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Memo from Henry Loomis to RN RE: January 11 Task Force Dinner appearance. 2 pgs. [Memo], 1/9/1969
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Memo from Buchanan to RN RE: Saturday Night's Appearance at the Task Force Dinner. 1 pg. [Memo], 1/7/1968
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library
White House Special Files Collection
Folder List
Box Number
Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
7
1
01/09/1969
Memo
Memo from Henry Loomis to RN RE:
January 11 Task Force Dinner appearance. 2
pgs.
7
1
N.D.
Other Document
List of Nixon Task Forces and Chairmen. 2
pgs.
7
1
N.D.
Other Document
Alphabetical membership list of Nixon Task
Forces. 27 pgs.
7
1
N.D.
Memo
Memo from Buchanan to Haldeman RE:
Speech draft for RN's appearance at the Task
Force Dinner. 1 pg.
7
1
N.D.
Memo
Memo from Buchanan to RN RE: Rough
draft of suggested remarks for the Task
Force Dinner. 4 pgs.
7
1
01/07/1968
Memo
Memo from Buchanan to RN RE: Saturday
Night's Appearance at the Task Force
Dinner. 1 pg.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Page 1 of 2
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
7
1
01/10/1968
Other Document
Draft by Buchanan of remarks for the
Saturday Night Task Force Meeting / Dinner.
13 pgs.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Page 2 of 2
January 9, 1969
To: The President-Elect
From: Henry Loomis Hh
Re: Task Force Dinner - January 11
The reception and dinner at the Pierre, will be
attended by approximately 260 members of the 21 Task
Forces, most of the Cabinet-elect, and many of your
staff.
During Friday and Saturday, each Task Force will
have spent two hours with the concerned Cabinet
secretaries and members of your staff, amplifying
their reports and answering questions. The reports
will not be made public.
Cocktails begin at 6, in the Ballroom Foyer of
the Pierre. There will be a receiving line with
Dr. Burns and Dr. McCracken, in addition to yourself.
Dinner begins at 7. The head table will consist
of the 20 Task Force chairmen (one chairman has two
Task Forces); Drs. Burns, McCracken, Anderson and
Loomis.
You will be seated between:
Russell Train, Chairman of the Environment and
Resources Task Force, Under-Secretary of Interior-
designate, now President of the Conservation Foundation,
ex-Judge on the Tax Court and ex-Congressional staff.
Charles Townes, Chairman of the Space Task Force,
now Professor of Physics at the University of California,
and long at M.I.T. He won the Nobel Prize for inventing
the laser.
(continued)
The President-Elect
January 9, 1969
The Cabinet and your staff will be seated through-
out the room to afford the widest exposure to the Task
Force members.
After dinner, I will introduce the head table;
Dr. McCracken will talk about the Task Forces for five
minutes; Dr. Burns will describe his program in five
minutes, and then you will speak. Your speech will be
filmed.
The majority of Task Force members are from leading
university faculties. Many are economists. There are
a significant number of industrial, banking and foundation
leaders, as well as specialists in crime, education,
conservation, health, etc. An alphabetical list is
attached.
Drs. Burns, McCracken, and I believe this would
be a most appropriate forum at which to discuss the
formation of mutually beneficial relationships between
your Administration and intellectuals--thinkers in
industry, foundations, and universities.
The following nine Task Force members have received
appointments in your Administration:
George Shultz
Eliott Richardson
Russell Train
David Packard
Robert Seamans
Robert Mayo
Paul McCracken
Herbert Stein
Hendrik Houthakker
HL/sp
Attachment
NIXON TASK FORCES
McCracken, Paul, Chairman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Loomis, Henry, Executive Director, Washington, D. C.
Chairman
Task Force
Banfield, Edward C.
Urban Affairs
Professor of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cornuelle, Richard C.
Voluntary Action
Director
Center of Independent Action
New York, New York
Dunlop, John T.
Health
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gaynor, James
Housing and Urban Renewal
Commissioner, New York State Division of
Housing and Community Renewal
New York, New York
*Greenspan, Alan
International Trade
Townsend-Greenspan & Co.
New York, New York
Haberler, Gottfried
International Economic Policy
Professor of International Trade
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lindsay, Franklin A.
Government Organization
President, Itek Corporation
Lexington, Massachusetts
Meiselman, David
Inflation
Professor of Economics
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota
Miller, Charles L.
Transportation
Chairman, Civil Engineering Dept.
M.I.T.
Boston, Massachusetts
Nathan, Richard P.
Intergovernmental Fiscal
Brookings Institution
Relations
Washington, D. C.
Nathan, Richard P.
Public Welfare
Brookings Institution
Washington, D. C.
O'Leary, James J.
Federal Lending and Loan
Lionel D. Edie & Co.
Guaranty Programs
New York, New York
Pifer, Alan
Education
Carnegie Corporation
New York, New York
Shultz, George P.
Manpower-Labor/Management
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Relations
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Stein, Herbert
Fiscal Policy
Brookings Institution
Washington, D. C.
Stever, H. Guyford
Science
President, Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*Stiegler, George
Productivity & Competition
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Townes, Charles
Space
Professor of Physics
University of California
Berkeley, California
Train, Russell E.
Resources and Environment
President, The Conservation Foundation
Washington, D. C.
Ture, Norman B.
Tax Legislation
Planning Research Corporation
Washington, D. C.
Younger, Evelle J.
Crime & Law Enforcement
District Attorney, County of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Membership List - Nixon Tack Forces
Ackerman, Edward A.
Carnegie Institution
Washington, D.C.
Alexander, John H.
Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie
Alexander & Mitchell
Altshuler, Alan
Associate Professor of Political
Science
M.I.T.
Alvarez, Luis
Professor of Physics
University of California
Areeda, Phillip
Professor - Law School
Harvard University
Axelrod, Solomon J.
Professor, Medical School
University of Michigan
101
Bacon, Warren H.
Ass't. Dir., Industrial Relations
Inland Steel Company, Chicago
Bailey, Martin J.
School of Business
University of Rochester
Bailey, Stephen K.
Dean, The Maxwell School
Syracuse University
Baker, Michael Jr.
President
Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.
Rochester, Pa.
B (continued)
Baker, William
Bell Laboratories
Balles, John
Mellon National Bank
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Banfield, Edward C.
Professor of Government
Harvard University
Banner, Knox
Executive Director
Downtown Progress
Washington, D.C.
Barnard, Robert
Boeing Co.
Seattle, Washington
Bartlett, Robert G.
Secretary of Highways
Harrisburg, Pa.
Becker, Arthur
Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie,
Alexander & Mitchell
Becker, Gary S.
Professor - Dept. of Economics
Columbia University
Bell, David
Ford Foundation
New York City
Bennett, James V.
Former Director
U.S. Bureau of Prisons 1927-64
Beresford, Spencer
Batzell & Nunn
Washington, D.C.
3 (continued)
Blue, George R.
Beard, Blue, Schmitt & Treen
New Orleans
Bogan, Eugene F.
Bogan & Freeland
Washington
Bowman, Ward
Professor, Law School
Yale University
Braman, J.D.
Mayor
City of Seattle
Branscomb, Lewis M.
Joint Institute for Laboratory
Astrophysics
Boulder, Colorado
Brim, Orville
Russell Sage Foundation
New York
Brown, Charles E.
Ford Foundation
Brown, Douglass V.
Sloan School of Management
M.I.T.
Buchanan, James
Professor of Economics
University of Virginia
Burkhardt, John
President
College Life Ins. Co. of America
Indianapolis
Burton, Everett
District Attorney
Portsmouth, Ohio
(continued)
Lewis H.
San Francisco
Butler, Warren
Legis. Ass't. to Cong. Widnall
Washington, D.C.
10
Cain, Stanley A.
School of Natural Resources
Univ. of Michigan
Calkins, Hugh
Junes, Day, Cockley & Reavis
Cleveland
Callender, Eugene S.
Housing & Development Administration
City of New York
Callison, Charles H.
National Audubon Society
New York
Casey, William J.
Hall, Casey, Dickler & Howley
New York
Chorington, Paul W.
Prof. of Transportation
Harvard Univ.
Clauser, Francis H.
Dept. of Mechanics
University of California
Santa Cruz
Claytor, W. Graham
Pres.
Southern Railway System
Washington, D.C.
Coase, Ronald
University of Chicago
= (continued)
Cohen, Edwin S.
University of Va. Law School
Charlottesville, Va.
Cole, Al
Chairman of Executive Comm.
Reader's Digest Assoc.
Pleasantville, N. Y.
Coleman, James S.
Professor of Sociology
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Colman, Wm. G.
Staff Director
Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations
Washington, D.C.
Conklin, George T. Jr.
Executive V.P.
Guardian Life Insurance Co.
of America
New York
Cornuelle, Richard C.
Director
Center of Independent Action
New York City
Cox, Laurence
Executive Director
Redevelopment & Housing Authority
Norfolk, Va.
Cramton, Roger
Univ. of Michigan
Cremin, Lawrence
Teachers College
Columbia University
U
Dam, Kenneth
Professor
Univ. of Chicago
Daniel, Mrs. Eleanor S.
Director of Economic Research
Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y.
Davis, John
Superintendent of Schools
Minneapolis, Minn.
Dearing, J. Earl
Prosecuting Attorney
Louisville, Kentucky
DeGrazia, Alfred
New York University
New York City
Diaz, Michael
Pres.
American Export Lines
Diebold, William Jr.
Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
New York, N.Y.
Donnelly, Theodore F.
Deputy Chief Inspector
Suffolk County Police Dept.
New York
Downs, Anthony Sr.
V.P.
Real Estate Research Corp.
Chicago
Duggan, Robert
District Attorney
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dunham, Allison
Professor of Law
Univ. of Chicago
Dunlop, John T.
Professor, Dept. of Economics
Harvard University
Its
Ebert, Robert
Professor
Harvard Univ.
all (continued)
Scker-Racz, Laslo
Washington Center for
Metropolitan Studies
Washington, D.C.
Egberg, Roger
Dean, Medical School
Univ. of Southern California
Ehrenkrantz, Ezra
Pres.
Building Systems Development
Corporation
San Francisco, Calif.
Elliott, Wright
V.P.
National Association of
Manufacturers
New York, N.Y.
[12]
Farmer, James
Professor
Lincoln Univ.
Fellner, William
Professor, Dept. of Economics
Yale University
Fisher, Joseph L.
Pres.
Resources for the Future
Washington, D.C.
Fletcher, James
Professor, Univ. of Utah
Folsom, Marion (former Secretary of HEW)
Rochester, New York
Ford, James
Director of Economics
Ford Motor Co.
Detroit
Did (continued)
Forman, Loren V.
Scott Paper Co.
Philadelphia
Foster, Charles H.W.
Conservation Foundation
Washington, D.C.
Frankel, Ernst, G.
Dept. Naval Architecture &
Marine Engineering
M.I.T.
Frieden, Bernard
Professor of City Planning
M.I.T.
Q
Gaines, Mrs. Edythe J.
District Superintendent School
District #12
Bronx, N.Y.
Gaines, Tilford C.
V.P.
Manufactuers Hanover Trust Co.
New York
Gallagher, Harold J.
Senior Partner
Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher
New York
Garrison, William L.
Director
Center for Urban Studies
Univ. of Illinois
Garvey, Willard
The Garvey Foundation
Wichita, Kansas
Gaynor, James
Commissioner, N.Y. State Div.
of Housing & Community Renewal
New York
G (continued)
Gell-Mann, Murray
Prof. of Physics
Calif. Institute of Technology
Gilpatric, Roswell
Crovath, Swaine and Moore
New York
Ginsburg, Mitchell
Administrator of Human Resources
Admin.
New York, N.Y.
Glazer, Nathan
Professor of Sociology
Univ. of Calif.
Berkeley
Gleason, John M.
National Director
Boys' Clubs of America
Goddard, Maurice K.
Dept. of Forests and Waters
Harrisburg, Pa.
Goodwin, Richard
Boston, Mass.
Gorham, William
Pres.
The Urban Institute
Washington, D.C.
Green, Gershon
Office of Economic Opportunity
Washington, D.C.
Greenspan, Alan
Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Inc.
New York, N.Y.
H
Haberler, Gottfried
Prof. of International Trade
Harvard Univ.
M (continued
Handler, Philip
Duke Univ.
Herberger, Arnold
Univ. of Chicago
Harriss, C. Lowell
Dept. of Economics
Columbia Univ.
New York
Hart, Orson, H.
Vice Pres.
N.Y. Life Ins. Co.
New York
Hasebroock, Mrs. Wm. H.
Vice President
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge, Pa.
Heimann, John G.
V.P.
E.M. Warburg & Co.
New York, N.Y.
Hess, Harry
Professor of Geology
Princeton University
Hilbert, Morton
Chairman
Dept. of Enviornmental Health
Univ. of Michigan
Hoadley, Walter
Bank of America
San Francisco, Calif.
Horn, Stephen
Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
Horowitz, Norman H.
Professor of Biology
JPL - Cal. Tech.
Pasadena
= == (continued)
Houthakker, Hendrik S.
Professor of Economics
Harvard Univ.
Hugo, Michael
American Enterprise Institute
for Public Policy Research
Washington, D.C.
Hurd, T. N.
Director of the Budget
New York State
Albany, N. Y.
191
Jackson, Samuel C.
Vice Pres.
American Arbitration Assoc.
Washington, D.C.
Jacobs, Marshall
Jacobs, Persinger & Parker
New York
James, H Thomas
Dean
School of Education
Stanford Univ.
Johnson, Alfred
Director of Research
Investment Company Institute
Johnson, William
V.P
Center for Independent Action
LaMesa, Calif.
Jones, Oliver H.
Executive Direc.
Mortgage Bankers Assoc.
Washington, D.C.
Kahn, Joseph
Chairman of Board
Seatrain Lines
New York
Kain, John
Assoc. Professor of Economics
Harvard Univ.
Kaufman, Henry
Salomon Bros. & Hutzler
Keppel, Francis
Chairman of the Board
General Learning Corp.
New York, N.Y.
Kerr, Clark
Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education
Berkeley, Calif.
Khosrovi, Mrs. Carol M.
Legislative Ass't. to
Senator Percy
Washington, D.C.
King, Melvin H
Director
New Urban League
Boston
Klaman, Saul B.
V.P.
National Assoc. of Mutual Savings
Banks
Klein, Solomon A
Chief Counsel, Judicial Inquiry
N.Y. State Appellate Div.
Kristol, Irving
V.P
Basic Books, Inc.
Lery, Hal
Nat'l. Bureau of Economic
Research
NYC
Lee, Sidney
Associate Dean, Medical School
Harvard University
Lenher, Samuel
Vice Pres.
DuPont
Wilmington, Del.
Leonard, Donald S.
Exec. Judge Pro-Tem
Recording Courts
Detroit
Levitan, Sar
Center for Manpower Policy Studies
George Washington Univ.
Washington, D.C.
Letson, John
Superintendent of Schools
Atlanta, Georgia
Lindsay, Franklin A
Pres. - ITEK Corp.
Lexington
Lindsay, Gardner
U. of Texas
Texas
Livermore, Norman B. Jr.
The Resources Agency
Sacramento, Calif.
Livernash, E Robert
Professor
Graduate School of Business Admin.
Harvard Univ.
I, (continued)
Livingston, Frederick
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays &
Handler
New York City
Locke, Robert W.
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
New York City
Loomis, Henry
Washington, D.C.
Loshbough, Bernard E
Action-Housing, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Luce, Charles F.
Consolidated Edison Co.
New York City
M
MacInery, Wilbur
Pres. Blue Cross
Chicago
McAndrew, Gordon
Superintendent of Schools
Gary, Ind.
McClaughry, John
Member of Legislature
Vermont
McCracken, Paul
Prof. of Economics
U. of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
McDermott, Walsh
Professor
Cornell Univ.
McDonald, Robert J.
Sullivan & Cromwell
New York City
of (continued)
McKissick, Floyd
McKissick Enterprises
NYC
Madden, Carl
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D.C.
Mangum, Garth L.
Professor
Center for Manpower Policy Studies
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Manvel, Allen D.
Advisory Commission on Inter-
governmental Relations
Washington, D.C.
Marberger, Carl L
Commissioner of Education
State Dept. of Education
Trenton, N J.
Mason, Charles
V.P.
United Airlines
Chicago
Maxwell, James A.
Professor
Dept. of Economics
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
May, Ernest
Professor
Harvard Univ.
Maynard, William P.
President
Atlanta Transit Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
Mayo, Robert P.
V.P.
Continental Ill. Nat'l. Bank
& Trust Co.
Chicago
A (continued)
Neier, John H
Ex-Aide
Hughes-Nevada Operations
Las Vegas, Nev.
Meiselman, David
Prof. of Economics
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minn.
Morriam, Robert
Univ. Patents, Inc.
Chicago, Ill.
Mettler, Rubin F
Pres.
TRW Systems Inc.
Redondo Beach, Calif.
Meyer, Clarence A.H
Attorney General
State of Nebraska
Meyerson, Martin
Pres.
State Univ. of N.Y. at
Buffalo
Miles, Rufus
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton Univ.
Miller, Arjay
Vice Chairman, Bd. of Directors
Ford Motor Co.
Dearborn, Mich.
Miller, Charles L
Chairman
Civil Engineering Dept.
M.I.T.
Miller, Jack
U.S. Senate
Mock, H. Byron
Public Land Law Review Commission
Salt Lake City
M (continued)
Moor, Roy
The Fidelity Bank
Philadelphia, Pa.
Morrissett, Lloyd N.
Carnegie Corp.
NYC.
Mossman, Keith D.
Prosecuting Attorney
Benton County, Iowa
Murray, Roger F.
Executive V.P.
Teachers Ins, & Annuity Assoc.
Murray, Walter
Professor of Education
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, N.Y.
N
Nathan, Richard P.
Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
Neal, Alfred C.
President
Comm. for Economic Development
New York City
Nichols, Louis
Former Ass't. to Director FBI
Noyes, Guy E.
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
New York City
Nunez, Lewis
Ex. Director of ASPIRA
New York City, N.Y.
0
O'Dell, C. Robert
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wisconsin
O'Ioncy, James J.
Lichel D. Edie & Co., Inc.
Now York City
Olsen, Leif H.
First Nat'l. City Bank
0'Neill, Richard W.
House & Home
N.Y.C.
Orell, Bernard L.
Weyerhaeuser Co.
Tacoma, Wash.
I'v
Packard, David
Hewlitt-Packard
Calif.
Pake, George
Washington Univ.
St. Louis, Mo.
Passonneau, Joseph
Cross-Town Design Team
Chicago, Ill.
Patricelli, Robert E.
Minority Counsel
Senate Comm. on Education & Labor
Washington, D.C.
Perkins, John
President
Dun & Bradstreet
New York City, N.Y.
Pettingill, Daniel
Senior Vice President
Aetna Life Ins. Co.
New York City, N.Y.
Phelps, Edmund
Professor
U. of Pa.
Phila., Pa.
Phillips, Christ
er H.
U.S. Council of ...e Int'l. Chamber
of Commerce
N.Y.C.
Pifer, Alan
Carnegie Corp.
New York City
Pollner, Martin R.
Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie
Alexander & Mitchell
Posner, Richard
Professor
Stanford Univ.
Calif.
Price, Don
Professor
Kennedy School of Gov't.
Harvard Univ.
Pritchard, Allen E. Jr.
Nat'l. League of Cities
Washington, D C.
Prochnow, Herbert V.
First National Bank
Chicago
Puckett, Alan
Exec. Vice President
Hughes Aircraft
Culver City, Calif.
R
Reddin, Thomas
Chief of Police
Los Angeles County
Calif.
Reder, Melvin W.
Dept. of Economics
Stanford U.
Stanford, Calif.
Reed, Nathanel P
Conservation Advisor to
Gov. of Florida
Tallahassee, Fla.
(continued)
Reinert, Paul
Pres.
St. Louis Univ.
St. Louis, Mo.
Revelle, Roger
Professor
Harvard Univ.
Richardson, Elliot
Attorney General
State of Mass.
Boston
Ripley S. Dillon
Secretary
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D C
Roberts, Walter O.
Nat'l. Center for Atmospheric
Research
Boulder, Colorado
Robeson, Mark D.
Executive V.P.
Yellow Transit Co.
Kansas City, Mo.
Rockefeller, Laurence S.
Citizens Comm. on Recreation &
Natural Beauty
NYC
Ronan, William
Chairman
Metropolitan Commutor Transportation
Authority
New York
Ruina, Jack
Vice President
M.I.T.
Saulnier, R&
J.
Dept. of Econ
CS
Barnard College
NYC
Schmidt, Wilbur
Secretary
Dept. Health & Social Services
Madison, Wisc.
Schmidt, Wilson
Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.
Blacksburg, Va.
Schnitzer, Martin
Virginia Polytechnic Inst.
Blacksburg, Va.
Schott, Francis H.
2nd V.P.
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
the U.S.
Schriever, Bernard A.
Schriever-McKee Associates
Arlington, Va.
Schultz, Charles
Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
Seamans, Robert
Professor
Aeronautical Engineering
M.I.T.
Seitz, Fred
President
Rockefeller Univ.
Shapiro, Eli
Professor, Harvard Univ.
Siciliano, Rocco
Pacific Maritime Assoc.
San Francisco, Calif.
S (continued)
Shultz, George P.
Dean
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Sillin, Lelan F Jr.
Northwest Utilities
Hartford, Conn.
Silverstein, Leonard L.
Silverstein & Mullins
Washington, D.C.
Simonds, John O
American Society of Landscape
Architects
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Smith, Dan Throop
Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business
Administration
Harvard Graduate School
Smith, M Frederik
American Conservation Assoc.
NYC
Smith, Russell A.
Univ. of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor
Spater, George A.
Pres.
American Airlines, Inc.
NYC
Starr, Roger
Exec. Director
Citizens Housing & Planning
Council of N.Y.
NYC
Stauffacher, Charles
Continental Can Co.
NYC
Stein, Herbert
Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
Steiner, Peter
Professor
Univ. of Michigan
Michigan
Sternlieb, George
Professor
Graduate School of Business
Rutgers Univ.
New Brunswick, N.J.
Stever, Dr. H. Guyford
President
Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Stewart, John
Past President
National Law Enforcement Assoc. 1964-65
Stiegler, George
Graduate School of Business
Univ. of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Stockfisch, J.A.
Institute for Defense Analysis
Arlington, Va.
Stone, Walter E. (Colonel)
Superintendent
Shode Island State Police
Sundquist, James
Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
T
Thompson, Wayne E.
Dayton Corp.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Townes, Charles
Prof. of Physics
Univ. of California
Berkeley
Train, Russell E
President
The Conservation Foundation
Washington, D C.
Tukey, John W
Dept. of Statistics
Princeton Univ.
Ture, Norman B.
Planning Research Corp.
Washington, D.C.
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Van Allen, James
Prof. of Physics
Iowa State University
Iowa
Varn, Wilfred C.
Ervin, Pennington, Varn & Jacobs
Tallahassee, Fla.
Velde, Richard
Ass't. to Senator Hruska
Vernon, Raymond
Professor of International Trade
& Investment
Harvard Univ.
Voorhees, Alan M.
President
Alan M. Voorhees & Assoc.
McLean, Va.
Walker, Cora T.
East Harlem Consumers Cooperative
NYC
Walker, Eric
President
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Walkowitz, Ted
Rockefeller Bros. Fund
NYC
Wallich, Henry C.
Yale Univ.
New Haven, Conn.
Wallis, W Allen
Pres.
Univ. of Rochester
New York
Ways, Max
Editor
Fortune Magazine
NYC
Weber, Arnold
Graduate School of Business
U. of Chicago
Illinois
Webster, Donald A
Nixon for Pres. Comm.
D.C
Weidenbaum, Murray L.
Dept. of Economics
Washington Univ.
St. Louis, Mo.
Wells, Edward C.
Sr. V.P.
Boeing Co.
Seattle, Wash.
Whitehead, Thomas
Nixon Hdqtrs.
NYC
Wilbur, Dwight
President
American Medical Assoc.
New York City
Wiley, John
Director of Aviation
Port of NY Authority
NYC
Wilkey, Malcolm B.
General Counsel
Kennecott Copper Corp.
Willett, Thomas
Professor
Harvard Univ.
Wilson, George W.
Chairman
Dept. of Economics
Indiana Univ.
Wilson, James Q.
Professor of Government
Harvard Univ.
Wilson, O. Meredith
Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences
Stanford, Calif.
Wright, Deil S. (Prof.)
Dept. of Political Science
Univ. of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Wright, Kenneth M.
Life Ins. Assoc. of America
Ylvisaker, Paul
Commissioner
Dept. Community Affairs
State of N.J.
Younger, Evelle J.
District Attorney
County of Los Angeles
524 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles, California
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Zraket, Charles A.
V.P.
Washington D.C. Operations
The Mitre Corp.
McLean, Va.
MEMO TO HALDEMAN
From Buchanan
Attached a draft which should not take more than three
or four minutes to deliver as per your suggestion. If RN
wants to use some humpr lines, tell him to read the first four
pages of the prepared draft I originally sent. He may find some-
thing in there.
BUCHANAN
MEMORANDUM TO: President-Elect
FROM: Buchanan
Suggested Remarks - Task Force Dinner - ROUGH DRAFT
Dr. Burns, Dr. McCracken, Chairmen of the Task
Forces, Distinguished Guests, I want to congratulate you
and express my gratitude -- and that of the Cabinet ---
for the reports you have submitted. I have had the opportunity
to look over a number of them. And they reflect the time and
the effort that you have contributed. I would add that they
will not share the fate of most other such Task Force Reports ---
a quiet internment in the cellar files of some Federal Agency.
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To paraphrase that well-known conversationist,
Walter Hickel, "we are not interested in information for
information's sake. II
Many of these ideas and suggestions for reform
correspond to my own
---
These along with new proposals and
recommendations will become the policy of the United States
when the new Administration takes office.
I also trust and I can speak for the new
Administration in Washington on this
---
that these reports
will mark the beginning of a long and fruitful relation
between the Republican Administration and the Academic Community.
I know and most assuredly you gentlemen know that
these relations in the past could probably be best described
as "cool but correct". That will not be the case in the
future. The new Administration intends to do some bridge-
building to the faculty lounges of the American campus. On
that you have a promise.
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The cross-fertilization of ideas and experience
between the academic community and government the inter-
reactions between the men of ideas and the men of action -
this is essential in our time.
We live at a greatly accerated pace of change. We
can see that acceleration is in the stresses in the central
cities of America; you can see it in the rapidly building
tensions of the campus. And the rate of reform must keep
pace with the accelerated rate of change.
The gestation period for new ideas has to be
shortened. The lead time for getting an idea off a drawing
board and into the ghetto has to be shortened. Thus the
communication between the men of thought and the men of
action cannot afford to bog down. We cannot have any break
in relations between the two, because the society of which
we both are integral parts depends on that communication.
In effect the Lords Spiritual of the Society must remain in
constant contact with the Lords Temporal. To that end you
have my own personal commitment.
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A final word. I know that many of you supported
other men in the primaries and perhaps another party in the
general election. Your sympathies and perhaps your hopes
for political leadership may lie today with other figures.
If that should be the case, your contributions
here are even more appreciated and they are even more
needed.
For in the last analysis, all of us here fit into,
and have an obligation to defend, the broad and vital center
of American politics. It is a center committed to the
maintenance of certain values and traditions --- yet insistent
upon progress and open to change. It is a center which is
often under attack from the extremes of the spectrums today.
It is not only challenged from the anarchic left and threatened
by a potential counter-response from an angry far right. In
addition, it is beset by some doubts and apprehensions about
the future of the society --- from within that center itsel f.
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MEMO TO PRESIDENT-ELECT
From Buchanan/January 7, 1968
RE: SATURDAY NIGHT APPEARANCE
Saturday night's audience will constst of some 300
task force members, many of them academicians, most of them
according to Loomis probably voted for HHH. Opportunity for
RN to build a bridge to the academy.
Thus the speech draft which Buchanan prepared.
Suggest RN read, before Saturday night, Professor
Banfields Task Force report. Considered among the best of the
lot, it is brief, concise, realistic and iconoclastic.
Richard Goodwin, the "Che Guevara of the Teeny Boppers"
in New Hampshire will be there, according to Loomis, having helped
art with one report- RN might note this point.
The educational report was critical of aid to parochial
schools which RN hinted at in the campaign. Rn might say that the
meeting is certainly a catholic one---and in deference to the Church-
State growd on the education task force, let the record show that
that is Catholic with a small and not a capital c.
Head Table---RN, Burns, McCracken, Task Force Chairmen,
Loomis.
Cabinet members will be spread out in the audience.
BUCHANAN
BUCHANAN DRAFT/Saturday Night/Task Force Meeting/January 10/68
Gentlemen of the head table. Distinguished
guests, I give you thanks for the many hours you have
given to me
and to the next Cabinet of the United
States. I have scanned several of the reports you have
prepared. They are excellent. They reflect the time and
quality of thought you put into them.
Let me add that the proposals and recommenda-
tions you have made will not be swiftly interred in some
file drawer either in the bowels of the Executive Agencies
or the Executive Office Building. Many of them will become
policy soon after this Administration takes office a few
days from today.
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To paraphrase that great conservationist Walter
Hickel - - - "we don't believe in information for
information's sake".
There are a number of the members of the task
forces here this evening whom I do not know. But from
looking over the masthead of the various reports, many of
you, well over a majority, I believe, are from the academic
community. I especially welcome these volunteers because
the name of Richard Nixon has not always been venerated in
the groves of the academy.
I can well recall an occasion in the Eisenhower
years, when my relations with the civil liberties unions
and with the American Association of University Professors
were about as warm as our current diplomatic relations with
Albania. Herblock was featuring me in a new daily comic
strip in the Washington Post.
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One day when I was particularly low about the
matter I ran into Arthur Burns in the corridors of the
Capitol shuffling along on some assignment for the
President. Puffing on his pipe, and in that Doomsday
voice, he cheered me up with his comment, "Dick, you're
the only man I know who has appeared on more campuses in
effigy than he has in person. "
I was the "General Hershey" of the nineteen
fifties.
In a more serious vein, I know that many of you
worked long and hard for other candidates in the spring,
and in the fall of last year. Some of you very probably
are now laboring in other vineyards; and your sympathies
lie with other political men. Nevertheless, your contri
butions are deeply appreciated --- the more so for the spirit
in which they have been made.
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To return to the reports themselves for a moment
---
gentlemen, and ladies --- we took all the recommendations
and proposals -- and had them costed out, in the aggregate.
The sum total would have shocked Governor Rockerfeller so
we have "classified" the figure, --- stamped it "secret" ---
lest it fall into the hands of either my good friend,
Chairman Wilbur Mills, or the freshman Senator from Arizona,
Mr. Goldwater.
No, and again seriously, many of these recommendations
and reforms will be implemented in office. They will enable
us to conduct a more efficient and I think more successful
Administration than we might otherwise have done. In the
aggregate they represent a more realistic, a more hopeful,
approach to progress for the American people.
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But these proposals deal almost exclusively with
action to be taken in the government sector, and tonight
I would like, quite briefly, to reflect on a point of order ---
which was raised in the splendid and concise report on
urban affairs, submitted by the task force chaired by
Professor Banfield.
Let me begin with some statistics which Stewart
Alsop used to make a related point in his column just this
week. If we consider the five years that have passed since
the death of President Kennedy we must admit that in those
years, the level of violence and crime within the United
States has risen in almost a geometric progression.
We have witnessed the pillaging of large sections
of some of our great cities --- by American citizens. The
violence has left in its wake lasting deposits of bitterness
and anger and resentment throughout the society. The issue
of race has driven a wedge between the American people deeper
and more lasting than the Vietnam war.
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And yet if we look at other statistics, we must
admit that there were also banner years for both races.
The last five years --- the violent years of our generation --
were the same years in which forty percent of American Negroes
below the poverty line crossed that line. Today, Negroes
continue to move out of poverty as a more rapid rate than
whites. In the last five years spending for health and
education and welfare by the Federal Government alone has
risen from $20 to $50 billion.
Nor has progress been confined to any one race.
When President Kennedy took office in 1961 22 per cent of
the American people were beneath the poverty level. Today,
after eight years, expansion of the economy, coupled with
the action of government as well, that figure has been cut
in half to eleven per cent.
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If current trends are continued, if current growth
can be maintained, if current inflation can be checked ---
we can reasonably project a date in the not too distant
future when all, or very nearly all, Americans will have
marched forever out of poverty as we know it today.
And yet it is in our projection that we see our
dil emma. For the more progress we have made, the wider
our wealth is distributed the more violent and lawless
a people we have become. The rich are growing richer ---
and the poor are moving inexorably toward the middle class.
And yet, the bitterness, the anger, the disillusionment
and the frustration throughout the society and especially
within the ghetto seem to build even more rapidly than the
GNP.
This is the irony of American affluence. It is
only as we apprehend this that we probe closer to an under-
standing of the nature of our national crisis.
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So it is that a clear lesson seems to be emerging
from the disheartening experience of these last five years.
It is this: In curing the sickness that afflicts American
society, we placed too much of our confidence and invested
too much of our capital in a false cure. Our diagnosis was
wrong.
The root of the illness is not in economics; the
malady is political and moral. To restore a spirit of
charity and co-operation between the races and among our
people --- to provide the socially outcast, black and white,
with the dignity and respect to which every child of God is
entitled --- to give the poor and powerless a sense of
participation in our national life and a measure of control
of their personal destiny --- these things are largely outside
the power of even a generous government to give.
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Franklin Roosevelt often made reference to Dr.
New Deal, the good physician who came to cure the depression.
But the prescriptions in Dr. New Deal's bag are cures only
for an economic depression; And ours is not an economic
depresession; it is a depression of the spirit of America.
When the faith of the American people in their
future began to collapse in 1932 and 1933, it was because
millions upon millions of Americans could not find work.
The faith of many of our people in their country
is ebbing now because they feel as strangers in their own
country --- They cannot find a place in their society, or
meaning in their lives. We cannot fill that void with
government charity or a government check.
But this is not to say we should dismantle our
government programs to improve the lot of America's poor.
Certainly not. The remnants of poverty grow daily more
visible and less tolerable --- alongside the growing
prosperity of the rest of us. We are committed to the
eradication of poverty in the United States. That committment
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will be automatically renewed with the Inauguration of the
new President.
What I am suggesting is that as the last stragglers
of America's poor cross the poverty line, there is no
guarantee that this will bring either an end to bitterness
or a reduction in crime. The end of poverty is not the
Promised Land.
Indeed, if one asks himself: What new civil
rights law can we now pass that will bring the black militants
and the embittered Negroes back within the mainstream of
society. What domestic poverty program could we pass, no
matter how many billions were involved, that would satisfy
some of the young radicals and yes revolutionaries ---
on the college campuses today. I am open to suggestions.
From these gloomy reflections, it might be
argued that I am advocating a politics of despaire, or at
least the politics of resignation. Rather, it is a politics
of realism.
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Let us be practical men; the nation has need of
them. Let us, as Dr. Moynihan has urged so many times,
"de-escalate the rhetoric" of public affairs. Let us
declare a moratorium on exaggerated promises to the
impoverished; and on wild predictions to our friends in
the press. We need a new candor in race relations in
America. We need to turn down the volume of American
politics.
In the politics of realism there is a need, as
Professor Banfield's report has suggested, to call attention
to our successes as well as our shortcoming --- to point
out what is right in the cities as well as what is
intolerable.
The enormity of the problems that confront us do
dictate more realism in our approach, more balance in our
rhetoric.
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We speak of breaking down the barriers between
the white man and the black man, and between the black man
and his rights; we talk of the establishment of brotherhood
in the land. That is our goal; and it remains our goal.
But, at the same time, let us keep our perspective.
As we look back over history, we see the ugly visage of
racial and religious strife breaking through surface in
every century in the history of man. In many eras that is
the history of man.
The next four years will be but a tiny fraction
of the history of this young country; they will be but
seconds on the clock of record time. Is it not presumptous
of this generation to suppose that in the fraction of time
allotted to us, we shall erase blemishes that centuries have
ingrained in the hearts of men.
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The magnitude of the tasks before us should not
frighten us. We should take pride in our high purposes.
Yet, let us be stoic in our expectations. Let us recognize
that marvelous though the instrument of American government
may be; it is not our salvation.
We come into office with a clean slate, a fresh
approach, --- beneficiaries of the experience of those who
have gone before us. But we enter the arena without
illusions.
An old adversary of mine often used the expression
that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step. Since his day we have taken a few steps and before
our time has gone by we shall take a few more. Providence
has selected us to lead in this time of darkness and
uncertainty. Whether or not we shall see the dawn of a
new day ourselves, or whether it shall be given to others,
we know the dawn will come. And we know the rising of the
sun will find our people marching together along the same
good high road that we have travelled these many decades.
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