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From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation to The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson re: council and advice regarding the Foundation's future library and educational complex. 1 page. [Letter], 9/25/1969
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. E. Ross Perot, President - Electronic Data Systems Corporation, re: update on the Foundation's organizational matters including the future Abilene trip. 2 pages. [Letter], 9/2
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. Donald M. Kendall, President - PepsiCo., Inc. re: update on Foundation meeting and organization for future trips. 1 page. [Letter], 9/19/1969
From Richard Nixon to Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation re: thank you for offer of assistance to the Foundation. 1 page. [Letter], 9/19/1969
From John D. Ehrlichman, Counsel to the President to Mr. Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, re: September tenth letter. 1 page. [Letter], 9/15/1969
From Leonard k. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. John D. Ehrlichman, Councel to The President, re: update and enclosed sample letters sent to Trustee members. 3 pages including attachments. [Letter], 9/10/1969
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to The Honorable Richard M. Nixon, re: a thank you regarding Mr. Nixon's thoughts and guidelines for the Planning and Development Committee. 1 page. [Letter], 9/8/1969
Hand-written note from Leonard Firestone to "John" re: Don Kendall and the McKinsey people. 1 page. [Letter], 9/9/1969
Agenda for The Richard Nixon Foundation Annual Meeting of the Members. 2 pages. [Other Document], 9/3/1969
Minutes of Organizational Meeting of the Board of Executive Trustees of the Richard Nixon Foundation, June 2, 1969. Includes list of Trustee members. 3 pages. [Report], n.d.
From John Ehrlichman to Bob Haldeman re: Franklin Murphy's absence on the Board of Trustees of the Richard Nixon Foundation. Includes hand-written notes. 1 page. [Memo], 9/3/1969
Incomplete White House memo re: the study of Presidential Libraries. 1 page. [Memo], 8/28/1969
From Frank De Marco, Jr., to John Ehrlichman, Esq., Counsel to the President, re: brief summary and outline of the structure of the Foundation and initial organization. 5 pages. [Memo], 8/21/1969
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This file contains:
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation to The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson re: council and advice regarding the Foundation's future library and educational complex. 1 page. [Letter], 9/25/1969
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. E. Ross Perot, President - Electronic Data Systems Corporation, re: update on the Foundation's organizational matters including the future Abilene trip. 2 pages. [Letter], 9/2
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. Donald M. Kendall, President - PepsiCo., Inc. re: update on Foundation meeting and organization for future trips. 1 page. [Letter], 9/19/1969
From Richard Nixon to Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation re: thank you for offer of assistance to the Foundation. 1 page. [Letter], 9/19/1969
From John D. Ehrlichman, Counsel to the President to Mr. Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, re: September tenth letter. 1 page. [Letter], 9/15/1969
From Leonard k. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. John D. Ehrlichman, Councel to The President, re: update and enclosed sample letters sent to Trustee members. 3 pages including attachments. [Letter], 9/10/1969
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The Richard Nixon Foundation, to The Honorable Richard M. Nixon, re: a thank you regarding Mr. Nixon's thoughts and guidelines for the Planning and Development Committee. 1 page. [Letter], 9/8/1969
Hand-written note from Leonard Firestone to "John" re: Don Kendall and the McKinsey people. 1 page. [Letter], 9/9/1969
Agenda for The Richard Nixon Foundation Annual Meeting of the Members. 2 pages. [Other Document], 9/3/1969
Minutes of Organizational Meeting of the Board of Executive Trustees of the Richard Nixon Foundation, June 2, 1969. Includes list of Trustee members. 3 pages. [Report], n.d.
From John Ehrlichman to Bob Haldeman re: Franklin Murphy's absence on the Board of Trustees of the Richard Nixon Foundation. Includes hand-written notes. 1 page. [Memo], 9/3/1969
Incomplete White House memo re: the study of Presidential Libraries. 1 page. [Memo], 8/28/1969
From Frank De Marco, Jr., to John Ehrlichman, Esq., Counsel to the President, re: brief summary and outline of the structure of the Foundation and initial organization. 5 pages. [Memo], 8/21/1969
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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
13
11
09/25/1969
Letter
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The
Richard Nixon Foundation to The Honorable
Lyndon B. Johnson re: council and advice
regarding the Foundation's future library and
educational complex. 1 page.
13
11
09/23/1969
Letter
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The
Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. E. Ross
Perot, President - Electronic Data Systems
Corporation, re: update on the Foundation's
organizational matters including the future
Abilene trip. 2 pages.
13
11
09/19/1969
Letter
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The
Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. Donald
M. Kendall, President - PepsiCo., Inc. re:
update on Foundation meeting and
organization for future trips. 1 page.
13
11
09/19/1969
Letter
From Richard Nixon to Mr. Darryl F.
Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Corporation re: thank you for offer of
assistance to the Foundation. 1 page.
13
11
09/15/1969
Letter
From John D. Ehrlichman, Counsel to the
President to Mr. Leonard K. Firestone,
President - The Richard Nixon Foundation,
re: September tenth letter. 1 page.
13
11
09/10/1969
Letter
From Leonard k. Firestone, President - The
Richard Nixon Foundation, to Mr. John D.
Ehrlichman, Councel to The President, re:
update and enclosed sample letters sent to
Trustee members. 3 pages including
attachments.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Page 1 of 2
Box Number Folder Number
Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
13
11
09/08/1969
Letter
From Leonard K. Firestone, President - The
Richard Nixon Foundation, to The
Honorable Richard M. Nixon, re: a thank you
regarding Mr. Nixon's thoughts and
guidelines for the Planning and Development
Committee. 1 page.
13
11
09/09/1969
Letter
Hand-written note from Leonard Firestone to
"John" re: Don Kendall and the McKinsey
people. 1 page.
13
11
09/03/1969
Other Document
Agenda for The Richard Nixon Foundation
Annual Meeting of the Members. 2 pages.
13
11
n.d.
Report
Minutes of Organizational Meeting of the
Board of Executive Trustees of the Richard
Nixon Foundation, June 2, 1969. Includes list
of Trustee members. 3 pages.
13
11
09/03/1969
Memo
From John Ehrlichman to Bob Haldeman re:
Franklin Murphy's absence on the Board of
Trustees of the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Includes hand-written notes. 1 page.
13
11
08/28/1969
Memo
Incomplete White House memo re: the study
of Presidential Libraries. 1 page.
13
11
08/21/1969
Memo
From Frank De Marco, Jr., to John
Ehrlichman, Esq., Counsel to the President,
re: brief summary and outline of the structure
of the Foundation and initial organization. 5
pages.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Page 2 of 2
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 25, 1969
The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ Ranch
Stonewall, Texas
Dear Mr. Johnson:
As President of the newly-formed Richard Nixon Foundation,
I am heading a Planning and Development Committee which
will make recommendations to President Nixon and the Foun-
dation Trustees on the kind of library and educational
complex which should be established.
The Committee, as a first step, is undertaking a survey
of the existing Presidential Libraries, and, with the kind
cooperation and assistance of Dr. Newland, we are now making
plans to be in Austin to meet with him and members of his
staff on October 28th.
In view of the pace-setting scope and aspects of your own
Library, we feel it would be immensely valuable to have the
benefit of your advice and counsel at this early stage of
our study. Consequently, we would be grateful if your
schedule would permit us to have the pleasure of meeting
with you briefly on October 28th, or on the preceding or the
following day.
The members of our Committee, in addition to myself, are:
Donald M. Kendall of PepsiCo (New York), Ross Perot of
Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Dallas), and Taft
Schreiber of the Music Corporation of America (Universal
City).
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
femare Leonard Firestone K. Firestme.
President
14-5
553
information py for MR. EHRLICHMAN
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 23, 1969
Mr. E. Ross Perot, President
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Exchange Bank Tower
Dallas, Texas
Dear Ross:
We are making some progress here on Foundation organizational
matters, and I wanted to bring you up-to-date on our activities.
Taft Schreiber, Asa Call and I have been meeting regularly. We
have also followed-up on an initial contact made by Don Kendall
with the McKinsey and Company people. This has resulted in our
having the assistance and counsel of their Los Angeles man, Jack
Vance, as well as Warren Cannon of their New York office. We
are also fortunate in having enlisted the professional services
of Tom Nickell, Planning Vice President of the University of
Southern California, as our Consultant.
We are presently in the process of drafting and refining ques-
tionnaires and procedures so that when we make our trips to
Presidential Libraries we will be prepared to make the most
effective and productive approach. We are having another meeting
on this later this week, after which I would like to send you
copies of the results to date for your information and comment.
It is the consensus here that our first visit should be to Abilene.
Consequently, we are making arrangements to arrive there on the
evening of Monday, October 20th, and take the full day of Tuesday,
October 21, and as much additional time as we may need for our
survey of the Eisenhower Library and Museum complex.
As of now, coming from Los Angeles on a private plane, in addition
to myself, will be Taft Schreiber, Tom Nickell, Glen Adamson of
Tom's staff, and Jack Vance of McKinsey. I earnestly hope that you
and Don Kendall can both join us also.
We are in contact with John Wickman, Director of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library to work out in advance an appropriate series
of meetings and conferences with him and his staff during our stay.
Our thinking now is that our second visit should be to the Johnson
Library people, probably the last week in October. Also, we have
under consideration a Committee trip to Washington, D.C. at a fairly
16- 21
Mr. E. Ross Perot
Page 2
September 23, 1969
early date, on which it would be particularly important for you
to be with us as our "legislative expert."
Please let me hear from you as soon as you can determine your
availability for the Abilene trip. We plan to make reservations
there at the Trails Inn Motel for the nights of October 20 and 21.
Your secretary could coordinate your travel plans with ours through
Miss Gaunt in the Foundation offices here.
Kind personal regards,
Sincerely,
Leonard K. Firestone
President
16-2
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2
Information ,y for MR. EHRLICHMAN
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
SEP 22 1969
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
J33
September 19, 1969
Mr. Donald M. Kendall
President, PepsiCo., Inc.
500 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Dear Don:
We have just finished a meeting here at the Foundation offices. In
attendance were Asa Call, Taft Schreiber, John Vance of McKinsey,
Tom Nickell and Glen Adamson, both of the University of Southern
California, in addition to myself. We are sorry you could not be
with us.
We are getting organized with questionnaires and procedures, so that
when we make our trips to Presidential Libraries we will be prepared
to make the most effective and productive approach.
With regard to our first trip, I find that on October 14th I have a
Director's meeting in Akron, and on the 15th there is a fund-raising
dinner here for Senator George Murphy which Taft and I must attend.
Therefore, the proposed visit to the Johnson Library we talked about
will have to be postponed.
It is the consensus here that our first visit should be to Abilene,
and that our group should arrive there on the evening of October 20th,
and take the full day of Tuesday, October 21st, and as much additional
time as we may need. On October 27th, we would plan to go to the
Johnson Library. I hope you can make one or both of these trips, and
I will keep you advised as we firm up travel plans and other details.
In regard to the McKinsey group, I told John Vance, their Manager here,
that you had been asked by our Committee to contact the McKinsey people
and that you had talked with Andy Pearson in New York. Vance told me
Pearson had tried to reach him before leaving for Europe, and Vance
assumed it was about the Nixon Foundation. He has talked to Warren
Cannon in New York, and I told Vance that the McKinsey effort should be
coordinated with what you have set-up there. He assured me this would
be done.
I am grateful for your understanding and cooperation in getting this
project underway, and am indeed pleased to be working with you in
this endeavor.
Kind personal regards,
Sincerely yours,
Leonard K. Firestone
President
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cc: John D. Ehrlichman
553
3
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 19, 1969
Dear Darryl:
John Ehrlichman has sent me a copy of his letter to
you of September 16, and I hope you will understand
the circumstances which resulted in such a belated
reply to your most generous offer of assistance.
As John has told you, all activities in connection with
the Nixon Foundation are being held in abeyance. How-
ever, I want you to know how grateful I am not only for
your willingness to be of assistance in the Foundation
but also for your words of approval regarding the
manner in which I have been discharging the duties
of my Office. Such praise is particularly meaningful
when it comes from an old friend like you.
Pat joins me in sending you our warmest good wishes.
Sincerely,
RN
Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
444 West 56th Street
New York, New York 10019
bc: John Ehrlichman
12-1
September 15, 1969
Dear Leenard:
Thank you for your letter of September
tenth. Sounds like you're off to a good
start.
Please keep me informed.
Best personal regards.
Yours sincerely,
John D. Ehrlichman
Counsel to the President
Mr. Leonard K. Firestone, President
The Richard Nixon Foundation
Crecker-Citizene Plasa
611 West Sixth Street
Lee Angeles, California 90017
JDE:jlh
11-1
SEP 12
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
(Suite 1950)
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 10, 1969
Mr. John D. Ehrlichman
Counsel to The President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear John:
To bring you up-to-date, I am enclosing a sample
of the letters I am sending today to the Foundation
Trustees who attended the San Clemente meeting last
week, and those who did not.
The specifics of itinerary and participants are not
all worked out yet for surveying the existing Presi-
dential Libraries, and I will advise you when they
are.
My constant effort will be to give leadership and
support to this challenging assignment, I can assure
you.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
femord Leonard K. Firestone
President
enclosures
11-2
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
(Suite 1950)
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 10, 1969
Earl C. Adams, Esq.
Adams, Duque and Hazeltine
523 West Sixth Street
Los Angeles, California 90014
Dear Earl:
It was a great pleasure to be with you at the Nixon
Foundation meeting in San Clemente last week. I am
delighted to be associated with you in this impor-
tant and challenging undertaking.
We have an office in operation at the above address
where the telephone number is (213) 680-0600.
The Planning and Development Committee is getting
organized to start visiting the existing Presidential
Libraries before the end of the month, as the first
step in developing 'a suggested master plan for con-
sideration by The President and the Foundation Trustees.
We will be making periodic reports on our progress, and
we will be pleased to hear from you whenever you have
any suggestions or comments.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Leonard K. Firestone
President
11-3
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
(Suite 1950)
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 10, 1969
Mr. Elmer Bobst
Chairman of the Board
Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Dear Mr. Bobst:
We were sorry not to have the pleasure and benefit of
your company at the Nixon Foundation meeting in San
Clemente last week.
I thought you might like to know that we have an office
in operation at the above address where the telephone
number is (213) 680-0600.
A Planning and Development Committee has been named,
consisting of John Ehrlichman, Donald Kendall, Ross
Perot, and Taft Schreiber, in addition to myself.
This Committee is getting organized to start visiting
the existing Presidential Libraries before the end of
the month, as the first step in developing a suggested
master plan for consideration by The President and the
Foundation Trustees. We will be making periodic reports
on our progress.
I look forward to working with you in this important and
challenging undertaking, and will certainly be pleased
to hear from you whenever you have any suggestions or
comments.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Leonard K. Firestone
President
11-4
THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
CROCKER-CITIZENS PLAZA
611 WEST SIXTH STREET
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90017
September 8, 1969
My Dear Mr. President:
The Foundation meeting at San Clemente last
Wednesday was a delightful affair for all who
attended.
The thoughts and guidelines you gave to us
were most imaginative and constructive, and I
feel sure that within the next few months the
Planning and Development Committee will be able
to present to you and the Foundation Board an
interesting master plan.
We are getting organized to proceed with this
study at once.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
femard. Leonard K. Firestone
President
The Honorable Richard M. Nixon
President of The United States
The White House
Washington, D.C.
e
Sent 9, 1969.
/
LEONARD FIRESTONE
John -
as soon as Dm
Kendall can get the
mc Kinsey people
lined up we will he
on our way. Will
beep you posted- -
regards- -
femare
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AGENDA
The Richard Nixon Foundation
San Clemente, California
Annual Meeting of the Members
September 3, 1969
9:00 a.m.
Meeting called to order by H. R. Haldeman,
Chairman of the Board of Executive Trustees
and temporary chairman for the purpose of
this meeting -- pending the election of the
Foundation's officers at the Executive
Trustees' meeting which is to convene
immediately following the Annual Meeting.
"The Annual meeting of the membership of The
Richard Nixon Foundation will please come to
order. On behalf of the President, I would like
to extend to all of you a very cordial welcome
to the Western White House. The President will be
joining us later but before we enter into the
business of. the meeting, I am declaring a temporary
recess during which time you are invited to a tour
of the Western White House and of the grounds.
The meeting will reconvene at 10 a.m. in this
room. "
Adjournment of the meeting for a tour of the
Western White House and grounds
10:00 a.m.
Meeting reconvened by Chairman Haldeman.
"The meeting is declared reconvened and, as
the first item of business, I am calling upon
John D. Ehrlichman, Counsel to the President,
for his comments relative to certain legal
and organizational points.
10:20 a.m.
Next, Chairman Haldeman announces the election
of Leonard Firestone, Elmer Bobst, Jack Drown
and Herb Kalmbach as President, Vice President,
Treasurer and Secretary, respectively, of the
Foundation. Thereupon, the Chairman introduced
each of the aforementioned to the Trustees present.
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Statement by Leonard Firestone relative
to the projected scope of the Foundation's Planning
and Development Committee's study over the
next one-year period of the other Presidential
foundations (including libraries, museums,
institutes, advance study centers, etc.) .
In concluding his remarks, Mr. Firestone
states that during the pending period of study,
he and the other members of that Committee will
be consulting from time to time with the
President and with various other members of the
Board preliminary to making formal
recommendations to the Board.
10:35 a.m.
Recognition by the Chairman of the President's
Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, for his comments
relative to inquiries by the members of the press
and others as to the affairs of the Foundation.
10:45 a.m.
Appearance and remarks by the President
11:30 a.m.
Meeting adjourned by Chairman Haldeman.
9- 2
MINUTES OF ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF EXECUTIVE TRUSTEES OF THE
RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
The Organization Meeting of the Board of Executive
Trustees of The Richard Nixon Foundation was held on June 2,
1969 in Washington, D. C. All of the Executive Trustees were
present, as listed below, and each has signed these Minutes thus
constituting a waiver of notice thereof and consent to the busi-
ness transacted:
John D. Ehrlichman
Robert H. Finch
Leonard Garment
H. R. Haldeman
Patricia Reilly Hitt
Herbert W. Kalmbach
John N. Mitchell
John D. Ehrlichman acted as temporary Chairman and
called the meeting to order. As the first item of business,
Chairman Ehrlichman submitted to the Executive Trustees present
for their review and comment a form of proposed By-Laws of the
Foundation, a copy of which is incorporated herein and attached
hereto as "Exhibit A". Following a review of the By-Laws and
after a short period of comment, on motion duly made, seconded,
put to vote and unanimously carried, the By-Laws were adopted
as submitted.
The Chairman then indicated that the next order of
business was to be the election of officers. After a short
period of discussion, on motion duly made and unanimously car-
ried, the following were elected to the office indicated oppo-
site their name:
H. R. Haldeman
Chairman
Patricia Reilly Hitt
Vice Chairman
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Secretary
Following his election, Chairman Haldeman took the
chair and stated that the matter of the election of nineteen (19)
individuals as members of the Foundation's Board of Trustees was
the next item of business to be considered. After a short period
of discussion, on motion duly made, seconded, put to vote and
unanimously carried, the following nineteen (19) individuals were
9 3.
elected Trustees of the Foundation (pursuant to Article V of the
By-Laws) :
Earl C. Adams
Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Elmer H. Bobst
Donald M. Kendall
Asa V. Call
Hobart Lewis
Justin Dart
Richard A. Moore
Jack Drown
Edward C. Nixon
David Eisenhower
F. Donald Nixon
Leonard K. Firestone
E. Ross Perot
The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham
Hubert C. Perry
Clinton O. Harris
Taft Schreiber
W. Clement Stone
As the next item of business, on motion duly made,
seconded, put to vote and unanimously carried, Herbert W. Kalmbach,
as Secretary of the Board of Executive Trustees, was authorized
and directed to cause to be prepared, verified and filed an
exemption application Form 1023 with the Internal Revenue Service
seeking to qualify the Foundation as an exempt organization under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and as an exempt
organization under the applicable provisions of the laws of the
State of California.
Also, on motion duly made and carried, the Secretary
was authorized to execute a Power of Attorney appointing Frank
DeMarco, Jr., Esquire as Attorney in Fact for the Foundation to
prepare and process the exemption applications theretofore
authorized to be submitted.
There being no further business to come before the
Board, on motion duly made, seconded, put to vote and unanimously
carried, the meeting was adjourned.
Secretary
Chairman
Executive Trustees:
John D. Ehrlichman
Patricia Reilly Hitt
Robert H. Finch
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Leonard Garment
John N. Mitchell
H. R. Haldeman
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The Richard Nixon Foundation (Incorporated in California on 6/2/69)
Members of the Foundation (Article III of the By-Laws)
Board of Executive Trustees
(not to exceed 7 in number)
Board of Trustees
not to exceed 20 in number)
Honorary Trustees
(no stated limit on the number)
Board of Executive Trustees (7)
John D. Ehrlichman
Robert H. Finch
Leonard Garment
H. R. Haldeman
Chairman
Patricia Reilly Hitt
Vice Chairman
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Secretary
John N. Mitchell
Board of Trustees (18)
Executive Committee of the Foundation
Earl C. Adams
Leonard K. Firestone
President
Elmer H. Bobst
Elmer H. Bobst
Vice Pres.
Asa V. Call
Jack Drown
Treasurer
Justin Dart
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Secretary
Jack Drown
David Eisenhower
Leonard K. Firestone
The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham
Clinton O. Harris
Donald M. Kendall
Hobart Lewis
Richard A. Moore
Planning and Development Committee
Edward C. Nixon
F. Donald Nixon
Leonard K. Firestone Ex Officio
E. Ross Perot
Taft Schreiber
Hubert C. Perry
E. Ross Perot
Taft Schreiber
Donald M. Kendall
W. Clement Stone
John D. Ehrlichman
Officers of the Foundation
Leonard K. Firestone
President
Elmer H. Bobst
Vice President
Jack Drown
Treasurer
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Secretary
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TRUSTEEN
MEMORANDUM
E
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEPTEMBER 3, 1969
TO:
BOB HALDEMAN
FROM:
JOHN EHRI ICHMAN
Why isn't Franklin Murphy on the Board of Trustees
of the Richard Nixon Foundation?
( I'll bite 1. why? ?
if
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
AUGUST 28, 1969
TO FILE OF NIXON TRUSTEES
During the study of the Presidential
Libraries, the study team might be asked
to consider whether or not
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LAW OFFICES
KALMBACH, DE MARCO, KNAPP & CHILLINGWORTH
MEMORANDUM
FILE: The Richard Nixon Foundation
Date: August 21, 1969
To:
John Ehrlichman, Esq.
Counsel to the President
From:
Frank De Marco, Jr.
This memorandum is intended as a brief summary
and outline of the structure of the Foundation and the
steps taken in connection with its initial organization
and application for qualification as an exempt organization.
1. The Articles of Incorporation filed with the
Secretary of State of California on June 2, 1969, constitute
the basic charter or enabling document which created the
Foundation. Article V creates a Board of seven Executive
Trustees of the corporation who are tantamount to "Directors"
as that term is used in normal corporate nomenclature. The
authority and duty to direct the affairs of the Foundation
is vested in this board of Executive Trustees. Although the
President was the motivating force in the creation of the
Foundation, from a strictly legal standpoint, the Foundation
was "created" by the act of the seven Executive Trustees in
subscribing the original Articles of Incorporation. Hence,
the further organizational structure of the Foundation must
stem from the acts and resolutions of this seven-man Board
of Executive Trustees.
2. The original Board of Executive Trustees shall
have held an organizational meeting of that Board as of
June 2, 1969 at Washington, D.C., pursuant to a written
waiver of notice executed by the seven. At that meeting,
the minutes will reflect the following action:
(a) John D. Ehrlichman acts as temporary
chairman.
(b) Temporary chairman submits to the Board
for its review and adoption a form of proposed By-Laws of
the Foundation.
(c) The proposed By-Laws are adopted. The
By-Laws provide that the Board of Executive Trustees shall
organize itself by the election of a chairman, a vice-
chairman and a secretary of the board.
(d) The board thereupon organizes itself
and elects the following officers of the board:
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(1) H. R. Haldeman - Chairman
(2) Patricia Reilly Hitt - Vice-Chairman
(3) Herbert W. Kalmbach - Secretary
(e) H. R. Haldeman, as permanent Chairman,
presides thereafter and pursuant to unanimous vote of the
Board, resolutions are adopted authorizing the following:
(1) By-Laws certified by the Secretary
are filed in the minute book.
(2) Pursuant to the authority contained in
Article V of the By-Laws the Executive Trustees
elect as trustees of the Foundation, the following
nineteen persons, leaving one of the twenty
authorized Trustee positions vacant, to wit:
Earl C. Adams
Asa V. Call
Justin Dart
Jack Drown
Leonard K. Firestone
Clinton 0. Harris
Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Donald M. Kendall
Hobart Lewis
Richard A. Moore
Hubert C. Perry
E. Ross Perot
Taft Schreiber
W. Clement Stone
The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham
Elmer H. Bobst
David Eisenhower
F. Donald Nixon
Edward C. Nixon
(f) Herbert W. Kalmbach, as Secretary of the
Board of Executive Trustees, is authorized to cause to be
prepared, verified and filed an Exemption Application Form
1023 with Internal Revenue Service seeking to qualify the
Foundation as an exempt organization under Section 501 (c) (3)
of the Internal Revenue Code and as an exempt organization
under the applicable provisions of the laws of the State of
California.
(g) Herbert W. Kalmbach, as Secretary of the
Board is authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing
Frank De Marco, Jr. Esq. as attorney-in-fact for the Foundation
to prepare and process the exemption applications.
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3. The By-Laws proposed are structured on the
following organizational lines:
(a) The Board of seven Executive Trustees
was created by the original enabling document, the Articles
of Incorporation. Vacancies on the Board of Executive
Trustees are to be filled by majority vote of the remaining
Executive Trustees. (Article IV)
(b) The Board of Executive Trustees nominates
and elects outstanding individuals as members of the 20-man
board of trustees. Vacancies in the board of trustees however
arising are filled by majority vote of the Board of Executive
Trustees. (Article V)
(c) The seven Executive Trustees and the twenty
authorized trustees, together constitute the "members of the
Foundation". Provision is made for the election of any number
of "honorary trustees", as may be deemed proper or expedient
as the years go by. Honorary trustees will be "members of the
Foundation". It is this group of "members of the Foundation"
then, which shall gather for the annual meeting of "The
Foundation". (Article IX)
(d) To supervise the day-to-day and month-to-
month operation of the Foundation and its instrumentalities,
the Foundation shall have four officers, a President, a Vice
President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall be members
of the Foundation and in addition the Foundation shall have
an Executive Director who may be an outside salaried employee,
preferably a professional in the charitable fund-raising field.
(e) The officers of the Foundation are elected
by and serve at the pleasure of the Board of Executive Trustees.
(f) The By-Laws authorize the creation of a
standing or permanent Executive Committee which shall be composed
of the four named officers and the Executive Director. It is
felt that this Executive Committee will actually run the Foundation,
supervise its fund-raising activities and supervise the disburse-
ment of the Foundation's funds for its charitable purposes.
(g) Unless advised otherwise, we are proceeding
on the theory that the following named persons have been
selected to act as the officers of the Foundation:
(1) Leonard K. Firestone - President
(2) Taft Schreiber - Vice President
(3) Asa V. Call - Secretary
(4) Jack Drown - Treasurer
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(5) NOTE: Some consideration should be
given to creating a title for Mr. Call other
than Secretary, such as Chairman of the Executive
Committee or Executive Vice President, so that
the secretarial office could be filled by Herbert
W. Kalmbach who could then act in a dual capacity,
both as secretary of the Board of Executive Trustees
and as secretary of the Foundation. This would
permit Kalmbach and myself to supervise the prepara-
tion and execution of all documentation on behalf
of the Foundation.
(h) The By-Laws also authorize the establishment
of a permanent finance committee and a permanent planning
and development committee whose members are to be selected
by the Board of Executive Trustees. This procedure puts the
Executive Committee a notch higher than the latter two
committees by virtue of the fact that it has been created
by, and its constituent members specified by, the By-Laws.
(Article X) It is hoped that membership on the Executive
Committee will add a high degree of enthusiasm to the activi-
ties of its members and give them the feeling that they are
indeed possessed of sufficient authority to pursue and
accomplish the goals of the Foundation. It is also felt that
this insulates the Executive Trustees from the ordinary day-
to-day activities of the Foundation although ultimate control
rests in the seven Executive Trustees.
4. The exemption application to the IRS has been
prepared on the basis of the Foundation being constituted as
generally set forth above. The regulations require a more
particular statement of the proposed activities of the Founda-
tion than those general purpose clauses set forth in the
Articles or By-Laws. Accordingly, to supplement the exemption
application we have adopted the general concept of the intent
to create a Richard M. Nixon Center for Advanced Study which
will be built and operated somewhat in the fashion of the
Herbert Hoover Institute at Stanford University. (Exhibit 10 (f)
to Exemption Application) It is felt that this will qualify
as a sufficient initial charitable purpose. Reservation is
made in the application, however, for the development of other
charitable purposes as years go by.
5. Application for exemption under California law
is proceeding along the same general lines as that outlined
for the IRS exemption. In addition, the Foundation must
register as a Charitable Trust under applicable provisions of
the California Government Code. Filing under this Act is
required within six months after any part of the income or
principal of the Foundation is authorized or required to be
applied to charitable purposes. We will attend to this filing
at the proper time.
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6. The exemption applications are proceeding
on the theory that all persons connected therewith, as
officers or trustees, are acting without salary or other
compensation, and on the theory that the Trust has entered
into no contracts or agreements of any kind, has solicited
no funds and has no assets.
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