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Digitized from Box 19 of the John Marsh Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
December 8, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
RUSS ROURKE
FROM:
JACK MARSH
Be sure that Brent Scowcroft and Ron Nessen age given personally
to copy of your letter in reference to Rabbi Korff. A copy should
also be sent down to Dick Cheney.
JOM/dl
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 8, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
RUSS ROURKE
FROM:
JACK MARSH Jack
Be sure that Brent Scowcroft and Ron Nessen are given personally
a copy of your letter in reference to Rabbi Korff. A copy should
also be sent down to Dick Cheney.
JACK,
Revised copies of Korff letter were sent to Scowcroft and Cheney.
Pertinent extracts from our correspondence re Korff were also sent
to Nessen.
and memos
RUSS Russ
S
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 8, 1975
JACK,
Please note Bill Simon's scheduled
participation in Rabbi Korff's
U. S. Citizens Congress Dinner
on December 14, 1975.
RUSS
Russ
THE VICE PRESIDENT
Dec
5
National Assn of Manufacturers
New York
9
Domestic Council Hearing
Los Angeles
10
Boosters Club
Washington, D.C.
11
GOP Fundraiser
Nashville
12
Southern Republican Conference
SECRETARY SIMON
Dec
8
Mtg W Labor Leaders
New York
8
Republican State Cmte
Wilmington
10
American Council for Capital Formation
Washington, D. C.
11
Southern Republican Conference
Houston
11
Chamber of Commerce
Houston
14
USCitizens Congress
Washington, D. C.
15
Arizona Assn of Industries
Phoenix
18- 21
G-10 Mtgs
Paris
Jan 5- 10
IMF Mtgs
Jamaica
20
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Raleigh
20
Columbia Chamber of Commerce
Columbia
23
US Induatrial Savings Bonds - State Dept
Washington, D. C.
27
Bus & Industry Advis Cmte
Baton Rouge
30
Sheboygan Economic Club
Milwaukee
ATTORNEY GENERAL LEVI
Dec
6
Disting Cit Awd from Ill St. Andrew Soc.
Chicago
11
Administrative Conf of US Courts
Washington, D. C.
11
Attorney General's Ann Awd Ceremony
Washington, D. C.
28
American Assn of Law Schls
Washington, D. C.
SECRETARY BUTZ
Dec
8
Mo Farm Bureau Ann Mtg
Jefferson City
8
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas City
9
Arkansas Farm Bureau
Little Rock
9
Economic Club
Chicago
11
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Louisville
13
Southern Republican Conference
Houston
Jan
13
WH Consumer Conference
Chicago
15
Natl Council Farmer Cooperatives
Chicago
16
Purdue Ag Alumni Fish Fry
W. Lafayette, Ind.
17
Cong Del Latta Fundraiser
Wauseon, Ohio
19
Ann Economic Seminar
W. Lafayette, Ind.
23
Cong Bill Goodling Breakfast
York, Pa.
23
Ann Agribusiness Seminar
York, Pa.
SECRETARY MORTON
Dec
5
Mid America Committee
Chicago
11
President Ford Committee FR
Nashville
15
National Minority Purchasing Council
Washington, D. C.
18
Dedication of NOAA's marine sanctuary
Key Largo
Jan
19
WH Consumer Conference
Atlanta
23
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Victoria, Tx.
27
Town Hall
Los Angeles
28
Greater Irvine Industrial League
Irvine
30 Ruritan National Convention
Philadelphia
SECRETARY DUNLOP
Dec
5
St. Anselms College
Manchester, NH
8-9
Domestic Council Conference
Los Angeles
SECRETARY HILLS
Dec
9
Domestic Council Conference
Los Angeles
10
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
San Francisco
Jan
19
Home Builders
Dallas
SECRETARY COLEMAN
Dec
5
4th Ann N. Eng Citizens Briefing-EPA
New York
5
Middlesex Club
Boston
12
National Institute Black Elected Public Officials
Washington, D. C.
15
Legal Defense Fund
San Francisco
16
Town Hall
Los Angeles
18
St. Louis Airport Hearings
St. Louis
Jan
8
Advanced Mgmt Research Conf
Washington, D. C.
12
Ann Civ Rts Workshop.
Silver Spring
20
Cumberland Schl of La W
Birmingham
23
City Club
Cleveland
28
Savannah Forum
Savannah
Feb
4
Student Legal Forum- University of Virginia
Charlottesville
SECRETARY MATHEWS
Dec
8
S. Assn of Colleges & Schls
Atlanta
11
John Hopkins U- - Williams Lecture
Baltimore
19
Am Pub Welfare Assn Roundtable
New Orleans
SECRETARY KLEPPE
Dec
12
Chamber of Commerce
Anchorage
13
Chamber of Commerce
Fairbanks
MR. ZARB
Dec
Wyoming State Central Committee
Casper
Mfgrs Assn of Delaware Valley
King of Prussia, Pa.
9
Young President's Organization
New York
Jan
8
Student Exhibition Energy Research
New York
9
Chairmans Representatives
Washington, D.C.
15
Beavers
Los Angeles
16
WH Conference on Consumer Represen Boston
31
Midwestern Republican Conference
Dearborn
MR. GREENSPAN
Dec
8
Boys Club
New York
11
Business Council
Washington, D. C.
MR. SEIDMAN
Dec
7
British -North American Cmte
Boca Raton
15
Detroit Economic Club
Detroit
15
Conference Board
Washington, D. C.
DR. SEAMANS
Dec
8
Chief Executive Officers
Washington, D.C.
Jan
16
Electronic Industries Assn
Boca Raton
27
Natl Security Indust Assn
Los Angeles
Friday, December 5
Vice President
National Assn of Mfgrs
New York
Secretary Morton
Mid America Committee
Chicago
Secretary Coleman
4th N Eng Citizens Brief-EPA
Boston
Secretary Coleman
Middlesex Club
Boaton
Secretary Dunlop
St. Anselms College
Manchester
Mr. Zarb
Wyoming State Central Cmte
Casper
Saturday, December 6
Attorney General
Distinguished Citizen Awd Ill. St. Andrew
Chicago
Sunday, December 7
Mr. Seidman
British - -North American Committee
Boca Raton
Monday, December 8
Secretary Simon
Mtg W Labor Leaders
New York
Secretary Simon
Republican State Committee
Wilmington
Secretary Butz
Mo Farm Bureau
Jefferson City
Secretary Butz
Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas City
Secretary Dunlop
Domestic Council Conference
Los Angeles
Secretary Mathews
S. Assn of Colleges & Schools
Atlanta
Mr. Zarb
Manufacturers Assn of Delaware Valley
King of Prussia
Mr. Greenspan
Boys Club
New York
Dr. Seamans
Chief Executive Officers
Washington, D.
Tuesday, December 9
Vice President
Domestic Council Hearings
Los Angeles
Secretary Butz
Arkansas Farm Bureau
Little Rock
Secretary Butz
Economic Club
Chicago
Secretary Dunlop
Domestic Council Conference
Los Angeles
Secretary Hills
Domestic Council Conference
Los Angeles
Mr. Zarb
Young Presidents Organization
New York
Wednesday, December 10
Vice President
Boosters Club
Washington, D.C.
Secretary Simon
A
Council for Capital Formation
Washington, D. C.
Secretary Hills
Fed Home Loan Bank Board
San Francisco
Thursday, December 11
Vice President
GOP Fundraiser
Nashville
Secretary Simon
Southern Republican Conference
Houston
Secretary Simon
Chamber of Commerce
Houston
Attorney General
Admin Conf of US Courts
Washington, D. C
Attorney General
Attorney General Award Ceremony
Washington, D. C
Secretary Butz
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Louisville
Secretary Morton
President Ford Cmte Fundraiser
Nashville
Secretary Mathews
John Hopkins U- - Williams Lecture
Baltimore
Mr. Greenspan
Business Council
Washington, D. C.
Friday, December 12
Vice President
Southern Republican Conference
Houston
Secretary Kleppe
Chamber of Commerce
Anchorage
Secretary Coleman
Natl Inst Black Elected Public Officials
Washington, D. C.
Saturday, December 13
Secretary Butz
Southern Republican Converence
Houston
Sunday, December 14
Secretary Simon
US Citizens Congress
Washington, D. C
Monday, December 15
Secretary Simon
Arizona Assn Industries
Phoenix
Secretary Coleman
Legal Defense Fund
San Francisco
Secretary Morton
Natl Minority Purchasing Council
Washington, D. C
Mr. Seidman
Detroit Economic Club
Detroit
Conference Board
Washington, D. C.
Tuesday, December 16
Secretary Coleman
Town Hall
Los Angeles
Wednesday, December 17
Thursday, December 18
Secretary Simon
G-10 Mtg
Paris
Secretary Morton
Ded of NOAA's marine sanctuary
Key Largo
Secretary Coleman
StLouis Airport Hearings
St. Louis
Friday, December 19
Secretary Mathews
Am Public Welfare Assn
New Orleans
DEC 8 1975
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 5, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THE PRESIDENT
VIA:
RICHARD CHENEY
FROM:
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
SUBJECT:
Presidential Spokesman Activity
Attached for your information is the weekly Presidential
Spokesman schedule for the period covering 8 weeks.
cc: Richard Cheney
SENSITIVE
December 9, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO:
JACK MARSH
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE
Jack, Rabbi Korif called back with two substantive requests:
1)
Since the December 14 dinner will be attended by Delegates
from more than 27 States, Korff thought it would be an
"excellent affair for the President to attend either for the
evening or as a drop by". The guest list, Korff advises,
looks like "Who's Who in America". Korif suggested that
the President might simply extend greetings to those in
attendance or he might choose to make the award presentation
to Bill Simon. Strom Thurmond is presently scheduled to
present Simen's award.
Rabbi Korif asked me to check this invitation out'very
quistly!' I have the distinct impression that, If the President
cannot attend, Korff would not like it known that the invitation
extended to him had been regretted.
2)
Since we were unable to deliver on the previous Sakharov
request, Korff has now requested U. S. Embassy assistance
in getting a message from Sakharov to be read at the Decem-
ber 14 dinner. After some given or eight probing questions
on my part, the basic request is as follows
Korff wants you
to have 8 member of the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow contact
Sakharev and elicit a message from Sakharov to be read at the
dinner. Korif suggested that the Embassy employee bring
with him a copy of the dinner invitation itself, translated into
Russian. I attempted, without success, to get a yes or no answer
as to whether or not Korff, in his alleged telephone conversation
with Sakharov, had ever discussed the question of a message from
Sakharov. It is my view that he did not, and that we would, in-
fact, be plowing new ground. In attempting to maintain our
cordial, but fragile, relationship I found It somewhat difficult to
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advise him that his request was neither practical nor feasible.
1 pointed out, that since we were not dealing with a United States
national, U. S. Embassy personnel would really have no business'
checking with Sakharov in an effort to elicit the aforementioned
message.
I recognize fully the same troublesome areas to which Korff's Intest
request gives rise.
Unless you have any suggestions to the centrary, I shall review this
entire matter with Bill Hyland or Brent Scowcroft.
Please advise.
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December 10, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO:
DICK CHENEY
JERRY JONES
BOB HARTMANN
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE
Rabbl Beruch Korff has called again, this time to invite the President
to attend the Bicentennial Awards Dinner sponsored by the U. S.
Citizens Congress at the Shoreham-Americane this Sunday evening,
December 14.
Korff indicates that this would be as "excellent event for the President
to attend either for the entire dinner or for a drop by". The guest list,
Kerli advises, looks like "Whe's Who in America. Korff suggested
that the President might simply extend greetings to those in attendance
or he might choose to make the award presentation to Bill Simon. Strem
Thurmond is presently scheduled to present Simon's award.
Rabbi Korff adked me to check this invitation out "very quietly
I
have the distinct impression that, If the President cannot attend, Korfi
would not like it known that the invitation extended to him had been re-
gretted.
(FYI, Korff has also burdened us with another treablesoms request
re Dr. Sakharov. He has asked úmrio secure, through w S. Embassy
personnel in Moscow, & message from Sakharov to be read at the dinner.
1 am working directly with NSC on this one.)
RAR:cb
Assuming that your reaction will be negative, I would appreciate your
early guidance, so that I might proceed to turn Korif off today. Many
thanks.
I
Jones- NO
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THE WHITE HOUSE
SENSITIVE
WASHINGTON
December 9, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO:
JACK MARSH
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE
Jack, Rabbi Korff called back with two substantive requests:
1)
Since the December 14 dinner will be attended by Delegates
from more than 27 States, Korff thought it would be an
"excellent affair for the President to attend either for the
evening or as a drop by". The guest list, Korff advises,
looks like "Who's Who in America". Korff suggested that
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the President might simply extend greetings to those in
attendance or he might choose to make the award presentation
to Bill Simon. Strom Thurmond is presently scheduled to
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present Simon's award.
Rabbi Korff asked me to check this invitation out'very
quietly!' I have the distinct impression that, if the President
cannot attend, Korff would not like it known that the invitation
extended to him had been regretted.
2)
Since we were unable to deliver on the previous Sakharov
request, Korff has now requested U. S. Embassy assistance
in getting a message from Sakharov to be read at the Decem-
ber 14 dinner. After some seven or eight probing questions
on my part, the basic request is as follows
Korff wants you
to have a member of the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow contact
get
Sakharov and elicit a message from Sakharov to be read at the
dinner. Korff suggested that the Embassy employee bring
with him a copy of the dinner invitation itself, translated into
Russian. I attempted, without success, to get a yes or no answer
to
as to whether or not Korff, in his alleged telephone conversation
with Sakharov, had ever discussed the question of a message from
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Sakharov. It is my view that he did not, and that we would, in
fact, be plowing new ground. In attempting to maintain our
cordial, but fragile, relationship I found it somewhat difficult to
have them take lead on this.
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advise him that his request was neither practical nor feasible.
I pointed out, that since we were not dealing with a United States
national, U. S. Embassy personnel would really have no business
checking with Sakharov in an effort to elicit the aforementioned
message.
I recognize fully the same troublesome areas to which Korff's latest
request gives rise.
Unless you have any suggestions to the contrary, I shall review this
entire matter with Bill Hyland or Brent Scowcroft.
Please advise.
KORFF
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 11, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JACK MARSH
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE
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In my latest conversation with Rabbi Korff today he indicated
that he had a long conversation with Bill Simon concerning
Sunday's dinner. Simon spoke so highly of you that Korff invited you
and Glenn Ann to the Sunday night dinner. Simon indicated that
the dinner would not be complete without you. I told him I
would pass this on to you and get back to him.
LIBRARY GERALD ? FORD
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me - be out
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12/13/75
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 11, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO:
JACK MARSH
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE Rue
Jack, Bill Hyland advises me that State has agreed, to cable our
Embassy in Moscow, and ask them to contact Sakharov directly
at his Moscow residence. While they will advise Sakharov of
the details of the invitation, they will not attempt to elicit a message
from him. I am, of course, keeping Korff advised.
FYI, Jerry Jones says no re Presidential participation in December 14
dinner.
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Washington Post - Thursday, December 11, 1975
Sakharov
Is Barred
At Trial
By Peter Osnos
ington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW, Dec. 10-As
Andrei Sakharov's wife,
Velena, was in Oslo today
accepting his Nobel Peace
Prize, the famzd Soviet
dissillent physicist was trving
December 13, 1975
MEMORANDUM TO:
BOB HARTMANN
FROM:
JACK MARSH
Bob, 1 have been advised by officials of the U. S. Citizens Congress,
who is sponsoring the Bicentennial Awards Dinner on Sunday, Decem-
ber 14 at the Shoreham-Americana, that the following people will be
receiving awards:
Secretary William Simon
Senator Carl Curtis
Admiral Arleigh Burke
Mrs. Herbert Stein (former head of
"Cabinet Wives")
Dr. Andrel Sakharev
Please note the attached excerpt from the December issue of "We, The
People!"
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The Washington
Rabbi Korff, left, and Treasury Secretary Simon at the awards ceremonies.
Washington Post
Tuesday, December 16, 1975
'Citizens'
couraging it is to receive
bouquet from those whose
friendship and judgment I
value
Soviet physicist Andrei
Hail Simon
Sakharov was given an award
Another honored was Adm
Arleigh A Burke, former
By William Gildea
chief of naval operations, who
The name of President Ford received
called for "dedicated har
polite applause; the name of Ronald
dheaded, practical men to
Reagan evoked vigorous and sustained
lead the country.
applause, whistles, cheers.
Others receiving
awards
One of the guests said that former
were Rabbi Herzel Kranz and
President Nixon had suffered "a bum
Mary P McLaughlin, both of
rap" and that he was supporting Nixon's
Silver Spring, presented by
legal defense. So were many others in the
Maryland Bicentennial
audience.
Commission chairman Louise
They had come to the Shoreham Hotel
Gore, Reed J Irvine, founder
the other night, 500 strong, for "A Salute
of Accuracy in Media
to Leadership," and the first in a series of
Gabriele Pitcairn Pendleton
"Bicentennial awards" to be given by the
of Bryn Athyn, Pa, who has
United States Citizens Association,
upported Vietnam veterans
founded a year ago by one of Nixon's
among numerous causes, and
ardent friends and supporters, Rabbi
Mildred S Stein, wife of Nixon
Baruch Korff.
economic advisor Herbert
The principal speaker and one of the
honored guests was William E. Simon.
Stein, cited for her volunteer
Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) hailed
work among the needy
him as "the greatest Secretary of the
Mrs. McLaughlin said she
Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" at
was no relation to another
the close of an introduction that roused
Nixon friend from the
the dinner guests to a standing ovation.
religious community, John J
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz
McLaughlin, but that her
declared of another award recipient, "If
husband, Jack, was treasurer
we had more men in Congress like him
of the Korff organization. Her
GERALD FORD LIBRABY
and his two colleagues at this table it
husband, she confided, had
would be a damned sight better place,"
received some "critical mail"
The honoree was Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-
by mistake when the other
Neb.); his colleagues, Thurmond and
McLaughlin
ho
also
James A. McClure (R-Idaho).
Why the awards? "We believe that in
attended the dinner-left the
recognizing service we will inspire others
Jesuit order and married
to emulate those who are honored," said
Korff, who was given
Korff before the dinner.
scroll himself by Simon, said
Korff stressed that Nixon's friend of
he hoped to hold many similar
mine" with whom he communicates
award presentations around
"almost weekly." And certainly Nixon
the country during the
would have been among friends and
bicentennial year, including
so
admirers-had he been at the dinner. The
four or five more in
guests were predominantly white, older,
Washington The next one
here, he said, will be Feb 22.
Republican,
and
George Washington's
judging from the applause
thday
when a telegram from Reagan
was read, conservative.
Simon, like Curtis, said
there was "more right than
wrong with America" and
elaborated with a story about
a Virginia woman who
presented Nixon with
a
homemade American flag in
the oval office The former
President remarked that it
anymen
must have taken much work,
to which she agreed. "There
000 stitches in that
Washington Post
Friday, recember 21, 1975
prisoners of conscience in the
Mrs. Sakharov said the tax
Soviet Union" and mentioned
would make life for dissidents
Sakharov
by name 118 prisoners he
and emigrants even harder
knew personally, an apparent
than before. "Soviet
contradiction to broad
dissidents awaiting
Hits Limits
resolutions in support of
emigration have previously
freedom of conscience
been able to lift money from
Moscow signed at Helsinki.
funds in Paris, but from the
On Rights
"The prisoners shiver with
end of this year that will come
cold, damp and exhaustion in
to a halt," Mrs. Sakharov
ill-lit dungeons, where they
said. She said she and her
are forced to wage a ceaseless
husband have not decided
From News Dispatches
Andrei Sakharov charged in
struggle for their human
what to do with their prize
a Nobel lecture delivered by
dignity and their convictions
money.
his wife in Oslo yesterday that
against the 'indoctrination
Soviet authorities denied
"There has been absolutely no
machine,' in fact against the
permission for Sakharov, a
Washington Post
Wednesday, December 24, 1975
(2je To Breat, Russ, Larry, Mike
Soviets Part Va. Man, Wife
By Megan Rosenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
her in the face," he said in an
comment yesterday were
thatneither is Jewish.
Woodford McClellen,
interview yesterday. "She
umsuccessful.
"I wish my wife were
divorced, middle-aged
never had security clearance
Leonard Willems, an in-
Jewish," he said. "Then
because she didn't need it. We
ternational relations officer on
American professor of
maybe I could get the
Russian history, was leading a
are just a simple married
the Soviet desk at the State
American Jewish Congress
couple who want to live
Department, said yesterday
interested in this case."
group of academics on a
together; this ordeal is beyond
that McClellan's was the
tourist visit to Russia. Irina
Willems pointed out that
anything I could have
pidest case of its kind the State
Shyetsova, a divorced, pretty
100,000 Jews have been
imagined."
I
allowed to leave Russia since
Russian translator, was the
friend of a friend.
Last March, Mrs.
Department now had in its
1970.
McClellan, who is now 37, was
files. He said that such cases,
McClellan, who has an 11-
Four years ago they met,
told she would have her
in which a Russian citizen
started to correspond, visited.
year-old son by his previous
passport in three weeks
wishes to join an American
marriage. has accumulated
By Bob Burchette-The Washington Post
Her husband treasures this snapshot of Irina McClellan.
GERALD
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United States Citizens' Congress
Mashington, D.C.
January 22, 1976
MEMORANDUM
BY HAND
TO:
Mr. Milt Mitler
White House Bicentennial Coordinator
FROM:
Barry Cooperstein
Administrator, USCC
With reference to your telephone call of this date:
1) A Salute to Leadership (Second in a Series) in conjunction with the
Bicentennial will be held on Sunday, February 22, Washington's Birthday
at 1:00 PM (Luncheon) at the Grand Ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel.
2) The enclosed copy of the invitation lists the Honorees: Secretary Butz,
Senator Strom Thurmond and Martha Roundtree.
3) Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives are
expected to attend. Other friends of the honorees are simlarly expected
to attend.
4) We expect an attendance of delegates and guests from across the nation
between 600-1200.
5) The United States Citizens' Congress applies the occasion "A Salute to
Leadership" to spark and inspire similar celebrations among our members
and affiliates throughout the country.
6) The speakers on the 22nd of February include Secretary Simon and
Senator Curtis.
7) The enclosed Bicentennial manifesto by Baruch Korff also features an
incomplete guest list of those in attendance at the inaugural Bicentennial
Commemoration which was held on December 14 at the Shoreham Americana Hotel.
We would be glad to subordinate the program to the President's schedule and
appearance. Rabbi Korff is currently confined in the Massachusetts General
Hospital, however, I know that he, as President of the United States Citizens'
Congress, and Admiral Elliott B. Strauss, Chairman of the Board, and the
trustees will be more than happy to facilitate the President's requirements
on this occasion.
CC: The Honorable John O. Marsh, Jr.
Counsellor to the President
GERALD
Adm. Elliott B. Strauss
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UNITED STATES CITIZENS' CONGRESS
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Extends to you a cordial invitation
to attend
A SALUTE TO LEADERSHIP
Bicentennial Tribute to:
THE HONORABLE EARL L. BUTZ
Secretary of Agriculture
THE HONORABLE STROM THURMOND
United States Senate
MARTHA ROUNTREE
President, Leadership Foundation
Luncheon
(second in a series)
marking
THE BICENTENNIAL
on the birthday of George Washington
Father of His Country
Sunday, February Twenty-second
Nineteen hundred and seventy-six
One o'clock
The Grand Ballroom
Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Subscription: $25 per person
R.S.V.P.
Checks payable to: "USCC Bicentennial"
Washington, D.C. 20036
UNITED STATES CITIZENS CONGRESS
WE, THE PEOPLE!
1776
1976
A Bicentennial
Manifesto
by
Baruch Korff
1221 Connecticut Ave. NW
We, the people ... the Constitu-
tion of the United States begins
...
It is the aim of the United States Citizens' Congress
and it is already being heard. Armies are made up of
normal school children and by medical "innovators"
to return to the great and viable traditions which
platoons and companies-and it is at platoon level
who substitute drug therapy for pedagogy.
sustained this country for its first 150 years. It is the
that wars are won. As more and more Americans
In this Bicentennial year, it is vital that we recall
purpose of the USCC to root out those tragic prac-
join the ranks, the USCC will make its determination
The effect of permissiveness in the schools is esca-
those words, for they recognize that the govern-
tices-the "bread and circuses" which toppled the
decisively felt in the nation's power centers.
lated by an equally pernicious permissiveness in the
ment created by that greatest of all political docu-
Roman Republic-which are today emasculating the
judiciary which allows violent crime to go un-
Constitution and reducing the nation to inefficacy
There is much to be done-now and for many
punished. Lawless behavior is justified and encour-
ments derived its powers from individuals working
in concert and not from the authority of tyrants.
both at home and abroad.
tomorrows. That government, conceived by the
aged as "dissent" or excused as the response to eco-
Founding Fathers to guard the people's freedom and
nomic conditions among the "disadvantaged" which
The Constitution did more than weld Americans
The problems which beset America's citizens are
ensure domestic tranquility, now impinges on every
were far more onerous when the country was law-
into the first and most successful representative gov-
many and complex. But they are not so complex
phase of our lives, tampers with our consciences,
abiding. As educational and judicial permissiveness
ernment in history. It also carefully defined the limits
that they cannot be met and solved.
and cavalierly robs us of what we have labored to
destroys the family structure, however, the "ad-
of that government, setting forth its duties and pre-
The first of these resides in the soul of the body
earn by the sweat of our brow. It cannot even be
vantaged" suburbs make up a larger and larger per-
rogatives but leaving to the people all rights not
said that the behemoth which sits astride our lives
centage of the crime rate.
politic. Apathy and a lack of national purpose, the
specifically granted to a central authority.
lack of a will to resist and a will to achieve are
is the price we must pay for the commonweal, for
the wars on poverty have impoverished the nation
Not the President, not the Congress, and not the
bringing spiritual paralysis to the nation. An easy
excuse is at hand-that life in this 200th year of
without enriching the poor. Social Security, to which
The Rampaging Media
Judiciary could move beyond the strictly circum-
all Americans have indentured themselves, faces
scribed boundaries of Federal power. The rights of
our national existence has become too complicated
bankruptcy and survives only by putting ever greater
A citizenry must be aware of the magnitude of
the people could not be ordered or legislated away.
to respond to the needs and hopes of the citizenry,
strains on the wage earner. Economic disaster at
these problems in order to find the solutions without
that in a highly technological society the individual
This is what the Constitution said and what the
every governmental level is put off by the new addic-
which this country cannot survive. Yet it is lulled and
is helpless. The "little platoon" of which Edmund
Founding Fathers meant when they finalized the
Burke wrote, we are told, is an anachronism. Sheer
tion to printing-press money, a root cause of infla-
deluded by an irresponsible and doctrinaire national
Bill of Rights with the Tenth Amendment. This also
tion.
press-both printed and electronic-which has seized
shibboleth!
the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of gov-
is what the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitu-
ernment and which is free of the restraints of the
tion said and meant when it placed the States within
the same framework as the central government, re-
The Drug of Permissiveness
ballot-box. Ruthless and unchallenged, the media
Moving the Nation
have undermined the people's faith in their institu-
iterating the nature of American sovereignty.
Our public schools, once the envy of the world,
The USCC disputes this. It has been said that two
tions and traditions, embarked on unprincipled politi-
have become the source of social infection. Drugs and
cal crusades against those who stand in the way of
percent of the people, if properly motivated and
People vs. Government
vice and pre-pubescent sex are rampant. Children,
mobilized, could be the fulcrum which moved na-
moral anarchy, made a bludgeon of the provisions
Within the last five decades, the powers and re-
tions. We have seen in the past decade how the
our hostages to the future, are bundled from grade
of the First Amendment, and imposed a double
to grade with no thought to the discipline of edu-
standard on their readers and viewers-one for those
sponsibilities of the people have been eroded as
media, working in tandem with a relative handful
cation and enter the adult world unable to read, write
of academics and disaffected intellectuals, have been
whom they support, another for those they oppose.
government has arrogated to itself a dominance over
or do simple sums-isolated from their country's his-
life, liberty, and property-the words used in the
able to change the course of history and plunge the
tory and ignorant of their national heritage. Dedi-
It will require forthright leadership, unaffected by
nation into chaos. Iskra, Vladimir Lenin's magazine,
Declaration of Independence until Thomas Jefferson,
had a circulation of 3,000, yet it was the center of a
cated teachers are replaced by time-serving bureau-
the blandishments of self-seeking propagandists, to
carried away by his eloquence-changed "property"
crats.
restore the nation to sanity. But no matter how suc-
wheel which drove the Communists to power in
to the "pursuit of happiness."
cessfully America's domestic problems are solved, it
Russia.
Though the school-age population declines each
will be meaningless if these United States stand de-
With every passing year, the Congress and Execu-
It is now our turn! The way to national survival
year, the cost of "education" rises in geometric
fenseless against an enemy determined to bury us.
tive-aided by a politicized and ideologically par-
and to the reinvigoration of American ideals is
proportion. And the problem is aggravated by spe-
Yet there is an incessant clamor in the Congress and
tisan Judiciary-have cut away at the fabric of
cial interest groups and a stubbornly regressive ju-
elsewhere to cut the muscle of our defense forces,
American representative government, abridging the
through the cohesive action of those men and women
who, like George Washington's troops at Valley
diciary which compels the use of substantial funds
at a time when the Soviet Union is building an un-
sovereignty of the citizenry. In the name of "de-
Forge, can face adversity and bend it to the national
not to enhance the quality of education, now at a
matched nuclear and conventional military machine
mocracy" and under the guise of regulating inter-
miserably low state, but for enforced busing-which
capable of blackmailing the free world into submis-
state commerce, it has substituted its own whim for
purpose. A thousand voices speaking as one can
educators and minority groups both oppose as
sion without firing a shot. To lower America's guard
the will of the people in ways that have sometimes
make tyranny tremble.
counter-productive. Other school funds are wasted by
by cutting defense spending, as some would have us
bordered on tyranny.
The United States Citizens' Congress is that voice,
"sociologists" who impose psychiatric treatment on
do, in order to embark on feckless schemes and do-
It is the aim of the United States Citizens' Congress
and it is already being heard. Armies are made up of
normal school children and by medical "innovators"
mestic economic adventures, is an invitation to
to return to the great and viable traditions which
platoons and companies-and it is at platoon level
who substitute drug therapy for pedagogy.
suicide, and this the USCC has resisted strenuously.
sustained this country for its first 150 years. It is the
that wars are won. As more and more Americans
purpose of the USCC to root out those tragic prac-
join the ranks, the USCC will make its determination
The effect of permissiveness in the schools is esca-
tices-the "bread and circuses" which toppled the
decisively felt in the nation's power centers.
lated by an equally pernicious permissiveness in the
Roman Republic-which are today emasculating the
judiciary which allows violent crime to go un-
What Must Be Done
Constitution and reducing the nation to inefficacy
There is much to be done-now and for many
punished. Lawless behavior is justified and encour-
aged as "dissent" or excused as the response to eco-
Cognizant of America's great past, of its present
both at home and abroad.
tomorrows. That government, conceived by the
nomic conditions among the "disadvantaged" which
weakened fiber, and of its future imperatives, the
Founding Fathers to guard the people's freedom and
The problems which beset America's citizens are
ensure domestic tranquility, now impinges on every
were far more onerous when the country was law-
United States Citizens' Congress consecrates itself to
many and complex. But they are not so complex
phase of our lives, tampers with our consciences,
abiding. As educational and judicial permissiveness
this program:
that they cannot be met and solved.
and cavalierly robs us of what we have labored to
destroys the family structure, however, the "ad-
1. To insist on a strong national defense and to
The first of these resides in the soul of the body
earn by the sweat of our brow. It cannot even be
vantaged" suburbs make up a larger and larger per-
resist suicidal cuts in military spending;
said that the behemoth which sits astride our lives
centage of the crime rate.
politic. Apathy and a lack of national purpose, the
is the price we must pay for the commonweal, for
2. To demand self-discipline and a rigorous code
lack of a will to resist and a will to achieve are
the wars on poverty have impoverished the nation
of ethics in the media which will protect the public
bringing spiritual paralysis to the nation. An easy
without enriching the poor. Social Security, to which
from bias, misrepresentation, and the erosion of na-
excuse is at hand-that life in this 200th year of
The Rampaging Media
all Americans have indentured themselves, faces
tional confidence;
our national existence has become too complicated
bankruptcy and survives only by putting ever greater
A citizenry must be aware of the magnitude of
to respond to the needs and hopes of the citizenry,
3. To combat inflation by securing reductions in
strains on the wage earner. Economic disaster at
these problems in order to find the solutions without
that in a highly technological society the individual
wasteful Federal spending;
every governmental level is put off by the new addic-
which this country cannot survive. Yet it is lulled and
is helpless. The "little platoon" of which Edmund
tion to printing-press money, a root cause of infla-
deluded by an irresponsible and doctrinaire national
4. To return public education to public control
Burke wrote, we are told, is an anachronism. Sheer
tion.
press-both printed and electronic-which has seized
and to oppose the dangerous social experimentation
shibboleth!
the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of gov-
of the educationists and the sociologists.
ernment and which is free of the restraints of the
5. To resist the usurpation of the people's rights
The Drug of Permissiveness
ballot-box. Ruthless and unchallenged, the media
by some elements of the Federal Judiciary;
Moving the Nation
have undermined the people's faith in their institu-
The USCC disputes this. It has been said that two
Our public schools, once the envy of the world,
tions and traditions, embarked on unprincipled politi-
6. To strengthen America's moral fiber by fighting
percent of the people, if properly motivated and
have become the source of social infection. Drugs and
cal crusades against those who stand in the way of
permissiveness in all aspects of our national life;
mobilized, could be the fulcrum which moved na-
vice and pre-pubescent sex are rampant. Children,
moral anarchy, made a bludgeon of the provisions
tions. We have seen in the past decade how the
our hostages to the future, are bundled from grade
of the First Amendment, and imposed a double
7. To protect Americans in their daily lives
media, working in tandem with a relative handful
to grade with no thought to the discipline of edu-
standard on their readers and viewers-one for those
through the swift and forceful administration of
cation and enter the adult world unable to read, write
whom they support, another for those they oppose.
justice.
of academics and disaffected intellectuals, have been
able to change the course of history and plunge the
or do simple sums-isolated from their country's his-
nation into chaos. Iskra, Vladimir Lenin's magazine,
tory and ignorant of their national heritage. Dedi-
It will require forthright leadership, unaffected by
8. To honor the Bicentennial year by demanding
had a circulation of 3,000, yet it was the center of a
cated teachers are replaced by time-serving bureau-
the blandishments of self-seeking propagandists, to
of government a re-dedication to the traditions and
restore the nation to sanity. But no matter how suc-
principles of our Founding Fathers which alone can
crats.
wheel which drove the Communists to power in
cessfully America's domestic problems are solved, it
guarantee a great and free America.
Russia.
Though the school-age population declines each
will be meaningless if these United States stand de-
On a personal note. If you agree with me, join
It is now our turn! The way to national survival
year, the cost of "education" rises in geometric
fenseless against an enemy determined to bury us.
me. If you do not agree with me, offer a viable al-
and to the reinvigoration of American ideals is
proportion. And the problem is aggravated by spe-
Yet there is an incessant clamor in the Congress and
ternative and I will join with you-but join we MUST!
cial interest groups and a stubbornly regressive ju-
elsewhere to cut the muscle of our defense forces,
through the cohesive action of those men and women
From our covenant, the government derives its au-
who, like George Washington's troops at Valley
diciary which compels the use of substantial funds
at a time when the Soviet Union is building an un-
thority. That is how it all began!
Forge, can face adversity and bend it to the national
not to enhance the quality of education, now at a
matched nuclear and conventional military machine
miserably low state, but for enforced busing-which
capable of blackmailing the free world into submis-
If ever there was a time for introspection, the time
purpose. A thousand voices speaking as one can
educators and minority groups both oppose as
make tyranny tremble.
sion without firing a shot. To lower America's guard
is NOW. We must look at ourselves, inside ourselves,
counter-productive. Other school funds are wasted by
by cutting defense spending, as some would have us
beyond ourselves-and unto the third century of the
The United States Citizens' Congress is that voice,
"sociologists" who impose psychiatric treatment on
do, in order to embark on feckless schemes and do-
United States.
List of delegates from twenty-seven states
The Hon. Hal Eberle
The Hon. Loy W. Henderson
Mrs. William J. MacKenzie
Mrs. Lawrence Pratt
The Hon. William E. Simon
Ms. Margaret Thomas
and guests in attendance
Asst. Sec. of the Treasury
Ms. Carolyn E. Herfurth
Mrs. Crawford Maddox
Dr. Cynthia Preiss
Secretary of the Treasury
The Hon. Strom Thurmond
Mrs. Hal Eberle
President, Potomac
Ms. Frances E. Mahan
President, USCC
Mrs. William E. Simon
United States Senate
at A Salute To Leadership
Mr. Morris Edeson
Republican Club
The Reverend Joseph Makov
California
Mr. Jim Sites
Mrs. Strom Thurmond
Reception-Dinner
Mrs. Morris Edeson
Ms. Mary Jane Hill
Pastor, All Souls Memorial
Mr. Oliver Presbrey
Aide to Secretary Simon
Mr. Michael Timmons
Dr. Herman Efron
Mr. Joseph Hockstein
Episcopal Church
Mrs. Jim Sites
The Hon. Webster B. Todd
Bicentennial Awards
Mrs. Herman Efron
Mr. Samuel C. O. Holt
Mrs. Joseph Makov
Miss Catherine V. Rainey
Col. Dean Smith
Inspector General of
Father Herman Esselman
Mrs. Samuel C. O. Holt
(first in a series)
Mr. David Martin
Mr. Richard D. Reddick
Mrs. Dean Smith
Foreign Assistance
Mr. Paul Horning
Mrs. David Martin
Publisher, Human Events
Mr. Edward Smith
Mrs. Webster B. Todd
Mrs. Snowden Fahnestock
former Under Secretary
Mrs. Catherine Mathias
Mrs. Richard D. Reddick
Miss Lorna L. Snyder
Mr. Elmer Treptow & Guests
Sunday, the fourteenth of December
Ms. Bonnie Falk
of State
Mr. Grant E. Mayberry
Mr. Thomas Redmile
Mr. Edwin Soforenko
Nineteen hundred seventy five
Mrs. Marie Federle
Mrs. Paul Horning
Mrs. Grant E. Mayberry
Mrs. Sarah Grace Reis &
Mrs. Edwin Soforenko
Ms. Josephine Upchurch
Miss Constance Ferrara
Mr. Ikey Hurt
The Hon. James A. McClure
Guests
Mr. Lawrence Soforenko
Six O'Clock
Mr. Frederick Finn
Mrs. Ikey Hurt
United States Senate
Miss Kathy Renner
Mrs. Helen Sollers-Riedel
Mr. Rich Vengazo
Mrs. Frederick Finn
Mr. Gerald E. Hutchinson
Mrs. James A. McClure
Mr. James W. Richardson
Mrs. Susan Soporn
Mrs. Rich Vengazo
Dr. Frederick W. Finn
The Diplomat-Palladian Rooms
Mrs. Gerald E. Hutchinson
Mrs. Sylvia McKillips
Gen. William Ritchie
Miss Margaret Sparks
Mrs. Frederick W. Finn
Mr. Bill McLaughlin
Mrs. William Ritchie
& Guests
Miss Alice Waters
Shoreham Americana Hotel
Mr. Jacob Flaks
Mr. Donald Irvine
Mr. Bruce McLaughlin
Mr. Francisco Rodriguez
Ms. Lois M. Steele
Mr. Peter Waters
Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Jacob Flaks
Mr. Reed J. Irvine
Mr. Jack McLaughlin
Mrs. Martha Rountree
Mr. Benjamin Stein
Chief of Conservation
Mrs. Mabel Fleming
Chairman, Accuracy in
& Guests
President, Leadership
Arts Editor,
Library of Congress
Mrs. Katherine Forsyth
Media
Mrs. Jack McLaughlin
Foundation
Wall Street Journal
Mrs. Peter Waters
Mrs. Leona R. Adams
Ms. Nancy Collins
Mrs. William Frazier
Mrs. Reed J. Irvine
Dr. John McLaughlin
The Hon. Russell A. Rourke
The Hon. Herbert Stein
Capt. Charles R. Watts
The Hon. Donald C.
Mr. Barry Cooperstein
Miss Millie Freeman
Miss Rosella Ivy
Mrs. John McLaughlin
The Hon. John H. Rousselot
former Chairman,
Dr. Bettina Weary
Alexander
Administrator, USCC
Gen. James C. Fry
Miss Ruth McLean
House of Representatives
President's Council of
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer
Commissioner
Atty. Edward Cooperstein
Mr. Max Jaffe
Miss Sharon L. McManus
Mrs. John H. Rousselot
Economic Advisors
Mrs. Albert C. Wedemeyer
Internal Revenue Service
Mrs. Edward Cooperstein
Miss Melicia Garcia
Mrs. Livia Jancso
Mr. Jules Meisler
Mr. Lawrence Rubin
Mrs. Herbert Stein
Mr. Joseph West & Guests
Mrs. Donald C. Alexander
The Hon. Carl T. Curtis
Mr. Austin P. Gattis
Ms. Florida Jenkins
Mrs. Jules Meisler
Mrs. Lawrence Rubin
Mr. William Steppe
Ms. Grace M. Westbrook
Mr. Herman Alper
United States Senate
Mrs. Austin P. Gattis
Mr. Lloyd R. Johnson
Mrs. Bennett G. Miller
The Hon. Edward W. C.
Mrs. William Steppe
Mr. Abbott W. Wigdor
Mr. Michael Arkin
Mrs. Carl T. Curtis
Col. James W. Gerard
Mrs. Lloyd R. Johnson
National Coordinator
Russell
Mrs. Bernard Stier
& Guests
Mrs. Michael Arkin
Mrs. Eunice Godbold
Mr. Lauren Goin
Mr. Morgan Jones, III
Back to God Movement
Mrs. Edward W. C. Russell
Miss Jennifer Stier
Mrs. Alfred L. Wolf
Mr. Jerry Aubrey
Mr. Dimitru Danielopol
Mrs. Morgan Jones, III
Mr. Harold Miller & Guests
Mr. Mitchell Stier
Mrs. Joanne E. Woodford
Mrs. Jerry Aubrey
Mr. Alexander Davalos
The Hon. Louise Gore
Ms. Ruth S. Miller
Ms. Nadene H. Saxton
Mr. John N. Stratton
Mr. Robert Woodward
Mrs. Alexander Davalos
Chairman, Maryland
Mr. Girolamo Modesti
Ms. Mary Lee H. King
The Hon. Edward C.
& Guests
& Guests
Mr. John Dawson
Bicentennial Commission
Mr. Stanley Baer
& Guests
The Hon. Thomas S. Kleppe
U.S. Correspondent
Schmults
Adm. Elliott B. Strauss
Mrs. Robert Woodward
Mrs. Alison W. Birch
Mrs. John Dawson
for La Nazione
Miss Deborah Gore Dean
The Hon. Charles E.
Secretary of the Interior
Deputy Counsel to the
Board Chairman, USCC
Mrs. Thomas S. Kleppe
Miss Grace V. Montgomery
President
Mrs. Elliott B. Strauss
Mr. Andrew Yankton
Miss Sally Bloom & Guests
Mrs. Gordon Dean
Grassley
Miss Luz Patria Morales
House of Representatives
Lt. Col. William Konze
Mrs. Edward C. Schmults
Dr. Robert Stroud
Mrs. Andrew Yankton
H.E. Cornellu Bogdan
Mr. Gordon Gore Dean
Mrs. William Konze
Mrs. Anna B. Murphy
Mr. Stanley Schofer
Mrs. Robert Stroud
Mr. Harry Young
Ambassador of Romania
Miss Sue Dean
Mr. Robert Grimm
& Guests
Mrs. Cornellu Bogdan
Rabbi Baruch Korff
Mrs. Stanley Schofer
Mrs. Harry Young
Mrs. William R. Bond
Mr. Vincent DeAngelis
Mrs. Robert Grimm
Mr. William Grove
President, USCC
Mr. Leslie P. Schultz
Mr. James S. Taylor
Mrs. Vincent DeAngells
Gen. Uzi Narkiss
Mrs. William Grove
Mrs. Baruch Korff
Mrs. Leslie P. Schultz
Dr. Walter W. Boyd
Mrs. James S. Taylor
Mrs. Rose Zallas
Mrs. Walter W. Boyd
Mrs. Alice T. Deisroth
Israel
Miss Zamira Korff
Miss Alice Schumacher
Mr. Leo Tew
Mrs. Emery deHartman
Mr. Frank Guaragno
Miss Adina Kranz
Col. William L. Nesley
Mr. Paul Schumacher
Mrs. Leo Tew
Mr. Charles H. Breecher
(List incomplete)
Ms. Eva R. Brown
Mr. Leon Dekelbaum
Mrs. Frank Guaragno
Rabbi Herzel Kranz
Mrs. William L. Nesley
Miss Susan Schwartz
Mr. Norman Dekelbaum
Mr. Philip Guarino
Mr. Sidney Dennerstein
Republican Nat'l. Comm.
Silver Spring Jewish
H.E. Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-
Ms. Mary Bullock
H.E. Dr. Miguel Angel Burelli
Mr. Jack Odgaard
Mrs. Philip Guarino
Center
Sacasa
Ambassador of Venezuela
Father Reginald deRocquois
Mrs. Herzel Kranz
Executive Assistant
Ambassador of Nicaragua
Pastor, Church of the
to Senator Carl T. Curtis
Mrs. Miguel Angel Burelli
Mr. Dale Kruger
Mr. Larry Shallenberger
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke
Epiphany
Mrs. Alvina Hagedorn
Mrs. Jack Odgaard
Mrs. Larry Shallenberger
Mr. Ralph deToledano
Mrs. Emma P. Hagedorn
former Chief of
Mr. George Olsen
Mr. Don E. Shasteen
Author
& Guests
Atty. Raymond G. Larroca
Miss Lyn Ornoff
Administrative Assistant
Naval Operations
Mrs. Arleigh A. Burke
Mr. Ignatius DiCola
Mr. Hermann Hagedom
Adm. William Lawrence
to Senator Carl T. Curtis
Ms. R. M. Burnside
Mrs. Ignatius DiCola
Mr. William Hakkarian
Mrs. William Lawrence
Mrs. Olive Pack
Mrs. Don E. Shasteen
Col. Lawrence Bustle
Adm. Neil Dietrich
Mrs. Katharine B. Hammett
Mr. Court Lee
Mr. Voja Pantelich
The Hon. Carl L. Shipley
Mr. Earle Donoho
Mrs. Catherine Hanson
Mrs. Court Lee
Mrs. Voja Pantelich
& Guests
Mrs. Lawrence Bustle
Mrs. Earle Donoho
Mr. Menashe Hasson
Miss Pat Lee
The Hon. Earl L. Butz
The Hon. Gerald L. Parsky
General Counsel, USCC
Miss Julia Dorish
Mrs. Menashe Hasson
Miss Grace Liscano
Secretary of Agriculture
Asst. Sec. of the Treasury
Mrs. Carl L. Shipley
The Hon. Arthur T. Downey
Mrs. Mildred Hatheway
Executive Sec., USCC
Mrs. Earl L. Butz
Mrs. Gerald L. Parsky
Mr. Grant Shrum
Asst. Sec. of Commerce
Mrs. Margaret C. Hauser
Mr. Henry Litton
Mrs. Willard D. Pendleton
Mrs. Grant Shrum
Mrs. Arthur T. Downey
H.E. All Hedda
Mrs. Henry Litton
Mr. Michael Pitcairn
Miss Florence Shute
Ms. Roberta Chestnut
The Hon. Elbridge Durbrow
Ambassador of Tunisia
Capt. Scott Lothrop
Mr. Lawrence Pratt
Miss Aimee Simon
Miss Ann Coan
former U.S. Ambassador
Mrs. All Hedda
Mrs. Scott Lothrop
Treasurer, Heritage
Miss Julie Simon
Ms. Vivian Cohan
Mrs. Elbridge Durbrow
Mrs. Gussie A. Hendershot
Ms. Ann Lowe
Foundation
Miss Katie Simon
Washington, D.C. 20036
have
UNITED STATES CITIZENS CONGRESS
WE, THE PEOPLE!
1776
1976
A Bicentennial
)
Manifesto
by
8
Baruch Korff
1221 Connecticut Ave NW
We, the people the Constitu-
tion of the United States begins
...
RALD w R FORD LIBRA
I n this Bicentennial year, it is vital that we recall
those words, for they recognize that the govern-
ment created by that greatest of all political docu-
ments derived its powers from individuals working
in concert and not from the authority of tyrants.
The Constitution did more than weld Americans
into the first and most successful representative gov-
ernment in history. It also carefully defined the limits
of that government, setting forth its duties and pre-
rogatives. but leaving to the people all rights not
specifically granted to a central authority.
Not the President, not the Congress, and not the
Judiciary could move beyond the strictly circum-
scribed boundaries of Federal power. The rights of
the people could not be ordered or legislated away.
This is what the Constitution said and what the
Founding Fathers meant when they finalized the
Bill of Rights with the Tenth Amendment. This also
is what the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitu-
tion said and meant when it placed the States within
the same framework as the central government, re-
iterating the nature of American sovereignty.
People vs. Government
Within the last five decades, the powers and re-
sponsibilities of the people have been eroded as
government has arrogated to itself a dominance over
life, liberty, and property-the words used in the
Declaration of Independence until Thomas Jefferson,
carried away by his eloquence-changed "property"
to the "pursuit of happiness."
With every passing year, the Congress and Execu-
tive-aided by a politicized and ideologically par-
tisan Judiciary-have cut away at the fabric of
American representative government, abridging the
sovereignty of the citizenry. In the name of "de-
mocracy" and under the guise of regulating inter-
state commerce, it has substituted its own whim for
the will of the people in ways that have sometimes
bordered on tyranny.
ADVES GERALD R. FORD
It is the aim of the United States Citizens' Congress
to return to the great and viable traditions which
sustained this country for its first 150 years. It is the
purpose of the USCC to root out those tragic prac-
tices-the "bread and circuses" which toppled the
Roman Republic-which are today emasculating the
Constitution and reducing the nation to inefficacy
both at home and abroad.
The problems which beset America's citizens are
many and complex. But they are not so complex
that they cannot be met and solved.
The first of these resides in the soul of the body
politic. Apathy and a lack of national purpose, the
lack of a will to resist and a will to achieve are
bringing spiritual paralysis to the nation. An easy
excuse is at hand-that life in this 200th year of
our national existence has become too complicated
to respond to the needs and hopes of the citizenry,
that in a highly technological society the individual
is helpless. The "little platoon" of which Edmund
Burke wrote, we are told, is an anachronism. Sheer
shibboleth!
Moving the Nation
The USCC disputes this. It has been said that two
percent of the people, if properly motivated and
mobilized, could be the fulcrum which moved na-
tions. We have seen in the past decade how the
media, working in tandem with a relative handful
of academics and disaffected intellectuals, have been
able to change the course of history and plunge the
nation into chaos. Iskra, Vladimir Lenin's magazine,
had a circulation of 3,000, yet it was the center of a
wheel which drove the Communists to power in
Russia.
It is now our turn! The way to national survival
and to the reinvigoration of American ideals is
through the cohesive action of those men and women
who, like George Washington's troops at Valley
Forge, can face adversity and bend it to the national
purpose. A thousand voices speaking as one can
make tyranny tremble.
The United States Citizens' Congress is that voice,
is
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and it is already being heard. Armies are made up of
platoons and companies-and it is at platoon level
that wars are won. As more and more Americans
join the ranks, the USCC will make its determination
decisively felt in the nation's power centers.
There is much to be done-now and for many
tomorrows. That government, conceived by the
Founding Fathers to guard the people's freedom and
ensure domestic tranquility, now impinges on every
phase of our lives, tampers with our consciences,
and cavalierly robs us of what we have labored to
earn by the sweat of our brow. It cannot even be
said that the behemoth which sits astride our lives
is the price we must pay for the commonweal, for
the wars on poverty have impoverished the nation
without enriching the poor. Social Security, to which
all Americans have indentured themselves, faces
bankruptcy and survives only by putting ever greater
strains on the wage earner, Economic disaster at
every governmental level is put off by the new addic-
tion to printing-press money, a root cause of infla-
tion.
The Drug of Permissiveness
Our public schools, once the envy of the world,
have become the source of social infection. Drugs and
vice and pre-pubescent sex are rampant. Children,
our hostages to the future, are bundled from grade
to grade with no thought to the discipline of edu-
cation and enter the adult world unable to read, write
or do simple sums-isolated from their country's his-
tory and ignorant of their national heritage. Dedi-
cated teachers are replaced by time-serving bureau-
crats.
Though the school-age population declines each
year, the cost of "education" rises in geometric
proportion. And the problem is aggravated by spe-
cial interest groups and a stubbornly regressive ju-
diciary which compels the use of substantial funds
not to enhance the quality of education, now at a
miserably low state, but for enforced busing-which
educators and minority groups both oppose as
counter-productive. Other school funds are wasted by
"sociologists" who impose psychiatric treatment on
normal school children and by medical "innovators"
who substitute drug therapy for pedagogy.
The effect of permissiveness in the schools is esca-
lated by an equally pernicious permissiveness in the
judiciary which allows violent crime to go un-
punished. Lawless behavior is justified and encour-
aged as "dissent" or excused as the response to eco-
nomic conditions among the "disadvantaged" which
were far more onerous when the country was law-
abiding. As educational and judicial permissiveness
destroys the family structure, however, the "ad-
vantaged" suburbs make up a larger and larger per-
centage of the crime rate.
The Rampaging Media
A citizenry must be aware of the magnitude of
these problems in order to find the solutions without
which this country cannot survive. Yet it is lulled and,
deluded by an irresponsible and doctrinaire national
press-both printed and electronic-which has seized
the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of gov-
ernment and which is free of the restraints of the
ballot-box. Ruthless and unchallenged, the media
have undermined the people's faith in their institu-
tions and traditions, embarked on unprincipled politi-
cal crusades against those who stand in the way of
moral anarchy, made a bludgeon of the provisions
of the First Amendment, and imposed a double
standard on their readers and viewers-one for those
whom they support, another for those they oppose.
It will require forthright leadership, unaffected by
the blandishments of self-seeking propagandists, to
restore the nation to sanity. But no matter how suc-
cessfully America's domestic problems are solved, it
will be meaningless if these United States stand de-
fenseless against an enemy determined to bury us.
Yet there is an incessant clamor in the Congress and
elsewhere to cut the muscle of our defense forces,
at a time when the Soviet Union is building an un-
matched nuclear and conventional military machine
capable of blackmailing the free world into submis-
sion without firing a shot. To lower America's guard
by cutting defense spending, as some would have us
do, in order to embark on feckless schemes and do-
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mestic economic adventures, is an invitation to
suicide, and this the USCC has resisted strenuously.
What Must Be Done
Cognizant of America's great past, of its present
weakened fiber, and of its future imperatives, the
United States Citizens' Congress consecrates itself to
this program:
1. To insist on a strong national defense and to
resist suicidal cuts in military spending;
2. To demand self-discipline and a rigorous code
of ethics in the media which will protect the public
from bias, misrepresentation, and the erosion of na-
tional confidence;
3. To combat inflation by securing reductions in
wasteful Federal spending;
4. To return public education to public control
and to oppose the dangerous social experimentation
of the educationists and the sociologists.
5. To resist the usurpation of the people's rights
by some elements of the Federal Judiciary;
6. To strengthen America's moral fiber by fighting
permissiveness in all aspects of our national life;
7. To protect Americans in their daily lives
through the swift and forceful administration of
justice.
8. To honor the Bicentennial year by demanding
of government a re-dedication to the traditions and
principles of our Founding Fathers which alone can
guarantee a great and free America.
On a personal note. If you agree with me, join
me. If you do not agree with me, offer a viable al-
ternative and I will join with you-but join we MUST!
From our covenant, the government derives its au-
thority. That is how it all began!
If ever there was a time for introspection, the time
is NOW. We must look at ourselves, inside ourselves,
beyond ourselves-and unto the third century of the
United States.
List of delegates from twenty-seven states
and guests in attendance
at A Salute To Leadership
Reception-Dinner
Bicentennial Awards
(first in a series)
Sunday, the fourteenth of December
Nineteen hundred seventy five
Six O'Clock
The Diplomat-Palladian Rooms
Shoreham Americana Hotel
Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Leona R. Adams
Ms. Nancy Collins
The Hon. Donald C.
Mr. Barry Cooperstein
Alexander
Administrator, USCC
Commissioner
Atty. Edward Cooperstein
Internal Revenue Service
Mrs. Edward Cooperstein
Mrs. Donald C. Alexander
The Hon. Carl T. Curtis
Mr. Herman Alper
~ United States Senate
Mr. Michael Arkin
Mrs. Carl T. Curtis
Mrs. Michael Arkin
Mr. Jerry Aubrey
Mr. Dimitru Danielopol
Mrs. Jerry Aubrey
Mr. Alexander Davalos
Mrs. Alexander Davalos
Mr. Stanley Baer
Mr. John Dawson
Mrs. Alison W. Birch
Mrs. John Dawson
Miss Sally Bloom & Guests
Miss Deborah Gore Dean
H.E. Corneliu Bogdan
Mrs. Gordon Dean
Ambassador of Romania
Mr. Gordon Gore Dean
Mrs. Corneliu Bogdan
Miss Sue Dean
Mrs. William R. Bond
Mr. Vincent DeAngelis
Dr. Walter W. Boyd
Mrs. Vincent DeAngelis
Mrs. Walter W. Boyd
Mrs. Alice T. Deisroth
Mr. Charles H. Breecher
Mrs. Emery deHartman
Ms. Eva R. Brown
Mr. Leon Dekelbaum
Ms. Mary Bullock
Mr. Norman Dekelbaum
H.E. Dr. Miguel Angel Burelli
Mr. Sidney Dennerstein
Ambassador of Venezuela
Father Reginald deRocquois
Mrs. Miguel Angel Burelli
Pastor, Church of the
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke
Epiphany
former Chief of
Mr. Ralph deToledano
Naval Operations
Author
Mrs. Arleigh A. Burke
Mr. Ignatius DiCola
Ms. R. M. Burnside
Mrs. Ignatius DiCola
Col. Lawrence Bustle
Adm. Neil Dietrich
Mrs. Lawrence Bustle
Mr. Earle Donoho
The Hon. Earl L. Butz
Mrs. Earle Donoho
Secretary of Agriculture
Miss Julia Dorish
Mrs. Earl L. Butz
The Hon. Arthur T. Downey
Asst. Sec. of Commerce
Mrs. Arthur T. Downey
Ms. Roberta Chestnut
The Hon. Elbridge Durbrow
Miss Ann Coan
former U.S. Ambassador
Ms. Vivian Cohan
Mrs. Elbridge Durbrow
The Hon. Hal Eberle
The Hon. Loy W. Henderson
Asst. Sec. of the Treasury
Ms. Carolyn E. Herfurth
Mrs. Hal Eberle
President, Potomac
Mr. Morris Edeson
Republican Club
Mrs. Morris Edeson
Ms. Mary Jane Hill
Dr. Herman Efron
Mr. Joseph Hockstein
Mrs. Herman Efron
Mr. Samuel C. O. Holt
Father Herman Esselman
Mrs. Samuel C. O. Holt
Mr. Paul Horning
Mrs. Snowden Fahnestock
former Under Secretary
Ms. Bonnie Falk
of State
Mrs. Marie Federle
Mrs. Paul Horning
Miss Constance Ferrara
Mr. Ikey Hurt
Mr. Frederick Finn
Mrs. Ikey Hurt
Mrs. Frederick Finn
Mr. Gerald E. Hutchinson
Dr. Frederick W. Finn
Mrs. Gerald E. Hutchinson
Mrs. Frederick W. Finn
Mr. Jacob Flaks
Mr. Donald Irvine
Mrs. Jacob Flaks
Mr. Reed J. Irvine
Mrs. Mabel Fleming
Chairman, Accuracy in
Mrs. Katherine Forsyth
Media
Mrs. William Frazier
Mrs. Reed J. Irvine
Miss Millie Freeman
Miss Rosella Ivy
Gen. James C. Fry
Mr. Max Jaffe
Miss Melicia Garcia
Mrs. Livia Jancso
Mr. Austin P. Gattis
Ms. Florida Jenkins
Mrs. Austin P Gattis
Col. James W. Gerard
Mr. Lloyd R. Johnson
Mrs. Eunice Godbold
Mrs. Lloyd R. Johnson
Mr. Lauren Goin
Mr. Morgan Jones, III
The Hon. Louise Gore
Mrs. Morgan Jones, III
Chairman, Maryland
Bicentennial Commission
Ms. Mary Lee H. King
& Guests
The Hon. Thomas S. Kleppe
The Hon. Charles E.
Secretary of the Interior
Grassley
Mrs. Thomas S. Kleppe
House of Representatives
Lt. Col. William Konze
Mr. Robert Grimm
Mrs. William Konze
Mrs. Robert Grimm
Rabbi Baruch Korff
Mr. William Grove
President, USCC
Mrs. William Grove
Mrs. Baruch Korff
Mr. Frank Guaragno
Miss Zamira Korff
Mrs. Frank Guaragno
Miss Adina Kranz
Mr. Philip Guarino
Rabbi Herzel Kranz
Republican Nat'l. Comm.
Silver Spring Jewish
Mrs. Philip Guarino
Center
Mrs. Herzel Kranz
Mrs. Alvina Hagedorn
Mr. Dale Kruger
Mrs. Emma P. Hagedorn
& Guests
Atty. Raymond G. Larroca
Mr. Hermann Hagedorn
Adm. William Lawrence
Mr. William Hakkarian
Mrs. William Lawrence
Mrs. Katharine B. Hammett
Mr. Court Lee
Mrs. Catherine Hanson
Mrs. Court Lee
Mr. Menashe Hasson
Miss Pat Lee
Mrs. Menashe Hasson
Miss Grace Liscano
Mrs. Mildred Hatheway
Executive Sec., USCC
Mrs. Margaret C. Hauser
Mr. Henry Litton
H.E. All Hedda
Mrs. Henry Litton
Ambassador of Tunisia
Capt. Scott Lothrop
Mrs. All Hedda
Mrs. Scott Lothrop
Mrs. Gussie A. Hendershot
Ms. Ann Lowe
Mrs. William J. MacKenzie
Mrs. Lawrence Pratt
Mrs. Crawford Maddox
Dr. Cynthia Preiss
Ms. Frances E. Màhan
President, USCC
The Reverend Joseph Makov
California
Pastor, All Souls Memorial
Mr. Oliver Presbrey
Episcopal Church
Mrs. Joseph Makov
Miss Catherine V. Rainey
Mr. David Martin
Mr. Richard D. Reddick
Mrs. David Martin
Publisher, Human Events
Mrs. Catherine Mathias
Mrs. Richard D. Reddick
Mr. Grant E. Mayberry
Mr. Thomas Redmile
Mrs. Grant E. Mayberry
Mrs. Sarah Grace Reis &
The Hon. James A. McClure
Guests
United States Senate
Miss Kathy Renner
Mrs. James A. McClure
Mr. James W. Richardson
Mrs. Sylvia McKillips
Gen. William Ritchie
Mr. Bill McLaughlin
Mrs. William Ritchie
Mr. Bruce McLaughlin
Mr. Francisco Rodriguez
Mr. Jack McLaughlin
Mrs. Martha Rountree
& Guests
President, Leadership
Mrs. Jack McLaughlin
Foundation
Dr. John McLaughlin
The Hon. Russell A. Rourke
Mrs. John McLaughlin
The Hon. John H. Rousselot
Miss Ruth McLean
House of Representatives
Miss Sharon L. McManus
Mrs. John H. Rousselot
Mr. Jules Meisler
Mr. Lawrence Rubin
Mrs. Jules Meisler
'Mrs. Lawrence Rubin
Mrs. Bennett G. Miller
The Hon. Edward W. C.
National Coordinator
Russell
Back to God Movement
Mrs. Edward W. C. Russell
Mr. Harold Miller & Guests
Ms. Ruth S. Miller
Ms. Nadene H. Saxton
Mr. Girolamo Modesti
The Hon. Edward C.
U.S. Correspondent
Schmults
for La Nazione
Deputy Counsel to the
Miss Grace V. Montgomery
President
Miss Luz Patria Morales
Mrs. Edward C. Schmults
Mrs. Anna B. Murphy
Mr. Stanley Schofer
& Guests
Mrs. Stanley Schofer
Mr. Leslie P. Schultz
Gen. Uzi Narkiss
Mrs. Leslie P. Schultz
Israel
Miss Alice Schumacher
Col. William L. Nesley
Mr. Paul Schumacher
Mrs. William L. Nesley
Miss Susan Schwartz
H.E. Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-
Mr. Jack Odgaard
Sacasa
Executive Assistant
Ambassador of Nicaragua
to Senator Carl T. Curtis
Mr. Larry Shallenberger
Mrs. Jack Odgaard
Mrs. Larry Shallenberger
Mr. George Olsen
Mr. Don E. Shasteen
Miss Lyn Ornoff
Administrative Assistant
to Senator Carl T. Curtis
Mrs. Olive Pack
Mrs. Don E. Shasteen
Mr. Voja Pantelich
The Hon. Carl L. Shipley
Mrs. Voja Pantelich
& Guests
The Hon. Gerald L. Parsky
General Counsel, USCC
Asst. Sec. of the Treasury
Mrs. Carl L. Shipley
Mrs. Gerald L. Parsky
Mr. Grant Shrum
Mrs. Willard D. Pendleton
Mrs. Grant Shrum
Mr. Michael Pitcairn
Miss Florence Shute
Mr. Lawrence Pratt
Miss Aimee Simon
Treasurer, Heritage
Miss Julie Simon
Foundation
Miss Katie Simon
The Hon. William E. Simon
Ms. Margaret Thomas
Secretary of the Treasury
The Hon. Strom Thurmond
Mrs. William E. Simon
United States Senate
Mr. Jim Sites
Mrs. Strom Thurmond
LIBRARY FORD BERALD
Aide to Secretary Simon
Mr. Michael Timmons
Mrs. Jim Sites
The Hon. Webster B. Todd
Col. Dean Smith
Inspector General of
Mrs. Dean Smith
Foreign Assistance
Mr. Edward Smith
Mrs. Webster B. Todd
Miss Lorna L. Snyder
Mr. Elmer Treptow & Guests
Mr. Edwin Soforenko
Mrs. Edwin Soforenko
Ms. Josephine Upchurch
Mr. Lawrence Soforenko
Mrs. Helen Sollers-Riedel
Mr. Rich Vengazo
Mrs. Susan Soporn
Mrs. Rich Vengazo
Miss Margaret Sparks
& Guests
Miss Alice Waters
Ms. Lois M. Steele
Mr. Peter Waters
Mr. Benjamin Stein
Chief of Conservation
Arts Editor,
Library of Congress
Wall Street Journal
Mrs. Peter Waters
The Hon. Herbert Stein
Capt. Charles R. Watts
former Chairman,
Dr. Bettina Weary
President's Council of
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer
Economic Advisors
Mrs. Albert C. Wedemeyer
Mrs. Herbert Steln
Mr. Joseph West & Guests
Mr. William Steppe
Ms. Grace M. Westbrook
Mrs. William Steppe
Mr. AbBott W. Wigdor
Mrs. Bernard Stier
& Guests
Miss Jennifer Stier
Mrs. Alfred L. Wolf
Mr. Mitchell Stier
Mrs. Joanne E. Woodford
Mr. John N. Stratton
Mr. Robert Woodward
& Guests
& Guests
Adm. Elliott B. Strauss
Mrs. Robert Woodward
Board Chairman, USCC
Mrs. Elliott B. Strauss
Mr. Andrew Yankton
Dr. Robert Stroud
Mrs. Andrew Yankton
Mrs. Robert Stroud
Mr. Harry Young
Mrs. Harry Young
Mr. James S. Taylor
Mrs. James S. Taylor
Mrs. Rose Zallas
Mr. Leo Tew
Mrs. Leo Tew
(List incomplete)
FEB 9 1976
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"I am in earnest, / will not equivocate, / will not excuse, / will not retreat a single inch, and / will be heard!"
William Lloyd Garrison
Volume III
FEBRUARY 1976
GERALD R. FORM FOR BRA Number
2
Inside the USCC
BARUCH KORFF
WE, THE PEOPLE!
Baruch Korff, President of USCC,
A SALUTE TO
"Gods of Antenna"
is recovering from his recent illness.
LEADERSHIP
Review
To Patriotic Americans:
A monthly newsletter published by
the United States Citizens' Con-
Treasury Secretary William E.
(second in a series)
I need your help, and need it now.
By Ralph de Toledano
gress. Editorial offices: 1221 Con-
Simon is recovering from minor
You may know from our publication, "We, The People," the United States Citizens'
necticut Avenue, N.W., Washing-
Washington's Birthday
Bishop and Mrs. Willard
Bruce Herschensohn, who was a
Congress has embarked on an ambitious program to strengthen the fiber of our national
surgery.
heritage, reaching out to middle America, into cities, towns, villages and hamlets, draw-
ton, D.C. 20036.
February 22
special deputy assistant to President
ing on the human resources that made this nation.
Pendleton of our Philadelphia con'-
National Officers
1:00 P.M.
tingent have returned from a de-
Nixon, has written a book which
One of our cardinal objectives is to help make our Bicentennial a time of renewal,
giving voice to the principles that guided this nation at its birth and sustained our
Baruch Korff
Grand Ballroom
should make embattled Americans
Founding Fathers.
President
served holiday in Puerto Rico.
Mayflower Hotel
Congratulations to Senator and Mrs.
in this Bicentennial year reach for
Following the first Bicentennial Salute on December 14 in our nation's capital, we have
Elliott B. Strauss
scheduled three more; one on Washington's Birthday, February 22, another on July 4,
Washington, D.C.
Chairman, Board of Directors
Strom Thurmond on the birth of
their pitchforks. Its title is The Gods
and the third around Thanksgiving, with intermediate programs by our affiliates in
other parts of the country.
Jack McLaughlin
their fourth child, Paul Reynolds
BICENTENNIAL AWARDS
of Antenna (Arlington House, New
The first of our programs left us with a financial deficit which we are hard pressed to
Treasurer
Thurmond.
Rochelle, N.Y. 10801). Its theme,
meet, putting restraints on the implementation of our overall objectives. The USCC is
Our congratulations
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manned largely by volunteers who work long hours because they believe in what they
Secretary
and gratitude to Grace Montgomery
to quote the book jacket:
are doing. So do 1. Were it not for these blessed volunteers the USCC might not have
survived to mark the Bicentennial.
and Florence Shute on logging 500
Mail your reservations to
"A powerful new institution-not
Carl L. Shipley
Miss Grace Montgomery,
This is why I turn to you for help to fund our Bicentennial programs and to further
General Counsel
volunteer hours.
Gerald S. Aren-
in our Constitution, nor subject to
our goals as outlined in the enclosed Bicentennial Manifesto. take personal pride in
United States Citizens' Con-
soliciting you because from our covenant, yours and mine, will spring thousands of
Ralph de Toledano
berg, Executive Director of the Na-
gress, 1221 Connecticut
the vote of the people," is "by a
others and raise the hope for renewed beginning in the third century of our national
being.
Editor
tional Police and Firefighters Asso-
Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
pervasive bias which threatens
I know you feel as keenly as I do about our nation's future. So much has to be done
All comments and letters to WE,
ciation, recently wrote us, "We reach
20036.
America's future as a free country"
before it's too late. Challenges lie ahead; hope you will respond accordingly.
THE PEOPLE! should be addressed
members and citizens who are con-
responsible for the political lynch-
Faithfully yours,
to the editor, who is solely respon-
sible for the content of the news-
cerned about public safety and your
letter.
heat and blind passions of decades
ing of a President, the defeat in
Citizens' Congress is concerned
will have abated and stilled by the
Vietnam, and more recently the de-
about our nation's safety."
And
struction of the nation's first line of
Baruch Korff, President
a
application of peaceful and practi-
United States Citizens' Congress
NIXON
letter from Phil W. Garrison, Col-
cal solutions in the region. In keep-
defense-its Intelligence services.
1221 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
(Continued from page 1)
onel, USAF (ret.): "I have been a
ing with their newly earned stature,
That thesis is abundantly and
Washington, D.C. 20036
SADAT and RABIN will be mak-
conscienciously sustained-and the
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contributor to your cause and I am
amounted to an unconstitutional
in accord with virtually all of your
ing state visits to the United States,
book must be read in order to get
follow in which that theuanda of Federal
February 10, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JACK MARSH
FROM:
RUSS ROURKE
Jack, as I mentioned to you, Milt Mitler has agreed to
call Rabbi Korff and to meet with him here In Washington.
I am, in fact, sending Milt my "complimentary" ticket
for the Sunday, February 22, luncheon.
Milt will report back to you on the substance of his
meeting.
Handwritten P.S.:
Milt has reported in. He met w/Korff for 1 1/2 hours. Wants
P to attend luncheon. Also wants to meet w/you. I shot both
proposals down and am now working w/Milt on preparation of
an appropriate message from P to luncheon.
Russ
GERALD - LIBRARY FORD
Russ- call-
Feb. 9
meet w/milt
THE WHITE HOUSE
is
WASHINGTON
GERALD
TODPLIBRARY
Mr. Marsh:
Rabbi Korff's office called this
morning. Korff would like to
meet with you either sometime
today or tomorrow. According
to Barry Cooperstein, Rabbi
Korff is still very ill but has
come down from Boston with the
hope of meeting with you. The
Rabbi Korff is staying at the
Mayflower Hotel and Cooperstein
was hoping a meeting could
take place there.
Do you want to see him:
Yes
No
Where
donna
347-6597
KORFF, BARUCH RABBI
PRES. INVITATIONS (REGRETTED)
FEB 18 1976
February 13, 1976
Dear Rabbi Korff:
As we discussed, I talked to both Jack Marsh and the
President's Director of Scheduling concerning your
request for February 22nd.
I know you are sensitive to the excessive demands being
made on President Ford's time during this Bicentennial
year. There are so many exceptional and meaningful
Bicentennial programs which are seeking his. participation.
Unfortunately, for February 22nd, there are prior commit-
ments which we believe the President is obligated to keep.
Consequently, he will not be able to accept your kind
invitation and participate in your Bicentennial Awards
Luncheon. He does, however, appreciate the fact that
you will be appropriately honoring some of our nation's
outstanding citizens.
In recognition of the Bicentennial aspects of your event,
I have enclosed a special Bresidential message. Jack
also asked me to extend his personal appreciation for
your interest and for the role you and your organization
are playing in the commemoration of our nation's 200th
anniversary.
My very best wishes.
Sincerely,
Milton E. Mitler
Deputy Special Assistant
Rabbi Baruch Korff
1221 Connecticut Avenue, NI.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Enclosure: Special Message
MEM/abh
2cc: Sandy Drake
CC: Russ Rourke
cc: John 0. Marsh
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
February 13, 1976
We now mark the beginning of our Third
Century as an Independent Nation as well
as the 200th Anniversary of the American
Revolution. For two centuries our Nation
has grown, changed and flourished. A
the earth, have joined together to fulfill
America's Dicentensial is rich in history
years that lie ahead. It is about the
regretting for the President.
Individual:
diverse people, drawn from all corners of
the promise of democracy.
and in the promise and potential of the
events of our past, our achievements, our
traditions, our diversity, our freedoms,
our form of government and our continuing
commitment to a better life for all Ameri-
cans. The Bicentennial offers each of us
the opportunity to join with our fellow
citizens in honoring the past and preparing
for the future in communities across the
Nation. Thus, in joining together as races,
nationalities, and individuals, we also re-
tain and strengthen our traditions, back-
ground and personal freedom.
As we lay the cornerstone of America's Third
Century, I am especially pleased to commend
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the United States Citizens' Congress who,
along with many other groups and organizations,
is paying appropriate tribute to our nation's
Invited President to attend Bicentennial Luncheon on February 22,
Rabbi Baruch Korff/1221 Connecticut Avenue/Wash. D. 20036
200th Anniversary. Through a special Bicen-
tonnial Luncheon honoring Secretary of Agri-
culture Earl L. Butz, Senator Strom Thursond,
Ms. Martha Roundtree, Mr. J. Leon Altemose,
Mr. Joseph E. Fernandes, Mr. Lloyd Bo Johnson,
and Dr. Joseph Zones, you are helping to make
our national celebration a memorable and mean-
ingful one for all.
MEM/sjd
3cc: S. Drake/cc: D. Downtown/B. Hasek/J. Connor/R. Nessen
Jack Marsh/Russ Rourke.
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Dear Rabbi Korff:
Many thanks for your kind invitation and
complimentary ticket to attend "A Salute
to Leadership" February 22.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend
because I will be away from the Washington
area this weekend.
I sincerely appreciate your inviting me and
my best wishes for a most successful event.
With kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely,
John O. Marsh, Jr.
Counsellor to the President
Rabbi Baruch Korff
1221 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
JOM/dl
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BY HELEN THOMAS
UPI WHITE HOUSE REPORTER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- THE STATE DEPARTMENT "URGED" AND "ENCOURAGED"
FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD N. NIKON TO MAKE HIS TRIP TO CHINA, RABBI
BARUCH KORFF SAID TODAY.
KORFF TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE NIKON WAS NOT "PHYSICALLY OR
EMOTIONALLY IN CONDITION TO UNDERTAKE THE TRIP" BUT WENT ANYWAY AT
THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE
POLITICAL UPHEAVAL IN CHINA.
KORFF HAS BEEN A SPOKESMAN FOR NIXON SINCE THE FORMER PRESIDENT
RESIGNED IN AUGUST OF 1974 AS A RESULT OF THE WATERGATE SCANDAL.
BOTH THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAVE INSISTED THAT
NI ON WAS ON A "PRIVATE VISIT" AS A "PRIVATE CITIZEN." SECRETARY OF
SATE HENRY A. KISSINGER HAS SAID NIKON WOULD BE DEBRIEFED BY
ADHINISTRATION OFFICIALS.
KORFF SAID KISSINGER DISCUSSED THE TRIP WITH NIKON THREE DAYS
BEFORE PRESIDENT FORD WAS INFORMED BY CHINESE OFFICIALS THAT NIKON
HAD ACCEPTED THE INVITATION. NIKON LATER CALLED FORD TO INFORM HIM.
KISSINGER HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID HE DISCUSSED "CHINA" WITH NI ON AT
NIKON'S SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF., ESTATE BUT NOT THE TRIP.
"HE UNDERTOOK THIS TRIP FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY," KORFF SAID.
"THE OPPORTUNITY AROSE DUE TO THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE IN CHINA WHERE WE
HAD NO INKLING (OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING) AND ALL THE CHINA WATCHERS
WERE DUMBFOUNDED.'
"THE STATE DEPARTMENT URGED NIXON TO GO," HE SAID. "HE WAS
ENCOURAGED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT."
HE TOLD REPORTERS HE IS RESIGNING AS HEAD OF THE PRESIDENT NIXON
JUSTICE FUND AND WAS ISSUING AN APPEAL FOR $220,000 TO COMPLETE
PAYMENT OF NIKON'S LEGAL FEES. SO FAR THE FUND HAS RAISED $280,000,
HE SAID.
KORFF HAS BEEN AILING IN RECENT MONTHS. HE ATTEMPTED TO RESIGN
LAST SPRING, BUT WAS URGED BY NIXON TO STAY ON.
KORFF INDICATED HE WOULD WRITE A BOOK. HE SAID HIS FUND RAISING ON
BEHALF OF NIXON WOULD BE CONTINUED BY THE UNITED STATES CITIZENS'
CONGRESS.
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ASHINGTON AP - Rabbi Baruch Korff said today that former
President Richard Nixon went to China reluctantly but "at the
encouragement of the State Department.,
The rabbi who has headed a drive that raised $280.000 for Nixon's
legal fight to retain control of his presidential tapes and papers,
said. don't think he really wanted to 30 now."
But Korff said the Chinese wanted Nixon's visit to coincide with the
four-year anniversary of his door-opening trip to Pekinj as president
and that the State Department viewed their invitation as a unique
opportunity to learn about the political ferment in China.
The State Department has said assertions that it encouraged Lixon's
present trip are "untrue."
At his news conference last week. President Ford said Nixon was
given no special briefings for his trip. The President has said in an
interview since that he will decide when Nixon returns whether to
discuss the journey with him.
However, the secretary of state has said Nixon will report to the
government and that "we will of course, wish to learn of the nature
of his discussions and impressions."
At a news conference Korff said .ixon's health still is precarious
and that I don't think he can stand 30 minutes on his feet." Korff
said the former president's blood pressure fluctuates and that he
still is taking anticoagulant drugs to fight off a recurrence of
phlebitis.
A medical corpsman with Nixon in Peking has said the former
president must be on his feet for no longer than two hours at a time.
"The State Department urged him. encouraged him to make the trip at
this time " the rabbi said. He would not say where he got his
information, but said he talked with Nixon the day before the China
trip was announced.
Asked why the State Department urged Nixon to go, Korff said the
United States and other nations were caught off gúard by internal
developments in China, where Hua Kuo-feng was made acting premier to
succeed the late Chou En-lai.
"dere is an opportunity to get the most intimate picture of what is
going on there, " Korff added. "You do not believe that the man who
opened the door to China will be useful in making an assessment?"
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Korff called the news conference in his hotel room to announce that
he is resigning from the President Nixon Justice Fund because "I can
no longer carry the burdens.
He said he is confident that $220. 000 still needed to pay the bills
for Nixon's fight for his papers and tapes will be raised by the end
of march. A three-judge court recently ruled against the former
president and the fight is being carried to the Supreme Court.
Korff 61, said he will return to his home in Rehoboth. Mass.
The rábbi said the news media have fostered the idea that the Nixon
trip is an embarrassment to Ford.
*The Nixon syndrome hasn't abated " Korff said. 6*It"S very hard
for those who oppose him to see that there is an element of
påtriotism."
Mixon's visit to China is stirring criticism from both sides of the
political spectrum but has won the support of Senate majority Leader
mike mansfield.
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