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(4)" of the President Ford Committee Campaign Records at the Gerald R. Ford
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November 24, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Bo CALLAWAY
FROM:
FRED SLIGHT
SUBJECT:
Reagan Newspaper Editorials
I have completed a brief analysis of Ronald Reagan's weekly
newspaper column and find that throughout his editorials, he has
addressed a variety of subjects involving questions of policy,
types of programs currently in action, direction of government in
the future, etc. Only in several of these editorials has Reagan
actually discussed or directed his criticism directly at the
President. In general, his commentary has referred to the govern-
ment or to the United States, as a nation.
On the domestic issues, Reagan's criticism of the President
has focused primarily on economic matters. His most direct challenge
has been to the President's budgetary program. It is Reagan's con-
tention that it is poor economic policy to grant a rebate or a
tax cut to taxpayers, while at the same time refusing to insist on
cuts in existing and proposed Federal budgets. The President's re-
cent $28 billion tax cut coupled with a $28 billion cut in Federal
sponding would seem to address this criticism very effectively.
In a second domestic area, Reagan has criticized the Pres-
ident for his failure to veto the pay increase that Congress voted
for itself, and for senior governmental officials. He went on to
add that as a result, the President "blew" a golden opportunity to
both strengthen his position with the Congress, and to show his con-
cern for the economic plight of many Americans.
In the area of foreign affairs, Reagan's strongest direct
criticism of the President involved the latter's failure to meet with
Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Reagan cited Ford's fear of
endangering detente as his motive for snubbing the Soviet author.
Reagan further suggested that Solzhenitsyn's concerns should have
been addressed directly to the President, and in turn, the President
should have listened carefully to the expatriot's expression of
viewpoints.
Reagan indirectly criticized the President by finding fault
with Secretary Kissinger's handling of the Turkish and Panamanian
problems. Initially, Reagan attacked Congress for their embargo of
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arms to Turkey. However, he felt that this was their way of
punishing both the President and Kissinger for their support of
detente on the one hand, and the Solzhenitsyn imbroglio on the other.
With regard to Panama, the former California Governor totally dis-
agrees with Kissinger's plan of negotiation concerning the gradual
turning over of control of the Canal to Panama. Reagan firmly
believes that acquiescence to the dictatorship in Panama would lead
to a total takeover of the Canal, which in turn would have a dis-
astrous effect on our economy, and would also have ramifications
on national security.
I currently have on file each of Reagan's editorials (except
one) for the period of January 24 through November 17. The missing
October 3 column should be obtained within the next two weeks.
With his official announcement yesterday, these articles have ter-
minated. These items may be very helpful in keeping Reagan "honest"
once he is drawn out into the open after the first of the new year.
CC: Stu Spencer
Peter Kaye
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SUMMARY OF THE REMARKS
OF DAVID KEENE
CITIZENS FOR REAGAN
The George Washington University
Washington, D. C.
October 25, 1975
1. President Ford has been part of the Washington establishment
for twenty-four years. If we have national problems, he has cer-
tainly been part of them for a long time. In contrast, Reagan
governed the "third largest government" in the world for eight
years. He was more than one of 435 legislators.
2. Whenever Reagan makes a major address, President Ford seconds
it within a matter of days. The Ford strategy is obviously to
move as close to Reagan as possible, so that there is no reason
to replace the incumbent with someone who is philosophically the
same as the incumbent.
3. President Ford has no policy of his own as he relies totally
on naive White House advisors whose motivations are obviously based
on politics not principle. As an example, just last week Ford ad-
visers were dispatched to Capitol Hill to instruct the Florida dele-
gation to back off on their criticism of new Cuba negotiations as
the President was stopping any new initiatives until "the day after
the Florida primary."
4. President Ford is greatly lacking in personal leadership which
is clear in the constant inconsistencies of his Administration (ie.
he gives rhetoric to cutting spending while presiding over the lar-
gest budget and budget deficit in the nation's history). Reagan has
always held the line on government spending - you know where he
stands.
5. The President is spending too much time away from Washington
and is not paying adequate attention to the nation's business. More-
over, his trips, despite explanations to the contrary, are purely
political in nature.
6. President Ford has already lost New Hampshire. His campaign
swing into the state on behalf of Louis Wyman hurt as opposed to
helping the Republican Senate candidate. Ford had no "coat-tails"
because he has no constituency.
7. The South, compromising the single larest block of delegates
at the 1976 Republican National Convention, will be instrumental
in determining the nominee. Reagan is in very good shape in this ord
region.
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accept any proposed compromise to make himself the Vice Presidential
nominee.
FACT SHEET
Keeping the size of the California state government constant
TAXES DURING REAGAN YEARS
Total State
Total
Adjusted
&
Per capita
for
Fiscal
Local Taxes
State Taxes Local Taxes
Tax Load
Inflation
Year
(in billions)
(in billions)
(in billions)
(in dollars)
(in dollars)
1966-67
$4.3
$3.8
$8.1
$426.26
$426.26
1967-68
4.7
4.7
9.4
484.66
466.92
1968-69
5.2
5.2
10.4
529.56
489.88
1969-70
5.7
5.4
11.1
556.49
489.01
1970-71
6.6
5.6
12.2
605.29
508.65
1971-72
7.3
6.6
13.9
682.98
555.72
1972-73
8.0
7.2
15.2
739.82
577.98
1973-74
8.4
7.6
16.0
768.44
556.84
Source: Board of Equalization
BUDGET GROWTH UNDER REAGAN
(in billions)
Fiscal
State
% of
Local
% of
Total
Year
Operations
Total
Assistance
Total
Budget
1966-67
$2.2
48.0
$2.4
52.0
$4.6
1967-68
2.3
45.6
2.7
54.4
5.0
1968-69
2.5
43.9
3.2
56.1
5.7
1969-70
2.7
42.8
3.6
57.2
6.3
1970-71
2.6
39.2
4.0
60.8
6.6
1971-72
2.6
39.3
4.1
60.7
6.7
1972-73
2.9
39.4
4.5
60.6
7.4
1973-74
3.4
35.6
6.2
64.4
9.6
1974-75
3.5
34.5
6.7
65.5
10.2
Source: Department of Finance
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Sections 431 (b), Title 2, United States Code and 591(b),
Title 18, United States Code, both define "candidate" as
follows:
"(b) 'candidate' means an individual who seeks
nomination for election, or election, to Federal
office, whether or not such individual is elected,
and, for purposes of this paragraph, an individual
shall be deemed to seek nomination for election, or
election, if he has --
(1) taken the action necessary under
the law of a State to qualify himself for
nomination for election, or election, to
Federal office; or
(2) received contributions or made
expenditures, or has given his consent for
any other person to receive contributions
or make expenditures, with a view to bringing
about his nomination for election, or
election, to such office;
In an Opinion of Counsel (OC 1975-28) which was noted
by the Federal Election Commission without objection on
Thursday, November 13, John G. Murphy, Jr., the FEC's General
Counsel, concluded:
"Under 2 U.S.C. 431 (b) and 18 U.S.C. $591(b),
a "candidate" is an individual who seeks nomina-
tion for election or election to Federal office,
whether or not a public declaration of candidacy
is made. One may become a candidate by (1) taking
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the necessary action under State law to qualify
for nomination or election; or (2) by receiving
contributions or making expenditures or consenting
to others receiving contributions or making expendi-
tures with a view toward bringing about one's
nomination or election to Federal office. If
any of the activities outlined above give rise
to any expenditure for the purpose of influencing
your nomination or election, then you would be
regarded as a candidate and required to take
those steps prescribed by the Act, 2 U.S.C. §431
et seq. You would also at that point be subject
to the relevant provisions of Title 18, United
States Code, including 18 U.S.C. §608. (emphasis
added)
In a letter, dated July 14, 1975, Governor Reagan
authorized the "Citizens for Reagan" committee to work on
his behalf and consented to the filing of reports by that
committee with the Federal Election Commission (see attached).
Although, Governor Reagan attempted to distinguish between
his becoming an "active Presidential candidate" from being
a technical candidate under the Act, it is now apparent that
he has authorized a committee to collect and expend funds
on his behalf in connection with his seeking the nomination
for the Presidency and is a "candidate" for purposes of the
Act.
As a candidate, pursuant to Section 434, Title 2,
United States Code, he is required to file Reports of
Receipts and Expenditures with the Commission. This
provision sets out various reporting dates, including the
requirement of filing a quarterly report following the close
of any calendar quarter in which the candidate or political
committee concerned received contributions or made expendi-
tures in excess of $1,000. Any person who knowingly violates
any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than
$1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. 2 U.S.C.
$431(a). It is also interesting to note that subparagraph
(b) of this section provides that in case of any conviction
under this chapter "where the punishment inflicted does not
include imprisonment" such conviction shall be deemed a
misdemeanor conviction only.
In view of the above, I believe it would be appro-
priate to raise the following questions with regard to
Mr. Reagan's "candidacy":
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(1) Are you a "registered" candidate under the
new Federal Election Campaign Laws?
(2) Have you authorized a committee to expend
or collect funds on your behalf in connection with
your seeking the nomination for the Presidency of
the United States?
(3) Have you met all of the filing and disclo-
sure requirements of the Federal Election Campaign
Laws? In particular have you filed a candidate's
Report pursuant to Section 431 (b) If not, why not?
(4) Are you aware that the statute provides
criminal penalties for any knowing violation of its
provisions?
If the response indicates that a different construction
is placed upon the statutory language, the following questions
should be asked:
(a) How can you maintain that the statute
requires a "public announcement" of your candidacy
when the FEC has issued an Opinion of Counsel that
public announcements do not matter and that the
strict terms of the act define a "candidate".
(b) If you now intend to file a report on
your behalf, for what period will it relate back
in terms of your activities for seeking the nomin-
ation?
(c) Have you been advised by counsel with
regard to any of these matters?
(d) Would you care to discuss the alleged
complaint that has been filed against you with
regard to your radio and TV programs? As we
understand it, the complaint is that you are
actively collecting and expending monies without
reporting such activities to the FEC in violation
of the Federal Election Campaign Laws.
(e) Are you aware that a request for an
Advisory Opinion has been filed inquiring as to
your status as a candidate? As you know, corporate
contributions to Federal candidates are illegal
pursuant to Section 610, Title 18, United States
Code.
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(f) Do your activities and your refusal to
file a candidate's Report of Contributions and
Expenditures place any corporately funded group
sponsoring you in jeopardy of being in violation
of the Federal Election Campaign Laws?
The above questions are merely illustrative of the
type of inquiry that may appropriately be raised in this
matter. Please let me know if you have any further questions
regarding this matter.
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RONALD REAGAN
SUITE 812
10960 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024
213/477-8231
July 14, 1975
The Honorable Paul Laxalt
Member, United States Senate
Senate Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Paul:
I am writing this letter in response to your decision to
chair the "Citizens for Reagan" committee. I deeply
appreciate your action, but I want to inform you that I
have not made up my mind whether to become an active
Presidential candidate. I expect to make this decision
before the end of the year.
Meanwhile, I recognize that due to the technical require-
ments of the law (including the requirement for the
designation of a principal campaign committee), the
committee must file with the Federal Elections Commission
as working on my behalf. I trust this letter will suffice
as my consent for purposes of allowing you to do SO.
Sincerely,
Ran
RONALD REAGAN
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Reagan's simplistic solution to what is obviously a complex area is
a bit overwhelming to analyze. I am taking the liberty of raising
this matter with some of my former associates in order to get a much
more thorough idea of the ramifications involved.
To meet your immediate requirements, I am providing the following
observations.
AREAS OF AMBIGUITY
Questions which arise concerning the implementation of such a pro-
position are as follows:
1. A large portion of Federal expenditures are for programs
which are mandated by law or obligations that are made
by the government prior to the start of the fiscal year
1976. It appears as though Reagan is proposing imme-
diate cuts that can in no way be carried out on a short-
term basis.
- Governor, what is your understanding of the percentage
of the Federal budget that is discretionary to a President
and his agency officials? (I have heard, Peter, that the
figure is no greater than 20%.)
-- Realizing that, at best, you have only 20% of the
entire Federal budget within your discretionary authority,
how would you realistically plan to bring about such
drastic cuts from less than a dozen general program areas?
- To carry out your plan, doesn't it mean that the Fed-
eral government would have to renege on a significant
number of program monies which have already been commit-
ted to state and local governments and have been con-
tractually obligated to private groups prior to the
beginning of FY '76?
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- Governor, it is my understanding that a great many
programs are authorized and appropriated funds by Congress
to operate on a basis of anywhere between one and five
years. Doesn't your proposal fail to realize that a
program authorized and funded in FY '75 may be in oper-
ation through FY '76 and '77 and consequently cannot
have its funds reduced except with the concurrence of
Congress?
- To follow up on the previous question, have you analyzed
how many of your proposed changes would be subject to
this funding problem and, if so, how do you justify your
statement that you will reduce the Federal budget by
$90 billion when probably a good portion of these expen-
ditures are locked in?
2. Given the present composition of the Congress, it is
unrealistic to expect a transfer to and/or reduction
in Federal spending for programs such as education,
food stamps, welfare, and school lunch programs.
- Governor, the present Congress is overwhelmingly Demo-
crat and knowledgeable leaders in both parties seriously
doubt that the present composition is going to change
significantly in 1976. How do you plan to get Congres-
sional approval of your proposal when the majority of
Congress diametrically opposes your view on this issue?
- If President Ford's efforts to simply hold the line
on the monstrous education budget failed by a nearly
9 to 1 margin in the override of his veto, how do you
propose to bring about a several-billion dollar reduction
in Federal education aid?
- What specific actions do you plan to take to assure
that your reductions and transferrals create no serious
disruptions to a local school district, especially
since you are talking about actions to be completed in
the course of a single year?
3. If the present economic conditions persist, it is unlike-
ly that local governments could remain solvent and
assume additional costs in such areas as manpower and
health services.
- Do you feel that local governments can assume the
financial burden your plan would bring about, especially
given the financial difficulties that so many major
cities now face?
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- Some communities have a much stronger tax base than
others and yet you seem to be saying that Federal
dollars should remain locally as opposed to going to
Washington. What would you say to the residents of a
town who are too poor to afford to pay for their edu-
cational system without additional monies from the
Federal government?
- New York City is a classic example of a city faced
with enormous social services costs. Won't other
localities follow in New York's path if faced with
absorbing totally the costs for aiding the elderly,
the disadvantaged, the unemployed?
- Public opinion polls show that more and more people,
and especially the elderly, are looking to the Federal
government to provide them assistance in coping with
spiraling medical bills. How does your proposal to
transfer the $7.2 billion Medicaid program from Federal
responsibility impact on the approximately 26 million
Americans who are currently receiving benefits from
Medicaid?
- Governor, your assumption in proposing these sweeping
changes seems to be that substantial net savings would
be possible without ill effects to the recipients of
the current benefits nor to state and local governments
who must pick up the administrative responsibility for
the programs. According to your studies, what is the
projected savings involved and how did you arrive at
these statistics?
POSSIBLE RAMIFICATIONS OF REDUCTIONS
In order to make an accurate assessment of the exact ramifications
of Reagan's program, a more specific breakdown of the program areas
must be conducted by persons with expertise in each area. However,
potential effects might be:
1. High unemployment due to excessive cutbacks in Federal
expenditures.
2. Bankruptcy, or fear of same, for states and municipal-
ities.
3. Impeding new capital investment for expansion by busi-
ness as a result of a disproportionate increase in
their local tax burden.
4. Retard the recovery of the housing and construction
industries, which are already suffering a severe reces-
sion.
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Finally, such grand rhetoric is completely out of touch with reality.
The question of raising the public's expectations and over-promising
on the Federal government's ability to deliver smacks of the same
faults which Reagan has blamed on other Presidents, especially LBJ.
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Reagan Strategy Against Ford Unfolds
"Slowly but certainly, we are allow-
will declare it all over again-in
governor, Reagan still sees himself as
ing government to intrude more and
Miami, in Manchester, N.H., in Char-
a former actor and mashed-potato
more into our lives, to dig deeper and
lotte, N.C., in Chicago and finally in
circuit lecturer, a flag-carrier for the
deeper into our pocketbooks. America
Los Angeles-all in the space of 30
conservative cause, rather than as a
and its people have great strength.
hours.
politician and office-seeker.
They can reverse this erosion of free-
It is hardly a coincidence that Rea-
"I never have thought of myself as
dom and I want to do everything I
gan is going to those states-Florida,
a kind of conscience-keeper of the
can to help." Ronald Reagan, Dec. 30,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, II-
(Republican) party," Reagan has said.
1974.
linois and California, where direct
"but I'm not going to be hesitant
primary elections next year almost
BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ
about speaking out on the direction I
surely will pit him against President
Times Political Writer
think government should take.
Ford-and Reagan already envisions
"And if that can help influence
It all began when Ronald Reagan,
it as the insiders vs. the outsiders,
things for the better, I'm going to do
former actor, self-styled citizen-polit-
the professional politician vs. the
it."
ician, came to the end of his eight
"citizen-politician."
years as governor of the nation's lar-
For despite his eight years as
The conventional political thinking
is that an incumbent President can-
gest state, and looked around for an
encore, for new worlds to conquer.
not be denied his own party's nomi-
nation if he fights for it-and Ford
And it reaches a significant bench-
THE WEATHER
clearly is ready to fight for it.
mark next Thursday morning in the
Similarly, the conventional think-
National Press Club ballroom in
National Weather Service forecast:
ing is that Ford, after two decades in
Washington.
Fair today and Saturday with a
Congress and more than a year in the
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 64 years
chance of some fog near the coast
White House, has a track record as a
old, onetime Democrat turned con-
early this morning. Highs today near
political conservative. So how could
servative-libertarian, will declare his
80 and Saturday in the mid 70s. High
he be bested in a party convention
candidacy for the Republican nomi-
Thursday 86; low, 59.
usually controlled by conservatives?
nation for President.
Complete weather information and
Reagan intends to posture himself
Having so declared, Reagan then
smog report in Part 3, Page 23.
Please Turn to Page 3. Col. 1
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delegates awarded to the candidate
He can deliver a serious pitch-
who gets at least one more vote than
that the government is spending it-
his rival.
self into bankruptcy-but do it with
It also is significant because it is
a flair that delights his audiences:
the last of the major primaries before
"Every minute I speak to you, the
the August convention in Kansas
federal government spends another
City and the bandwagon effect-the
$700,000. I'd stop talking if they'd
inclination of voters to go with a
stop spending."
projected winner-is almost certain
It is the me-vs.-them thing. what
to be evident.
he calls the "David and Goliath" as-
Reagan tremains supremely con-
pect of his fight against Ford. The
fident that he still is immensely pop-
"ins" VS. the "outs", and Reagan
ular with Republicans in his home
clearly is an "out" right now.
state. that they will prove to be
When he warns that "this collecti-
much more willing in their volunteer
vist, centralizing approach (in
work, much more dedicated. than
government), whatever name or par-
will be the President's supporters
ty label it wears, has created our eco-
when it comes down to the June 8
nomic problems," he deliberately lets
balloting.
the audience know he is referring to
Further. both candidates probably
the Ford Administration, the Nixon
will be pretty much out of campaign
administration that preceded it, and
money by the time the California pri-
all the big-spenders who, in his mind,
mary rolls around, and an army of
have dominated Washington.
volunteer get-out-the-vote workers is
about the only substitute for money.
Reagan relishes the opinion of him
that seems to apply in conservative
This time. for the first time. pres-
circles wherever he goes-that he
idential candidates are limited to $10
was a tough man with a buck when
million to spend in primary cam-
he was governor.
paigns-unless the Supreme Court
He pushes the concept along by re-
acts soon to overturn the new federal
counting. in almost every speech,
spending limitation bill.
how he balanced the budget in Cali-
And, Reagan, who never has suf-
fornia, cut taxes, increased efficiency
fered from a shortage of funds in any
and put a lid on the spiraling welfare
campaign, appears reasonably con-
growth.
fident he can reach the maximum
Obviously, Reagan does not re-
amount allowable.
count that to meet the state's budge-
He already has raised $5,000 in
tary problems, he had to raise taxes
each of 20 states, all from contribu-
almost $1 billion his first year in of-
tions of $250 or less, and thus has
fice, that the first full-year budget of
qualified for federal matching funds
his administration in Sacramento was
provided in the new law.
$5 billion, that his last budget was
For awhile, he and his advisers
$10.2 billion, that when he came into
toyed with the idea of saying to the
office the state and local per capita
voters, "Look, we don't believe in
tax burden in California was $426.20
federal funds going into campaigns
and it was $768.44 when he left.
and even though we're entitled to
matching funds, we're going to turn
There were a number of factors—
them down as a matter of principle."
inflation, for example-which had.a
But attractive though this might
large bearing on these developments,
have been to died-in-the-wool conser-
and Reagan hardly would be expect-
vatives. it turned out to be foolhardy,
ed to list all of his failures along with
and the idea has been shelved.
his triumphs.
In addition to changes in the cam-
He invariably draws applause
paign financing laws, there is a
when he contends he held down the
marked upturn in the number of
growth of government-there were
wide-open primary contests, as com-
113.779 state employees in his first
pared to the old-style party conven-
year in Sacramento and the figure
tion system, and Reagan thinks he
had grown only to 129,435 when hg
will do better under the new system.
left.
For instance. he still retains a sub-
And his assault on welfare pro-
stantial portion of the "star" quality
grams, even including semihumorous
he achieved as an actor and televi-
versions of his constant battles with
sion performer. And this, plus his
the Democratic Legislature, also win
ability to deliver jokes and serious
him applause.
messages and to smile and look
Reagan has told newsmen he is
youthful for his age, by contrast
perfectly willing to be measured for
FORD
makes Ford look dull and uninspiring.
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Reagan to Enter GOP
Continued from Third Page
backed off. He was particularly dis-
what he would do as a President by
tressed by continued suggestions that
what he has done as a governor.
he and Alabama Gov. Geroge C. Wal-
If anything, he has turned more to
lace could somehow put the whole
laissez faire economics, to libertaria-
thing together. Reagan regards Wal-
nism, since he left office. He says he
lace as some kind of Democratic pop-
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Presidential Race
umph over Unruh clearly showed the
California voters thought he was
doing a good job.
Reagan thus far has made abso-
lutely no approach to labor, minori-
ties, the economically deprived, in his
campaign tours and none is planned
until the Republican presidential pri-
mary nicture starts clearing
March 10, 1967 Sacromento Bee
REAGAN URGES LBJ USE FULL POWER TO END WAR
Reagan said he agrees with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
call for a speedy solutions by whatever means may be necessary.
"I'm not in a position to make such a decision and no one certainly
wants to use such weapons, he told the crowd news conference at
the start of two days visit to the nation's capitol. "But the last
person who should be told we won't use atomic weapons is the enemy
in Vietnam. Once you ask young men to ffight and die for their
country, you have an obligation to use the full resources of the
nation to win as quickly as possible."
July 11, 1976 Sacromento Bee (taken in Sacromento May 9th at press conf)
REAGAN"S ATOMIC WEAPON QUOTE
QUESTION Would you preclude the use of atomic weapons?
ANSWER
I do not think that any body would cheerfully want to use
them, but I have also quoted ex President Eisenhower and
I agree with him that the last person in the world who should
know we wouldn't use them is the enemy. He should go to
bed every night being afraid that we might.
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Reagan's simplistic solution to what is obviously a complex area is
a bit overwhelming to analyze. I am taking the liberty of raising
this matter with some of my former associates in order to get a much
more thorough idea of the ramifications involved.
To meet your immediate requirements, I am providing the following
observations.
AREAS OF AMBIGUITY
Questions which arise concerning the implementation of such a pro-
position are as follows:
1. A large portion of Federal expenditures are for programs
which are mandated by law or obligations that are made
by the government prior to the start of the fiscal year
1976. It appears as though Reagan is proposing imme-
diate cuts that can in no way be carried out on a short-
term basis.
- Governor, what is your understanding of the percentage
of the Federal budget that is discretionary to a President
and his agency officials? (I have heard, Peter, that the
figure is no greater than 20%.)
- Realizing that, at best, you have only 20% of the
entire Federal budget within your discretionary authority,
how would you realistically plan to bring about such
drastic cuts from less than a dozen general program areas?
- To carry out your plan, doesn't it mean that the Fed-
eral government would have to renege on a significant
number of program monies which have already been commit-
ted to state and local governments and have been con-
tractually obligated to private groups prior to the
beginning of FY '76?
rurd
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- Governor, it is my understanding that a great many
programs are authorized and appropriated funds by Congress
to operate on a basis of anywhere between one and five
years. Doesn't your proposal fail to realize that a
program authorized and funded in FY '75 may be in oper-
ation through FY '76 and '77 and consequently cannot
have its funds reduced except with the concurrence of
Congress?
- To follow up on the previous question, have you analyzed
how many of your proposed changes would be subject to
this funding problem and, if so, how do you justify your
statement that you will reduce the Federal budget by
$90 billion when probably a good portion of these expen-
ditures are locked in?
2. Given the present composition of the Congress, it is
unrealistic to expect a transfer to and/or reduction
in Federal spending for programs such as education,
food stamps, welfare, and school lunch programs.
- Governor, the present Congress is overwhelmingly Demo-
crat and knowledgeable leaders in both parties seriously
doubt that the present composition is going to change
significantly in 1976. How do you plan to get Congres-
sional approval of your proposal when the majority of
Congress diametrically opposes your view on this issue?
- If President Ford's efforts to simply hold the line
on the monstrous education budget failed by a nearly
9 to 1 margin in the override of his veto, how do you
propose to bring about a several-billion dollar reduction
in Federal education aid?
- What specific actions do you plan to take to assure
that your reductions and transferrals create no serious
disruptions to a local school district, especially
since you are talking about actions to be completed in
the course of a single year?
3. If the present economic conditions persist, it is unlike-
1y that local governments could remain solvent and
assume additional costs in such areas as manpower and
health services.
- Do you feel that local governments can assume the
financial burden your plan would bring about, especially
given the financial difficulties that so many major
cities now face?
GERALD FORD LIBRART
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- Some communities have a much stronger tax base than
others and yet you seem to be saying that Federal
dollars should remain locally as opposed to going to
Washington. What would you say to the residents of a
town who are too poor to afford to pay for their edu-
cational system without additional monies from the
Federal government?
- New York City is a classic example of a city faced
with enormous social services costs. Won't other
localities follow in New York's path if faced with
absorbing totally the costs for aiding the elderly,
the disadvantaged, the unemployed?
- Public opinion polls show that more and more people,
and especially the elderly, are looking to the Federal
government to provide them assistance in coping with
spiraling medical bills. How does your proposal to
transfer the $7.2 billion Medicaid program from Federal
responsibility impact on the approximately 26 million
Americans who are currently receiving benefits from
Medicaid?
- Governor, your assumption in proposing these sweeping
changes seems to be that substantial net savings would
be possible without ill effects to the recipients of
the current benefits nor to state and local governments
who must pick up the administrative responsibility for
the programs. According to your studies, what is the
projected savings involved and how did you arrive at
these statistics?
POSSIBLE RAMIFICATIONS OF REDUCTIONS
In order to make an accurate assessment of the exact ramifications
of Reagan's program, a more specific breakdown of the program areas
must be conducted by persons with expertise in each area. However,
potential effects might be:
1. High unemployment due to excessive cutbacks in Federal
expenditures.
2. Bankruptcy, or fear of same, for states and municipal-
ities.
3. Impeding new capital investment for expansion by busi-
ness as a result of a disproportionate increase in
their local tax burden.
4. Retard the recovery of the housing and construction
industries, which are already suffering a severe reces-
sion.
GERALE FORD LIBRARY
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Finally, such grand rhetoric is completely out of touch with reality.
The question of raising the public's expectations and over-promising
on the Federal government's ability to deliver smacks of the same
faults which Reagan has blamed on other Presidents, especially LBJ.
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 19, 75
Ford Campaign Shift Set
By Lou Cannon
Washington Post Staff Writer
"I'll work with and advise
There also was brief
President Ford's advisers
the committee." Goldwater
discussion of Mr. Ford's
have agreed that he should
told Dean Burch, who heads
upcoming Supreme Court
counter Ronald Reagan's
the informal campaign group.
appointment and general
forthcoming challenge by
On the steering committee
agreement he should choose
spending more time "being
are such close presidential
"the best qualified" person
presidential" and less time at
advisers as Melvin R. Laird,
rather than trying to obtain
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eager, to go home when the play is
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reagan's
done and particularly if the audience
disagrees.
The astonishing thing is that this
Nov. 19, 75
Theatrical
amusing but frivolous Reagan fantasy
is taken so seriously by the media and
particularly by the President. It makes
a lot of news, but it doesn't make
Politics
much sense. Mr. Reagan may run
ahead of Mr. Ford in the New Hamp-
shire, Florida, Illinois, and even Wis-
consin primaries, but even if he does,
By James Reston
the Republican delegates at the Kansas
City nominating convention, are not
likely to abandon their own President,
Ronald Reagan's bid for the Presi-
and the power and majesty of the
dency really should be tossed to the
Presidency, in favor of a former gov-
movie critics. In theatrical terms, win
ernor of California, who has split the
or lose, it is the best script the old
Republican Party and has little chance
trouper ever had, out in political terms,
of picking up independent or Demo-
even if he knocked off the President,
cratic votes.
he would divide his party, and almost
But on the stage, as in politics,
certainly assure the victory of the
strange things happen and nobody
GERALD R. FORD
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Nov. 17, 75
Reagan set
to challenge
Ford directly
By Curtis J. Sitomer
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
Los Angeles
Clad in the garb of a "citizen-politician" and
invoking a patriotic bicentennial theme, Ron-
ald Reagan will formally announce his chal-
lenge of Gerald Ford for the Republican
presidential nomination this week.
AP photo
His campaign plan is to firmly root his
Will Reagan split the GOP?
candidacy early - by defeating the President
in initial primaries in New Hampshire, Mas-
sachusetts, Vermont, and Florida. Even a
some believe, will be his political approach.
showing
in
the
He will likely not attack Mr. Ford directly -
FORD i LIBRARY GERALD
12 Part I-Fri., Nov. 21, 1975
Los Angeles Times
He was interested in the quick and dramatic solution-
the Sunday punch-that would turn things around right
now.
ANALYSIS OF ROLE AS GOVERNOR
In his first year Reagan ordered an across-the-board re-
duction of 10% in all government expenditures. He ended
Reagan Never Got His Act Together
up that year supporting an overall increase of that much
or more.
His final effort, late in his second term, was to sponsor
an initiative which once and for all, he hoped, would put
BY TOM GOFF
National inflation, which no governor could control,
a permanent lid on government spending by placing a
Times Sacramento Bureau Chief
was rampant during his eight years in Sacramento. Its ef-
mandatory limit on the state's taxing power. The people
SACRAMENTO-Ronald Reagan, actor turned consum-
fect on state government was as severe as it was on the
turned him down.
mate politician, never quite got his act all together in
private economy.
In sum, he offered surface solutions to deep-seated
eight years as governor of California.
Except for one year out of the eight, Reagan faced a
government ills and the amorphous mass that is modern
It was not that Reagan did not know what he wanted
hostile Legislature that was as determined to thwart him
state government simply oozed out from under him.
to accomplish in Sacramento.
as he was to succeed.
State expenditures, as measured by the total budget,
His target was as clear then as it is today. It was
Perhaps the most serious problem, however, was that
more than doubled from $5 billion a year to $10.2 billion
government itself. His goal was to turn it around, to pare
Reagan never displayed a deep understanding of the com-
in the years Reagan sat in Sacramento. The total per capi-
it back, to stem its ever-increasing demand for dollars.
plexities of the system that he wanted to overhaul or the
ta state and local tax load. even when adjusted for infla-
Nor was it lack of effort. Reagan stubbornly pursued
inertia that builds up in government once an established
tion. increased from $466.92 to $556.84.
his goal for two terms as governor with all the fervor
course has been set.
There are those who insist that while Reagan may
with which he pursues it now on the national level.
His critics build a convincing case that he never really
never have accomplished the major fiscal reform he
His problems in California were manyfold.
bothered to try.
Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1
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FORD
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8 THE JOURNAL HERALD Friday, Nov. 21, 1975
DAYTON, OHIO
Reagan's style
-veiled thrusts
at Ford regime
If Reagan does poorly in the early
going, he will almost certainly pull out.
"This is not an ego-trip," said Sen. Paul
Laxalt, R-Nevada, chairman of the Citi-
By Andrew Glass
ence, continued in Miami and ended up
zens for Reagan committee.
Journal Herald Washington Bureau
in New Hampshire.
On the other hand, Reagan expects
MANCHESTER, N.H. - On the first
At each stop, Reagan told supporters:
Ford to withdraw if he succeeds in
day of his jet-propelled presidential
"I don't believe for one moment that
making an early and deep thrust into
campaign, Ron-
four more years of business-as-usual in
the President's support. He is already
ald Reagan set
Washington is the answer to our prob-
encouraging other GOP candidates to
the tone of his
lems and I don't think the American
file on the theory that more entrants
uphill battle for
people believe it either."
would draw votes away from the
the Republic
President.
GERALD FORD
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the advan-
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LAW AND ORDER
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ics? Or is it
scation?
The future
THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1975
F
Columbus Dispatch
A-7
FOUR-STATE TOUR
Reagan Outlines
Opinions on U.S.
Issues, Problems
By George Embrey
On whether his campaign
ON ATOMIC energy power
Chief, Dispatch Washington Bureau
will destroy 1976 Republican
plants - Scientists tell Re-
Ronald Reagan, first Re-
chances - At its most united,
agan the chance of a plant
publican challenger of an
the Republican Party, said
explosion is nil. that radia-
incumbent Republican presi-
Reagan, accounts for only 20
dent since Teddy Roosevelt
percent of voters nationally.
and William Howard Taft in
To win, a Republican must
tion leaks are the danger and
legislation in final stages in
attract votes from the 40
no one has ever died of that.
Congress - Reagan said the
1912, talked on issues during
percent of voters "disillu-
He said government rules
bill to allow one construction
his four-state campaign
sioned" with "business as
require 11 years to build a
union to shut down all work
swing last week.
usual in Washington
new U.S. atomic electric
at any site should be vetoed
11/28/75
Peter Kaye-
Three interesting attack points.
Can you do anything with
them ?
Fred
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L.A. TIMES 11/16/75
Booth
State GOP Chief
Accuses Reagan
of Divisiveness
Tred
BY GEORGE SKELTON
Times Political Writer
SAN FRANCISCO-In the stron-
gest language yet used by a major
California Republican, State GOP
Chairman Paul N. Haerle Saturday
accused former Gov. Ronald Reagan
of party divisiveness and lack of can-
dor in running against President Ford:
The harsh comments were particu-
larly significant because Haerle, compaign al-
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 28, 75
Reagan Called "Too Old' to Hold Presidency
BY WALTER P. COOMBS
who now holds second position in the ranks
make those tough decisions that can mean
of our oldest President. Taylor, then 64, was
When Ronald Reagan threw his hat in the
war or peace. In his hands rests the fate of
inaugurated in 1850 and died a year later of
millions.
ring two weeks ago and became a Republican
natural causes. An obscure Whig politician
presidential contender for 1976, lots of
For all these reasons, the job demands
named Millard Fillmore finished Taylor's
tongues started wagging.
someone in the prime of life-a vigorous.
term. His administration was such a near-di-
spirited someone who has
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TO: PETER KAYE
FROM: FRED SLIGHT
The attached is for
your information.
N
W-H 12-3-75 P.5
Reagan Questions Morality of Grain Deal
By David Beeder
Ronald Reagan raised a ques.
tion Tuesday night about the
morality of sending U.S. food to
Russia and China, and he pro-
vided Nebruska supporters
with a preview of the campaign
style he hopes will carry hun
Into the While House.
In an Interview In Omaha
with . World-Herald newsman,
Rengan said U.S. agricultural
trade with Russia and China
raises "u moral question'
about providing food to total-
Itarian countries which are
trying to surpays the United
States in arinaments, and at
the same time control possibly
restive, enslaved populations.
"China does provide a poten.
tial market (for U.S. agricul-
ture), Reagan said in re-
sponse to a question.
"However, the only reason
China is our friend right now is
that she distikes Russia more
than she dislikes us. That could
change."
"Enslavement"
World
Herold
Photo
In sending food to Russia and
China, the United States should
Reagan and Nebrasks backers
From left: George Cook, Kay Orr and Milan Bish,
continually evaluate "whother
we are alding them in enslaving
their own people" as well as
captive satellite nations.
NOTE
If U.S. agricultural exports
should be stopped to Russia and
China, Reagan said, "we
should not let the American
farmer take the rap." He said
CONT.
the U.S. government would
have to return to a system of
buying farm surplus.
GERALD
FORD
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December 5, 1975 / Issue Number 125
THE WHITE HOUSE GAME: How The Players Are Doing
Mervin D. Field, operator of the California Poll, released
his newest survey about how Democratic and Republican Presidential
hopefuls are doing last week in the state. And the results confirm
the suspicions of many very seasoned political observers.
President Gerald Ford, while in serious trouble with the
state's electorate in terms of the way he is running the Oval Office
and faced with a direct challenge from former Gov. Ronald Reagan, is
listing but not sinking. Yet.
The California Poll finds that Ford could beat either Alabama
Gov. George Wallace (by 38 points), Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey (by
23 points) or Washington Sen. Henry Jackson (by 20 points) if a general
election were held now. Reagan, on the other hand, beats only Wallace
in a simulated race (by 19 points).
Reagan, the survey taken the first week of November indicates,
is the big loser in a race against Democrats. He loses, for example,
to both Jackson and Humphrey by one-point margins.
But the significant finding, which could prove devasting
unless Reagan mounts a swift, hard-hitting campaign soon, is that the
former governor loses to Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy in a trial
heat by a big 21-point margin. And to California governor Edmund G.
Brown Jr. by 22-points. When compared to the showing of Ford against
Kennedy (EMK wins by 10% with 6% undecided) and Brown (EGBJr. by 7%
with 9% undecided) one gets a hint of the enormous task facing Reagan
partisans before the GOP pennant is awarded next August in Kansas City.
The clearest winners, then, in the latest California Poll
sample are Kennedy, Brown and Ford in that order.
GOP:
The Republican primary next June 8 in California is a "winner-
take-all" affair unlike the Democratic primary the same day which will
be on a proportional basis.
California will have 167 votes at the Republican National
Convention, 7.3%, the largest bloc. So the Ford-RR battle will be intense.
Reagan's cross-country announcement, which coincided almost
perfectly with the new survey results showing him moving ahead of Ford,
48% to 47% (with 6% undecided) in California, had a kind of lightening
rod effect on the media. Some people see a McGovern-style media setup.
Whether RR can sustain that kind of coverage during much of
this month, when his personal profile will be low, remains questionable.
Reagan doesn't plan to hit what he calls "the sawdust trail" with any
real intensity until after the first of the year and the start of the ORD
heavy primary season, especially in New Hampshire and Florida where
polls show him running even or ahead of Ford. Many of RR's personal +
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financial "buddies" who played key parts in the earlier campaigns -
Holmes Tuttle, Jack Hume, Justin Dart, Ed Mills, William French Smith,
to name some - are aboard the White House Express. And the grassroots
activists who compose the backbone of the California Republican
Assembly and the California Federation of Republican Women are very
pro-Reagan.
How Reagan is going to crisp up the issues between himself and
Ford without violating the mythical Republican 11th Commandment remains
one of the primary campaign's most intriguing riddles.
Ford, who has been told by his advisers that Reagan's winning
margin in 1966 for governor of 56.6% dropped to 52.8% in 1970, made
several strategic errors in the state in August, September and October.
He tried to placate conservatives in the hope that they would abandon
RR and that he would get the message and drop out.
What appears to be key to Ford's survival is that the President
needs to convince state Republicans that he is a leader and that he
alone has the best chance as a sitting Chief Executive to be elected on
the merits, not the coattails of the citizens of Grand Rapids. There is
evidence that Ford is getting the message. And that he will remain in
the Oval Office more and leave much campaigning to surrogates.
DEMOCRATS
What clearly emerges from the November California Poll is the
fact that Sen. Edward Kennedy and Gov. Brown are the two favorite
Presidential choices of state Democrats. Kennedy repeatedly has said
he will not accept the nomination. And Brown, for the record, will only
say that he will make up his mind when the time arrives to make a
decision. The maneuvering, especially for Veep, is heavy, however.
(An exclusive report in the Nov. 28 issue of The Political
Animal that Brown has decided to enter California's Democratic
presidential primary was branded "totally false" by Gray Davis, Brown's
chief of staff and political handyman, last week. Several attempts to
discuss the story prior to publication with Davis met with failure and,
in any case, the newsletter stands by the story in its entirety. The
headline flashed across the state in response to the story - "Brown not
in '76 race" - appears to key Democratic operatives contacted by PA to
miss the essential essence of what is really transpiring in the Brown
camp. The latest California Poll survey surprised nobody, not even Brown.)
Talk of a Humphrey-Brown ticket next July in New York is
rampant among party insiders. Brown has moved up 7% in the survey since
August (with EMK out) ; Humphrey 2%. PA has learned that HHH has written
to Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally to find out the mechanics of how to get his
name off the June primary ballot. Which only means that HHH, in Calif.
Jan. 10-12 on a big Senate reelection fundraising push, is being very
consistent in avoiding any primary clash. Wallace remains a static 13%
as do ex-Gov. Jimmy Carter, Rep. Mo Udall and Sen. Lloyd Bentsen-each a poor
1%. The survey shows a drop of 1% for both ex-Sen. Fred Harris and Sargent
Shriver down to the also-ran 1% class. The puzzle is the disastrous drop
to 4% (from 11%) by Sen. Jackson since August despite a talented staff led
by hard-charging state Treasurer Jess Unruh. Bayh (3%) and Church
(4%) have each gained 1%. Church, in LA Dec. for heavy sessions with
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BRAYS AND TRUMPETS
Sen. Adlai Stevenson 3d on ruling out a bid for either
President or Vice President in 1976: "A candidacy today triggers a
thousand skirmishes; a welter of endless, draining detail. It plunges
him into a morass of unintelligible regulations and dervish-like
activity, all largely beyond his control and comprehension. "
Assem. Art Torres (D-L.A.), tag-lining a letter addressed
to the state Fair Political Practices Commission in which he complained
that he had not yet received an opinion about whether wedding gifts to
him and his bride were reportable under Proposition 9: "I have another
problem. My wife is now pregnant and baby showers are being planned.
Must I report gifts to my prospective child, other than those covered
under sec. 820306 of the Government Code?"
ANIMAL CRACKERS
California delegates to the Democratic National Convention
next July in New York City are in for a surprise when they enter Madison
Square Garden. In the draw for convention-floor seating California
ranked 49 out of 56 lots. Which means that state delegates will be
relegated to seats far back in the Garden. In 1972, at Miami Beach,
California Democrats were in a front and center position. But California
did better (No. 8) in the draw for hotel bunks. Which means that delegates
won't have to hail taxis
Superv. James Hayes, the former GOP assembly-
man from Long Beach, now says he intends to run for reelection next
year to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. L.A. City Councilman
Marvin Braude told PA that he is "seriously" considering a race against
Hayes next year. Braude lost to Hayes in 1972 but some top deck Democrats
think Hayes may be more vulnerable, especially in the northern end of
the district (Santa Monica) this time
Rep. George Brown (D-Colton)
becomes the sixth California congressman to endorse the presidential bid
of Rep. Morris Udall (D-Ariz.) Brown is also supporting the darkhorse
bid of Democrat Robert Kholos, Mayor Tom Bradley's ex-press aide, for
the seat being abandoned, apparently, by Rep. Alphonzo Bell (R-Marina del
Rey). Bell has mounted a candidacy for John Tunney's Senate seat, a
drive which would be aborted only by an affirmative decision (expected
one way or another before Christmas) by Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. (R-
Canoga Park) to enter the primary
A recent 3-day poll by S.F.'s KQED-TV
had state Sen. George Moscone leading Superv. John Barbagelata, 46.5%
to 41.8%. With 11.7% undecided in the Dec. 11 mayor's race. Democrats
hold a huge registration edge which would seem to put it away for the
liberal Moscone. But the steep rise in crime and the strike by police
and firemen last August, typified by the meteoric shot of rightist
Barbagelata into the runoff, make the mood of the city's electorate
unpredictable. A key might be the rather high undecided vote caught by
the KQED sample among primary backers of Democratic Superv. Dianne
Feinstein and GOP state Sen. Milton Marks As the state's new protocol
chief Secretary of State March Fong Eu will be California's representative
at receptions and other social events for foreign dignitaries and
consular members Assem. Speaker Leo McCarthy has created three
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Committee. Terry Goggin (D-San Bernardino) will chair the subcommittee on
Energy; Lawrence Kapiloff (D-San Diego) will steer Land Use; and Parks
and Forestry will be helmed by Herschel Rosenthal (D-L.A.)
Carol Welch,
from Washington. D.C., will replace the efficient Jay Berman as press
secretary for L.A. DA John Van de Kamp. Welch, said by reliable sources
to be a heavy political operative, worked at OEO and in the White House
during the regime of Lyndon Johnson
The Public Commission on County
Government, which has been examining the central executive structure of
L.A. County (Bd. of Supervisors, CAO, Sheriff, DA and Assessor) for several
months will make its highly anticipated report in mid-January. If one of
the recommendations supports the concept of a county mayor look for at
least four supervisors to put the issue on the June, 1976 L.A. County
ballot
That chart titled The Nuclear Web which the People's Lobby has
published to show an alleged conspiracy between elected officials, lobbyists
and corporate sources to determine public policy is a sellout collector's
item. Names are named and the chart is pasted on many walls in the Capitol.
People's Lobby supports strongly the nuclear power plants initiative on
next June's state ballot along with many environmental organizations Ex-
Gov. Brown opposes the initiative, together with William Robertson, new
Secretary-Treasurer of the L.A. County Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) PA
has learned that a privately commissioned poll done by Field Research Corp.
in early November showed that 54% oppose the nuclear initiative while 33%
support it with 13% undecided. The poll results indicate virtually no
shift from previous samplings in February and May
George
Takei,
the
TV
actor and RTD Board member, is considering a race against Assemblyman
Charles Warren (D-L.A.) Takei lost a tight race to L.A. Councilman
David Cunningham in 1974 and later was appointed to the transit post by
Mayor Bradley San Marino savings and loan executive Charles Reed seems
to have the inside track for appointment as the new GOP National Committee-
man for California. The party's executive committee votes Dec. 2 in
Sacramento. But L.A. County Superv. Pete Schabarum, acceptable to Reagan
zealots (Reed is pro-Ford), is gaining ground. And another pro-Ford
loyalist, Pasadena attorney Cliff Anderson, claims the backing of ex-Lt.
Gov. Ed Reinecke +Assem. Bruce Nestande (R-Orange). Resigned National
Committeeman William Slater Banowsky, who urged Reed to enter the race, is
in his capacity as Pepperdine University president, granting an honorary
degree to Schabarum in early December at the institution's L.A. campus in
South L.A. Some observers are curious about the timing and whether it
represents a move on the part of Banowsky to placate conservatives.
Schabarum does not represent either Pepperdine campus
The Committee for
a 2/3 Vote on Taxation is still trying to round up enough petitions to put
that constitutional amendment on the ballot which would require a 2/3rds
vote of the Legislature before any tax could be imposed or raised The group
technically has until the end of the month to circulate petitions
PA has
learned that Gov. Brown is very close to filling the D.C. post as his
personal liaison in Washington to the California congressional delegation
and federal agencies. The choice has narrowed to one person One aspect
of the major political rebuff to Mayor Bradley by the L.A. City Council
which rejected his nomination of a replacement for Anne Sullivan Rehr on
the Municipal Arts Commission is that Rehr has known Tom and Ethel Bradley
for 25 years But Rehr refused to be a rubber stamp and, with the aid ofo
freshman Council Zev Yaroslavsky, scored a dramatic victory Tunney
is
endorsed by Jerry Brown, Jess Unruh leans toward Hayden and other state
officers in the Democratic column are as yet uncommitted in Senate race
LIBRAR
on is a political animal In a greater measure than any bee or any gregarlous animal, is clear. For nature does nothing without purpose, and man alone of the animals possesses speech"
NICS
See 10
the Diam
LAT - 12-12-75
Reagan Tests New Campaign Message
Says Nation Needs Leader Who Has No Ties to the 'System'
BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ
which contained numerous allusions
said, have discovered it is popular to
Times Political Writer
to him, was Reagan's first "new"
condemn proliferating government
Americans who are fed up with the
message since he announced his can-
and stifling bureaucracy.
"system" in Washington are going to
didacy for the Republican presiden-
But he said these Democrats "suf-
turn to him and his fight against
tial nomination last month.
fer from a kind of political schizo-
President Ford because he, unlike
It was crafted for the Southern Re-
phrenia-they know the problem but
the President, is not part of the sys-
publican Conference this weekend in
can only solve it with more of the
tem, former Gov. Ronald Reagan said
Houston, where he will be jousting
same doctrinaire liberalism that
RONALD REAGAN QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
HOUSTON DECEMBER 13, 1975
Q
Comment, if you have any comment at all, on what I think
is the biggest ripoff the federal government has going for them
now, and that's the social security system.
A
Young people in the room, perk up your ears, because you're
the biggest victims of this. Social security, for a number of
years--Barry Goldwater, God bless him, tried to warn the people
years ago and nobody would listen -- CHEERS -- and now it happens.
Social security, on an insurance actuarial basis, is about two
and a quarter trillion dollars out of balance, meaning that if
all the people presently paying in when it comes time for them
to receive, that's how the difference could be, between what's
being paid in and what has to be paid out. Every wealthy young
people under forty years of age in this country are paying in
probable more than twice as much as they can hope to get back
from social security. If they have the money, in their own
hands, they could go into the open insurance market today and
buy an insurance (policy) that would pay them more than double
and give them a life protection policy from the first day at the
same time. (applause) There are plans that are being discussed
by a number of economists. One very interesting plan is one that
would legitimize that imbalance by imply Well, here's roughly
what the plan would do. I just offer this as an example of the
thinking of some knowledgeable people. This one would stop the FORD
payroll tax, and make the employer's share of social security be
LIBRARY
given in the paycheck to the worker, so that he would have in effect
-2-
a raise of pay. He's no longer paying the tax. But, you then
create retirement bonds that have an annuity effect, in other
words an insurance feature with them. Retirement bonds, the worker
would have to buy ten percent of his income in bonds or 2500
dollars worth, whichever was less. Those who are presently
getting would be guaranteed their income, who are presently
receiving social security. Those who have been paying in
would be given bonds in the amount of the money they have already
paid in, and start from there on the buying of additional bonds.
But another feature of this system that once they have those
bonds, under this plan it is proposed that they could if they
saw a better chance to invest those bonds in say a private
pension plan, they could do it, which would make the government
competitive with private pension plans and there's never anything
wrong when you've got competition instead of monopoly. (applause)
Q Until we return to lower levels of government, many functions
that have been usurped by the federal government and that are not
the federal government's business, not, shouldn't properly do
them. I used the 1976 budget figures to estimate that if these
federal programs were turned back, what was the cost of them and
therfore what could the federal government conceivable reduce in
its budget. And it comes to about 90 billion dollars. Now if this
were done, and if at the same time the federal government as it
turned that spending back, reduced its taxing of the people, local
and state governments would have the leeway then to meet the
increased tax they would have to pay for these programs. As I said
FORD
in my remarks, I am confident from our own welfare experience and
some other things in California, that they could be run far more
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economically at the local level, than at the federal level, and
there would be a net gain, so that there would be, even though
local and state taxes, for those to continue the program would be
raised, there, federal taxes would be decreased more and there would
be a net reduction in the total cost of government, federal and
state and local. Now, again, as I said in my remarks here, some
are trying to portray that I think you could go in and wave a wand
and say, stop everything that you're now doing and if they want
to pick it up in South Succotash Wisconsin, let 'em do it. Well,
that's
stat's, of course, ridiculous. I think we've got programs on our
state level in California that prove that I never thought in this
term. This would have to be phased and ordered. You would have to
make an orderly transition in turning a program back to the local
levels. Well, let's take welfare for example. Let's look at it.
Welfare is shared by the state, the local levels of government,
usually the county level, it is in California, and the federal
government. The federal government puts up about half of the
money, but the program is administered at the state and local level
now. The only trouble is you've got a giant bureaucracy and a great
administration overhead in Washington that's using up dollars,
and that has forced thousands of regulations on you that interfere
with what you at the local level, faced with your own problem
know you could do if you weren't bound in to those federal rules.
Now why don't we just cancel that administrative overhead in
Washington and cancel those thousands of regulations, and then
as I say turning the tax, the taxing source back to the local
and you'll find that welfare would suddenly be run the way it
people, FORD LIBRARY
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should be run. What is the principal wrong with welfare? Very
simple. Welfare is a program that if it's successful we should
be boasting each year how much less welfare there is, that we've
succeeded in solving (applause.) Well, that isn't HEW's idea
at all. They've now got a hierarchy there, and a bureaucracy
built up for professional welfarists, and the ratcatcher's
not about to let the rats be eliminated.
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
RONALD REAGAN QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
HOUSTON DECEMBER 13, 1975
Q
Comment, if you have any comment at all, on what I think
is the biggest ripoff the federal government has going for them
now, and that's the social security system.
A
Young people in the room, perk up your ears, because you're
the biggest victims of this. Social security, for a number of
years Barry Goldwater, God bless him, tried to warn the people
years ago and nobody would listen -- CHEERS -- and now it happens.
Social security, on an insurance actuarial basis, is about two
and a quarter trillion dollars out of balance, meaning that if
all the people presently paying in when it comes time for them
to receive, that's how the difference could be, between what's
being paid in and what has to be paid out. Every wealthy young
people under forty years of age in this country are paying in
probable more than twice as much as they can hope to get back
from social security. If they have the money, in their own
hands, they could go into the open insurance market today and
buy an insurance (policy) that would pay them more than double
and give them a life protection policy from the first day at the
same time. (applause) There are plans that are being discussed
by a number of economists. One very interesting plan is one that
would legitimize that imbalance by imply Well, here's roughly
what the plan would do. I just offer this as an example of the
thinking of some knowledgeable people. This one would stop the
payroll tax, and make the employer's share of social security
be RAOD FORD LIBRARY
given in the paycheck to the worker, so that he would have in effect
-2-
a raise of pay. He's no longer paying the tax. But, you then
create retirement bonds that have an annuity effect, in other
words an insurance feature with them. Retirement bonds, the worker
would have to buy ten percent of his income in bonds or 2500
dollars worth, whichever was less. Those who are presently
getting would be guaranteed their income, who are presently
receiving social security. Those who have been paying in
would be given bonds in the amount of the money they have already
paid in, and start from there on the buying of additional bonds.
But another feature of this system that once they have those
bonds, under this plan it is proposed that they could if they
saw a better chance to invest those bonds in say a private
pension plan, they could do it, which would make the government
competitive with private pension plans and there's never anything
wrong when you' ve got competition instead of monopoly. (applause)
Q
Until we return to lower levels of government, many functions
that have been usurped by the federal government and that are not
the federal government's business, not, shouldn't properly do
them. I used the 1976 budget figures to estimate that if these
federal programs were turned back, what was the cost of them and
therfore what could the federal government conceivable reduce in
its budget. And it comes to about 90 billion dollars. Now if this
were done, and if at the same time the federal government as it
turned that spending back, reduced its taxing of the people, local
and state governments would have the leeway then to meet the
increased tax they would have to pay for these programs. As I said
in my remarks, I am confident from our own welfare experience
some other things in California, that they could be run far more
FORD & are LIBRARY
-3-
economically at the local level, than at the federal level, and
there would be a net gain, so that there would be, even though
local and state taxes, for those to continue the program would be
raised, there, federal taxes would be decreased more and there would
be a net reduction in the total cost of government, federal and
state and local. Now, again, as I said in my remarks here, some
are trying to portray that I think you could go in and wave a wand
and say, stop everything that you're now doing and if they want
to pick it up in South Succotash Wisconsin, let 'em do it. Well,
that's
stat's, 5, of course, ridiculous. I think we've got programs on our
state level in California that prove that I never thought in this
term. This would have to be phased and ordered. You would have to
make an orderly transition in turning a program back to the local
levels. Well, let's take welfare for example. Let's look at it.
Welfare is shared by the state, the local levels of government,
usually the county level, it is in California, and the federal
government. The federal government puts up about half of the
money, but the program is administered at the state and local level
now. The only trouble is you've got a giant bureaucracy and a great
administration overhead in Washington that's using up dollars,
and that has forced thousands of regulations on you that interfere
with what you at the local level, faced with your own problem
know you could do if you weren't bound in to those federal rules.
Now why don't we just cancel that administrative overhead in
Washington and cancel those thousands of regulations, and then
as I say turning the tax, the taxing source back to the local
people, R. FORD LIBRARY
and you'll find that welfare would suddenly be run the way it
of
-4-
should be run. What is the principal wrong with welfare? Very
simple. Welfare is a program that if it's successful we should
be boasting each year how much less welfare there is, that we've
succeeded in solving (applause.) Well, that isn't HEW's idea
at all. They've now got a hierarchy there, and a bureaucracy
built up for professional welfarists, and the ratcatcher's
not about to let the rats be eliminated.
&
FORD
GERALD
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THE WHITE HOUSE
washington
GERALO FORD LIBRARY
January 22, 1976
National YWCA ducks Phyllis
Wh
TO:
HON. HOWARD CALLAWAY
High hopes of a pre-Christmas gift
Board of the YWCA has again duck-
YWCA national board.
with a 70-minute exchange of views
Phyllis Wheatle
the form of the release of escrow
ed the issue and declined to discuss
Telephonic communication between
with United Way officials, who had
clarified by the
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
nds by the United Way to the Phy-
the Phyllis Wheatley status in a joint
United Way officials to the Phyliis
set up the meeting.
Phyllis Whea
; Wheatley YWCA were crushed
session with all parties concerned.
Wheatley YWCA board members
member of the
it week.
Tuesday was too late to prevent the
Oral Suer, executive director of the
YWCA, but at 1
GERALD FORD
Representatives of the National
No explanation was given for the
local board members from arriving at
United Way, advised the Phyllis
been officially
ard of the YWCA, U.S.A., who
late cancellation, but the prospect of
Unitea Way's 95 M St., SW, headquar-
Wheatley YWCA board members that
dependent YWC
reed by letter to attend a joint
the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA getting
ters as previously scheduled.
UW was prepared to release the
al Board. Sue
eting with United Way officials
the long delayed escrow funds before
More than a dozen Phyllis Wheatley
funds if it could get a clear recom-
settle the ma
d the Phyllis Wheatley YW&A offi-
the end of 1975 are slim.
board members were on hand with
menaation from the National YWCA.
delay.
JOHN CALHOUN
last Tuesday, cancelled the ses-
According to officials of the local or-
hign expectation of having the long
Sucr indicated that United Way
n only a few hours before the
ganization, United Way is prepared to
smouldering issue settled in a face-to-
could not "in good consciousness" re-
National YWC
Special Assistant to the President
eduled 2 p.m. time,
release the funds provided it can get
face discussion with other parties con-
lease the funds, which to date amount
letter on Dec. 3
he net result was the National
such a recommendation from the
cerned, but they had to be content
to more than $100,000, until the meeting in Wasl
To Peter Koye
Merry
Washingto America
FYI
Christmas
and THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE
Christmas
Year No. 33
Copyright 1975 by the AFRO-AMERICAN Co. for all material
previously printed in the current National Edition
WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 23, 1975
RED
EDITION
25 CENTS ONE YEAR $12.00
Reagan calls welfare recipients 'rats'
Bank takes
Keith becomes
Jesse says
AVAK
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1976
TO: HON. HOWARD CALLAWAY
FOR YOUR INFORMATION FORD
GERALD LIBRARY
JOHN CALHOUN
Special Assistant to the President
To Peter Koye
FYI
National
YWCA
ducks
Phyllis Wheatley issue
High hopes of a pre-Christmas gift
Board of the YWCA has again duck-
YWCA national board.
with a 70-minute exchange of views
Phyllis Wheatley status as a YWCA is
situation with United Way and Phyllis
in the form of the release of escrow
ed the issue and declined to discuss
Telephonic communication between
with United Way officials, who had
clarified by the National Board.
Wheatley officials, but then suddenly
funds by the United Way to the Phy-
the Phyllis Wheatley status in a joint
United Way officials to the Phyllis
set up the meeting.
Phyllis Wheatley is no longer a
cancelled the meeting.
Ilis Wheatley YWCA were crushed
session with all parties concerned.
Wheatley YWCA board members
member of the National Capital Area
last week.
Phyllis Wheatley officials have ad-
Tuesday was too late to prevent the
Oral Suer, executive director of the
YWCA, but at the same time has not
Representatives of the National
No explanation was given for the
local board members from arriving at
United Way, advised the Phyllis
been officially recognized as an "in-
vised national officials of the urgency
Board of the YWCA, U.S.A., who
late cancellation, but the prospect of
Unitea Way's 95 M St., SW, headquar-
Wheatley YWCA board members that
dependent YWCA" by the the Nation-
of settiing the matter, and expressed
agreed by letter to attend a joint
the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA getting
ters as previously scheduled.
UW was prepared to release the
al Board. Such recognition would
meeting with United Way officials
"disappointment" in their failure to
the long delayed escrow funds before
More than a dozen Phyllis Wheatley
funds if it could get a clear recom-
settle the matter without further
and the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA offi-
the end of 1975 are slim.
boara members were on hand with
menaation from the National YWCA.
delay.
attend the "cancelled" meeting.
cers last Tuesday, cancelled the ses-
According to officials of the local or-
hign expectation of having the long
Suer indicated that United Way
They also are seeking some imme-
sion only a few hours before the
ganization, United Way is prepared to
smouldering issue settled in a face-to-
could not "in good consciousness" re-
National YWCA officials agreed by
diate relief, hopeful that something
scheduled 2 p.m. time x
release the funds provided it can get
face discussion with other parties con-
lease the funds, which to date amount
letter on Dec. 3 to attend the proposed
can be done before the end of the
The net result was the National
such a recommendation from the
cerned, but they had to be content
to more than $100,000, until the
meeting in Washington to discuss the
year. - A.M. Carter
Merry
Washing
American
Merry
Christmas
and THE WASHINGTON TRIBUNE
Christmas
84th Year No. 33
Copyright 1975 by the AFRO-AMERICAN Co. for all material
previously printed in the current National Edition
WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 23, 1975
RED
EDITION
25 CENTS ONE YEAR $12.00
Reagan calls welfare recipients 'rats'
Bank takes
Keith becomes
Jesse says
over Stax;
'rats' can
album set
2nd chief judge
stop 'cat'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A
bank which bought most of
the assets of Stax Records,
(See recap of key Keith de-
By Alverta Moore
Inc. after the firm de-
cisions inside)
BALTIMORE - A state-
faulted on a $3 million
ment by conservative Re-
loan, is planning to pro-
DETROIT - Federal
publican presidential hope-
duce a black history album
Judge Damon J. Keith has
ful Ronald Reagan which
to help put Stax back on its
become the second mem-
seemingly compared wel-
feet and to finance a na-
ber of his race to assume
fared recipients to rats
tional memorial io Dr.
the influential post of chief
has been denounced by
Martin Luther King Jr.
judge of a U.S. district
black leaders who feel the
court.
Bill Matthews, board
ex-governor of California is
chairman of Union Plan-
Judge Keith, whose prec-
unsympathetic to the needs
ters National Bank said he
ed n t-setting decisions
of the poor.
has discussed the idea with
have covered a broad
"It certainly shows a
"several internationally
scope from civil rights to
lack of sensitivity on Mr.
known black artists" and
illegal government wire-
Reagan's part," said Mrs.
is nearing the contract-si
taps, moved up to chief
Audrey Williams, execu-
ning stage of the deal.
judge of the U.S. District
tive assistant to the direc-
He said the album would
Court, Eastern District of
tor of the department of so-
be produced with a Bicen-
Michigan, on Dec. 13.
cial services here in re-
tennial theme.
Appointed by the late
ferring to the comment
Earlier this month,
son in 1967, Judge Keith's
speech in Houston.
Union Planters bought
seniority put him in line
JUDGE DAMON KEITH
In response to a question,
Stax's subsidiary, East
for the powerful judicial
Reagan said he felt the
Memphis Music Corp., in
post when his predecessor,
major defect of the present
charge of other court func-
Frank M. Kaess, to k se-
welfare system was that
an auction. It also pur-
tions.
nior status.
its success is not judged
chased the Stax-East
Earlier this year Judge
Memphis catalog of musi-
There are 12 judges in
by its ability to remove
James B. Parsons became
cal copyrights. The pur-
the Eastern District, three
people from the welfare
chief judge of the Northern
roles.
CHRISTMAS SMILE comes from Tiare Jones, 3,
building. She was treated to a visit last week to
chases amounted to $3 mil-
of them on senior status,
District, Illinois, in Chi-
"That isn't HEW's (De-
who miraculously escaped death July 23 as she
the Bide-A-Wee animal home in New York. The
lion.
meaning they carry only
cago.
half a work load.
partment of Health, Edu-
fell five stories to the ground when the fire es-
babysitter died in the fall. Behind her is the fan-
Between 1970 and 1974
In the next four to six
cation and Welfare) idea
cape she and her babysitter were standing on col-
tastic picture made of the fall by Stanley Forman
the bank tended Stax about
As chief judge, Judge
years there could be two
at all," he said. "They've
lapsed as they awaited rescue from a burning
of the Boston Herald-American. (UPI Telephoto)
$10.5 million. Union Plan-
Keith speaks for the court,
more black chief judges of
got a hierarchy there, and
ters began foreclosure pro-
presides at regular meet-
U.S. district courts, Judge
a bureaucracy built up for
ceedings on Stax in No-
ings, empanels grand
Aubrey Robinson in Wash-
professional welfarists, and
vember after East Mem-
juries, approves hiring and
Fort Lincoln has groundbreaking
phis defaulted on a $3 mil-
promotions and is in
(Continued on page 2)
(Continued on Page 3)
lion loan.
On the eve of the auc-
tion, Stax attorney Michael
A recent groundbreaking
eventually will have a pop-
Theodore R. Hagans Jr.,
acres will be developed in
Pleasants had attempted to
this morning signaled the
ulation of 15,000 persons
president of Fort Lincoln
a series of sections of
stop the sale for Stax.
Yule spirit lives:
start of construction at
living in a wide variety of
New Town Corporation, re-
about 800 to 1,200 units
He told U.S. District
Fort Lincoln New Town, a
h S and con-
ported that he is waiting
each so that detailed plan-
Judge Robert M. McRae Jr.
planned 360-acre "city
dominiums, and rental
for a final decision from
ning can be responsive to
the sale "would virtually
within a city" on vacant
apartments, with at least
the administration on the
changing market condi-
kill efforts to ressurrect"
land at the northeast edge
70 per cent of the residents
previously announced plans
tions.
Stax.
of the District of Columbia.
owning their own homes.
to go ahead with a one mil-
H. R. Crawford, assistant
Housing construction is
lion sq. ft. federal office
McRae refused to issue
A 30-acre Town Center
churchmen aid family
expected to total 500 to 700
secretary of HUD, joined
with offices, stores, ser-
building to house the Na-
an injunction to stop the
District of Columbia Mayor
homes a year.
vices and restaurants is
tional Oceanic and Atmos-
auction, saying the firm
Walter Washington, Theo-
expected to employ about
pheric Administration in
When the Town Center is
appeared to be asking for
By Gail Hamer
lies in the District as well
dore Hagans Jr., the devel-
a 'free ride" in light of its
Clark's son-in-law, Leroy
underway, construction
7,000 persons.
Fort Lincoln's Town Cen-
AFRO Staff Writer
as across the nation cele-
oper and other federal and
will create about 2,500
default.
Scott (Joyce's husband)
Two schools and a 78-
ter.
brate the birth of Jesus
community officials at
It's Christmastime again
entered, awoke Clark and
Christ, the prayer of one
groundbreaking ceremo-
Fort Lincoln's residential
and while millions of fami-
told him he smelled smoke.
acre open space recrea-
(Continued on page 2)
(Continued on Page 3)
family will be that they
Clark said that he im-
nies attended by some 300
tional area with a seven-
will once again have a
mediately called the fire
persons.
acre lake also will be part
home.
department and momen-
Fort Lincoln New Town
of the development.
In the spirit of good will
tarily after he finished the
toward men, the D.C. Lay-
call he heard his daughter
men's Association of the
yell, "Mrs. Williams'
Progressive Baptist Con-
kitchen Was in a light
Reformers oppose
vention have come to the
blaze of fire."
aid of the William 0. Clark
family whose home was
The Williamses and the
destroyed by fire.
Clarks are next door neigh-
criminal justice bill
Clark, a deacon at Guid-
ing Star Baptist Church,
(Continued on Page 2)
received clothes, money
and other necessities from
"critics charge that its
fellow laymen all over the
Notes 95th
The Committee to Re-
Involve Ex-Offenders
(S.1's) effect would be to
city when the Laymen's
Association learned of their
is strongly opposed to the
establish a total police
member's plight.
birthday
Scientologists For Freedom
state, and dozens of social
According to Raymond
recently announced that it
reform groups, newspaper
Smith, pastor of Guiding
Daughter of a woman
is stronglz opposed to the
a n d publishers associ-
Star. the Isle of Patmos
who died last year at the
Criminal Justice Reform
ations, legal and religious
Baptist Church and Israel
age of 119, Mrs. Jennie
Act of 1975, Senate Bill 1,
organizations are calling
Baptist Church were par-
Allen of 1140 N. Capitol St.,
generally referred to as
for its defeat."
ticularly generous in aid-
Washington, celebrated her
1."
Kathy Flanagan, spokes-
ing the unfortunate family.
95th birthday on Saturday,
The S. 1 bill "is a recodi-
person for the committee,
Benjamin Johnson,
a
Dec. 20.
fication of federal criminal
stated, "One of the general
deacon at Mt. Pleasant
Among her visitors was
justice statutes, largely
purposes of the bill, is 'to
Baptist Church and direc-
Father Horace McKenna of
drafted by the Nixon ad-
promote the correction and
tor of the project to aid the
St. Aloysius Catholic
ministration,' according to
rehabilitation of persons
Clarks, said that not only
Church who brought bless-
the committee.
have the churches through-
ings. Other wellwishers in-
It further holds that
(Continued on Page 2)
out the city been coopera-
cluded her live-in nurse,
tive but also Curtis Calip
Mrs. Lois Richardson: a
Jr. of Northeast Ford
devoted friend, Mrs.
Holiday notice
pitched in and gave clothes
Frances Cooper; a great-
after merely hearing of the
grandniece whom she
project.
reared, Mrs. Sharon Gard-
The Washington AFRO-AMERICAN will pub-
In biting 18 degree
ner and husband, John and
weather Clark stood in
lish only one big special holiday edition this week.
Mrs. Lillie Mae Johnson
front of his home last week
The combined AFRO Christmas Week Edition is
and recounted the disaster.
Mrs. Allen is the daugh-
on the newsstand and the street (today) Tuesday,
On the afternoon of Dec.
ter of Mrs. Emma Spriggs
the regular publication day for the Red Star
10 Clark was taking a nap
who died in December,
edition.
on his sofa. Rest was nec-
1974, three months short of
The same schedule will be followed next week
essary for Clark who works
h 120th birthday on
March 22.
because of the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
D.C. LAYMEN'S Association members present a
Ralph Morton, deacon at Guiding Star Baptist
part-time because he is
check to Alice and William Clark, who were burn-
Church; James U. Smith, president of D.C. Lay-
disabled.
Requiring use of a cane
The AFRO office will be closed on Christmas Day
and New Year's Day.
ed out of their home earlier this month. (L to R)
men's Association and deacon at United Baptist
His 19-year-old daughter
for walking, Mrs. Allen
Deadlines for the New Year's Week Edition
William Harris, deacon at Israel Baptist Church;
Church; Mr. and Mrs. Clark; Olson Jackson, dea-
Joyce Clark Scott and his
was in good spirits on her
mother-in-law, 87-year-old
birthday. Asked what she
are Friday, for advertising, and Saturday noon for
Theodore Wilson, president of the Eastern Region
con at Isle of Patmos Baptist Church and Rev. Ray-
Sally Morton, were also in
wanted for Christmas, she
correspondents' news copy. Call 332-0080 for sub-
of the Laymen's Association and deacon at Israel;
mond Alexander Smith, pastor of Guiding Star
the living room of the two
replied "Health and under-
scriptions or home delivery
Baptist Church.
story home at 1109 Mich-
standing and to live anoth-
(AFRO photo by Cabell)
igan Ave., NE,
er year.
San Diego Evening Tribune
12-23-75
POLITICAL FRONT
Reagan's plan in for scrutiny
By GEORGE DISSINGER
to enact a sales or income tax to
the programs could be run more
TRIBUNE Politics Writer
cover the costs of assuming the
efficiently and less costly at state
Those who remember Sen. George
shifted programs. Reagan replied:
and local levels.
McGovern's 1972 presidential cam-
"But isn't this a proper decision
paign proposal to pay every Ameri-
for the people of the state to make?"
But the key element in his plan is
can $1,000 a year from the federal
the option for state and local govern-
treasury may now want to study
Reagan doesn't know and neither
ments to pick up or drop the pro-
Ronald Reagan's plan to cut the
do
the
citizens
of
Now
Hampshire
grams.
IBRAR
VIRGINIA PAYETTE
Reagan Ignores Ladies,
Runs Political Risk
Ronald Reagan likes to
vetoed a maternity leave
joke about how, back in his
bill and killed day-care leg-
movie-actor days, he never
islation that would have
got the girl. And unless he
helped welfare mothers be-
mends his ways, he isn't
come self-suppporting.
going to get her next vear
So far. he's the only se-
THE SACRAMENTO UNION
12-20-75
Legislative Report
Reagan Blamed for Malpractice Mess
A legislative report charged Friday
telephone interview.
for years to the Department of Insur-
Legislature. Reagan and Gov. Edmund
that the State Department of Insurance
The report issued by the Joint Legisla-
ance,' said Assemblyman Mike Cullen.
G. Brown Jr. of the impending medical
under Gov. Ronald Reagan contributed to
live Audit Committee asserted that the
D-Long Beach, committee chairman.
malpractice crisis as early as 1973.
the current medical malpractice insur-
Department of Insurance added to Cali-
"Why these storm warnings did not
GERALD
FORD
LIBRARY
San Diego Evening Tribune
12-23-75
POLITICAL FRONT
Reagan's plan in for scrutiny
By GEORGE DISSINGER
to enact a sales or income tax to
the programs could be run more
TRIBUNE Politics Writer
cover the costs of assuming the
efficiently and less costly at state
Those who remember Sen. George
shifted programs. Reagan replied:
and local levels.
ERA
RAR
VIRGINIA PAYETTE
Reagan Ignores Ladies,
Runs Political Risk
Ronald Reagan likes to vetoed a maternity leave
joke about how, back in his
bill and killed day-care leg-
movie-actor days, he never
islation that would have
got the girl. And unless he
helped welfare mothers be-
mends his ways, he isn't
come self-suppporting.
going
to
got
her
novt
voor
So for he's the only CA-
GERALD
THE SACRAMENTO UNION
12-20-75
Legislative Report
Reagan Blamed for Malpractice Mess
A legislative report charged Friday telephone interview.
for years to the Department of Insur- Legislature. Reagan and Gov. Edmund
that the State Department of Insurance The report issued by the Joint Legisla- ance," said Assemblyman Mike Cullen, G. Brown Jr. of the impending medical
LIBRARY GERALD FORD
December 30, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
BO CALLAWAY
FROM:
FRED SLIGHT
SUBJECT:
Reagan's Proposed $90 Billion
Plan
For your information, I attach an outline listing of the specific
programs and general areas affected by Reagan's proposed reduction
in the Federal budget for FY '76.
The categories are Reagan's own as are the dollar amounts "saved"
which are indicated in parentheses. The programs themselves are taken
largely from the Stout, Ottenad, and Buchanan articles and encompass
both "Plan I" and the revised "Plan II". Noone outside the Reagan
campaign, except selected members of the media, apparently have seen
either of these proposals.
I am now seeking to identify Federal outlays to New Hampshire and
Florida for these categories, however the complexity of this task
combined with the very short time frame in which we have to operate
is not very encouraging for obtaining specific dollar amounts.
Attachment
CC: Stu Spencer
Bob Marik
Peter Kaye
LIBRARY GERALD R. FORD
SPECIFIC PROGRAMS & GENERAL AREAS
AFFECTED BY PROPOSED REDUCTIONS & TRANSFERS
I. Education, Manpower & Social Services ($13.7 billion)
-- Elementary education
-- Secondary education
-- Vocational education
-- Head Start program
-- Full range of "social services" (including total elimination
of some special rehabilitation efforts for the severely re-
tarded and those with cerebral palsy)
-- Federal-State Employment Service (totally eliminated, including
$50 million in special funds to help veterans find jobs)
-- Meals for elderly (some 200,000 persons receive one/day)
II. Community & Regional Development ($5.5 billion)
-- Community Action Agencies
-- VISTA
-- Legal services
-- Economic Development Administration
-- Community Services Administration
-- Regional Action Planning Commission
III. Commerce & Transportation ($10 billion)
-- Mass transit
-- Postal Service subsidies
-- Airlines, ship operators and builders, & airport subsidies
-- Non-interstate highway consturction
-- Army Corps of Engineers (suspend most domestic projects of
Corps)
-- Bureau of Reclamation
-- Soil Conservation Service
IV. Income Security ($22 billion)
-- Food Stamps program
-- Aid to Families with Dependent Children program
-- School lunch program
-- Certain housing assistance for the needy
-- Certain funds for unemployment benefit
V. Law Enforcement & Justice ($1 billion)
-- Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (totally eliminate ORD
-- Legal Services Corporation (erase current plans to create GERALI agency)
Specific Programs
Transfers
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VI. Revenue Sharing ($6.3 billion)
-- Cut program altogether
VII. National Defense ($2 billion)
-- Military personnel pensions (require employee contribution to
retirement fund -- initial savings of $2 billion would not lead
to a net reduction as savings would be applied elsewhere)
VIII. Health ($10.3 billion)
-- Medicaid
-- Hospital construction
-- Health service scholarships
-- Grants and contracts for medical schools' special training
and education funds
-- Grants to state-administered centers which provide maternal
and child health care, family planning services, alcohol and
drug abuse treatment, migrant, and mental health care
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD