would be a Dan Coats fundraiser or an episode of
"Star Search. ))
Well, we don't want Dan to give up his day job 11 and that's
why we're all here today. It's great to be here, "Back Home in
Indiana," in what natives call the "Crossroads of America."
Indiana is the heart of the heartland -- the geographical center
of America. And Hoosiers are right in the middle of the American
mainstream, with the kind of common sense values that have made
this nation great -- like hard work, opportunity, faith and
family.
THE WHITE HOUSE
2
WASHINGTON
Like you, Dan and I believe the family is the cornerstone of
American society. That's why his work introducing the American
Family Act has been so important -- in terms of educational
reform, family support, help for "at risk" children, and families
in need. I've appreciated Dan's support for our education
legislation, as well, and look to him because Dan Coats is
helping people -- families like yours with hopes and dreams for
our children's futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values. III
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Dan Coates has been a leader in the war on drugs, a key player on
our team fighting for the Administration's drug and crime bills.
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that deals
with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent thinker -- the kind
of leader I'm looking to for progress on the Hill. We are making
headway, but I need Dan's experience and intelligence to keep the
fight for our families going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. But Dan's work to keep taxes down means he's
bringing one more thing with him -- a common sense business
approach. I'll let you in something only editorial writers and
liberals haven't figured out yet: We don't need more taxes. We
need a budget process that slices out wasteful government
spending. We need a line-item veto. Give me what 43 governors
have -- the power to cut pork barrel spending. Dan Coats is
fighting to keep your taxes low and federal spending down -- now
that's what I call common sense.
THE WHITE 3 HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Americans want to keep the greatest peacetime economic
expansion ever going strong -- 88 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both. It's
going to take a lot of work to balance protecting this great
planet without throwing hard-working Americans out of work by
extremist legislation. Indiana has one of the lowest
unemployment rates around, and it also faces some of the toughest
environmental challenges as well. But Dan and I agree ... we
must find that balance. And we will find that balance. 11
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to America as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who is a
voice for your values. III
I know Hoosier values, and believe in them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. And this man, Dan
Coats, gives a voice to the heartland values that people all over
the world are shedding tyranny to embrace. That's why you need
Dan Coats in the United States Senate, and that's why I need him.
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless Indiana.
# # #
Grant/Nappo
March 28, 1990
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A:coats
REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats.
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but
I've really lost my appetite. On the way over I was notified
that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. III They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
You know, the people of Indiana have had two great men
represent them in the United States Senate -- Senator Dick Lugar
and Vice President Dan Quayle. ((I spoke earlier today to a huge
crowd in downtown Indianapolis, and I can't say it often enough:
let me tell you how proud I am of the job Dan has done as Vice
President. He's served our Administration well. And he's served
the Nation well. ) )
For the last ten years, Dick Lugar and Dan Quayle have kept
the dynasty of Republican leadership in Indiana going strong --
with their command of foreign and domestic policy that have kept
America strong. In 1986 Dan Quayle won the highest margin of
victory for a Republican winning that Senate seat, yet two years
later, Senator Lugar broke the record and won an even bigger
margin. And I'm confident the voters of Indiana will continue
the tradition and hand Dan Coats a great victory this fall. 11
I'm here, "Back Home in Indiana," -- in what natives call
the "Crossroads of America" -- to talk to you today about common
sense, something Hoosiers know a lot about. Indiana is the heart
of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle of the
American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
American society. This Administration has placed the family at
the center of our agenda for the 1990s -- to build an America
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
challenge and support our teachers and our kids; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment. I've appreciated
Dan's support for our pro-family agenda, and look to him because
the people of Indiana know that Dan Coats is helping people --
families like yours with hopes and dreams for our children's
futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values. III
That's why his work in the Congress introducing important
pro-family legislation was so crucial -- in terms of educational
reform, family support, help for "at risk" children, and families
in need. In fact, the Republican Party felt so storngly about
his legislation, that we made it part of the National Platform.
Mainstream values that mainstream Americans care about -- that's
why we need Dan Coats in the Senate.
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Our National Drug Strategy deals with all sides of the issue --
from education and prevention to expanded treatment to tougher
penalties and stepped-up enforcement. That's a tough approach,
but it's a sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off the streets and out of the schools. And it's time
we got more federal resources into the hands of those in the
thick of the fight all over America. If we are to build a better
future for this country, America first must be drug-free.\
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that
deals with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent Senator --
that's why I need him back in the Senate. I need Dan's
experience and intelligence to keep the fight for our families
going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana
Republican who brought those values to Washington, President
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then -- still is.
But since then, Congressional spending has spiralled out of
control -- 1.2 trillion right now. And common sense tells us we
don't need higher taxes. We need a budget process that slices
out wasteful government spending. We need a line-item veto.
Give me what 43 governors have -- the power to cut pork barrel
spending. One of the first things Dan Coats did when he arrived
in the Senate was introduce important line-item veto legislation.
(( In fact, I haven't seen anybody move that adeptly since the
Indianapolis Colts snuck out of Baltimore.)
Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
spending down -- now that's what I call common sense.
Americans want to keep the greatest peacetime economic
expansion ever going strong -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both. It's
going to take a lot of work to protect this great planet without
throwing hard-working Americans out of work by extremist
legislation. And while Indiana has one of the lowest
unemployment rates around, and it also faces some of the toughest
environmental challenges as well.
But common sense tells us this too: we must find that
balance -- we will find that balance. And I need Dan Coats
alongside me in Washington to achieve it.
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who will be
a voice for your values. 111
I know Hoosier values, and I admire them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. I'm hoping that when
the voters of Indiana think of Dan Coats, they think of the words
of another great Hoosier, the great Cole Porter. You know the
song -- called "You're the Top." ((And when they think of some
of the Democratic policies lately, it'll be "Anything Goes" -- or
maybe even "Get Out of Town."))
This man, Dan Coats, gives a voice to the heartland values
that people all over the world are shedding tyranny to embrace.
Nothing could be more important as we head into the new century
of democracy. That's why you need Dan Coats in the United States
Senate, and that's why I need him. Let's keep Indiana great, and
keep its Senators Republican. III
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 26, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF
PATTY PRESOCK
DAVID BATES
LINDA CASEY
ANDREW CARD
WILLIAM KRISTOL
JAMES CICCONI
TIMOTHY MCBRIDE
DAVID DEMAREST
ROSE ZAMARIA
MARLIN FITZWATER
PAUL BATEMAN
BOYDEN GRAY
RICHARD TREFRY
FRED MCCLURE
DAVID VALDEZ
BONNIE NEWMAN
BILLY DALE
ROGER PORTER
JAY ALLISON
SIG ROGICH
JOHN HERRICK
BRENT SCOWCROFT
LAURIE FIRESTONE
CHASE UNTERMEYER
PEGGY SWIFT
SUSAN PORTER ROSE
KIM BRADY
ED ROGERS
JEAN LAMB
JOE HAGIN
DEB ANDERSON
JIM WRAY
TONY BENEDI
CHRISS WINSTON
USSS/PPD OPS
BOBBIE KILBERG
WHCA AUDIO/VISUAL
SICHAN SIV
WHCA OPERATIONS
WHTV
MEDICAL UNIT
PRESIDENTIAL
DOCUMENTS
THROUGH:
SIG ROGICH
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
PUBLIC EVENTS AND INITIATIVES
FROM:
JOHN G. KELLER, JR JGK
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE
SUBJECT:
TRIP OF THE PRESIDENT TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA;
CINCINNATI, OHIO; INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA; AND
DETROIT, MICHIGAN ON APRIL 2 - 3, 1990
For your use and planning purposes, the attached is a preliminary
outline schedule for the Trip of the President to Atlanta,
Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Detroit,
Michigan. Please keep in mind that the following information has
not been finally approved and is subject to change.
Attachments
PRELIMINARY OUTLINE SCHEDULE
Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and
Detroit, Michigan
Monday, April 2, 1990
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
5:45 am Baggage Call. Please place all
unlocked baggage in Room 89 1/2,
O.E.O.B. at this time.
6:55 am Vans depart West Basement
en route Andrews Air Force Base
Distinguished Visitors Lounge.
6:55 am Those with own transportation
and baggage should arrive
Andrews Air Force Base
Distinguished Visitors Lounge
for check-in.
7:25 am Those with own transportation
should arrive Andrews Air Force
Base Distinguished Visitors
Lounge at this time.
7:40 am
MARINE ONE departs White House en route Andrews
Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
7:50 am
MARINE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
7:55 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base
en route Dobbins Air Force Base, Atlanta,
Georgia.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
9:30 am
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Dobbins Air Force Base.
9:35 am
MOTORCADE departs Dobbins Air Force Base en route
Georgia World Congress Center.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
9:55 am
MOTORCADE arrives Georgia World Congress Center.
*
ADDRESS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
BROADCASTERS
- Open Press
- Remarks
- Teleprompter
(10:00 am - 10:30 am)
*
STAFF PHOTO WITH NAB LEADERSHIP
- Closed Press
(10:35 am - 10:55 am)
*
PRIVATE TIME: 15 MINUTES
(11:00 am - 11:15 am)
11:20 am
MOTORCADE departs Georgia World Congress Center en
route Dobbins Air Force Base.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
11:40 am
MOTORCADE arrives Dobbins Air Force Base.
11:45 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs Dobbins Air Force Base en
route Cincinnati, Ohio.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes)
(Interchange: Yes)
(Time Change: None)
1:15 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Greater Cincinnati Airport.
1:20 pm
MARINE ONE departs Greater Cincinnati Airport en
route TBD General Electric Landing Zone.
(Flying Time: 20 Minutes)
1:40 pm
MARINE ONE arrives TBD General Electric Landing
Zone.
1:45 pm
MOTORCADE departs TBD Landing Zone en route
General Electric Plant.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
1:50 pm
MOTORCADE arrives General Electric Plant.
*
BRIEFING
- Photo Opportunity
(1:55 pm - 2:25 pm)
*
TOUR OF PLANT
- Pool Coverage
(2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)
3:05 pm
MOTORCADE departs General Electric Plant en
route Westin Hotel.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
3:20 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Westin Hotel.
*
PRIVATE TIME: 3 HOURS
(3:25 pm - 6:25 pm)
*
FUNDRAISING RECEPTION FOR GEORGE
VOINOVICH
- Open Press
- Brief Remarks
- Ropeline
- Teleprompter
(6:30 pm - 6:50 pm)
*
MAJOR DONOR RECEPTION
- Closed Press
- Mix and Mingle
(6:55 pm - 7:15 pm)
RON Cincinnati.
Tuesday, April 3, 1990
11:00 am
MOTORCADE departs Westin Hotel en route
Union Terminal Landing Zone.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
11:10 am
MOTORCADE arrives Union Terminal Landing Zone.
11:15 am
MARINE ONE departs Union Terminal Landing Zone
en route Greater Cincinnati Airport.
(Flying Time: 15 Minutes)
11:30 am
MARINE ONE arrives Greater Cincinnati Airport.
11:35 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs Greater Cincinnati Airport
(E.D.T.)
en route Indianapolis, Indiana.
(Flying Time: 55 Minutes)
(Interchange: Yes)
(Time Change: Back 1 Hour)
11:30 am
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Indianapolis International
(E.S.T.)
Airport.
11:35 am
MOTORCADE departs Indianapolis International
Airport en route Washington and Alabama Street
Park.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
11:45 am
MOTORCADE arrives Washington and Alabama Street
Park.
*
TREES FOR TOMORROW CELEBRATION
- Open Press
- Remarks
(11:50 am - 12:20 pm)
12:25 pm
MOTORCADE departs Washington and Alabama Street
Park en route Indianapolis Convention Center.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
12:30 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Indianapolis Convention
Center.
*
STAFF PHOTO
- Closed Press
(12:35 pm - 12:55 pm)
*
FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON FOR SENATOR DAN
COATS
- Open Press
- Brief Remarks
- Teleprompter
(1:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
1:45 pm
MOTORCADE departs Convention Center en route
Indianapolis International Airport.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
1:55 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Indianapolis International
Airport.
2:00 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Indianapolis, Indiana
(E.S.T.)
en route Detroit, Michigan.
(Flying Time: 45 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: Ahead 1 Hour)
3:45 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Detroit Metropolitan
(E.D.T.)
Airport.
3:50 pm
MOTORCADE departs Detroit Metropolitan
Airport en route Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
4:10 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Ritz-Carlton Dearborn.
*
PRIVATE TIME: 1 HOUR 55 MINUTES
(4:15 pm - 6:10 pm)
*
TEAM 100 RECEPTION
- Closed Press
- Mix and Mingle
(6:15 pm - 6:30 pm)
*
STAFF PHOTO
- Closed Press
(6:35 pm - 6:55 pm)
*
FUNDRAISING DINNER FOR MICHIGAN GOP
- Open Press
- Teleprompter
(7:00 pm - 7:20 pm)
7:25 pm
MOTORCADE departs Ritz-Carlton Dearborn en route
Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
7:45 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
7:50 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Detroit Metropolitan
Airport en route Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 5 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
8:55 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
9:00 pm
MARINE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base en route
White House.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
9:10 pm
MARINE ONE arrives White House.
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REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
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that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. III They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
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the fires of freedom we started all over the world -- the people
of Indiana had two great men represent them in the United States
Senate -- Dick Lugar and of course, Dan Quayle. ((A foreign
policy duo that have been instrumental to the progress we've seen
internationally. I don't have to tell you -- you already know -
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American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
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Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
Grant/Nappo
March 28, 1990
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REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ( (Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats.
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but
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that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. III They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
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of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle of the
American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
Our
American society. This Administration has placed the family at
the center of our agenda for the 1990s -- to build an America
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
challenge and support our kids and our teachers; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment. I appreciate
has been me of the strongist
Dan supporte for our pro-family agenda, reaching out to families
like yours with hopes and dreams for their children's futures.
Dan Coats is a voice for your values. III
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has
important pro-family legislation was crucial. Dan Coats is
to the progress we 've already
made in strengthening the family
in this coun try.
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helping ed people AA in areas like educational reform, family
support, help for "at risk" children, and families in need. In
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we
need Dan Coats in the Senate. III and I thence you, we agree. 11 B.F.
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
which I annoomneed sent September
Our National Drug Strategy, deals with all sides of the issue --
from education and prevention to expanded treatment to stronger
penalties and stepped-up enforcement. It's a tough approach, but
it's a sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off the every streets and out of the every schools. And it's time
in america.
we got more federal resources into the hands of those in the
- -thrscon the front lines.
thick of the fight all over America If we are to build a better
future for this country, America first must be drug-free. 11
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that
knows the road ahead wont be easy but
deals with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent Senator --
that's why I need him back in the Senate. I need Dan's
to take voca our streets
experience and intelligence to keep the fight for our families
going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana
Republican who brought those values to Washington, President
4
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then -- still is.
But since then, Congressional spending has spiralled out of
control -- 1.2 trillion right now. And common sense tells us the
American people aren't over-taxed. We need a budget process that
can deal rationally with wasteful government spending. We need a
line-item veto. III Give me what 43 governors have -- the power
to cut undecessary pork barrel spending. One of the first things Dan Coats
to
did when he arrived in the Senate was introduce important line-
item veto legislation. (( In fact, I haven't seen anybody move
that adeptly since the Indianapolis Colts snuck out of
Baltimore. ))
Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
spending down, MA now that's what I call common sense. 11
Americans want to keep the greatest longest peacetime economic
moung forward
expansion ever going strong -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both.
Tomorrow in Washington, there's a lot at stake: clean air, a.
safe environment, economic growth, and the jobs of thousands of
will
Americans. The Senate is casting an historic vote on our
amendments to the Clean Air Act, a vote which will affect
generations to come as we work to build a cleaner, better America. It's
sofer
going to take a lot of work to protect this great planet without
throwing hard-working Americans out of work.
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and
balance, W we will find that balance.
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one of the most important votes of his like
be in the Senate to cast that historic vote. But I need him not
just tomorrow, but or the day after that -- and the months and years to come,
but in
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after that - to strike the balances that we must in governing
on each you in this non to give your all for Don Coab,
the greatest Nation on earth.
and that's why I in country
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
as the world Clarges, well Change
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who will be
a voice for your values. III
I know Hoosier values, and I admire them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. And on November 6,
when the voters of Indiana think of Dan Coats, I know they 11
think of the Song by another Hoosier, the great Cole Porter
)
-- called "You're the Top. 11
This man, Dan Coats, gives voice to the values of the
heartland. Nothing could be more important as we head into a
new century of challenge and change. Let's keep Indiana great,
and keep the dynasty of Republican leadership going strong.
Let's continue the tradition and give Dan a huge victory. 11
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
Grant/Nappo
March 28, 1990
Draft two
A:coats
REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats.
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but
I've really lost my appetite. On the way over I was notified
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that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
1
salad. III They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
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You know, the people of Indiana have had two great men
to
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Coats,
represent them in the United States Senate -- Senator Dick Lugar
of course,
and Vice President Dan Quayle. ((I spoke earlier today to a huge
crowd in downtown Indianapolis, and I can't say it often enough:
let me tell you how proud I am of the job Dan has done as Vice
President. He's served our Administration well. And he's served
the Nation well.
For the last ten years, Dick Lugar and Dan Quayle have kept
the dynasty of Republican leadership in Indiana going strong --
has
with their command of foreign and domestic policy that have kept
with)
America strong. In 1986 Dan Quayle won the highest margin of
victory
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victory for a Republican winning that Senate seat, yet two years
later, Senator Lugar broke the record and with won an even bigger
Come Navember,
margin. And I'm confident the voters of Indiana will continue
the tradition and hand Dan Coats a great victory this fall. 11
I'm here, "Back Home in Indiana," -- in what natives call
the "Crossroads of America" -- to talk to you today about common
sense, something Hoosiers know a lot about. Indiana is the heart
of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle of the
American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
American society. This Administration has placed the family at
the center of our agenda for the 1990s -- to build an America
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
challenge and support our teachers and our kids; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment.
I've
appreciated
Dan's support for our pro-family agenda. and look to him because
the people of Indiana know that Dan Coats is helping their people
families like yours with hopes and dreams for our children's
futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values.
name?
That's why his work in the Congress introducing important
areas like
pro-family legislation was so crucial my in terms of educational
and
reform, family support help for "at risk" children) and families
in need In fact, the Republican Party felt so strongly about
his legislation, that we made it part of the National Platform.
And its a strong voice, What
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why we need Dan Coats in the Senate.
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Our National Drug Strategy deals with all sides of the issue --
stronger
from education and prevention to expanded treatment tougher
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penalties and stepped-up enforcement. That's a tough approach,
but it's a sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off the streets and out of the schools. And it's time
we got more federal resources into the hands of those in the
thick of the fight all over America. If we are to build a better
future for this country, America first must be drug-free.
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that
deals with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent Senator --
that's why I need him back in the Senate. I need Dan's
experience and intelligence to keep the fight for our families
going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana
Republican who brought those values to Washington, President
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then --- still is.
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spending. One of the first things Dan Coats did when he arrived
in the Senate was introduce important line-item veto legislation.
(( In fact, I haven't seen anybody move that adeptly since the
Indianapolis Colts snuck out of Baltimore.) )
Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
spending down -- now that's what I call common sense.
Americans want to keep the greatest peacetime economic
expansion ever going strong -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both. It's
going to take a lot of work to protect this great planet without
throwing hard-working Americans out of work by extremist
legislation. And while Indiana has one of the lowest
unemployment rates around, it also faces some of the toughest
environmental challenges as well.
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But common sense tells us this too: we must find that
balance -- we will find that balance. And I need Dan Coats
alongside me in Washington to achieve it.
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
Tomorrow, The Senate with
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song called "You're the Top. " ( (And when they think of some
of the Democratic policies lately, it'll be "Anything Goes" -- or
maybe even "Get Out of Town."))
values of the
This man, Dan Coats, gives voice to the heartland. values
that people all over the world are shedding tyranny to embrace.
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Challenge and change.
of democracy That's why you need Dan Coats in the United States
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Senate, and that's why I need him. Let's keep Indiana great, and
keep its Senators Republican. III
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
Grant/Nappo
March 28, 1990
Draft two
A:coats
REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who brings Hoosier
ideas to Washington everyday, Senator Dan Coats. 11
I'm sorry that I couldn't have lunch with you today, but
I've really lost my appetite. On the way over I was notified
that the Secret Service had found my food taster face-down in the
salad. 111 They said somebody had washed my lettuce with
Perrier. III
You know, the people of Indiana have had two great men
represent them in the United States Senate -- Senator Dick Lugar
and Vice President Dan Quayle. ((I spoke earlier today to a huge
crowd in downtown Indianapolis, and I can't say it often enough:
let me tell you how proud I am of the job Dan has done as Vice
President. He's served our Administration well. And he's served
the Nation well. \\))
For the last ten years, Dick Lugar and Dan Quayle have kept
the dynasty of Republican leadership in Indiana going strong --
with their command of foreign and domestic policy that have kept
America strong. In 1986 Dan Quayle won the highest margin of
victory for a Republican winning that Senate seat, yet two years
later, Senator Lugar broke the record and won an even bigger
margin. And I'm confident the voters of Indiana will continue
the tradition and hand Dan Coats a great victory this fall. 11
I'm here, "Back Home in Indiana," -- in what natives call
the "Crossroads of America" -- to talk to you today about common
sense, something Hoosiers know a lot about. Indiana is the heart
of the heartland, and Hoosiers are right in the middle of the
American mainstream -- with the kind of values that have made
this nation great. I'm talking about values like hard work,
opportunity, decency, loyalty, faith and family.
Everyone here believes that the family is the cornerstone of
American society. This Administration has placed the family at
the center of our agenda for the 1990s -- to build an America
where every man, woman and child is drug-free; where schools
challenge and support our teachers and our kids; and where our
families can live in a clean, safe environment. I've appreciated
Dan's support for our pro-family agenda, and look to him because
the people of Indiana know that Dan Coats is helping people --
families like yours with hopes and dreams for our children's
futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values.
That's why his work in the Congress introducing important
pro-family legislation was so crucial -- in terms of educational
reform, family support, help for "at risk" children, and families
in need. In fact, the Republican Party felt so storngly about
his legislation, that we made it part of the National Platform.
Mainstream values that mainstream Americans care about -- that's
why we need Dan Coats in the Senate.
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Our National Drug Strategy deals with all sides of the issue --
from education and prevention to expanded treatment to tougher
penalties and stepped-up enforcement. That's a tough approach,
but it's a sensible one.
No part of America is safe from the scourge of drugs. This
is not simply an "inner-city" problem or a "border" problem for
the bureaucrats in Washington to handle. We've got to get PCP
and crack off the streets and out of the schools. And it's time
we got more federal resources into the hands of those in the
thick of the fight all over America. If we are to build a better
future for this country, America first must be drug-free.
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that
deals with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent Senator --
that's why I need him back in the Senate. I need Dan's
experience and intelligence to keep the fight for our families
going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. And I'll tell you about another great Indiana
Republican who brought those values to Washington, President
Benjamin Harrison. One hundred years ago, President Harrison
presided over the first Congress to appropriate a billion dollar
budget. That was a lot of money back then -- still is.
But since then, Congressional spending has spiralled out of
control -- 1.2 trillion right now. And common sense tells us we
don't need higher taxes. We need a budget process that slices
out wasteful government spending. We need a line-item veto.
Give me what 43 governors have -- the power to cut pork barrel
spending. One of the first things Dan Coats did when he arrived
in the Senate was introduce important line-item veto legislation.
" In fact, I haven't seen anybody move that adeptly since the
Indianapolis Colts snuck out of Baltimore.)
Together, we're fighting to keep your taxes low and federal
spending down -- now that's what I call common sense.
Americans want to keep the greatest peacetime economic
expansion ever going strong -- 89 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both. It's
going to take a lot of work to protect this great planet without
throwing hard-working Americans out of work by extremist
legislation. And while Indiana has one of the lowest
unemployment rates around, and it also faces some of the toughest
environmental challenges as well.
But common sense tells us this too: we must find that
balance -- we will find that balance. And I need Dan Coats
alongside me in Washington to achieve it.
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to me as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who will be
a voice for your values. III
I know Hoosier values, and I admire them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. I'm hoping that when
the voters of Indiana think of Dan Coats, they think of the words
of another great Hoosier, the great Cole Porter. You know the
song -- called "You're the Top." ((And when they think of some
of the Democratic policies lately, it'll be "Anything Goes" -- or
maybe even "Get Out of Town."))
This man, Dan Coats, gives a voice to the heartland values
that people all over the world are shedding tyranny to embrace.
Nothing could be more important as we head into the new century
of democracy. That's why you need Dan Coats in the United States
Senate, and that's why I need him. Let's keep Indiana great, and
keep its Senators Republican. III
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless
Indiana.
# # #
Quayle
Grant/Nappo
wn Shous
March 26, 1990
Draft one
A:coats
REMARKS: DAN COATS FUNDRAISER
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990
12:20 P.M.
Thank you. My thanks to ((Father Mallory)) of Notre Dame
for his invocation, and of course it's always a pleasure to see
Senator Lugar. I see our new Republican state chairman is here,
Keith Luce, a hard worker doing a great job. And most of all,
I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the man who'll bring3Hoosier
every class
common sense and ideas to Washington, Senator Dan Coats.
At the White House, there's a story about Senator Coats.
1
Apparently, he once walked in half an hour late to an important
briefing. Well, our aides saw that this very distinguished man
had arrived, hurried him to the front of the room, and introduced
him as the guest singer. III (( I was confused on the way here,
whether this would be a Dan Coats fundraiser or an episode of
"Star Search. ))
Well, we don't want Dan to give up his day job 11 and that's
why we're all here today. It's great to be here, "Back Home in
Indiana," in what natives call the "Crossroads of America."
they
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Indiana is, the heart of the heartland, the geographical center
of America. And Hoosiers are right in the middle of the American
mainstream, with the kind of common sense values that have made
this nation great -- like hard work, opportunity, faith and
family.
2
Like you, Dan and I believe the family is the cornerstone of
American society. That's why his work introducing the American
Family Act has been so important -- in terms of educational
reform, family support, help for "at risk" children, and families
in need. I've appreciated Dan's support for our education
legislation, as well, and look to him because Dan Coats is
helping people -- families like yours with hopes and dreams for
our children's futures. Dan Coats is a voice for your values. 111
Nothing ravages the American family more than drug abuse.
Dan Coates has been a leader in the war on drugs, a key player on
our team fighting for the Administration's drug and crime bills.
As the Republican leader of the Senate subcommittee that deals
with drugs, Dan has been a tough, independent thinker -- the kind
of leader I'm looking to for progress on the Hill. We are making
headway, but I need Dan's experience and intelligence to keep the
fight for our families going strong.
Bringing Hoosier values and Hoosier vision to Washington is
important to me. But Dan's work to keep taxes down means he's
bringing one more thing with him -- a common sense business
3rd
approach. I'll let you in something only editorial writers and
mention
liberals haven' figured out yet: We don need more taxes. We
need a budget process that slices out wasteful government
spending. We need a line-item veto. Give me what 43 governors
have -- the power to cut pork barrel spending. Dan Coats is
fighting to keep your taxes low and federal spending down -- now
that's what I call common sense.
4th
3
Americans want to keep the greatest peacetime economic
expansion ever going strong -- 88 months and counting. And
Americans want a clean environment, too. We can do both. It's
going to take a lot of work to balance protecting this great
planet without throwing hard-working Americans out of work by
extremist legislation. Indiana has one of the lowest
unemployment rates around, and it also faces some of the toughest
environmental challenges as well. But Dan and I agree ...
we
must find that balance. And we will find that balance. 11
I've talked today about some of the issues that are
important to America as we face the new decade. But one thing to
remember: issues may come and go over the years, but principles
remain to the end. Dan Coats is a principled man -- who is a
voice for your values. 111
I know Hoosier values, and believe in them -- I chose my
running mate from Indiana because of them. And this man, Dan
Coats, gives a voice to the heartland values that people all over
the world are shedding tyranny to embrace. That's why you need
Dan Coats in the United States Senate, and that's why I need him.
Thank you for your support, God bless you, and God bless Indiana.
# # #