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Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon, Peninsula Manufacturers Association; San Mateo, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 2/26/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon, Lincoln-Jefferson Dinner; San Francisco, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 2/27/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon, San Francisco Rotary Club. 4pp. [Newsletter], 2/27/1962
Statement of Richard Nixon concerning Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. 2pp. [Newsletter], n.d.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/9/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon on his association with the Council on Foreign Relations. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/10/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon before the Southern California Alumni of Harvard and Stanford Graduate Schools of Business Administration; Statler-Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/15/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon in advocacy of State Loyalty Oath for public employees. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Combined Exchange Clubs; National Orange Show, San Bernardino Fair Grounds. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/16/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon before 38th Annual Convention of Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association; Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/17/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Suburban Republicans Dinner; Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA. Mar. 23, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the National Forensic League Student Congress; Cerritos (Jr.) College, Norwalk, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/31/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon concerning the "Liberal Papers." 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/29/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Senate Reapportionment. 4pp. [Newsletter], 4/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Salinas Valley Joint Service Clubs; Corral de Tierra Country Club. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Santa Clara County School Board; Hawaiian Gardens, San Jose, CA. Apr. 4, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Sonoma County Teachers Council; Santa Rosa Junior College. Apr. 5, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/6/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Modesto Community Reception; Elks Lodge, Modesto. Apr. 10, 1962. 1pg. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 4/11/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on the New California Budget. Apr. 13, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on State Income Taxes. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon at Town Hall meeting; Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Town Hall Talk by Richard M. Nixon; Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon at 31st Annual Youth Banquet, Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Text of Water Policy Speech by Richard Nixon to Irrigation Districts Association; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 6pp. [Newsletter], 4/26/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Water Policy Speech by Richard Nixon to Irrigation Districts Association; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 7pp. [Newsletter], 4/26/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Orange County Nixon Committee Dinner; Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA. Apr. 27, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon before the California Teachers Association and the National Education Association; Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the California Teachers Association and the National Education Association; Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks before the California Young Republicans and Nixon for Governor Rally; Sacramento, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw Valley. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks before the Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aged; Beverly-Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks before the Sunset Young Republicans; Smith Brothers Fish Shanty, Los Angeles, CA. May 2, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the Junior Barristers of Los Angeles; Biltmore Hotel. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; Oakland Auditorium Theatre. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw Valley. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Lodi, CA. May 5, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/6/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/7/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rallies; Escondido and La Jolla, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Reception at the home of George Foreman; Arcadia, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/11/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Propostion 5 (Park and Recreation Bond Issue); Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/13/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: Announcement that Harrison McCall of South Pasadena will head a Southland Strategy Committee for liason with Northern California Nixon groups. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Riverside, CA. May 14, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/15/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: James Ralph. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/15/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open letter from Richard Nixon to Nixon-for-Governor Chairmen throughout California, dated May 15, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/16/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon to Southern California Retail Grocers Association; Long Beach, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/17/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Outdoor Lunch in Central Park; Bakersfield, CA. May 17, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/19/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Speech on Government Reorganization by Richard Nixon before Commonwealth Club; San Francisco, CA. 5pp. Attached to previous. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon to Commonwealth Club; San Francisco, CA. May 17, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Campaign Letter by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 16, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: A Letter to Katanga Minister of Foreign Affairs from Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 18, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 5/21/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon at Dinner of California Women in Chamber of Commerce; Monterey, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/19/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. FYI toPress, Radio, TV re: Major Statement on Agriculture. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/21/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on California Agriculture. 2pp. Attached to previous. [Newsletter], 5/23/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon-for-Governor Rally; Granada Theater. Also, Combined Republican Clubs; Paul Revere Junior High School, Brentwood, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/22/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally; Paul Revere Junior High School, Pacific Palisades, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/22/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Junior Chamber of Commerce Luncheon; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/24/1962
Law Enforcement Statement by Richard Nixon. May 24, 1962. 3pp. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 5/25/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; Glendale Civic Auditorium. 2pp. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 5/26/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Letter from Govr. Brown urging cancellation of House Un-American Activities Committee meeting. May 27, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/28/1962
[Newsletter],
Nixon for Governor News Release. Welfare Statement by Richard Nixon. May 28, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/29/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 29, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally; Veterans Memorial Building, Visalia, CA. May 30, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Manhattan Beach Rally. May 31, 1962. [Newsletter], 6/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Republican Community Center. May 31, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Reception; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, CA. May 31, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Combined Service Clubs Luncheon; Santa Ana, CA. May 31, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open letter to Editors from Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 31, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 6/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Letter from Richard Nixon on June 2, 1962, to Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge, Chairman of Joint Legislative Audit Committee who will conduct the Squaw Valley Investigation. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Palo Alto Rally. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Excercising one's voting privelege. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Guiding principles as governor. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Ten situations in which Govr. Brown demonstrated "his incapacity to give effective leadership." 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to the California Young Republicans Assembly; Thunderbird Hotel, El Segundo, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/23/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpts of Remarks by Richard Nixon at American Legion Convention; Fresno, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/28/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of American Independence Day; Rebild National Park, Aalborg, Denmark. 4pp. [Newsletter], 7/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Govr. Brown and the CDC. 1pg. [Newsletter], 7/29/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon before the Republican State Central Committee Meeting; Sacramento, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 8/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: Richard Nixon's response to Govr. Brown's charge that he (Nixon) is "afraid" to speak before the AFL-CIO convention. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/20/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Challenging Govr. Brown to debate how best to cut California's taxes. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/25/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Renewing his challenge to debate Govr. Brown. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Response to Govr. Brown's "kick-off" speech. 1pg. [Newsletter], 9/4/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon regarding Television Debates. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/6/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Negotiations for debate with Govr. Brown broken off. 1pg. [Newsletter], 9/7/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Kick-Off Rally; Pomona, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 9/12/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Republican Associates Luncheon; San Diego, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 9/12/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Eureka Rally. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/13/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Masonic Constitution Day Celebration; Chico State College Auditorium. Sept. 13, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 9/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Turlock Rally. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Lancaster, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/15/1962
Transcript of Press Conference; Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 14pp. [Newsletter], 9/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon during bus tour of San Joaquin Valley. Re: California agriculture. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/20/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at San Jose State College. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/21/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Medical, Dental & Pharmaceutical Association of Southern California and the John Langston Law Club; Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA. Sept. 21, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/22/1
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Annual Meeting of Family Section of American Bar Association; Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco. 2pp. [Newsletter], 8/7/1962
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This file contains:
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon, Peninsula Manufacturers Association; San Mateo, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 2/26/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon, Lincoln-Jefferson Dinner; San Francisco, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 2/27/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon, San Francisco Rotary Club. 4pp. [Newsletter], 2/27/1962
Statement of Richard Nixon concerning Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. 2pp. [Newsletter], n.d.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/9/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon on his association with the Council on Foreign Relations. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/10/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon before the Southern California Alumni of Harvard and Stanford Graduate Schools of Business Administration; Statler-Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/15/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon in advocacy of State Loyalty Oath for public employees. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Combined Exchange Clubs; National Orange Show, San Bernardino Fair Grounds. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/16/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon before 38th Annual Convention of Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association; Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/17/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Suburban Republicans Dinner; Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA. Mar. 23, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the National Forensic League Student Congress; Cerritos (Jr.) College, Norwalk, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 3/31/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon concerning the "Liberal Papers." 1pg. [Newsletter], 3/29/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Senate Reapportionment. 4pp. [Newsletter], 4/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Salinas Valley Joint Service Clubs; Corral de Tierra Country Club. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Santa Clara County School Board; Hawaiian Gardens, San Jose, CA. Apr. 4, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to Sonoma County Teachers Council; Santa Rosa Junior College. Apr. 5, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/6/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Modesto Community Reception; Elks Lodge, Modesto. Apr. 10, 1962. 1pg. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 4/11/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on the New California Budget. Apr. 13, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on State Income Taxes. 1pg. [Newsletter], 4/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon at Town Hall meeting; Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Town Hall Talk by Richard M. Nixon; Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon at 31st Annual Youth Banquet, Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/24/1962
Text of Water Policy Speech by Richard Nixon to Irrigation Districts Association; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 6pp. [Newsletter], 4/26/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Water Policy Speech by Richard Nixon to Irrigation Districts Association; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 7pp. [Newsletter], 4/26/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Orange County Nixon Committee Dinner; Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA. Apr. 27, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon before the California Teachers Association and the National Education Association; Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the California Teachers Association and the National Education Association; Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks before the California Young Republicans and Nixon for Governor Rally; Sacramento, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/28/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw Valley. 2pp. [Newsletter], 4/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks before the Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aged; Beverly-Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks before the Sunset Young Republicans; Smith Brothers Fish Shanty, Los Angeles, CA. May 2, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon before the Junior Barristers of Los Angeles; Biltmore Hotel. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; Oakland Auditorium Theatre. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw Valley. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Lodi, CA. May 5, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/6/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/7/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rallies; Escondido and La Jolla, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/10/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Reception at the home of George Foreman; Arcadia, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/11/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Propostion 5 (Park and Recreation Bond Issue); Los Angeles, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/13/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: Announcement that Harrison McCall of South Pasadena will head a Southland Strategy Committee for liason with Northern California Nixon groups. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Riverside, CA. May 14, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/15/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: James Ralph. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/15/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open letter from Richard Nixon to Nixon-for-Governor Chairmen throughout California, dated May 15, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/16/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon to Southern California Retail Grocers Association; Long Beach, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/17/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Outdoor Lunch in Central Park; Bakersfield, CA. May 17, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/19/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of Speech on Government Reorganization by Richard Nixon before Commonwealth Club; San Francisco, CA. 5pp. Attached to previous. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt of Remarks by Richard Nixon to Commonwealth Club; San Francisco, CA. May 17, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Campaign Letter by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 16, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: A Letter to Katanga Minister of Foreign Affairs from Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 18, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 5/21/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon at Dinner of California Women in Chamber of Commerce; Monterey, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/19/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. FYI toPress, Radio, TV re: Major Statement on Agriculture. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/21/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on California Agriculture. 2pp. Attached to previous. [Newsletter], 5/23/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon-for-Governor Rally; Granada Theater. Also, Combined Republican Clubs; Paul Revere Junior High School, Brentwood, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/22/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally; Paul Revere Junior High School, Pacific Palisades, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/22/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Junior Chamber of Commerce Luncheon; Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/24/1962
Law Enforcement Statement by Richard Nixon. May 24, 1962. 3pp. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 5/25/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; Glendale Civic Auditorium. 2pp. [One duplicate not scanned.] [Newsletter], 5/26/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Letter from Govr. Brown urging cancellation of House Un-American Activities Committee meeting. May 27, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/28/1962
[Newsletter],
Nixon for Governor News Release. Welfare Statement by Richard Nixon. May 28, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/29/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 29, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally; Veterans Memorial Building, Visalia, CA. May 30, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Manhattan Beach Rally. May 31, 1962. [Newsletter], 6/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Republican Community Center. May 31, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Reception; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, CA. May 31, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Combined Service Clubs Luncheon; Santa Ana, CA. May 31, 1962. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/1/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open letter to Editors from Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May 31, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 6/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 5/31/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Letter from Richard Nixon on June 2, 1962, to Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge, Chairman of Joint Legislative Audit Committee who will conduct the Squaw Valley Investigation. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/3/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Palo Alto Rally. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/2/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Excercising one's voting privelege. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Guiding principles as governor. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. Re: Ten situations in which Govr. Brown demonstrated "his incapacity to give effective leadership." 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks of Richard Nixon to the California Young Republicans Assembly; Thunderbird Hotel, El Segundo, CA. 1pg. [Newsletter], 6/23/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpts of Remarks by Richard Nixon at American Legion Convention; Fresno, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 6/28/1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of American Independence Day; Rebild National Park, Aalborg, Denmark. 4pp. [Newsletter], 7/4/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon on Govr. Brown and the CDC. 1pg. [Newsletter], 7/29/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon before the Republican State Central Committee Meeting; Sacramento, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 8/5/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: Richard Nixon's response to Govr. Brown's charge that he (Nixon) is "afraid" to speak before the AFL-CIO convention. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/20/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Challenging Govr. Brown to debate how best to cut California's taxes. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/25/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Renewing his challenge to debate Govr. Brown. 1pg. [Newsletter], 8/30/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Response to Govr. Brown's "kick-off" speech. 1pg. [Newsletter], 9/4/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon regarding Television Debates. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/6/1962
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Negotiations for debate with Govr. Brown broken off. 1pg. [Newsletter], 9/7/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Kick-Off Rally; Pomona, CA. 4pp. [Newsletter], 9/12/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Republican Associates Luncheon; San Diego, CA. 3pp. [Newsletter], 9/12/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at Eureka Rally. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/13/1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Masonic Constitution Day Celebration; Chico State College Auditorium. Sept. 13, 1962. 3pp. [Newsletter], 9/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Turlock Rally. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/14/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon; Lancaster, CA. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/15/1962
Transcript of Press Conference; Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 14pp. [Newsletter], 9/18/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon during bus tour of San Joaquin Valley. Re: California agriculture. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/20/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon at San Jose State College. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/21/1962
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks by Richard Nixon to Medical, Dental & Pharmaceutical Association of Southern California and the John Langston Law Club; Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA. Sept. 21, 1962. 2pp. [Newsletter], 9/22/1
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Annual Meeting of Family Section of American Bar Association; Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco. 2pp. [Newsletter], 8/7/1962
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02/26/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon, Peninsula Manufacturers
Association; San Mateo, CA. 3pp.
68
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02/27/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon, Lincoln-
Jefferson Dinner; San Francisco, CA. 1pg.
68
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02/27/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon, San Francisco Rotary
Club. 4pp.
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Statement of Richard Nixon concerning
Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.
2pp.
68
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03/09/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. 1pg.
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03/10/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon on his
association with the Council on Foreign
Relations. 1pg.
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03/15/1962
Newsletter
Remarks of Richard Nixon before the
Southern California Alumni of Harvard and
Stanford Graduate Schools of Business
Administration; Statler-Hilton Hotel, Los
Angeles, CA. 1pg.
68
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03/10/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon in advocacy of
State Loyalty Oath for public employees.
1pg.
68
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03/16/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon to Combined Exchange
Clubs; National Orange Show, San
Bernardino Fair Grounds. 2pp.
68
2
03/17/1962
Newsletter
Remarks of Richard Nixon before 38th
Annual Convention of Pacific Dairy and
Poultry Association; Biltmore Bowl, Los
Angeles, CA. 1pg.
68
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03/24/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Suburban Republicans
Dinner; Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA.
Mar. 23, 1962. 2pp.
68
2
03/31/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon before the National
Forensic League Student Congress; Cerritos
(Jr.) College, Norwalk, CA. 2pp.
68
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03/29/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon concerning the
"Liberal Papers." 1pg.
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04/02/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on Senate
Reapportionment. 4pp.
68
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04/03/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Salinas Valley Joint
Service Clubs; Corral de Tierra Country
Club. 2pp.
68
2
04/05/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon to Santa Clara County
School Board; Hawaiian Gardens, San Jose,
CA. Apr. 4, 1962. 1pg.
68
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04/06/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon to Sonoma County
Teachers Council; Santa Rosa Junior
College. Apr. 5, 1962. 1pg.
68
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04/11/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Modesto Community
Reception; Elks Lodge, Modesto. Apr. 10,
1962. 1pg. [One duplicate not scanned.]
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04/14/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on the New
California Budget. Apr. 13, 1962. 1pg.
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04/18/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on State Income
Taxes. 1pg.
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04/24/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks by Richard Nixon at Town Hall
meeting; Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
2pp.
68
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04/24/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of
Town Hall Talk by Richard M. Nixon;
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 3pp.
68
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04/24/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks by Richard Nixon at 31st Annual
Youth Banquet, Pasadena Junior Chamber of
Commerce; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel,
Pasadena, CA. 2pp.
68
2
04/26/1962
Newsletter
Text of Water Policy Speech by Richard
Nixon to Irrigation Districts Association;
Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA.
6pp.
68
2
04/26/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of
Water Policy Speech by Richard Nixon to
Irrigation Districts Association; Sheraton-
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 7pp.
68
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04/28/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon to Orange County Nixon
Committee Dinner; Disneyland Hotel,
Anaheim, CA. Apr. 27, 1962. 2pp.
68
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04/28/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks by Richard Nixon before the
California Teachers Association and the
National Education Association; Ambassador
Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 2pp.
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04/28/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon before the California
Teachers Association and the National
Education Association; Ambassador Hotel,
Los Angeles, CA. 4pp.
68
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04/28/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
before the California Young Republicans and
Nixon for Governor Rally; Sacramento, CA.
2pp.
68
2
04/30/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw
Valley. 2pp.
68
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05/01/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks before the Guardians of the
Jewish Home for the Aged; Beverly-Hilton
Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. 2pp.
68
2
05/03/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
before the Sunset Young Republicans; Smith
Brothers Fish Shanty, Los Angeles, CA.
May 2, 1962. 2pp.
68
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05/03/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon before the Junior
Barristers of Los Angeles; Biltmore Hotel.
2pp.
68
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05/10/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego,
CA. 1pg.
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05/04/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Rally; Oakland Auditorium Theatre. 1pg.
68
2
05/04/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on Squaw
Valley. 1pg.
68
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05/06/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon; Lodi, CA. May 5, 1962.
1pg.
68
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05/07/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. 2pp.
68
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05/10/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; San Diego,
CA. 1pg.
68
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05/10/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Rallies; Escondido and La Jolla, CA. 2pp.
68
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05/11/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Reception at the home of
George Foreman; Arcadia, CA. 1pg.
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05/13/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on Propostion 5
(Park and Recreation Bond Issue); Los
Angeles, CA. 1pg.
68
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05/14/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re:
Announcement that Harrison McCall of
South Pasadena will head a Southland
Strategy Committee for liason with Northern
California Nixon groups. 1pg.
68
2
05/15/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon; Riverside, CA. May 14,
1962. 2pp.
68
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05/15/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: James
Ralph. 1pg.
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05/16/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open
letter from Richard Nixon to Nixon-for-
Governor Chairmen throughout California,
dated May 15, 1962. 1pg.
68
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05/17/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks by Richard Nixon to Southern
California Retail Grocers Association; Long
Beach, CA. 2pp.
68
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05/19/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Outdoor Lunch in
Central Park; Bakersfield, CA. May 17,
1962. 1pg.
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05/18/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Text of
Speech on Government Reorganization by
Richard Nixon before Commonwealth Club;
San Francisco, CA. 5pp. Attached to
previous.
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05/18/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpt
of Remarks by Richard Nixon to
Commonwealth Club; San Francisco, CA.
May 17, 1962. 1pg.
68
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05/18/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Campaign Letter by Richard Nixon; Los
Angeles, CA. May 16, 1962. 2pp.
68
2
05/21/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re: A
Letter to Katanga Minister of Foreign Affairs
from Richard Nixon; Los Angeles, CA. May
18, 1962. 3pp.
68
2
05/19/1962
Newsletter
Remarks of Richard Nixon at Dinner of
California Women in Chamber of
Commerce; Monterey, CA. 1pg.
68
2
05/21/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. FYI
toPress, Radio, TV re: Major Statement on
Agriculture. 1pg.
68
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05/23/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on California
Agriculture. 2pp. Attached to previous.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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05/22/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon-for-
Governor Rally; Granada Theater. Also,
Combined Republican Clubs; Paul Revere
Junior High School, Brentwood, CA. 1pg.
68
2
05/22/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally;
Paul Revere Junior High School, Pacific
Palisades, CA. 1pg.
68
2
05/24/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon to Junior Chamber of
Commerce Luncheon; Sheraton-Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, CA. 1pg.
68
2
05/25/1962
Newsletter
Law Enforcement Statement by Richard
Nixon. May 24, 1962. 3pp. [One duplicate
not scanned.]
68
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05/26/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Rally; Glendale Civic Auditorium. 2pp.
[One duplicate not scanned.]
68
2
05/28/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Letter
from Govr. Brown urging cancellation of
House Un-American Activities Committee
meeting. May 27, 1962. 1pg.
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05/29/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Welfare
Statement by Richard Nixon. May 28, 1962.
2pp.
68
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05/30/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. May 29, 1962. 1pg.
68
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05/31/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Nixon Rally; Veterans
Memorial Building, Visalia, CA. May 30,
1962. 1pg.
68
2
06/02/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Manhattan Beach
Rally. May 31, 1962.
68
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06/01/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Republican Community
Center. May 31, 1962. 1pg.
68
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06/01/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Reception; Huntington-Sheraton Hotel,
Pasadena, CA. May 31, 1962. 2pp.
68
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06/01/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Combined Service
Clubs Luncheon; Santa Ana, CA. May 31,
1962. 1pg.
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06/03/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Open
letter to Editors from Richard Nixon; Los
Angeles, CA. May 31, 1962. 3pp.
68
2
05/31/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 1pg.
68
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05/31/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Nixon for Governor
Rally; San Luis Obispo, CA. 2pp.
68
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06/03/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Letter
from Richard Nixon on June 2, 1962, to
Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge, Chairman
of Joint Legislative Audit Committee who
will conduct the Squaw Valley Investigation.
1pg.
68
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06/02/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Palo Alto Rally. 1pg.
68
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06/05/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. Re: Excercising one's voting privelege.
1pg.
68
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06/04/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. Re: Guiding principles as governor.
1pg.
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06/04/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon; Los Angeles,
CA. Re: Ten situations in which Govr.
Brown demonstrated "his incapacity to give
effective leadership." 2pp.
68
2
06/23/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
of Richard Nixon to the California Young
Republicans Assembly; Thunderbird Hotel,
El Segundo, CA. 1pg.
68
2
06/28/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Excerpts
of Remarks by Richard Nixon at American
Legion Convention; Fresno, CA. 2pp.
68
2
07/04/1962
Newsletter
Remarks of Richard Nixon at the Fiftieth
Anniversary Celebration of American
Independence Day; Rebild National Park,
Aalborg, Denmark. 4pp.
68
2
07/29/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon on Govr. Brown
and the CDC. 1pg.
68
2
08/05/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon before the
Republican State Central Committee
Meeting; Sacramento, CA. 4pp.
68
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08/20/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Re:
Richard Nixon's response to Govr. Brown's
charge that he (Nixon) is "afraid" to speak
before the AFL-CIO convention. 1pg.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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08/25/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re:
Challenging Govr. Brown to debate how best
to cut California's taxes. 1pg.
68
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08/30/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Renewing
his challenge to debate Govr. Brown. 1pg.
68
2
09/04/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release.
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re: Response
to Govr. Brown's "kick-off" speech. 1pg.
68
2
09/06/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon regarding
Television Debates. 2pp.
68
2
09/07/1962
Newsletter
Statement by Richard Nixon. Re:
Negotiations for debate with Govr. Brown
broken off. 1pg.
68
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09/12/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Kick-Off Rally;
Pomona, CA. 4pp.
68
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09/12/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Republican Associates
Luncheon; San Diego, CA. 3pp.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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09/13/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at Eureka Rally. 2pp.
68
2
09/14/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Masonic
Constitution Day Celebration; Chico State
College Auditorium. Sept. 13, 1962. 3pp.
68
2
09/14/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon; Turlock Rally. 2pp.
68
2
09/15/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon; Lancaster, CA. 2pp.
68
2
09/18/1962
Newsletter
Transcript of Press Conference; Statler
Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. 14pp.
68
2
09/20/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon during bus tour of San
Joaquin Valley. Re: California agriculture.
2pp.
68
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09/21/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon at San Jose State College.
2pp.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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09/22/1962
Newsletter
Nixon for Governor News Release. Remarks
by Richard Nixon to Medical, Dental &
Pharmaceutical Association of Southern
California and the John Langston Law Club;
Rodger Young Auditorium, Los Angeles,
CA. Sept. 21, 1962. 2pp.
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08/07/1962
Newsletter
Remarks by Richard Nixon at Annual
Meeting of Family Section of American Bar
Association; Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco.
2pp.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Page 15 of 15
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHER U.S.A
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
FOR RELEASE: February 26, 1962
AFTER 3:00 PM
PENINSULA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
San Mateo -- February 26, 1962
The next Governor of California will head the first state in the
nation in population. But first in population is no guarantee of our
being first in economic progress. When it comes to prosperity and
well-being for the citizens of California, we are competing not only
within our state but throughout the whole nation.
California's basic problem is economic growth. In recent years
much of this has been tied to federal spending. Today nearly 24% of
all manufacturing jobs in California are connected with the defense
industry.
This is a very vulnerable industry. We should not overlook the
announcement by the General Dynamics Corporation the day after its
greatest triumph--the historic flight of Colonel Glenn--that it will
have a gradual layoff of its Atlas missile force.
General Dynamics hopes to get one last big military contract for an
all-weather service fighter plane--but even if it is successful, the
contract will go to its Fort Worth, Texas, plant.
Last spring Lockheed obtained a multi-million dollar contract for
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the C-141-but it went to its Marietta, Georgia, plant. These and
other contracts suggest that there may be a political pattern of
shifting defense work from California, despite the high calibre of
our work force and our pre-eminent research centers at Palo Alto,
Berkeley, Pasadena and Westwood.
Now the national Administration is considering distributing defense
contracts on the basis of reducing unemployment--rather than who can
do the best job at the lowest cost. This would mean that contracts
would be given to areas of unemployment in other states. They would
be with drawn from plants in California which have consistently offered
competitive bids and quality workmanship.
This plan might be good for getting votes in those areas, but it
would only substitute unemployment here for unemployment in other
places.
I am not suggesting that California defense and space industries
are suddenly going to close down. The scientists at our research
centers are indispensable to these programs. I am saying that we have
a good industrial base, but we must look ahead and diversify our in-
dustries so that we are not dependent upon the swift changes charac-
teristic of both defense and space technology.
We need to provide 250,000 new jobs each year just to keep pace
with our population growth. This is an enormous challenge. It re-
quires an administration in Sacramento that has faith in our people's
ability to create jobs through their own initiative.
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The present state administration seems to have no concern about
the cost of government or the tax burdens which it has imposed on the
people of California. Our Sacramento officials have failed to realize
that a government which continually raises the cost of doing business
in the state will soon be faced with industrial stagnation and wither-
ing revenues.
The handwriting on the wall should be apparent. California's tax
bills run about 25% to 30% higher than most midwestern and eastern
states. We cannot begin to match the tax advantages of the South and
Southwest. In the past 18 years, California tax collections have in-
creased 444%. General obligation bonds have increased more than
900%--but our population increase, with which the administration
usually excuses tax and budget increases, has risen only 109%.
It costs modern industry upwards of $16,000 to create just one
job--but that job will not be created unless the industry can clearly
see a fair return on its investment. If it cannot receive a fair
return in California, it will look elsewhere. There are other states
willing and anxious to provide climates which will support additional
jobs and a growing economy.
If California is to keep pace with the challenges presented by its
phenomenal growth, our state government must adopt an attitude which
will inspire confidence in those who are considering investment here.
We cannot afford near-sighted budget policies which in effect say "tax
and spend what the traffic will bear" without regard to the effect
these policies will have on future economic growth and on jobs for
everyone.
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Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
LINCOLN-JEFFERSON DINNER
San Francisco February 27, 1962
Before the year is out, there are going to be more people in Califomia than
in New York -- and then we will be Number One among the fifty states.
But numbers are not enough. Population growth, in and of itself, can end up
creating problems, not solving them.
What matters is quality in government and public services, in sustained
economic growth, in schools and hospitals, libraries and museums, highways and
transit systems, and in meeting all the needs of all the people of California.
What matters is dynamic leadership -- both private and public, in business
and industry and in political office at every level.
What matters is the creative imagination to face up to every great challenge
and make of it an opportunity for still greater achievement -- in the interest of all
our people.
Bigness alone will solve none of the problems of the years immediately ahead.
Nor will mediocrity in high places. Yet that is one of the alternatives now before
the people of California: delays and footdragging -- while the rate of major crime
mounts year by year; patronage plums for political retreats -- while paper plan-
ning substitutes for an effective program of civil defense; the biggest single state
budget in all American history -- while present tax rates cast increasing doubts
about California as an attractive area for job-producing economic expansion; and
the Governor has not requested nor has the Legislature passed any legislation that
requires any instruction about Communism and its dangers. As a result in many
of our schools the teachers are understandably afraid to take the initiative in pro-
viding such instruction.
This alternative is not good enough for California, on the threshold of poten-
tially its greatest era.
The people of California ought to be given a real choice this year -- between
four more years of dull mediocrity in high places or a rebirth of dynamic leader- -
ship. We have it in our power to offer such a choice and then to provide such
leadership. We can bridge the quality gap between California's potential and its
actual performance.
The opportunity is tremendous. We Republicans of California, drawing our
inspiration from both Lincoln and Jefferson, can lead a popular crusade that will
deserve nothing less than the name - a crusade for freedom and progress. We can
unite an overwhelmingly popular majority - Republicans, Democrats and indepen-
dents alike, all dedicated to the basic principles that Lincoln and Jefferson shared.
And, although our opponents once claimed Jefferson as their own founding
father, the clique which controls the Democratic Party organization in California
has long since deserted his banner and denied his principles. They have departed
from the essence of the American political tradition. To restore this tradition
to shape political leadership to its guidelines -- this is both the challenge and
opportunity we have in our hands in 1962 here in California and across the nation.
A Lincoln-Jefferson Party will be a party of the people -- all the people
with supreme confidence in popular judgment responsibly supported by such vital
institutions as a free press and free schools.
It will be a party that values state and local sovereignty and realizes that
the only way to stem the drift toward stifling over-centralization is for our states
and communities to provide dynamic and creative leadership -- to meet urgent
popular needs and be responsive and responsible to close popular control.
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It will be a party that puts limits on governmental authority at every level --
not out of fear but because of an abiding conviction that the individual citizen ought
to run his own affairs and command his own destiny.
A Lincoln-Jefferson party will be, in essence, a party of Freedom. These
two men believed in freedom, not part-time or sometimes but with an utter commit-
ment. They were prepared to take the risks and to assume the heavy obligations
that freedom involves. They did not stop with lip-service. They did not turn to
self-styled experts or to self-perpetuating bureaucracies to make the people's
decisions for them.
The essentials are affirmation of principle, matched with bold and creative
leadership. Without them, the potentialities of our cities and states and of the
nation as a whole will never be realized. But with them, the future can be just as
rich with fulfillment as we dare to dream. The best will be yet to come for both
California and the nation.
**********
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
FOR RELEASE: FLAT PM
SAN FRANCISCO ROTARY CLUB
12:00 Noon, Sheraton Palace Hotel
San Francisco
(February 27, 1962)
(Sandy Quinn - EX 7-7000)
California today ranks third among the states in manufacturing for
export--$1,300,000,000 last year. And we exported another one-half
billion in agricultural and mineral products.
We have a great stake in the growth of trade. We should not listen
to the counsels of those who would have us retire behind a teriff wall
because of the dynamic growth of the European Common Market countries.
The resurgence of Western Europe's economy and its promising future is
a threat only if we choose to regard it as one.
Rather we should welcome their prosperity as proof of the super-
iority of the Free World system as contrasted with that behind the
Iron Curtain. The Common Market is an economic counter-revolution whic
by its example cannot help but have its effect on many nations which
are daily making choices in their domestic economies between our way
and that of totalitarianism.
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Historically we have been able to compete in the world market-
place despite wage differentials because of our far greater pro-
ductivity per worker through superior technology. But in the post-
war world, the nations of Western Europe and Japan have greatly up-
dated their machinery and equipment. Their governments have encour-
aged such modernization through depreciation allowances and other tax
advantages. As a result, productivity has increased enormously. In
the last ten years the rate at which the gross product of the Common
Market countries has increased has been far greater than that of the
United States.
Wages too have risen and are rising in these countries, but hourly
rates are still far less than our own.
For the first time in our history, the United States faces economic
competition from a source that is capable of manufacturing many pro-
ducts at costs less than our own and products of equal quality.
President Kennedy has asked for general authority to reduce teriffs
by 50% in reciprocal negotiations.
He has also suggested that there be a program of subsidies for
those American industries that become non-competitive as a result of
such reductions. We must recognize that any kind of a subsidy program
of this type only postpones the day of reckoning. It does not go to
the heart of the problem.
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American industry can compete with industries abroad and maintain
our higher wage scales provided the American free enterprise system
is given a chance to work at full efficiency. This means that govern-
ment, business and labor policies which restrict the ability of
American industry to compete on an equal basis must be modified.
The greatest need is for a tax reform program at the federal state
and local level which will stimulate economic growth through new
investment and replacement of obsolescent machinery on a massive
basis. This kind of tax reform will be possible only if at all levels
of government the haphazard growth of bureaucracy is checked and
spending is reduced to what is necessary and not increased in direct
proportion to the growth of the economy.
We must reappraise our agricultural subsidy programs. We cannot, fo
example, expect American textile manufacturers to pay more for cotton
in the United States than their overseas competitors, with lower wage
rates, pay for American cotton.
Business management for its part must rigorously enforce policies
of maximum efficiency and maximum economy in its use of all its re-
sources, both human and material.
Labor and management must recognize that wage increases in excess
of productivity will not only weaken the competitive position of
United States industry but also will result in loss of jobs for the
American workmen. We must also recognize that we cannot place limi-
tation on productivity either in the form of a sharply reduced work
week or on arbitrary restrictions on the maximum output of which each
employee is capable.
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No state in the union has a greater stake in world markets than
California. Government, business and labor in this state must work
together to meet the challenge and capitalize on the opportunities
which will be ours as world trade increases.
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March, 1962.
Statement of RICHARD NIXON
Concerning Robert Welch and The John Birch Society
I believe the California Republican Assembly at this meeting has a
unique opportunity to provide leadership for our Party as a whole, not
only in California but the nation as well.
In my meetings with the leadership of the Assembly, I am urging
that this convention go beyond the endorsement of candidates to the
higher ground of principle.
It is clear that one of the major issues in this campaign will be
which of the candidates for Governor will develop the most effective
and responsible program for fighting Communism within California. I
believe that on this issue I have a record and the experience to lead
this state as it should be led in this fight. Without going into that
record, I have learned through long experience how to fight Communism
and how not to fight it. I have learned, for example, that no greater
disservice can be done to the effort of combatting Communism than to
demagogue and overstate or misrepresent the case you are making. I
agree with the views J. Edgar Hoover has so often expressed in this
regard.
In this discussion I am referring specifically to Robert Welch and
The John Birch Society. Two Sundays ago I visited with the Republican
President with whom it was my privilege to serve for eight years,
Welch has described this great American as a "dedicated conscious agent
of the Communist conspiracy" and he has said that "treason" was the
only word to describe Eisenhower's "purposes and his actions."
No responsible candidate, member, or unit of the Republican Party
can traffic with this viewpoint.
It is not a case of "right or left" or "extremism" which presents
a problem in our society today.
Every American is entitled to have "extreme" feelings about his
religion, his country, his political beliefs and the threat of
Communism. Every American has a right to express his viewpoint.
However, responsible Republicanism abhors demagoguery and total-
itarianism wherever and however it appears.
Any organization, creed, or "ism" which totally subordinates the
individual citizen to the arbitrary dictatorship of any single person
must be combatted, whatever label it carries.
The Blue Book of The John Birch Society specifically states that:
"The men who join The John Birch Society during the next few months or
few years are going to be doing so primarily because they believe in
me (Robert Welch) and what I am doing and are willing to accept my
leadership anyway Those members who cease to feel the necessary
degree of loyalty can either resign or will be put out before they
build up any splintering following of their own inside the Society
This statement leaves no doubt that every individual member of the
Birch Society is obliged to approve and support the viewpoints of
Robert Welch, Where they disagree with his views they have no choice
but to resign from the society.
The California Republican Assembly, acting in the great tradition
of our Party for individual liberties and civil rights, should use this
opportunity to repudiate, once and for all, Robert Welch and those who
accept his leadership and viewpoints.
These are the views which I trust will be the consensus of this
convention and which I am asking be expressed formally by resolution.
No Republican organization can compromise with the demagoguery
and the totalitarian views of Robert Welch.
(Excerpted from the question-and-answer period following RICHARD
NIXON'S remarks before the San Fernando Valley Chapter of the Los
Angeles County Medical Association, February 22, 1962)
Question: In the Los Angeles Times of last Sunday, there was an article
which indicated that you were not supporting John Rousselot
and Edgar Hiestand. Many of their thoughts and their feel-
ings and convictions are similar to many of ours, notwith-
standing the membership in the John Birch Society. I wonder
if you would comment on this and your reasons for your
stand on it?
MR. NIXON: As a matter of fact, I have not taken any stand against
any of them as individuals.
What I have said is this: I am a Republican, and I
happen to believe that the election of Republican Congress-
men, Republican Senators, Republican Legislators, a Repub-
lican Governor, etc. would be in the best interests of the
state, as well as the nation. I begin with that proposition.
I know that there are a great number of people who have
joined organizations like the John Birch Society, the Minute
Men, a lot of others, who believe that political parties or
the present political institutions are inadequate in provid-
ing them a proper forum with which to fight Communism.
Now, here is the difficulty, locking specifically at the John
Birch Society. I have no quarrel with a society that is
anti-Communist -- I have no quarrel with anybody who wants
to take a so-called extreme position. After all, I may be
extreme in some of my views, or my neighbor may be extreme
in some of his. That's an American right.
But the quarrel is this -- and I speak now as a Republican --
I say that no Republican candidate for office should seek,
or accept, the support of an organization whose acknowledged
leader has said on several occasions that Dwight Eisenhower
and Foster Dulles were conscious agents of the Communist
conspiracy. This covers any Republican -- it is not dir-
ected at any one of them. As far as I am concerned, men
who accept or seek that support deliberately, and who don't
repudiate that kind of thinking, are not going to serve
their Party. As a matter of fact, they will insure their
own defeat.
In my opinion, men who do have good, strong convictions --
and both of the men you have mentioned, for example, have,
in many respects, fine records insofar as some of these
basic economic and political issues we have been talking
about are concerned -- such individuals should, in their
own interest and in the interest of their Party, either get
the John Birch Society to repudiate the kind of leadership
it has or, they should get out of the organization, one or
the other. That's my attitude.
STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
Los Angeles
March 9, 1962
If the present administration resorts to the practice of balancing its
budget by asking for money from the voters of California after the budget clears
the legislature -- then the people should be allowed to voice their opinions on
this procedure.
This can only occur if the voters have the opportunity to consider all of
the bond issues on one ballot in the November general election.
The present financial programs of the state administration should be
thoroughly debated during the gubernat orial campaign. According to the state's
own financial consultants, we are already approaching the point at which our
yearly sale of bonds will force us to pay far higher rates of interest than normal.
Governor Brown owes it to the people to explain fully his present decisions and
the outlook for the future over the full term of the election campaign.
We are not in a distress situation. There are sufficient funds available
in bonds already authorized to carry essential construction through November.
There can be only one reason for attempting to present $820 million in new
bonds to the voters in piecemeal fashion: a deliberate attempt to obscure the
over-all cost of these bonds.
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COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
RICHARD NIXON
MARCH 10, 1962
In response to your question, I am indeed a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. I believe that there is
some confusion between the Foreign Policy Association and
the Council on Foreign Relations -- they are, in fact,
altogether separate. I share membership in the Council
with General Eisenhower, former President Herbert Hoover
and a host of other distinguished Americans. The late
Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, was throughout
his life an active member.
There may also be some confusion as to the purpose of
the Council on Foreign Relations. It is purely and
simply a group which supports independent research in
world affairs. It takes no positions. It is not a
policy-making body. It advocates nothing but sound
research on foreign affairs -- to which findings, in
any case, the individual member is in no way bound --
as a contribution to public opinion.
Remarks of RICHARD NIXON
Before the Southern California Alumni --
Harvard and Stanford Graduate Schools of
Business Administration
Statler Hilton Hotel
Los Angeles, California
March 15, 1962 - 8:00 P.M.
The American businessman has a role to play in American politics --
nationally, in every State, and in every city and town -- whether he likes it or not.
Because the blunt fact is that government has moved and is continuing to move
into our system of free private enterprise at every decisive point. There is not
a market place anywhere in which some unit of government, some grasping
bureaucracy, is not calling more and more of the crucial shots.
It is not enough to deplore this trend, The trend is turning into an
avalanche. And it is not enough to trumpet the virtues of free enterprise. Recent
polls by impartial research groups show that the message is simply not getting
through -- not even to the best-educated sector of the American people.
The actual facts are simple: one-third of total U. S. income drained off
by government; of every dollar earned by U. S. business, the first 52 cents goes
to the U. S. Treasury and only 3 cents is left for re-investment, 3 cents for
distribution to shareholders; corporate profits measured in constant dollars are
actually less now than they were ten years ago, while total personal income and
industrial wages have more than doubled.
But here are some more facts -- simple and deeply alarming. In an
intensive survey of college student opinion, 66 per cent did not know that some
companies, some years, make no profit at all; 60 per cent thought owners get
too much of the profits, by and large; 61 per cent did not believe in profits in the
first place; 50 per cent could not think offhand of a single advantage of free enter-
prise over communism; 53 per cent favored outright government ownership of one
or more major American industries.
Here is proof of public misunderstanding and misinformation of the nature
and dynamics of the American system of free enterprise that can have but one
ultimate consequence: an erosion of public trust and confidence and belief, and
the end of both our economic system as we know it and of our free way of life.
In a democracy, the ultimate decision rests with the great majority of the
people -- making their wishes known in the market place and through the ballot.
Those of us who believe in free enterprise -- as inseparable from all our other
cherished freedoms thus have our jobs more than cut out for us.
Unless we mount a vigorous and forceful counterattack, unless we get
the facts across to all the people, the great battle of this century will be lost.
The American businessman is not only involved in the political arena,
therefore: he cannot afford to be anywhere else.
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STATE LOYALTY OATH
RICHARD NIXON
MARCH 10, 1962
I support the California state loyalty oath. I believe
it should be applied with its full legislative intent.
Public employment is a privilege as opposed to a right
and we have every reason to require public employees to
take the loyalty oath.
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Remarks of
RICHARD NIXON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12:00 Moon, Friday, March 16, 1962
Combined Exchange Clubs
National Orange Show
San Bernardino Fair Grounds
The most destructive of all the contributions that the extremists are
making to political debate and public discussion these days is their
insidious practice of choosing up sides. They specialize in dividing
the American people against themselves. And this goes double-in-spades
for the left-wing politicians who pitch their appeal to a whole catalog
of so-called "special interests" -- labor against management, farms
against factories, cities against small-towns.
Basically, in America, there are no special interests. There are
only diverse groups tackling COMMON problems. And there is no better
illustration of this principle than that provided by California
agriculture.
We are in the habit of calling it a 3 billion dollar industry --
biggest in the State -- with half-a-million workers -- 8 per cent of the
labor force. But this, literally, is not the half of it. For every
hundred workers down on the farm, there are 263 others who are directly
dependent on agriculture -- in processing, wholesaling and retailing, and
all the services of transport and supply. For every hundred dollars in
gross farm income, $280 worth of goods-and-services are added annually
to the State's total economic product. And this means that California
agriculture
/is more nearly a 12 than a 3 billion dollar industry, that it involves
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more like 25 than 8 per cent of the labor force.
There is no need to spell out the consequences for all of us in
helping to maintain a prosperous and a growing agriculture here in
California.
Not everything is rosy. There are problems galore, tough problems
involving wage scales and migrant workers, water and land use, stable
commodity markets -- and these are just a few among many.
The point is not that they are unsolvable. Every one of them can
and must be solved, but only if tackled in a spirit of mutual under-
standing and common concern, by all groups and interests and
organizations. These are all super-partisan problems, too, which ought
to be handled by citizen groups and professional experts rather than
political re-treads and free-loaders on the patronage gravy-train.
The real problems of California agriculture will not be solved by
creating some new super-grade Bureimorats.
A spirit of harmony and trust and cooperative effort must be restored
to California agriculture, if all of us are to reap the rewards of
sustained prosperity and greater productivity. That is the spirit -
on the farm, in business and industry - that creative leadership can
restore.
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March 16, 1962
Remarks of RICHARD NIXON
38th Annual Convention
Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association
Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles
March 17, 1962 -- 12 Noon
The people of California have a right to expect from Governor Brown a
straight answer to a direct question. Does he favor the proposed Kennedy-Freeman
program of marketing orders for poultry and dairy products?
There is one thing to be said for these proposals: they are such blatant
grabs for power by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture that there can be no doubt
about the consequences for the freedom of California's farmers, processors, and
distributors, and -- most of all -- its consuming public. No one should be fooled
by the effort to pit so-called farm interests against so-called consumer interests.
You cannot separate farm prices and market prices and the family food budget.
When you prop one, you push up the other. Whoever controls the marketplace,
calls the turns down at the corner food store.
If the Freeman farm program is adopted, it will inevitably bring higher
prices in the grocery stores and at the meat counters for every consumer in
California and the nation and more controls and less income for California's
farmers.
California needs and wants federal marketing and production controls
about as much as ducks need raincoats. Our farmers and processors have been
running their own show for a long time now. California is a pioneer in state
marketing orders, arrived at cooperatively, which maintain orderly free exchange
and stable prices precisely because they are state orders -- drawn up in terms of
conditions and needs, supply-and-demand, right here in California.
We don't need and we don't want bureaucratic dictation from Washington,
D. C. We neither need nor want the Secretary of Agriculture telling us how many
turkeys should go to market, how much milk to produce, how many eggs to hatch.
Sitting back in Washington, worrying about the votes of turkey farmers in Minnesota
and feed merchants in North Dakota, the Secretary of Agriculture can only get in
the way of what we in California want most of all -- the freedom to produce, to buy
and sell, at the lowest possible price consistent with fair competition. All we
want is a fair shake for everyone -- producer, processor, and consumer -- and
the preservation of our State's biggest and one of its most efficient industries,
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REMARKS OF RICHARD NIXON
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
Suburban Republicans Dinner
March 24, 1962
Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach
7:30 PM, Friday, March 23
(Sandy Quinn -- MA 9-1248)
The sniping now going on over the so-called issue of "experience"
and' 'background" for the Governorship of California is so obviously a
case of petty politics that it would hardly be worthy of notice -- if
it were not symptomatic of far more important problems.
One of these has to do with the dangerous drift in the balance-of-
power in America today -- from states and cities and private groups, to
the central government in Washington. And this power shift can only end
in the erosion of freedom and in the loss of control by the American
people over their own public affairs. There can be no better training
ground than Washington, D.C., itself, for an awareness of this problem
and no experience that more forcefully demonstrates the urgent need to
return power and responsibility where they belong in a free society --
to the states and cities and private citizens.
This carping criticism is clear indication of a second problem, too.
Such critics have no sense of what leadership really means. It does
not mean making up other peoples' minds for them. It does not mean
usurping the power of choice. It does not mean imposing the authority
of a particular political clique on this State and its people.
What true leadership does mean is the ability to draw on the
tremendous reservoir of talent and genius and enterprise available here
in California, to unleash the energy of this pool of creative thinking,
and then to focus it on the solution of the problems we face. It is
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the sheerest and most appalling waste of our human resources to set up
endless blue-ribbon committees and commissions -- in fields as varied
and vital as constitutional reform, higher education, crime and narcotics,
economic growth -- and then simply to file-and-forget their valuable
findings.
That has all too often been the pattern of inefficient and inept
leadership in this State: file-and-forget, or follow-up belatedly and
half-heartedly. The next Governor of California, who has the chance
either to stifle or to spark a tremendous surge in California's qualita-
tive growth, must be a man who knows from experience -- including
experience gained in high office in Washington, D.C.-- the requirements
of decisive leadership.
There is hardly a single problem facing California which does not
in some way relate to the policies and actions of the federal government.
My experience as first a Congressman, a Senator and then Vice President
of the United States has made me intimately aware and knowledgeable to
the inner workings of our federal government and of my native state.
There are thousands upon thousands of Californians who can testify
to meetings with me in Washington during my 14 years of service there
in which I was intimately involved in the affairs of California.
This knowledge will serve me well and will serve California well,
if I am elected Governor. California is a relatively young state but
it should not be treated as a youngster. We will soon be the number one
state in the Union and the influence of California must be heard
throughout the land. We need a Governor who can handle with executive
ability the great interplay of state-federal activities when it comes
to highway construction, social welfare programs, education, medical
care, agriculture and a host of other inter-related subjects.
We need a Governor who can stand up to the bureaucrats in Washington
and who can forcibly state California's needs, desires and opinions.
The present incumbent governor has a record of listening to Washington,
It is such a one-sided exchange that it gives every appearance that he
is taking orders from his higher-ups. It is time we have a governor
who will speak up for California and Californians.
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Remarks by RICHARD M. NIXON
FOR FLAT PM RELEASE
before the
SATURDAY, MARCH 31,1962
NATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE STUDENT CONGRESS
at CERRITOS (JR.) COLLEGE, Norwalk, California
SATURDAY NOON, March 31, 1962
The first rule of the winning debater is to know your opponent and
his case even better than he knows it himself. Be prepared, be fore-
warned by broad information and deep knowledge. Then and only then
will the initiative rest in your hands.
There is a vital lesson to be drawn from this rule for all Ameri-
cans, pitted as we now are in a worldwide struggle of freedom against
Communism.
We must know all there is to know about Communism-as an ideology,
as a system of aggressive power, and as a worldwide conspiracy. We
must understand its fixed strategy and its shifting tactics. We must
have the skill to translate its double-speaking language in which
every traditional word and phrase takes on a menacing new meaning.
In brief: unless we know the enemy and all his wiles, we are dis-
armed in advance. We cannot fight back effectively. We cannot take
the offensive in support of freedom. The first priority is full know-
ledge. And the place to start is in our schools. Teaching Communism--
or perhaps we should call it teaching anti-Communism--must be done in
context of our own system. Only when our children understand the
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principles and the operation of our own free way of life, based on
our political philosophy of individual liberty, can they truly
understand the shortcomings and failures of Communism.
We must teach our teachers, so they in turn can "teach Communism"
and so that every future citizen is prepared to deal with the realities
of the world he will face--and continue to face--for generations to
come.
This is a job--and there is none more urgent--for every local
school board in California and for citizen groups and service organi-
zations in every community. Veterans organizations, our church feder-
ations, the service clubs, the PTA these are the voluntary groups to
which we must look for leadership. And we can take due local pride
that the Pasadena Unified School District will be first in the nation
to use the authoritative high-school text prepared by Dr. Rodger
Swearingen "The World of Communism.' It is one of the first practical
products of the Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda,
established here at U.S.C. through the generosity of Mr. Henry
Salvatori, to provide national leadership for the training of teachers
for their central role in this process of "education in Communism."
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Statement by RICHARD NIXON
concerning "The Liberal Papers"
March 29, 1962
I have read this volume with interest, and also
with considerable amazement. I would have imagined that the
authors, men of education and high position, would have
learned a lesson from 17 years of post-war relations with
Communism. Apparently they have not. These essays gener-
ally follow the same line of unilateral goodwill toward the
Communist conspiracy that caused the initial erosion of the
Free World position immediately after World War II.
To the extent that these positions (including admis-
sion of Red China into the U.N. and neutralization of Germany)
have become associated with some Democratic Congressmen
and some members of the Kennedy Administration through
the publication of "The Liberal Papers, " I believe that they
should be promptly repudiated.
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STATEMENT BY RICHARD M. NIXON
FOR RELEASE:
ON SENATE REAPPORTIONMENT
MONDAY AM'S, April 2, 1962
More representation in the State Senate for the growing metropolitan
areas of California is a matter of simple justice. Reapportionment of our State
Senate is a difficult and controversial matter. But the future well-being of
our metropolitan areas and of our State as a whole is involved and the time has
come for decisive leadership and action to deal with the problem.
The on-again, off-again, Finnegan routine which has characterized the
lack of leadership Californians have been getting from the Governor's office
in Sacramento will never get action on this and other critical problems facing
California. Governor Brown's normal practice of taking one position one day,
another the next day, and leaving the whole subject up in the air in confusion
the following day will result in no action being taken on this problem.
My views on this issue are clear and unequivocal:
I believe the solution must be based on sound principle, one which
will serve our growing state for at least until 1970. Changing the make-up of
the Senate must not be decided upon political expediency.
The problem before the people of California is how to give our urban
areas a more equitable voice in their government while still preserving the
proper protection of the rights of the people from less populous areas of our
state.
We must maintain our traditional system of balances between urban and
rural areas of our state, and this can only be accomplished through a bi-cameral
legislature. The Senate should not be a carbon copy of the Assembly.
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It is obvious that the Brown reapportionment plan, drawn from his own
blue-ribbon commission after two years of delay, was an affront to the expecta-
tions of the people. He offered 3 more Senators to Los Angeles as a sop and a
tranquillizer. It was no reapportionment plan at all. Lacking even a shred
of principle, the Brown plan already has gone down the drain.
This week, Jesse Unruh, the Assembly Majority leader, amended the Brown
plan to give an additional senator each to San Diego, Orange, San Francisco
and Alameda counties. On Friday he further amended his own position to give
Santa Clara another Senator and to remove the ceiling limitation in his original
proposal so that Los Angeles will be entitled to a fifth Senator around 1970.
This new proposal, known as ACA 5, still suffers from the mark of political
expediency. Devised and changed within a matter of days, it is shaped not upon
principle but upon the political needs of the moment. Nevertheless, although a
stop gap measure, it does approach filling the need for adequate representation
of our urban areas and is far superior to the Brown plan providing only for
three more Senators for Los Angeles County.
Insofar as there is a possibility that ACA 5 may succeed in the
Legislature this year, I recommend its support.
However, if ACA 5 does fail this year due to the usual lack of leadership
from the Governor's office, then I think we should adopt a reapportionment
plan based squarely on sound principle.
I have studied the various reapportionment plans and weighed the pros and
cons of each. One stands out as the best, giving fair representation to both
our urban and more rural areas. It is a carefully considered plan, already in
operation elsewhere, which will stand the test of time and principle. This is
the modified Colorado Plan.
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As applied to California, the Colorado Plan would add ten new members to
our Senate: one each for San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Diego and
Orange and five for Los Angeles.
The Senate then would have 50 members: 20 representing the heavily popu-
lated areas and 30 for the balance of the state. It would work out so that the
20 urban Senators would be evenly divided between north and south ten repre-
senting the seven Bay area counties and ten for the Los Angeles-Orange-San Diego
area.
This 20-30 division neets the standard of fair representation. The nine
urban counties of our state (Los Angeles, San Diego, Alameda, San Francisco,
Orange, Santa Clara, Sacramento, San Mateo and Contra Costa), which now have 73%
of the state's population and only 22.5% of the Senate representation, would have
20 Senators or 40%. But they would not dominate the upper house in that the rest
of the state would have 30 Senators.
The six leading urban counties, receiving the ten new senators would then
have 16 votes in the Senate, or 32% of the total vote. This is only just. Today
they have only 15% of the total vote in the Senate--although the people in these
six counties pay some 80% of the state taxes.
The formula of the Colorado Plan, as modified to fit California's needs,
is as follows:
(1) Counties with a population of 600,000 or more would be divided into two
or more senatorial districts on the following basis:
(a) counties with a population of 600,000 but less than 1,200,000 as
revealed by the 1960 census: two senatorial districts.
(b) counties with a population of 1,200,000 or more as of the 1960
census: two senators plus one additional senator for each
1,200,000 people over the first 1,200,000.
(2) In a senate of 50 senators, no county can have more than six senators.
(3) The present limit of no more than three counties to a senatorial
district would be retained.
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(4) The constitutional restriction that no county may contain more than one
senatorial district would be eliminated.
(5) The ratios of senators to population may be changed after each
decennial census.
I believe the voters from all parts of our state and their elected
representatives can be persuaded to act in the best interests of California.
We have urgent urban problems to meet, such as traffic congestion, rapid transit,
air pollution and others, and important work to do in our state legislature.
Our urban areas need and deserve adequate representation.
California is a constantly growing state and progress cannot be stopped.
The Senate will be reapportioned one day, and it should be reapportioned with
justice, wisdon and a sense of principle.
If ACA 5 fails, I pledge that as Governor I would seek to lead the forces
of progress in California in effecting the enactment of a reapportionment plan
as I have outlined in this statement.
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Remarks of RICHARD NIXON
FOR RELEASE: FLAT PM's
at Salinas Valley Joint Service Clubs
Tuesday, April 3, 1962
Corral de Tierra Country Club
Noon, April 3, 1962
The defense of American freedom is a full-time job for all
Americans, 365-days-a-year. The front-lines may be no farther away
than the office of some self-styled expert in Sacramento or in
Washington, D.C. And the enemy is the same: it is high-handed,
stifling bureaucracy, with its motto "papa knows best."
Farming is also, of course, a 365-day-a-year affair -- no matter
what the U. S. Department of Labor may say -- and especially the multi-
crop truck farming of the Salinas Valley. When the federal bureaucrats
arrogantly rule that imported farm labor can be used only 210 days
and within 35 weeks of any year and when they actually go so far as to
lay down detailed regulations on methods of lettuce-picking -- then
individual freedom in America is truly under the gun.
Agriculture and farm production cannot be turned on and off
according to some arbitrary calendar. Sustained productivity depends
not on laws passed in Washington, D.C., but on the laws of nature--
which not even the U. S. Department of Labor has yet tried to repeal.
The people of California want to run their own lives, to choose
their own jobs, to control their own public affairs. But they have to
answer, more and more, to some junior-grade Big Brothers operating in
Sacramento. The Governor attempted earlier this year to submerge
California agriculture within the new super-empire of William Warne
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and his legion of public relations hacks -- in the next budget, $123,000
worth of them -- but this was too flagrant a power-play and had to be
withdrawn. Then, sudden changes in the rules governing welfare
benefits saddled Monterey County with a possible $90,000 budget deficit.
And unfortunately, such cases can be multiplied all up and down the
State, where embattled local citizens are being stifled by
bureaucratic controls.
This trend must be reversed before it becomes a torrent. It is
dangerous -- not just to the farmer who wants to plant more acres or
cultivate them more intensively, and not just to the businessman who
wants to expand and thus create new jobs for our mushrooming labor
force. It is dangerous to every Californian who wants to live and work
and prosper in freedom.
The answer must come from a citizenty alert to the danger. And
the people must be both guided and supported by political leaders who
are deeply committed to the traditional free way of life which has
sparked California's progress toward number one rank among all the
states of a growing America.
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April 2, 1962
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Remarks of Richard Nixon
For Flat AM Release, 4/5/62
Santa Clara County School Board
7:00 pm- Hawaiian Gardens, San Jose
Wednesday, April 4, 1962
There are certain principles so vital to the preservation of American freedom
that, literally, they can never be too often reiterated. At the very top of the
list is local control of our public educational system.
We cannot tinker and compromise with this principle, We cannot go along half-
way. To put it bluntly, we cannot have our cake and eat it, too. Local control of
public education is a full-time, hundred per cent matter -- and any retreat repre-
sents an opening wedge that may pull down, ultimately, our whole free way of life.
But we must also recognize this fact: whoever pays the bills calls the tune.
If we turn to Washington for financial assistance, and if we sit back and wait for
the federal government to assume the ever-mounting burden of educational costs, then
we are inviting control of our local schools by the federal bureaucracy. We are
leaving ourselves wide-open to being told who shall teach, what shall be taught, and
how it shall be taught. This is the inescapable price of accepting handouts from
Washington.
To maintain the diversity of our schools, which in turn nurtures both freedom
and true self-government, each local district must assume the responsibility for
meeting the costs. Just as local control is a full-time principle, so too is the
parallel principle of local responsibility.
It is easy enough to state these principles. But it is by no means easy or
automatic to follow through. Many local districts have their backs to the fiscal
wall. Many local districts have already put more of a burden on available sources
of revenue than the traffic will bear. And because this is the case, there is an
urgent need to re-examine our entire tax and revenue system -- nationally, statewide,
and locally -- to make sure that responsibilities and resources are kept in a fair
balance.
There is no single field of public policy in which dynamic and imaginative
leadership is more urgently needed or where the challenge and the opportunity are
greater. As the nation's number one state, California should provide such leader-
ship. As Governor of California, my overriding goal would be to do just that.
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Remarks of Richard Nixon
For Flat AM Release, 4/6/62
Sonoma County Teachers Council
7:00 pm- Luther Burbank Auditorium
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa
Thursday, April 5, 1962
The state has not hesitated to impose new and expensive responsibilities on the
local schools and school boards of California. But at the same time, it has been
backing away more and more from its traditional role in financing public education.
Many local areas are caught squarely in the middle.
Historically, the state has supported about 50 per cent of all educational costs.
But during recent years there has been slippage until, today, its share adds up only
to about 38 per cent of the total educational bill.
This problem of balancing responsibilities, costs, and support is a vital one.
It is by no means as simple as it might seem.
The state government devises specially-designed programs to deal with obvious
problems. Many of these programs are eminently worthwhile -- for example, special
classes for the physically handicapped or the mentally retarded, or classes in driver
training.
But the state does not then follow through in all cases. It does not make
special funds available to the local school districts to meet additional costs. The
local school districts are themselves forced to raise the money to pay for these
new programs.
This situation is symptomatic of many problems arising from the division of res-
ponsibility for public education between the state and local districts. As time goes
on, and as the school-age population steadily mounts, the problem will become more
acute and not less. The state of California cannot afford to continue on the road
of fiscal chaos, least of all in the field of education.
The state government must face up to one of two basic solutions in meeting its
financial obligations to education. On the one hand it can boost its support from
the present 38 per cent back up to the traditional level of 50 per cent. Or, on the
other hand, it can re-examine its entire tax structure, to make more sources of
revenue available to the localities. The real-property tax--from which the over-
whelming bulk of all local revenue is presently drawn--has been pushed just about to
the breaking-point as it is.
Whatever formula is arrived at for splitting the costs of education, however,
we must be sure of one thing. Detailed control of our schools and school budgets,
and of the curriculum, must remain in the hands of the local board. General guidance
and broad standards from Sacramento--day-to-day control at the local level--this
should remain the fundamental principle governing public education in California.
There is an urgent matter of public policy involved here, and it calls for a
clear-cut decision. As Governor, I would meet the problem head-on. I would call
for an immediate and thorough re-examination of the financial structure on which our
public education system is based. And for every special program legislated by the
state, I would insist on parallel legislation to meet the burden of additional costs.
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Remarks of Richard Nixon
FOR FLAT A.M. RELEASE
at Modesto Community Reception
Wednesday, April 11, 1962
Elks Lodge, Modesto
8:00 PM, April 10, 1962
California's water program is too important to have a political flavor.
Historically, progress on water has been bi-partisan. It cannot be handled on a
partisan basis, Yet this is what is happening today. The bi-partisan work
which has led to the water program is being diluted by William E. Warne, super-
head of the Department of Water Resources.
Instead of building the water program, he is muddying the water program.
Actually he is building a political empire. He has been using his offices for
political purposes. He has been padding the payroll. His outright blunders include
renting office space in Fresno, without legislative approval and at a cost of
$43,900 to the taxpayers.
Such partisan, sheerly political moves even have Warne in hot water with
his own party. The majority leader in the Senate demands his removal.
The governor, admitting Warne's mistakes, takes the lame position that
he cannot fire him "at this time." He also defends him as "one of the most able
administrators I have in the state of California." If that were true, it would be
the most derogatory thing ever said about the calibre of state administrators.
Appointments of persons to our water program must be strictly on merit.
The water program is no place for politics. The governor should request Warne's
resignation. That would filter politics out of the water program, and also could
go far to close the matter as a campaign issue.
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Remarks of Richard Nixon
FOR FLAT A.M. RELEASE
at Modesto Community Reception
Wednesday, April 11, 1962
Elks Lodge, Modesto
8:00 PM, April 10, 1962
California's water program is too important to have a political flavor.
Historically, progress on water has been bi-partisan. It cannot be handled on a
partisan basis. Yet this is what is happening today. The bi-partisan work
which has led to the water program is being diluted by William E. Warne, super-
head of the Department of Water Resources.
Instead of building the water program, he is muddying the water program.
Actually he is building a political empire. He has been using his offices for
political purposes. He has been padding the payroll. His outright blunders include
renting office space in Fresno, without legislative approval and at a cost of
$43,900 to the taxpayers.
Such partisan, sheerly political moves even have Warne in hot water with
his own party. The majority leader in the Senate demands his removal.
The governor, admitting Warne's mistakes, takes the lame position that
he cannot fire him "at this time." He also defends him as "one of the most able
administrators I have in the state of California." If that were true, it would be
the most derogatory thing ever said about the calibre of state administrators.
Appointments of persons to our water program must be strictly on merit.
The water program is no place for politics. The governor should request Warne's
resignation. That would filter politics out of the water program, and also could
go far to close the matter as a campaign issue.
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STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
ON THE NEW CALIFORNIA BUDGET
SATURDAY, April 14, 1962
"California now has a budget for next year -- better than the Governor's
original proposal, but not nearly good enough. Thanks to a solid Republican caucus
in the Assembly which refused either to be railroaded or blackmailed, some of the
padding has been shaken out. Some of the inflated staff expense account requests
have been cut -- in Warne's super Department of Water Resources for example -- and
some 66 needless new jobs have been eliminated, but nearly 800 others just as little
needed are still in the budget.
The budget as passed demonstrates again that California is long overdue for a
real re-organization and streamlining of the executive branch. It is quite apparent
from this budget that Gov. Brown has neither the inclination nor the courage to carry
this out.
That remains target number one for a new administration in Sacramento -- one
dedicated to economy and efficiency in state government -- and committed only to
serving all the people of California -- all the time.
The Governor has publicly apologized to Assemblyman Busterud, the Republican
caucus chairman, for his wild charges about "reckless extremists" who were out
wielding "political blackjacks." He should extend that apology to the long-suffering
tax-paying voters of the state for imposing on California the most costly state
government in the nation.
In his term, even the few and inadequate budget cuts finally achieved were
just so many "drops in the bucket." That bucket, he should be reminded, happens to
be the taxpayers' pocket and every last drop in it represents some taxpayer's hard-
earned dollar.
These may be laughing matters to the Governor now, but the voters who pay
the bill will have the last laugh on November 6.
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Friday, April 13, 1962
NIXON
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STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON STATE INCOME TAXES
FYI: This statement is to serve
as background material and may
be used as desired
Millions of Californians who have just paid their state income tax have been
reminded of some unpleasant facts with regard to the cost of state government under
the Brown administration.
California has to collect more taxes from its citizens than does any other
state. In 1958, when Brown was elected governor, collections were $117 per capita.
This coming fiscal year, the figure will be $144, a record.
The tremendous rise in the cost of state government, for which taxes have to
pay, cannot be blamed on our increased population. Our population has increased 15
per cent since 1958 and tax collections have gone up 42 per cent in that same period.
The present governor's attempt to compare population apples with tax oranges
is sour and will not fool the taxpayer.
Despite the fact that the Brown administration raised certain taxes, the in-
creased revenue has not been enough to keep up with the record costs of state
government under the bungling bureaucrats who have been running the affairs of this
state for the last four years, The voters will be reminded of this fact when they
will be asked this June to approve nearly $1 billion in bond issues to pay for
services which tax revenue cannot finance.
The lesson for the voters of California is a clear one. Governor Brown stands
pat on his record. He says that the cost of state government cannot be reduced and
that those legislators who try to cut the fat from his budget are "extremists", A
continuation of his leadership will mean higher costs and higher taxes for the
people of California and this inevitably will mean that the new investment Califor-
nia needs to provide jobs for our increasing population will be frightened away.
We cannot afford four more years of the most extravagant and wasteful administration
in California's history.
We need a new administration in Sacramento which has the courage to cut out
waste and to reorganize the government so that meaningful cuts can be made. We
need a new administration which will provide the decisive leadership which will
see to it that, as California becomes first in the nation in population she will
not have the doubtful honor of being first in the nation in the costs of state
government and the taxes our citizens have to pay.
April 18, 1962
NIXON
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Excerpt of Remarks by
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RICHARD M. NIXON
TOWN HALL, Los Angeles
April 24, 1962
Richard M. Nixon, Republican candidate for governor, today likened California
to a ship with passengers whose eyes are upon another vessel -- "the super-liner
of national government."
"I have been moving across our state making this point, emphasizing that the
people of California must become aware of federal encroachment upon our state domain
and beware of what is happening to our ship of state," Nixon told a Town Hall
audience in the Biltmore Hotel.
He noted that in three years' time, the federal government triggered Califor-
nia's public schools toward an intensive concentration on science, mathematics and
language study, "by legislating that any state or local school board wanting a
share of federal funds must accept federal curriculum control
"There are many more examples that could be cited. But the point would be
the same in any case, Whoever pays the bill calls the tune.
"How then can we hold the line? How can we turn the tide? How can we restore
to its rightful role the time-tested concept of local and state autonomy in the
American federal system?"
Nixon's answers included:
1) Providing leadership: "The challenge to state leadership here in California
is just about twice as great as it is anywhere else."
2) Meeting tough competition with other states, by attracting scientists and
technicians and a steady flow of new business and industry. "Unless we provide more
and better incentives, richer and more widely-shared rewards for the creative enter-
priser, the competition:will leave us behind."
3) Removing a barrier to growth and progress by seeking constitutional reforms.
Nixon singled out four areas in which it would be desirable to "rid. the state of
some hangover from the past." They are:
"A complete, top-to-bottom overhaul of the present hornet's nest of more than
350 swarming independent and semi-independent commissions and bureaus and agencies
and departments "
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"Annual legislative sessions in which proposals can carry over from one year
to the next without being subject to stop-and-go consideration. "
"The need to 'unfreeze' that 2-3rds of the annual state budget which now is not
subject to review or control by the Legislature."
"Senate reapportionment, to give a vigorous legislative voice to every county
and area of the State."
Nixon emphasized that "as California reaches its destiny of being the first
state in the nation, it also can be the nation's showcase of efficiency and progress
in state government."
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TEXT of:
TOWN HALL TALK, April 24, 1962
RICHARD M. NIXON
California is a rich state with a colorful history, abundant resources and a
tremendous potential for the future. It is like a fine ship moving swiftly in the
current of modern times. However, the people aboard, whose welfare is intimately
connected with the fate of that ship, seem too little concerned with the rocks and
shoals and dangers to navigation. Their eye is upon another ship, the super-liner
of national government.
Having recently disembarked from that super-liner, I have noticed in my travels
up and down California that our people seem more interested in the Berlin Wall,
Castro's Cuba and a misplaced postcard in Nigeria than in the size and scope of our
State Constitution, the State's responsibilities to the education of our children
and the State's handling of the taxpayer's money.
I have spoken on all these subjects, national and state, and it usually is my
comments upon the national and international scene which make the headlines, pre-
sumably because they are of more interest to the readers of newspapers and viewers
of television. On the state level, too often only personal attacks, charges and
vituperation make the big headlines.
The eyes of the people of California are so much upon the super-liner of
national government that I have heard it said: How can a man, who has had such
experience in national and international affairs, possibly be interested in the
local affairs of California?
This reflects the thinking of the people who say and believe such things, not
mine. I believe the education of our children, the water resources of our state,
our immediate business and employment situation are at least of equal importance to
me and my family and to you and yours as any actions taken by our federal government.
And I have been moving across our state making this point, emphasizing that the
people of California must become aware of federal encroachment upon our state domain
and beware of what is happening to our ship of state.
Walk just a few steps from the Biltmore Hotel here in Los Angeles and what do
you see? You will see signs designating the Bunker Hill redevelopment project - with
the costs of land acquisition and clearance underwritten by federal loans and grants.
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What you will not see and probably do not know is that federal rules and regulations
govern the size of the signs and the size of the lettering on those signs.
The National Defense Education Act, a praiseworthy effort in its objective, by
itself, has triggered in a mere three years' time a major shift in emphasis in our
public schools toward an intensive concentration on science, mathematics and langu-
age study. How did the federal government do this? By legislating that any state
or local school board wanting a share of federal funds under this Act must accept
federal curriculum control and federal definition of what is and what is not impor-
tant to teach in our local schools. There are many more examples that could be
cited. But the point would be the same in any case. Whoever pays the bill calls
the tune.
Just so long as our states and cities abdicate their traditional responsibili-
ties to Washington, D.C., there will be federal bureaucrats ready and eager to take
over. This is a vast understatement. There will be federal bureaucrats not only
ready and eager - but convinced that they know what is best for all of us. Whenever
our states and cities leave unfilled a vacuum of public service, the federal govern-
ment will seize on the opportunity to move in. Whether there is an obvious opening
or not, the threat is the same. It will take a high degree of both skill and
experience for our state and local leaders to detect these devious threats to local
autonomy, and then move vigorously to thwart them.
How then can we hold the line? How can we turn the tide? How can we restore
to its rightful role the time-tested concept of local and state autonomy in the
American federal system?
The challenge to state leadership here in California is just about twice as
great as it is anywhere else. First of all, California is a state-on-the-move. Soon
to be number one in population, its people will never settle for less than the best
in any major field of human activity, economic, social, or cultural.
Then, too, California is entering a period of tough competition with other
states and other areas of the country. This competition ranges over the whole sweep
of public and private affairs and involves everything from attracting the best young
scientists and technicians to attracting a steady flow of new business and industry.
It involves retaining a fair share of defense contracts, awarded on merit, and main-
taining our worldwide markets for the incredibly varied produce of California's farms
and factories. Unless we provide more and better incentives, richer and more widely-
shared rewards for the creative enterpriser, the competition will leave us behind.
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But to complicate the problem and compound the challenge, California also labors
under one of the nation's most archaic constitutional systems - and this is a barrier
to growth and progress in every other field. For the next Governor of this State,
there can be no more urgent assignment than to lead the fight, with all deliberate
speed, for at least four major constitutional reforms.
First is a complete, top-to-bottom overhaul of the present hornet's nest of
more than 350 swarming independent and semi-independent commissions and bureaus and
agencies and departments that comprise the executive branch of state government. It
is not enough to take a piecemeal stab at the problem - and certainly not one that
deliberately flies in the face of legislative recommendations, nor one that simply
piles a new layer of super-agencies on top of all the others. What we need is a
statesmanlike reorganization of the Governor's office to provide the people of
California more and better services, with solid accomplishment to show for every
tax-dollar spent.
Second is the institution of annual legislative sessions in which proposals can
carry over from one year to the next without being subject to stop-and-go considera-
tion and to the Governor's arbitrary "special call" during the off-year budget
session. Continuous two-year sessions would permit long-range committee investi-
gations in depth, with no danger of simply putting off major issues two years at a
time or until the next "regular" session rolls around,
Third is the need to "unfreeze" that 2/3rds of the annual state budget which
now is not subject to review or control by the legislature. In the current budget
of $2.9 billion only a little over $900 million is subject to the legislature's
will. Only by defrosting the mandatory appropriations and earmarked funds in our
state budget can we adopt new sound and responsible fiscal policies, and then to
follow through on them. Only this way can we plan and carry out long-range pro-
grams in fields as varied and vital as highways and freeways, public education, and
public welfare.
And fourth on the list of constitutional reforms, is Senate reapportionment
to give a vigorous legislative voice to every county and every area of the State.
These reforms are needed. Good institutions are no guarantee of good govern-
ment. But bad ones can impose an impenetrable barrier. Each of the four reforms
that I have proposed would rid this State of some hangover from the past which has
long since outlived its usefulness. These reforms would clear the way for good men
with good ideas.
As California reaches its destiny of being the first State in the Nation, it
can also be the nation's showcase of efficiency and progress in State government.
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Excerpt of remarks by
RICHARD M. NIXON
31st Annual Youth Banquet
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce
Huntington-Sheraton Hotel
April 24, 1962 - 7:30 pm
The impact of the federal government on every aspect of the American economy is
direct and immediate, and it runs deep. The amount it spends and the rate of spend-
ing, the bite and distribution of taxes, federal deficits and surpluses all set the
framework for personal spending and saving and for basic decisions by private
management.
There could be no more dramatic demonstration of this fact than last week's
controversy over the price of steel. Without getting into the merits of the situa-
tion from this distance, the longrun lesson still is clear. The federal government
has a near-controlling voice in wage-price decisions, and it has the power to back
up its views in no uncertain terms.
There is a parallel lesson for every one of America's towns and cities and
states. By its command over powerful media of public communication and over the
public purse-strings, the federal government is also in position to move into areas
of public policy traditionally reserved to our states and local communities.
The events of last week thus raise with unmistakeable clarity the overriding
issue of the Federal government's impact not only on economic decisions but also on
the far broader area of local and private autonomy. The controversy over steel
prices, and the way in which that controversy was settled, sharpens the basic
question of self-government in America -- and certainly not least in California, the
bellwether of growth and progress among all the fifty states.
It does no good to deplore encroachments on local liberties or to view with
alarm the future of our freedom as private citizens. The only answer that will make
any real difference in the longrun is effective action -- the actual record of per-
formance chalked up by our cities and states and by private and voluntary groups
and organizations. If they do the jobs the American people want done and provide
necessary public services, then the opening wedge for federal encroachment will be
blocked off.
Effective action means, first of all, vigorous and creative local and state
government, And this, in turn, depends on top-quality candidates for all offices
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at every level. It means candidates, and public officials, who have the skill and
experience and drive to speak up and stand up for state and local autonomy and not
cave in whenever the federal government offers tempting handouts. In no areas of
public concern is such local initiative more vital than education and urban develop-
ment, close as these are to our day-to-day way of life and to the development of
tomorrow's citizens.
Effective action means, also, leadership by private business and private organi-
zations in many fields and professions. To the extent, for example, that our free
medical profession moves forward in the development of private and voluntary health
plans, just to that extent can we hope to avoid irresistible pressures for a com-
pulsory federally-controlled system -- with all its consequences for the quality of
medical care in this nation.
Effective action means, finally, an intensive campaign of public information
and education. The blunt fact is -- as Commerce Secretary Hodges pointed out in his
speech at Los Angeles last week -- that most of the American people are utterly
uninformed about the nature of a free economy, about its operating procedures, and
about the central role of fair profits in such a system. Fewer than 5 per cent of
our adult citizens have ever had so much as a one-year high school course in
economics. And in a recent poll of college students, 60 per cent thought that pro-
fits were, in general, a bad thing. The dramatic significance of such misinforma-
tion can be seen in the confused public reaction to the steel controversy. It can
be seen in the curious notion that a 10 cent an hour increase in "fringe benefits"
is automatically non-inflationary -- that it does not, like a regular and open wage
increase, raise industry costs at the same time and by the same amount.
America's competitive economy -- and America's freedom -- cannot afford this
sort of basic misinformation.
These are all forms of action in which Chambers and Junior Chambers of Commerce
can and must undertake ,roles of special responsibility. As local business and
professional leaders, Chamber members know the facts. They recognize the dangers.
And they are in position to take effective counteraction. Their longtime record in
philanthropy and public service is a distinguished case-in-point. For the future,
this record must be tremendously multiplied -- if the concept of self-government
is to have more than historic interest in the annals of a free society.
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Text of Water Policy Speech
by RICHARD M. NIXON
Irrigation Districts Association
Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco
12 p.m., April 26, 1962
One of the greatest challenges to the dynamic growth of California is
that of water development. Potentially, there is enough water to meet all our
needs. Our job is to redistribute it - fairly and equitably.
The history of water development in California is a long one. The credit
belongs to no one man. Since the beginning of this century we have been develop-
ing water. We will continue to do so imaginatively and creatively.
The East Bay Municipal Water District, the Hetch-Hetchy system, the Owens
River Aqueduct, the Metropolitan Water District, the Central Valley Project, the
Imperial Irrigation District and the Coachella Valley County Water District all
deserve mention as do many others. As a result of these programs we have some
of the richest farmland in the world and the resources for a burgeoning popula-
tion.
The state entered the water development picture in 1947 when the Legis-
lature authorized a comprehensive study of all water resources, and from that
study evolved the California Water Plan in 1957. The first step of the Plan
that will eventually encompass many water programs was to be the Feather River
Project.
Californians approved the financing of the Project in good faith. We
must keep faith with them. It is only fair to tell the people of California
that the $1 3/4 billion price tag never will cover the costs of the program.
This was known at the time but nobody wanted the responsibility of putting a
$2 billion bond issue on the ballot. So the situation was conveniently com-
promised. The truth of the matter is that no one can honestly say what the
Feather River Project will cost, and we must face that fact.
Like the Feather River financing approach, the entire program has been
a bipartisan achievement. Until recently water has been non-political, and
properly SO. It is much too vital for party credits. Although he was a Re-
publican, Harvey Banks, former Director of Water Resources, served in two ad-
ministrations. He handled the assignment as a non-political one.
Indeed, those were the days -- before politics began to poison the
water situation -- when the present Governor could truthfully declare:
"When I walked in as Governor of this State there were great
pressures back and forth as to whether I should retain Harvey
Banks as the head of the Department of Water Resources. But
I had worked with him as Attorney General and I knew there
wasn't a better water engineer in this State, and the water
program of California as it moves ahead will be a monument
to Harvey Banks. "
-2-
We know, of course, what happened. The Governor lost the services of
Harvey Banks, the man whom he praised for taking the Feather River Project to
the voters so successfully. Until then, water was free from politics. I am
determined to return it to that freedom.
Water also needs freedom from federal meddling. California's water
developments prove that self-government at the local level is the best govern-
ment. This is basic to my philosophy. Water projects already built are the
best possible evidence of the effectiveness of local self-government. The
vast irrigation works built by the irrigation districts, the municipal sys-
tems constructed by public agencies of one kind or another, and the works of
private utilities all testify to the resourcefulness and achievement of local
units. The job of the state should be to encourage this kind of achievement,
not displace it with larger government. This philosophy should be basic to
the state as well as to the federal government.
The function of the state is to guide and encourage local communities
to help themselves. There is considerable criticism that local units are not
getting the help they need. This can be cured only by a direct and able Di-
rector of Water Resources who has the confidence of his staff and the people
in the communities which his department serves.
What is needed is not more layers of government -- but fewer. Getting
rid of the present Governor's super-cabinet will be one of my first acts. Re-
placing the present water director with a man of Harvey Banks' calibre will
be next.
At all costs, the counties of origin of the water must be protected.
Present population distribution does not necessarily reflect the population
of the future. There is enough water available, if properly harnessed, to
serve all the people of the state. In the meantime, we must not make the
same mistake in philosophy that the federal government makes when it tries
to lay claim to all California water. We believe in the water rights of the
counties of origin and of the original users. But unless our resistance to
federal encroachment is extraordinarily vigorous, the question of protecting
the rights of the counties of origin may well be merely academic.
In my opinion, as far as the Feather River Project is concerned, too
much power has been vested in the Administrative branch of state government.
The plan would be sounder if it contained more inherent checks than the Gov-
ernor's vague promises to deal fairly with all sections of the state. Under
the super-agency program of the present Administration, the Governor has vir-
tual life and death power over the units of the Feather River Project and at
the same time he has delegated that authority to an appointee who is not ac-
countable to the people. The super-agency only dilutes the responsibility
of putting the water program into effect. Besides these serious drawbacks,
it adds a considerable burden of unnecessary expense.
Now let us examine federal participation. I favor it only to the
extent necessary on legitimate grounds. Flood control is an example. Cali-
fornia must seek and obtain its share of federal money for that. The same is
true of federal projects which made water available to users who agreed to
abide by federal restrictions.
-3-
But California should not enter into federal agreements which compe1
our people to adopt wholly artificial rules limiting their right to use state
water. The 160-acre limitation does not satisfy our present farm economy.
When Governor Brown went so far as to threaten higher water rates on farm
holdings of more than 160 acres he showed a total disregard for the agricul-
tural facts of life. The farmers who grow peaches, pears and other fruit
crops could survive with 160 acres of irrigated land, but cattle ranchers,
some row-crop growers and grain farmers would go broke. I am against the
160-acre limitation at all times and in all places where state water devel-
opment is concerned. It is not suited to California. We should not accept
it as a part of any agreement with the federal government. The fact that the
Brown Administration implicitly recognized it in state contracts with water
users reflects a gratuitous compromise of principles. The use of 160-acre or
any acreage limitation on privately owned land is a step toward socialized
agriculture -- with the manifesto being written in Washington.
There is still another aspect of speaking up for California. We should
spare no effort in defending our water against claims of the federal government.
The tempo of these claims has been growing steadily. So far, Congress has
failed to enact the necessary laws to protect the states against these encroach-
ments. In the Santa Margarita watershed, some 6,000 people have been hailed
into court by the United States to hear the government claim that it had a
"superior" right to the water supply of that river. This litigation has gone
on for more than 10 years. It has been annoying, disheartening and expensive
to the people. We should use every means to settle or end this litigation. If
the federal government wishes to exert special claims to our water supply, it
must pay for it, and not attempt to take that supply under the guise of sover-
eign rights. The Santa Margarita battleground stands as a prime example of
the vigilance we must always exercise to resist the ungrounded assertion of
alledged federal rights over ours on our own water.
More recently, the United States told the city of Fresno that it did
not intend to follow the laws of California and that by reason of putting a dam
across the San Joaquin River there simply was no more water available for people
downstream. In making this claim, the U. S. Attorney General disclaimed any
responsibility for what the Secretary of the Interior had done before, and con-
cluded that when the United States acquired the territory of California from
Mexico in 1848, the United States became the owner of all lands and all rights
to use water within the territory.
These are only two instances of the broad claims being made by the
United States. We must take the battle of preserving California's waters into
the Congress and courts of the United States.
Let us look now at power development. We must not use a water project
as a means of getting the state into the power business through the back door.
On the Feather River Project, California will need more power than it can pro-
duce, and the private and local utility systems are ready, able and more than
willing to provide the margin to pump the water over the mountains. In return,
these same systems have agreed to purchase all the power which the state can
produce along the power drops of the aqueduct and from Oroville Dam. Inciden-
tally, I do not believe that dam can be built without the sale of the power at
a fair market price as originally agreed. This is important to the final pric-
ing of the water.
At the outset, the present Administration announced its policy to nego-
tiate with the existing utility systems for the extra power needed to operate
the aqueducts. Since the new Director of Water Resources has taken over, there
has been an ominous change entirely in keeping with his past experience and
performance which I have discussed at some length during this campaign.
The Power Committee, which was used by the former director to consult
on all matters pertaining to power requirements, distribution, sale and ex-
change, has been strangely inactive. I will reactivate the Power Committee.
There is talk of the possibility of constructing a nuclear plant to generate
power needed for pumping. The amount of money available to build the water
project will not be sufficient to do that job, too. There is no money avail-
able to build an atomic plant and it is not needed.
Now let us turn to the problem of prices. Some areas of this State
are experiencing difficulty in contracting with the state for Feather River
water. The problem arises because each area contracting with the state must
repay that portion of the capital cost of the entire project which is charged
to the area on the basis of proportionate use of the facilities. Some of the
thirstiest areas are agricultural. They have modest valuations and some of
them feel they cannot raise the necessary payments either through taxes or
water charges to fulfill their obligations.
There are several possible approaches to the problem:
The first is to charge as much of the entire project to the general
taxpayer of the state as is justified. For example, fish and wildlife, rec-
reation, flood control, are some of the benefits which will come to the state
as a whole. They should not be charged against the water user. The Legisla-
ture should be encouraged to find as many of these statewide beneficiaries as
possible and to the extent that others benefit, the cost of the facilities
should be reduced insofar as the direct water user is concerned.
In addition to bond proceeds, the state will be using money from the
California Water Fund to pay for the Feather River Project. That fund is made
up of moneys that come to the State of California through its oil, gas and
mineral reserves. As the matter now stands the water users must repay all
capital costs with interest. This includes interest on the California Water
Fund, even though there is no requirement that the state itself pay interest
on that money. Consideration should be given to the possibility of waiving
that interest. It would help the rural areas, but it would also benefit the
metropolitan areas because the reduced interest charge would apply to all con-
tracting agencies.
The contract with the state is flexible insofar as postponing payments
is concerned. Inasmuch as the land to which this water is delivered will in-
crease in value, the principal payments of each contracting agency should be
delayed long enough to permit the increased value to be reflected. This will
delay the day of payment, not excuse it.
Each area must be encouraged to search broadly and deeply its own
financial resources. There is an understandable tendency to throw the expense
-5-
of a project to somebody else, particularly to the state. But the local area
must act boldly and imaginatively in its own behalf, and extend itself fully
in order to contract for water from the state project.
If the estimates for California's growth hold up, and we have every
reason to think they will be exceeded, the demands on our water supply will
require increasingly imaginative planning.
Just as the Feather River Project and other units in the California
Water Plan were planned by past administrations almost 20 years ago, so it is
up to us to lay out a resourceful plan for the generations to come. Here are
some of the things we should be doing now for the sake of our people, and farms
and industries of tomorrow:
We should be working now at full throttle to develop the financial
means for implementing the next stage of the California Water Plan. That means
that the great seasonal surplus waters of the Northwest, the Mad, Eel, Trinity
and others, must be diverted into the Sacramento River and through the Delta
for distribution into other parts of the state. Our experience with the Feath-
er River Project indicates that finance is the key to water development. We
must give our immediate attention to that task.
All water resources development must be envisioned with a view to their
incidental use for flood control, fish, wildlife and recreation. There is an
ever-growing demand on our recreational facilities with the growing numbers
of people coming to our state. Imaginative planning can accommodate, at least
to some extent, the wholesome outdoor recreation of our people. The costs of
these programs must be borne by the people generally, not by water users
specifically.
Waste disposal is equally as important as water supply. In some ways
it is even more important because one community's disposal may be another
community's supply. As our communities grow, problems of water quality be-
come even more important. Many of our ground water basins are the basic
sources of supply for million of people. These basins must be kept pure so
that their function may be continued. Salt water intrusion must be stopped.
This program requires intimate cooperation and coordination between the in-
numerable local agencies charged with this responsibility, as well as the
state agencies that are designated to oversee the area-wide problem.
The imminent threat of water pollution is not only local. It is
statewide, and even national. The federal government is moving into the
picture in a big way. California, if it is to manage its own water supply
and disposal system, must give priority attention to the business of water
quality and disposal. It is a problem readily overlooked or shoved into the
background because the far reaching consequences of pollution and contamina-
tion cannot always be seen immediately. I would propose legislation that
will bring water quality control into the forefront as one of our most pres-
sing problems.
We should not dismiss the possibilities for the future in the con-
version of sea water. The blunt truth of the matter is that we may well need
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Text of Water Policy Speech
by Richard M. Nixon
Irrigation Districts Association
Flat PM Release
Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco
Thursday, April 26
12 p.m., April 26, 1962
One of the greatest challenges to the dynamic growth of California is that of
water development. Potentially, there is enough water to meet all our needs. Our
job is to redistribute it - fairly and equitably.
The history of water development in California is a long one. The credit
belongs to no one man. Since the beginning of this century we have been developing
water. We will continue to do so imaginatively and creatively.
The East Bay Municipal Water District, the Hetch-Hetchy system, the Owens
River Aqueduct, the Metropolitan Water District, the Central Valley Project, the
Imperial Irrigation District and the Coachella Valley County Water District all
deserve mention as do many others. As a result of these programs we have some of
the richest farmland in the world and the resources for a burgeoning population.
The state entered the water development picture in 1947 when the Legislature
authorized a comprehensive study of all water resources, and from that study
evolved the California Water Plan in 1957. The first step of the Plan that will
eventually encompass many water programs was to be the Feather River Project.
Californians approved the financing of the Project in good faith. We must
keep faith with them. It is only fair to tell the people of California that the
$1 3/4 billion price tag never will cover the costs of the program. This was known
at the time but nobody wanted the responsibility of putting a $2 billion bond issue
on the ballot. So the situation was conveniently compromised. The truth of the
matter is that no one can honestly say what the Feather River Project will cost,
and we must face that fact.
Like the Feather River financing approach, the entire program has been a
bipartisan achievement. Until recently water has been non-political, and properly
so. It is much too vital for party credits. Although he was a Republican, Harvey
Banks, former Director of Water Resources, served in two administrations. He
handled the assignment as a non-political one.
-MORE-
PAGE -2-
Indeed, those were the days -- before politics began to poison the water
situation -- when the present Governor could truthfully declare:
"When I walked in as Governor of this State there were great
pressures back and forth as to whether I should retain Harvey
Banks as the head of the Department of Water Resources. But I
had worked with him as Attorney General and I knew there wasn't
a better water engineer in this State, and the water program of
California as it moves ahead will be a monument to Harvey Banks."
We know, of course, what happened. The Governor lost the services of Harvey
Banks, the man whom he praised for taking the Feather River Project to the voters
so successfully. Until then, water was free from politics. I am determined to
return it to that freedom.
Water also needs freedom from federal meddling. California's water develop-
ments prove that self-government at the local level is the best government. This
is basic to my philosophy. Water projects already built are the best possible
evidence of the effectiveness of local self-government. The vast irrigation works
built by the irrigation districts, the municipal systems constructed by public
agencies of one kind or another, and the works of private utilities all testify
to the resourcefulness and achievement of local units. The job of the state should
be to encourage this kind of achievement, not displace it with larger government.
This philosophy should be basic to the state as well as to the federal government.
The function of the state is to guide and encourage local communities to help
themselves. There is considerable criticism that local units are not getting the
help they need. This can be cured only by a direct and able Director of Water
Resources who has the confidence of his staff and the people in the communities
which his department serves.
What is needed is not more layers of government -- but fewer. Getting rid of
the present Governor's super-cabinet will be one of my first acts. Replacing the
present water director with a man of Harvey Banks' calibre will be next.
At all costs, the counties of origin of the water must be protected. Present
population distribution does not necessarily reflect the population of the future.
There is. enough water available, if properly harnessed, to serve all the people of
the state, In the meantime, we must not make the same mistake in philosophy that
the federal government makes when it tries to lay claim to all California water.
We believe in the water rights of the counties of origin and of the original users.
But unless our resistance to federal encroachment is extraordinarily vigorous,
the question of protecting the rights of the counties of origin may well be merely
academic.
-MORE-
PAGE -3-
In my opinion, as far as the Feather River Project is concerned, too much
power has been vested in the Administrative branch of state government. The plan
would be sounder if it contained more inherent checks than the Governor's vague
promises to deal fairly with all sections of the state. Under the super-agency
program of the present Administration, the Governor has virtual life and death
power over the units of the Feather River Project and at the same time he has
delegated that authority to an appointee who is not accountable to the people. The
super agency only dilutes the responsibility for putting the water program into
effect. Besides these serious drawbacks, it adds a considerable burden of unneces-
sary expense.
Now let us examine federal participation. I favor it only to the extent
necessary on legitimate grounds. Flood control is an example. California must
seek and obtain its share of federal money for that. The same is true of federal
projects which made water available to users who agreed to abide by federal
restrictions.
But California should not enter into federal agreements which compel our
people to adopt wholly artificial rules limiting their right to use state water.
The 160-acre limitation does not satisfy our present farm economy. When Governor
Brown went so far as to threaten higher water rates on farm holdings of more than
160 acres he showed a total disregard for the agricultural facts of life. The
farmers who grow peaches, pears and other fruit crops could survive with 160 acrea
of irrigated land, but cattle ranchers, some row-crop growers and grain farmers
would go broke. I am against the 160-acre limitation at all times and in all places
where state water development is concerned. It is not suited to California. We
should not accept it as a part of any agreement with the federal government. The
fact that the Brown Administration implicitly recognized it in state contracts with
water users reflects a gratuitous compromise of principles. The use of 160-acre
or any acreage limitation on privately owned land is a step toward socialized
agriculture with the manifesto being written in Washington.
There is still another aspect of speaking up for California. We should spare
no effort in defending our water against claims of the federal government. The
tempo of these claims has been growing steadily. So far, Congress has failed to
enact the necessary laws to protect the states against these encroachments. In
the Santa Margarita watershed, some 6,000 people have been hailed into court by
the United States to hear the government claim that it had a "superior" right to
the water supply of that river. This litigation has gone on for more than 10 years.
It has been annoying, disheartening and expensive to the people. We should use
-MORE-
PAGE -4-
every means to settle or end this litigation. If the federal government wishes to
exert special claims to our water supply, it must pay for it, and not attempt to
take that supply under the guise of sovereign rights. The Santa Margarita battle-
ground stands as a prime example of the vigilance we must always exercise to resist
the ungrounded assertion of alleged federal rights over ours on our own water.
More recently, the United States told the city of Fresno that it did not
intend to follow the laws of California and that by reason of putting a dam across
the San Joaquin River there simply was no more water available for people down-
stream. In making this claim, the U. S. Attorney General disclaimed any responsi-
bility for what the Secretary of the Interior had done before, and concluded that
when the United States acquired the territory of California from Mexico in 1848,
the United States became the owner of all lands and all rights to use water within
the territory.
These are only two instances of the broad claims being made by the United
States. We must take the battle of preserving California's waters into the
Congress and courts of the United States.
Let us look now at power development. We must not use a water project as a
means of getting the state into the power business through the back door. On the
Feather River Project, California will need more power than it can produce, and the
private and local utility systems are ready, able and more than willing to provide
the margin to pump the water over the mountains. In return, these same systems
have agreed to purchase all the power which the state can produce along the power
drops of the aqueduct and from Oroville Dam. Incidentally, I do not believe that
dam can be built without the sale of the power at a fair market price as originally
agreed. This is important to the final pricing of the water.
At the outset, the present Administration announced its policy to negotiate
with the existing utility systems for the extra power needed to operate the
aqueducts. Since the new Director of Water Resources has taken over, there has
been an ominous change entirely in keeping with his past experience and performance
which I have discussed at some length during this campaign.
The Power Committee, which was used by the former director to consult on all
matters pertaining to power requirements, distribution, sale and exchange, has
been strangely inactive. I will reactivate the Power Committee. There is talk of
the possibility of constructing a nuclear plant to generate power needed for pump*
ing. The amount of money available to build the water project will not be suffici-
ent to do that job, too, There is no money available to build an atomic plant and
it is not needed.
-MORE-
PAGE -5-
Now let us turn to the problem of prices. Some areas of this State are
experiencing difficulty in contracting with the state for Feather River water.
The problem arises because each area contracting with the state must repay that
portion of the capital cost of the entire project which is charged to the area on
the basis of proportionate use of the facilities. Some of the thirstiest areas
are agricultural. They have modest valuations and some of them feel they cannot
raise the necessary payments either through taxes or water charges to fulfill
their obligations.
There are several possible approaches to the problem:
The first is to charge as much of the entire project to the general taxpayer
of the state as is justified. For example, fish and wildlife, recreation, flood
control, are some of the benefits which will come to the state as a whole. They
should not be charged against the water user. The Legislature should be encouraged
to find as many of these statewide beneficiaries as possible and to the extent
that others benefit, the cost of the facilities should be reduced insofar as the
direct water user is concerned.
In addition to bond proceeds, the state will be using money from the California
Water Fund to pay for the Feather River Project. That fund is made up of moneys
that come to the State of California through its oil, gas and mineral reserves.
As the matter now stands the water users must repay all capital costs with interest.
This includes interest on the California Water Fund, even though there is no re-
quirement that the state itself pay interest on that money. Consideration should
be given to the possibility of waiving that interest. It would help the rural
areas, but it would also benefit the metropolitan areas because the reduced interest
charge would apply to all contracting agencies.
The contract with the state is flexible insofar as postponing payments is con-
cerned. Inasmuch as the land to which this water is delivered will increase in
value, the principal payments of each contracting agency should be delayed long
enough to permit the increased value to be reflected. This will delay the day of
payment, not excuse it.
Each area must be encouraged to search broadly and deeply its own financial
resources. There is an understandable tendency to throw the expense of a project
to somebody else, particularly to the state. But the local area must act boldly
and imaginatively in its own behalf, and extend itself fully in order to contract
for water from the state project.
-MORE-
PAGE -6-
If the estimates for California's growth hold up, and we have every reason to
think they will be exceeded, the demands on our water supply will require in-
creasingly imaginative planning.
Just as the Feather River Project and other units in the California Water
Plan were planned by past administrations almost 20 years ago, so it is up to us
to lay out a resourceful plan for the generations to come. Here are some of the
things we should be doing now for the sake of our people, and farms and industries
of tomorrow:
We should be working now at full throttle to develop the financial means for
implementing the next stage of the California Water Plan. That means that the
great seasonal surplus waters of the Northwest, the Mad, Eel, Trinity and others,
must be diverted into the Sacramento River and through the Delta for distribution
into other parts of the state. Our experience with the Feather River Project
indicates that finance is the key to water development. We must give our immediate
attention to that task.
All water resources developments must be envisioned with a view to their
incidental use for flood control, fish, wildlife and recreation. There is an
ever-growing demand on our recreational facilities with the growing numbers of
people coming to our state. Imaginative planning can accommodate, at least to
some extent, the wholesome outdoor recreation of our people. The costs of these
programs must be borne by the people generally, not by water users specifically.
Waste disposal is equally as important as water supply. In some ways it is
even more important because one community's disposal may be another community's
supply. As our communities grow, problems of water quality become even more
important. Many of our ground water basins are the basic sources of supply for
millions of people. These basins must be kept pure so that their function may be
continued. Salt water intrusion must be stopped. This program requires intimate
cooperation and coordination between the innumerable local agencies charged with
this responsibility, as well as the state agencies that are designated to oversee
the area-wide problem.
The imminent threat of water pollution is not only local. It is statewide,
and even national. The federal government is moving into the picture in a big way.
California, if it is to manage its own water supply and disposal system, must give
priority attention to the business of water quality and disposal. It is a problem
readily overlooked or shoved into the background because the far reaching conse-
quences of pollution and contamination cannot always be seen immediately. I would
-MORE-
PAGE -7-
propose legislation that will bring water quality control into the forefront as
one of our most pressing problems.
We should not dismiss the possibilities for the future in the conversion of
sea water. The blunt truth of the matter is that we may well need both the water
from the California Water Plan and converted saline water. Desalting research
should be encouraged in every way possible. This must go on at the same time as
we are developing our fresh water supplies. In the case of sea water, we have a
supply that is inexhaustible. Another thought to keep in mind is the amount of
brackish water that has invaded our underground water tables. That, too, will
eventually have to be converted. Saline water conversion research must be pressed
forward with honest diligence not as a substitute for the California Water Plan
but as a very necessary adjunct. Here, too, I find myself in substantial disagree-
ment with the philosophy of the present Director of Water Resources. He was
willing to see the small research appropriation for desalination of water go down
the drain in this year's budget.
Whole civilizations have been buried under the dust of parched lands. New
ones rise up where there is water. This is California -- rising as the giant among
the 50 states.
California's population will pass the 20 million mark by 1970.
This is why our water must be harnessed to the fullest possible extent. This
is why we must learn to tap the ocean economically and sift the work of our
scientists and the ideas of our dreamers for new breakthroughs. This is why we
need top leaders in state government -- leaders who will keep politics out of water.
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NIXON
NEWS
FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard M. Nixon
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
ORANGE COUNTY NIXON COMMITTEE
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1962
Dinner, Disneyland Hotel
April 27, 1962
Governor Brown has taken to campaigning with his eyes shut or with his tongue
in his cheek. Either he doesn't know what is going on around him or he is trying to
fool the electorate. In either event, he is taking a dangerous course.
He has been going about the state, boasting that California never had it so
good as under his administration, that employment is at an all-time high, that all
my warnings about the deteriorating business climate have been "scare talk."
I never engage in "scare talk". But I do believe in honest talk -- and the
blunt truth is, if we stand pat with Governor Brown on the biggest state budget in
the nation and the highest per capita tax burden, the weather ahead is going to be
rough and stormy. A few more years of wasteful, inefficient, and patronage-plagued
state government will inevitably mean still bigger budgets and a more crushing tax
load. And there is no surer way to scare off the new investment we must have to
provide new jobs for our increasing population. If California is going to provide
productive jobs for its skilled citizens, we must have a new administration in
Sacramento pledged to holding down expenditures and offering a reasonable hope for
eventual tax cuts.
Facts are facts, and the people of California have a right to know the truth
about the business climate in California and about unemployment here, whether or
not Governor Brown knows about it himself.
For instance, the rate of unemployment in California under Governor Knight,
from 1954 to 1958, was consistently below the national average. Under Governor
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PAGE -2-
Brown, California's unemployment stayed below the national average for one year.
Then it went higher than the national average, and higher, and higher. For the
last three years of the Brown Administration, California's unemployment has been
higher than the national rate.
In 1959, Governor Brown's first year, 4.4 per cent of California's work force
was unemployed. In 1960 it jumped to 5.8 per cent. In 1961, it jumped to 6.9 per
cent. This year, so far, it is more than 7 per cent.
But what has Mr. Brown been saying? He says that last month, March, 1962,
California reached the highest rate of employment in state history, 6,097,000, an
increase of 2.5 per cent over March 1961. But he did not tell the people that
California's population also was the highest in state history; that the population
increase was 3.5 per cent. He did not admit that employment in California is hardly
keeping pace with our increasing population.
He boasted that unemployment last month fell off from the previous month. But
he failed to say that in February we had an unemployment rate of 7.7 per cent, which
also was the highest in our recent history. Instead he claimed that in March,
unemployment fell off to 7.1 per cent. But he did not say the number of unemployed
drops off every March everywhere. That's what the economists call a seasonal decline.
What California needs are some decisions for progress and men capable of
carrying out those decisions so that this State once again can forge ahead and
lead the nation in efficient state government -- government which will attract to
California the new investment in private enterprise which will mean new jobs for
California's increasing population.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Excerpt of Remarks
before the
California Teachers Association
FOR FLAT RELEASE
and the
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1962
National Education Association
Ambassador Hotel
Saturday noon, April 28, 1962
Los Angeles, April 28--Richard Nixon today endorsed $470 million in state bond issues
to finance construction of schools, state colleges and University of California
campuses.
"Our general policy should be to pay our bills as we go along," the Republican
candidate for governor said. "But in our present fiscal situation, created by higher
spending throughout our state government, schools that will be used many years into
the future must be financed on a time-payment plan."
Nixon, in a speech to the California Teachers Association and the National
Education Association, endorsed the $200 million bond issue for loans to local
school districts for classroom construction and the $270 million state construction
bond issue, more than 80 per cent of which will go for college and university con-
struction.
"Properly drawn, local school bond issues also deserve support," Nixon said.
Nixon said that school construction borrowing is "like buying a car. We would
rather pay cash, but when we cannot afford it, we are forced to finance our pur-
chases even if it costs more."
Nixon also proposed giving teachers' salaries, the ratio of teachers to
students and greater use of our school buildings the top priority in public education.
This, he said, would help the "social dynamite" of unemployment, juvenile
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delinquency and welfare problems caused by overcrowded classrooms and the large
numbers of students who quit school.
"Teachers should be relieved of non-teaching duties insofar as possible,"
Nixon said.
He said "more than 90,000 students attend half-day, split sessions" because of
the classroom shortage and that "between the 8th and 12th grades, one out of every
four pupils drops out of school and goes out into the labor market unprepared and
short-changed on his education."
"California is near the bottom of the list among the 50 states in number of
students for each teacher in our elementary and high schools," Nixon said, and
"with the exception of six other states, California has the most crowded classrooms
in the nation."
Nixon also made these points:
Every special program the state imposes should be accompanied by an enabling
act to pay for it.
Distribution of state aid should receive a thorough-going review for increased
equity and effectiveness.
"We educate American children for a different purpose and a different end than
do the Communists. We should not push the panic button with each new Communist
achievement."
The needs of students who do not go on to college and who want vocational train-
ing must be recognized more adequately.
Nixon's education speech was the third major address he has given this week.
Earlier, he proposed a major overhaul of state government to a Los Angeles Town
Hall luncheon, and presented his detailed speech on water problems to the Irrigation
Districts Association in San Francisco.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by RICHARD NIXON
before the
CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
and the
Flat PM Release
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Saturday, April 28
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
Noon, Saturday, April 28, 1962
California has a proud tradition of being one of the nation's leaders in
the field of public education. As we become the first state in the nation we
should take steps now to correct some glaring weaknesses in our educational
system so that we can maintain our position of leadership. Among the problems
which demand solution are these:
1. California is near the bottom of the list among the 50 states in
numbers of students for each teacher in our elementary and secondary public
schools. With the exception of six other states, California has the most crowded
classrooms in the nation. Because of such overcrowding, more than 90,000 students
attend half-day, split sessions,
The solution lies in increasing the number of teachers in California
and using our school buildings to greater purpose, so that we can arrive at an
improved pupil-teacher ratio. This would in itself improve the working conditions
of our teachers. It would make their task reasonable, not insurmountable.
2. Between the eighth and twelfth grades one out of every four pupils
drops out of school and goes out into the labor market unprepared and short-
changed on his education. In terms of unemployment, juvenile delinquency and the
state's welfare programs, this is "social dynamite." It cannot and it should not
be glossed over. So long as we have our over-crowded classrooms and our high rate
of student drop-outs, we cannot say California has the kind of education system
which the first state in the nation deserves.
In correcting this situation the recommendations of our teachers should
be given the highest priority in any assessment of our education needs and any
assessment of where our money should be spent.
Teachers should be relieved of non-teaching duties insofar as possible.
I have noted in discussing the Fisher Bill that many teachers are con-
cerned about its ultimate effect in possibly downgrading our programs in vocational
and applied education -- which will be vital in resolving some of our drop-out
problems.
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While the Fisher Bill moved in the right direction to enhance the
academic program for the college-bound student, we cannot neglect those students
whose edncation ends at the twelfth grade. They, too, deserve the best.
I hope that this concern will be dispelled by the recommendations of
the State Board of Education for implementing the changes. However, it would
seem from the delays in adopting supplementary regulations that they, too, are
having their problems. It is reassuring to know that before the bill goes into
effect in 1963 representatives of this organization will be prepared to offer
specific amendments to alleviate any harmful effects of its implementation.
3. We are confronted with some major problems in financing our public
education system.
The state is arbitrarily imposing more and more cirricular assignments
on local school districts and at the same time assuming a decreasing percentage
of the costs. We can't have it both ways. We should limit ourselves to a state-
wide floor of curricular requirements and allow maximum local autonomy of the
school districts.
If the state is going to impose more requirements on local education,
we are going to have to demand more state support. This applies not only to
curriculum but to special programs as well. It is not fair for the state to
require the adoption of mandatory and arbitrary programs and then tell the local
school districts that they will receive no money to pay for such programs.
Every special program should be accompanied by an enabling act to pay for it.
4. Many property owners have their backs against the fiscal wall. In
many areas, property taxes for the support of schools and other local needs have
been pushed to the limit. Many districts do not have the tax base to carry the
costs of an adequate educational program for an ever-increasing number of children.
Twenty years ago, the state assumed fifty percent of the costs of
education. Today, the average has slipped to about thirty-eight percent. Yet
the state-imposed requirements continue to grow and the small property owner is
straining under the load. The state must either reassume a fair share of the
cost of education or it must release tax sources to local districts so that they
can pay for their own school systems. I do not believe any problem confronting
the Governor of this state should have higher priority than a complete
re-examination of the state and local tax structure with the objective of
relieving the constant economic pressures on education and on the real property
taxpayer.
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For the present, there is no doubt that we need more classrooms. For
this reason, I urge support for the two state bond issues proposed for the con-
struction of new school, college and university buildings. These include the
$200 million bond issue for elementary and high school classroom construction
loans and the $270 million bond issue for state construction. More than 80 percent
of this capital outlay bond issue will go for construction at the University of
California and the state colleges.
Properly drawn, local school bond issues also deserve support. Our
general policy should be to pay our bills as we go along. But in our present
fiscal situation created by higher spending throughout our state government,
schools that will be used many years into the future must be financed on a time-
payment plan. As in buying a car, we would rather pay cash, but when we cannot
afford it, we are forced to finance our purchases, even if it costs us more.
There are those who find the answer to all these problems in one
formula: federal aid. No issue of public policy has aroused wider disagreement
or sharper debate. Partisans of federal aid must realize that most of their
opponents oppose federal aid not because they are against stepped-up support for
education but because they honestly fear that federal aid inevitably leads to
federal control.
But let there be no shadow of doubt about the reverse side of the coin.
It is inconsistent and wrong to oppose federal aid, and then vote against the
local and state bond issues or other funds needed to support a top-quality,
locally-controlled school system. There is in the final analysis only one
effective answer to the pressures for vastly increased federal aid and the threat
of federal control. Our states and local school districts, and all responsible
citizens, must assume the burden of responsibility for adequate support. The most
effective way to avoid dictation on education from Washington is to do a better
job of meeting the needs of education at home.
5. We must make sure that the state receives the maximum educational
benefit from every dollar it spends for educational purposes. There is a drastic
need for a thorough-going review of our present method of distributing state aid
toward the end of increased equity and effectiveness -- not only for the children
but for the taxpayer.
6. What kind of an education are we talking about? I believe that too
many educational decisions are being influenced by reaction to the significant
demonstration of communist accomplishment at the time of Sputnik I. This was
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a formidable achievement but we should not jump to the conclusion that American
education is second-rate or on the wrong track simply because the communists made
the first breakthrough into space.
We educate American children for a different purpose and to a different
end than the communists, We should not push the panic button with each new
communist achievement. We are educating free citizens to live in a free society.
We don't, at about the tenth grade, test our children and send the rejects off to
the factory or to the mines in Siberia. There is no American equivalent to Siberia
to swallow up all but the brightest students. We educate children to earn their
livings in a free and competitive society. We also educate them to be well-rounded
people. Further, we have a responsibility to our children which goes far beyond
the needs of a communist society. We are educating our future voters and leaders
and opinion makers.
We must reject the concept of the isolated specialist. There will be
specialists, of course, and they must and will have the best training in the world.
But they must have it in a well-rounded atmosphere of freedom and freedom's
responsibilities.
7. We must remember that a majority of our children do not go on to
colleges and universities. We must recognize more adequately the needs of students
who want vocational training. Our California junior coileges are coming into the
forefront in filling specialized educational needs. They also are expected to take
in some 50,000 additional students who otherwise would attend private and public
colleges and universities. For this task, the junior colleges have been promised
greater state aid -- a commitment which has been substantially unfulfilled to date.
It is essential that we fully emphasize their importance and their high standing in
the educational community.
Our education headaches are not new ones. Nor are they about to be
finally resolved. The crest of children to be educated is yet to be reached. The
total public school enrollment is 3,825,000 -- double that of 1950 and as great
as the state's entire population a few short years ago. By 1970 the number will
jump to five million. We cannot limit our perspective to the decade ahead. We
must build a philosophy of education that will serve as a sturdy framework for our
educational giant for many years to come.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks before the
California Young Republicans
and Nixon for Governor Rally
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Sacramento, California
Saturday afternoon and evening
April 28, 1962
Our party is going to win a sweeping victory in California this year. And it is
going to be a popular victory -- literally. Because we reject the political fakery
of splitting the State of California into a bundle of special interests and then
appealing to each one with some special handout, Our party has one special interest
and only one: it seeks to serve the best interests of all the people, all the time.
The seeds of special-interest politics were planted by New Dealers and nurtured
along on the New Frontier. But Governor Brown, now a willing puppet of the left-wing
CDC, has brought it to full bloom right here in California -- weeds and all. When
you add up all the special appeals the sum is wasteful government, expensive govern-
ment, and inefficient government. The taxpayer is saddled with the bill -- and that
means all of us.
There are two barriers that stand in the way of victory in '62. One is disunity
within our own ranks. There is no room for personal factionalism or rule or ruin
tactics. Our goal should be to beat the opposition, not each other. I intend to
continue to follow the policy that I have adhered to throughout my political career.
I believe that the best way a candidate can prove that he deserves the nomination of
his party is by demonstrating how effectively he can campaign against the man who
will be his opponent in November rather than against his fellow-Republican who is
seeking the nomination.
The other barrier to victory would be a failure to get across to the people the
message of how the Brown Administration has failed to deal with the problems of this
State and what new and dynamic leadership can mean. The choice is between that of
standing pat for four more years of policies of incredible indecision and bungling
or moving ahead with the decisions for progress California needs.
For record-breaking budgets and tax loads, a new Administration would substitute
maximum economy in every necessary operation. For cronyism and patronage plums, we
would substitute top-quality talent in every executive post. For boondoggling super-
agencies and bureaucratic empire-building, we would insist on cost-cutting adminis-
trative efficiency across the board.
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Instead of endless delays and footdragging in supporting city and county law
enforcement officials in such vital fields as narcotics control and suppression of
organized syndicate crime, new leadership in Sacramento could be counted on for
timely and vigorous action geared to meet these dangers. Instead of years of inde-
cision over the punishment of a Caryl Chessman, such leadership would move to reverse
the growth in the major crime rate -- one area in which California has no desire for
continued number one ranking.
Instead of appointing special study commissions and then allowing their findings
to gather dust, leadership is needed to implement their best recommendations -- for
government reforms, for high-quality public education under local control, for tax
policies aimed at stimulating sound growth in every sector of a balanced industrial,
commercial, and agricultural economy.
Our party has a basis for unity in the substance of a dynamic and progressive
program for California's future yet one that is fiscally sound and these are princi-
ples which will also be supported by hundreds of thousands of Democrats as well who
will look beneath the label the candidates wear and vote for giving the first state
in the nation the top-flight leadership it needs.
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NIXON
NEWS
FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by
RICHARD NIXON
on Squaw Valley
Flat PM Release
Monday, April 30, 1962
It is time for Governor Brown to reveal to the people of California
the facts about one of the fishiest messes in his Administration -- the political
shenanigans involved in converting Squaw Valley from an Olympic site into a
State Park.
I have learned -- and I am sure the Governor is aware of this fact --
that there is a secret report in the Legislature which reveals the core of this
deal in its true light.
What is already known is what was printed in a public report of the
Legislative Audit Committee to the recent Legislature. The Committee revealed
that the state has lost more than $900,000 in Squaw Valley State Park since it
opened less than two years ago. It is losing $25,000 every month the private
concessionairo operates it.
The contract to operate the statepark was given by appointees of
Governor Brown to another appointee of Governor Brown. His name is William
A. Newsom. It was a poor contract and was labeled as such -- and even worse --
by Legislative committees,
The contract was to run for 27 years and 10 months with no provision
for renegotiation. Committees of both houses of the Legislature -- headed by
Senator Howard Williams and Assemblyman Glenn Coolidge -- have demanded that
the contract be cancelled any way possible.
In the 1961 Legislature, a bill was passed to require that all long-
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term concession contracts be put out to competitive bidding. Governor Brown
vetoed this bill.
In the recent session, the entire Legislature directed that the
Administration either cancel or renegotiate the contract. Governor Brown has
steadfastly refused to direct his appointed officials to do this.
What may not be generally known is: Alfred Stern, a State Park Com-
missioner under Governor Brown, was instrumental in getting the concession
contract for his former business associate, William Newsom. Governor Brown also
was a long-time friend of Newsom's and appointed him to the Unemployment Insurance
Appeals Board at $17,500 a year. Newsom, while still a state official, got the
contract despite the fact several other better offers had been made to the state,
Newsome then proceded to form a corporation to operate the concession.
It was named Squaw Valley Improvement Company. Out of $400,000 worth of stock
issued by the company, Newsom got a majority -- $210,000 worth -- for nothing
but the contract he got from his political friends. He didn't invest a penny
of cash.
On top of that, Newsom draws $18,000 a year for managing the state park
for his own corporation.
Governor Brown may well be as much the victim as the taxpayers in this
case. He said early in the operation of the park that he had full confidence in
his appointees. He said he would let them do what they thought right, and he
would endorse it.
Now that the facts of this deal are known, the Governor should start
thinking of the taxpayers instead of just his appointees. He should denounce
his friend who took advantage of him to reap a windfall in stocks. And, he
should take action immediately to stop pouring money down a rathole in Squaw
Valley.
At the very least, another contract, with fairer provisions for the
state, can be negotiated. We are losing nearly $1,000 a day and the taxpayers
of this state should not be required to pay for this boondoggling.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Excerpt of Remarks
before the Guardians of the
Jewish Home for the Aged
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
7 p.m., May 1, 1962
Beverly-Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills
Hardly a day goes by but that numbers of indignant business and
professional men deliver warnings about the perils of mushrooming
encroachments by federal bureaucrats. The menace, we are told re-
peatedly, is to our traditional system of free enterprise, to local
self-government and the autonomy of our sovereign states, and to
private and individual freedom.
The list of encroachments--real and potential--is endless. But
indignation is not enough. Warnings constitute no effective answer
to the problem. Unless and until the well-intentioned leaders of our
business and professional communities take vigorous counteraction--
by taking up the burden of responsibility for effective public service
at the state and local levels--the relentless march of centralization
and bureaucratic control will go forward. The most effective answer
to bigger federal government is better state and local government.
There is yet another answer to federal encroachment. This is one,
especially in the field of welfare and social service, that the
Guardians have made their specialty. By private initiative, fund-
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Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aged (continued)
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raising, and generous philanthropy, scores of groups like the
Guardians have provided an eloquent response to the legitimate appeals
of the needy and the under-privileged. The opening wedge for govern-
ment invasion of the field of welfare has thus been blocked off.
In this age of perpetual crisis, there is no lack of areas of
concern entirely and obviously appropriate to a powerful federal
government. Clearly, no other level of government and no private
agency can cope with problems of international relations, of national
security, of war and peace. But in those areas closest to the human
and individual needs of the American people--welfare, education,
housing and urban renewal, to mention but a few--there is still room
for state and local autonomy and for private initiative. Not only
room, in fact, but an urgent necessity, unless we are prepared to deal
away our liberties lulled by the tempting offer of governmental
handouts.
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May 1, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks before the
SUNSET YOUNG REPUBLICANS
Smith Brothers Fish Shanty
Flat AM Release
Los Angeles
May 3, 1962
8:30 p.m., May 2, 1962
California deserves high-octane performance from its public officials. Instead
it is getting watered gas. The shenanigans at Squaw Valley are still unexplained by
the Brown Administration. The Governor's flimsy defense has not cleared the air.
It has only raised more questions.
Why didn't Brown cancel his crony's contract after the Newsom outfit was found
guilty of serving liquor to minors? This is a major violation. Does the Governor
condone such conduct?
Why didn't the Governor cancel his crony's contract after the Newsom outfit
was cited for more than 30 concession violations? These violations include unclean-
liness, poor maintenance, unauthorized advertising, infractions of housing regula-
tions, violation of fire codes and unauthorized removal of equipment. Does the
Governor condone such conduct?
Why has the Governor allowed this situation to fester for 21 months without an
audit of his crony's books?
Rather than answer these questions, Brown makes these three points:
1. About the mess in Squaw Valley, Brown says: "Some of the material is
entirely new to me."
This is a sorry comment from the man responsible for the entire operation of
our state government. As a lawyer, Brown should know the old adage, "ignorance of
the law is no excuse." And as a governor, he should know that you can't slide off
your constitutional responsibility on underlings.
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SUNSET YOUNG REPUBLICANS
2. Brown says that he awaits a subordinate's report on the situation.
Californians have come to recognize this tune as "Variations on a Theme by
Brown." The theme is, "stall for time -- the people may forget."
Well, Governor, the people won't forget. They want answers -- now!
3. Brown says that he's sure that his crony Newsom would be willing to sell
out for $210,000.
Why wouldn't Newsom accept $210,000 for stock that cost him nothing?
The time has come to stop waiting for reports, to stop waiting for action. It
is time for the Governor to cancel this shabby contract. Remember: Standing pat
is no substitute for moving forward, and government-by-crony is no substitute for
good government.
Let's close the "leadership gap" in Sacramento.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
before the
Junior Barristers of Los Angeles
For Flat PM Release
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
May 3, 1962
Noon, May 3, 1962
No one concerned with the security of our State and Nation can quarrel with the
aims of the Francis Amendment, which is designed to combat the communist menace
in California.
Governor Brown says this is "a very, very bad bill." He says, "I am against it
in every way." I emphatically disagree with Brown. There is an urgent need for a
more effective program to combat communism in California. Our State cannot stand pat
on the communist threat. And we cannot tolerate a State Administration that sub-
stitutes smugness for action.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a fatal Constitutional flaw in the Francis
Amendment. Because of loose drafting in Section 3, which allows a wide assortment of
groups and individuals to designate subversives, the Amendment may inadvertently
give the communists a constitutional escape hatch.
For 14 years in Washington -- as Congressman, Senator, and Vice President -- I
dealt with communist-control legislation, and I know that the communists ferret out
a legal loophole with the cunning of a rat after cheese. I was one of the sponsors
of the Federal Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 and I saw how communist
tactics hog-tied this in the courts for ten long years. If the communists could do
this to a carefully constructed law, which was finally held constitutional by the
Supreme Court in 1961, it is easy to see what a field-day they would have in attack-
ing a piece of legislation with the potential defects of the Francis Amendment.
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FRANCIS AMENDMENT
This is why I regret that I can neither sign nor support the Francis Amendment
in its present form.
My alternative in vigorously pursuing the fight against communism in California
is this:
At the next session of the Legislature, I will present a first priority anti-
communist program. Among its provisions: it will deny the use of tax-supported
institutions for speeches by any individual who refuses to comply with Federal and
State subversive control laws or refuses to testify before Grand Juries or legis-
lative committees investigating subversive activities; it will stress hard-hitting
enforcement of laws now on the books, including loyalty oaths; it will activate on a
statewide basis educational programs on the tactics and strategy of communism on the
school and adult levels; it will emphasize the teaching of teachers and the use of
authoritative text-books to do this job.
On this issue -- fighting communism in California -- as on all issues, I aim to
close the "leadership gap" in Sacramento. Under the next Administration, California
will not stand pat; we shall move forward in solving our state's problems. In so
doing we shall set an example for other states to follow.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
San Diego, California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 1962
When Pat Brown cries "foul" about my statement on Jimmy Hoffa's
support of his candidacy, he shows his total ignorance of recent American
history.
Let me refresh Brown's failing memory:
By saying I am "dead wrong", Brown is in fact questioning the
President of the United States. If Brown will do his homework, he will
find that my statement is exactly the same -- word for word -- as the one
made by John F. Kennedy when the Teamsters endorsed Hubert Humphrey in the
1960 West Virginia primary. The only changes I made in the Kennedy text
were to change the name of the state from West Virginia to California
and the office from president to governor. I suggest that Brown's swollen
staff of press agents check the Associated Press story of May 2, 1960.
Brown is not going to get off the hook. He is clearly Hoffa's
boy. And I shall continue to remind the people of California of this --
just as John F. Kennedy reminded the people of West Virginia of Jimmy
Hoffa's support of his opponent, Hubert Humphrey.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
REMARKS of RICHARD NIXON
FOR FLAT PMs RELEASE
Nixon for Governor Rally
May 4, 1962
Oakland Auditorium Theatre
3 p.m., May 4, 1962
Since everybody seems to be weight conscious these days, including Governor
Brown, and even a best selling book is about diets, I'm going to give you a few tips
on how to control another sort of fat -- government spending.
The only sure way to curb the runaway spending of the Brown Administration is
to go on a fiscal diet. Keep away from government sweets. Cut down on fat intake.
And tighten the belt in Sacramento.
This is exactly what I propose to do. California can only move forward by
operating in a financially sound, fiscally responsible, and waste-proof way. Calif-
ornia cannot afford to stand pat with a flat tire of bureaucratic fat around its
middle.
If the excess fat cannot be trimmed away, I predict that we are in for another
tax increase. This view is shared by responsible fiscal experts.
At the rate we have been going these last four years, and judging from expert
estimates of future revenues, there are only two possibilities: budget deficits,
or higher taxes. Responsible legislators did yeoman service this year in melting
down enough of Brown's budgetary lard to keep the State's finances in balance.
However, responsible legislators may not always be able to protect Brown from
his insatiable appetite to spend the taxpayers' money. Responsible legislators may
not always be able to do the hard work for which Brown can then claim the credit.
The pressures on Brown from his spend all-the-traffic-will-bear boys in the Calif-
ornia Democratic Council may be just too great.
Californians have long memories. We still remember Brown's tax increase of over
$250 million. We know that this can happen here. But we don't want it to happen
again. And I will fight to see that it doesn't.
Under the next Administration, we shall make California into a model of cost-
conscious government with a conscience. And we shall close the "leadership gap"
in Sacramento.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
San Francisco Office: 583 Market St., San Francisco 5, DO 2-3134
Statement by Richard Nixon
(on Squaw Valley)
For Immediate Release
Friday, May 4, 1962
I am not in the concession business. But I have just learned
that one of the original bidders on the Squaw Valley concession contract
is "more than interested" in buying Newsom out for one dollar.
I suggest, therefore, that Newsom open his offer to sell each of
the original bidders and he should name the time and place.
If he does not do so, he will be admitting that he is trying to
bluff his way out of the hot spot he finds himself in.
It is clear that everyone wants to get Newsom out of Squaw Valley,
Newsom included -- with one exception, Pat Brown.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Lodi, California
For Sunday Release
3:15 pm, May 5, 1962
May 6, 1962
As California grows at a rate of 1,600 persons each day, soon to become the
most populous State in the Union, there can be no room for complacency or smugness
in our State Administration.
We are proud that there will soon be more Californians than New Yorkers. But
we want to be more than the biggest; we want to be the best.
We cannot stand pat.
Our goal must be to have the best ratio of teachers to pupils in our school
system -- not the 46th best, as we have now.
We must back up our dedicated law enforcement officials with stronger executive
and legislative leadership from the Governor's office so that we will have the best
crime prevention record in the country -- not less than best.
Today we have the worst record of highway fatalities of any State. We must
tackle our massive transportation problems on a bold, imaginative scale if we are
to have the best.
We cannot stand pat in education with our state ranking 21st in illiteracy
nor can we be smug while more Californians are unemployed than the national average.
From a job gap of 4.4% between the needs of the labor force and jobs available --
which was the situation in 1959 -- California's jobless have risen to 7.1% during
the Brown Administration.
Pat Brown says he's satisfied with things as they are. I say we can and must
do better.
Let's close these gaps -- including the leadership gap in Sacramento. The best
way to do this is to start through your ballot. Let's not stay 29th in voter turnout.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles,
For Flat AMs Release
Monday, May 7, 1962
Monday, May 7, 1962
As the primary campaign for governor enters the final month, the issues before
the voters become increasingly clear.
Ahead lies a decade of decision. Will we move forward to assume our rightful
place as the number one state in the nation -- or will we stand on the past?
Pat Brown has given us his answer. It is a white flag emblazoned with the
motto, "I stand pat on my record."
Just what is this record?
Under the Brown Adminstration, the economic climate in California has become
overcast. Unemployment has soared above the national average. We now have a serious
job gap. The rate of new industry coming into the State has decreased because of
the threat of higher taxes and the anti-business climate in state government. In a
State that must create 20,000 new jobs each month, we cannot attract businesses with
an Administration that is the handmaiden of the left-wing California Democratic
Council. As Brown turns to irresponsible spending, industry turns to other states.
The leadership climate under Brown has become equally cloudy. Brown's speech-
writers can put strong words in his mouth, but they can't cover his wobbly knees.
Instead of "The Twist," Brown dances "The Flip-Flop." There was the Chessman case
flip-flop, the flip-flop on the 1960 Democratic nominee for President, another flip-
flop on narcotic law enforcement, and most recently, the Brown flip-flop on outlawing
professional boxing.
Recognizing this leadership gap, Brown has tried to fill the void with an extra
layer of bureaucratic fat called a "Super Cabinet". As the Governor's backstops,
some of these Brown cronies are about as effective as a catcher with a hole in his
mitt. For example, William Warne, Brown's Water and Natural Resources Director,
appears to be too busy electioneering to bother about administrating. However, con-
sidering his past fiascoes as a foreign aid administrator, California taxpayers are
probably better off with him on the stump than behind a desk.
In contrast to Brown's bumbling record, on which he stands, I have been system-
atically presenting to the people of California a realistic program of decisions for
progress.
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I have advocated a complete overhaul of the State Government to streamline the
present bureaucratic sprawl -- not just put a shiny tin weathervane on top of an old
barn. My proposals for more effective government have also called for continuous
two-year legislative sessions and unfreezing the two-thirds of the State budget that
is not now subject to review or control by the legislature.
In the field of water development, I have proposed a 13-point program to speed
up construction of dams and aqueducts, to eliminate the present administrative hodge-
podge created by William Warne, to reactivate the Power Committee, to put checks on
executive power over water projects, and to oppose the 160-acre limitation where
State water development is concerned.
In a speech before the California Teachers Association, I. spelled out my top-
priority program for solving our problem of overcrowded classrooms and other critical
educative problems without turning to the federal government for the kind of aid that
might lead to federal control of our schools.
My 4-point program for combating the Communist menace in California calls for
preventing our tax-supported institutions from being used as forums for individuals
who refuse to comply with subversive control laws or refuse to testify before grand
juries or legislative committees investigating subversive activities, as well as for
hard-hitting enforcement of existing laws, and vital school and adult education pro-
grams on the tactics and strategy of communism.
I have stated my position on such other issues as the proper role of California
government -- reversing the Brown trend of abdicating State responsibility to
Washington; the State Budget; the best way to attract new industries to California
and to create new jobs; and the shameful shenanigans that Brown apparently condones,
such as his crony William Newsom's contract on Squaw Valley.
In the weeks and months ahead, I shall detail my plans for a more prosperous
agriculture, a workable transportation program, more effective and least costly
public welfare, and other vital topics that will concern the next State Administra-
tion. Moreover, I shall continue to expose the ineptitudes and irregularities of
the present Administration.
My program means Decisions for Progress for a greater California. Brown's pro-
gram is to stand pat on the record, a dismal record of bungling, indecision and
wasteful spending of the taxpayer's money.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
San Diego, California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 1962
When Pat Brown cries "foul" about my statement on Jimmy Hoffa's
support of his candidacy, he shows his total ignorance of recent American
history.
Let me refresh Brown's failing memory:
By saying I am "dead wrong", Brown is in fact questioning the
President of the United States, If Brown will do his homework, he will
find that my statement is exactly the same -- word for word -- as the one
made by John F. Kennedy when the Teamsters endorsed Hubert Humphrey in the
1960 West Virginia primary. The only changes I made in the Kennedy text
were to change the name of the state from West Virginia to California
and the office from president to governor. I suggest that Brown's swollen
staff of press agents check the Associated Press story of May 2, 1960.
Brown is not going to get off the hook. He is clearly Hoffa's
boy. And I shall continue to remind the people of California of this --
just as John F. Kennedy reminded the people of West Virginia of Jimmy
Hoffa's support of his opponent, Hubert Humphrey.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
Nixon-for-Governor Rallies
For Flat PMs Release
Escondido and La Jolla
Thursday, May 10, 1962
May 10, 1962
In less than four years, the mainstream of California politics has been polluted
by Pat Brown's use of imported Tammany Hall political tactics. Our state, which from
the time of Hiram Johnson has established a reputation for placing the interests of
the people above partisan considerations, has now been contaminated by a foreign
agent -- machine politics.
All Californians, regardless of Party affiliation, should mourn the passing of
our nonpartisan tradition of State Government. Easterners who have moved to Cali-
fornia know what happens when bossism takes over. Pat Brown is teaching the rest of
us these grimy facts of political life.
This is a primer of bossism under Brown:
Lesson #1: Government-by-nepotism replaces good government. Brown's brother
has been given a fat position as a State Inheritance Tax Appraiser.
Lesson #2: Government-by-crony replaces good government. Brown's crony William
Newsom received the Squaw Valley concession. Empire-builder William Warne has
Brown's wholehearted confidence despite loud protests from the leader of Brown's own
party in the Senate.
Lesson #3: Political deals replace openly arrived at decisions. The 1962
Democratic slate was put together at a secret meeting on July 7, 1961, at the
Marin County mansion of Democratic State Chairman Roger Kent.
Lesson #4: The protective wall between State officials and Party officials is
torn down. California's chief legal officer, whose job it is to serve all the
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people, became the Democratic National Committeeman. The San Francisco District
Attorney became a Brown delegate to the Democratic Presidential Convention.
Lesson #5: Government appointments go to the Party faithful. Brown states,
"I have followed a policy of appointing those best suited to positions of trust."
But the record shows that of those appointees with political affiliations, Brown
has picked 1109 Democrats and 325 Republicans.
Lesson #6: Judgeships become political plums. Brown states, "I have picked
them (judges) irrespective of their politics." But the Brown record of judicial
appointments shows: Democrats, 165; Republicans, 34; no party affiliation, 1.
Lesson #7: Election laws are changed to favor the political boss' party.
Under the Brown Administration, new laws were forced through on absentee voting and
challenging voters at the polling place -- both designed to buck up Brown's politi-
cal machine.
Lesson #8: Legislative boundaries are turned into partisan political
boundaries. Under Pat Brown we have seen the most flagrant gerrymander in Califor-
nia's history. Brown machine politicians twisted and juggled district boundaries
without regard for fair play, legal requirements, or the public interest.
These are the lessons that Californians have learned from Pat Brown. It's
too late to say, "It can't happen here" -- it already has! But it is not too late
to do something about it. When Pat Brown goes, so goes machine politics in
California. We can and must close the leadership gap in State Government.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
at Reception at home of
FOR FLAT PM's RELEASE
George Foreman, Arcadia
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962
I am shocked that Pat Brown has in effect now charged President Kennedy with
using "smear" tactics in his 1960 primary campaign. Brown owes an immediate apology
to the President of the United States.
When I commented on Brown's receiving the Hoffa-Teamster endorsement, I used
John Kennedy's exact words in exactly the same context.
Brown's stable of 51 tax supported press agents should have reminded him that
Kennedy made the same statement about Hubert Humphrey when Humphrey received the
Hoffa-Teamster endorsement in the West Virginia primary two years ago. Why did not
Brown charge "smear" then?
Brown should know, as President Kennedy knows, and I know, that Hoffa is the
political dictator of the controlling clique of the Teamsters Union. Brown should
also know this because he had the Hoifa-Teamster endorsement 4 years ago.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Proposition 5 (Park and Recreation Bond Issue)
For Sunday Release
Los Angeles - MAY 13, 1962
MAY 13, 1962
I strongly support the goals and purposes of the State Park and Recreation Bond
Act and I intend to vote "yes" on Proposition 5 on the June ballot. This is the $150
million bond issue needed to take immediate action to expand California's public out-
door recreation facilities.
The need is great, and it is growing. Already, available facilities are being
overused -- by about 30 per cent in excess of planned capacity. By 1980 it is esti-
mated that public demand for recreation areas will increase by 400 per cent in South-
ern California alone. And competing pressures for the rapidly dwindling reserves of
land appropriate to recreation facilities means that unless we take action now, there
will simply be no land left to acquire in the years ahead. And as the reserves de-
crease, land costs will inevitably mount.
Now is the time, therefore, to move rapidly forward with a long-term program of
land acquisition and development, to keep pace with legitimate popular demand for
adequate outdoor recreation facilities. In taking over land, there should be more
consideration than in the past for the opinions of local residents. And a tight, re-
sponsible adminstration of the acquisition program is imperative.
In general, I favor pay-as-you-go financing for all state services, and I take a
dim view of a constantly mushrooming bonded indebtedness, with its steady drain of
non-productive interest and carrying charges. But in this case, there is particular
justice in using bond financing because the program is aimed at the future needs of
future generations of Californians. The ultimate consumer will thus bear part of the
cost -- and this is as it should be.
Then, too, most of these facilities will be used by far more than local residents.
They will attract people from every part of the state and especially from the great
urban population centers. It is right and proper that all Californians, present and
future, share the burden with the local residents of the recreation area itself. And
because more than half the land proposed for acquisition is already under some form
of public ownership, there will be no sudden cut in the local tax-rolls.
Finally, we should take note of this important provision of the Act: almost one-
third of the money is to be allocated directly to counties and spent under local con-
trol. Of this one-third, at least half must in turn be allocated in proportion to the
estimated 1975 population figures. Thus, the areas of dense population will receive
the lion's share of the funds and will then have to enter into multi-county partner-
ships with those areas rich in land but thinly populated. Such cooperative partner-
ships can only be a plus factor, in my view, in stimulating the general growth of
inter-governmental cooperation. A carefully-planned, mutually-beneficial recreation
program can become a model for parallel programs with respect to many other urgently
needed state and local services.
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May 11, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
U.S.A
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
CONTACT: Sandy Quinn/Ron Ziegler (DUnkirk 5-9161)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Harrison McCall, of South Pasadena, one of the men who started Richard M. Nixon
on his political career, signed up again today to see that "my boy" is elected Gover-
nor of California.
McCall, veteran political organizer, was a member of the original fact-finding
committee that first met in 1945 to pick a Republican Congressional candidate for the
12th District in San Gabriel Valley.
They checked over the list of prospects -- and picked a rising young Whittier
lawyer, Dick Nixon.
Nixon didn't disappoint them. He was twice elected a Congressman and went on to
be elected United States Senator from California and Vice President of the United
States.
Today, Harold C. "Chad" McClellan, Southern California chairman of Nixon for
Governor, announced that McCall will head a Southland Strategy Committee for liaison
with Northern California Nixon forces.
McCall's group will also act as a "clearing house" for suggestions aimed at
intensifying campaign activities. He will headquarter at Nixon for Governor offices
at 3908 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, DUnkirk 5-9161.
"I have seen Dick swamp the opposition before, and I know my boy will do it
again and become Governor of California," McCall declared.
McCall is a past president of both the Los Angeles County and California Re-
publican Assemblies and three times has been a delegate to Republican national con-
ventions. He is president of a Los Angeles materials testing laboratory.
May 14, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by
Richard Nixon
FOR TUESDAY AM RELEASE
Riverside, California
May 15, 1962
May 14, 1962
California has the most expensive state government in the nation. California's
per capita tax collections are the highest in the nation. California cannot afford
four more years of the extravagance, inefficiency and mismanagement which has been
responsible for this condition. A vote for Brown's re-election will be a vote to
raise taxes.
The cost of state government can and must be cut. I have already outlined a long
range money saving program to reorganize state government. Four immediate steps
should be taken to cut the cost of our state government:
(1) Correct unsound fiscal policies.
(2) Wipe out frills and extravagance.
(3) Cut red tape and excess paper work.
(4) Streamline government operations.
Point #1. We can cut the budget by making the departments and agencies prove
their needs for State funds before they get the money. This will replace Brown's
all-the-traffic-will-bear system of budgeting.
Under Brown, estimates of expected revenues are made first, and then the total is
divvied up among the agencies. Each agency is given a ceiling on what it can spend--
in effect, each agency now gets what the traffic will bear.
The result of this unsound policy is the highest budget of any state in the
nation, with no chance of a surplus unless revenues exceed the estimates.
Point #2. We can cut the budget by eliminating frills and extravagances --
starting in the Governor's own office. Brown's office expenses this year are
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$791,526, a 52.7% increase since he became governor.
In order to meet his office expenses, Brown has also doubled his special contin-
gent fund, and raided the state's emergency fund to the tune of $143,568.
By Brown's own example, he has set a pattern of extravagant spending for the
rest of state government. Economy should start in the Governor's office. He should
set an example of efficiency for other departments to follow.
Point #3. We can slash costs by cutting the type of red tape and excess paper-
work that last year produced 18,950,525 mimeographed pages in one agency alone --
enough confetti to stretch from Los Angeles to Bangor, Maine.
We must also eliminate expensive and inefficient duplication in state govern-
ment. Today there are four separate agencies keeping personnel records on any given
state employee. Today there are seven separate state agencies collecting taxes.
Point #4. We can cut the budget by streamlining government operations. We must
eliminate Brown's unnecessary super-agencies, which add more than $250,000 to state
costs. We must cut William Warne's empire and its nearly $200,000 outlays for branch
offices and press agents.
We must eliminate the superfluous "exempt" positions that Brown has added to the
state payroll, at salaries totaling more than $150,000 a year. We can eliminate at
least 859 other non-essential jobs. We can cut more than $5 million in state
salaries, and countless millions in administrative overhead.
These imperative budget cuts will not reduce government services. They will
simply get rid of the fat. We can and must provide better government at less cost
to the taxpayers.
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May 14, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement of Richard Nixon
May 15, 1962
An alumnus of Pat Brown's college of political hacks has now
touched off the biggest national scandal since Teapot Dome. James
Ralph, Brown's former State Director of Agriculture, has been fired
today from his Federal job as a result of an F.B.I. investigation.
Ralph, who was Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, has been caught accepting expensive gifts from Texas
swindler Billie Sol Estes.
This is the calibre of man to whom Brown entrusted the future
of California agriculture. And thisis the sort of rogue that Brown
wished off on the National Government as a representative of our
State.
Ralph was a little fish in California's government until Brown's
crony, William Warne, picked him as his chief deputy. It was the
Brown-warne axis that made Ralph the head of the California
Department of Agriculture.
His selection of men like Jarne and Ralph is typical of the
bad judgment Brown has shown in choosing the people to run the
biggest state government in America.
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5/15/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN U.S.A.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Letter by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
May 15, 1962
Wednesday, May 16, 1962
The following letter is being sent today by Richard Nixon to his Nixon-for-
Governor Chairmen throughout the state:
As we enter the final weeks of the primary campaign, I want to urge you and
your fellow Nixon-for-Governor workers to get the largest possible number of
Republican voters to the polls, regardless of their choice for Governor. I strongly
believe that this is the right and proper American way. Only in this way can we
make certain that the decision on Election Day represents a majority of the people.
I fully support open, free primary contests. The Republican Party does not
stand for tinhorn political bosses. This is in sharp contrast to the Pat Brown-
California Democratic Council way of doing business. Brown's primary is shut tight.
Through prearranged endorsements, rank-and-file Democrats have been locked out of
their party.
Also, I want you to know my attitude toward primary opposition. I have had
primary opposition every time I have run for office. It has always been, and will
continue to be, my belief that the best way for a candidate to prove that he is
worthy of his Party's nomination is by demonstrating how well he can campaign against
the man he will have to beat in November -- rather than by attacking a fellow
Republican.
I am confident that Republicans will close ranks after the primary. All Repub-
licans will be united on the number one priority -- the election of a sound and
responsible state administration in November. We know that California cannot afford
another four years of stand pat government in Sacramento. We cannot afford the
highest combined state and local tax burden per individual of any state in the nation.
We cannot afford runaway government spending that has already resulted in the highest
budget of any state.
In this crusade for a better California, we will be joined in November by
hundreds of thousands of Democrats, who believe in our principles, and who recognize
that the CDC clique controlling the Democratic Party in California is not represen-
tative of their philosophy.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all the work you have been doing
in the campaign, and to wish you success as we work together for victory in June
and November.
Sincerely,
5/15/62
/s/ Dick Nixon
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Excerpt of Remarks
by Richard Nixon
Release on Delivery
Southern California Retail
Grocers Assn.
Long Beach
Noon, May 17, 1962
Over the years, the people of California have demonstrated a
remarkable capacity for breaking ground in a great variety of
fields--in aircraft design and production, in architecture and
building, in electronics and other areas of science, in agricul-
ture, in finance, in fabrics and clothing, in the energy indus-
tries, and in many other areas of economic growth.
Many of these activities started as small businesses. They
have grown, prospered, and created opportunities for employment
and investment. This is because Californians have been eager
to do original thinking, to do things that have never been done
before, and to devise better ways of doing old things.
Unfortunately, now it is true that thoughtful people are
having doubts that this great record can be continued. These
doubts are based, not on any question of the capacity of the
people, but on the widespread belief that there is now an un-
favorable business climate in California.
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Excerpt (Grocers Assn.) continued
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Already, we have heard the President of Cannon Electric say
that his firm's next expansion will be in the Midwest. The
treasurer of another California-based company--which built its
latest plant in Nebraska-was equally blunt: "We can't compete
if we keep our operations here." A third executive also has said
that his company has "made its last expansion in California.'
We must immediately reverse this trend and again inspire con-
fidence in the economic growth of California. We can do this
by holding the line against the spiral of record-breaking budgets
and increased taxes. We can do this by correcting the unsound
fiscal policies of the State; by wiping out frills and extrava-
gance; by cutting red tape and excess paper-work, and by stream-
lining and reorganizing government operations.
But equally important, we can inspire a new wave of business
confidence by doing a better job in State government, rather
than running to Washington to get the job done.
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May 16, 1962
NIXON
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RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
18
LITHO.IN U.S.A.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
At Outdoor Lunch in Central Park
Bakersfield, California
Noon, May 19, 1962
For Flat PM Release
Saturday May 19, 1962
There are two ways to run a political campaign. And there are two ways to run
the business of a great and growing state.
One way can be called "decisions for progress". It runs on new ideas, on fact-
facing, on boldness. It pledges bread-and-butter follow-through, not pie-in-the-sky
promises. It looks to the best interests of all Californians.
There is another way. It is marked by patronage and cronyism, by waste and in-
efficiency, by sky-high taxes and budgets and rock-bottom performance. The name for
this second way is "standing pat with Brown". And California cannot afford another
four years of it -- not if our State means to fulfill its limitless potential.
The core of decisions for progress, for all Californians, is this: every prob-
1em we face must be sized-up as it affects every group or interest or locality; every
solution must be shaped to the needs of the entire State and all its people. The al-
ternative is special-interest politics -- greased by cynical handouts and symbolized
by the overripe plum.
I say that Californians deserve a clear choice. And to offer that choice has
been the sum and substance of my campaign up to now.
I have spelled out specific proposals for top-quality locally-controlled educa-
tion; for water development, speeded-up and patterned to the real needs of both rural
and urban areas; for an effective program to combat Communism, one that will meet the
menace without doing irreparable damage to the fabric of our legal and constitutional
system; for a complete overhaul of State Government, one that begins with a strict
diet to reduce every ounce of fat from a top-heavy administrative bureaucracy; for
sober pay-as-you-go fiscal discipline and for systematic budget-cuts.
California has everything it needs for unparalleled growth and progress in the
years ahead -- everything but dynamic leadership. There is no lag in natural re-
sources, in human talents, in traditions of greatness. Now it is up to the people of
California to close the leadership gap -- to cast their ballots for progress and
achievement.
May 17, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Text of Speech on
Government Reorganization
by Richard Nixon
FOR FLAT PMs RELEASE
Before Commonwealth Club
Friday, May 18, 1962
San Francisco, California
Noon, May 18, 1962
Last November, New York -- a state that will soon be second to California in
population -- repealed a clause in its Constitution that declared all land grants
given by the King of England to be "null and void" after October 14, 1775.
In Michigan, as a result of the 1959 debacle that brought the state to the brink
of bankruptcy, 144 delegates are presently convened in what is called "the con con"--
or Constitutional Convention.
Tennessee has recently reorganized its government to eliminate six boards and
commissions. Hawaii streamlined its state administration in 1961 and abolished
323 jobs.
All across the nation people are concerned about the reorganization of their
state governments and their state constitutions.
I think there is a basic reason for this attitude. Americans are worried about
the trend toward "Let Washington Do It." And part of the reason for this trend is
that our state governments bogged down in archaic restrictions and outmoded systems
of management -- have simply created such a void in servicing the people that the
federal government has often been forced to move in.
Now that the pendulum of government has swung so far toward Washington, Americans
see the very serious dangers involved. We all recognize that Washington cannot know
a state's needs as well as those at home. Washington brings a 50-state impersonal
solution to a problem, not an individually tailored program for California or Michigan
or New York.
Yet this is not the most damaging result of the trend toward Washington. Much
more fundamental is the way it warps our basic fabric of government -- the Constitu-
tional principle of Federalism, which is so essential to the preservation of freedom.
It is not only the "local touch" that we have lost along the route to Washington,
but something far more important -- self-reliance.
And so now America says, "It's time for a change." It's time to streamline
state government. It's time to bring to it the vast experience we have gained in
businesses, universities, and civic groups. It's time to resume the responsibility
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Government Reorganization
or our states' welfare and our states' future. The answer to more government from
Jashington is better government in California.
The growth of California government has resembled Jack's magic beanstalk. By
the end of World War I, there were already more than 100 independent offices, boards
and commissions. The standard operating procedure whenever a new problem of a
special interest arose was simply to add another box on the organizational chart.
This process clouded lines of authority, slowed down decision making and skyrocketed
the cost of government.
By 1961, the governmental atom had been split so many times that if the Governor
were to spend just one day annually reviewing the work of each state body, he would
barely have time to make the rounds in a year -- for there were 360 boards, com-
missions, and agencies in the State government.
Recognizing the seriousness of this situation, the Governor submitted a reorgani-
zation plan, which was passed in a slightly different form by the legislature. The
Governor's solution was to create a "Super Cabinet" of $25,000-a-year administrators.
The Legislative Analyst, A. Alan Post, estimated that this would cost the State in
excess of $250,000, without considering the additional technical staff needs or re-
lated operating expenses.
The Governor's plan failed to do away with a single agency of State government.
On the contrary, it added another layer on top of the existing bureaucracy. Under
the new plan, the super-administrators have no power to effect any changes in their
departments. They cannot consolidate a single agency. They cannot abolish a single
board. They cannot eliminate a single job. Lacking this authority, it is plain to
see that the super-administrators cannot effect any economies in our State government
-- either in budgeting or in programming.
In fact, what has happened is that the super-administrators have direct access
to the Governor, but no operating authority; while their subordinates have operating
authority, but limited direct access. The end-result of the 1961 reorganization has
been additional problems of diffused authority, inadequate coordination, and poor
communications.
The tragedy of this is that the need for revitalized government is greater in
California than in any other State in the Union. California, which grows at the
rate of 1,600 persons each day, cannot stand pat. We must create 20,000 new jobs
each month just to tread water. And Californians do not intend to tread water. I
want to be more than the biggest; we want to be the best.
As the 1st state in population we want to lead the nation in the quality of
state government. If we are to do this I believe we must immediately undertake :
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ten-point program to give California a more efficient, less costly and more responsive
State government.
1. Our Constitution must be revised. It now meanders for 245 pages. It takes
another 60 pages just for the index. It not only contains 256 amendments and over
75,000 words, but it's the only Constitution with an Article IV-Section 25, -Section
251/2, -Section 25 5/8, and Section 25 3/4. In short, it is a case of verbosity on
a rampage.
This might be merely ludicrous if it were not that the words interfere with the
deeds. By freezing into our basic governing document all the solutions to past prob-
lems, we are putting a straitjacket on our ability to solve future problems.
2. We must streamline the swarm of State commissions, State bureaus, State
agencies, and State departments. It is not enough to put a shiny tin weathervane on
top of an old barn. We must replace the rotten rafters and sagging floor boards.
There must be a statesmanlike reorganization of our executive branch of government to
give the people of California more and better services for their tax-dollars. We
cannot afford the wasteful duplication of having four separate agencies keep personnel
records on any given state employee, and seven separate state agencies collect taxes.
3. We must get rid of the super-administrators, the unnecessary and expensive
State-paid press agents, and all other surplus baggage that has accumulated in our
government. Governments exist to perform needed services, not provide needless jobs.
4. We must make maximum use of our career employees, as well as our elected of-
ficials. To this end, I believe the Lieutenant Governor should conduct year-round in-
vestigations into the operation of government agencies and make recommendations for
cost cutting and efficiency to the Governor.
5. We must reapportion the State Senate so as to give an adequate legislative
voice to the metropolitan centers of the state, while still maintaining the majority
representation from primarily rural areas.
6. We must have continuous two-year sessions of the State legislature. The
Constitutional requirement to hold budget-only sessions in even numbered years has
caused an erosion of legislative responsibility. The Governor, forced to call "spe-
cial sessions" during budget years, now has total control over these legislative
agenda. In these special sessions, the Governor is the only one who can determine
what is an "emergency." In the past we have seen such "emergency" matters as legis-
lation concerning cooking in hotel bedrooms!
Continuous two-year sessions will also permit long-range, in-depth committee
investigations, with no fear of two year delays on issues of major importance.
7. We must unfreeze the two-thirds of the State budget that is not subject to
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legislative review or control. In the State's current $2.9 billion budget, only a
little over $900 million was subjected to legislative scrutiny. We cannot have true
fiscal responsibility until these mandatory appropriations and earmarked funds are ex-
posed to the legislative searchlight.
8. We must initiate a "California Crusade for New Business Investment." Our
business leaders and public officials must forcefully take our case to the country.
We must adopt tax and other fiscal policies that will help us attract new indus-
try. We must reverse the trend that now sees some out-of-state industries passing
over California in the search for new plant sites.
9. We must also have better coordination of those state and private activities
that will make California's industrial and agricultural products competitive in for-
eign markets. I have personally seen the world-wide industrialization that now
threatens California products abroad. This 20th Century Industrial Revolution is a
great challenge to California. We must respond by making our products household words
in places that were once only exotic names on a map.
10. The Department of Finance should be relieved of its petty responsibilities
for such things as janitorial and grass-cutting services in order effectively to con-
centrate on planning for the overall growth of the State. Each State function cannot
be performed in a vacuum. The decision as to where to put a freeway determines more
than future traffic flow; it determines future area congestion, which in turn deter-
mines future costs of doing business in California, which in turn determines the
future economic health of our State. We must prevent highway planners or housing
planners from starting a chain reaction without taking into account the ultimate link.
It is time for the State Government to look at the forest as well as the trees. The
leadership for this kind of forward-looking planning must come from the Governor and
his top associates in the State administration.
Besides these ten proposals, during the past month I have made other recommenda-
tions in the specific context of improving government activities in water development,
education, and dealing with Communist activities in California. In the months ahead,
I shall point out other organizational changes that can give California more effec-
tive programs in public welfare, agriculture, transportation, and other vital areas
of State concern.
However, I want to make it clear that as important and necessary as I believe
these changes to be, they are not a cure-all for California's problems. Changing the
structure of government does not automatically change the substance of government. It
is like setting up the best possible organization to produce and sell a product.
Without the organization, there is little likelihood of successfully making a profit.
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But if the product does not fulfill consumer needs, even the best production force
and sales team will not make the product a success in the long run.
By the same token, even the most streamlined operation will not guarantee suc-
cess if the organization lacks decisive leadership, imagination, and drive.
Therefore, the success of our State, just as the success of a business, depends
on three factors: responsible and forceful leadership; superior products -- in this
case, programs that adequately meet the needs of a dynamic, growing State; and sound
organization designed to keep costs down and production up.
This is not just the job of our elected public officials. As citizens, we do
not fulfill our responsibilities to ourselves and our State by casting a ballot and
then standing pat until the next election. California's destiny will only be ful-
filled by progressive partnership of the private and public sectors of our State. I
know that we can harness the energy of our citizens and our government to make
California not only the biggest but also the best. Together we can make California
a model of cost-conscious government with a conscience.
May 17, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO. U.S
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Excerpt of Remarks by
Richard M. Nixon
Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, California
For Flat PMs Release
Noon, May 18, 1962
Friday, May 18
San Francisco, May 18 -- Richard Nixon today proposed a 10-point program to re-
organize California's government in a major address before the Commonwalth Club here.
"The need for revitalized government is greater in California than in any other
state in the Union," the Republican candidate for Governor declared. "I believe we
must immediately undertake a 10-point program to give California a more efficient,
less costly and more responsive State government."
Nixon called for the following actions:
1) Revise the State Constitution, a 75,000-word document which he called
"verbosity on a rampage.'
2) Streamline the swarm of State commissions, bureaus, agencies and departments.
He said, "It is not enough to put a shiny tin weathervane on top of an old barn. We
must replace the rotten rafters and sagging floor boards."
3) Eliminate "the super-administrators, the expensive State-paid press agents
and all other surplus baggage that accumulated in our government."
4) Make maximum use of career employees and elected officials, with the Lieuten-
ant Governor conducting year-round investigations into the operation of government
agencies.
5) Reapportion the State Senate.
6) Hold continuous two-year sessions of the Legislature.
7) Unfreeze the two-thirds of the State budget which is not subject to legisla-
tive review or control.
8) Initiate a "California Crusade for New Business Investment." Nixon said,
"Our business leaders and public officials must forcefully take our case to the
country."
9) Make "our products household words in places that were once only exotic names
on a map" by better coordination of those state and private activities which will
make California's industrial and agricultural products competitive in foreign markets.
10) Relieve the Department of Finance of its "janitorial and grass-cutting"
functions so that it can "effectively concentrate on planning for the overall growth
of the State."
May 17, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Campaign Letter by
Richard Nixon
Los Angeles
For Flat AMs Release
May 18, 1962
Friday, May 18, 1962
Following is a letter which Richard Nixon is sending today to the chairmen of
nearly 40 business and professional groups working throughout the state in his cam-
paign:
As a member of a business or professional group working on behalf of my candi-
dacy for Governor, I want you to know my views on the present economic climate in
our State.
Over the years, the people of California have demonstrated a remarkable capacity
for breaking ground in a great variety of fields -- in aircraft design and production,
in architecture and building, in electronics and other areas of science, in agricul-
ture, in finance, in fabrics and clothing, in the energy industries, and in many other
areas of economic growth.
Many of these activities started as small businesses. They have grown, prosper-
ed, and created opportunities for employment and investment. This is because Cali-
fornians have been eager to do original thinking, to do things that have never been
done before, and to devise better ways of doing old things.
Unfortunately, now it is true that thoughtful people are having doubts that this
great record can be continued. These doubts are based, not on any question of the
capacity of the people, but on the widespread and well-founded belief that we have a
State Government that is indecisive, that is loaded with second-rate administrators,
and that is spendthrift. Such a stand pat government cannot inspire the sort of
favorable business climate that is necessary in order to create 20,000 new jobs each
month.
Already, we have heard the President of Cannon Electric say that his firm's next
expansion will be in the Midwest. The treasurer of another California-based company
-- which built its latest plant in Nebraska -- was equally blunt: "We can't compete
if we keep our operations here." A third executive also has said that his company
has "made its last expansion in California."
We must immediately reverse this trend and again inspire confidence in the eco-
nomic growth of California. We can do this by electing a governor who will hold the
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line against the spiral of record-breaking budgets and increased taxes. We can do
this by electing a governor who will correct the unsound fiscal policies of the State;
who will wipe out frills and extravagance; who will cut red tape and excess paper-
work, and who will streamline and reorganize government operations.
But equally important, we can inspire a new wave of business confidence by
electing a governor who will not be in the hip pocket of the left-wing California
Democratic Council, and will not run to Washington to get a job done before he turns
to private enterprise.
These actions will close the leadership gap and the job gap in California. I
pledge that I will take such forceful and positive actions as Governor.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all the work you have been doing
in the campaign, and to wish you success as we work together for victory in June
and November.
Sincerely,
Dick Nixon
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May 16, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Letter to Katanga Minister of
Foreign Affairs,
from RICHARD NIXON
For Flat AMs Release
Los Angeles, California
Monday
May 21, 1962
May 21, 1962
Because of his pledge to devote full time to California affairs, Richard Nixon
today declined a request to help mediate the conference on Congo unity between Prime
Minister Adoula of the Central Government in Leopoldville and President Tshombe of
Katanga.
The request was made by Evariste Kimba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Katanga,
in a letter to Mr. Nixon. Mr. Kimba wrote, "We need your help, and we are sure to
receive it from your honest mind and your well-known fair-play."
Mr. Nixon replied, "All my energies and resources are completely devoted to
bringing responsible government to California. It is therefore impossible for me to
accept your request for my services."
Mr. Nixon, who visited Africa in 1957, also wrote, "The course of African de-
velopment could well prove to be the decisive factor in the conflict between the
forces of freedom and international communism." He further wrote Foreign Minister
Kimba that "the Congo must be peacefully united, productive, and responsive to the
principles of freedom."
The complete text of the correspondence between Mr. Nixon and Foreign Minister
Kimba is attached.
May 18, 1962
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ETAT DU KATANGA
Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres
Cabinet Du Ministre
Elizabethville,
Monday 26.3.62
To Vice-President NIXON,
Sir,
Our President Moise TSHOMBE is now in Leopoldville, to try,
with fair-play and faith, to save his people.
We must have confidence in the guarantees which have been
given to him.
But, after the adventures of Coquilhatville, after Kitona,
and after two "wars" of the "O.N.U.C", we now need you personally
to control those guarantees.
So, I, Evariste KIMBA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Katanga, in the name of the Katangese Nation and in my own
name, I ask you to help our President to save peace in Central
Africa.
I can assure you that, if no outsider comes to disturb the
conversations, the two honest African partners of the conference,
Mister Prime Minister ADOULA and our President TSHOMBE will find
together the solution to all the problems.
For that, we need your help, and we are sure to receive
it from your honest mind and your well-known fair-play.
With the best regard of Katanga to you, representative
of the American people.
Yours Faithfully,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Katanga
Evariste KIMBA.
The Honorable Evariste Kimba
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Katanga
Elizabethville, Congo
May 21, 1962
Dear Mr. Minister:
I am honored by your request for me to help assure the success of
the conference on Congo unity between President Tshombe and Prime
Minister Adoula.
However, as you may know, I am now a candidate for Governor of
my native State of California. All my energies and resources are
completely devoted to bringing responsible government to California.
I have made a pledge to the people of California that I will devote
my full time and ability to finding solutions to the problems of
the State. It is therefore impossible for me to accept your request
for my services.
When I was Vice President of the United States, I was most
fortunate in having the opportunity to travel in Africa. I saw
at first-hand the tremendous potentialities of your great continent.
The course of African development, as its people assume the respon-
sibilities of independence and self-government, could well prove to
be the decisive factor in the conflict between the forces of freedom
and international communism.
This is one reason why I believe that a satisfactory solution
to the present division in the Congo is imperative. The Congo must
be peacefully united, productive, and responsive to the principles
of freedom. In your work toward this goal, I send my very best
wishes to you, President Tshombe, and Prime Minister Adoula.
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
REMARKS OF RICHARD NIXON
FOR IMMEDIATE
At Dinner of
RELEASE
CALIFORNIA WOMEN IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Monterey, California
May 19, 1962
Today the world is divided by two competing economic systems. Behind
the Iron Curtain, Khrushchev 18 betting on eventual domination by a state-
controlled economy. We stand just as firmly for the free enterprise system.
Yet this simple equation has been complicated in our own country by
people who have misunderstood the meaning of free enterprise.
How many times have you heard these people say, "The profit system
is not concerned for the people?" Such people draw cartoons in their minds of
cigar-smoking fat cats with dollar signs on their lapels.
Their concern for the people leads them always to seek governmental
solutions: Old people need medical care -- let government do it; agriculture
is over-productive -- let government regulate 1t; television has too many crime
shows -- let government control it.
But let's get to the root of this phrase -- "concern for the people."
Is it concern for the people to increase tax-supported government spending
beyond the point of no return? Is it concern for the people to pay for waste-
ful government projects by increasing taxes? Is it concern for the people to
promote inflationary government policies that will raise consumer prices? Is
it concern for the people to have government assume an anti-business attitude
that scares away plant and job expansion?
of course not. Government does not cause the basic economic well-
being of the American people. The success of the free enterprise system does.
Profits create business expansion and this creates new jobs. Economically
speaking, a true concern for the people means supporting those actions that will
lead to more and better jobs.
I strongly believe that opinion leaders, such as members of this
organization, must constantly tell this story. Explain how industry plows back
profits into research and expansion, and how this in turn makes more jobs and
better products. Explain how efficient and cost-cutting government keeps taxes
down, which in turn attracts new businesses and creates new jobs. Explain how
top-flight leadership and sound fiscal management by our government will create
business confidence, which in turn attracts new industry and new jobs.
This is a non-partisan story -- it applies equally to Republicans and
Democrats, labor leaders and shopkeepers. And it is the most important story
that can possibly be told if our State and our nation are to pull out front in
the battle between freedom and communism.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
CONTACT: Sandy Quinn/Ron Ziegler (DUnkirk 5-9161)
FYI to Press, Radio, TV
MAJOR STATEMENT ON AGRICULTURE
Following a meeting of the statewide "Farmers for Nixon" Committee
in Fresno last weekend, gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon today re-
leased the following major statement on agriculture. Leaders of the
former Vice President's farm group extend across both party lines
and represent all of California's vast farming interests, from the
beef ranges of Modoc County to the citrus groves of San Diego and
Imperial Counties.
Co-chairmen of the Farmers for Nixon committee include: Brunel
Christensen, Likely; J. L. Sullivan, Yuba City; Harvey A. Lynn, Arlington;
Raymond F. Hansen, Norwalk; S. V. Christiersen, Salinas; John Sparkman,
Poway; Earl S. Smittcamp, Clovis; Warren Brock, El Centro; W. B. Camp,
Bakersfield; and Keith Reeve, Tracy.
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5/21/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement on California Agriculture
Richard M. Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat AM Release
May 23, 1962
Wednesay May 23, 1962
The Brown Administration's record in agriculture favors one commodity -- the
political plum. I propose to replace this bitter fruit with an eight-point action
program that will benefit both the California farmer and consumer.
California's agriculture and its allied industries add $12 billion annually to
our state's total economic product. For every hundred workers on the farm, there are
263 others who are directly dependent upon agriculture. This means that every fourth
worker in California is directly dependent upon agriculture. Clearly what happens to
farming is of concern to every Californian. Agriculture is California's number one
industry and we all have a major stake in its prosperity and growth.
1. To restore the farmer's confidence in his government, I will replace Brown's
political appointees with men of quality and experience who are thoroughly versed in
the complex problems of our state's agriculture.
Brown has made three consecutive politically-inspired partisan appointments to
the key position of Director of Agriculture.
First there was William Warne, a man who had spent the previous decade out of
the country and who had not been near California farm problems since the mid-30's.
Brown later allowed William Warne to try to kidnap the State Department of Agricul-
ture and bury it in his bureaucratic maze, even though the Legislature had specifi-
cally directed otherwise. It was only the united and spontaneous opposition of all
farm groups across the State that blocked this self-serving move.
Next came James Ralph, a newcomer to California, who was fired by the national
administration for being involved in the Billy Sol Estes scandal.
And now there is Charles Paul, another newcomer, who was picked for purely polit-
ical purposes over the heads of better qualified career men and farm leaders.
2. I will support a Federal minimum wage for agriculture and will oppose a
California minimum wage law for farm workers. Such a California statute would only
serve to put California agriculture in a position where it could not possibly com-
pete with states that are currently paying far less for farm labor.
3. I will work to see that supplemental supplies of foreign labor are available
when there is a shortage of qualified domestic farm labor. There are times at the peak
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of harvest when foreign labor is necessary to gather in its crops. Brown has given
the silent treatment to the need for such supplemental labor, even at times when the
need for such assistance has been certified to by members of his own cabinet.
Brown and members of his staff have joined with such persons as former U. S.
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Jerry Holleman, in adding harassing restrictions to the
use of supplemental labor. Holleman is another man who was caught with his plan
greased by Billy Sol Estes.
There are many fine farm organizations in our state that have worked diligently
to insure themselves of an adequate supply of domestic labor. I will encourage these
voluntary farm groups in their activities in setting up referral offices and in their
efforts to use domestic labor to the fullest extent.
4. I will use my experience in international affairs to find ways to increase
our farm exports. California's agriculture is based on specialty crops. Only about
1½ of our farm income is from Federal subsidies. There is a very real danger that
these unsubsidized crops, with little political weight on the national scales, could
be put on the auction block under the new international trade agreements program.
Brown has no experience in international negotiations. Moreover, he is under pressure
from his party in Washington. His typical response has again been to call do-nothing
meetings. We need a governor who will stand up and fight for California's products.
I will use my knowledge of the international bargaining table to see that the foreign
market for our commodities is not traded away by State Department negotiators.
5. I will oppose all Federal attempts to impose the 160-acre limitation on State
financed water projects. The 160-acre limitation was originally designed to assure
equitable distribution of Federally-owned and Federally-reclaimed land. To use it as
a political instrument for expropriation is nothing but a cynical scheme. Brown has
talked out of both sides of his mouth on the 160-acre limitation, while his left-wing
California Democratic Council has handed out the party line to support this outmoded
concept.
6. I will see that the voices of all commodity groups are fully and equally
heard. California is the greatest agricultural producing state in the nation. This
wealth-creating power stems from more than 200 crops, many of which comprise the bulk
of United States production. Cotton growers, dairymen, stockmen, fruit and vegetable
farmers--all must be able to present their distinct and special problems to a Governor
who will not play favorites.
7. One of my first acts as Governor will be to work towards restoring the State
Board of Agriculture to its former outstanding position in the nation. Now it is
composed of eight members of Brown's political party and one traditionally academic
appointment. For some time a tacit requirement for appointment to this Board was
membership in the California Democratic Farmers Congress, a James Ralph partisan
innovation.
8. Finally, I will replace indecisions with the strong leadership our State so
desperately needs in all agricultural areas.
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May 21, 1962
NIXON FOR GOVERNOR HEADQUARTERS
3908 Wilshire Boulevard
NEWS RELEASE
Los Angeles 5, California
DUnkirk 5-6191
Remarks of Richard Nixon
Santa Barbara, 12:00 Noon
Nixon-for-Governor Rally, Granada Theater
For PM release 5/22,
also - Combined Republican Clubs
8:00 pm - Paul Revere Junior High School
Brentwood, California
California is in the big leagues. Yet our present governor has an uncar
ability for filling his state administration team with cast-offs and bush-lea
Let's look at Brown's earned run average.
Brown went down swinging on his two most recent appointments to the Board
Regents to the University of California. What could be more important than chc
the most highly qualified people in the state to lead our great system of highe
education? Yet Brown looked on these positions as pure political plums and made
appointments accordingly, although such major educational centers as Santa Barba
and San Diego are not even represented on the Board. One of Brown's new appointe
Fred Dutton, is not even physically in California. He now lives in Washington, D
Brown also struck out in the field of agriculture--our number one industry i
the state. Last week Brown's former State Director of Agriculture, James Ralph, 1
fired by the national administration for accepting favors from Billie Sol Estes.
And a reputable newspaper columnist wrote on Sunday that Brown offered to take Ra
ack into California government last February. This is the sort of judge of char
er that is now Governor of California.
In the vital area of water development, Brown again took a third strike. He
ointed William Warne as his trusted super administrator of the Resources Agenc
osition that ranks just under the Governor in importance. Who is Warne? He's
who hadn't lived in California since the 1930's and had been mixed up in some
he most wasteful and inefficient chapters of our foreign aid program.
In these three major areas--education, agriculture and water--Brown's record
ntments is no hits, no runs, three errors. Clearly, it is time to put Brown
on the bench.
hat we desperately need in state government is not just a decisive leader a
>r, but a Governor who will surround himself with men and women of quality,
women with fresh ideas, men and women of proven administrative ability.
this way can we close the leadership gap in California government.
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NIXON FOR GOVERNOR HEADQUARTERS
3908 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles 5, California
DUnkirk 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
Nixon Rally
Paul Revere Junior High School
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8:00 PM, Pacific Palisades, Calif,
Next Tuesday, May 29th, I am going on statewide television with a no-holds barred
4-hour telethon.
Californians are fed up with the low road that Brown has been travelling in this
campaign. In a desperate attempt to smokescreen his miserable record of failure and
flip-flops, Brown has launched a massive personal smear attack.
The time has come to answer these attacks and to launch a counter-attack on
Brown's record.
On television next Tuesday I am going to answer the smears and innuendos and
bury them once and for all. For four hours, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., I'm going to
meet head-on every low blow that Brown's political press agents have hurled at me.
There will be 24 telephones. A battery of operators will answer them and pass
on questions to me. Let the questions be rough and tough; fire in hard fast ones,
sinkers, sliders, or low curves -- knucklers or even spitters -- I'll answer them.
I'll give complete answers to questions of how to cut Brown's budget -- the
highest in the nation, dealing with the Communist menace in California, water devel-
opment, agriculture, education, law enforcement, and every other vital issue that
concerns the people of California.
If the voters want to hear about Brown's connections with the Hoffa-Teamster
Union and Dutch Woxberg, or about Brown's connection with James Ralph, who was kicked
out of Washington for his role in the Billie Sol Estes scandal -- I'll tell them.
Every person in the state will be able to tune in the Nixon Telethon next Tues-
day, May 29, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., and every person in the state will be able to
hone questions to the Nixon Telethon -- and get straight from the shoulder answers,
ot the flip-flops and indecision for which Brown has become notorious throughout
he nation.
The WIN WITH NIXON TELETHON will originate at KTTV (Channel 11), Los Angeles,
nd will be carried on the following stations at the times indicated:
Bakersfield
KBAK-TV (29) 9 pm to 1 am
Chico
KHSL-TV
(12)
9 pm to 1 am
Fresno
KFRE-TV
(30)
9 pm to 1 am
Los Angeles
KTTV
(11)
9 pm to 10 pm and 10:30 pm to 1 am
Oakland
KTVU
(2)
9 pm to 1 am
Sacramento
KOVR
(13)
9 pm to 10 pm and 11 pm to 1 am
San Diego
KOGO-TV
(10)
10 pm to 11 pm and 11:30 pm to 1 am
Santa Barbara
KEY-TV
(3)
11:15 pm to 1 am
22, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of RICHARD NIXON
Junior Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
Sheraton-Palace Hotel
San Francisco, California
Noon - May 24, 1962
Improving California's business climate is not a partisan political matter.
Every Californian should agree that we can do better. And every Californian
should want to do better.
We have been above the national unemployment average for the past three
years. The hard fact of life is that if we don't create 250, 000 new jobs annually,
we will have an even more serious job gap.
Now, what can we do? Here are four major areas in which we can all work:
1. We can create a business climate that will be attractive to
new industry.
As I said last week at the Commonwealth Club, this means
that we must initiate a "California Crusade for New Business
Investment. 11 Our business leaders and public officials must
forcefully take our case to the country.
2. We can create a business climate that will retain existing
industry in California.
We have already heard the President of Cannon Electric say
that his firm's next expansion will be in the Midwest, and the
treasurer of another California-based company state, "We
can't compete if we keep our operations here."
High taxes are a prime reason for these statements. As the
State Director of Employment says, "Business is sensitive to
tax burdens. " To counter rising taxes, we must have cost-
conscious State government. We must have fiscal responsi-
bility in State spending and State procedures. Only in this way
can we be assured that our taxes will not go up. And only in
this way can we have any hope of a tax cut in the future.
3. We can create a climate in California that is fair to both
management and labor.
This means that government must not use its vast power
unfairly to tip the delicate balance in labor-management
negotiations.
Labor and management leaders must show a real responsi-
bility for both the welfare of the workers and the potential
profits that are necessary to create jobs, further research
and build new plants.
4. We can create a climate in which new ideas can thrive.
The whole international field, with the Common Market and
accelerated competition, offers great promise along with
great challenge.
California business and government leaders can take bold fresh
strides toward turning the eyes of the country and the world
outward to the vast Pacific market.
LAW ENFORCEMENT STATEMENT
By Richard Nixon
For Flat PMs Release
May 25, 1962
Friday May 25th
The following statement by Richard Nixon was heard this afternoon (Friday, May 25)
over radio stations KNX in Los Angeles and KABL in San Francisco:
The Governor's office is the weakest link in the law-enforcement chain in
California.
Our state has the best local law-enforcement officials in the country. Yet they
operate with one hand tied behind their backs because the Governor fails to give them
decisive leadership and good strong backing.
The whole law-enforcement climate is affected by the quality of the man in the
room at the top. When, as on the Chessman case, the Governor publicly wrings his
hands, shed copious tears and takes one step forward for each two to the rear, this
attitude is felt throughout the state and duly recorded on the underworld seismograph.
And the quake reaches tidal proportions when the Governor also opposes a re-
sponsible anti-crime program in the Legislature.
In 1959 and 1961, at least 15 measures were supported by the California District
Attorneys Association, the California Peace Officers Association and the State Sher-
iffs Association. The adoption of this program would have brought stronger criminal
penalties and more effective narcotics control.
Where did Brown stand? He bottled up legislation to protect the identity of
informers, who are essential in narcotics cases; he torpedoed efforts to reasonably
define our search and seizure laws. In short, the Governor's office lobbied against
the law-enforcement program and killed it.
On the insidious narcotics problem, this is Brown's record: 1959 -- Brown re-
fuses to recognize a problem and does nothing; 1960 -- Despite a petition signed by
nearly 1,000,000 citizens, Brown again ignores the need for better narcotics-contral
legislation; 1961 -- Three days after the state Assembly passes an anti-narcotics
program, Brown finally gets on the bandwagon. Now, the Governor claims the credit
for legislative action!
In 1962, effective law-enforcement legislation again ran smack into a Brown
roadblock. The Governor was asked to put the question of local-state jurisdiction on
vice laws before the special session of the Legislature. The Carol Lane decision had
ruled that softer state law superseded stronger local laws. The Legislature could
have taken immediate action to clarify jurisdictions and put strong local laws back
into effect. Under the California Constitution, the Governor was the only man who
could have brought this vital issue before the Legislature. The Governor-refused
to act.
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This, then, is the law-enforcement climate in California today. This is the kind
of support that the Governor's office is giving our dedicated state, county and local
law-enforcement officials.
Today's serious crime wave in some of our major cities is indicative of the
Governor's attitude on the problems of law-enforcement - Brown gives lip service,
not muscle. but only an ostrich with its head in the sand could fail to see the
shocking picture that now confronts every Californian:
1. From 1954 through 1960, California's population increased by 27 percent;
our state's rate of major crime increased 90 percent.
2. In one year, 1960, there were more major crimes committed in California
than in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania combined -- three states which to-
gether have double the population of California.
3. Out-of-state crime czars now have a firm foothold in California, according
to statements by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by the United States Commis-
sioner of Narcotics, by the Joint Judiciary Committee on the Administration of Jus-
tice, by the Rackets Subcommittee in the State Assembly and by United States Con-
gressional investigation committees.
4. Our prisons are overcrowded and our prison officials are overburdened. In
the last three years -- in close-security facilities -- there have been 40 cases of
riots, murders and escapes.
Those are the facts which our Governor has smugly brushed aside or denied.
I believe we must have an immediate six-point action program to replace current
complacency from the Governor's office, to provide the tools for effective local law-
enforcement, and to make maximum use of our state's first-rate authorities on crime
control and crime prevention.
1. We must have a governor who will give strong, decisive leadership. The
governor, by word and deed, influences the whole law-enforcement climate in the state.
California cannot afford a governor who will hear no evil and see no evil. Crime
must be recognized, rooted out, and made to pay the ultimate penalty when necessary.
2. We must have a governor who will encourage and support our conscientious
local law-enforcement officials. The Governor, instead of raising obstacles, should
present a realistic legislative program after consultation with the law-enforcement
associations. Such a program should include the ultimate penalty as a possible sen-
tence for big-time dope peddlers, as well as immediate action to overcome the adverse
effects of the Carol Lane decision.
3. We must have a governor who will not be influenced by the California
Democratic Council. The CDC proposes to set up local citizens boards to investigate
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"mistreatment" of defendants at the hands of law-enforcement officials, rather than
relying on our courts and removing obstacles in the path of sound law-enforcement.
4.
We must have a governor who will switch gears from neutral to high on the
necessary expansion of prison facilities. And we must have a governor who will take
steps to eliminate the causes of prison riots.
5. We must have a governor who will immediately set up a top-level state crime
commission to coordinate the fight for a safer California.
We must make better use of our expert criminologists, penologists, local and
county law officers in our fight to get the necessary laws, and to give every pro-
fessional assistance available in our state.
6.
We must have a governor who will give meaningful encouragement to our
voluntary agencies, church groups, and boys clubs in their programs of crime pre-
vention.
These are the actions that will assure the safety of the citizens of California.
These are the actions that will close the leadership gap in the Governor's office.
And these are the actions that will make our state a model to the nation in crime
prevention and crime control.
May 24, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
112
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of
Richard Nixon
Friday, May 25, 1962
For Flat AM Release
7:30 p.m., Nixon for Governor Rally
Saturday, May 26, 1962
Glendale Civic Auditorium
Glendale, California
As we enter the final week of the primary campaign, we are under attack from
"Mr. Inside" and "Mr. Outside."
"Mr. Inside" is what I call the complacency of some of our fellow Republicans.
We must all remember that the June 5th primary will determine more than who heads
our State ticket in the fall. It will also test our strength across the board -- for
U.S. Senate, for the U.S. House of Representatives, for Statewide offices and for
the State Legislature.
I cannot emphasize too strongly the significance of choosing outstanding candi-
dates for the legislature. These posts are the foundation on which we build good
government in California. The best answer to big government in Washington is better
government in California. And the only way to get better State and local government
is to vote and work on June 5th.
As the number one State in the nation, all eyes are now focused on our actions.
The size of the Republican vote in the primary will be our way of saying, "We are
strong, we are on the move, we will win in November."
The minor differences within our Party must not cloud our major areas of agree-
ment. We must let the people know that Republicans will stand solidly united after
the primary in battling an inept, inadequate, and inferior State Administration.
Now let's turn to "Mr. Outside" -- the campaign of smear and innuendo that
Governor Brown is waging to throw the voters off his trail of indecision and wasteful
spending.
All Republicans have a stake in preventing Brown's irresponsible attacks from
covering up the real issue -- his indecisive leadership for nearly four years.
This is why I now want to set the record straight and answer Brown's smears
point-by-point.
1. This is my answer to Brown's presidential ambition smear.
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NIXON 2-2-2-2
Less than eight months after he became Governor in 1959, Brown announced he
would accept the Democratic nomination for President. (August 18, 1959, Associated
Press). We all know how his frustrated ambitions ended in fiasco at the 1960
presidential convention.
Now Brown tries to cover up this pathetic record by smearing my unequivocal
pledge to serve a full term as Governor -- something Brown had no intention of doing
when he was elected.
2. This is my answer to Brown's international experience smear.
Brown tries to cover up his own inadequacies in international affairs by
smearing my record as a liability for service as Governor.
But the people know that first-hand knowledge of such matters as world trade
and international negotiations will be a vital asset to California. California
industry, agriculture and labor are threatened by foreign competition. Brown is
totally lacking in what it takes to stand up for these California interests.
I have the background, the knowledge, and the will to fight California's
battles in this important arena.
3. This is my answer to Brown's anti-labor smear.
Brown tries to cover up his close relations with the ilk of Dutch Woxberg,
a former Jimmy Hoffa lieutenant, who received a top State appointment from Brown.
Brown tries to cover up the support being given him by the Hoffa-controlled
Teamster bosses. He does this by smearing me as anti-labor.
What I'm "anti" is union dictators like Hoffa who suppress the voices of the
rank-and-file union members.
What I'm for is the end of wasteful government spending and spiraling taxes
which rob the pay envelopes of every California working family.
4. This is my answer to Brown's "bully" smear.
Brown tries to cover up his own use of the enormous political power of the
State government by smearing me as a "bully."
Brown has the use of 51 State-paid press agents and countless State-paid
researchers. He wields the vast lever of State patronage and campaigns luxuriously
in an $80,000 air-conditioned bus,
Then he smears me as a "bully."
I take my case to the people without the backstopping of State political
appointees, a swollen budget, and scores of lackeys. Who is the "bully"?
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5/25/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Sandy Quinn-DU 5-9161)
May 28, 1962
It is incredible that Gov. Brown claims not to have heard of a
letter from 43 of his top party leaders to his national chairman
urging cancellation of the recent House Un-American Activities
Committee meeting in Los Angeles.
Either Brown is not consulted on important policy positions in his
own party or this has all the earmarks of a cover-up.
I am now releasing the full text of this letter so Brown will have
no excuse to claim ignorance as the reason for refusing to stand up
and repudiate this left-wing attack on the investigation of Communists
in California.
Brown apparently hopes to have the support of the left-wing Calif-
ornia Democratic Council without losing any votes of those who are
dedicated to rooting out and exposing communism in California. But
unfortunately for the Governor, the voters are fed up with his fence
straddling and buck passing.
This letter speaks for itself. Now we can only wait to hear from
Gov. Brown.
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5/27/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Welfare Statement
by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat PMs Release
May 29, 1962
Tuesday, May 29, 1962
CONTACT: Sandy Quinn/Ron Ziegler (DUnkirk 5-9161)
Richard Nixon made the following statement this afternoon (May 29) over radio
stations KNX in Los Angeles and KNBC in San Francisco:
Governor Brown's contribution to welfare programs in California has been loose
administration, excessive red tape, and unproductive cost increases.
Before Brown came to office, California had developed a liberal and humane rec-
ord in welfare matters,
Since Brown has been in office, this is the record:
1.
Costs have skyrocketed. State funds for welfare programs have risen over
25% in the last two years, while our population has gone up only 7.5%.
2. Laxity and red tape have caused two national magazines to single out Cali-
fornia's Aid to Needy Children and Unemployment Insurance programs as grim examples
of slipshod and self-defeating administration.
3. Brown's Administration has allowed unscrupulous individuals to take ad-
vantage of the humanitarian aims of the welfare programs. The investigation of an
unmarried mother of three children in San Jose is a case in point. She had received
more than $20,000 in welfare payments, although she lived in a $31,000 home, had a
$1,000 mink coat, a $3,200 automobile, $1,000 of French provincial furniture, and the
services of a gardener.
4.
Brown's State Board of Social Welfare has contributed to the breaking-up of
homes by ruling that the reason for the absence of the father is immaterial in Aid to
Needy Children cases. This has caused parents to separate solely to get public as-
sistance. In one case where a father earned $242 a month, his family received $364
monthly in public assistance once he had left his wife.
5.
Brown's answer to these problems is more staff at county expense. Yet our
dedicated caseworkers are already so snowed-under with form-filling, memo-writing, and
a five-foot shelf of regulations that they literally do not have time for casework.
This immersion in a sea of papers is also responsible for the enormous and costly
staff turnover -- now 25-33% a year.
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We must take immediate action to eliminate these roadblocks that obscure the
laudable aims of our welfare programs. People become aged, illnesses are crippling,
children are neglected, families are deserted, unemployment increases. We must be
concerned for those who are handicapped, either by physical, social or economic
forces over which they have little control.
We must get more service for less money from our social welfare programs. We
deserve a better deal as taxpayers. And those on public assistance deserve a better
deal as human beings.
Therefore, I propose a five-point action program of welfare reform.
1. We must immediately replace the segmented and costly approach to social
welfare problems with inter-departmental coordination. For example, unemployment,
under-employment, and racial discrimination are all sources of the dependency pro-
blem. There must be a closer tie between the Department of Employment and the Wel-
fare Department. Some Employment office representatives should work in Welfare
Department offices. Adult education facilities and services should be brought into
this program to increase employment skills.
2. We must clear away the underbrush of regulations so that caseworkers and
administrators will be able to concentrate on the families needing assistance, rather
than being forced to give most of their attention to an endless stream of petty
details.
3. We must have greater local control and local autonomy to meet local condi-
tions. State and county relations are currently at a low point. Instead of team-
work, there is suspicion and mistrust. Instead of leadership, there is dictation and
duplication from the State to the counties in which the programs must be carried out.
4.
We must restore the concept of personal responsibility. We must refocus
our attention on helping people to help themselves, rather than just doling out money.
The welfare programs must be more than a method of transferring funds. Prevention
and rehabilitation must be the basis of all programs.
5. A concentrated; effort must be made to re-unite ANC families. And where rec-
onciliation of families is not possible, more effort should be made to obtain support
payments from the absent father. Some counties are doing a good job in this area,
but the Brown Administration has frowned on these efforts as "punitive."
These actions will assure that our tax dollars are spent in the most constructive
and waste-free manner. And these actions will assure that no scandal or administra-
tive snafu will threaten our future ability to help the honest and unfortunate people
who are relying on our assistance,
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May 28, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
18
LITHS. U.S.A.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat AMs Release
May 29, 1962
May 30, 1962
Governor Brown plays a strange game of "truth or consequences."
He has his hatchet man, Roger Kent, ask me a series of misleading questions, but
he continues to ignore my questions to him.
Here are some questions that Brown can answer with one word -- yes or no.
1.
Has Brown now heard of the letter that 43 of his top party leaders sent to
his national chairman urging cancellation of the House Un-American Activites Committee
hearings in Los Angeles because they "can be only harmful to the cause" of the Demo-
cratic Party of California?
Yes or No?
2. Will Brown publicly repudiate this letter?
Yes or No?
3. Will Brown publicly repudiate the resolution of the California Young Demo-
crats opposing the loyalty oaths?
Yes or No?
4.
Will Brown publicly repudiate these resolutions of the California Demo-
cratic Council: repeal of loyalty oaths, abolition of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, admission of Red China into the UN, presidential review of
Soviet Spy Sobell's conviction and reduction of military expenditures?
Yes or No?
Brown has called the CDC his strong right arm. Brown is confused again. The
CDC appears to be his left arm. Does Brown's right hand know what his left hand is
doing?
Brown has called upon me as the leader of the Republican Party in California to
repudiate the extreme right-wing groups. In view of my action, why won't Brown now
accept my challenge and repudiate the CDC and the other left-wing extremists?
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5/29/30
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHE
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Mixon Rally
Veterans Memorial Building.
Visalia, California
For Flat AMs Release
May 30, 8:00 PM
Thursday, May 31
California needs a Governor who will stand up and fight for our State's agri-
cultural and industrial exports.
We are now the number one exporter in the nation. In 1960, our exports totaled
nearly $1.8 billion, of which almost half a billion dollars came from farm products.
This means that 10% of all U. S. farm exports come from California.
Today our farm and factory products are threatened from all sides. From abroad,
we face the stiffest competition in history. While from Washington, D. C., there is
the very real danger that State Department negotiators could put our specialty crops
on the auction block under the new international trade agreements program.
Instead of calling do-nothing meetings, here is one action that Governor Brown
should take right now.
Brown should immediately meet with the California Congressional delegation to
choose an above-politics candidate for membership on the United States Tariff Com-
mission.
As of tomorrow, May 31st, there will be a vacancy on the six-man Tariff Commis-
sion. There is no Californian now on this important group. Surely the leading state
in exports deserves representation.
I am sure that everyone in Tulare County has seen the new statistics that show
county farm income on the decline for the second straight year. Farm income is down
over $11 million. The year before the drop was almost $8 million. Nearly every pro-
duct has been effected -- alfalfa hay, Valencia oranges, turkeys, cotton, cattle,
table grapes, emperor grapes and Muscats.
This trend must be reversed. I have already proposed an eight-point action pro-
gram to aid California farming. High up on my list of priorities is action to in-
crease farm exports. This is an area in which my long experience in international
affairs can pay big dividends for all the people of our State.
But of equal importance, we must return quality administration to the State's
handling of agriculture. We must end the Brown tradition of appointing political
hacks to the key position of Director of Agriculture. And we must restore the State
Board of Agriculture to its former outstanding position in the nation.
This I pledge to do as your Governor.
May 30, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Manhattan Beach Rally
For Flat AMs Release
8:00 p.m., June 1st
June 2nd
Contact: Sandy Quinn/Ron Ziegler DUnkirk 5-9161
I want California to have a Communist control program that will set an example
to the nation.
This is why I have repeatedly asked Governor Brown to repudiate the soft under-
belly of his party--the California Democratic Council.
I have asked Brown to show some backbone, stand up and be counted on these
three actions.
1. The letter from 43 of Brown's top party leaders urging cancellation of the
House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in Los Angeles.
2. The resolutions of the California Young Democrats against state loyalty oaths
and against the House Un-American Activities Committee.
3. Eight resolutions of the left-wing C.D.C.--including eventual admission of
Red China into the U.N., repeal of the loyalty oath, abolition of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities, presidential review for Soviet spy Morton Sobell, and
reduction of U.S. military expenditures.
Yet Brown remains silent. He has apparently mortgaged himself to this far left
fringe in return for past, present and future support.
Brown, in chameleon fashion, would like to be all colors--red, white and blue--
as political expediency dictates. But unfortunately for him, his tacit support of
the left-wing C.D.C. puts him squarely out of step with the National Democratic
Administration, the majority of Democrats in Congress, and the sentiment of millions
of California Democrats.
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In distinct contrast to Brown's silence, I have proposed a four-point action
program to combat the communist menace in California.
As Governor, I will:
1. Propose top-priority legislation to deny the use of tax-supported institu-
tions for speeches by any individual who refuses to comply with Federal and State
subversive control laws or refuses to testify before Grand Juries or legislative
committees investigating subversive activities.
2. I will stress hard-hitting enforcement of laws now on the books, including
loyalty oaths.
3. I will activate, on a statewide basis, educational programs on the tactics
and strategy of communism for both school children and adults.
4. I will emphasize the teaching of teachers and the use of authoritative
textbooks for maximum effectiveness in anti-communist education.
The alternatives before the people of California on this issue are strikingly
clear. There is Brown's do-nothing attitude. Or there is the opportunity to
develop an effective anti-communist program that will make our state the leader
in the nation.
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May 31, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Republican Community Center
3112 S. Western Avenue
Los Angeles, California
10:30 am., June 1, 1962
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A few months ago I read a letter to the editor in one of our local papers that
expressed in simple, direct language one of the most serious problems of our time --
one that hits our Negro citizens with particular hardship and that is all too often
neither understood nor fully appreciated by the community as a whole.
The letter read:
"I am a high school student and my question is, will there be any jobs available
when my fellow students and I are ready to go job hunting?
"I ask this because I have been watching friends and relatives go practically
out of their minds because they can't find work.
"One man in particular has not worked steady for two years. He supplies vegeta-
bles and fruits for his family from that spoiled and left at Twelfth and San Pedro
Streets. He is an American 27 years old. He is a baker by trade, yet qualifies for
other jobs."
The letter was signed by a student from Roosevelt High School.
This student was, of course, expressing more than dismay at the cruelty of blind
discrimination -- he was also expressing real concern for his future and wondering
whether there was any hope in this situation.
It is little wonder that we see the formation of organizations such as the Black
Muslims -- a group that has turned its back on hope and retreated to violence and
racism as a solution. But neither violence nor hate, whether directed at the Negro
or white can produce the changes we know must come and will come. These changes must
be based on cooperation and personal opportunities for promotion. We cannot have pro-
gress if we are going to encourage class and racial distinctions. We cannot achieve
progress and opportunity for all through purely legalistic approaches. A more posi-
tive approach is necessary. That is why, as Governor, I will use the moral and per-
suasive powers of my office to bring employers together for voluntary action in the
field of equal job opportunities, and opportunities for promotion.
This approach will give the high school student, who wrote the newspaper, and
others like him, the opportunities to lead full, useful and happy lives.
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5/31/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
Nixon For Governor Reception
Huntington-Sheraton Hotel
Pasadena, California
For Flat AMs Release
6:30 PM, May 31, 1962
Friday, June 1
Governor Brown is once again playing his characteristic Hamlet-like role of
agonizing indecision. His latest performance shows his adroit ability in the dra-
matic art of ducking difficult questions.
Six days ago I asked Brown to repudiate irresponsible actions of the extreme
left-wing California Democratic Council - and the people of California are still
waiting for an answer.
This is in sharp contrast to my public position on right-wing groups which Brown
discovered as a campaign issue six months after I had taken an unequivocal stand.
Yet Brown will not match my record by condemning his left-wing CDC support. He
feels that turn-about is not fair play.
Instead of giving direct answers to my questions Brown now charges that I am
attacking his loyalty. Brown knows that this is not true. What I'm attacking is
Brown's compulsion to straddle fences.
Last Tuesday night I spent four hours on television answering every question
that was put to me. I covered 151 subjects. Even Brown's hatchet man, Roger Kent,
got into the act. The voice was the voice of Kent but the hand was the hand of Brown.
Now I ask Brown to spend -- not four hours -- only four minutes answering these
questions. He can do so with one word -- yes or no.
1. Has Brown now heard of the letter that 43 of his top party leaders sent to
his national chairman urging cancellation of the House Un-American Activities Com-
mittee hearings in Los Angeles because they "can be only harmful to the cause" of the
Democratic Party of California?
Yes or No?
2. Will Brown publicly repudiate this letter?
Yes or No?
3. Will Brown publicly repudiate the resolution of the California Young Demo-
crats opposing state loyalty oaths and calling for the abolition of the House-
Un-American Activities Committee?
Yes or No?
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4. Will Brown publicly repudiate these resolutions of the California Democratic
Council: repeal of loyalty oaths, abolition of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities, admission of Red China into the UN, presidential review of Soviet Spy
Sobell's conviction and reduction of military expenditures?
Yes or No?
Brown has called the CDC his strong right arm. If this is so, let us hope that
Brown is left-handed.
Brown has called upon me as the leader of the Republican Party in California to
repudiate the extreme right-wing groups. In view of my action, why won't Brown now
accept my challenge and repudiate the CDC and the other left-wing extremists?
5/31/62
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NIXON
NEWS
FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Combined Service Clubs Luncheon
Santa Ana, California
For Flat PMs Release
12:15 PM, June 1, 1962
Friday, June 1
In the time it took us to eat our lunch today, 15 felonies were committed in
California.
There are 700 felonies -- or one every two minutes -- committed daily in our
State, according to the most recent statistics.
Equally shocking: There is a young person arrested every 2.8 minutes somewhere
in California -- 500 juvenile arrests daily.
And our crime climate is deteriorating, not improving. California leads the
nation in total offenses -- with nearly twice as many as New York. And there is
little hope for improvement until our first-rate local law-enforcement authorities
receive the proper support and encouragement from the State government.
No Californian should be satisfied with our present record.
There are many actions that State government can immediately undertake to re-
verse this insidious trend. This is not a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans
must join together to make California the first state in crime prevention.
Our dedicated local law-enforcement officials, who are the best in the country,
must have responsible legislation to back them up.
We must have realistic search and seizure laws that protect constitutional
rights without tying the hands of law-enforcement officers.
There must be legislation to give more protection to informants in narcotics
cases, where this is the only feasible way to secure arrests.
There must be legislation providing for the ultimate penalty for big-time dope
peddlers, who cynically corrupt our young people.
But the fight against crime cannot and should not be waged solely by government.
There is a great deal that can be done by voluntary organizations, church groups, and
service clubs.
Law-enforcement is government business, but crime prevention should be every-
body's business.
The strength of America has always been our private initiative. It was not
government that made America great -- it was free enterprise, individual responsibil
ity and private group action.
We must now harness this great force and this great strength in voluntary pro-
grams of education and recreation to halt juvenile delinquency and prevent crime.
These are programs for a better California tomorrow. Our young people deserve the
chance we can give them to lead full and productive lives.
May 31, 1962
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FOR GOVERNOR
LITHONG
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Letter to Editors from Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Sunday Release
June 1, 1962
June 3, 1962
The following is the text of a letter that Richard Nixon is sending to editors
of newspapers throughout California.
When I announced my candidacy for Governor, I promised to wage a hard-hitting
campaign in all 58 counties of California. I have now travelled through 40 counties,
seen 750,000 people, and logged 16,000 air miles -- the equivalent of 17 lengths of
the state.
My purpose has been to present
the people of California with a realistic pro-
gram of "Decisions for Progress."
On my 4-hour telethon, three million Californians heard me answer questions on
146 subjects. I have made major proposals on law-enforcement, welfare, education,
government reorganization, water, fighting Communism in California, agriculture, and
cutting state expenditures. If copies of these statements are not in your files, I
will be happy to provide them.
Yet Governor Brown deliberately attempts to create the impression that I am not
discussing state issues. To set the record straight, and correct a cynical distor-
tion, I would like to set out in capsule form my positions on some of the major issues
in this campaign. I have pledged unequivocally that I will serve a full four year
term as governor.
COMMUNISM:
I support legislation to deny use of tax-supported institutions for speeches by
those who refuse to comply with anti-subversive laws or who refuse to testify before
official committees investigating subversion. I support state and local loyalty oaths.
I support a statewide educational program at the student and adult level. I support
strict enforcement of existing laws. I oppose the Francis Amendment because it may
have a fatal constitutional flaw that would give the communists an escape hatch.
BUSINESS CLIMATE:
Unemployment in California has been above the national average for the last three
years under the Brown Administration. New investments are not sufficient to provide
jobs for our increasing population. We must cut government expenditures so that new
industries can come to California without fear of being sandbagged by tax increases.
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We must find new markets for California products at home and abroad. We must maintain
a balance between labor and management at the bargaining table. And we must initiate
a "California Crusade for New Business Investment."
AGRICULTURE:
I have an eight-point action program for agriculture. It would end partisan
appointments, such as William Warne, James Ralph, and Charles Paul. It opposes a
California minimum wage for farm workers and supports a federal law, so that we can
be competitive with other states. It pledges the use of my knowledge of international
negotiations to assure that California's commodities are not traded away by the State
Department.
CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING:
We can correct unsound fiscal policies of the past by making State agencies
demonstrate their need before they get their money. We must end excessive paper
work, red tape and frills -- starting in the Governor's own office. We can eliminate
wasteful duplication, such as the seven separate groups now collecting taxes. More
than five million dollars can be cut in unneeded state jobs.
EDUCATION:
I oppose the Administration's proposal for federal aid to education because it
would lead to federal control. We must avoid dictation from Washington by doing a
better job on the state level, Detailed control of our schools, school budgets, and
curriculum should be in the hands of local boards. If the state requires arbitrary
programs, the state must give more help to local school districts to pay for them.
I support multiple choice of textbooks so that local school boards can have a wider
selection. My seven-point program covers improving the quality of education, improv-
ing the teacher-student ratio, and more fully recognizing the need for vocational
training. I support properly drawn local school bond issues. I will re-examine the
tax structure so that economic pressures on education and real-property taxpayers
can be relieved.
LAW-ENFORCEMENT:
I have presented a six-point program to provide the tools for effective state
and local law-enforcement. It is imperative to have decisive leadership by the Gov-
ernor and a realistic legislative program, worked up in consultation with law-enforce-
ment associations. My program calls for strengthened anti-narcotics legislation, ad-
equate penal facilities and personnel, and support from the Governor's office for our
dedicated local law-enforcement officials.
HEALTH INSURANCE:
I am opposed to government medicine such as the compulsory King-Anderson Bill.
I favor the Kerr-Mills Act, which provides for medical care for aged persons in need
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and I will work to strengthen its implementation in California. There must also b
more aggressive leadership to encourage the expansion of private health insurance
programs.
LEADERSHIP:
California government must have the best men and women in its top jobs, regard-
less of party affiliation. We now need a top fiscal expert to head the Department
of Finance. We need an able administrator in the field of water resources. We also
need a real expert to lead the Department of Agriculture. We need members of the
Board of Regents of our University system who live in the State and who represent
such major areas of educational expansion as Santa Barbara and San Diego.
WATER DEVELOPMENT:
My thirteen-point action program calls for filtering politics out of California
water; assigning top caliber men to its operation, and ending federal meddling. It
demands that the rights of the counties of origin be protected. It proposes more
checks on executive power. It opposes the 160-acre limitation, which the Federal
government wishes to impose on state-financed water projects. It calls for realism
in determining price tags on present and future water projects, and for the equitable
division of the costs among all who will benefit.
WELFARE:
Welfare reform is necessary to re-assess dependency at its source, to simplify
welfare regulations, and to give greater local control to meet local conditions. We
need cooperation and leadership from Sacramento -- not dictation and feuding with
local authorities. We must get more for our tax dollars in order to protect those
:eceiving welfare assistance as well as the taxpayers.
These are some of the elements of the program I have been bringing to the people
California. But without decisive leadership, the program is only a blueprint that
mains on the drafting board. It is both program and leadership that are desperately
eded in California today.
There is no greater challenge in government today than to raise the quality of
ernment at the state level. I want California to set the example for individual
ortunity, not government control. I want California to set the example for res-
ible local government. I want California to be the show case for the nation.
Sincerely,
7 31, 1962
s/ Dick Nixon
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RELEASE
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Nixon for Governor Rally
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Luis Obispo
1:30 p.m. - May 31, 1962
As we enter the final days of the primary campaign these are the five major
issues:
1. Bloated budget.
Brown's administration has brought to California the highest state budget in the
nation. If we do not immediately bring a new realism to state spending we will scare
off the new business investments necessary to create jobs for our growing population.
2. Towering taxes.
Brown's tax increases will have cost the people of California nearly $1 billion
during his four years in office. With Brown as Governor, California's per capita
state and local tax collections have become the highest in the nation. If we do
not end Brown's control over state spending, we must be prepared for higher taxes
again next year.
3, Crime Climate.
During Brown's administration the rate of major crime in California has been the
highest in the nation. Brown says we are doing the best we can. I say we must have
new laws and new leadership to back up our dedicated local law enforcement officials.
4. Lagging Leadership.
The leadership gap in Sacramento is not just in the Governor's office. Brown
has created a much greater gap by turning top administrative positions over to party
favorites and misplaced persons. The job ahead is not just to retire Brown but also
to replace the ilk of William Warne.
5. Decisions for Progress.
We must replace the alien philosophy of spend-and-spend government with programs
that rely on private initiative (not government control) and local action (not Wash-
ington handouts.)
In speeches across the state and on my four-hour Telethon, I have presented my
proposals for decisive action in water development, agriculture, welfare, education,
government reorganization and every other area of vital concern.
The choice is now clear: will we stand pat with Brown or move forward to make
California a show-case for the nation?
5/31/62
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Nixon for Governor Rally
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Luis Obispo
1:30 p.m. - May 31, 1962
As we enter the final days of the primary campaign these are the
five major issues:
1. Bloated budget.
Brown's administration has brought to California the highest state
budget in the nation. If we do not immediately bring a new realism
to state spending we will scare off the new business investments
necessary to create jobs for our growing population.
2. Towering taxes.
Brown's tax increases will have cost the people of California
nearly $1 billion during his four years in office. With Brown as
Governor, California's per capita state and local tax collections
have become the highest in the nation. If we do not end Brown's
control over state spending, we must be prepared for higher taxes
again next year.
3. Crime Climate.
During Brown's administration the rate of major crime in California
has been the highest in the nation. Brown says we are doing the best
we can. I say we must have new laws and new leadership to back up
our dedicated local law enforcement officials.
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4. Lagging Leadership.
The leadership gap in Sacramento is not just in the Governor's
office. Brown has created a much greater gap by turning top admini-
strative positions over to party favorites and misplaced persons.
The job ahead is not just to retire Brown but also to replace the
ilk of William Warne.
5. Decisions for Progress.
We must replace the alien philosophy of spend-and-spend government
with programs that rely on private initiative (not government control)
and local action (not Washington handouts.)
In speeches across the state and on my four-hour Telethon, I have
presented my proposals for decisive action in water development,
agriculture, welfare, education, government reorganization and every
other area of vital concern.
The choice is now clear: will we stand pat with Brown or move
forward to make California a show-case for the nation?
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5/31/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Letter from Richard Nixon on June 2, 1962
To Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge,
Chairman, Joint Legislative Audit Committee,
For Sunday Release
Who will conduct the Squaw Valley Investigation
June 3, 1962
Dear Glenn:
I believe that Squaw Valley is important to the people of California. First, the
State has more than $12 million in taxpayers' money invested in it. Second, Squaw
Valley is one of the most beautiful settings and one of the great natural winter
sports areas in the State. I might also add that Squaw Valley can be a boon to busi-
ness on the California side of Lake Tahoe at a time when gambling casinos are attract-
ing large crowds to the Nevada side.
These are compelling reasons why Squaw Valley must be developed to its fullest
capabilities. This is why I have discussed it in speeches throughout California.
It was Governor Brown's responsibility to develop Squaw Valley into a solid
asset -- a special unit of our State park system. He has failed to do this. Now he
tells us he had nothing to do with the contract that the State negotiated during his
term of office for management of Squaw Valley State Park.
The State official who got the contract, with the help of another State official,
has failed to develop the park. Legislative committees have determined that the
State has lost $900,000 in its operation so far -- and at a time when most winter
sports areas are making money. It has also been determined that the concessionaire
has mismanaged the park in more than 30 instances.
Since Governor Brown has made no move to correct this situation, when your com-
mittee conducts its investigation, I would like to have you consider the following
five-point program on Squaw Valley, which I believe will assure its development in
the interest of the people of California.
1.
The present concession contract should be cancelled, either by court action,
negotiation, or other methods,
2. The Legislature should work with administration officials to set up a plan
for development and operation of Squaw Valley at its full potential.
3. The development should include enclosing the open end of Blythe Arena so
that it can be used comfortably the year around for sports, as well as for convention
meetings and other gatherings.
4. The park should be kept operating at least at its present level during the
planning and development by short-term concession contracts.
5. A new contract should be let to an experienced winter resort concessionaire
by competitive bidding. Governor Brown vetoed a bill that would have required long-
term concession contracts to be given only by competitive bidding. The next session
of the Legislature should again pass such a bill.
Sincerely yours,
Richard Nixon
6/1/62
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State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
Palo Alto Rally
For Flat PMs Release
Noon, June 2nd
June 2nd
Contact: Sandy Quinn/Ron Ziegler DUnkirk 5-9161
While Governor Brown's State-paid press agents have been peddling a do-nothing,
know-nothing line, I've been personally bringing my program of "Decisions for
Progress" to Californians in 40 counties.
In this closing rally of the primary campaign, I would like to restate ten top
reasons for returning responsible government to Sacramento.
1. We need a State Administration that fills top positions on above-partisan
merit. We need the best men and women in State government--not the misfits, the
William Warnes, and the James Ralphs.
2. We need a State Administration that will perform necessary services at the
lowest possible cost--not an Administration that prides itself on producing the
highest state budget in the nation.
3. We need a State Administration that will create a favorable climate to
attract new investment and make new jobs--not an Administration that will scare off
business with the highest total State and local tax collection per capita in the
nation.
4. We need a State Administration that will give our dedicated local law enforce-
ment officials the encouragement and tools to do an effective job--not an Adminis-
tration that is satisfied with having the highest rate of major crimes in the nation.
5. We need a State Administration that will avoid dictation from Washington, D.C.
by doing a better job in California--and this includes State action in education,
welfare, and water development.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHOR U.S.A.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat AMs Release
June 5, 1962
Tuesday, June 5th
Voting is a very special privilege in a free country. Millions of people
throughout the world do not have the right to vote, and millions more go to the
polls only to be told who they must vote for. On June 5th, we in California
have our opportunity to show the strengths of a free country over Communist
dictatorships and other dictatorships in the world. I hope you will go to the
polls and cast a ballot for the candidate of your choice. By doing this you
will also be casting a vote of confidence in the American system of free
government.
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June 3, 1962
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat PMs Release
June 4, 1962
Monday, June 4th
These are the principles that shall guide my actions as Governor of California.
1. The best way to oppose big government in Washington is to have better
government in California.
2. The right way to get a job done is to first turn to private enterprise and
individual initiative; only if the private sector cannot do the job should we then
turn to government.
3. When government must do a job, turn to the government closest to the people
whenever possible.
4. The function of government is to provide the best necessary services for
the least possible cost to the taxpayers.
5. Government must represent all the people, not special interest groups or
political party organizations.
6. Efficiency and cost-cutting in government can only be achieved by an admin-
istration that is completely dedicated to this aim.
7. Government positions should be filled by the best men and women available,
regardless of party affiliation or any consideration other than national loyalty and
quality.
8. More new jobs will be created during an administration that is dedicated to
making a climate favorable to new investment.
9. There is no greater challenge in public life today than to raise the quality
of government at the state level.
10. California government should be and can be a showcase for the nation.
June 3, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Statement by Richard Nixon
Los Angeles, California
For Flat Ams Release
June 4, 1962
Monday, June 4th
Governor Brown has been a costly embarrassment to the people of California.
Here are ten situations where Brown has consistantly displayed his incapacity
to give effective leadership.
1.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by showing an appalling lack of knowledge
of government and its operations.
--
He claims not to have known that the 27-year Squaw Valley contract was given
to his crony William Newsom during his Administration.
-- He did not know that the State Constitution prohibits retroactive pay
raises to State employees.
-- He did not even know that his own salary as Governor had been raised by
$4,100 until the press called it to his attention.
2.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by displaying a Hamlet-like compulsion
to duck difficult decisions.
--
His indecision turned the Chessman case into an international incident.
-- His indecision delayed effective narcotics legislation until the State
Legislature forced his hand.
--
His latest indecision on refusing to repudiate the extreme left-wing posi-
tions of the California Democratic Council has clouded his ability to represent all
the people of California.
3.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by his compulsion to put his foot in his
mouth.
-- To the Communist-supported "Women Striking for Peace," Brown said, "I hope
your message rings around the world."
4.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by substituting file-and-forget reports
for immediate action.
--
He created a commission to study metropolitan problems, such as smog and
transportation -- then he ignored the recommendations.
--
He created a group to study consolidation of Bay Area bridges, airports and
port facilities -- then he ignored the recommendations.
--
He called for reports on water, State printing, State planning, reappor-
tionment, fallout shelters, and Squaw Valley - all these reports have been involed in
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unsolved mysteries.
5. Brown has embarrassed Californians by his inability to keep good men in
State government.
-- Robert McCarthy, who ran the Department of Motor Vehicles with great effi-
ciency, resigned with this blast at Brown: "It has become increasingly hard to work
for a spineless adminstration that lacks both courage and principles."
-- When the Chairman of the Veteran Board, Arthur McCardle, resigned, he added,
"I have nothing but absolute disgust and repulsion for thelies, deceit and treachery
coming out of Sacramento."
6.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by loading the State payroll with his
relatives.
-- One of Brown's sons-in-law is assistant to the State Director of Correc-
tions. Salary: $ 10,860.
-- Another of Brown's sons-in-law is a deputy attorney general. Salary: $7,728.
-- Brown's sister-in-law is on his staff. Salary: $10,380.
-- Brown's brother is a State inheritance tax appraiser. Fees for part-time
work in one year: $7,640.
7.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by playing blind partisan politics.
-- His record of appointments shows that Brown has picked 1109 Democrats and
325 Republicans.
-- He has lobbied for and had passed new election laws designed to buck up his
political machine.
-- He has supported the most flagrant political juggling of legislative
boundaries in the history of California.
8. Brown has embarrassed Californians by courting Jimmy Hoffa support.
-- Brown appointed Dutch Woxberg, a former chief Hoffa aide, to a top State
position.
-- Brown has enthusiastically accepted the endorsement of the Hoffa-controlled
Teamster bosses in California.
9.
Brown has embarrassed Californians by refusing to repudiate extreme left-
wing positions of those close to him.
-- He has refused to repudiate the letter from 43 of his top party leaders
urging cancellation of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in Los
Angeles.
-- He has refused to repudiate the Young Democrats' resolutions in opposition
to loyalty oaths and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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--
He has refused to repudiate eight left-wing resolutions of the CDC -- in-
cluding eventual admission of Red China into the U.N., presidential review for con-
victed Soviet spy Morton Sobell, and reduction of U. S. military expenditures.
10. Brown has embarrassed Californians by standing pat at a time when it is
imperative that our state move forward.
--
He stands pat with the worst record of highway fatalities in the nation.
--
He stands pat with the worst record of major crimes in the nation, despite
the great efforts of our dedicated local law-enforcement officials.
--
He stands pat with the fourth worst teacher-pupil ratio of any State in the
nation.
--
He stands pat with the highest total State and local tax collection per
capita in the nation.
These are ten reasons why we cannot afford another four embarrassing years of
stand pat government in California. These are ten reasons why we must close the
leadership gap in State government.
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6/1/62
NIXON
NEWS
FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
LITHO.IN
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks of Richard Nixon
Before the California Republican Assembly Meeting
Thunderbird Hotel
El Segundo, California
Saturday PM Release
3:00 PM, Saturday June 23, 1962
June 23, 1962
The primary election results spell only bad news for Mr. Brown. More than 16
percent of the Democrats who voted preferred three unknowns to Brown, and an esti-
mated 5 to 7 percent wrote in the names of Republican candidates on their Democratic
ballots. With such a protest vote among Democrats of over 20 percent, it's little
wonder that Brown declared he was "going down to victory".
Whether or not Mr. Brown ever makes up his mind about engaging in free and open
TV debates during the forthcoming campaign, it is time for him to get off the fence
and either accept or reject the left-wing extremist support of the California Demo-
cratic Council.
He should stop stalling and tell the voters of California his position on these
six on-the-record resolutions of the CDC.
Repeal of state and federal loyalty oaths.
Abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
"Eventual admission of Communist China" into the United Nations.
Reduction of U.S. "expenditures on both missile and conventional forces".
Repeal of the Landrum-Griffin anti-racketeering law.
Investigation of local police by citizen boards for alleged "mistreatment" of
defendents (rather than relying on our courts and our local police commissions).
This is simply a cross-section of proposals adopted by CDC conventions after
Brown called the CDC "his strong right arm" in 1959. Every one of them would gravely
weaken our state and nation in some vital area of public affairs.
Yet Brown accepts the support and the endorsement of the CDC. He can't have it
both ways: either he accepts this support, and these extremist views along with it,
or he must openly and unequivocally repudiate it.
As recently as May 27, I publicly challenged Brown for a straight answer, which
the voters of this state surely deserve. The silence has been deafening. My own
position, on the other hand, is absolutely clear and I re-state it now: I am firmly
against every one of these CDC proposals.
Every voter, every thoughtful citizen of both parties, deserves an answer. Be-
tween now and November, I intend to keep reminding Brown of that fact -- and of the
further fact that one sure mark of leadership is the courage and willingness to take
stands on major issues of public policy.
June 22, 1962
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Excerpts of Remarks
by Richard Nixon
at American Legion Convention
Fresno, California 3 p.m.
For PM Release
Thursday, June 28, 1962
June 28, 1962
Those who consistently downgrade the threat of communism at home render a great
disservice to our state and nation. As Cardinal Cushing of Boston pointed out recent-
ly, there seems to be "a concentrated campaign to establish the conclusion that there
is no internal danger from communism in the United States. The idea that there is no
internal danger from communism contradicts the records of Congressional committees.
It rests on the absurd premise that the United States, the primary target, is alone
among the nations of the world exempt from Soviet subversion and infiltration."
Yet we see groups and individuals urging the abolition of these very Congressional
committees and demanding the repeal of state and Federal loyalty oaths. We see them
urging that the University of California, which has been built at great personal
sacrifice by the people of California, rescind its regulations denying the use of
these public facilities to known communists. We see high state officials congratu-
lating the so-called "peace" marchers. We recall the large number of California col-
lege students who were duped into participating in the communist-led San Francisco
riots of May, 1960 against the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings.
I urge that the American Legion back a positive program here in California for
dealing with the menace of communism. I suggest the following minimum program:
1. Education at the school age and adult level on communist history, tactics,
aims and purposes - including junior and senior high school courses on the contrasts
between communism and the principles of our free society - and the record of failure
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in practice by communist governments to fulfill those needs which our system has pro-
vided so abundantly. The California Board of Education recently stated that under our
Education Code the principles of free government are a major purpose of the public
schools and specifically indicated that the State Legislature intends to encourage
the teaching of the facts about communism. But, to be truly effective, any program of
of anti-communist education in our public schools must be authorized by the local
board of education and carried out by the local school administration and teaching
staffs. Los Angeles and Ventura counties have already made great progress, but we
must have such progress on a state-wide basis.
2. There must be public support of investigations by both state and national
legislative investigating committees. The anti-communist arms of our government de-
serve the support of, and constructive suggestions from the public and press --not
carping criticism.
3. We must have public support of loyalty and security programs for Federal,
state and local employees. Government employment is a privilege, not a right. And
we must not become confused by the semantic smoke screens that have been thrown up
on this question.
4. We must deny the use of tax-supported schools and institutions for speeches
by any individuals who have defied the registration provisions of the Subversive
Activities Control Act or who have refused to testify before legally constituted
grand juries or legislative investigative committees.
The American Legion has a lengthy and distinguished record in the battle against
communism. In a period when it was anything but fashionable to oppose Soviet efforts
to infiltrate and subvert our institutions and to brainwash our people, the Legion
was in the forefront, pointing out the true nature of the communist aims and tactics.
Like all other groups and individuals who saw communism in its real light, the Ameri-
can Legion has been castigated, villified and attempts were made to downgrade it in
the eyes of the American public. It is a tribute to your patriotism and steadfastness
of purpose and principles that these attacks have not deflected you from your goal of
preserving our freedom. The battle is not over but we are on the right side and we
will win.
6/27/62
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Remarks of
RICHARD NIXON
at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of American Independence Day
Rebild National Park
Aalborg, Denmark
July 4, 1962
It has been my privilege and honor to address distinguished audiences in
over 50 nations during the past 10 years. As I appear before this great throng to-
day I can say without qualification that no occasion in that period could have been
more unique or more memorable than this one.
I say this for a number of reasons:
Because this occasion is graced by the presence of their Majesties, the
King and Queen of Denmark, who are loved and respected, not only in this nation,
but throughout the world.
Because during the past three days, Mrs. Nixon and I have been privileged
to enjoy to the full the world-famous Danish hospitality which prior to this time we
had only had the opportunity to savor in our visits to Danish communities in the
United States.
Because the 50th anniversary of the celebration of American Independence
in this beautiful Park is an unprecendented demonstration of friendship and good
feeling between two sovereign nations.
Because this occasion reminds us as Americans of the great debt America
owes to the Danish people. Nearly half-a-million Americans who were born in
Denmark or are the children of Danes have made a magnificent contribution to our
national life. From Jacob Riis, the social reformer who was described by
President Theodore Roosevelt as "America's most useful citizen, 11 to Victor Borge,
Lauritz Melchior, Gutzon Borglum and Jean Hersholt all of whom contributed so
much to our culture -- to business and industrial leaders like William S. Knudsen,
and California's own Tom Knudsen, the Danish People have made a vital and last-
ing contribution to enrichment of American life.
To paraphrase a great world statesman, never have so few contributed so
much to so many as have those of Danish descent to America.
Any one of these reasons would be enough in itself to make this a most
memorable occasion.
But what distinguishes this event even more and makes it unique through-
out the world is that this celebration of American Independence Day in Denmark
demonstrates better than could any other event the true meaning of the American
Revolution.
One hundred and eighty-six years ago John Adams, who was to become the
first Vice President of the United States, wrote in a letter to his wife of the signifi-
cance of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; "This day will be the most
memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be
celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to
be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells,
bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time
forward forevermore. "
But even a man of Adams great vision could not have predicted the unique
kind of celebration that is taking place in Denmark today.
July 4th commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
It commemorates the launching of a successful revolution.
It marks the beginning of a new nation.
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It is a national holiday for the people of the United States.
But all these features, while they have special meaning for Americans, are
not unique in the broader context of the history of nations. There have been other
successful revolutions, other documents in which people have declared their inde-
pendence, other annual celebrations of independence days. These factors alone do
not explain the fact that for 50 years the American Independence Day has been cele-
brated in Denmark, another sovereign nation 3, 000 miles from American shores.
From the time of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence,
186 years ago today, the American Revolution has had meaning far beyond the nation
it brought into being.
Not because we Americans claim any special genius because of our race
or national origin. We are proud of the fact that Americans come from all the na-
tions, all the races, all the continents of the world.
Rather we recognize that at a critical time and place in history those who
lived in the 13 American colonies became the instrument of a cause far greater than
any one nation or one people a cause as great as all mankind.
This theme has run through American history.
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, said,
"We act not for ourselves alone but for the whole human race."
Woodrow Wilson, speaking 48 years ago today at Independence Hall in
Philadelphia, said, "a patriotic American is never so proud of the flag under which
he lives as when it comes to mean to others as well as to himself a symbol of hope
and liberty."
What is the message of the American Revolution for the world?
The historians have concluded that three major factors contributed to the
discontent of the American colonists which led to the Revolution.
The first was economic. According to the British view, the American
colonies were there to provide raw materials for the mother country's factories.
The British therefore forbade American manufactures. The result was that the
Americans were forced into a debtor position which produced increasing resent-
ment against the Mother country.
The second factor that added fuel to the American discontent was the atti-
tude of the British colonial rulers. As the noted English historian, Harold Nicolson,
has written, "They persisted in regarding the colonists as second rate citizens."
A third cause of the American Revolution was a growing surge of national-
ism in the colonies. Starting under the threat of attack during the French and
Indian Wars the colonists began to think of themselves as apart from Great Britain.
They developed mutual interests that out-weighed their identity with the British
Crown.
But none of these factors, singly or together, can adequately explain the
world-wide appeal that the American Revolution had then and continues to have to-
day. That appeal cannot be found in economic, military, or other solely material
factors. The appeal of the American Revolution is in the power of its ideals, as
expressed in these eloquent words from the American Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certainunalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive
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of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happi-
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That Declaration speaks to the world, not just of freedom for Americans,
but for all men. Not of independence only for the United States, but for all nations.
Not of rights that some men are allowed to have because of the whim of others but
of rights which belong to all men because those rights come from God and can-
not therefore be denied by men.
These ideals belong not just to the American people but to free people and
those who want to be free throughout the world.
Contrast these ideals of the American Revolution with the philosophy which
controls the communist revolution.
In less than half a century communism has grown from a cellar conspiracy
to a world power ruling one-third of the globe and ruling one-billion people. Much
of the appeal of the communist revolution has been its exploitation of the legitimate
aspirations of men to be free and nations to be independent. The communist leaders
twist the democratic concepts like a pretzel, cleverly coloring ruthless dictator-
ships with the word symbols of freedom.
But the communist propagandists are having increasing troubles in cover-
ing up the ugly facts of communism in practice with the veneer of communism in
theory.
Communism denies God. It denies the dignity of man. It denies the right
of men to be free. It denies the right of nations to be independent. For the old
colonialism it claims to abhor, it substitutes a much more viscious new colonial-
ism which enslaves not only nations but the souls of men as well.
That is why communism is doomed to fail -- because its principles run
contrary to the nature of man. That is why never in history has there existed an
aggressive force which had more success in extending its domination and less
success in gaining the approval and support of those on which it has been imposed.
My wife and I saw a dramatic demonstration of this fact just three years
ago when we visited Warsaw. Two weeks before we arrived Khrushchev had come
to Poland and despite massive efforts on the part of the Polish government to as-
sure an enthusiastic welcome he was received coolly. We arrived in Warsaw on a
Sunday afternoon with no advance notice as to when our plane would land and what
route our motorcade would take. Yet, as in all totalitarian countries, word of our
arrival spread like wildfire through the underground. Over a quarter of a million
Poles were on the streets of Warsaw that afternoon. They gave us the greatest
welcome we had received in our travels up to that time. They threw hundreds of
bouquets of flowers into our open cars; they sang; they cheered "long live the
United States. " When our car was stopped by throngs surging around us in the
middle of the city I looked into the faces of the people. Half of them were crying
with tears running down their cheeks.
Why did this happen? Not because we represented a nation which has great
military strength or one that was economically rich, because Khrushchev had
boasted of that kind of strength and had not received such a welcome. There can be
only one explanation. Despite 15 years of communist rule, the hope for freedom
still burns brightly in the hearts of the Polish people. To them America was a
symbol of that hope; and the American Revolution, rather than the communist revo-
lution, represented their ideals.
By the American Revolution I do not mean that we in the United States would
impose our form of government or our economic philosophy on any other people. I
mean only that we believe the ideals set forth in our Declaration of Independence
belong not just to us but to all the world.
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No event could better symbolize the universality of those ideals than this
great celebration today. This fiftieth anniversary commemoration is more than a
gracious gesture by one sovereign people to another. It is a solumn reaffirmation
of our common dedication to ideals which inspired the American Revolution and
which belong to all peoples who cherish freedom throughout the world.
Let us therefore today remind ourselves how fortunate we are to live as
free people in nations that are independent.
Let us resolve that we shall always join together to defend our own free-
dom and that of others as well.
Let us recognize that when freedom is threatened for some, whether half
way around the world in Viet Nam or a few hours away in West Berlin, it is threat-
ened for all.
Let us pledge ourselves to meet that threat without compromise wherever
it is presented.
Let our answer to those whose sworn objective is to extend slavery be that
our goal is to extend freedom -- to extend it without war, through our assistance,
our moral encouragement, our example.
And may we always refuse to draw a line down the center of the world
which would condemn millions to perpetual slavery with no hope that they may again
some day breathe the air of freedom.
With Abraham Lincoln, whom you have honored 80 splendidly in this Park,
let us say, "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free -- honor-
able alike in what we give and what we preserve, We shall nobly save or meanly
lose the last best hope of the earth."
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FOR SUNDAY RELEASE
July 29, 1962
Statement by Richard Nixon
on Brown and the CDC
Brown's newly found disenchantment with the CDC is a complete flip-flop from
his previous position in which he stated he was "Champion of the CDC" and "wanted
this organization to flourish and grow." Just a year ago he said of the CDC:
"I want to help it and I want to help protect it." He has also described the
CDC as "my strong right arm."
And only two months ago Brown announced that the CDC had "adopted many
intelligent statements and policies, none of which bears the slightest resemblance
to Nixon's distorted and hysterical dossier." Now Brown himself disavows the very
heart of the CDC program including many of the very resolutions I mentioned: the
abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, admission of Red China to
the UN, unilateral action by the United States reducing expenditures on both
missile and conventional forces, repeal of loyalty oaths, and the establishment
of police review boards.
These positions were adopted by the CDC in 1960. Why was Brown silent then?
Was it because he needed the legislative support of CDC-endorsed office holders
who firmly believed in the resolutions? Or is it because he has just learned from
the results of a secret poll that a vast majority of the California voters
violently oppose the radical positions of the CDC and recognize the obvious dangers
in its program? Has he after all this time finally reached this position because
of conviction or because of the probability of losing votes in November?
Brown said at the CDC convention last January that he would not appear on the
same platform with either the radical left or the radical right. He should now
state whether this means that he will not endorse Phillip Burton and John O'Connell
who are running for Assembly and Congress in San Francisco, and both of whom parti-
cipated in the San Francisco riots against the House Un-American Activities
Committee, Brown's new position requires that this time he now follow words with
appropriate deeds and action!
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Remarks by Richard M. Nixon
Before the Republican State Central Committee Meeting
Sacramento, California
Sunday, August 5, 1962
Today, for one overriding reason, we are assembled in the most significant
convention in the history of our Party in California.
This November, for the same reason, Californians will vote in the most import-
ant election in our State's history, and the most important in the nation in 1962.
What makes this convention and this election so significant and so important
is that the next Governor of California will lead the most populous State in the
Union.
We, as a State, will have finally realized a destiny that was predetermined
from the beginning by the energy of our people, the bounty of our soil, and the
beauty of our climate.
Over fifty years ago, a great English historian, Lord James Bryce, wrote,
"California is in many respects the most striking in the whole Union, and has more
than any other the character of a great country, capable of standing alone in the
world."
For the first 180 years of our country's history, national leadership rested in
the East because of the population factor. But now, with California leading the
way, the West assumes the responsibility of leadership. And so, right now we are
confronted with this basic question: Will our State be led by men with the
imagination, the determination, and the drive equal this great challenge?
I charge that the present State Administration -- by its record, by its words,
by its action -- is completely incapable of giving this sort of dynamic leadership.
Even their billboards symbolize an attitude of complacency and smugness.
"Keep California First," they read. Does this mean that they are merely satisfied
with being first in population? Or are they also satisfied with this record:
First in the cost of government;
First in taxes;
First in unemployment;
First in crime.
Mr. Brown is apparently satisfied with this record of dubious "firsts." But
I am not satisfied. And millions of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents are
not satisfied.
Now is the time to deal with these problems -- not sweep them under the rug.
We offer all Californians a clear choice. We pledge to bring this choice before
the people in the most intensive, hard-hitting campaign in California history. And
we pledge to carry this campaign into every precinct, every home, every factory,
every farm.
We pledge to bring to California a State Administration that is worthy of the
first and greatest State in the nation. We shall put an end to rule by clique and
crony.
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We pledge to bring into State Government a team of the best executives and
technicians in the State. And we shall kick the second-raters and political hacks
out of Sacramento.
We pledge to lead the nation in job opportunities for all our citizens by
creating the best climate for new private investment of any State in the Union.
We pledge an Administration dedicated to attracting new industry -- not an Ad-
ministration that can be smug while we rank ninth among the major industrial States
in building new plants since the beginning of 1961.
We pledge to replace the spineless soft-on-crime attitude of the present
Administration with strong, vigorous backing of local law enforcement officials.
We shall wage an all-out campaign to make the homes, streets and highways of
California safe for our citizens.
We shall initiate the most effective State program for fighting communism in
the nation -- a program that will include education, on the student and adult level,
on both the dangers of communism and the positive alternatives of freedom.
We pledge to cut the costs of State government so that we can reduce the tax
burden borne by our citizens.
People from all over the country have come to California because our State
offered greater opportunity than they had in their home states. It is our goal to
create even greater opportunity for better jobs, greater opportunity for new busi-
nesses, and greater opportunity for human dignity. But this goal can only be
attained if our State is led by men who believe in and encourage free, private
enterprise.
We can make California a model for other states to follow -- but we cannot do it
by throwing up our hands and turning to Washington, D.C. for the solutions to our
problems.
Californians have always been proud of our self-reliance and individual enter-
prise. We will not be meekly made into a giant puppet pulled by strings in Washing-
ton. This is a standard that unites all Republicans and appeals to all Californians.
This is a cause worth fighting for, working for, voting for.
The present State Administration is incapable of doing this job because it is
handcuffed by the California Democratic Council, an official Party organization,
whose radical philosophy puts too much faith in government, and too little faith
in people. This is the organization that Mr. Brown has described as his "good
right arm."
And this is why millions of Democrats will join with us this fall -- not because
they have deserted their Party, but because their Party, under the influence of the
CDC clique, has deserted them and the true principles of the Democratic Party.
The people of California know that in the continuing fight for freedom there is
no greater need than to strengthen the responsibility and quality of State Govern-
ment. They know that now is the time to reverse the insidious trend toward more
arrogant, power-hungry bureaucracy in Washington. And they know that the best
answer to bigger government in Washington is better government in Sacramento.
In this fall's election California will speak to the nation. Let our message not
be that we will continue down the dismal road to bigger government, higher taxes, and
less freedom. Rather let our voice ring out from the West, saying, "We, the people of
California, with a great tradition of seeking opportunity, with a true frontier spirit,
cast our vote for free enterprise, self-reliance, local responsibility, and for the
best State Government in America."
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Remarks of Richard Nixon
Annual Meeting of the Section on Family Law
American Bar Association
Noon, Tuesday, August 7, 1952
Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco
There is nothing more important to the survival of our system than the preserva-
tion of family ties. Too often we tend to look at great problems, such as the world
struggle with communism, merely in terms of governmental actions and solely as the
responsibility of high officials. What we fail to bear in mind is that our basic
strength derives from our families, our churches, and our daily relations with each
other. And the nourishment of our basic strength is just as vital to winning our
international struggle as dramatic events in Geneva, Washington, or at the UN.
History tells us that the break-up of families precedes the break-up of civili-
zations. It is therefore particularly tragic to report that there were 400,000
divorces granted last year in our country -- more than 1,000 each day -- affecting
the lives of 300,000 children. And I am sad to say that my State of California had
the highest divorce rate in the United States.
For these reasons, it is clear to me that no members of the Bar have greater
social responsibility than you who work in the field of family law -- responsibility
that goes beyond the "letter of the law". As counselors to those in marital diffi-
culty they must go beyond legal procedure and attempt to strike at the root of the
problem.
We all realize that the problems of instability in the home are only symptoms
of some malfunctioning in our society -- distressing, fundamental symptoms -- yet
not the basic causes of the illness.
These problems are relatively new in our society. In fact, the recent origin
of the Section on Family Law of the American Bar Association attests to the newness
of the problem. Why is this so?
I believe the difference between ourselves and our ancestors can be summed up
in one word -- discipline.
The discipline of our forefathers was partly based upon religious ideals;
partly upon exacting demands -- the necessity to tame a continent.
Today we have conquered the wilderness and are a prosperous society.
Fortunately today's freedom from want has encouraged some men to look to new
horizons -- to conquer space and do other once undreamed of things.
But regrettably it has also freed other men to look on life as one big free
lunch counter.
Basically, and non-legally speaking, this is what we are dealing with in our
juvenile courts and our divorce courts.
When we no longer have other battles to fight we tend to fight each other.
To counter this trend, we must work on two levels: the substantive and the
procedural.
Turning first to the procedural.
1. I am sure you are all familiar with the work of the Conciliation Court of
Los Angeles County, first under the direction of Judge Louis H. Burke, and now
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presided over by Judge Roger Pfaff.
With a staff of trained marriage counselors, this court has restored over
15,000 children to united homes during the past seven years. The court now recon-
ciles an average of sixty out of every one hundred couples.
I might also add that the savings to the taxpayers by keeping these cases off
the relief rolls have been substantial.
Here in California six counties have established conciliation courts modeled
on the Los Angeles plan since 1958.
All counties throughout the nation that have a divorce problem warranting special
attention should give serious consideration to adopting this system.
2. I believe the time has come to institute widespread teaching of domestic
relations in our secondary schools. Here I refer not to sex education but to the
teaching of the sanctity of the home, the responsibilities of parenthood, and the
fundamentals of marriage relationships.
Let us squarely face up to the fact that the incidence of divorce among teenage
marriages is twice as great as any other age group -- and let us do something about
it.
3. I believe that much could be accomplished to insure the stability of the
home through education in the mass media -- the press, radio and television.
This is a fitting campaign for the Advertising Council. I do not mean anything
as trite as "Is This Divorce Necessary?" -- but the dissemination of information on
the availability of pre-marital, marriage and family counseling through our community-
supported agencies would serve a very useful purpose.
Turning now to the substantive level.
We must rededicate ourselves to our religious ideals, which in too many cases
have been eroded by pragmatism in conduct; we must seek the pleasure in duty,
rather than the duty of pleasure; we must substitute work and achievement for ease
and indolence; and we must return to individual responsibility, not diluted col-
lective responsibility.
In these ways we will recreate the American character that tamed the wilderness.
For although the problems we face are not from hunger and want, we nonetheless have
very great difficulties ahead.
From without, our country is faced with intensive political and philosophical
competition from the communist world. We face a new kind of economic competition
from the European Common Market, which will require far-reaching adjustments in our
economy. We face new social problems at home, which have been created by an in-
creasingly urban and industrial society. And we continue to face the problems
that are always inherent in a democracy.
I firmly believe that as a nation we have the capacity to solve these problems.
But it will take renewed effort and dedication, as well as strong individual self-
discipline. The work of members of this organization with youth and families can
be a major building block in restoring the national qualities that have made America
great.
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Pat Brown said to the Union convention in reference to Richard Nixon:
"You have read in the newspapers that another candidate for Governor of
California is approaching labor through the "back door" this year.
"He is afraid to come to you openly and honestly to ask for your support."
*****
Richard Nixon made the following statement regarding Brown's charge:
"Mr. Brown's charge that I am afraid to speak before the AFL-CIO convention
is a complete misrepresentation. The truth is that I did not receive an invitation
to address the convention. It is significant to note that the only gubernatorial
candidate invited to address the convention was Mr. Brown who has been a rubber
stamp for everything the union political bosses want--right or wrong.
"The political bosses of the union have dropped an iron curtain to prevent
union members from hearing any views except those held by the clique controlling the
politics of the union. But they are going to find in this election, as they have on
every previous occasion when I have come before the voters in California, that they
cannot dictate to union members how they will vote. I shall continue to take my
case over their heads directly to union members in my person-to-person campaigning.
"California's wage earners are not fooled by Mr. Brown's campaign slogan "keep
California first." They are deeply concerned that California is first in unemploy-
ment in the nation. They know that California needs dynamic new leadership which
will attract, rather than drive away, the new investment we need to provide more
Jobs for California's increasing population."
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August 20, 1962
Statement by RICHARD NIXON
August 25, 1962
"Mr. Brown's latest proposal before a political convention is a pathetic
political gesture for votes which will fool no one.
"I feel this issue is so important that I challenge Brown to debate me
man-to-man on television the subject of which candidate offers the best hope of
cutting California's exorbitant taxes.
"If he is really serious about offering a tax cut, why didn't he present it
properly to the recent session of the legislature. Was it because he was asking
for $970 million in new bond issues? Brown knows, or should know, in order to
attract new industry to California and provide jobs we need real substantial tax
cuts based on economy measures in government.
"The record shows that all that Brown has done has been to increase the
cost of his octopus state government. If he is sincere, why doesn't he ask for
cuts in the cost of government? When he obtained from his controlled legislature
an increase in state taxes, he was told on the floor the tax jump was not necessary
and the people should not be gouged with higher taxes.
"What this latest Brown blatant and superficial bid for votes amounts to is
two-and-a-half million dollars reduction from the Brown billion-dollar tax bite
or an offer of $3 a vote for 840,000 people. This is just a sop, not a solution,
for California taxpayers' problems. I have complete confidence in the intelligence
of California's voters -- regrettably Brown does not. "
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Statement by Richard Nixon
This latest blast by one of Brown's numerous spokesmen is just another
feeble effort to throw up a smog screen over his attempt to run out on my
challenge to debate the issues of this campaign man to man. I have already
agreed to two televised appearances with him of the kind he prefers -- joint
press conferences, one on October 1st before the UPI and on October 7 and 14
when we will be appearing on "Meet the Press. 11
But he refuses to let his negotiator even discuss the possibility of
meeting me in the kind of debate I prefer and that the great majority of the
people of California want to see -- a man to man discussion of his record as
Governor. In a nutshell, I have agreed to two joint televised appearances his
way. He won't even discuss meeting me my way. His continued refusal to
defend his record in a man to man debate can lead to only one conclusion. He
is pleading guilty to indecision, inefficiency, and incompetence in handling the
affairs of this state. He obviously is afraid that anything he might say in answer
to my questions might be held against him by the voters of California. I renew
my challenge. My negotiator is ready to talk with his at any time, any place.
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August 30, 1962
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STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
Brown's pitiful record of favoritism, discrimination, cronyism
and nepotism, at the expense of California taxpayers, hardly entitles
him to talk about the moral tone of politics in state government.
Brown's kick-off speech was in keeping with the statement of
his state chairman, that this would be the dirtiest campaign in the
history of the state.
Obviously Brown's speech is part of his smear-a-day campaign
which has no basis in fact.
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September 4, 1962
STATEMENT BY RICHARD NIXON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Regarding Television Debates
September 6, 1962
I call upon Mr. Brown to withdraw his panicky ultimatums and allow negotiations
to resume for televised debates. The people of California want and deserve a man-
to-man discussion of the issues.
The events of the past week have only reaffirmed Brown's unwillingness to meet
me in open debates. Overtures by my negotiators and by responsible third parties
for any fair compromises have been bluntly rebuffed by Brown.
I want to state my position in this matter in precise detail.
I neither set nor accept any deadlines as to when an agreement must be reached
to bring about these debates. They are so important to the voters of California
that I stand ready to rearrange my campaign schedule at any time to make them
possible.
No engagement that either of us has as candidates for this high office is as
important as the right of millions of Californians to see and hear the issues dis-
cussed in a real debate between the two candidates.
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I have agreed to appear with Mr. Brown at United Press International's con-
vention where we will both be questioned by the press on television. We are like-
wise appearing on the "Meet the Press" television program. What I want and what
the voters expect in addition to these joint televised press conferences is a direct
debate on the problems of the state by the candidates themselves.
In the hope of bringing these debates about, I now suggest for Mr. Brown's
consideration that someone of the stature and integrity of Mayor Sam Yorty, a
former Democratic Congressman and holder of the most important non-partisan office
in this state, be appointed as the moderator with whatever power is required to
properly conduct man-to-man debates.
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9/6/62
NIXON FOR GOVERNOR HEADQUARTERS
September 7, 1962
STATEMENT OF RICHARD NIXON
I think it is most unfortunate that as a result of Mr. Brown's
ultimatum the negotiations for our debates have now been broken off.
I believe that the people of California deserve more than that from
the two men who are running for the highest office in this state.
Consequently, I want to make a proposition which I believe the
people of California will recognize as fair to me and fair to Mr. Brown.
In 1960 we had four joint appearances. I believe there should be
four this year. I propose now that on the principle point where
Mr. Brown and I have disagreed there be a reasonable compromise, each
of us going half way.
He wants joint press conferences.
I want man to man debate in which each questions the other.
We both can't have it all our way. I suggest we have four joint
appearances. Two of them his way - joint press conferences and two of
them my way - man to man debates.
I make this proposal even after he has broken off negotiations
because I want to do everything I can as a reasonable contestant for
this office to bring to the people of California the debates between
the two candidates that they want and should be allowed to hear.
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FLAT PM's
September 12, 1962
Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
Kick-off Rally
Pomona
September 12, 1962
This is the kick-off of the most important campaign in all
California history. For the next Governor has the opportnnity to
lead our State to greatness at a time when California becomes first
in population.
I am confident that this is the kick-off of a winning campaign.
Today, I believe it is appropriate for me to state the four basic
ground rules that I shall follow during the weeks ahead.
1. I will wage a hard-hitting campaign based solely on the
facts -- the most intensive campaign in State history.
2. I will wage a campaign based on the record of my opponent --
the promises not kept, the progress not made, the problems not dealt
with.
3. I will wage a campaign based on a blueprint for action --
a positive new Program for a Greater California.
4. I will not stoop to a campaign of personalities -- to the
low level of those who campaign against a man's family; to the low
level of those who question a man's motives.
I regret that our opponents have other ideas on how the
campaign should be waged. Eugene Wyman, Democratic State Chairman,
has stated, "This will be the dirtiest campaign in the history of
California." Well, if this is a dirty campaign it will be because
they make it so, not because I do.
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On my part, this will be a fighting campaign, based solely on
the truth and the record.
The people of California deserve to hear a debate on this
record. But my opponent is afraid to answer my questions on his
record man-to-man and he is afraid to state his personal charges
against me in my presence.
Therefore, I am going to present the facts about his record
completely and comprehensively. And, based on his conduct during
the past four years, I shall prove that he is not qualified to
continue to serve our State.
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This is the six-point indictment that I shall prove in the
weeks ahead. And, I am confident that on November 6th the people of
California will vote "Guilty as Charged."
1. I shall prove that the present administration is not
capable of bringing first-rate men of vision and quality into state
government.
2. I shall prove that it is not capable of making the dynamic
decisions that California's future progress demands.
3. I shall prove, by the record of extravagance and disrespect
for the people's money, that this administration is not worthy of the
public trust.
4. I shall prove that my opponent's administration has failed
the State in attracting new jobs and retaining California industries.
5. I shall prove that the administration of my opponent is not
capable of safeguarding the lives and property of Californians through
an effective law enforcement program.
6. I shall prove that this has been a state administration
that is not capable of dealing with the communist threat within our
borders.
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The case that I shall take to the people of California will
show:
-- Under my opponent, we have had the most costly and wasteful
state government in the history of our country, which has forced
upon our people the heaviest tax burden in the nation.
-- Today we have the worst record of business failures of all
major industrial states; the worst record of business bankruptcies
in the nation, and a depressingly low record of new plant locations.
-- The record shows not a single item of anti-subversive legis-
lation in four years.
-- And, California also has the worst record of major crimes,
despite the best local law enforcement officers in the nation, and an
increase in felonies that has been five times greater than the
population rise during my opponent's administration.
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This is the case I will take to the people of California.
This is my opponent's record of promises not kept, progress not
made, problems not dealt with. And on this basis alone, Californians
are justified in voting the present administration "no confidence."
But, in the weeks ahead, I shall also detail my action alternatives.
On seven radio programs, starting on Sunday, September 23rd,
and continuing on each Sunday evening until election day, I shall
state my "Program for a Greater California."
I shall show how my program will protect the earning and buying
power of all citizens; how my program will eliminate the welfare
chiselers who have been allowed to siphon money from the truly
deserving; how my program will make California a model for effectively
dealing with an alien system communism that VOWS to bury us;
how my experience in international affairs can protect California jobs
and industry from unfair foreign competition; how my crusade for new
private investment in California will create jobs for the hundreds of
thousands of our unemployed and for the 1,700 new people who come to
our State each day.
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Never have the voters of California had a more clear-cut
choice. My philosophy and my opponent's are diametrically opposed.
He believes the way to progress is through more faith in government.
I believe that the way to progress is through more opportunity for
people -- for the millions of free Californians.
I believe that California can become the Opportunity State --
a shining example to the nation of how to effectively solve our
problems at home through private, individual initiative.
My opponent believes that California can become a shining
example of the Handout State -- looking toward Washington to bail it
out, turning its duties over to Federal bureaucrats.
Given this choice, I am confident that Californians will choose
self-reliance, self-help, and self-respect. And in the years ahead
the other states in the Union will follow the example that California
is going to start on Inauguration Day, 1963.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHO
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by
FOR NOON RELEASE
RICHARD NIXON
at Republican Associates Luncheon
San Diego, California
September 12, 1962
The job gap in California must be of vital concern to every citizen. For as
long as any section of California suffers from unemployment, or not producing up
to its potential, all Californians suffer.
This applies equally to the depression in the lumber and mining industries in
the northern counties, the depressed film industry in Los Angeles, or construction
stoppage in San Francisco.
But it is particularly true in San Diego. For, as you know, San Diego has
been a major labor surplus area since September, 1960. Today, aircraft industry
employment alone is 12,800 below a year ago.
Two years ago, on the day I arrived in San Diego, my present opponent announced,
"Unemployment is something that I am deeply concerned about." At that time, the
unemployment rate in San Diego was 6.7%. Now, after two more years of the present
State Administration, the latest complete monthly figures show that unemployment
in San Diego is 8.4%,
In fact, these current figures show that San Diego has its highest unemployment
rate since 1950 and its lowest employment rate since 1956,
The way to solve this problem is not to sweep it under the rug and say that
everything is fine.
;
The way to solve this problem is not to appoint another meaningless study
committee or phony task force,
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The present State Administration has done both these things. And last week
the study committee chairman, when asked for a progress report by a San Diegan
said, "The fact is the key to an early reversal of the downward employment trend in
San Diego is in obtaining Federal recognition of the economic value of, and high
utilization of, the air frame and aerospace production potential."
In other words, the State committee to solve San Diego's unemployment problem
has made this record in seven months: 1) It has abdicated its responsibility to
Washington; 2) It has done nothing.
San Diegans have done a first-rate Job on their own to attract industry and to
diversify. This is a city of unusual vitality and one with an even greater future.
You are people who do things and do them well. San Diego has fought for its city's
development in the best tradition of our state. But, as I have said, this is all
California's fight--not just San Diego's. And this city needs forceful state
action to build an economic climate which will help attract the new industry
needed here.
I believe that the only way to honestly make new progress in San Diego--and
throughout the State--is to end economic ignorance in California government.
As long as we retain a State Administration that has brought to California
the most costly and wasteful government in the nation and the highest taxes in the
nation, we cannot expect new industries to locate in California in the numbers we
need to provide jobs we must have.
As long as we retain a State Administration whose answer to our economic
problems is to sit back and hope for Federal contracts, we cannot expect businesses
to remain in California. We will continue to lose too many.
We must fight for California's fair share of Federal contracts, but we cannot
expect this to solve our problems alone.
The way to bring business and jobs to California is threefold:
1) We must have a vigorous, dynamic "California Crusade for New Business
Investment" that will help our chambers of commerce and others as they search out
and attract new industries.
2) We must have a state government that cares for the peoples' welfare
while living within its means, so that businesses can operate with the assurance
that taxes will not continue to skyrocket.
3) We must have a state government in which there is confidence--an
administration that is known throughout the nation for its dedication to private
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initiative, not government handout.
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I believe that discerning Democrats agree with this analysis and this program.
And the presence here today of so many good Democrats attests to this.
As Democrats, you are not deserting your party. Your party in California,
under the radical influence of the CDC, has deserted you and the true principles
of Democracy.
The handpicked candidates of the leftwing CDC, including my opponent, have
put too much faith in government and too little faith in people. And they will
find, on November 6th, that the people of California have lost faith in them.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
III
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
FOR FLAT PM RELEASE
September 13, 1962
Remarks by Richard Nixon
EUREKA RALLY
September 13, 1962
Major industries throughout California, including the lumber industry,
are being allowed to wither on the vine because of the indifference and in-
decision of the present state administration.
Californians have always been justifiably proud of our timber-base
industry, It is the fourth largest industry in our state. The lumberman
symbolizes the rugged, enterprising tradition of the Golden State. Now he is
in trouble. He needs help from those who share his belief in free competition-
not in hand-outs.
As California becomes the first state in population, there is an in-
creasing need for building materials. Our state ranks first in the use of
lumber. Forty-three percent of our state land is forest and brush. Seventeen
million acres are in commercial forests.
Yet, under the present state administration, employment in lumber pro-
duction has fallen more than 15 percent. This means fewer jobs. This means
painful relocation and adjustment for individuals and families. This means
loss of savings' to those who believe in our state's growth and who invest in
California's development.
The last four years have seen a trend in tax policies which make it less
and less profitable to maintain timber lands. Companies have been forced to
liquidate timber lands. During the present state administration, four major
lumber companies have closed in the Eureka area -- companies with a combined
annual production of 185 million feet of lumber and an equivalent amount of
plywood production.
The lumber industry has been hamstrung by federal regulations and hard
hit by foreign trade policies.
This is a striking indication of how events outside our state's border
and our nation's borders directly affect us as Californians.
About half of our commercial forest land in California is in national
forest reserves. This means that the Federal Secretary of Agriculture has
great power over California's timber industry.
Last February, a four-point program for better relations between the
lumber-producing industry and the federal government was presented to Secre-
tary Freeman. This program is designed to make it possible for industries
that depend on raw materials from federally-owned lands to operate at a reason-
able profit. It is designed to provide independent study of grievances, It
is written to provide for appeals outside the federal agency in cases of con-
tract differences. In other words, it asks the government to cease being
judge, jury and prosecutor.
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This program deeply involves California. Yet the policy of the adminis-
tration in Sacramento has been one of complete silence. There has not been
one word from the Governor.
The people of California must have a state administration that will
fight for the rights of our lumbermen.
Here is my six-point action program to replace lethargy in Sacramento
with decisive state leadership.
1. FOREIGN COMPETITION:
--Vigorous, forceful opposition to unfair competition from
Canada and Japan -- where there are lower wages and lower
shipping costs.
-- I know from my experience in Washington that unless
California has a strong voice our state will be sold down
the river. I intend to fight for a sound approach to our
timber industry's present distress.
--While there has been silence from Washington and from
Sacramento California's share of the East coast waterborne
lumber supply has dropped 50 percentage points in the last
four years.
2. RESEARCH
--Expand the University of California program that seeks new
uses for lumber and new adaptations for lumber products.
-Initiate a program in the business administration depart-
ments of our universities to solve timber marketing problems.
-- Speed up studies to shorten the length of time it takes
a tree to grow to commercial size in order to get more
growth on fewer acres.
3. GREEN GOLD:
-- Put pressure where necessary to end the give-away of
valuable national forest lands under the guise of mining--
the so-called "Green Gold Scandal."
4. TAX REVIEW:
-- Start an immediate review of state tax policies in
order to ultimately encourage the growth of future timber
resources.
5. FOREST FIRE PREVENTION:
-- Step up state forest fire prevention programs, as well as
encourage private parties to institute active fire prevention
programs.
6. ADMINISTRATION:
-- End the rule of Czar William Warne, who, as my
opponent's "super administration", has swallowed up the
State Division of Forestry, as well as the Department of
Conservation, Water Resources, Fish and Game, and Parks
and Recreation.
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FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
September 14, 1962
Remarks of Richard Nixon
MASONIC CONSTITUTION DAY CELEBRATION
Chico State College Auditorium
CHICO
September 13, 1962
At a time when the Communists are stepping up activity in Cuba
and probing in Berlin, we can only assume that they are also intensi-
fying their campaign of internal subversion within our national
borders. This has always been the Communist pattern.
While we are spending billions to oppose Communism abroad, it is
imperative that we also have an effective anti-Communist program at
home.
It is not enough to say that this is a federal problem. I
believe that each state has a vital role to play in supplementing
national programs.
California, which has not had a single item of anti-subversive
legislation in the past four years, must reverse this dismal record and
become a shining example to the nation. This is expected of the state
that will soon become first in population. I have had 14 years of
experience in fighting Communism and I plan to give personal direction
to a hard-hitting, three-point action program of anti-Communist
education, investigation and legislation.
This is not a partisan matter. Democrats and Republicans alike
recognize the grave dangers of Communism in California. In fact, a
state senate committee reports that Communist activity in California
has "picked up momen tum and has steadily been gaining strength."
I believe that millions of Democrats in our state were shocked
by the failure of their party's State Committee to adopt a resolution
denying membership in the Democratic party organization to Communists.
One of the arguments for shelving this resolution, given by Senator
George Miller, was that there are 35 Communists who are members of the
Democratic organization.
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It is impossible for a Communist to be a loyal American and it
is just as impossible for a Communist to be a good Democrat or a good
Republican.
There is no room in either of our great political parties for
members of an organization who are dedicated to the overthrow of our
government. For both parties, despite their differences on other
issues, are united in support of our constitution.
This is the three-pronged anti-Communist program that I believe
must be vigorously pursued in California.
1. Investigation:
There must be public support for legislative investigating
committees on both the state and national level.
I served on the House Committee on Un-American Activities
for four years. My work was often unpopular. But I am proud
of my service. And I am firmly convinced that the Committee
performs a necessary function: first, of exposing the
Communist tactics for the American people to see; second,
of investigating the executive branch of government to
uncover weaknesses in our security programs; third, of
developing legislation to deal with Communism in the United
States.
2. Legislation:
There must be public support of loyalty and security programs
for federal, state, and local employees.
Working for the Government of the State of California -- or
the United States government -- is a privilege, not a right.
And a government employee should not be allowed to belong to
an organization whose objective is the overthrow of the very
government for which he is working.
We must deny the use of tax-supported schools for speeches
by individuals who defy the subversive activities control act
or who plead the fifth amendment before grand juries or legis-
lative committees.
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2. Legislation, cont'd
During the past few months I have had the privilege of
talking on 15 college and university campuses in our
state. I have found that there is no policy by the
state administration to guide the college and university
presidents in the state system on Communist speakers. I
believe that a firm policy directive must be laid down
by executive order and legislation.
3. Education:
We must greatly improve and make mandatory a program of
teaching Communism tactics and the alternatives of free-
dom in our high schools, using authoritative text-books
and trained teachers.
We must also have a voluntary program on Communism
available on the adult level.
I feel very strongly about this question of education.
As I have travelled around the country, I have found
that the trouble with our attitude toward Communism is
not too much patriotism or too little patriotism, but
too little knowledge.
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9/13/62
NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, CaliforniarD 5-9161
September 14, 1962
Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
Turlock Rally
September 14, 1962
We cannot short change the youth of California. As we become the first
State in the nation, our future depends on the education of our young people.
It is therefore imperative that we have the necessary school construction
funds for our rapidly expanding educational needs.
This is why I strongly endorse Proposition 1-A. This is why I endorsed
the original school construction bond issue on April 28th in an address before
the California Teachers Association and the National Education Association.
This is why I reaffirmed my strong views by approval of a school construction
bond issue on June 6th, the day after the primary.
In June, when I called upon my opponent to call a special session of
the Legislature, I urged him to separate the education aspects of the
Proposition from the other issues. To have had a straight school construc-
tion proposition on the ballot, unencumbered by other questions, would have
shown good faith in the educational system of our State. For I believe that
the people will vote for school construction when it is a legitimate need.
But the present State Administration placed politics above education
and insisted on putting the bond issue before the people in November in
exactly the same form in which it was defeated three months ago.
While I strongly favor Proposition 1-A, I regret that my opponent's
administration has planned its budget so badly that the money for school
construction cannot be raised unless the people further mortgage their future
through more bonded indebtedness.
My opponent's irresponsible spending policies have made this bond issue
necessary. But our worthy institutions, such as Stanislaus State College,
must not be penalized for his recklessness. We must continue to expand our
state colleges and universities to produce the type of young men and women
who will be able to build a greater California.
The present administration is the first government in California history
that has attempted to finance current expenditures from the proceeds of a bond
issue that the people have not yet approved. I am sure that my opponent does
not kite his personal checks. Why should he then kite the public checks of our
state?
The history of Proposition 1-A is graphic proof of the fiscal chaos in
Sacramento under the present State government.
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NIXON
NEWS
FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
III
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
News Bureau: Sandy Quinn Ron Ziegler
FOR FLAT AM RELEASE
September 15, 1962
Remarks by
RICHARD NIXON
Lancaster
September 14, 1962
The record of the present administration in creating jobs and a healthy
business climate in California should be called, "How to Fail in Government
Without Really Trying."
This is California's economic barometer during the past four years:
-- Unemployment up.
-- Taxes up.
-- Cost of government up.
-- Business failures up.
-- Work stoppages up.
-- Business bankruptcies up.
At a time when we are becoming first in population, our state government
has clearly substituted smugness and complacency for meaningful achievements.
Today, two major challenges confront California. The challenge of
growth and the challenge of competition.
There are 1,600 more people in our state each day. These new people, as
well as those already living in California, must have jobs. But attracting
new industries to create the necessary new jobs takes fight--for we are in
a no-holds-barred competition with the other states, particularly in the East
and South.
And, unfortunately, our state government has refused to fight hard
enough. It has failed to meet both the challenge of growth and the challenge
of competition.
By counting the number of Californians who do not have jobs, we can
measure how the present administration has failed to meet the challenge of
growth.
From 1950 to 1959, the number of unemployed dropped 15.4%. But from
1959 to 1961, under the present administration, the total number of Califor-
nians unemployed rose 52.6%.
We can measure the failure of this state administration to meet the
challenge of: competition by comparing our record of new plants with that of
New York.
During 19 months -- in 1961 and 1962 -- New York built or started more
than three times as many new plants as did California -- 521 compared with
159.
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In fact, the only nationwide survey on new plant location shows that we
ranked a lowly ninth behind New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas, Florida,
Massachusetts and North Carolina.
And new investment and jobs will continue to dry up as long as industry
is sandbagged by new taxes and harassment from anti-business bureaucrats.
There is only one road to a greater California -- a California with
enough jobs for all. This is the Free Enterprise Road.
We must give the first State in the nation a government that will
vigorously crusade for new private business investment; an administration that
will cut the cost of government so that California taxes will be low enough
to make us competitive with the rest of the nation, and a government that
will inspire confidence because it is wholly dedicated to encouraging private
growth.
My opponent and I are diametrically opposed. We give the voters a
clear-cut choice. His philosophy is that it is better to turn to government
than to private individuals. While I firmly believe that we should never
turn to government where private individuals can do the job.
We can continue to turn to bigger and bigger government -- in Washington
and Sacramento -- and make California into a Handout State. Or we can look
to the millions of free Californians and become a great Opportunity State.
There is no excuse whatsoever for California not to lead the nation in
new jobs through new investments. We have the skilled manpower. We have the
resources. Now all we need is a new administration that will say to investors,
"The welcome mat is out, Bring your new plants to California. Make your new
jobs in California. It's a great place to live and a great place to do
business".
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RICHARD M. NIKON
Tuesday, September 18, 1962
(Transcript of Press Conference)
Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles
OPENING STATEMENT:
Gentlemen, as this press conference begins I am going to make a statement on
an issue that is not directly related to the California campaign, but which does affect
the people of California and the people of the nation. The reason I am departing from
my usual custom during the campaign of devoting my comments only to state issues will
be apparent as I make this statement.
On April 20th of last year, as you gentlemen may recall, I met with President
Kennedy the day after the Cuban invasion failed. On that occasion, I made a personal
commitment to President Kennedy. I think this is the appropriate time for me to make
that commitment again publicly. I told him that I felt it was imperative that he as
President of the United States take the necessary steps to avoid the building up of a
Communist beachhead in Cuba ninety miles from our shores.
I recognize that he within his own official family has some advisors who were
telling him that he could not and should not risk strong action because of the political
consequences in the event that such action might involve risk of armed conflict. I told
him that speaking as one Republican leader that I would support any action that he
considered necessary to contain a Communist beachhead in Cuba and that I would support
that even though that action involved friction.
Today I reiterate that statement. I believe the time has come for stronger action
in Cuba. At the present time, we see that there are vital reports from our own people -
5, 000 Soviet troops in Cuba. The fact that they are wearing civilian clothes rather than
Red Army uniforms does not get away from the point that they are Soviet troops. Also,
I do not think that you can brush this off on the basis that these troops are armed with
defensive rather than offensive arms. As the distinguished military columnist Hanson
Baldwin said recently, "Whether arms are defensive or offensive depends upon the intent
of the man who has them. " A gun can be defensive if the man intends to use it only in
self-defense, but it's certainly a very lethal useful offensive weapon if it is to be used
for that purpose.
And the other point that should be made is that the greatest danger as far as the
Cuban beachhead is concerned is not to the United States of America and our security,
we can handle the Communists in Cuba, but the danger to the surrounding countries in
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the Carribean area because Cuba now is a cancer in the western hemisphere with all
the possibilities of spreading throughout that hemisphere and taking over other countries.
Now we come to the key point, - what can, what should the President do? I do
not believe that an individual outside the Administration should indicate the specific
course of action that the President should take. He is the man who knows what our
abilities are, what our other commitments around the world are, and what risks we
would be taking. I do believe, however, that the objective of action which he must
decide at the highest level within the Administration at the present time is simply this.
The flow of arms into Cuba must be stopped by whatever means are necessary and that
he determines he is willing to use. And the spread of Communist poison through
infiltration and small arms to other parts of Latin America must be stopped. To put it
in one word, the Castro-Communist-Soviet regime in Cuba must be quarantined. The
United States of America, under President Kennedy's leadership, is the only nation that
can accomplish this result. I, speaking as a leader of my Party, pledge unqualified
support to whatever action President Kennedy decides is necessary to quarantine Castro
and Communism in Cuba - to stop the flow of arms into Cuba and to stop the flow of
infiltration and subversion of Communism to other parts of Latin America.
I recognize that there are those who say there are risks involved in taking
stronger action than we have already taken. But the risks of inaction are far greater -
we can't wait to let the dust settle in Cuba.
END OF OPENING STATEMENT:
Q. Are we calling for a Naval blockade of Cuba?
A. I will support any action including a blockade if the President of the United
States decides that is the best method to use. There are several methods upen to him -
a blockade, for example, taking the proper measures with our allies to see that their
bottoms are not used for the purpose of transporting arms to Cuba, but here is the
decision that the President must make and I am not going to say specifically what he
should do. I will say that if he determines a Naval blockade or any other action
necessary, I will support it because his judgment is the one we should follow and that
the nation should support.
Q. Do you think, Sir, that this is a major move on the part of the Russians for
penetration of Latin America? Would you say that this is their big move for blacking
out our way of life?
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A. They aren't interested at all in the few people in Cuba. Otherwise,
they would be concerned about the fact that they are treating them in such a
terrible way and that Cuba, at the present time, has been reduced to the worst
standard of living it has had in generations. Their interest is infiltrating
all of Latin America and Cuba as a beachhead.
Q. If one of our blockade should be fired upon and sunk, would it ensue
the danger of war breaking out?
A. There is always the danger of war in taking any strong action in
dealing with an aggressor, but there is a certainty of war, in my opinion, if
you do not act until the beachhead has been built to a greater point, which the
Cuban beachhead will actually reach. So my point is that you must take away the
risk of the danger of war which you refer to by taking action whether it's a
blockade or otherwise the danger of war of inaction, I think will be even
greater. It's the same argument that we had at the time of Quemoy and Matsu
incident, the same arguement we had at the time of the Lebanon landing. There,
in both cases, President Eisenhower took strong action - that action risked war
but if he had not acted, it was President Eisenhower's judgement that war would
be almost inevitable. In each of those instances, war was avoided. I believe
that war will not come if strong action is taken. I believe that war is risked
if action is not taken and Communism spreads to other parts of Latin America.
Q. Would you be prepared to risk nuclear war over Cuba?
A. I would be prepared to support President Kennedy in any action that
he determines is necessary to stop the flow of arms into Cuba.
Q. Mr. Nixon, are these remarks of yours being made as candidate for
Governor of California or as titular head of the Republican party?
A. I don't consider myself to be the titular head of the Republican
Party of the nation. I am a candidate for governor of California and I am
making these remarks not as a candidate for Governor, but as an individual who
has been very much aware of these problems through the years, who had a conver-
sation with the President with regards to it and who has some influence, I
suppose, in the nation. I simply want to go on the record with what I said to
President Kennedy over a year ago that I, as one Republican, will support the
stronger action that I believe is necessary and support it without qualification.
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Q. Mr. Nixon, would you comment on the use of allied ships to deliver goods
to Cuba.
A. I have strong convictions on this. My own view is that President Kennedy
should consider means to stop our allies, and they are good allies, and I know this
will cause some difficulties with them. Stop our allies from allowing their ships to be
used to transport goods to Cuba. This is a matter which the President only can decide
because he knows what our commitments are with our allies and what means we have at
our disposal to stop them.
Q. Would a military blockade of Cuba, however, also keep out allied ships?
Would it be used against them?
A. If they were carrying arms to Cuba, it would. But on this score, it would
certainly seem to me that in the event we decided to move in that direction, it would
certainly seem logical that our allies would see the eventualities and would agree
voluntarily to take the action that they should take on this.
Q. Is the objection then to the delivery of arms rather than food or other goods?
A. Exactly. I do not consider the delivery of food and medicines to Cuba as
being a proper subject for blockade. I am speaking of arms and strategic materials.
Q. Mr. Nixon, have we abandoned the Monroe Doctrine? How can we revitalize
it?
A. I am talking about the Monroe Doctrine. An action by President Kennedy
indicating what the United States will do will revitalize the Monroe Doctrine. May I say
in that connection, what I am suggesting is that this action may have to be taken
unilaterally. President Kennedy, on April 21st, the day after I met with him, appeared
before the nation's editors and he himself said at that time that the United States might
have to resort to unilateral action to protect its interests and to protect the interests of
the free world in that area. We all hoped it would not be necessary, that all of our
allies in Latin America would join with us. But if they will not, President Kennedy's
assertion over a year ago that we would act alone must be the course of action that we
will take and I would support it.
Q. Do you personally favor a military blockade?
A. I favor any course of action that President Kennedy determines necessary. If
he determines a military blockade is within the capabilities of the United States and he
determines that such a blockade is the best method of stopping the flow of arms into
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Cuba, I would favor it. Here again, I point out, that determination is for hi m to make.
If he finds that there are means short of a military blockade, an agreement with our
allies for example, which would stop the flow of arms, which would do the job, then that,
of course, is what I would take. This is the President's decision and I am only indicating
that the decision must be adequate enough to stop the flow of arms into Cuba.
Q. (Not audible)
A, As I understand the question, in view of my statements with regard to
Southeast Asia, which the gentleman approves, if I am elected Governor of California,
what will I do specifically to deal with Communism in California? Is that correct?
Yes.
I have outlined a program dealing with Communism in California to supplement
what we are doing nationally. I believe that the program is an effective one; I set it
forth in my speech at Chico State College a few days ago.
Q. Mr. Nixon, on a political level, are you concerned that your opposition in this
campaign may take advantage of your making statements of an international stature and
international scope rather than addressing yourself to California issues?
A. I am sure that is a possibility. I have made it absolutely clear that I am
running for Governor of California and that I, under no circumstances, will be a
candidate in 1964 for the presidency of the United States, and I hope to be supporting the
man who is elected President on the Republican ticket in 1968. As far as this particular
matter is concerned, this, it seems to me, is very appropriate and is, as a matter of
fact, necessary for me to comment because of the personal commitment I made to
President Kennedy a year ago.
Q. Do you believe the Kennedy Administration handling of Cuba should be a
campaign issue?
A. I had hoped it would not become an issue, President Kennedy, as you
recall, made the handling of the Cuban situation by the Eisenhower Administration a
very effective campaign issue against us and I would say that one of the purposes of the
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campaign is to spell out these issues SO that the nation can be aware of what the alter-
natives are. I would hope that President Kennedy, by strong action now, would remove
the Cuban issue from the campaign and if he acts strongly, believe me, it won't be an
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Q. Mr. Nixon, what is your reaction to the continued Democratic contention that
on the subject of California, you have no platform, that you are running on no real
California issues?
A. All that I can say is that my friends on the other side who say this have not
been reading my speeches, have not been paying attention to my press conferences and
they have not been paying attention to my general statements in this regard. In the
primary campaign, I set forth nine specific programs in the field of welfare, in the field of
law enforcement, in the field of urban problems, in the field of government reorganization
for the people of California, to name only a few. In this final campaign I am setting
forth programs, I set forth one on fish and game last week, and on the seven major
radio broadcasts, I am going to spell them out. I can only hope that by the time the
campaign is over that my opponents on the other side, as well as those who are support-
ing me, will read and listen to what I am saying and they will learn that I am setting
forth a specific program for California.
Q. Mr. Nixon, did you confer with former President Eisenhower or any other
Republican leader before making your statement today?
A. No, I did not. This statement is made on my own and I conferred with
nobody else. I am glad you asked that question as I am not indicating this as so-called
Republican policy. This is not a Republican-Democratic fight. This is simply an
issue involving the security of the United States made by one individual who ran for
President against President Kennedy, who debated this issue in the campaign with him,
who has indicated his complete support of the President in taking stronger action.
Q. (Not audible)
A. No. The only reference to it was made in the portion of my book to the
effect that I did discuss the Cuban situation but the time that I met with President
Kennedy, I recalled the usual rule that you do not go out and have a press conference
with regard to what the Chief of State said to me.
Q. Mr. Nixon, your commitment to the President at that time must have been
given as a Republican leader. When you went to the White House, he must have
regarded you as head of the Republican Party in asking you for this commitment.
A. At that time, he did not ask for a commitment. I offered this voluntarily
and at that time I trust you can say that is correct. At that time, I was not a candidate
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for Governor and at that time, I was speaking in my capacity as a Republican leader but
I have never attempted to take upon myself the matter of being the only leader of the
Republican Party. The word "titular" means nothing in my opinion and I accept that,
Q. On the state issue of particular importance to Los Angeles, do you anticipate
that this pollution control may become an issue?
A. Air pollution control should not be an issue but instead à bipartisan program and
both candidates should support reasonable methods of taking care of it. One of my major
television, and I should say radio talks, which I am setting forth affirmative programs,
will deal with urban problems and air pollution control and transit problems will be
covered very extensively in it. I would hope that what I say in that radio broadcast would
also have the support of my opponent,
Q. (Not audible)
A. Yes what I was referring to was this. In the newspapers at that time were
columns and other so-called ghost stories which those of us on the outside have to read
and pay some attention to, to the effect that some of President Kennedy's more
politically motivated advisors were urging him to do nothing that might risk his becoming
a belligerent President, nothing that would risk the possibility of war, for example. And
I would make it clear that I support strong action in this instance.
Q. Mr. Nixon, yesterday Senator Kuchel told us that he feels that the present
Federal Subversive laws are adequate. Do you concur?
A. They are adequate from the federal level, yes; but I think that at the state
level we need some additional laws.
Q. Does this imply Communi sm will be a leading, if not the leading, issue
in the remaining weeks of this California campaign?
A. Only if my opponent fails to come along with what I think is a very
reasonable and responsible program, which I have outlined.
Q. Will you elaborate on this program?
A. Yes, I will elaborate briefly. I have indicated that I believe no individual
who refuses to answer questions on the grounds of self-incrimination with regard to
subversive activities before a federal grand jury or before a legally constituted legis-
lative investigating committee of either the state or the federal government should be
allowed to teach or speak in any tax supported institution in the State of California,
My opponent disagrees with me on that up to this point. He has indicated, for example,
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in the Wilkinson case when Wilkinson pleaded the Fifth Amendment that he thought that
he should be allowed, as he was allowed, to speak at the University of California campus.
This is a clear cut difference between us. I have also indicated that I favor provision by
legislation and also by executive order in which no individual who refuses to register
with the Attorney General under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1951, which I
helped to write, will be allowed the privilege of speaking on a tax supported institution
in the State of California.
Q. Isn't it possible in California today for a person who refuses to sign an
oath to teach in California?
A. No, The oath thing is one thing, but the oath only deals with the question
of whether or not an individual says he is or is not a member of certain organizations.
I am now speakingof a specific act, the act on the part of an individual who, after
signing such an oath, is asked to testify before a committee or a grand jury and then
pleads the Fifth Amendment and says he will not cooperate with the legally constituted
arms of this government in exposing and dealing with subversive activities.
Q. Are there such people now teaching in California?
A. I don't claim that there are. This is a preventive measure.
Q. Mr. Nixon, some of the Democratic Party leaders say that you are using
the charge that Brown's Administration has a "do nothing" attitude towards Communism
as a sign of desperation on your part. Do you feel at all that way about it?
A. Well, let's understand very clearly who raised this issue. This issue
was raised at the Democratic State Convention. A resolution was introduced at that
Convention by Speaker Unruh, a very simp le resolution, which would have had the effect
of keeping Communists out of the Democratic Party organization and members of the
John Birch Society as well. It was a two-pronged resolution. That resolution was
defeated by a very powerful vote. The man who led the group to defeat was Senator
George Miller. Now in the debate on that resolution, Senator Miller made a statement.
I have it here in front of me as there has been some doubt as to what he said. Inci-
dentally, I am quoting from Sid Kossen's article in the San Francisco Examiner on
August 27th. He is my source. I quote, "Miller said that he was not afraid of
Birchers and said that he was sure at best there were no more than 35 Communists in
California's Democratic Party organization." He goes on to say, and now I am reading
a direct quote from his article, "The Democratic Party is big enough to extend its
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facilities to unpopular ideas, " he urged. "If they are breaking the law call a cop, but
they will not crust the Party and we will not send it to new heights by this resolution. "
Let me make it very clear. Senator Miller, Governor Brown, have a perfect right to
disagree with me on whether or not Communists should be in or out of the Democratic
Party organization. I stated in Chico that I believe that Communists could not be either
good Democrats or good Republicans and I agree with Speaker Unruh that Communists
should not be in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. And so this, therefore,
becomes a campaign issue and when somebody suggests that because I raised this point
that I am questioning Mr. Miller's loyalty or Mr. Brown's loyalty, they are missing it
altogether. Perfectly loyal Americans can disagree as to whether or not those who plead
the Fifth Amendment
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whether you were questioning anyone's loyalty, sir, but campaign
tactics.
A. Mr. Miller, to whom you referred earlier, did say that I was questioning
the loyalty
and that's the point I wish to make
Q. He said a good many things, but he also said that he felt you were using
this charge as a sign your campaign had not gotten off the ground and you were reaching
for this out of desperation. That was the point I wanted you to comment upon.
A. Not at all. I consider it the responsibility of a candidate for Governor
to discuss every issue which is the prerogative of the Governor or one who becomes
Governor. And one of the decisions the Governor must make is whether or not he is
g oing to support legislation to deal with subversive activities. I am going to support it.
I am against having people who plead the Fifth Amendment when questioned on subversive
meetings o rteachings in tax supported institutions. Mr. Brown is for it. Now that is a
clear issue and the people have a chance to choose.
Q. What about the other half of that resolution. Do you think a Birch member
can be either a good Democrat or a good Republican?
A. I have made my position with regard to the John Birch Society clear long
before most of those presently discussing it ever raised it. Over a year ago I
expressed my opinion with regard to the John Birch Society and I have reiterated it on
many occasions and I have the same attitude today as I did before.
Q. Mr. Nixon, did you personally believe that Governor Brown is soft on
Communism?
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A. Not at all. There is no charge that Governor Brown is soft on
Communism. The question here is on what methods are used by people who are not
Communists, are anti-Communism, and Governor Brown certainly is that. I am sure
he is just as much against Communism as I am. As to what methods we are going to
use - to deal with -- I just happen to believe that we need stronger methods than
Governor Brown's. Here is where we disagree.
Q. In your speech at Pomona, you said that this Administration is incapable
in dealing with Communism in
(not audible).
A. Well, perhaps to get it into simpler words, I would say that his
Administration by its record has indicated that it cannot deal effectively with
Communism. That's a matter of opinion on my part, one of the reasons for that is his
Administration, and he, are so closely tied to the California Democratic Council which
is opposed to dealing effectively with Communism, which is opposed to the Committee
on Un-American Activities, and which opposes the loyalty oaths and opposes other
actions which even Governor Brown has at long last determined are not as agreeable as
they should be.
Q. Mr. Nixon, do you believe that Governor Brown has truly turned his back
on the CDC, ADA, the National Lawyers Guild and all the rest?
A. He has great opportunity during the course of this campaign to make it
absolutely clear that his statement to the effect that he disagreed with some CDC positions
and also goes with others as well. I would say that Governor Brown will now support the
strong positions I take about dealing with Communism in the State of California, that
would be quite effective in pointing up his complete divorce from the CDC. As to the
present time, Governor Brown, it seems to me, is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
It was he who said that he was the champion of the CDC after they adopted some of his
resolutions that he, in this election year, has now decided to repudiate. It was he who
said the CDC was his strong right arm and I would suggest that he should make an
unequivocal statement with regard to the CDC generally. Because let's remember one
thing -- there has been a lot of talk about the John Birch Society. The John Birch Society
is not a Republican Party organization. It is not an official organization of the Republican
Party. It has not endorsed me. The CDC is, and certainly at the very minimum, the
leading voluntary Democratic Party organization and it has endorsed Brown and I think he
should disassociate himself with and from those positions and certainly that kind of
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leadership, that the CDC indicates, and I might add one thing, a pretty good chance for
him to do SO is to say unequivocally whether he stands with Unruh or with Miller with
regard to this resolution as far as Communists are concerned in the Democratic Party,
He has said nothing to this point.
Q. To return to this earlier thing on Cuba on this matter of quarantine or
not how quickly could this be accomplished? Are you asking for this immediately?
A. The program must be initiated immediately. This requires consultation
with allies. It requires some action by Congress, but above everything else, if the
President of the United States at this time would make an unequivocal statement, or
if he would just repeat what he said on April 21st, 1961, after the fiasco at the Bay of
Pigs, this would be very reassuring to the American people. The President's position
needs to be reiterated so that the American people and the Communists will know that we
are not going to tolerate a Communist beachhead ninety miles from our shore.
Q. Mr. Truman said last night that former President Eisenhower should have
S topped the rouble in Cuba, but he didn't have the guts to do it. Would you comment
on that?
A. I have had many disagreements with former President Truman and
merely turn the other cheek. One thing that I will praise him for is that he has lots of
guts, I felt that he had guts when he took the action he did going into Korea. I thought
he had guts when he made the decision to drop the atomic bomb which ended World War II.
I don't think, however, that it comes very well from a man who has held the high
responsibility as President, who does have guts, to question the guts of a man who led
America to victory in World War II, who moved on Quemoy and Matsu, who moved on
Lebanon and kept this nation at peace without surrender for eight years.
Q. Have you abandoned hope of TV debates? And do you anticipate any
support from Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles?
A. I will answer the second part of your question. I will not speak, of
course, speak for Mayor Yorty or any other individual until he speaks for himself.
Mayor Yorty is a Democrat and has been my friend, but I have no indication that he
will support me in this campaign and it would be presumptious for me to discuss it.
I will, of course, work very closely with Mayor Yorty. The reason I am seeing him
tomorrow is to talk about some of our urban problems.
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Q. (Not audible) Concerns the John Birch Society.
A. My position has been stated and reiterated as far as the John Birch
Society is concerned. I still hold to that position and am not going to change. As far as
campaigning for candidates for federal office is concerned, I am running my own state
campaign for a California position and that campaign has been run and will continue to be
run independently of nominees for federal office.
Q. A moment ago, you said you had not been endorsed by the John Birch
Society and the extreme right wing elements of your party, while following reluctantly,
are not tugging at the tails of your coat. Do you think this helps or hinders your chances?
A. Probably hinders. In a close campaign a man needs every bit of support
he can get and I know that there are those who suggest that I made my statement over a
year ago before I became a candidate. I am going to hold to my position and the political
consequences will have to be what they are.
Q Do you think your adherence to principle might deprive you of your
future political plans?
A. It might, but every man at times has to make that very difficult choice.
I made that choice and I think it is in the best interests of my party.
Q. You said that you didn't think Brown was soft on Communism and then you
went on to call for stronger measures than he had advocated? Would it be correct to
say he is weak on Communism?
A. I think that is a very appropriate question. The term soft on Communism
means to the layman that an individual is soft with his regard to opposition to Communism.
I want nobody to have any doubt on that score. I don't consider Governor Brown to be soft
in his opposition to Communism. He is against Communism as are all loyal Democrats
and Republicans in this state,
I believe that in determining what courses of action can be taken to deal
with Communism that his programs are ineffective. One of the reasons I believe his
programs are ineffective is because of the ODC wing in his party which puts great
pressure on him every time a strong step is recommended, It defeats resolutions like
the Unruh resolution. What I am separating here is a man's motive from what he does.
I don't question Governor Brown's motives or his basic loyalties at all - and I'm sure
he doesn't question mine. What I am saying is that I disagree with him on how 1:
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we implement our deep set motives -- our opposition to Communism and our loyalty to
the United States.
Q. Is there a Communist menace in California?
A. There is a Communist menace all over the United States. We can only
assume that when the Communists are stepping up their activity in Cuba, in Laos, in
Viet Nam that there is no question there is a Communist menace. Let me describe that
menace in just one word. It isn't a menace that Communism is going to take over the
United States by subversion. Next year or fifty years from now. It isn't a menace that
our young people are going to be corrupted by Communism. But the menace is this.
International Communism has declared war on the United States and other free nations.
Every Communist Party member, and I speak with authority in this field, is a conscious
agent and dedicated and willing to do espionage work or anything in behalf of the inter-
national Communism movement. For example, the Communists led the riots against the
House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco. Not because they are talk-
ing free speech, but because they are against it because they are Communists. The
Communists will lead the program for ban the bomb not because, they like some pacifists,
are concerned about the bomb and its terrible effects in the event war comes but because
that serves Soviet foreign policy. I say that this kind of activity in the United States has
to be dealt with -- dealt with within our constitutional provisions as I have constantly
insisted upon where it has to be dealt with. I want my State of California to lead the
nation in a program that will supplement what we do nationally.
Q. Senator Kuchel has indicated that he is running an independent campaign.
Does this imply a split with you or the regular Republican organization?
A. No, that is the California tradition. Senator Kuchel has always run an
independent campaign. Running for Vice President and President of the United States,
I had the responsibility. to campaign throughout the nation and the state for federal
nominees. Because I was going to have to work with them. Now I am running for Governor
and I am campaigning for my colleagues on the state ticket and for the nominees for
Assembly. I am running an independent campaign. However, as far as the federal level
is concerned, and I am not campaigning with Senator Kuchel or other federal nominees.
The issues are different, we have different financial programs, and that will continue
to be the policy.
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Q. Can you give us examples of how Communist subversion has increased in
California since 1958?
A. The report of the Burns Committee which was filed late in 1961 and
issued in 1962, in which it indicated in the period of its surveilance of Communism,
particularly in educational institutions, there had been an increase in Communist
activity. Beyond that I will not go further and I will spell that out in a number of major
speeches as I have the opportunity.
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State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
News Bureau: Sandy Quinn -- Ron Ziegler
Herbert G. Klein, Press Secretary
Remarks by
For PM Release
RICHARD NIXON
September 20, 1962
September 20, 1962
(Remarks made during Mr. Nixon's person-to-person bus tour of the San Joaquin
Valley, including stops in Delano, Porterville, Lindsay, Visalia, Hanford and
Fresno.)
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman has just been here to try to stamp out the
farm revolt in California, We welcome him to our fair climate. But we do not
welcome his attempt to put California's farmers in a bureaucratic straightjacket
made in Washington, D.C.
The California farmer does not need to be told about marketing orders from
the man from Minnesota. We can tell him that the concept of marketing orders
originated in our state nearly 30 years ago and has always had bi-partisan support.
But Californians believe that marketing orders mean self-management from the bottom
up, rather than know-it-all management from the top down.
Today, in California, our number one industry is being treated like a step-
child. This is particularly evident from the low calibre of the agricultural
appointees in the present state administration. And it is impossible to get a
first-rate Job out of second-rate politicians.
During the past four years, the great California tradition of a nonpartisan
State Board of Agriculture has been shattered and the Board now consists of eight
members of the same political party and one traditionally academic member.
The key position of State Director of Agriculture was first turned over to
Czar William Warne, who tried to kidnap the Department and bury it in his empire,
and then turned over to James Ralph, who was later fired by the Federal government
for accepting favors from Billie Sol Estes,
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We must replace indecision and incompetents with this five-point program for
dynamic state leadership.
1. California's agricultural programs must be administered by the most ex-
perienced and highly qualified men in the State, without regard to whether a man
is a Democrat or a Republican.
2. We must have a State administration that will firmly oppose the 160-acre
limitation on State-financed water projects, so that this outmoded concept will
not be used as a political instrument for expropriation.
3. We must have a State administration that will stand up and fight for
California's share of world markets and not allow our crops to be sold down the
river by State Department negotiators in Washington, D.C.
4. We must have a State administration that will fight to get California a
voice on the U.S. Tariff Commission. Although we are the largest agricultural
exporting state in the nation, there is no Californian on the Commission. On
May 30, I called on my opponent to meet with the State Congressional Delegation to
propose a candidate for an existing vacancy. Nearly four months have gone by and
still no action has been taken.
5. We must have a State administration that will support the farmer's need
for a supplemental labor supply when there is a shortage of qualified local workers.
Perishable crops cannot be allowed to rot in the fields because of phony labor
disputes and bureaucratic harassment.
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As California becomes the first state in population, it is imperative that we
get a new administration that will restore the farmer's confidence in his government
and fight for a prosperous agricultural economy that will serve the best interests
of farmers, farm workers and consumers.
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NIXON
NEWS
RELEASE
FOR GOVERNOR
LITHE U.S.A.
State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by Richard Nixon
For Release Flat AM's
San Jose State College
September 21, 1962
San Jose, California
September 20, 1962
Based on a study of California welfare costs by nationally recognized experts,
I shall make recommendations in the field of welfare that will result in a savings
of 27 million dollars in federal, state and county costs and still give California
the most generous and humane program in the nation.
Moreover, this saving to the taxpayers will be made without cutting one cent
from the aid to the needy aged program or from others who are entitled to welfare
payments.
Without depriving a single child in need, 25 million dollars can be cut from
the Aid to Needy Children program by responsible changes in the law and regulations.
Another 2 million dollars will be saved in the handling of prescriptions by
cutting the cost of red tape. California now pays 75 cents on each prescription
for paper work alone, while the Veterans Administration processes prescriptions for
only 21 cents.
Today, under the present state administration, California's handling of welfare
programs has become a national disgrace. Costs have risen three and one half times
faster than our population growth. Chiselers by the hundreds have been allowed to
invade the relief rolls. And two national magazines, a study by the State Senate
Committee on Social Welfare, and, numerous Grand Jury investigations have exposed
loose administration, excessive red tape and unproductive cost increases.
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But the cost of my opponent's failure to properly run the vital welfare pro-
gram of California must be measured in more than dollars. It must also be measured
in the destruction of character, moral fiber and self-reliance.
When welfare programs make it more profitable for a man not to work than to
work, there is something radically wrong with the program.
When welfare programs make it more profitable for a man to desert his family
than to support them, there is something radically wrong with the program.
From all over the state we have such reports: A man who earned $242.00 a month
by working, but gets $364.00 a month for his family by deserting them; another man
who increased his monthly income by $110.00 by not working.
By adopting this five point action program of welfare reform, California will
get more service for less money.
1. We must speed up action to find welfare chiselers and get them off the re-
lief rolls. A recent state Senate report reveals that 58.2 percent of ANC cases
are illegally receiving aid.
2. We must concentrate state efforts to reunite ANC families or make absent
fathers support their families. In 44 percent of ANC cases involving absent par-
ents, no investigation was made to locate the missing person, according to the
Senate Committee's findings.
3. We must re-examine the size of welfare payments to end the common situation
where family income is much greater on relief than when gainfully employed.
4. We must replace duplication and state dictation to the counties with greater
local control and local autonomy.
5. We must restore the concept of personal responsibility; refocusing our
efforts on helping people to help themselves, rather than just doling out money.
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9/20/62
NIXON
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FOR GOVERNOR
RELEASE
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State Headquarters: 3908 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 5, California; DU 5-9161
Remarks by
For FLAT AM Release
RICHARD NIXON
Saturday, September 22, 1962
at Medical, Dental & Pharmaceutical Association
of Southern California and the
John Langston Law Club, Rodger Young Auditorium,
Los Angeles, California
September 21, 1932
A growing, building California cannot afford to lose the ability of hundreds
of thousands of our citizens who are now not getting the opportunity to work in
jobs worthy of their capacities and their training.
It is simply not in the best interests of our state to deny jobs to any
Californian because of race, color, religion or any other factor that has nothing
to do with how well a man can do a job.
Our FEP law, at best, is a very inadequate answer to this major problem. As
Governor, I will see that this law is effectively administered. But we must also
recognize that mere compliance with the letter of a law is not the best way to tap
the tremendous resources of manpower and skill that are lying dormant because of
discrimination.
As Governor, I am going to appoint a Blue Ribbon Commission composed of top
leaders in business, labor and education to take the initiative in dealing with
this problem on a voluntary basis.
This Blue Ribbon Commission will bring together the major employers of our
state for the purpose of finding voluntary means to open up equal opportunities
for jobs, for promotion and for training our younger people to fill positions that
make maximum use of their capacities.
In this way, we will supplement the FEP program, which deals with the problem
after charges have been made, with a positive program that strikes at the causes of
discrimination.
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As you know, I have had seven years of direct experience in fighting discrim-
ination in the manner that I now propose to use on a state-wide basis in California.
From 1953 through 1960, I had the honor of being Chairman of the President's
Committee on Government Contracts, which had the single objective of achieving
equal job opportunity through voluntary employer compliance.
I am proud of the record we made--1,042 complaints received and 851 cases
closed. And everyone who follows baseball, as I do, knows that .810 is a pretty
remarkable batting average!
I am convinced that the approach to the problem that I have outlined will be
a great step forward in seeing that every Californian gets an equal chance at the
starting line. The Governor of our State must lend the prestige of his office to
his cause,
It is a question of simple justice. But it is also a question of doing what
is in the best interests of our State. We all want California to be the first state
in the nation in population. But we also want California to be the first state in
the nation in opportunity for all of our people.
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