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June 22, 1962
Dear George and Naz:
I want you to know how much I appreciated the message
of congratulations you sent me after the primary election.
The prospects are that the campaign this fall will be
the hardest fought in California's history. However, I am
confident that our decisive primary victory has provided the
springboard we need to assure success this November.
At the present time, I am laying the groundwork for
the most intensive, hard-hitting campaign in California's
history. You can be sure that knowing you are on our team
will be a constant source of inspiration and encouragement.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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CLASS OF SERVICE
WESTERN UNION
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This is a fast message
DL=Day Letter
unless its deferred char-
NL=Night Letter
acter is indicated by the
TELEGRAM
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International
proper symbol.
Letter Telegram
W.P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT
The filing time shown in the date line on domestic telegrams is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination
LA209 L LLR079
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:HONORABLE RICHARD NIXON=
REPUBLICAN HDQTRS LOSA:
1962 JUN 6 PM 12 54
=ELATED WITH ELECTION RESULTS CONGRATULATIONS WE
ARE READY TO WORK HARDER REGARDS=
Dear
GEORGE AND NAZ MARDIKIAN.
off
S/D
207 Powell street
yes
an Francisco, California
mr + mrs. George Mardikian
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THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE
March 5, 1962
Bohemian Club of San Francisco
624 Taylor Street
San Francisco, California
Membership Committee
Bohemian Club
Attention: Membership Committee
Gentlemen:
It is with great pleasure that I write this let-
ter in support of George Mardikian's application
for Regular Membership in the Bohemian Club.
I have known George for many years and I am
sure there are many of our members who feel the
same as I do -- that George would be an excellent
addition to the Regular Membership of the Club. He
most certainly has proven himself to be a man of
whom all members of our organization can be jus-
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tifiably proud to call a fellow-Bohemian.
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I am delighted to have this opportunity to
give my unqualified recommendation that George
copy X -
Mardikian's application be given favorable consid-
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eration.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
m
GEORGE
MARDIKJAN,
George Mardikian folder
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January 13, 1961
Dear George:
Now that my office staff has been able to dig its way out from
under the mass of mail that has come to us in the days since November 8,
I want to take this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciated all
that you did on our behalf during the campaign, and particularly your
outstanding work as a member of the Nationalities Advisory Committee
for Nixon-Lodge.
Losing the election was naturally a keen personal disappointment
to Pat and to me. We often talk of the things we could have done or
mistakes we might have avoided which could have changed the result.
As the months and years go by, these factors will fade into the back-
ground. But we shall never forget the devoted and selfless efforts of
those who worked so hard for our cause during the campaign. We only
wish that we, ourselves, could have done more so that we could have
won the victory which you worked so hard to achieve.
I have been encouraged by the fact that in the great amount of
mail that I have received since the election I have found very little
evidence of discouragement or defeatism among those who supported us
in the campaign. On the contrary, I sense a renewed determination to
continue to fight for the principles for which we stood. I want to
assure you that, to the extent my own time will permit, I intend to do
everything that I can in working for those principles in the years
ahead.
I hope that before too long Pat and I will be able to thank you
personally for all that you did. In the meantime, she joins me in
sending our best wishes.
Sincerely,
Richard Wixon
Mr. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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November 17, 1961
Dear George:
Since I announced my candidacy for Governor of
California, I have received a number of inquiries requesting
information as to our campaign plans. I am writing to you as
one of those who has participated in our past campaigns to give
you a report on my personal plans and on the plans which are in
progress for the campaign. I would appreciate it if you would
pass on this information to others who may make inquiries of
you in this respect.
I am looking forward to getting started in what
I intend to make the most intensive campaign in California's
history. However, because of commitments made long before my
decision, I must concentrate during the next several weeks on
completing the heavy schedule of writing, speaking and legal
obligations already on my calendar. After the first of the
year, with these commitments honored, I will be able to devote
my entire time to the campaign.
I do want to assure you, however, that during
this period we are going forward in organizing and mapping our
overall campaign plans, and I will greatly appreciate it if
you will take the time to send me any suggestions or observa-
tions you may have about any phase of the campaign. I would
particularly like to know about your own availability to be an
active participant in the campaign as you have so effectively
done in the past. I am enclosing a card which can be used to
send in this information if you so desire.
We are about to open a campaign headquarters
office, and so that you will be aware of any activities and
developments as they occur, I am taking the liberty of adding
your name to their mailing list.
With kind regards,
Sincerely,
Mr. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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November 8, 1961
Dear George:
As I looked at my desk calendar this
morning, it seemed hardly possible that a year
had gone by since our campaign of 1960 came to
a close.
I would not want this day to pass with-
out taking the opportunity to tell you again
how deeply grateful I am for all that you did
for our cause. No candidate for the Presidency
could have had a more dedicated and loyal group
of supporters.
Pat joins me in sending our best wishes,
Sincerely,
D
Mr. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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September 14, 1961
MARDIKIAN
Markidian, George M.
Dear George:
This is just a note to thank you for your
letter of August 18 enclosing snapshots which
were taken during my all-too-brief stay at the
Grove this summer. You may be sure I am pleased
to have these pictures for my album.
With kindest personal regards,
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Sincerely,
d
Bohemian Encappment 7-61
Mr. George M. Markidian
George M. Markidian Enterprises
207 Powell Street
San Francisco 2, California
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April 29, 1961
Atthah, Albert M.
Dear Dr. Attyah:
This is just a note to tell you how very
much I regret that your letter of April 4 did not c
come to my attention in time for me to write you
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before the U. S. OMEN dinner on April 16. Al-
though I could not have been with you because of
a previous commitment, I certainly would have
wanted to have a message which you or my good
friend, George Mardikian, could have read.
The next time you have a meeting of
your Board of Directors, I would appreciate your
dare free
extending to them my regrets and very best wishes
for the continued success of your organization.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
RN
Richard Nixon
Albert M. Attyah, M. D., President
U. S. OMEN
Unite d St ates Organization for Medical and Educational Needs
Post Office Box 15791
Los Angeles 15, California
cc: Mr. file George Mardikian
DINNER GUEST April 16, 1961 mardikia Regress RMW:Pj
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April 18, 1961
RN:rmw
Dear George:
This is just a note to thank you for
one of the most memorable evening's out it has ever
been my pleasure to enjoy. As you know, I have
travelled to fifty-five countries and have been enter-
tained by emperors, queens and prime ministers but
never have I had such a feast as you laid before me on
Sunday evening during my visit to San Francisco early
this month. What made it even more memorable was
your company, as well as that of Mrs. Mardikian and
our mutual friends, the Matteis.
I am looking forward to seeing you at
the Grove. But I shall bring some metrecal in my bag
because one Mardikian meal a day is enough for anyone
who has to watch his weight!
Shesx-X
RN dictated
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
San Francisco Visit - April 6--10, 1961
MARDIKIAN, George M.
Richard Nixon
Mr. George M. Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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Jamuary 202 1961
Dear Mr. Mardikians
This is the first opportunity 1 have had to
thank you for writing me of behalf of Allen Levis, who 1s
ested 1n. & 1961 nonination to the Naval Academy,
As you perhign hier, all selections are made on
the basis of Civil Service examinations which were given in
November. I deeply regret Nist Allen's grades were not suf-
ficiently Mah to receive an appointment. However, with ap-
to the service sendendes, the competition WSS particularly Item
this year.
If Allen did not succeed in being appointed
at 1962 nomination from his Representative, both Senators and
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MARDIKIAN, George . (folder)
proximately 1500 applicants to fill as total of six appointments
through another adures: he should apply again this spring for
the Vice President. 10 have sent Allen the grades he attained
in the November presidention which I pa sure will be helpful to
him in preparing for future! tests.
Thank you egain for taking the time to write me
about this young/man, and with best vishes
Sincerely,
Richard Nizon
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Mr. George M. Mardikian
207 Powell Street
Ban Francisco12, California
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GEORGE M. MARDIKIAN ENTERPRISES
April 18, 1961
/
I have answered
Mr. H. R. Haldeman
Vice President
this letter for myself
J. Walter Thompson Company
6505 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles 48, California
but I guess RN
My dear Mr. Haldeman,
should thank for
Enclosed please find two sets of pictures
as mementoes of your visit to our city. One
set is for you and the other for our beloved
Vice President Nixon.
photos I Rept
It was a great joy and pleasure to be with
you and we hope we will have the opportunity of
"breaking bread" with you both again.
With best wishes always, I remain, his ane
my set -
Sincerely,
attached
M. MARDIKTAN BR
GEORGE
GMM/sfd
Mardikian
ATTYAH ' Sending 9 CARBON Copy
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RICHARD NIXON
April 29, 1961
Dear Dr. Attyah:
This is just a note to tell you how very
much I regret that your letter of April 4 did not C
come to my attention in time for me to write you
before the U. S. OMEN dinner on April 16. Al-
though I could not have been with you because of
a previous commitment, I certainly would have
wanted to have a message which you or my good
friend, George Mardikian, could have read.
The next time you have a meeting of
your Board of Directors, I would appreciate your
extending to them my regrets and very best wishes
for the continued success of your organization.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
Albert M. Attyah, M. D., President
U. S. OMEN
Post Office Box 15791
Los Angeles 15, California
CC: Mr. George Mardikian
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Let's Break Bread!
This Palm Sunday message recalls a tradition of Biblical days.
It reminds us that there's more to food than the eating
Famed San Francisco
restaurateur and author of
Truly America is the land of plenty. Her rich
Without bread, baked from wheat they carried
"Song Of America"
earth gives us the best and most nourishing food
with them, they would have perished.
in the world, and this makes our children grow
It was a sin to waste bread. If a crumb fell to
By GEORGE M. MARDIKIAN
straight and tall and beautiful.
the ground, the Armenian picked it up and kissed
But sometimes, as I look at all this abundance,
it, and said a prayer, and put it on a wall for the
I wonder if we aren't taking it a little too much for
birds to eat.
with him the staff of your life, and thus the most
granted. Aren't we forgetting, for instance, the
Now, the traditional Armenian bread is lavash,
precious thing you possess.
Bible's reminder that "man shall not live by bread
a large round cracker that you break in your
And it is done reverently, because you are also
alone" - that food is more than just something
hands. And out of Armenian antiquity has come
uniting in gratitude to God for the miracle of
to eat?
the custom of holding lavash over the dinner table
bread - and the even greater miracle of life.
Perhaps the story of a simple Armenian custom
with your guest, and breaking it together.
So when I see the plenty around us, I wish that
will show you what I mean.
This means not only that you are each taking a
at every meal I could break bread with every one
To Armenians, bread was veritably the staff of
piece of lavash to eat with your meal; it is your
of you. Then together, in this old way, we could
life. Many of them did not-stay in one place and
way of saying, "What is mine is yours." It means
all say that we are brothers, and could all thank
grow crops; they were eternally on the move.
that you think so much of him, you are sharing
God for our bountiful country.
April 14, 1957
This Week
THE NATIONAL SUNDAY MAGAZINE
WILLIAM I. NICHOLS, Editor and Publisher
STEWART BEACH, Executive Editor
© 1957, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation
485 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.
EUCLID M. COVINGTON, President
JOHN C. STERLING, Chairman of the Board
2
THIS WEEK Magazine/April 14, 1957
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WORDS TO LIVE BY
October 22, 1960
Dear George:
I was indeed pleased when I learned that you had
agreed to serve as a. Vice Chairman of the Nationalities
Committee of the Volunteers for Nixon-Lodge, and I
want you to know how grateful I am for your willingness
to accept this key position.
The forces you are mobilizing can well be the de-
cisive factor on election day. It is most heartening
to know that you are devoting your outstanding abilities
and efforts on behalf of our common cause, particularly
during these final crucial weeks of our drive to victory
on November 8.
With appreciation and every good wish,
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
Mr. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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GEORGE M.MARDIKIAN ENTERPRISES
June 20, 1960
The Honorable Richard Nixon
Vice President of the
United States
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Vice President:
Thank you for your letter of June 2nd which
was on my desk when I returned from a speaking
tour.
Needless to say, all your friends and right
thinking Americans are working for your cause which
is our cause. We are hoping and praying that you
will get a chance at least to come for two or three
days to the Grove so that you can give a talk to
the large gathering of Bohemians. Every member
in the Caveman's Camp has missed you, and it will
be a great thrill for all of us to have you in our
midst.
I am very grateful to your secretary, Miss Wood,
who arranged my meeting with General Cushman, and I
hope the information I passed on was worthwhile as
we are very much concerned about the new tricks that
the Soviets are playing in order to penetrate communism
into the ranks of the people through religion and
churches. We always have to be on guard.
Hoping this letter finds you and our charming
Mrs. Nixon and your two lovely daughters in the best
of health and spirit, I remain,
Devotedly,
GEORGE a M. MARDIKIAN
GMM/sfd
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207 POWELL STREET ® SAN FRANCISCO 2, CALIF. e YUKON 6-0785 SUTTER 1-1010 .
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"FREEDOM IS MY BUSINESS
FREEDOM CLUB BULLETIN
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
535 South Hoover Street
DR. JAMES W. FIFIELD, JR., Minister
Los Angeles 5, California
Vol. VII, No. 19
James E. Williams, Jr., Chairman
October 1, 1957
OCT 1 1957
FREEDOM CLUB PRESENTS
George M. Mardikian
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"SONG OF AMERICA"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER1
Like a cool, refreshing rain falling upon a parched and thirsty farmland long
beset by drought, comes the stirring story of a man who adopted America in
his early youth and who found in that country of his adoption unlimited op-
portunities to work, to grow, to accumulate and to serve his fellow citizens in
an outstanding manner.
The saga of George Mardikian
reads like something out of Ara-
bian Nights. Just to hear it and
to learn of the almost unbeliev-
able accomplishments of this
penniless, young Armenian re-
fugee from a Turkish firing
squad make the blood course
faster in tired, discouraged old
veins and give the lie to those
omnipresent prophets of doom
who continually harp upon the
old discordant refrain that Amer-
ica as a land of opportunity is
done.
First sighting the statue of
Liberty on July 24, 1922, Mr.
Mardikian went immediately to
San Francisco, making the long
GEORGE M. MARDIKIAN
transcontinental trip on a diet of
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potato salad, which in Armenian is "patates salata," the only item he could recognize
During his overseas tour of duty he became interested in the sad plight of displaced
on the menu. As a result of this experience, he vowed that some day he would invent
persons. He founded the American National Committee to aid homeless Armenians
a better potato salad than any they served in railroad stations in America. Later
and contributed large sums of his own money in addition to giving time and energy
selecting the preparation and purveyance of food in its most appetizing and attractive
to raising funds and in initiating rehabilitation programs. Because of these efforts,
form as his life's work, he toured the world in search of rare recipes.
many displaced persons have found a homeland in America and in other nations of
the Western Hemisphere.
The first morning after his arrival in San Francisco, while out for an early explora-
tory walk, he had an experience that was to remain with him and to typify his new
Author of one of the best-sellers of 1956, SONG OF AMERICA, and of another
homeland:
widely-read volume in 1944, DINNER AT OMAR KHAYYAM'S, Mr. Mardikian is
in great demand as a lecturer.
"My head began to spin. I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and turned around
and looked back across the street. Sounds began running through my brain, one by
There is just one thing that Mr. Mardikian does not like in his adopted land. It
one, then all mixed up together: the humming of the happy street sweeper, the pleas-
sickens him to hear large numbers of young men between 18 and 22 talking about
ant 'Good Morning' of the two smiling policemen, the clanging of the motorman's
security. "When I came to this great country I asked only for the opportunity to make
gong on the crowded streetcar, the running footsteps of the men hurrying to work,
my own security. Nothing is sweeter than to feel taht you made it yourself and that
the happy voices of the scavengers, the cheerful clip-clop of the milk wagon's horse,
Nobody gave it to you."
and the quick, gay tune that its driver was whistling.
"They all mingled in my ears into the most beautiful music that I had ever heard.
All at once, standing there in the bright morning sunlight on the street of that lovely
CAN FREEDOM BE REGAINED?
city, I understood. I was hearing the song America sings. I was hearing the Song of
by L. A. ALESEN, M.D.
America."
As the Freedom Club commences a new year of activity it would seem appropriate to take
Beginning as a dishwasher for $12 a week in one of San Francisco's restaurants,
inventory of the current scene, to determine whether or not the freedom which we SO com-
he soon advanced to the best job possible there, and looked around for new world's
placently accept and about which we so glibly speak is in less or greater jeopardy, and to
conclude whether or not we as citizens of the greatest land upon which God's sun has ever
to conquer.
shone are worthy of the limitless opportunities offered and are willing to sacrifice just a few
of the enervating creature comforts with which we are surrounded in order to transmit to
For sheer courage and indomitable perseverance against almost unbelievable odds,
posterity the political, social and economic structure which has given us the highest scale
Mr. Mardikian's story is a real epic. Successfully operating the Omar Khayyam res-
of living ever enjoyed by any people anywhere in history.
taurant in Fresno, he later returned to his first adopted city, San Francisco, where he
The sad but undisputable fact is that freedom is losing ground on almost every front. With
established the Omar Khayyam restaurant in the same building in which he had
a Supreme Court that bases its decisions upon the whimsical vagaries of a foreign collectivist
washed dishes many years before.
planner rather than upon the bedrock of the American constitutional ideal; with a public
school system intensifying and expanding its manifest and obvious efforts to destroy in every
During World War II and during the Korean conflict, he was food consultant to
pupil the respect for and the desire to defend his God-given rights and instead to indoctrinate
him for a ready acceptance of the International-Welfare-Police-Slave-State; with a business
the Quartermaster General, charged with the responsibility of improving service
community that each day becomes less willing to fight against the evils of government sub-
overseas. As a result of these activities, he learned the enviable title of "The G.I.'s
sidy and concomitant control; with a clergy that has in large part yielded to the cancerous
Chow Champion."
doctrine of the Social gospel; with a false prosperity and dangerous inflation predicated upon
a paper currency standard; with a "mental health program" the quite obvious studied and
intended end of which is to effect the coup de grace to individual freedom; with a people
whose bellies are to a greater extent than ever before filled with rich food, whose wives are
LIBERTARIAN LOG
finely clad, but who for some unaccountable reason seem carelessly and slothfully disin-
terested in making any effort whatsoever to protect the social, economic and political system
Reservations positively necessary!
JOHN T. FLYNN
which has made possible for them the good things they now enjoy, are we wasting our efforts
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and are we just talking to ourselves?
Sundays at 8:15 P.M.
There are those who believe, and certainly with no little justification to support that belief,
DINNER
that a nation which has gone as far down the primrose path to economic, social and political
DEAN CLARENCE E. MANION
insanity as has our beloved America can never alter its course without some sharp cataclysm
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of a revolutionary nature. However, there is an alternative if you and I and any reasonable
Sundays at 8:00 P.M.
minority of 170,000,000 Americans are willing to dedicate ourselves to the task, take off
our coats, roll up our sleeves and do something besides talk.
Tuesday, October 1st
PAUL HARVEY
KBAC
Daily at 12:15
The kind of an action program that will revitalize the basic idealism of the founding
6:30 P.M. Stuart Hall
(except Sat. & Sun.)
fathers is a program of austerity that may not be pleasant to contemplate: 1. We must
stand firm in our determination that collectivism shall make no single further advance in
DAN SMOOT
any phase of American life. This will be difficult for the votaries of the Welfare-Police-
KCOP - Channel 13 (TV) Sundays at 7:15 P.M.
Slave-State are many in number, subtle and beguiling in the sophistries with which the
citizen is further deprived of his freedom.
Public is Invited
DR. JAMES W. FIFIELD, JR.
2. We must return to the gold standard. This will be difficult because much of the
Tickets for dinner $1.25
KABC
"Radio Evensong"
apparent prosperity which we now seem to be enjoying is due to the deliberately dishonest
Saturdays at 6:30 P.M.
paper standard of exchange with the paper standard of mentality which it encourages.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Non-Profit Org.
OF LOS ANGELES
U.S. POSTAGE
535 SOUTH HOOVER STREET
PAID
LOS ANGELES 5, CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, Calif.
Permit No. 11229
Hon. Richard Nixon
Vice-President
Washington, D.C.
Only by returning to a hard money base will that money be put to honest, constructive and
profitable usage, and only under such an honest, hard money standard can there be formed
the durable and dependable base for an orderly economic expansion in the future without
the boom and bust experiences of the past. Under the gold standard in which paper currency
is at all times freely convertible, the people are in fact possessed of the power of the purse
which rightfully belongs to them, and their actions under such circumstances are much
more dependable and much more trustworthy than are the fanciful gyrations of our govern-
ment manipulators.
3. We must abolish the income tax and eliminate the federal government from its waste-
ful and unconstitutional competition with the private citizen in private industry. House
Joint Resolution 355 (Gwinn) calling for a constitutional amendment to effect these changes
can be adopted if we but presevere.
4. The so-called social security system with its unheralded, unfund liability of $280,000,-
000,000, with its cynical and deliberate misrepresentation as an insurance system with
guaranteed benefits when as a matter of fact it is merely a payroll tax without any guarantee
whatsoever as to the stability of premiums or the benefits to be derived, ought to be sub-
jected to a thorough and searching inquiry by an unbiased, responsible, non-governmental
financial agency. Certainly it is possible with the brains and ingenuity of the American
insurance industry with the assistance of profit-sharing and the mutual investment programs
to develop a system of retirement pensions on an honest and dependable basis which would
in fact guarantee the worker a much handsomer retirement income than he is now promised
by this collectivist measure.
5. We must go back in our public school system and perform a labor far more difficult
than that of Hercules in cleaning out the Augean stables. The doctrines of John Dewey and
his progressive educationist cohorts, who have for years been teaching the pupil to deny
and reject responsibility for himself and to transfer that responsibility to the group, must
be thrown immediately and irretrievably out the nearest window.. In their stead there must
be adopted a regimen of instruction based upon individual responsibility, individual respect
and individual self-control.
These and a myriad of other seemingly almost insuperable tasks confront us if we are
really sincere about regaining freedom in America. They are not at all impossible, but they
cannot be performed from an armchair.
UNITED STATES DAY - OCTOBER 23
Are you proud to be an American citizen? Then say SO today and every day. Put
a sticker bearing your country's flag on the rear window of your car. These can be
obtained at the Freedom Club office.
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COPY
June 2, 1960
Mardikian, George
Dear George:
This is just a note to tell you how sorry
I was to have missed you when you dropped by my
office recently.
Bob Cushman passed on to me the gist of
your conversation and I want you to know that I
appreciate very much your taking the time and
trouble to let me know about the visit here from
the Soviet Union of the Catholicos of the Armenian
visitors x I
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Church.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
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Richard Nixon
Mr. George Mardikian
Omar Khyam Restaurant
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, Falifornia
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March 25, 1960
Dear George:
Mrs. Nixon and I appreciated very much your
Mardikian, George M.
warm note of welcome to San Francisco as well as
your thoughtfulness in seeing that we received both
versions of your Song of America for our library.
It was kind of you to send us one of the
specialties of your justly-famed restaurant and
all of our family enjoyed your very fine treat.
With best wishes from the Nixon family,
Sincerely,
Richard Dn Nixon
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Mr. George M. Mardikian
Omar Khayyam's Restaurant
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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George Mardikian's
Omar O'FARRELL AT POWELL SAN HOMELY b FRANCISCO
Office: 207 Powell Street
Telephones: YUkon 6-0785
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February 20, 1960
The Honorable and Mrs. Richard Nixon
St. Francis Hotel
San Francisco, California
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Nixon:
Welcome to San Francisco and just a little
reminder that we here in San Francisco have rolled
our sleeves and are ready to work, sacrifice and do
whatever necessary to have you as our next President,
our country needs you, and we need you!
May your stay in San Francisco be pleasant always.
With great devotion and admiration.
Sincerely,
George buy M. Mardikian
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Francisco, California
June 11, 1958
Dear Mr. Racubian:
Mrs. Nixon and I wish to express our
appreciation to you and the other members of the
Armenian Cultural Association for your kindness
in remembering us as you did when we were in
Buenos Aires recently. You may be sure that
the beautiful bouquet of red roses added a great
Racubian, Mr. Samuel Ernesto
deal to the pleasure of our visit.
Because of our mutual friend, George
Mardikian, I was particularly sorry that my of-
ficial schedule in Argentina was completely
committed so that we were unable to get together.
We shall never forget the very gracious
hospitality which was extended to us during our
stay in your city, and this note brings our thanks
Sincerely,
X Geroge Mardikian
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and best wishes to you and your associates.
Richard Nixon
Mr. Samuel Ernesto Racubian, Secretary
The Armenian Cultural Association
c/o The American Embassy
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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American Embassy please note.
Following appeared on Racubian's
card which accompanied the flowers:
Samuel Ernesto Racubian
54-0774 Particular
48-4270 Com.
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June 14, 1958
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June 11, 1958
RACUBIAN SAM. th
Dear Mr. Racubian:
Through this note, both Mrs. Nixon
and I wish to express our appreciation to you and
the other members of the Armenian Cultural Asso-
ciation for your kindness in remembering us as you
did when we were in Buenos Aires recently. You
may be sure that the beautiful bouquet of red roses
added a great deal to the pleasure of our visit.
Because of our mutual friend, George
Mardikian, I was particularly sorry that my official
schedule in Buenns Aires was completely committed
and that we were unable to get together for a visit.
tality which was extended to us by our friends in Buenos
Aires, and this note brings our thanks and best wishes
to you and your associates.
x G, MARDIKIAN FOLDER
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We shall never forget the gracious hospi-
Sincerely,
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Richard Nixon
Mr. Samuel Ernesto Racubian, Secretary
The Armenian Cultural Association
54-0774 - Particular
48-4270 - Com.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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207. Powell st,
San Francised
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Name or subject ARGENTINN
ARGENTINA Trip
Date 6/11/58
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Correspondence preceding
Filed
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April 24, 1958
Personal
4/24/58
Dear Mr. Mardikian:
It was a pleasure to have the opportunity
to meet you when you came by the office with Libby
Stevens last week.
As you know, we have been preparing
for the South American trip, so I have not yet had
an opportunity to try my completely inexperienced
hand at some of the recipes in your book, "Dinner
at Omar Khayyam's." However, you may be sure
I intend to experiment as soon as we return.
With every good wish,
Sincerely yours,
Mardikian, George folder rmw/maf
Rose Mary Woods
Executive Secretary
to the Vice President
Mr. George Mardikian
207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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24 Part III-WED., OCT. 2, 1957 Los Angeles Times 2
CEORGE MARDINAN
AUTOGRAPHING AUTHOR - George Mardikian,
right, Freedom Club speaker, autographs book "Song
of America" for Program Chairman James Williams.
Times photo
Restaurateur-Author
Gives Success 'Recipe'
S.F. Man, Who Arrived in U.S. Penniless,
Says to Have Faith in Self, God, Country
fee
George M. Mardikian, a
where relatives lived, re-
stocky, self-assured San
membered that first day
Francisco restaurateur who
walking the streets of free-
came to this country as a
dom in utter disbelief at the
penniless Armenian im-
way men sang at their work
migrant 35 years ago to build
and the way policemen
a prosperous business and
smiled and said hello. He
fall in love with America,
was overjoyed by his first
has a basic "recipe" for suc-
job offer-washing dishes in
cess in a land of unlimited
a restaurant 12 hours a day
opportunities.
for $12 a week. It was not
Addressing the Freedom
too many years later, he
Club of the First Congrega-
said, that he bought the
tional Church in Los An-
same restaurant, and that
geles last night on "The Song
transaction became to him
of America," Mardikian said
a symbol and an object les-
to take faith in oneself, faith
son to hold before the youth
in America and, above all,
of America.
faith in God, and mix with a
Aided Army
generous portion of hard
work - and "nothing can
Mardikian, well known as
stop you."
a food consultant to the
U.S. Army and as a philan-
Cites Own Case
thropist to other immigrants,
Citing his own case as an
said he deeply loves his
example of what America
adopted country and be-
offers, Mardikian recalled
comes distressed when he
that he landed on Ellis Is-
hears young people, born in
land as a boy of 19, "who
America, talk of getting on
was already an old man, one
the security payroll of gov-
who had seen five wars," one
ernment employ m nt.
who had seen his father
'Build your own security,' I
killed before his eyes and
tell them." Freedom, dignity
had witnessed other hun-
of the individual, unlimited
dreds of innocent people
opportunity, he said, are
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He went to San Francisco
America."
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207 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
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(he is Armenian member of Nationalities Committee of RNC)
(also owner of Omar Khayyam's in San Francisco)
Name or subject
Appearance - Nationalities Committee - 6-6-56
Date
Correspondence preceding
Filed
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Khayyam, Omar
Mardikian, George
June 28, 1956
Dear George:
I am looking forward with enjoyment to
reading your autobiography and Mrs. Nixon and I
are deeply grateful for the friendship in which
the autographed copy was sent.
You may be sure your thoughtfulness in
giving us your book brought back many pleasant
memories of our enjoyable visits to your fine
establishment and set us to wishing that it would
not be too long before we might have this pleasure
again.
It was good of you to think of our in-
terest in SONG OF AMERICA and Mrs. Nixon joins me
in sending you our sincere thanks.
The picture taking in my office was all
too brief to be called a visit and I do hope we
bookcase
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may have a longer chat another time.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
Mr. George M. Mardikian
Omar Khayyam
196 'Farrell Street
San Francisco, California
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