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The original documents are located in Box 12, folder "United Service Organizations" of the
Richard B. Cheney Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 12 of the Richard B. Cheney Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Deck:
Stu will confirm the
good Work of these two guys. -
Sure would like to do
smetting for therm -
RHB
GERALD the FORD
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 4, 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR:
RICHARD B. CHENEY
THROUGH:
DOUGLAS P. BENNETT
FROM:
RICHARD S. BRANNON
RSB
Dr. Benjamin L. Armstrong, Executive Secretary of the
National Religious Broadcasters, and Richard Gaylord Briley,
direct mail specialist for numerous religious groups, performed
extraordinary services to the President Ford Committee. Stu
Spencer relied upon them and they were of considerable help to me.
The President can designate two persons to serve on the Board
of Governors of the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO).
This is confirmed to me by Michael E. Menster of USO and
Tom Jones (Records Office) here at the White House.
The attached draft of a letter to General Michael S. Davison,
President of USO could be used to designate Armstrong and
Briley to the Board of Governors, should the President choose
to do SO.
Thank you.
DRAFT
Dear General Davison:
In accordance with my Presidential authority to designate
individuals to serve on the Board of Governors of the United
Service Organizations, Inc., I am submitting the names of
Dr. Benjamin L. Armstrong, and Mr. Richard Gaylord Briley.
Dr. Armstrong has served as Executive Secretary of the
National Religious Broadcasters from 1967 until the present.
The NRB has 750 organizational members representing three-
fourths of the total religious broadcasting in America with over
100 million regular listeners.
Dr. Armstrong attended school at Houghton and Nyack colleges
and at New York University. He holds the PhD. degree in
mass communications from New York University. He is a
fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and is
listed in "Who's Who in the East" (1975-76 edition) and "Who's
Who in Religion" (1975-76 edition).
Richard Gaylord Briley heads his own firm, Gaylord Briley, Inc.,
based in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, a corporation specializing in
the art of fund raising by mail for charitable religious organizations.
Some of his clients include the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, and the American Council
of Alcohol Problems, as well as a number of Easter Seal and
Christmas Seal societies. In 1975 alone the letters he wrote for
various clients resulted in the raising of some $35 million.
In addition, he has worked closely with Lowell Thomas in establishing
a children's medical facility in the Old City of Jerusalem.
More complete resumes of these two men are attached. They will
be distinguished additions to the Board of Governors.
Sincerely,
General Michael S. Davison, President
United Service Organizations, Inc.
237 East 52nd Street
New York, New York 10022
RESUME
DR. BENJAMIN L. ARMSTRONG
Business Address:
38 Speedwell Avenue
Morristown, New Jersey 07960
(201) 540-8500
1967- Present:
Executive Secretary, National Religious Broadcasters, organization
has 750 members representing three-fourths of the total religious
broadcasting in America, with over 100 million regular listeners.
1958-1966:
Director of Radio for Trans World Radio in Chatham, New Jersey
and Monte Carlo, Monaco
Served pastorates at Central Presbyterian Church, Paterson, New
Jersey and Community Presbyterian Church, Ringwood, New Jersey,
also served as Director of Christian Education, Green Ridge
Presbyterian Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania. For four years served
as director of the Summer Institute of Communications, offering
college credit courses at the Nyack College, Nyack, New York.
Is presently editor of Religous Broadcasting magazine with 6,000
subscribers throughout the world.
Awards:
Membership in the Royal Geographical Society of London (1959):
Listed in "Who's Who in the East" (1976): Who's Who in Religion" (1975-76):
Received Founder's Day Award (1968) for "having achieved a place in
the highest bracket of scholastic preferment" Elected to Kappa Delta
Pi (NY U- 1950) National Honor Society.
Education:
Bachelor of Science, New York University (1948): Master of Arts, NYU (1950):
Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary (1955): Doctor of Philosophy
(NYU 1967).
Married: three children
RESUME
MR. RICHARD GAYLORD BRILEY
Business Address:
Red Hill, Pennsylvania
(215) 679-5972
Date of Birth:
July 29, 1930
Detroit, Michigan
In early 1969, opened own firm, Gaylord Briley, Inc., based in
Red Hill, Pennsylvania, 50 miles north of Philadelphia.
Gaylord Briley is one of America's foremost practitioners of the art
of fund raising by mail.
In 1975 alone the letters he wrote for his various clients raised over
$35 million.
His clients include two enterprises founded by the Rev. Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale (viz., Guideposts magazine and the Foundation for
Christian Living), Youth for Christ International (one of whose
founders was Billy Graham), the National Shrine of Our Lady of the
Snows (largest outdoor Catholic shrine in America), the Shrine of
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (oldest Catholic church west of
the Mississippi), the Amer ican Council on Alcohol Problems, the
Narramore Christian Foundation, the Rev. David Wilkerson (of "Cross
and Switchblade" fame), a number of Easter Seal and Christmas Seal
Societies and Taylor University.
He also advises the City of Bethlehem in the Holy Land on its project to
refurbish the City. In 1971 he created the Jerusalem Conference on
Biblical Prophecy, the largest religious gathering of its type in centuries.
He is also creator and coordinator of the World Congress on Religious
Liberty, being held in Amsterdam, Holland, in March, 1977.
Mr. Briley works with the German Christian medical mission for the blind,
to establish a support base for its international healing ministry in 41
underdeveloped countries. He has worked closely with commentator/
explorer Lowell Thomas in support of a children's medical facility in
the Old City of Jerusalem.
Married: one child