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Draft statement of Richard Nixon on Mining Industry Policies. 5 pgs. [Report], n.d.
Letter from Richard Nixon to Chris Dobbins, President American Mining Congress. 3 pgs. [Letter], 10/7/1968
Telegram draft to Chris Dobbins, Presidetn American Mining Congress. 3 pgs. Attached to previous. [Memo], 10/1/1968
Statement by Richard Nixon on Mining Industry Policies. 3 pgs. Attached to previous. [Report], n.d.
Statement by Richard Nixon- The Importance of Mining Industry Policies to the National Security and the National Economy. 3 pgs. [Report], 10/5/1968
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan Greenspan- Reedited version of the mining paper. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan Greenspan. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Draft of mining paper. 3 pgs. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Forest Products Newsletter. 216-LL-39. 4 pgs. [Newsletter], 10/11/1968
Statement of the Forest Products Industry before the Platform Committee, Republican Party Convention. 5 pgs. [Report], 7/30/1968
Letter from Henry Bahr to Mr. Rein. 5 pgs. [Letter], 10/11/1968
Statement by former Vice President Richard Nixon on the Rigthts for Women Ammendment. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Report], 7/1/1968
Telegram to Alice Paul from Spiro Agnew concerning the equal rights ammendment. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/24/1968
Statement of the American Library Association to the Republican National Convention Committee on Resolutions Recommending a Plank on Libraries. 5 pgs. [Report], 7/29/1968
Letter from Roger McDonough to Bert Rein. 8 pgs including attachments. [Letter], 9/16/1968
Statement by Richard Nixon- Leadership Library Development. 2 pgs. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/22/1968
American Library Association Addresses. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to Roger McDonough from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to Germaine Krettick from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to David Clift from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Leadership in Library Development. 1 pg. Duplicates not scanned. [Report], n.d.
Thank you letter from Germaine Krettek to Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Letter], 10/30/1968
Letter from James Reeves to Chuck Colson concerning the dairy farmers. 3 pgs including attachments. [Letter], 10/03/19668
"Senate Completes Tax Bill Amendments and Apparently Will Pass Measure Today" in the Wall Street Journal. 1 pg. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 12/11/1969
"Big '69 Drop Seen In Steel Imports" by Robert Walker in the New York Times. 1 pg. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 12/10/1969
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This file contains:
Draft statement of Richard Nixon on Mining Industry Policies. 5 pgs. [Report], n.d.
Letter from Richard Nixon to Chris Dobbins, President American Mining Congress. 3 pgs. [Letter], 10/7/1968
Telegram draft to Chris Dobbins, Presidetn American Mining Congress. 3 pgs. Attached to previous. [Memo], 10/1/1968
Statement by Richard Nixon on Mining Industry Policies. 3 pgs. Attached to previous. [Report], n.d.
Statement by Richard Nixon- The Importance of Mining Industry Policies to the National Security and the National Economy. 3 pgs. [Report], 10/5/1968
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan Greenspan- Reedited version of the mining paper. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan Greenspan. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Draft of mining paper. 3 pgs. [Memo], 10/7/1968
Forest Products Newsletter. 216-LL-39. 4 pgs. [Newsletter], 10/11/1968
Statement of the Forest Products Industry before the Platform Committee, Republican Party Convention. 5 pgs. [Report], 7/30/1968
Letter from Henry Bahr to Mr. Rein. 5 pgs. [Letter], 10/11/1968
Statement by former Vice President Richard Nixon on the Rigthts for Women Ammendment. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Report], 7/1/1968
Telegram to Alice Paul from Spiro Agnew concerning the equal rights ammendment. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/24/1968
Statement of the American Library Association to the Republican National Convention Committee on Resolutions Recommending a Plank on Libraries. 5 pgs. [Report], 7/29/1968
Letter from Roger McDonough to Bert Rein. 8 pgs including attachments. [Letter], 9/16/1968
Statement by Richard Nixon- Leadership Library Development. 2 pgs. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/22/1968
American Library Association Addresses. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to Roger McDonough from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to Germaine Krettick from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Memo to David Clift from Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Memo], 10/22/1968
Leadership in Library Development. 1 pg. Duplicates not scanned. [Report], n.d.
Thank you letter from Germaine Krettek to Richard Nixon. 1 pg. [Letter], 10/30/1968
Letter from James Reeves to Chuck Colson concerning the dairy farmers. 3 pgs including attachments. [Letter], 10/03/19668
"Senate Completes Tax Bill Amendments and Apparently Will Pass Measure Today" in the Wall Street Journal. 1 pg. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 12/11/1969
"Big '69 Drop Seen In Steel Imports" by Robert Walker in the New York Times. 1 pg. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 12/10/1969
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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
17
7
n.d.
Report
Draft statement of Richard Nixon on Mining
Industry Policies. 5 pgs.
17
7
10/07/1968
Letter
Letter from Richard Nixon to Chris Dobbins,
President American Mining Congress. 3 pgs.
17
7
10/01/1968
Memo
Telegram draft to Chris Dobbins, Presidetn
American Mining Congress. 3 pgs. Attached
to previous.
17
7
n.d.
Report
Statement by Richard Nixon on Mining
Industry Policies. 3 pgs. Attached to previous.
17
7
10/05/1968
Report
Statement by Richard Nixon- The
Importance of Mining Industry Policies to
the National Security and the National
Economy. 3 pgs.
17
7
10/07/1968
Memo
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan
Greenspan- Reedited version of the mining
paper. 1 pg.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Page 1 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
17
7
10/07/1968
Memo
Memo from Chuck Colson to Alan
Greenspan. 1 pg.
17
7
10/07/1968
Memo
Draft of mining paper. 3 pgs.
17
7
10/11/1968
Newsletter
Forest Products Newsletter. 216-LL-39. 4
pgs.
17
7
07/30/1968
Report
Statement of the Forest Products Industry
before the Platform Committee, Republican
Party Convention. 5 pgs.
17
7
10/11/1968
Letter
Letter from Henry Bahr to Mr. Rein. 5 pgs.
17
7
07/1968
Report
Statement by former Vice President Richard
Nixon on the Rigthts for Women
Ammendment. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned.
17
7
10/24/1968
Memo
Telegram to Alice Paul from Spiro Agnew
concerning the equal rights ammendment. 1
pg. Duplicate not scanned.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Page 2 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
17
7
07/29/1968
Report
Statement of the American Library
Association to the Republican National
Convention Committee on Resolutions
Recommending a Plank on Libraries. 5 pgs.
17
7
09/16/1968
Letter
Letter from Roger McDonough to Bert Rein.
8 pgs including attachments.
17
7
10/22/1968
Memo
Statement by Richard Nixon- Leadership
Library Development. 2 pgs. Duplicate not
scanned.
17
7
10/22/1968
Memo
American Library Association Addresses. 1
pg.
17
7
10/22/1968
Memo
Memo to Roger McDonough from Richard
Nixon. 1 pg. Duplicate not scanned.
17
7
10/22/1968
Memo
Memo to Germaine Krettick from Richard
Nixon. 1 pg.
17
7
10/22/1968
Memo
Memo to David Clift from Richard Nixon. 1
pg.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Page 3 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
17
7
n.d.
Report
Leadership in Library Development. 1 pg.
Duplicates not scanned.
17
7
10/30/1968
Letter
Thank you letter from Germaine Krettek to
Richard Nixon. 1 pg.
17
7
10/03/19668
Letter
Letter from James Reeves to Chuck Colson
concerning the dairy farmers. 3 pgs including
attachments.
17
7
12/11/1969
Newspaper
"Senate Completes Tax Bill Amendments
and Apparently Will Pass Measure Today" in
the Wall Street Journal. 1 pg. Not scanned.
17
7
12/10/1969
Newspaper
"Big '69 Drop Seen In Steel Imports" by
Robert Walker in the New York Times. 1 pg.
Not scanned.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Page 4 of 4
DRAFT STATEMENT OF RICHARD NIXON
ON MINING INDUSTRY POLICIES
The American mining industry occupies a peculiarly
significant role in the economy of our nation:
by
It provides the raw materials so essential
to our manufacturing and industrial capability;
Production
the The industry's success has an important impact
on our nation's balance of payments
Mining is the economic base for the total economies
of vast areas of the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain States:
By
It provides and creates employment for upwards
of one-half million people,
of
Finally, the development of a healthy, viable
a
mining industry has direct impact on our national security
Federal policies in recent years have had an increasing
involved
Du recen TYears,
effect upon the economic well being of The Rmining industry has become
increasingly involved A a variety of Rederal Programs
Growing national concern over air and water pollution, land
- 2 -
reclamation beautification of the countryside have lead to
1
the establishment of Federal programs directly affecting the
day to day operations of this industry. I know that the industry
recognizes the necessity for working within the framework of these
national objectives /The industry has already invested substantial amounts
of
of its own funds in developing important techniquies for reducing
air and water pollution created by mining operations.
My Administration will fully support our national objectives
in the field of air and water pollution. It will do so with full
recognition of the need for maintaining a healthy viable mining
industry. 9 In this field I believe that the Federal goverment
To this and
must work in partnership with industry and labor and with the
tates and local communities. There must be a balancing of
interest We cannot achieve our very vital goals in the field of
air and waterpollution at the expense of any one particular group.
particularly is this so in the case of the mining industry whose
- 3 -
Industric
products are so vital to fuel our nation's needs.
In the field of reclamation, my Administration will again
work in partnership with the states and local communities and the
industries. We must see to it that the scars on our countryside
created by vast mining operations are eliminated. But we
must
do so in full recognition of local needs, local requirements,
differing conditions from area to area and the multiplicity of uses
to
which reclaimed land can be put. To encourage a healthy. growing
grownig
mining industry, Federal policies must also take into account
the enormous capital required by the industry and the huge risks
which the industry must take. Our nation's tax laws should
through Spic predion alcowances
continue as they do now, to provide for these risks and for the
peculiar nature of mining operations.
The Comper industry experienced
During this Administration, we have witnessed the most
1
crippling work stoppage in the industry history A stoppage
which injured our position in world commerce, in the commercial
- 4 -
addod to
market and which costed our balance of payments deficit an
A
I
addition one-half billion dollars. I do not believe that the
Should
Federal government can be a partisan on either side in a labor-
or
The Task of
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management dispute. The Federal government must create a healthy
A
1
climate in which industry and labor can work together in which
oreriding
both industry and labor XXXXXX recognizes their responibilities
^
to the national interest. We can ill-afford to suffer the loss
to our national economy that results from such protracted and such
bitter disputes.
Finally, my Administration will be pledged to a national
stockpile policy which fully reflects and exclusively reflects -
national security considerations. Our critical minerals stockpile
should not be used as it has been during the past Administration,
as a resource for raising additional revenues for the Federal
should it be used as
Treasury AMT as a swoid sort of Dawallas" over the heads of industry
A
and labor. Our materials stockpile must be geared to the emergency
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needs of the country in time of national crisis.
America needs a strong viable mining industry - our economy
and our defenses depend upon it. In its administration of policies
ffecting national resources, the Federal My administration must be will
and concerned with
be constantly mindful of the vital role of this industry.
^^
450 Park Avenue
New York, New York
October 7, 1968
Mr. Chris Dobbins, President
American Mining Congress
Riviera Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
On the occasion of this year's Mining Show, may I convey through you
my greetings and good wishes to all who are engaged in the work of the American
Mining Industry.
The Mining Industry occupies a vital and significant role in our
nation's economy, providing the raw materials SO essential to our manufacturing
and industrial capability. Mining moreover creates employment for upwards of
one-half million people, and is the base for the economies of the vast areas of
the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain states.
Growing national concern over air and water pollution, land
reclamation, and beautification has increasingly involved the mining industry
in a variety of federal programs. The industry, I know, recognizes its responsibility
to the public, and the necessity of working within the framework of our vital
national objectives with respect to air and water pollution and land reclamation.
I am aware, for example, that the industry has invested substantial amounts of its
own funds in developing important techniques for
pollution
abatement.
My Administration will persue our national objectives in pollution
with full recognition of the necessity of maintaining a healthy viable mining industry.
To this end,, I believe, that the Federal government should work in partnership with
the states and local communities and with industry and labor. Only in this way
can their be a balancing of interests. We can and will achieve our vital goals
without undo hardship on any one individual group.
In the field of reclamation, my administration will also work in
partnership with the states and local communities and industries. We must
successfully reclaim land disturbed my mining operations. We must do so in
recognition of local needs, local requirements, from area to area and the multiplicity
of uses to which reclaimed land can be put.
To encourage a healthy, ever growing mining industry, enormous
capital is required by the industry and huge risks must be taken. We must maintain
the provisions contained in our present tax laws including depletion allowances which
take into account these risks and the peculiar nature of mining operations.
During the past year, the copper industry experienced the most
crippling work stoppage in its history, a stoppage which injured our position in
world commerce, and which added to our balance of payments deficit an additional
one-half billion dollars. I do not believe that the Federal government should be a
partisan on either side in a labor-management dispute. The task of the Federal
government is to create a healthy climate in which industry and labor can work
together - in which both industry and labor recognize their overriding responsibilities
to the national interest. We can ill-afford to suffer the loss to our national economy
that results from such protracted and such bitter disputes.
Finally, my administration will be pledged to a national stockpile
policy which fully reflects - and exclusively reflects - national security considerations.
Our critical minerals stockpile should not be used, as it has been during the
3
past administration to raise additional funds for the Treasury or as a weapon of the
Federal government to achieve its goals with industry and labor.
In all of its policies, the next Administration must be mindful of
the need to maintain a strong and viable mining industry, one which can meet all
of the national security requirements of our nation and one which can openly and
successfully compete in world markets.
Richard M. Nixon
Draft October 1, 1968
TELEGRAM
Mr. Cris Dobbins, President
American Mining Congress
Riviera Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
On the occasion of this year's Mining Show, may I convey
through you my greetings and good wishes to all who are engaged
in the work of the American mining industry.
Our Nation's economy depends heavily on the unique and
vital contribution made by mining -- in all its segments. Our
national security also is keyed importantly to the supply of
metals, coal, industrial and agricultural minerals which this
industry produces.
This industry not only supplies the products on which
our economy and our defenses are so dependent. It creates and
maintains the jobs on which literally hundreds of thousands of
mining employees and their families rely. These are factors
which must be central to the thinking of any government program
or policy affecting mining.
It is my purpose, and it will be the purpose of my
Administration, in whatever necessary governmental programs we
undertake, to draw upon the mining industry's experience, skills
- 2 -
and demonstrated dedication to the public good. We will welcome
the industry's help. And I pledge the cooperation and the under-
standing of my Administration in all these endeavors.
Mining has virtually no choice in locating its facilities.
It must seek out its products and then mine them where they are
found. To discover a valuable mineral deposit and then establish
a modern mining facility is a venture calling for great skills,
for much capital outlay, and for enormous risks. All this, in
my view, clearly warrants the maintenance of suitable tax incen-
tives, including the depletion allowance.
Additionally, in moving toward desirable environmental
quality goals, such as the abatement of pollution and the reclama-
tion of mined lands, my Administration will recognize the need
for a careful balancing of interests for the benefit of all
Americans. Environmental maintenance must be a partnership
undertaking, not one dictated from Washington. Regional, State
and local conditions will vary. My Administration will therefore
work in close cooperation with State and local governments, and
with your industry in meeting these problems.
I pledge to you that my Administration, in all its
policies -- including those in such areas as labor-management
relations, government stockpiling, foreign trade, public lands --
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will take into account the particular problems of mining, our
Nation's special dependence on this industry, and the overriding
public need to maintain a viable and expanding domestic mining
industry fully capable of competing in the world market place.
Richard M. Nixon
Blian to ao overton
Ed M'Cahe
m
Rivira
Hotel
STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
ON MINING INDUSTRY POLICIES
The American mining industry occupies a peculiarly significant
role in the economy of our nation:
It provides the raw materials so essential to our menufact-
uring and industrial capability;
The industry's production has an important impact on our
Nation's balance of payments;
Mining is the economic base for the tomal economies of
vast areas of the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain States;
It provides and creates employment for upwards of one-half
million people;
Finally, the development of a healthy viable mining industry
has dedirect impact on our national security.
In recent years, the mining industry Ims become increasingly
insolved in a variety of Federal Programs. Growing national concern over
air and water pollution, land reclamation and beautification of
the countryside have led to the establishment of Federal programs
directly affecting the day to day operations of this industry. I
of
know that the industry recognises the necessity for working within
appropriate
the franswork of Shows national objectives; the industry has
invested substantial amounts of its own funds in developing
important techniques for reducing air and water pollution created
by mining operations.
My administration will fully support our national objectives
in the field of sir and water pollution. It will do 80 with full
recognition of the need for maintaining a healthy viable winigg
industry.
-2-
To this end, I believe that the Federal government must
work in partmership with industry and labor and with the States and
local communities. There must be a balancing of interests. We
carnet achieve our very vital goals in the field of air and water
withoutzenalosing
pallution at the of any one particular group. Particularly
to this to intthe case of the wining industry whose products are
BO vital to fuel our nation's Industrial needs.
In the field of reclamation, mg administration will again
work in partnership with the states and local communities and
the industifes. We must see to it that the scars on our countryside
created by vast mining operations are eliminated. We must do so
in full recognition of local needs, local requirements, differing
conditions from area to area and the multiplicity of uses to which
reclaimed land can be put.
To encourage a healthy, ever growing mining industry,
Federal policies must also take into account the enormous capital
required by the indistry and the huge risks which the industry
must take, Our nation's tax laws should continue as they do now
through special depletion allowances to provide for these risks
and for the pecaliar nature of mining operations.
During this Administration, the copper industry experienced
the most crippling work stoppage in its history, a shoppage which
injured our position in world commerce, and which added to our
balance of payments deficit an additional one-half billion dollars.
I do not believe that the Federal government should be a partisan
on either side in a labor-management dispute. The task of the
-3-
Federal government is to create a healthy climate in which industry
and labor can work together - in which both industry and labor
recognise their overriding responsibilities to the national interest.
We can ill-afford to suffer the loss to our national economy that
results from such protracted and such bitter disputes.
Finally, my administration will be pledged to a national
stockpile policy which fully reflects - and exclusively reflects -
national security considerations. Our critical mânerals stockpile
should not be used, as it has been during the past ddministration, as
a resource for raising additional revenues for the Federal Treasury
nor should it be used as a "sword of Damacles" over the heads of
industry and labor. Our materials stockpile must be geared to the
emergency needs of the country in time of national crisis.
STATEMENT BY RICHARD M. NIXON
450 Park Avenue
New York, New York
October 5, 1968
THE IMPORTANCE OF MINING INDUSTRY POLICIES TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY
AND THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
The American mining industry occupies a peculiarly significant
role in the economy of our nation:
It provides the raw materials SO essential to our manufacturing
and industrial capability;
The industry's production has an important impact on our Nation's
balance of payments;
Mining is the economic base for the total economies of vast areas
of the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain States;
It provides and creates employment for upwards of one-half million
people;
Finally, the development of a healthy vivable mining industry has
a direct impact on our national security.
In recent years, the mining industry has become increasingly involved
in a variety of Federal Programs. Growing national concern over air and water
pollution, land reclamation and beautification of the countryside have led to the
establishment of Federal programs directly affecting the day to day operations
of this industry. I know that the industry recognizes the necessity for working
towards the accomplishment of our vital national objectives in these areas. The industry
has already invested substantial amounts of its own funds in developing important
techniques for pollution abatement.
My admininstration will pursue our national objectives in pollution
abatement with full recognition of the need for maintaining a healthy viable
mining industry.
-2-
To this end, I believe that the Federal government must work in
partnership with industry and labor and with the States and local communities.
There must be a balancing of interests. We can and will achieve our pollution
abatement vital goals without penalizing any one particular group.
In the field of reclamation, my administration will again work in
partnership with the states and local communities and the industries involved.
Reclamation of land disturbed by mining operations must be accomplished. We must
do so, however, in full recognition of local needs, local requirements, differing
conditions from area to area and the multiplicity of ues to which reclaimed land can
be put.
To encourage a healthy, ever growing mining industry, Federal policies
must also take into account the enormous capital required by the industry and
the huge risks which the industry must take. We must maintain the recognition
contained in our present tax laws including the special depletion allowances for
these risks and for the peculiar nature of mining operations.
The copper industry experienced the most crippling work stoppage
in its history, a stoppage which injured our position in world commerce, and which
added an additional one-half billion dollars to our balance of payments deficit. I
do not believe that the Federal government should be a partisan on either side in a
labor-management dispute. The task of the Federal government is to create a
healthy climate in which industry and labor can work together in which both
-3-
industry and labor recognize their overriding responsibilities to the national interest.
We can ill-afford to suffer the loss to our national economy that results from such
protracted and such bitter disputes.
Finally, my administration will be pledged to a national stockpile
policy which fully reflects - and exclusively reflects - national security considerations.
Our critical minerals stockpile should not be used to raise additional funds for
the Treasury or as a weapon of the federal government to achieve its goals with
industry and labor.
In all of its policies, the next Administration must be mindful of
the need to maintain a strong and viable minind industry, one which can meet all of the
national security requirements of our nation and one which can openly compete and
successfully compete in world markets.
JGT WASH
38
TO: ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM: CHUCK COLSON
THE FOLLOWING IS THE RE-EDITED VERSION OF THE MINING PAPER.
450 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
OCTOBER 7, 1968
MR. CHRIS DOBBINS, PRESIDENT
AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS
RIVIERA HOTEL
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
ON THE OCCASION OF THIS YEAR'S MINING SHOW, MAY I CONVEY THROUGH
YOU MY GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES TO ALL WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THE WORK OF
THE AMERICAN MINING INDUSTRY.
THE MINING INDUSTRY OCCUPIES A VITAL AND SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN OUR
NATION'S ECONOMY, PROVIDING THE RAW MATERIALS SO ESSENTIAL TO OUR MANU-
FACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY. MINING MOREOVER CREATES EMPLOY-
MENT FOR UPWARDS OF ONEE-HALF MILLION PEOPLE, AND IS/THE BASE FOR THE
ECONOMIES OF THE VAST AREAS OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
STATES.
GROWING NATIONAL CONCERN OVER AIR AND WATER POLLUTION AND LAND
RECLAMATION HAS INCREASINGLY INVOLVED THE MINING INDUSTRY IN A VARIETY
OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS. MOREOVER, THE INDUSTRY HAS INVESTED SUBSTANTIAL
AMOUNTS OF ITS OWN FUNDS IN DEVELOPING IMPORTANT TECHNIQUES FOR POL-
LUTION ABATEMENT.
MY ADMINISTRATION WILL PURSUE OUR NATIONAL OBJECTIVES INPOLLUTION
CONTROL WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF THE NECESSITY OF MAINTAINING A HEALTHY
MINING INDUSTRY. TO THIS END , I BELIEVE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SHOULD WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND
WITH INDUSTRY AND LABOR. ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THERE BE A PROPER BAL-
ANCING OF THE VARIED CONCERNS.
IN RECLAMATION, ALSO THERE MUST BE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATES
AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES. IN RECLAIMING LANDS DISTURBED
BY MINING OPERATIONS, THERE MUST BE RECOGNITION OF LOCAL NEEDS, LOCAL
REQUIREMENTS FROM AREA TO AREA, AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF USES TO WHICH
RECLAIMED LAND CAN BE PUT.
DURING THE PAST YEAR THE COPPER INDUSTRY EXPERIENCED THE MOST
CRIPPLING WORK STOPPAGE IN ITS HISTORY, A STOPPAGE WHICH INJURED OUR
POSITION IN WORLD COMMERCE, AND WHICH ADDED TO OUR BALANCE OF PAY-
MENTS DEFICIT AN ADDITIONAL HALF-BILLION DOLLARS. THE FEDERAL GOV-
ERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN IN LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISPUTES. ITS
TASK IS TO CREATE A HEALTHY CLIMATE IN WHICH INDUSTRY AND LABOR CAN
WORK TOGETHER -- IN WHICH BOTH INDUSTRY AND LABOR CAN THEMSELVES RE-
SOLVE THEIR DISAGREEMENTS IN HARMONY WITH THEIR OVERRIDING RESPONSI-
BILITIES TO THE NATIONAL INTEREST.
FINALLY A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL BE COMMITTED TO A NATIONAL
STOCKPILE POLICY WHICH FULLY AND EXCLUSIVELY REFLECTS NATIONAL SECURITY
CONSIDERATIONS. OUR CRITICAL MINERALS STOCKPILE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO
RAAISE FUNDS FOR THE TREASURY OR AS A FEDERAL WEAPON AGAINST INDUSTRY
OR LABOR.
IN ALL OF ITS POLICIES, THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION MUST BE MINDFUL
OF THE NEED TO MAINTAIN A STRONG MINING INDUSTRY, WHICH CAN MMEET THE
SECURITY REQUIREMENTS OF OUR NATION AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPETE IN WORLD
MARKETS.
RICHARD M. NIXON
END.
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TO: ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM: CHUCK COLSON
BRYCE HARLOW HAS APPROVED THIS IN THIS FORM AS FOLLOWS*
WE MUST BE ABLE TO TELEGRAM THIS MONDAY TO THE AMERICAN MINING
CONGRESS. PRESS SHOULD BE FOR RELEASE MONDAY. ALL OF OUR COVER LETTERS
TRANSMITTING COPIES OF THIS WILL BE PREAPRED AND READY TO GO IN THE
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK
OCTOBER 7, 1968
MR. CHRIS DOBBINS, PRESIDENT
AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS
RIVIERA HOTEL
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
I
ON THE OCCASION OF THIS YEAR'S MINING SHOW, MAY If CONVEY
THROUGH YOUM MY GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES TO ALL WHO ARE ENGAGED
IN THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MINING INDUSTRY.
THE MOINININING INDUSTRY OCCUPIES A VITAL AND SIGNIFICANT ROLE
IN OUR NATION'S ECONOMY, PROVIDING THE RAW MATERIALS SO ESSENTIAL
TO OUR MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY. MINING
MOREOVER CREATES EMPLOYMENT FOR UPWARDS OF ONE-HALF MILLION
PEOPLE, AND IS THE BLASE OFOR THE ECONOMISES OF THE VAST AREAS
OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES.
and
GROWING NATIOANAL CONCERN OVER AIR AND WATER POLLUTION, LAND
RECLAMATION AND BEAUTIF CAT HAS INCREASINGLY INVOLVED THE
MINING INDUSTRY IN A VARIETY OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS. MOREOVER,
THE INDUSTRY HAS INVESTED SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF ITS OWN FUNDS
IN DEVELOPING IMPORTANT TECHNIQUES FOR POLLUTION ABATEEMENT.
MY ADMINISTRATION WILL PURSUE OUR NATIONAL OBJECTIVES I
IN POLLUTION CONTROL WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF THE NECESSITYYOF
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY MINING INDUSTRY. TO THIS END, I. BELIEVE
THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
THE STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND WITH INDUSTRY AND LBABOR.
ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THERE BE A PROPER BALANCING OF THE VARIED
CONCERNS.
IN RECLAMATION, ALSO THERE MUST BE PARTNERRSHIP WITH THE
STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES. IN RECLAIMING
LANDS DISTRIURBED BY MINING OPERATIONS, THERE MUST BE RECOGNITION
OF LOCAL NEEDS, LOCAL REQUIREMENTS FROM AREA TO AREA, THE
AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF USES TO WHICH RECLAIMED LAND CAN BE PUT.
THEO ENCOURAGE HEALTHY GROWTH OF THE MINING INDUSTRY,
ENORMOUS CAPITAL IS REQUIRDED AND HUGH RISKS UMUST BE TAKEN. THERE
IS NO PRESENT ALTERNATIVE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST, TO THE
DEPLETION ALLOWANCES WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO TAKE
INTO ACCOUNT THESE IMMENSE RISKS, HEAVY COSTS, AND THE PECULIAR
NATURE OF MINING OPERATIONS.
DURING THE PAST YEAR THE COPPER INDUSTRY EXPERIENCED THE
MOST CRIPPLING WORK STOPPAGGE IN ITS HISTORY, A STOPPAGE WHICH
INJURED OUR POSITION IN WORLD OMMERCECOMMERCE, AND WHICH ADDED
TO OUR BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIET AN ADDITIONAL HALF-BILLION
DOLLARS. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN IN LABOR-
MANAGEMENT DISPUTES. ITS TAKS IS TO CREATE A HEALTHY CLIMATE IN
WHICH INDUSTRY AND LABOR CANWORK TOETGETHER -- IN WHICH BOTH
INDUSTRY AND LABOR CANTH THEMSELVES RESOLVE THEIR DISAGREEMENTS
IN HARMONY WITH THEIR OVERRIDING RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE NATIONAL
INTEREST. WE CAN ILL AFFORD TO SUFFER THE LOSS TO OUR NATIONAL
FROM
PRO
ON THE OCCASION OF THIS YEAR'S MINING SHOW, MAY X CONVEY
THROUGH YOUM MY GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES TO ALL WHO ARE ENGAGED
IN THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MINING INDUSTRY.
THE MOINININING INDUSTRY OCCUPIES A VITAL AND SIGNIFICANT ROLE
IN OUR NATION'S ECONOMY, PROVIDING THE RAW MATERIALS SO ESSENTIAL
TO OUR MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY. MINING
MOREOVER CREATES EMPLOYMENT FOR UPWARDS OF ONE-HALF MILLION
PEOPLE, AND IS THE BEASE OFOR THE ECONOMISES OF THE VAST AREAS
OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES.
and
GROWING NATIOANAL CONCERN OVER AIR AND WATER POLLUTION, LAND
RECLAMATION AND BEAUTIFICATIO HAS INCREASINGLY INVOLVED THE
MINING INDUSTRY IN A VARIETY OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS. MOREOVER,
THE INDUSTRY HAS INVESTED SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF ITS OWN FUNDS
IN DEVELOPING IMPORTANT TECHNIQUES FOR POLLUTION ABATEEMENT.
MY ADMINISTRATION WILL PURSUE OUR NATIONAL OBJECTIVES I
IN POLLUTION CONTROL WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF THE NECESSITYYOF
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY MINING INDUSTRY. TO THIS END, I BELIEVE
THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
THE STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND WITH INDUSTRY AND LBABOR.
ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN THERE BE A PROPER BALANCING OF THE VARIED
CONCERNS.
IN RECLAMATION, ALSO THERE MUST BE PARTNERRSHIP WITH THE
STATES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND INDUSTRIES. IN RECLAIMING
LANDS DISTRIURBED BY MINING OPERATIONS, THERE MUST BE RECOGNITION
OF LOCAL NEEDS, LOCAL REQUIREMENTS FROM AREA TO AREA, THE
AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF USES TO WHICH RECLAIMED LAND CAN BE PUT.
THEO RNCOURAGE HEALTHY GROWTH OF THE MINING INDUSTRY,
ENORMOUS CAPITAL IS REQUIRDED AND HUGH RISKS UMUST BE TAKEN. THERE
IS NO PRESENT ALTERNATIVE , IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST, TO THE
DEPLETION ALLOWANCES WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO TAKE
INTO ACCOUNT THESE IMMENSE RISKS, HEAVY COSTS, AND THE PECULIAR
NATURE OF MINING OPERATIONS.
DURING THE PAST YEAR THE COPPER INDUSTRY EXPERIENCED THE
MOST CRIPPLING WORK STOPPAGGE IN ITS HISTORY, A STOPPAGE WHICH
INJURED OUR POSITION IN WORLD OMMERCECOMMERCE, AND WHICH ADDED
TO OUR BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIET AN ADDITIONAL HALF-BILLION
DOLLARS. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN IN LABOR-
MANAGEMENT DISPUTES. ITS TAKS IS TO CREATE A HEALTHY CLIMATE IN
WHICH INDUSTRY AND LABOR CANWORK TOETGETHER -- IN WHICH BOTH
INDUSTRY AND LABOR CANTH THEMSELVES RESOLVE THEIR DISAGREEMENTS
IN HARMONY WITH THEIR OVERRIDING RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE NATIONAL
INTEREST. WE CAN AFFORD TO SUFFER THE LOSS TO OUR NATIONAL
ECONOMY THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH PRO MAGTED AND SUBHCH BITTER
FINALLY A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL BE COMMITTED TO A
NATIONAL STOCKPILE POLICY WHICH FULLY AND EXCLUSIVELY REFLECTS
NATIONAL SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS. OUR CRITICAL MINERALS
STOCKPILE SHOULD NOT BE ABBUSED AGAIT HAS BEEN DURING THE
PAST ADMINI STRATION, TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE TREASURY OR AS
A
FEDERAL WEAPON AGAINST INDUSTRY OR LABOR.
used
IN ALL OF ITS POLICIES, THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION MUST BE
MINDFUL OF THE NEED TO MAINTAIN A STRONG MINING INDUSTRY,
WHICH CAN MEET THE SECURITY REQUIREMENTS OF OUR NATION AND
SUCCESSFULLY COMPETE IN WORLD MARKETS.
RICHARD M. NIXON
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October 7, 1968
Mr. Chris Dobbins, President
American Mining Congress
Riviera Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
On the occasion of this year's Mining Show, may I convey through you
my greetings and good wishes to all who are engaged in the work of the American
Mining Industry.
The Mining Industry occupies a vital and significant role in our
nation's economy, providing the raw materials SO essential to our manufacturing
and industrial capability. Mining moreover creates employment for upwards of
one-half million people, and is the base for the economies of the vast areas of
the Southwest and the Rocky Mountain states.
Growing national concern over air and water pollution, land
reclamation, and beautification has increasingly involved the mining industry
mor only
in a variety of federal programs. The industry, know, recognizes its responsibility
to the public, and the necessity of working within the framework of our vital
national objectives with respect to air and water pollution and land reclamation.
I am aware, for example, that the industry has invested substantial amounts of its
own funds in developing important techniques for
pollution
abatement.
My Administration will pursue our national objectives in pollution control
with full recognition of the necessity of maintaining a healthy
mining industry.
To this end,, I believe, that the Federal government should work in partnership with
the states and local communities and with industry and labor. Only in this way
them
can their be a balancing of interests We can and will achieve our vital goals
Proper
the varied.
without undo hardship on any one individual group.
them
In the ficld of reclamation, will also work in
In
partnership with the states and local communities and industries. We must
successfully reclaim land disturbed my mining operations. them We must months de
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recognition of local needs, local requirements from area to area and the multiplicity
of uses to which reclaimed land can be put.
To encourage 3 healthy growing mining industry, enormous
capital is required by the industry an and huge risks must atchest be taken. token We must maintain
the provisions contained our present tax laws including depletion allowances which
am
to
take into account these risks and the peculiar nature of mining operations
University
During the past year the copper industry experienced the most
crippling work stoppage in its history, a stoppage which injured our position in
world commerce, and which added to our balance of payments deficit an additional
not
half-billion dollars. Ido not believe that the Federal government should be a
Its
partisan on sither-side in 2 labor management disputes, task of the Federal
government is to create a healthy climate in which industry and labor can work
their disagreements in
together - in which both industry and labor) recognize their overriding responsibilities
to the national interest. We can ill-afford to suffer the loss to our national economy
that results from such protracted and such bitter disputes.
aNilon
committed
Finally, my administration will be pledged to a national stockpile
^
policy which fully ref and exclusively reflects national security considerations.
aboved
Our critical minerals stockpile should not be used, as it has been during the
3
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past on to raise additional funds for the Treasury or as a weapon of the
Federal to achiev against with industry and labor.
or
In all of its policies, the next Administration must be mindful of
meet
the need to maintain a strong and viable mining industry, which can meet all
the
security requirements of our nation and one
h
can
openlymend
successfully compete in world markets.
Richard M. Nixon
FOREST
Forest Products Newsletter
MATIONAL
Published by
NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION*
ASSOCIATION
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036
216-LL-39
Washington, D. C., October 11, 1968
LUMBER
The Board of Directors of the National Association of Home
PRICES,
Builders, meeting this week in Atlantic City, N.J., adopted a resolu-
PRODUCTION
tion calling on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the
Cabinet Committee on Price Stability to study lumber industry pricing
patterns and federal forest management and timber export policies with
a view to maximizing lumber and plywood availability. The NAHB reso-
lution was praised by NFPA Executive Vice President M. B. Doyle, who
stated that NAHB and NFPA have worked together closely during the past
months in efforts to relieve export pressures on the timber supply in
the West. The major factor forcing up lumber and plywood prices, Doyle
said, is the rate at which timber from western federal lands has been
sold for export. He noted that exports currently are running at upwards
of the rate of 2.4 billion board feet annually, compared with the total
log export volume of 1.6 billion board feet in 1967.
Study Other
In commending the NAHB resolution, Doyle urged that if the
Cost Factors
President's Council of Economic Advisers and Cabinet Committee on
Price Stability study industry pricing patterns and their influence on
housing costs, it also study other housing cost factors such as labor,
land, and mortgage costs which are the major elements in housing cost
increases. He noted that current prices for western Douglas Fir have
increased only 17 per cent since 1956, while lumber and plywood pro-
ducers have absorbed log cost increases of upwards of 100 per cent,
labor cost increases of 43 per cent, and concurrent increases in equip-
ment and shipping costs.
Supply-
Doyle emphasized that lumber prices in 1968 "clearly reflect
Demand
supply and demand pressures, " pointing out that the forest products
Pressures
industry presents an almost classic example of an industry in pure com-
petition since prices are established in day-to-day free market bargain-
ing between buyer and seller, by production costs, and by the price
trends of competing materials. He stressed that the industry cannot
administer prices like the automobile, steel, aluminum and other more
concentrated industries, and reported the industry's concern over the
effect recent price trends will have on the competitive position of forest
products in the building materials market.
Federal
However, he emphasized that the federal government, as the
Policy
largest supplier of timber to the lumber manufacturing industry, selling
hundreds of times more timber than any other supplier, is the log price
* Formerly NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
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setter and the major beneficiary of rising timber prices. He said
the industry "has consistently urged federal land-managing agencies
to increase timber production from national forest and other federal
lands through more efficient timber management methods and in-
creased investment in timber access roads, thinnings, genetic im-
provements, fire, insect and disease control, and fertilization."
He noted that it was unfortunate that federal timber managing agen-
cies now are undergoing budget cuts which will restrict their ability
to increase timber production with the result there will be "needless
and artificial timber supply shortages."
LOG
The President, Tuesday, signed the 1968 Foreign Aid Act which
EXPORTS
contains the Morse Amendment limiting the export of logs from west-
ern federal lands to 350 million board feet annually for three years.
The limitation applies to exports of federal timber west of the 100th
meridian, beginning in 1969. In signing the bill, the President said:
"This provision affects our trade with Japan. The United States
Government assures the Government of Japan that we will give full
consideration -- bearing in mind United States domestic require-
ments - to Japan's desire to have the law administered in a manner
least harmful to our trade relations.'
NFPA FALL
Record attendance at the NFPA Fall Meeting already has been
MEETING
registered for the association's first international meeting in Van-
couver, B. C., Canada, Oct. 20-23. In addition to an excellent re-
sponse from U. S. industry leaders, across-the-border members of
the Canadian Wood Council have been enthusiastic in making plans to
remain in Vancouver following the CWC meeting which will precede
the NFPA meeting.
Mock
NFPA President James D. Bronson will officially open the
Senate
NFPA Fall Meeting at the Bayshore Inn, Oct. 21. The Opening
Hearing
Session will feature a simulated hearing of a Committee of the United
States Senate on forestry and regulatory matters. Roles of committee
members and witnesses appearing before the committee will be por-
trayed by industry leaders and staff executives of NFPA and its feder-
ated member associations.
Special
A Congress on Technology, Engineering and Marketing and
Conferences
a Legislative Action and Public Affairs Seminar will be held imme-
diately prior to the Fall Meeting. Both conferences will take place
Oct. 18-19. Interest in the Congress and Seminar programs by in-
dustry technical and public affairs specialists indicates record at-
tendance at both events.
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FEDERAL
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) will announce Oct. 14 that
TIMBER
his Senate Small Business Subcommittee will open its study of fed-
MANAGEMENT
eral timber management Nov. 26. Witnesses from the home build-
HEARINGS
ing and forest products industries and appropriate federal agencies
will be invited to testify. Hearing topic will be "What are the es-
timated wood needs of the future, and how will they be met." Sena-
tor Morse said subsequent hearings will detail (1) the advances in
timber cultivation which are known and available; (2) competing uses
for public land and their compatibility with intensive timber cultiva-
tion; (3) public timber marketing practices; (4) financial obstacles
to higher yield from public forests, and (5) whether changes in tim-
ber management and funding are desirable.
Federal
Senator Morse said that the nation's home builders are
Timber
alarmed to find that with a housing boom in the making, lumber is
Production
in short supply and its price rising, adding: "It is in short supply
because our mills in the Northwest have not been able to increase
production as they usually do in response to high demand for lum-
ber." He cited Japanese log purchases as "a major factor" and
noted that the three-year limitation on federal timber exports con-
tained in the Foreign Aid Act "should be our opportunity to look
into ways of increasing production of public timber."
WHITE
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Special Assistant to the President,
HOUSE
this week acknowledged receipt of the NFPA telegram protesting
DODGES
President Johnson's criticism of timber harvesting as a "hungry and
hasty and selfish act of destruction" when he signed four recreation
and beautification bills last week. Califano cited the President's
proclamation of National Forest Products Week as evidence of White
House recognition of the important role of sound timber harvesting
in the national economy. In reply, M. B. Doyle pointed out that
leading wire services and newspapers had used the President's re-
marks about "chain saws" and "destruction" to the detriment of the
industry. He expressed the industry's inability to "understand the
ambivalence of the Administration's position."
National
Doyle said: "Either the forest resource, as the proclamation
Interest
says, plays an essential role 'in stimulating the advancement of our
rural economy and the continued growth and prosperity of the entire
Nation' or, as the President's remarks indicated, the forest resource
must be spared from ... 'destruction. ''' Concluding, Doyle said:
"We strongly believe
... it is the responsibility of the Administration
never to suggest, under any circumstances, that timber harvesting
is inimical to the national interest. I would respectfully urge that
the President offer for public understanding a clarification of what
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appears to many to be diametrically opposed positions on the basis
of last week's two statements."
TIMBER SALE
The Chairman of the industry's Federal Timber Purchasers
CONTRACT
Committee, Faye Stewart, wrote Agriculture Secretary Freeman last
REVISIONS
week that three major unresolved issues in the industry-Forest Service
14-month review and revision of the Timber Sale Contract form should
be brought to his attention. Stewart pointed out that the three issues
are departures from traditional Forest Service-purchaser procedures
and involve payment bonds, purchaser's fire liability, and purchaser's
road construction obligations. He stated they are all proposals put
forward by the Forest Service which have met with the "unanimous
opposition of all segments of the forest industry as represented by
the Federal Timber Purchasers Committee.' He called on the Sec-
retary to use his offices "to retain and preserve the bilateral spirit
of the contract. He said that if implemented, the proposed Forest
Service policies would substantially alter this spirit.
SAFETY-
The Labor Department has scheduled a hearing Nov. 6, in
HEALTH
Washington, D. C., on a proposed revision of safety and health stand-
REGULATIONS
ards applicable to federal supply contracts subject to the Walsh-
Healey Act. The proposals, published in the FEDERAL REGISTER
Sept. 20, cover such areas as occupational noise exposure, exposure
to harmful gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists; material hand-
ling and storage; safety guards on machinery; traffic safety; and
records of injuries. Requests to testify should be made 10 days in
advance of the hearings. Address communications to the Director,
Bureau of Labor Standards, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington,
D. C. 20212.
FIRE
An error in determining the fire insurance rate for heavy tim-
INSURANCE
ber construction for a chain of restaurants was clarified recently by
NFPA's Fire Insurance Department, enabling the owner to proceed
with future planned construction. A representative of a lumber firm
contacted NFPA for assistance with the insurance problem. NFPA
consulted with the local rating bureau, confirmed the error by an in-
surance broker, and assured the architect that the proper insurance
rate was significantly lower than expected.
AFI ANNUAL
Theme of the American Forest Institute's first Annual Meeting,
MEETING
Oct. 29-30, at Washington, D. C.'s Mayflower Hotel, is "Communi-
cations in Action." It reflects the increasing recognition of the need
for expanded communications. Contact AFI, 1835 K Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C. 20006, for details.
Classification:
File No.:
30
1. Organization: Forest Products Industry
2. Membership and Representation:
18 Lumbermen and wood products
organizations
3. Representative:
(a) Presentation:
Mort Doyle
Executive Vice President
(b) Washington: 1619 mass are. N.W. 20036
332-1050
M₂ Bahri
4. Key Issues Presented: Multiple use concept for public forest lands,
emphasize private land management.
5. Platform Position: "Federal laws applicable to public lands and retailed
resources will be updating and a public use. We will enlarge such rates
to insure their multiple use as economic resources and recreational national
areas.
Statement
of the
FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
before the
PLATFORM COMMITTEE
Republican Party Convention
Miami, Florida
July 30, 1968
I am Mortimer B. Doyle, Executive Vice President of the National
Forest Products Association, a federation of 18 lumber and wood products
organizations throughout the United States. While we are headquartered in
Washington, D.C., we represent the national legislative, technical, resource,
and public information interests of regional wood product manufacturing
organizations in the continental United States and Alaska. On public issues
such as I will discuss today I am authorized as well to speak in behalf of the
American Plywood Association which, while not a formal member of our
federation, subscribes to our policy positions on legislative and resource
matters.
As a preface to recommending specific planks for the platform of the
Republican Party to enable the United States to realize the maximum benefits
from its forest resources, it is important to establish the general parameters
of our industry and national interests.
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The growing of trees to fulfill our people's material, spiritual,
recreational and esthetic needs requires the use of land. Competing
demands for land impose restraints upon the growing, harvesting and
replenishment of our forests in perpetuity. A fundamental concern of
the nation must, therefore, be the assignment of relative values to the
rational use of our fixed national land base.
Realization of public and private aspirations with respect to the
forests of America requires therefore:
That we maintain and increase, where possible, our forest
resources so that America will always have an ample supply of fiber
and wood to meet all the needs of our people;
That all federal timber not found to be surplus to domestic needs
be retained for the use of our own people and for the sustenance and
advancement of dependent communities and industries;
That our national inheritance of properly managed and replenished
forest lands be sustained by the application of adequate protection and
conservation of such lands from the ravages of fire and disease;
That to the extent possible and practicable all forest lands of America,
public and private, be utilized under the national policy of multiple use SO
that the natural productivity of such lands is not denied to the national
inventory of resources; and
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That all our citizens be guaranteed the opportunity to make the
maximum use of our forest lands for a variety of healthful pursuits
while, in the true spirit of conservation, wise use, the forests will
continue to be harvested and replenished as a perpetual resource.
The National Forest Products Association endorses the Lands,
Forest Development planks of the 1964 Republican Party Platform and
urges their retention and augmentation.
We recommend that the Platform Committee adopt the following
Lands, Forest Development plank in the current platform:
---- continuing review of public land laws and policies to assure
maximum opportunity for all beneficial uses of the public lands, including
forests, mineral and grazing resources, and scholarly development of a
National Land Use Policy study assessing the relative values of the entire
United States land base as a guide to statutory adoption of a National Land
Use Policy;
---- support of sustained yield management of our forests and
expanded research for control of forest insects, disease, and forest fires;
---- examine the productivity in goods, services, and dependent
community prosperity of the administration of public lands.
With respect to this plank it is essential to point out that the federal
government presently administers hundreds of billions of dollars worth of
land and resources under a management system which is not producing
returns comparable to those which would be realized under private management.
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Present levels of management and development investment on public
lands are not based upon maximizing returns. All aspects of federal
timber land management should be subjected to a thorough review to
determine the levels of input to return the best cost-benefit ratio.
---- enforce administrative compliance with existing federal
statutes governing federal timber, such as those which require that the
needs of domestic users be met before export is permitted, and those
regarding federal timber sales, which, at present, are administered
in such a way as to impose unnecessary instability on timber-dependent
communities where employment opportunities would improve and thus
reduce rural-urban imbalance if raw material resource availability were
stabilized.
In conclusion I cannot emphasize too strongly that the forest products
industries, operating in all fifty of the states, want to provide an attractive
opportunity for stable employment, continuing support of the rural economy,
and fulfillment of both the material and recreational needs of all our people
but these opportunities cannot be realized unless the national government
creates a policy and statutory environment which will enable maximum
realization of the endless cycle of timber planting, growing, harvesting,
conversion and replenishment.
Thank you.
INATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS
NATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS NFPA ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION
General Offices:
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
Area Code 202. 332-1050
October 11, 1968
Mr. Bert Rein
Key Issues Committee
Room 412
Capitol Hill Hotel
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Rein:
Herewith is a four-page statement along the lines you requested. I
hope it is helpful.
Sincerely,
Henry Henry Bahr
Vice President and
General Manager
Enclosure
Formerly NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
I am pleased that the Republican Party's 1968 Platform concurs with
expert professional non-partisan recommendations calling for the develop-
ment of a national land use policy and in affirming support for sustained-
yield management and more intensive research to control forest fires,
insects and diseases.
Our Party's natural resources plank recommends an updating of
federal laws applicable to public lands and the formulation of a public land
use policy. It states that public lands will be managed "to insure their
multiple use as economic resources and recreational areas" and vigorously
supports "improved forestry practices, including protection and improve-
ment of watershed lands
" It affirms support for the creation of additional
national parks, wilderness areas, monuments and outdoor recreation areas
"at appropriate sites, 11 as well as "their continuing improvement to make
them of maximum utility and enjoyment to the public. 11 It also emphasizes
the need to foster population redistribution to relieve pressure on the cities
by improving opportunities in rural areas, where forestry is so significant.
I can firmly promise you that no Republican President will ever assert
that timber harvesting is a "hungry and hasty and selfish act of destruction"
or suggest that the forest products industry, by planting, growing, harvesting
and converting our American forest resources, is engaged in exploiting our
national wealth, damaging our environment, and debasing the quality and beauty
of American life as President Johnson has done. For, unlike the present
Democratic occupant of the White House, Republicans know that the forest
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products industry practices more sound conservation in the public interest
through multiple use of forest lands than any other element in American
society. Millions of men, women, and children in all fifty states derive
their fundamental livelihoods from reforestation, timber management,
timber harvesting and manufacture, distribution and use of the thousands
of products provided by wood.
Republicans know that the forest products industries, operating in all
fifty of the states, want to provide an attractive opportunity for stable
employment, continuing support of the rural economy, and fulfillment of
both the material and recreational needs of all our people. We are aware
that these opportunities cannot be realized unless the national government
creates a policy and statutory environment which will enable maximum
realization of the endless cycle of timber planting, growing, harvesting,
conversion, and replenishment.
In recent months, we have seen the prices of basic materials necessary
to the home building industry increase dramatically. Republicans are aware
that if this trend is permitted to continue it will be hard to meet the national
goals for housing for low and moderate income families.
The construction industry and the basic industries which supply the
necessary materials for its efficient operation normally provide employment
for millions. It is vitally important that this industry prosper and grow if
our country is to enjoy a thriving economy with a highlevel of employment.
Aware of the forest products industry's concern over recent supply
and demand pressures and the effect on the competitive position of the forest
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products industry in the building materials market, when elected President,
I will propose programs concerned with housing cost factors, including
lumber and plywood industry pricing patterns, with a view to assuring lumber
and plywood availability. I will further propose that the Executive Depart-
ments study all aspects of the current forestry policy so that we can increase
the efficiency of forest production and expand the production of lumber.
A Republican Administration will give high priority to examination of policy
dealing with our nation's federal lands -- the lands directly managed by the
federal government these lands will be made a model of land management,
so they produce a maximum of the products and services desired by the
American people.
A fundamental concern of our nation must be the assignment of relative
values to the rational use of our fixed land base. We must maintain and
increase our forest resources so that our country will always have an ample
supply of fiber and wood to meet all the needs of our people.
I am in agreement with the statutes that provide that federal timber,
which is not surplus to domestic needs, should be retained for use of our
own people and for the sustenance and advancement of forest-dependent
communities and industries.
Our government should encourage using the maximum amount of all
forest lands -- both public and private -- under a national policy of multiple
use so that productivity of such lands is not denied to the national inventory of
resources.
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Measures should be taken to assure that forests will continue to be
harvested and replenished as a perpetual resource.
A Republican President will examine the productivity in goods,
services, and dependent community prosperity of the administration of
public lands.
Republicans support a continuing review of public land laws and
policies to assure maximum opportunity for all beneficial uses of the
public lands, including forests, mineral and grazing resources, and
scholarly development of a National Land Use Policy study assessing the
present and potential values of the land base in the national interest as a
guide to adoption of a firm national policy based upon sound criteria.
Republicans promise to initiate programs that will guarantee our
citizens an opportunity to make full use of our forest lands for a variety
of healthful pursuits while, in the true spirit of conservation, also
permitting continued wise use of the forests to produce a maximum of
products and services as a perpetual resource.
RICHARD M. NIXON
P.O. BOX 1968
TIMES SQUARE STATION
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10036
July, 1968
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a Congress and state and local governing
officials and bodies.
But the task of achieving Consti-
tutional equality between the sexes still
1s not completed. All Republican National
Conventions since 1940 have supported the
long-time movement for such equality.
It is my hope that there will be
widespread support for the Equal Rights for
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would add equality between the sexes to
the freedoms and liberties guaranteed to
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Classification:
File No.: 49
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1. Organization: American Library Ass'n
2. Membership and Representation: 39,000
3. Representative:
(a) Presentation:
Edmund Low, Porfessor Univ. of Mich.
(b) Washington: 200 l. st. S.E. 200
CI7-4440 LI7- 4440 Miss 11.11 will utars all
4. Key Issues Presented: Recoggition of importance of libraries
and need for fudds--no specification of source.
5. Platform Position: No particular position but pro-education
casting.
Statement of the American Library Association
To the
Republican National Convention
Committee on Resolutions
Recommending a Plank on Libraries
Presented by Edmon Low,
Professor of Library Science, University of Michigan
July 29, 1968
The American Library Association, an educational non-profit organi-
zation of 39,000 members, devoted since 1879 6 to the development of libraries
for all the people of the United States, urges that the Republican National
Convention include in its 1968 Platform a plank for the continued and in-
creased support of libraries.
Libraries offer to the young and old alike the opportunity for self-
development, inspiration, and the companionship of the learning of the ages.
To the library turn the teacher and the student, the scientist and technolo-
gist, the businessman and the working man, the housewife and the child, the
civic leader and the average citizen. Each is welcomed and assisted in his
efforts to educate himself, keep abreast of public issues, appreciate the
arts and other forms of culture, solve the problems of everyday life, or in
the case of boys and girls, to become acquainted with and to read the litera-
ture of healthy enjoyment and knowledge. In the higher levels of science,
technology, and economics, the procedure may involve the use of electronic
devices for the collection, classification, storage and retrieval of the
information.
Like other educational agencies, libraries generally are supported
and controlled primarily by local communities, institutions of higher educa-
tion, or by the States. Yet, so vital are the services of the library -- in
the schools, colleges, universities, research institutions, public libraries,
- 2 -
and government agencies - that the continued educational, economic, scien-
tific, and cultural progress of the Nation depends in large part upon the
quality and extensiveness of library services and facilities.
The Republican Party has for many years directed its attention to the
goal of making adequate library service available to all the citizens of all
ages, all levels of education, and all stages of economic well-being. It was
a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who signed into law the Library
Services Act of 1956 (the first Federal grant to the States for aid to public
libraries). In this Congress, as in previous Congresses, Republicans in the
House and in the Senate have been in the forefront in sponsoring and support-
ing legislation for school, college and public libraries. Despite the ad-
vances made, however, much still remains to be done in remedying the defi-
ciencies in school, college, university, research and public libraries.
As surveys of the Nation show, the situation of libraries taken as a
whole is deplorable. To take only a few examples:
School libraries show glaring deficiencies. At
the elementary level approximately 36,000 public schools with
some 8 million pupils have no school libraries. Increasing
enrollments are placing additional burdens on school libraries.
For example, from the fall of 1965 to the fall of 1967 the
number of pupils in the elementary and secondary schools grew
from about 43,500,000 to 45,400,000, a growth of 1.9 million
children to be served. Expenditures for library materials are
still far below nationally recognized school library standards.
In the case of colleges and universities, their
libraries are still below the national standards established
- 3 -
to meet the requirements of modern instruction in this
advanced age. Of the four-year colleges, 50 percent fail to
meet the standards for books and 82 percent of the two-year
colleges are below minimum requirements, according to the
latest available figures.
The tremendous increases in enrollments are also
throwing a heavy burden on the financial operations of in-
stitutions of higher education. The number of students in-
creased from 4,800,332 in the fall of 1963 to 6,963,687 in
the fall of 1966. By the fall of 1972, a percentage increase
of 25 percent is projected, to about 8.6 million.
Although the appropriate percentage of expenditures
for the college libraries to the total general operating in-
stitutional budget is set at 5 percent, the average expenditure
for libraries is now only around 3.5 percent.
Public libraries, although improved by the law which
a Republican President signed in 1956, still show distressing
gaps. Fourteen million persons were without any access to local
service in 1967 and many millions more had only inadequate
services, especially the disadvantaged segments of the population.
The book shortage of these libraries is estimated at
100 million volumes, that is, the difference between what public
libraries need to give adequate service and what they actually
have. The operating expenditure gap, the difference between
their actual income and what they ought to spend to give ade-
quate service, is $1.1 billion.
- 4 -
These examples of deficiencies given on school, college, and public
libraries are just a few of the distressing facts that could be presented to
show the crucial need for the inclusion of a library plank in the 1968 platform.
The American Library Association, therefore, recommends for considera-
tion by the Committee on Resolutions the following plank for the 1968
Republican Platform:
Continued educational, economic, scientific,
and cultural progress of the Nation depends
in large part upon the quality and exten-
siveness of library services and facilities.
The Republican Party has for many years
directed its attention to the goal of making
adequate library service available to all
citizens of all ages.
Despite this Party's support for library legis-
lation in Congress millions of Americans still
lack essential library services and facilities.
Therefore, we pledge renewed efforts to assure
adequate library services for all Americans.
*
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its David chf!
E.e. Secretary
LIBRA
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
AMERICA ASSOCIATION
50 EAST HURON STREET . CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611 (312) 944-6780
mc20nough
185 West State Street
Trenton, N. J. 08625
September 16, 1968
292-6200
Mr. Bert Rein
Republican Party Key Issues Committee
918 - 16th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
Dear Mr. Rein:
In accordance with your telephone request of September 4 to the
American Library Association Washington Office, we are enclosing a paper
in which we endeavor to cover the major points discussed.
For your information, I am also enclosing a copy of the statement
which was presented on behalf of our Association at the platform hearing
in Miami by Mr. Edmon Low of the University of Michigan.
If you wish additional information, please do not hesitate to call
upon the Director of our Washington Office. The telephone number is
LIncoln 7-4440, and the address is 200 C Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
Sincerely yours,
Roger 15 matrough
Roger H. McDonough
President
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PAPER PREPARED FOR
REPUBLICAN PARTY KEY ISSUES COMMITTEE
ON
EXECUTIVE BRANCH POLICIES TOWARD LIBRARY PROGRAMS
The American Library Association is a non-profit, educational organization
which, for almost 100 years, has worked to further the development of school,
college, university, research and public libraries as essential bulwarks to
education. These efforts have inevitably kept it in constant contact with the
United States Office of Education, which, by coincidence, issued its monumental
report on libraries in the United States in 1876, the same year the Association
was founded. Since then, increasing attention has been given by the Congress,
study commissions and surveys, to the role of libraries in extending service
to all citizens of the United States. In spite of this recognition and growing
library support at all levels of government, however, the USOE has not placed
library activities at an effective level within its total organizational structure.
In our opinion, the present arrangement which fragments and diffuses library
services among a number of separate divisions and bureaus is highly unsatisfactory.
The Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities, for example, is under
the Bureau of Adult, Vocational and Library Programs, which administers the
Library Services and Construction Act, as well as the college library resources
and library training sections of Title II of the Higher Education Act. Grant
programs dealing with college library construction and those devoted to library
research, statistics and school library resources are assigned to other bureaus,
some of which do not have a single trained librarian to give professional library
direction. Still other programs with library involvements are scattered through-
out the USOE, and no formal arrangement has been made for their coordination.
To achieve maximum efficiency and coordination of library services, all
library activities should be consolidated in one high-level unit, and placed under
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a single administrator with a strong library background who reports directly to
the Commissioner of Education. Not only would such centralization further the
individual and interlibrary interests of public, school, college, university,
research and state libraries, but also would create a base for activity in the
area of education for librarianship, library manpower, and other interests which
cut across the spectrum of library services.
The following problem areas, brought to the attention of the American Library
Association by heads of state library agencies, college administrators, and school
officials, are symptomatic of weaknesses inherent in the present USOE organizational
pattern for the administration of library programs:
1. Regular statistics on the resources, costs, and services of all types
of libraries are essential to program evaluation and informed decision-making.
There has been an almost complete breakdown in the collection, interpretation and
publication of library statistics by the Office of Education. For example, its
latest published statistics for public libraries cover the year 1962; for school
libraries, 1962-63; and for college libraries, 1963-64.
2. Guidelines and other essential materials relating to new or amended
Federal programs for libraries have not been released quickly enough by USOE to be
of optimum use and benefit to state and local administrators.
3. Delays in the release of funds to the states or institutions by USOE have
impeded systematic, careful planning and utilization of the federal monies for the
purposes intended, especially where matching funds are required.
4. The Advisory Committee on Libraries, to the U.S. Commissioner of Education,
inaugurated under President Eisenhower, has been discontinued in recent years.
This Committee provided a highly useful means for maintaining contact between
library representatives and top level staff of the U.S. Office of Education.
The American Library Association is firmly of the opinion that adequately
stocked and staffed libraries are essential to our national progress, whether it be
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in science, business, technology, culture, general understanding, or other facets
of human life. Only a high degree of cooperation among all types of libraries
will insure the maximum return from the limited funds available, and intensive
research into new and sophisticated methods of storing and retrieving information
is urgently needed for our technological society.
The U.S. Office of Education has an obvious and central role to play in all
these concerns; in further delineating needs, providing leadership where appropriate
and fostering creative and productive response to change. We are convinced that it
can only do so if all its library programs are consolidated, accorded a high level
within the organizational structure, and administered by someone of broad library
experience and understanding who reports directly to the Commissioner of Education.
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Roger H. McDonough, President
American Library Association
September 16, 1968
Statement of the American Library Association
To the
Republican National Convention
Committee on Resolutions
Recommending a Plank on Libraries
Presented by Edmon Low,
Professor of Library Science, University of Michigan
July 29, 1968
The American Library Association, an educational non-profit organi-
zation of 39,000 members, devoted since 1876 to the development of libraries
for all the people of the United States, urges that the Republican National
Convention include in its 1968 Platform a plank for the continued and in-
creased support of libraries.
Libraries offer to the young and old alike the opportunity for self-
development, inspiration, and the companionship of the learning of the ages.
To the library turn the teacher and the student, the scientist and technolo-
gist, the businessman and the working man, the housewife and the child, the
civic leader and the average citizen. Each is welcomed and assisted in his
efforts to educate himself, keep abreast of public issues, appreciate the
arts and other forms of culture, solve the problems of everyday life, or in
the case of boys and girls, to become acquainted with and to read the litera-
ture of healthy enjoyment and knowledge. In the higher levels of science,
technology, and economics, the procedure may involve the use of electronic
devices for the collection, classification, storage and retrieval of the
information.
Like other educational agencies, libraries generally are supported
and controlled primarily by local communities, institutions of higher educa-
tion, or by the States. Yet, so vital are the services of the library -- in
the schools. colleges, universities, research institutions, public libraries,
- 2 -
and government agencies that the continued educational, economic, scien-
tific, and cultural progress of the Nation depends in large part upon the
quality and extensiveness of library services and facilities.
The Republican Party has for many years directed its attention to the
goal of making adequate library service available to all the citizens of all
ages, all levels of education, and all stages of economic well-being. It was
a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who signed into law the Library
Services Act of 1956 (the first Federal grant to the States for aid to public
libraries). In this Congress, as in previous Congresses, Republicans in the
House and in the Senate have been in the forefront in sponsoring and support-
ing legislation for school, college and public libraries. Despite the ad-
vances made, however, much still remains to be done in remedying the defi-
ciencies in school, college, university, research and public libraries.
As surveys of the Nation show, the situation of libraries taken as a
whole is deplorable. To take only a few examples:
School libraries show glaring deficiencies. At
the elementary level approximately 36,000 public schools with
some 8 million pupils have no school libraries. Increasing
enrollments are placing additional burdens on school libraries.
For example, from the fall of 1965 to the fall of 1967 the
number of pupils in the elementary and secondary schools grew
from about 43,500,000 to 45,400,000, a growth of 1.9 million
children to be served. Expenditures for library materials are
still far below nationally recognized school library standards.
In the case of colleges and universities, their
libraries are still below the national standards established
- 3 -
to meet the requirements of modern instruction in this
advanced age. Of the four-year colleges, 50 percent fail to
meet the standards for books and 82 percent of the two-year
colleges are below minimum requirements, according to the
latest available figures.
The tremendous increases in enrollments are also
throwing a heavy burden on the financial operations of in-
stitutions of higher education. The number of students in-
creased from 4,800,332 in the fall of 1963 to 6,963,687 in
the fall of 1966. By the fall of 1972, a percentage increase
of 25 percent is projected, to about 8.6 million.
Although the appropriate percentage of expenditures
for the college libraries to the total general operating in-
stitutional budget is set at 5 percent, the average expenditure
for libraries is now only around 3.5 percent.
Public libraries, although improved by the law which
a Republican President signed in 1956, still show distressing
gaps. Fourteen million persons were without any access to local
service in 1967 and many millions more had only inadequate
services, especially the disadvantaged segments of the population.
The book shortage of these libraries is estimated at
100 million volumes, that is, the difference between what public
libraries need to give adequate service and what they actually
have. The operating expenditure gap, the difference between
their actual income and what they ought to spend to give ade-
quate service, is $1.1 billion.
- 4 -
These examples of deficiencies given on school, college, and public
libraries are just a few of the distressing facts that could be presented to
show the crucial need for the inclusion of a library plank in the 1968 platform.
The American Library Association, therefore, recommends for considera-
tion by the Committee on Resolutions the following plank for the 1968
Republican Platform:
Continued educational, economic, scientific,
and cultural progress of the Nation depends
in large part upon the quality and exten-
siveness of library services and facilities.
The Republican Party has for many years
directed its attention to the goal of making
adequate library service available to all
citizens of all ages.
Despite this Party's support for library legis-
lation in Congress millions of Americans still
lack essential library services and facilities.
Therefore, we pledge renewed efforts to assure
adequate library services for all Americans.
*
*
*
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Statement by Richard M. Nixon
October 22, 1968
LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
America's school, university, research and public
libraries and the dedicated people who staff them constitute
a vital educational resource. They are the repositories of
the American culture.
Our nation's libraries fulfill at least two vital roles.
First, they are vital centers for research and study,
particularly in technical and scientific fields. Secondly,
they assist many millions of Americans with increasing leisure
time to learn the pleasures of reading, to improve their own
store of knowledge, and to appreciate the humanities and
sciences.
The Federal Government has an important role to play
in assisting local library authorities in introduction of
new and more efficient methods of storing and retrieving
information, and in the coordinated use of library facilities.
The Eisenhower Administration pioneered legislation to
meet our nation's library needs. In 1956, the Library Services
Act provided the first federal assistance to local public
libraries. The Eisenhower Administration also created the
Advisory Committee on Libraries to the United States Commissioner
on Education. This committee encouraged a fruitful exchange
of ideas between working librarians and top level staff of the
Office of Education.
I regret to say that the promise of the Eisenhower era
has, in the last few years, all but disappeared in a mornss
of bureaucratic confusion and complexity.
Library service functions have been fragmented and iiffused
throughout the Office of Education and are sometimes administered
without the expertise of professional library personnel. For
example, the Division of Library Services and Educational
Facilities is under the Bureau of Adult, Vocational and Library
Programs. Grant programs dealing with college library
construction and those devoted to library research, statistics
and school library resources, however, are assigned to other
bureaus, some of which do not have a single trained librarian
to give professional direction.
As a consequence, coordination between operating libraries
and the Office of Education has seriously deteriorated. The
Advisory Committee of Libraries has been ignored and has lapsed
out of business, further isolating library matters from the
Office of Education. At the same time, guidelines and other
materials relating to new or amended federal programs for
libraries have been seriously delayed in publication. Un-
certainties in the release of funds have prevented planning
by local authorities especially where matching funds are
provided on a local level. Library statistics and other planning
And
(083X)
(OUJX)
Leadership in Library Development
page 2
information distributed by the Office of Education are
badly out of date. The latest published statistics on
public libraries cover 1962. The school libraries,
1962-63, and for college libraries, 1963-64.
A Nixon Administration will move decisively to rescue
our library programs from their bureaucratic doldrums and
to reassert the proper federal role in library services
assistance.
Communication between working library professionals
and the Office of Education will be restored by re-
establishing the Advisory Committee on Libraries. I will
direct the appropriate federal officials to update and
circulate vital statistics and guidelines promptly to
make available to local authorities information about the
latest techniques in data storage and retrieval. A first
priority of my administration will be a thorough and long
overdue study of the Executive Department by an independent
commission patterned on the Hoover Commission. I will
direct that commission to consider the problems of
coordination of library services within the Office of
Education.
In a world where knowledge is the key to leadership,
a modern, progressive library system is a vital national
asset.
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ADDRESSES
Mr. Roger H. McDonough, President
American Library Association
185 West State Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08625
Miss Germaine Krettick, Washington Director
American Library Association
200 C Street, S. E.
Washington, D. C.
Mr. David Clift, Executive Secretary
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
RICHARD M. NIXON
October 22, 1968
To: Mr. Roger H. McDonough
My attached statement on Leadership
in Library Development which was released
today may be of interest to you and to
your membership.
October 22, 1968
To: Miss Germaine Krettick
My attached statement on Leadership
in Library Development which was released
today may be of interest to you and to
your membership.
October 22, 1968
To: Mr. David Clift
My attached statement on Leadership in
Library Development which was released
today may be of interest to you and to
your membership.
RN/fk
File
LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
America's school, university, research and public
libraries and the dedicated people who staff them constitute a
vital educational resource. They are the repositories of the American
culture.
Our Nation's libraries fulfill at least two vital roles. First,
they are vital centers for research and study, particularly in
technical and scientific fields. Secondly, they assist many millions
of Americans with increasing leisure time to learn the pleasures
of reading, to improve their own store of knowledge, and to
appreciate the humanities and sciences.
The Federal Government has an important role to play in
assisting local library authorities in introduction of new and more
efficient methods of storing and retrieving information, and in the
coordinated use of library facilities.
The Eisenhower Administration pioneered legislation to meet
our nation's library needs. In 1956, the Library Services Act
provided the first Federal assistance to local public libraries.
The Eisenhower Administration also created the Advisory Committee
on Libraries to the United States Commissioner on Education. This
committee encouraged a fruitful exchange of ideas between working
librarians and top level staff of the Office of Education.
I regret to say that the promise of the Eisenhower era has,
in the last few years, all but disappeared in a morass of bureaucratic
confusion and complexity.
Library Service functions have been fragmented and diffused
-2-
throughout the Office of Education and are sometimes administered
without the expertise of professional library personnel. For
example, the Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities
is under the Bureau of Adult, Vocational and Library Programs.
Grant programs dealing with college library construction and those
devoted to library research, statistics and school library resources
however are assigned to other bureaus, some of which do not have
a single trained librarian to give professional direction.
As a consequence, coordination between operating libraries
and the Office of Education has seriously deteriorated. The Advisory
Committee of Libraries has been ignored and has lapsed out of business,
further isolating library matters from the Office of Education
.
At the same time, guidelines and other materials relating to new or
amended Federal programs for libraries have been seriously delayed
in publication. Uncertainties in the release of funds have
prevented planning by local authorities especially where matching
funds are provided on a local level. Library statistics and other
planning information distributed by the Office of Education are
badly out of date. The latest published statistics on public
libraries cover 1962. For school libraries, 1962-63, and for college
libraries, 1963-64.
A Nixon Administration will move decisively to rescue our
library programs from their bureaucratic doldrums and to reassert
proper federal leadership in library services assistance.
Communication between working library professionals and the
Office of Education will be restored by re-establishing the Advisory
-3-
Committee on libraries. I will direct the appropriate Federal
officials to update and circulate vital statistics and guidelines
and
promptly to make available to local authorities information
about the latest techniques in data storage and retrieval.
A first priority of my Administration will be a thorough, and long
overdue, study of the Executive Department by an independent Com-
mission patterned on the Hoover Commisison. I will direct that Commis-
sion to consider the problems of coordination of library services
within the Office of Education.
In a world where knowledge is the key to leadership, a
modern, progressive library system is a vital National asset.
TO ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM CHUCK COLSON
SUGGEST THAT IT 1S TIME TO PUT THIS IN THE MILL.
CWC
LEADERSHHIPIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
AMERICA'S SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
AND THE DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO STAFF THEM CONSTITUTE A VITAL EDUCA-
TIONAL RESOURCE. THEY ARE THE REPOSITORIES OF THE AMERICAN
CULTURE.
OUR NATION'S LIBRARIES FULFILL AT LEAST TWO VITAL ROLES.
FIRST, THEY ARE VITAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND STURDDY, PARTICULARLY
IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. SECONDLY, THEY ASSIST MANY
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH INCREASING LEISURE TIME TO LEARN THE
PLEASURES OF READING, TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN SOTORE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND TO APPRECIATE THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN
ASSISTING LOCAL LIBRARY AUTHORITIES IN INTRODUCTION OF NEW AND
MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION,
AND IN THE COORDINATED USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION PIONEERED LEGISLATION TO MEET
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY NEEDS. IN 1956, THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT
PROVIDED THE FIRST FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO LEOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION ALSO CREATED THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER ON EDUCATION. THHIS
THIS COMMITTEE C ENCOURAGED A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN
WORKING LIBRARIEANS AND TOP LEVVELEL STAFF OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
I REGRET TO SAY THAT THE PROMISE OF THE EISENHOWER ERA HAS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALL BUT DISAPPEARED IN A MORASS OF BUR-
EAUCRATIC CONFUSION AND COMPLEXITY.
LIBRARY SERVICE FUNCITIONS HAVE BEEN FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSED
THROUGHOUT THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND ARE SOMETIMES ADMINISTERED
WITHOUT THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONZAL LIBRARY PERSONNEL. FOR
EXAMPLE, THE DIVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
IS UNDER THE BUREAU OF ADULT, VOCATIONAL AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.
GRANT PROGRAMS DEALING WITH COLLEGE LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION AND THOSE
DEVOTED TO LIBRARY RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOWEVER ARE ASSIGNED TO OTHER BUREAUS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT HAVE
A SINGLE TRAINED LIBRARIAN TO GIVE PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATING LIBRARIES
AND THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION HAS SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED. THE AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE OF LIBRARIES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND HAS LAPSED OUT
OF BUSINESS, FURTHER ISOLATING LIBRARY MATTERS F.ROM THE OFFICE OF
EDUCATION. AT THE SAME TIME, GUIDELINES AND OTHER MATERIALS
RELATING TO NEW OR AMENDED FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARIES HAVE
BEEN SERIOUSLY DELAYED IN PUBLICATION. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE RELEASE
OF FUNDS HAVE PREVENTED PLANNING BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES ESPECIALLY
WHERE MATCHING FUNDS ARE PROVIDED ON A LOCAL LEVEL. LIBRARY STATISTICS
AND OTHER PLANNING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE. THE LATEST PUBLISHED STATISTICS ON PUBLIC
LIBRARIES COVER 1962. FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES, 1962-63, AND FOR COLLEGE
LIBRARIES, 1963-64.
A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL MOVE DIECISIVELY TO RESCUE OUR
LIBRARY PROGRAMS FROM THEIR BUREAUCRATIC DOLDRUMS AND TO REASSERT
PROPER FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY SERVICES ASSISTANCE.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORKING LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS AND THE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION WILL BE RESTORED BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIES. I WILL DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO UPDATE AND CIRCULATE VITAL STATISTICS AND
GUIDELINES PROMPTLY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF IN-
FORMATION ABOUT THE LATES T TECHNIQUES IN DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL.
A FIRST PRIORITY OF MY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE A THROROUGH THOROUGH
AND LONG OVERDUE, STUDY OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT BY AN IN-
DEPENDENT COMMISSION PATTERNED ON THE HOOVER COMMISSION. I WILL
DIRECT THAT COMMISSION TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEMS OF COORDINATION OF
LIBRARY SERVICES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
TO ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM CHUCK COLSON
SUGGEST THAT IT 1S TIME TO PUT THIS IN THE MILL.
CWC
LEADERSHHIPIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
AMERICA'S SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
AND THE DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO STAFF THEM CONSTITUTE A VITAL EDUCA-
TIONAL RESOURCE. THEY ARE THE REPOSITORIES OF THE AMERICAN
CULTURE.
OUR NATION'S LIBRARIES FULFILL AT LEAST TWO VITAL ROLES.
FIRST, THEY ARE VITAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND STURDDY, PARTICULARLY
IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. SECONDLY, THEY ASSIST MANY
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH INCREASING LEISURE TIME TO LEARN THE
PLEASURES OF READING, TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN SOTORE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND TO APPRECIATE THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN
ASSISTING LOCAL LIBRARY AUTHORITIES IN INTRODUCTION OF NEW AND
MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION,
AND IN THE COORDINATED USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION PIONEERED LEGISLATION TO MEET
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY NEEDS. IN 1956, THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT
PROVIDED THE FIRST FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO LEOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION ALSO CREATED THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER ON EDUCATION. THHIS
THIS COMMITTEE C ENCOURAGED A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN
WORKING LIBRARIEANS AND TOP LEVVELEL STAFF OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
I REGRET TO SAY THAT THE PROMISE OF THE EISENHOWER ERA HAS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALL BUT DISAPPEARED IN A MORASS OF BUR-
EAUCRATIC CONFUSION AND COMPLEXITY.
LIBRARY SERVICE FUNCITIONS HAVE BEEN FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSED
THROUGHOUT THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND ARE SOMETIMES ADMINISTERED
WITHOUT THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONZAL LIBRARY PERSONNEL. FOR
EXAMPLE, THE DIVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
IS UNDER THE BUREAU OF ADULT, VOCATIONAL AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.
GRANT PROGRAMS DEALING WITH COLLEGE LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION AND THOSE
DEVOTED TO LIBRARY RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOWEVER ARE ASSIGNED TO OTHER BUREAUS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT HAVE
A SINGLE TRAINED LIBRARIAN TO GIVE PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATING LIBRARIES
AND THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION HAS SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED. THE AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE OF LIBRARIES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND HAS LAPSED OUT
OF BUSINESS, FURTHER ISOLATING LIBRARY MATTERS FROM THE OFFICE OF
EDUCATION. AT THE SAME TIME, GUIDELINES AND OTHER MATERIALS
RELATING TO NEW OR AMENDED FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARIES HAVE
BEEN SERIOUSLY DELAYED IN PUBLICATION. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE RELEASE
OF FUNDS HAVE PREVENTED PLANNING BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES ESPECIALLY
WHERE MATCHING FUNDS ARE PROVIDED ON A LOCAL LEVEL. LIBRARY STATISTICS
AND OTHER PLANNING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE. THE LATEST PUBLISHED STATISTICS ON PUBLIC
LIBRARIES COVER 1962. FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES, 1962-63, AND FOR COLLEGE
LIBRARIES, 1963-64.
A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL MOVE DIECISIVELY TO RESCUE OUR
LIBRARY PROGRAMS FROM THEIR BUREAUCRATIC DOLDRUMS AND TO REASSERT
PROPER FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY SERVICES ASSISTANCE.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORKING LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS AND THE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION WILL BE RESTORED BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIES. I WILL DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO UPDATE AND CIRCULATE VITAL STATISTICS AND
GUIDELINES PROMPTLY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF IN-
FORMATION ABOUT THE LATES T TECHNIQUES IN DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL.
A FIRST PRIORITY OF MY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE A THROROUGH THOROUGH
,
AND LONG OVERDUE, STUDY OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT BY AN IN-
DEPENDENT COMMISSION PATTERNED ON THE HOOVER COMMISSION. I WILL
DIRECT THAT COMMISSION TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEMS OF COORDINATION OF
LIBRARY SERVICES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
IN A WORLD WHERE KNOWLEDGE IS THE KEY TO LEAEDERSHIP, A MODERN,
PROGGRESSIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM IS A VITAL NATIONAL ASSET.
0 ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM CHUCK COLSON
SUGGEST THAT IT IS TIME TO PUT THIS IN THE MILL.
CWC
LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
AMERICA'S SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
AND THE DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO STAFF THEM CONSTITUTE A VITAL EDUCA-
TIONAL RESOURCE. THEY ARE THE REPOSITORIES OF THE AMERICAN
CULTURE.
OUR NATION'S LIBRARIES FULFILL AT LEAST TWO VITAL ROLES.
FIRST, THEY ARE VITAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY, PARTICULARLY
IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. SECONDLY, THEY ASSIST MANY
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH INCREASING LEISURE TIME TO LEARN THE
PLEASURES OF READING, TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN STORE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND TO APPRECIATE THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN
ASSISTING LOCAL LIBRARY AUTHORITIES IN INTRODUCTION OF NEW AND
MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION,
AND IN THE COORDINATED USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION PIONEERED LEGISLATION TO MEET
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY @@@@@@@AABBABAABDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDE
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY NEEDS. IN 1956, THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT
PROVIDED THE FIRST FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION ALSO CREATED THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER ON EDUCATION.
THIS COMMITTEE ENCOURAGED A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN
WORKING LIBRARIANS AND TOP LEVEL STAFF OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
I REGRET TO SAY THAT THE PROMISE OF THE EISENHOWER ERA HAS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALL BUT DISAPPEARED IN A MORASS OF BUR-
EAUCRATIC CONFUSION AND COMPLEXITY.
LIBRARY SERVICE FUNCTIONS HAVE BEEN FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSED
THROUGHOUT THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND ARE SOMETIMES ADMINISTERED
WITHOUT THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONIL LIBRARY PERSONNEL. FOR
EXAMPLE, THE DIVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
IS UNDER THE BUREAU OF ADULT, VOCATIONAL AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.
GRANT PROGRAMS DEALING WITH COLLEGE LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION AND THOSE
DEVOTED TO LIBRARY RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOWEVER ARE ASSIGNED TO OTHER BUREAUS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT HAVE
A SINGLE TRAINED LIBRARIAN TO GIVE PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATING LIBRARIES
AND THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION HAS SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED. THE AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE OF LIBRARIES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND HAS LAPSED OUT
OF BUSINESS, FURTHER ISOLATING LIBRARY MATTERS FROM THE OFFICE OF
EDUCATION. AT THE SAME TIME, GUIDELINES AND OTHER MATERIALS
RELATING TO NEW OR AMENDED FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARIES HAVE
BEEN SERIOUSLY DELAYED IN PUBLICATION. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE RELEASE
OF FUNDS HAVE PREVENTED PLANNING BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES ESPECIALLY
WHERE MATCHING FUNDS ARE PROVIDED ON A LOCAL LEVEL. LIBRARY STATISTICS
AND OTHER PLANNING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE. THE LATEST PUBLISHED STATISTICS ON PUBLIC
LIBRARIES COVER 1962. FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES, 1962-63, AND FOR COLLEGE
LIBRARIES, 1963-64.
A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL MOVE DECISIVELY TO RESCUE OUR
LIBRARY PROGRAMS FROM THEIR BUREAUCRATIC DOLDRUMS AND TO REASSERT
PROPER FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY SERVICES ASSISTANCE.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORKING LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS AND THE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION WILL BE RESTORED BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIES. I WILL DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO UPDATE AND CIRCULATE VITAL STATISTICS AND
GUIDELINES PROMPTLY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF IN-
FORMATION ABOUT THE LATEST TECHNIQUES IN DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL.
A FIRST PRIORITY OF MY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE A THOROUGH
FROM CHUCK COLSON
SUGGEST THAT IT IS TIME TO PUT THIS IN THE MILL.
CWC
LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
AMERICA'S SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
AND THE DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO STAFF THEM CONSTITUTE A VITAL EDUCA-
TIONAL RESOURCE. THEY ARE THE REPOSITORIES OF THE AMERICAN
CULTURE.
OUR NATION'S LIBRARIES FULFILL AT LEAST TWO VITAL ROLES.
FIRST, THEY ARE VITAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY, PARTICULARLY
IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. SECONDLY, THEY ASSIST MANY
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH INCREASING LEISURE TIME TO LEARN THE
PLEASURES OF READING, TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN STORE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND TO APPRECIATE THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN
ASSISTING LOCAL LIBRARY AUTHORITIES IN INTRODUCTION OF NEW AND
MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION,
AND IN THE COORDINATED USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION PIONEERED LEGISLATION TO MEET
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY @@@@@@@AABBABAABDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDB
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY NEEDS. IN 1956, THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT
PROVIDED THE FIRST FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION ALSO CREATED THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER ON EDUCATION.
THIS COMMITTEE ENCOURAGED A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN
WORKING LIBRARIANS AND TOP LEVEL STAFF OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
I REGRET TO SAY THAT THE PROMISE OF THE EISENHOWER ERA HAS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALL BUT DISAPPEARED IN A MORASS OF BUR-
EAUCRATIC CONFUSION AND COMPLEXITY.
LIBRARY SERVICE FUNCTIONS HAVE BEEN FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSED
THROUGHOUT THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND ARE SOMETIMES ADMINISTERED
WITHOUT THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY PERSONNEL. FOR
EXAMPLE, THE DIVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
IS UNDER THE BUREAU OF ADULT, VOCATIONAL AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.
GRANT PROGRAMS DEALING WITH COLLEGE LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION AND THOSE
DEVOTED TO LIBRARY RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOWEVER ARE ASSIGNED TO OTHER BUREAUS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT HAVE
A SINGLE TRAINED LIBRARIAN TO GIVE PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATING LIBRARIES
AND THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION HAS SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED. THE AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE OF LIBRARIES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND HAS LAPSED OUT
OF BUSINESS, FURTHER ISOLATING LIBRARY MATTERS FROM THE OFFICE OF
EDUCATION. AT THE SAME TIME, GUIDELINES AND OTHER MATERIALS
RELATING TO NEW OR AMENDED FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARIES HAVE
BEEN SERIOUSLY DELAYED IN PUBLICATION. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE RELEASE
OF FUNDS HAVE PREVENTED PLANNING BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES ESPECIALLY
WHERE MATCHING FUNDS ARE PROVIDED ON A LOCAL LEVEL. LIBRARY STATISTICS
AND OTHER PLANNING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE. THE LATEST PUBLISHED STATISTICS ON PUBLIC
LIBRARIES COVER 1962. FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES, 1962-63, AND FOR COLLEGE
LIBRARIES, 1963-64.
A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL MOVE DECISIVELY TO RESCUE OUR
LIBRARY PROGRAMS FROM THEIR BUREAUCRATIC DOLDRUMS AND TO REASSERT
PROPER FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY SERVICES ASSISTANCE.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORKING LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS AND THE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION WILL BE RESTORED BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIES. I WILL DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO UPDATE AND CIRCULATE VITAL STATISTICS AND
GUIDELINES PROMPTLY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF IN-
FORMATION ABOUT THE LATEST TECHNIQUES IN DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL.
A FIRST PRIORITY OF MY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE A THOROUGH
AND LONG OVERDUE, STUDY OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT BY AN IN-
DEPENDENT COMMISSION PATTERNED ON THE HOOVER COMMISSION. I WILL
DIRECT THAT COMMISSION TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEMS OF COORDINATION OF
LIBRARY SERVICES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
IN A WORLD WHERE KNOWLEDGE IS THE KEY TO LEADERSHIP, A MODERN,
PROGGRESSIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM IS A VITAL NATIONAL ASSET.
END.
JGT WASH
0 ALAN GREENSPAN
FROM CHUCK COLSON
SUGGEST THAT IT IS TIME TO PUT THIS IN THE MILL.
CWC
LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
AMERICA'S SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES
AND THE DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO STAFF THEM CONSTITUTE A VITAL EDUCA-
TIONAL RESOURCE. THEY ARE THE REPOSITORIES OF THE AMERICAN
CULTURE.
OUR NATION'S LIBRARIES FULFILL AT LEAST TWO VITAL ROLES.
FIRST, THEY ARE VITAL CENTERS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY, PARTICULARLY
IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. SECONDLY, THEY ASSIST MANY
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WITH INCREASING LEISURE TIME TO LEARN THE
PLEASURES OF READING, TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN STORE OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND TO APPRECIATE THE HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN
ASSISTING LOCAL LIBRARY AUTHORITIES IN INTRODUCTION OF NEW AND
MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF STORING AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION,
AND IN THE COORDINATED USE OF LIBRARY FACILITIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION PIONEERED LEGISLATION TO MEET
OUR NATION'S LIBRARY NEEDS. IN 1956, THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT
PROVIDED THE FIRST FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION ALSO CREATED THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON LIBRARIES TO THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER 'ON EDUCATION.
THIS COMMITTEE ENCOURAGED A FRUITFUL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN
WORKING LIBRARIANS AND TOP LEVEL STAFF OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
I REGRET TO SAY THAT THE PROMISE OF THE EISENHOWER ERA HAS,
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ALL BUT DISAPPEARED IN A MORASS OF BUR-
EAUCRATIC CONFUSION AND COMPLEXITY.
LIBRARY SERVICE FUNCTIONS HAVE BEEN FRAGMENTED AND DIFFUSED
THROUGHOUT THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND ARE SOMETIMES ADMINISTERED
WITHOUT THE EXPERTISE OF PROFESSIONIL LIBRARY PERSONNEL. FOR
EXAMPLE, THE DIVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
IS UNDER THE BUREAU OF ADULT, VOCATIONAL AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.
GRANT PROGRAMS DEALING WITH COLLEGE LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION AND THOSE
DEVOTED TO LIBRARY RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES
HOWEVER ARE ASSIGNED TO OTHER BUREAUS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT HAVE
A SINGLE TRAINED LIBRARIAN TO GIVE PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATING LIBRARIES
AND THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION HAS SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED. THE AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE OF LIBRARIES HAS BEEN IGNORED AND HAS LAPSED OUT
OF BUSINESS, FURTHER ISOLATING LIBRARY MATTERS FROM THE OFFICE OF
EDUCATION. AT THE SAME TIME, GUIDELINES AND OTHER MATERIALS
RELATING TO NEW OR AMENDED FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR LIBRARIES HAVE
BEEN SERIOUSLY DELAYED IN PUBLICATION. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE RELEASE
OF FUNDS HAVE PREVENTED PLANNING BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES ESPECIALLY
WHERE MATCHING FUNDS ARE PROVIDED ON A LOCAL LEVEL. LIBRARY STATISTICS
AND OTHER PLANNING INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE. THE LATEST PUBLISHED STATISTICS ON PUBLIC
LIBRARIES COVER 1962. FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES, 1962-63, AND FOR COLLEGE
LIBRARIES, 1963-64.
A NIXON ADMINISTRATION WILL MOVE DECISIVELY TO RESCUE OUR
LIBRARY PROGRAMS FROM THEIR BUREAUCRATIC DOLDRUMS AND TO REASSERT
PROPER FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN LIBRARY SERVICES ASSISTANCE.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WORKING LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS AND THE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION WILL BE RESTORED BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARIES. I WILL DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO UPDATE AND CIRCULATE VITAL STATISTICS AND
GUIDELINES PROMPTLY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF IN-
FORMATION ABOUT THE LATEST TECHNIQUES IN DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL.
A FIRST PRIORITY OF MY ADMINISTRATION WILL BE A THOROUGH
,
AND LONG OVERDUE, STUDY OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT BY AN IN-
DEPENDENT COMMISSION PATTERNED ON THE HOOVER COMMISSION. I WILL
DIRECT THAT COMMISSION TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEMS OF COORDINATION OF
LIBRARY SERVICES WITHIN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION.
IN A WORLD WHERE KNOWLEDGE IS THE KEY TO LEADERSHIP, A MODERN,
PROGGRESSIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM IS A VITAL NATIONAL ASSET.
END.
LIBRARY
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
ANERICAN ALA ASSOCIATION
50 EAST HURON STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60611 (312) 944-6780
1876
October 30, 1968
Mr. Richard M. Nixon
Nixon Agnew Key Issues Committee
301 First Street, N.E.
Suite 415
Washington, D.C. 20002
Dear Mr. Nixon:
Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your statement
on Leadership in Library Development which was released on October 22.
I have been in touch with our headquarters office in Chicago, and we
have made arrangements to make the statement available to the library
press and the library associations in the various states.
Sincerely,
Germaine Krettelz
Germaine Krettek, Director
ALA Washington Office
GK/bp
WASHINGTON OFFICE: THE CORONET, 200 C STREET, S. E., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 TELEPHONE (202) 547-4440
MID
MID - AMERICA DAIRYMEN, INC.
AM
P.O. BOX 1837 S. S. STATION
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI 65805
AREA CODE 417 862-7071
October 3, 1968
Mr. Charles W. Colson
Gadsby & Hannah
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
Dear Chuck:
Enclosed herewith is the list of what I would consider
the top leadership of dairy farmers in the United States today.
This list will probably cover 90 percent of the milk
production of the nation.
Best regards.
Sincerely yours,
MID-AMERICA DAIRYMEN, INC.
JLR:bs
James Jun L. Reeves
Encl.
P.S. If you need anything else, please do not fail to call on us.
JLR
John S. Adams, General Manager
New England Milk Producers' Association
68 Devonshire Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Burdette L. Fisher, General Manager
Kyana Milk Producers, Inc.
P. O. Box 18118
Louisville, Kentucky 40218
W. T. Crouch, President
Milk Producers, Inc.
Route 3, Box 426
Arlington, Texas 76010
Glenn Lake, President
National Milk Producers Federation
30 F Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20001
E. M. Norton, Secretary
National Milk Producers Federation
30 F Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20001
Ralph C. Charbeneau, President
National Dairy Council
111 North Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois 60606
M. J. Framberger, General Manager
American Dairy Association
20 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606
W. D. Knox, Editor
Hoard's Dairyman
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin 53538
W. C. Eckles, General Manager
Pure Milk Products Coop
500 North Park Avenue
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 54935
A. L. McWilliams
Pure Milk Association
343 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604
D. Paul Alagia, Jr., General Manager
Dairymen, Inc.
650 Baxter Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky 40204
D. H. Henry, General Manager
Land O' Lakes Creameries, Inc.
2215 Kennedy Street, N.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413
E. E. Pedersen, President
Consolidated Dairy Products Company
635 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, Washington 98119
Lyman D. McKee, General Manager
Madison Milk Producers Cooperative Dairy
1707 South Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53713
William A. Powell, President
Mid-America Dairymen, Inc.
Route 1
Princeton, Missouri 64673
Avery A. Vose, President
Pure Milk Association
343 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Bryan D. Rossi, General Manager
Rochester Dairy Coop.
700 S. E. First Avenue
Rochester, Minnesota 55901
George N. Pederson, General Manager
Twin City Milk Producers Association
2424 Territorial Road
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
Lester W. Martin, President
Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, Inc.
100 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
John A. Moser, President
Kyana Milk Producers Association
3941 Buechel Bank Road
Louisville, Kentucky 40218
Willard J. Grant
Nebraska-lowa Coop. Milk Association
319 N. 72nd Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68114
Street
Journal
12/11/69
Senate Completes Tax Bill Amendments
And Apparently Will Pass Measure Today
By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter
The 69-to-24 vote to loosen the committee
WASHINGTON-Tired and short-fused Sen-
bill's proposed restrictions on real estate de-
ators disposed of the last of more than 100
preciation practices will reduce the bill's esti-
amendments to the tax bill late last night, and
mated revenue gain by an estimated $90 mil-
apparently will pass the measure sometime
lion a year.
The committee bill provided that used resi-
A tax-bill provision was added by
today.
the Senate authorizing the President to
limit imports from countries that re-
strict entry of U.S. products. The Sen-
ate late last night disposed of the last
amendments, and apparently will pass
It then will go to a conference with the
dential housing acquired after last July 24
House, where it is likely to be thoroughly modi-
would be limited to depreciation on a. straight.
fied.
line basis. The amendment, advanced by Sens.
The Senators, some in evening clothes,
Tower (R., Texas) and Sparkman (D., Ala.),
(Story on Page 7)
stood and cheered at 10:10 last night on reach-
would allow faster depreciation rates if the
ing the point in the bill's consideration when
property were more than 20 years old.
further amendments couldn't be offered.
Floor debate on the measure, which has
The amendment also provides that the full
passed the 80-hour mark, will continue today-
excess of accelerated over straight-line depre-
centering on an expected motion to strip the
ciation on new and used residential housing
the bill today.
bill of most of the costly amendments that
could be recaptured as ordinary income only if
were added on the floor.
the property were sold within the first five
That move presumably will fail and the bill
years it was held by the taxpayer. Thereafter,
itself then will be voted.
the amount subject to reapture would decline
Earlier yesterday, after debating the issue
by one percentage point for each additional
for several hours, the Senate voted 65 to 30 for
mouth the property was held.
R proposal of Sen. Cotton (R., N.H.) aimed at
On all other real estate, the amendment
restricting the flow of foreign goods to the U.S.
would allow recapture of the excess deprecia-
PICK UP: THE Senate also voted 69 XXX
tion only if the property were sold within the
The Senate also voted 69 to 24 to ease the
first 10 years. Thereafter, the amount would
Senate Finance Committee's proposed higher
decline on the same sliding-scale basis.
taxation of the real-estate industry.
The fight on oil taxation centered on an
Then the Senate took two hours and seven
amendment of Sen. Dole (R., Kan.) to make
roll-call votes to decide how it wanted to
the bill's minimum income-tax plan inapplica-
change the tax treatment of so-called intangi-
ble to certain drilling and development costs.
ble drilling costs of the oil industry. The final
These "intangible" costs are capital expen-
decision was to tax the industry more heavily
ses that the oil industry is permitted to deduct
than at present, but more lightly than had been
on a current basis, although other industries
recommended by the Finance Committee.
The Cotton amendement would authorize
normally would amortize them.
the President to limit the importation of goods
On the first of the seven roll calls on the
from countries that restrict the entry of U.S.
issue, the Senate defeated the Dole amendment
products. The President could remove the re-
47 to 44. But after much maneuvering his
strictions whenever the country involved lifted
amendment was approved-with the significant
its restrictions.
modification that it would exempt only those
Sen. Cotton argued that the U.S. has become
companies whose annual gross income is less
a "dumping ground" for foreign goods, hurting
than $3 million.
U.S. manufacturers of shoes, textiles, and elec-
While the Senate was thrashing out the tax
tronic products. Supporters of the amendment
bill, the Treasury announced that Secretary
criticized trade policies of Japan, saying it is
Kennedy will return from Europe early so that
increasing its exports to the U.S. while main-
he can be here while House and Senate confer-
taining strong import barriers.
ees determine the bill's final shape. Mr. Ken-
Opponents contended that the proposal, if
nedy had attended a ministerial meeting of the
implemented, would severely damage U.S. ex-
North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels
ports by prompting foreign nations to retaliate
last week and then had been visiting several
with restriction.
European capitals for talks with foreign fi-
As of yesterday morning, a Finance Com-
mittee staff tabulation showed that Senate floor
action on the committee's bill would cost the
Treasury an extra $3.3 billion in calendar 1970,
An extra $4.8 billion in 1971, and ultimately
would cost about $3 billion a year more than
the committee's bill.
The staff estimated that the Senate bill, as
it stands, would produce a net revenue gain in
the current fiscal year of about $1.8 billion but
would cause a net revenue loss of $1.2 billion in
the year that starts July 1.
None of these tabulations reflect the Sen-
ate's decision to add to the bill about $6 billion
a year of increases in Social Security retire-
ment benefits, which would be paid from a
trust fund rather than from general revenues.
Nor do they reflect yesterday's floor votes,
which are estimated to have dropped at least
$100 million more annual revenue from the
committee's bill.
NEW YORK TIMES
December 10, 1969
BIG '69 DROP SEEN C
IN STEEL IMPORTS
Europeans Held Unable to
Fill Voluntary Quotas
Big Dip Seen in Steel Imports;
Europeans Not Filling Quotas
By ROBERT WALKER
Shipments of European steel
into the United States will drop
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ures would be insignificant-
so sharply this year that volun-
a few days' consumption by
tary restrictions on such ex-
35 per cent from the 1968 ton-
Soviet industry at the most.
ports by the producers will be
nage, he estimated.
Mr. Storyk conceded that
rendered meaningless - the
He said the European com-
these were only shipments reg-
Western European mills will be
panies "continue to have a
istered as going directly to the
strong desire to serve their es-
Soviet Union, and that the
unable to fill even the quotas
to which they agreed early in
tablished customers in the
ultimate destination of steel
1969.
United States market, despite
shipped to other Communist-
the fact that the current tre-
bloc countries could not always
C
Leslie Storyk, president of
mendous demands upon them
be determined. He said some
a
the American Institute for Im-
ported Steel, projected this de-
from their own national mar-
Japanese and even some Amer-
I
kets makes this difficult."
ican steel could be finding its
cline for imports in an inter-
He added that "conditions
way to the Russians.
view here yesterday and, later,
are expected to change in 1970,
But he insisted that the Euro-
in a speech to the annual meet-
allowing the Europeans to re-
pean producers who supplied
ing of the group, which in-
the American importers would
cludes more than 50 American
sume more normal deliveries
concerns that sell foreign steel
to the United States."
know whether large quantities
for consumption in this country.
On the question of Soviet
of their steel were going to
buying of steel, he disputed re-
the Russians, and that they de-
500,000 Tons Short
cent observations by John P.
nied this was happening.
However, Mr. Storyk, execu-
Roche, president of the Amer-
tive vice president of Fehr
ican Iron and Steel Institute
Bros., Inc., denied recent sug-
and chief spokesman for the
gestions by the American steel
United States induestry.
industry that reduced import
After visits to the Soviet
pressure had been caused by
Union and Western Europe, Mr.
heavy shipments of Western
Roche had reported that po-
European steel to the Soviet
tential consumption by Soviet
Union. He said the cause was
industry this year would fall
enormous demand in Britain,
about 27 million tons short of
the European Economic Com-
production, and that the Rus-
munity and the rest of West-
sians were trying to fill some
ern Europe.
of the gap by heavy foreign
The Common Market steel
buying.
producers, who volunteered to
Mr. Storyk said shipments
cut exports to the United
by Common Market steel pro-
States this 'year by more than
ducers to the Soviet Union in
20 per cent-to about five mil-
the first nine months of 1968
lion tons-will fall at least 500,-
had been about 290,000 tons
000 tons short of this reduced
and had actually fallen to about
quota, Mr. Storyk added.
280,000 tons in the first nine
months of this year. Both fig- I
Britain did not join the quota
agreement, but her steel ship-
ments to the United States this
year will nevertheless be down
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