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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE
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1. Thank you
from Nancy & Ronnie Reagan
7/28/62
Originals
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Preservation
2. letter
Ronnie to Dick (1 pg)
3/26/62
Purposes.
3. letter
Reagan to Vice Pres. (3 pp)
7/15/60
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Reagan to Vice Pres (page 1 only)
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5. letter
Ronald to Vice Pres. (1 pg)
12/11/59
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Ronald to Vice Pres. (2 pp)
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
GSA FORM 7122 (7.72)
I.FVT
ZEER
September 7
#959
Dear Mr. Vice President:
Serve
I just wanted to add my voice to those congratulating and thanking
you for what you did and said on your recent trip. One thing in particular has
long needed saying, namely that "Communism or Marxism" is the only system
with aggression advocated as an essential part of it's dogma.
As the cold war continues I'm sure many people lost e sight of the
basic conflict and begin to accept that two nations are foolishly bickering with
sane justice and right as well as wrong on each side. This "tolerant" view
ignores of course the fact that only "Communism is dedicated to imposing
its "way and belief" on all the world. This is in direct contradicion to our
belief (so forcefully expressed by you) that people should be allowed to choose
for themselves.
It was almost startling to hear you say this directly to the Russian
leaders be cause I suddenly realized it was a truth seldom if ever uttered in
diplomatic exchanges.
Knowing that "questions" are the best form of argument and debate
I would like to see us, in the future, answer their charges of "imperialism" by
asking over and over again, "Has Russia abandoned the Marxian precept
that Communism must be imposed on the whole world?"
Only when their answer to that question is affirmative can we truly
believe in "co-existence. 11 Until such time "co-existence" means "don't do
anything while I steal your horse, "
Again, my thanks to you for the great step you took in starting us back
to the uncompromising position of leadership which is our heritage and
responsibility. Mrs. Reagan goins me in every good wish to you and your family.
Sincerely, 7s7 Ronald
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RHF
July 15
Dear mr. Vice Pres.
& know this is presumptions of
me but I'm passing on seme thoughts
after reiving the Conventress' here in La.
same how the idea persists that
some one should feut an end to the
traditional demonstrations which follow
each nomination. True they once had
their place when their only perpose
was to influence the delegates with in
the convention hall. new havever TV
has opened a window onter convention
deliberations and the "demonstration" is revealed
as a synthetic time waster which only serves
ter belittle us in what should be one of our
finer mements. One has a feeling that
when would once of for all declare the demonstration
general gratitude would be the reward for any one
abandoned,
Starting with the opening speech and
continuing through all the speeches until
Kennedy's acceptance spuch d thought the
Democrats could pick up serve campaign money
by selling the collection of addresses as, talks
sistable for any patriotic occasion " with platitudes
and the Presidential Library
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d do not include K ennedys acceptance speech because
beneath the generalities d heard a frightening call to arms,
Unfortunately he is a perverful speaker with an
appeal to the emotions He leaves little doubt that his
idea of the "challenging new would is one in which
the 7 ideral Govt. will your bigger of do more and
of course spend more d know there must be serve
short sighted people in the Republican party who will
advise that the Republicans should try to "crut liberal"
him. damy opinion this would be fatal.
on the talk d had given and which you read.
you were kind enough ter write me had of comment
That is why I'm foresuming on your busy day
with these thought. & have been speaking on this
subject in more than thirty right states to
audiences of Denocrate T Refublicans Invasiably the
reaction is a standing constion - not for me but for
the priens expressed. d am convinced that america
is economically conservative and for that reason
d think some one should force the Democrate to
publish the "retail force for this great new wave
of "public service they promise. d dont pose as
an infallible pundit but I have a strong feeling that
the twenty million non voters in this country just
might be conservatives wher have cynically concluded
the two paities offer no choice between them where
fiscal stability is concerned, no Republican no matter
how liberal is going to woo a Democrated vote
but a Reproduced Republican at the Richard Nixon bucking Presidential brary the give away trend
might re-auste some notes who have been staying home.
One last thought, - shouldnt some one tag
mr . K ennedy's bold new imaginative fregram with
it perper age ? Under the tensled boyish hair cut
it is still old Karl marx - first launched a century
ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a
Gout. being Big B when to us all. Hitter called
his state Socialisin and way before him it was
"benevalent monarchy."
& apologize for taking for much of your time
but 1 have such a yearning to hear same one
come before us and talk specifics instead of generalities,
I'm sure the american people du not want the govt.
paid services at "any price "and if we collectively cant
afford free this of that "they'd like to know it before
they buy and not after it is entrenched behind
another immovable govt. bureau,
you will be very much in my prayers in
the days ahread
Sincerely
Rannie Paagan
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RONALD REAGAN
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Dear Mr. Vice Presedent
d just wanted to add my voice
to those congratuliting and thanking
yen for what yen did and said on
your recent trip. One thing in
particular has long needed saying,
namely that Communism 01 Marxism
is the only system with aggresion
advocated as an essential fart of it's
"
dogina. as the wed was centenues I'm
sure many people lose sight of the
basic conflict and begin to accept
that two nations are foolishly bickering
with same justice and right as well
as wrong on each side. This tolerant"
view ignores of course the fact that
only "communism" is dedicated to infosing
its way & belief in all the would. This
is in direct contradiction to our belief (se-
forcefully expressed by yen ) that people should
be allowed to cherose for themselves.
It was almost startling to hear
you say this duictly to the Russian
leaders because d suddenly realized
it was a twich seldern if over
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RONALD REAGAN
untered in diploinatic exchanges,
K maining that questions are the
best form of argument and debate L
would like to see us, in the future,
answer their charges of imperiation .
by asking over and over again; "Has
Russia abandened the marxian forecept
that Communism must be imposed on
the whole would "-"
Only when their answer to that
question is affirmative can we truly
believe in co-existence : Until such
time - existence means "dent do anything
while d steal your house.
again my thanks to you for the
great step yen took in starting us
back to the unconforming position of
leadership which is our heritage and
responsibility.
Mrs. Rengan joins me in every
good wish to you Sincerely and your family
Ronald
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us
letter from: Ronald Reagan
July 15, 1960
1669 San Onofre Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
Dear Mr. Vice Pres.
I know this is presumptious of me but I'm passing on some
thoughts after viewing the Convention here in L.A.
Somehow the idea persists that someone should put an end to
the traditional demonstrations which follow each nomination. True
they once had their place when their only purpose was to influence
the delegates with in the convention hall. Now, however, TV has
opened a window onto convention deliberations and the "demonstration"
is revealed as a synthetic time waster which only serves to belittle
us in what should be one of our finer moments. One has a feeling
that general gratitude would be the reward for anyone who would once
and for all declare the "demonstration" abandoned.
Starting with the opening speech and continuing through all
the speeches until Kennedy's acceptance spee ch, I thought the
Democrats could pick up some campaign money by selling the
collection of addresses as, "talks suitable for any patriotic occasion
with platitudes and generalities guaranteed. " I do not include Kennedy's
acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening
call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to
the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the "challenging new
world" is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger and do more and
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and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted
people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans
should try to "out liberal" him. To my opinion this wo uld be fatal.
You were kind enough to write me and comment on the "talk"
I had given and which you had read. That is why I'm presuming on
your busy day with these thoughts. I have been speaking on this
subject in more than thirty-eight states to audiences of Democrats
and Republicans. Invariably the reaction is a standing ovation - not
for me but for the views expressed. I am convinced that America
is economically conservative and for that reason I think someone should
force the Democrats to publish the "retail price" for this great new
wave of "public service" they promise. I don't pose as an infallible
pundit but I have a strong feeling that the twenty million non votes in
this country just might be conservatives who have cynically concluded
the two parties offer no choice between them where fiscal stability is
concerned. No Republican no matter how liberal is going to woo a
Democratic vote, but a Republican bucking the give away trend might
re-create some voters who have been staying home.
One last thought - shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new
imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair
cut it is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing
new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called
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his "State Socialism" and way before him it was "benevolent monarchy. "
I apologize for taking so much of your time but I have such a
yearning to hear fix some one come before us and talk specifics instead
of generalities. I'm sure the American people do not want the government
paid services at "any price" and if we collectively can't afford "free this
and that" they'd like to know it before they buy and not after it is entrenched
behind another immovable government bureau.
You will be very much in my prayers in the days ahead.
Sincerely,
(signed) Ronnie Reagan
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October 26, 1961
Dear Ronnie:
This is just a note to tell you how
very much I appreciated your generous com-
ments on my candidacy at your recent press
conference in Santa Rosa.
I also read with interest your
hard-hitting remarks on the Democratic Party.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss
the coming campaign with you and I will call
Reagan, Ronald
you next week after I return from the East to
see if we can work out a mutually convenient
time to get together.
Pat joins me in extending our very
best wishes to you and Nancy.
Sincerely,
Mr. Ronald Reagan
x - RMW - tickler for appointment
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support California X I
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1669 San Onofre
Pacific Palisades, California
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June 10, 1963
copy X
Dear Ronnie:
I wanted you to know how much I appreciated the
X - Civic Luncheon 6-7-63
REAGAN, RONALD
Before I take off for Europe this afternoon,
message you sent to the farewell luncheon which was
given for Pat and me at the Biltmore on Friday. It
was a memorable event for both of us and your
RN Tape/ja
message helped to make it even more so.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onafre
Pacific Palisades, California
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November 8, 1961
Dear Nancy and Ronnie:
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,
DNI
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
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July 26, 1962
Dear Ronnie:
Pat and I were saddened to learn of your
Mother's passing, and this note brings our heartfelt
expression of deepest sympathy.
Reagan, Ronald
The loss of a parent imparts a peculiar
sense of loneliness and grief known only to those
who have suffered a similar loss.
While we realize that words have but little
meaning at such a time, we wanted you to know that our
thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult
period.
Sincerely,
x - X-copy
D
condolences 1962 X Ф I
folder
Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre
Pacific Palisades, California
death of Mr. Reagan's mother)
(Mrs. Reagan told Marje Acker on phone re:
1gg
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REAGAN, Ronald
RN talked with him on the phone -- should check whether he still has
to see him or whether he talked about his participating and no need
to see him right away.
RN - - need for January appointment????
to
RN talk RN talked
mpbor
b/12
7/14/62 RN innited him to play golf Soh. but Regan
busy - ashed for a rain check.
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INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Nixon for Governor
To:
RN
Date: June 22, 1962
From:
Rose
Subject:
Ronald Reagan
Distribution:
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You will recall when Ronald Reagan telephoned
you right after the primary election he said he would make
a statement whenever you thought it would be good and that
he would like to be used. I think when you are discussing
with Haldeman, Finch, et al the coming campaign you should
think about what top spot he is going to get.
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RONALD REAGAN
PACIFIC PALISADES
March 26
Dear Dich
The enclosed picture is
of you of "friend". The friend
is our neighbor the director
H emy K oster. He asked crun
help in getting the photo antorgraphed.
If you'd he so kind as to
sign, real and drop in the mail
he'd be grateful 8 so would me.
Best to Pat
Ranne
mailed 4/7/62
2. Original removed for preservation surposes
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March 12, 1962
Reagan, Ronald
Dear Ronnie:
I am sending under separate cover an
advance copy of my book, "Six Crises. " I thought
you might be interested in having a look at it before
it goes on sale in the book stores.
The publication date is March 29 and I
would appreciate it if you would not discuss or dis-
close the contents of the book insofar as any sec-
tion of it may be newsworthy before that date. Life
Magazine has purchased the exclusive serial rights
for their issues of March 16, 23 and 30 and I want
that may be current news interest appear in print
before March 29.
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to be sure to honor my commitment that no items
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With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
d
Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onafre
Beverly Hills, California
Book form:wt
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January 25, 1962
Dear Mr. Reagan:
Before he gets too far into this campaign, Dick
Nixon would like to meet with some of his friends in the
Southern California business community. Therefore, he
and I hope that you will Join us and a group of your
colleagues for lunch in the Sunset Room of the California
Club on Wednesday, January thirty-first at 12 o'clock.
The purpose of this get-together is not to raise
funds but to have an informal and off-the-record exchange
of views on matters of mutual interest and concern.
In order that we may make our plans, it would be
very helpful if you or your secretary would call Mrs. Kinsey
at DUnkirk 5-9161 and let her know if it is convenient for
you to attend this luncheon.
Cordially,
HC Clellan
Mr. Ronald Reagan
1258 North Amalfi Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
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TRANSCRIBED FROM RONALD REAGAN'S TELEVISION APPEARANCE - NOVEMBER 4, 1962
Ladies and gentlemen: Perhaps before I start talking, a few words of
explanation are in order. While this is a paid political broadcast, no
one's paid me to say anything, nor have I been presented with a prepared
script. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing. I just have a few
notes here of my own. The sponsor hasn't asked for script approval or
Reagon, Ronald
inquired as to what I intend saying, nor has the sponsor made any sugges-
tions as to what I should say. My ideas, my words are my own.
I'd like to talk to you about what I think is at stake. In past years,
there have been elections when voters have made their selection on a sort
of a "may the best man win" idea; elections in which debates raged over
the methods of achieving a desired goal. But there was always general
agreement on that goal, and always it fell within the accepted framework
of our constitutional freedom and liberty. Today, however, we've come to
one of those infrequent moments in history when there is a change; when
we're choosing between two party philosophies and a wide ideological gulf
separates the policies of the two parties.
The Republican Party is polarized around a belief in government rooted in
the local community rather than in some far distant capitol with power
limited to the least amount necessary for the performance of its duties,
a belief that free men can provide for themselves better than government
can do this for them. By their own words, the leadership of the Democratic
Party is committed to a belief that our traditional system of individual
liberty, local rule, are no longer capable of meeting the complex problems
of the twentieth century. They've placed a faith in government playing a
more important role, including a government in directed and planned economy.
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Such a change in our traditional system of individual freedom is advanced as
an answer to the cold war. According to one government advisor, we can have
peace without victory, peace without conflict, by "a peaceful transition into
a not undemocratic socialism."
In other words, as we move to the left into a planned economy, the enemy will
give up his fear and mistrust and he will move to the right and meet us, or,
as the poet Frost said upon his return from Moscow, "the Communists are coming
down to Socialism," and, I challenge his choice of directions when he said,
"we are coming up from Capitalism to Socialism, thus the Lion and the Lamb
will lie down together," which is a great philosophy if we can afford to
throw in a fresh lamb every morning. Mr. Khrushchev has said, "I am
convinced that tomorrow the Red flag will fly over the United States but we
will not fly it, it will be Americans themselves." And at the same time,
standing by waiting, a member of the English Fabian Socialist Society
commenting on the cold war has said, "of course we don't want a Communist
victory," but then he continues, "we don't want an American victory, either."
In other words, they believe the time and the constant pressure of the cold
war will bring to them, just through patience, their Utopian dream of a one
world Socialist state. Now I don't believe in equating this Socialist desire
and the Communist desire that this equating should continue on to those many
people who support the liberal welfare philosophy. I think one thing should
be made plain. The overwhelming majority of our opponents do not knowingly
and would not knowingly support a Socialist or Communist cause. I am con-
vinced they are patriotic, they are sincerely dedicated to humanitarian ideals.
I think it would be foolish and immoral to infer anything else. At the same
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I think it would be foolish to let them have their way without opposition.
If someone is setting fire to the house, it doesn't make much difference
whether he is a deliberate arsenist or just a fool playing with matches.
Our friends seek the answer to all the problems of human need through govern-
ment. Freedom can be lost inadvertently in this way. Government tends to
grow; it takes on a weight and momentum in government programs that goes far
beyond the original purpose that caused their creation. This is what Thomas
Jefferson had in mind when he predicted future happiness for the people if
we can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
In recent years, we've seen the growth of a permanent structure of government
in this country that beyond the control of the people, and it's getting
beyond the control of Congress. It's taking a part in policy decisions
that should properly belong in the hands of those we choose by ballot. In
1960 candidate Kennedy said, "in the eight years of the Eisenhower administra-
tion a hundred and six thousand employees were added to the Federal payroll.
I think the people should know this." I agree, I think the people should
also know that in the first two years of his administration a hundred and
fifty-eight thousand employees have been added. Secretary of Commerce Hodges
recently received front page attention when he said that he could run the
Department of Commerce with 10% fewer employees than were now in that depart-
ment. And one month later, he'd added 1600 new employees.
There are today over two and one-half million Federal employees. In 1942,
there was one top salaried executive among them for every eighty-nine
government employees. Today there's one for every seventeen. Now I don't
mean that this should be taken as a blanket indictment of all those who serve
the public in positions of government trust. As a matter of fact, the many
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fine public servants employed at all levels of government are the first to
suffer from this unwarranted growth of government. All too often they're
denied a fair return for their labor because of the necessity of sharing
public funds with needless employees, with duplication, with waste and ex-
travagance. At this moment for every six people earning a living in the
United States, one is employed by government. Every five of us earning a
living are paying the full salary of a sixth employee. Today there are
40,000,000 Americans receiving some direct cash payment from the government.
Federal Welfare spending in the last ten years has multiplied and increased
eight times as fast as the increase in population. Now, in the District of
Columbia, there in the shadow of the capitol, they are investigating the
recipients of public welfare and of the people interviewed so far, 58% have
been found to be receiving public welfare dishonestly. In the first quarter
of this century, a great labor statesman, the man who founded the American
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers said, "doing for people what they should
and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. Let social busy-
bodies and professional morals experts in their fads reflect upon the perils
they rationally invite under the pretense of social welfare."
Our government today is engaged in operating and running more than 17,500
businesses covering 47 different lines of activity. These businesses operate
tax free, rent free and dividend free. They compete openly with our tax
paying citizens and in the process, each year, they lose almost as many
billions of dollars as are collected by the Federal government from all of the
personal income tax.
We have increased through necessity our defense spending 29% in the last few
years. At the same time, we have increased our non-defense federal spending 84%.
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But some tell us that government spending is a necessity. That in this new
theory of government it is government spending that stimulates the economy
and brings about growth and prosperity. Well, let's take a look at some of
this government spending and what a stimulant it's been. There has been no
greater spending done in any single area of the United States than has been
done over the last couple of decades by TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the great power trust of our government. And yet in the 169 counties of that
area, in spite of all this spending, the Labor Department declares that 50%
more of those counties are permanent areas of poverty, distress and unemploy-
ment.
The state has followed the same pattern, our state of California. Under the
Brown administration, spending has gone up 47% and we've increased the number
of state employees by 30%. We have the highest per capita tax in the history
of California, the highest per capita tax of all of the fifty states and for
that we have the highest crime rate per capita in all of the nation.
A government may be the most benevolent, the most well-meaning in the world,
but when it attempts to control the economy and operate the production of a
nation, it must eventually use coertion and force to achieve its purposes.
Since 1933, the Congress of the United States has passed laws governing us that
fill eleven thick volumes. At the same time, the agencies and bureaus of the
government have passed regulations controlling us that fill fifty-nine such
thick volumes, and many of these regulations permit agencies to bring a
citizen before the agency for punishment. Many of them are "final a nd not
subject to review by any courts."
We virtually lost the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, our protection
against search and seizure. How many of us realize that today Federal Agents
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can invade a man's property if they suspect him of violating a regulation, not
a law, a regulation, and they can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let
alone a trial by jury. And if a fine isn't paid, they can seize and hold his
property or sell it at auction to enforce the payment.
As of this moment, there's a man in New York State, a dairy farmer by the
name of Stocker. Stocker's cows weren't giving enough milk to satisfy his
customers needs. He went into the market and bought cream in 20 quart containers
to augment his supply. He has been fined $21,000; the fine not subject to
review by any court. The fine? Because he violated a regulation of the dairy
program that said in buying the cream he shouldn't buy it in anything larger
than 2 quart containers.
We've had 30 years to see the connection between subsidy and control; 30 years
in which our government has invaded a section of our economy, the agricultural
area, trying to control the production of a surplus. Today the surplus is
bigger than ever and so is the program. We've paid a billion dollars to farmers
not to plant. We've spent four billion dollars paying them to fertilize and
telling them how to increase the crop yield per acre. In 10 years, the farm
support program has cost the Americans twenty-six billion dollars in an effort
to control this surplus - surplus? and yet in that same period we have imported
farm products from foreign countries valued at forty-two billion dollars. Each
year we pay enough for not growing wheat to buy eight loaves of bread for every
person in America every day of the year.
Recently a reclamation project was dedicated that's going to take water from
the west slope of the Rockies and tunnel it through to the east slope. We
obviously don't need it out here. It's the Arkansas Frying Pan Reclamation
Project. It will prorate out at a cost of $296 for every acre irrigated,
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But there's a government agency standing by waiting to pay them $40 an acre
not to plant the land after they get the water. In Blair, Nebraska, the
country club had 14 acres of ground it didn't need, leased it to a neighbor-
ing farmer who planted corn. Now they' ve decided to enlarge the golf course,
they took the 14 acres back, the government sent the country club a check for
$288 for taking corn land out of production.
In the past three years, six government agencies have spent upward of thirty-
five million dollars telling poultry raisers how to increase egg production.
At the same time, a seventh government agency has spent twelve million dollars
buying surplus eggs. We adopt a feed grain program to protect the family
farmer and some of the family farmers we are saving - well, the Louisiana
State Penitentiary gets forty-five thousand dollars a year from this program.
The Waterloo, Iowa, Air Port, fifty-eight hundred dollars; the Kearny, Nebraska,
Air Port, sixty-seven hundred dollars; the City of St. Louis is a family farmer
to the tune of twelve thousand a year. Only 20% of the farm economy is in this
program of regulation and subsidy. Eighty percent of farming is still out in
the open market, governed only by the laws of supply and demand. Most farmers
believe today and have testified that they believe farming should be returned
to this free competitive system. But government never admits that it can be at
fault and SO the government reveals what its thinking is as it suggests a cure
to the farm mess.
Its suggestion and what they ask Congress to approve was that the 80% of free
farming be brought into the program with the 20% and to that end they demanded
a program that would have required a Federal license for the planting, the
harvesting and the distribution of all the 256 agricultural products in this
nation. What this program would have meant? even a housewife couldn't have
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planted a back yard garden without getting a Federal license before she put the
seeds in the ground. In the same bill they asked for the right to fine and
imprison farmers who would not keep books as prescribed by the Federal govern-
ment. The Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to buy farms at his
discretion through condemnation, forced buying, and resell them to private
individuals if he so chose. They also asked for the right to turn over all
food surplus and the receipt of the sale of all such surplus to the United
Nations. This isn't the only area where government has begun to meddle and
interfere with the free economy.
Recently John Kenneth Gailbraith, our Ambassador to India, addressed an
Indian audience. He told them that under their Socialist Government they had
only managed to nationalize thirteen to fourteen percent of their economy.
And then be boasted in America already one fifth of the industrial capacity of
our nation is planned, fully controlled and disposed of by government.
Now we have a Depressed Areas Bill and we see more government red tape unfurl.
There's a little town in Central California, an agricultural community, that
has just established a record for prosperity; that is, by virtue of retail
sales and personal bank deposits, but the government has declared it under
this new bill a depressed area. It seems that in the summertime in this
agricultural community, a canning company opens to can the vegetables. Some
of the houewives get a few weeks work there, pick up some fall spending money.
Then someone pointed out that after the canning company closed, they were
eligible for unemployment insurance so they've been doubling their take.
Now they're depressed because, under this Bill, the Labor Department determines
depressed areas on the basis of applications for unemployment insurance. Now
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they're really going to be depressed, because the entire prosperity of the
community depends on importing migrant farm pickers, crop pickers, every
spring and they cannot do this under the Depressed Areas Bill, SO they have
a committee in Washington asking that they be declared undepressed and the
government says lay down and be depressed.
When we question proposed social reforms, usually we are challenged that we
lack humanity. No responsible person would suggest that our senior citizens,
for example, would reach their non-earning years without savings or pensions
should be denied a livelihood. And yet, most responsible citizens, all of us
as a matter of fact, should ask some questions about the present social
security program. You and I have been told that we and our employers are
paying into a fund and that someday we will call upon this, our own money,
to see us through. A hundred million pieces of literature, published by
Social Security since 1939, tell us that this is an insurance program, but
the Supreme Court has ruled that it is not an insurance program and that he
dues are not insurance premiums but a general tax for the use of the government,
and the government has used that money - there is no fund.
An actuarial expert of Social Security has admitted that, as of this moment,
Social Security is two hundred and ninety-eight billion dollars in the red.
We pass this fiscal irresponsibility on to our sons. Not an unborn generation,
because already the young man going into the work force at an average salary
will find that he and his employer are today paying in a dollar and sixty-nine
cents for every dollar he can hope to receive back in benefits. That same
amount of money in the open market could buy him a policy that will pay him
two hundred and twenty dollars a month when he reaches the age of sixty-five,
instead of a hundred and twenty-seven he will get from the compulsory government
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program. Always the government presents these ideas for reform in an atmosphere
of emergency.
We ve increased our spending in the school systems one and a half times as
fast as we ve increased our income in the last decade. We ve raised teachers
salaries on an average in this country from thirty-two hundred to fifty-four
hundred dollars a year. But suddenly we are told we must start building sixty
thousand classrooms a year for the next ten years, and then we discover we've
been building seventy thousand classrooms a year for the last five years. If
money is an answer to our educational problems, has the government found some
new source other than our pockets? And, if the government increases the amount
it takes from those pockets, is it not decreasing the amount left for local
taxation, for contributions to private educational and charitable institutions?
Here in California, would we receive any benefit from Federal aid to education?
We're considered one of the rich states. We have the greatest educati onal
problem in all the nation because of our rapid growth, yet we are expected
under this program to build our own schools and then put up money to help
build someone elses.
At the very height of denying that control played any part in their considera-
tion of Federal aid, the advocates of this program suddenly were revealed as
having out already a booklet that contained the plans for increasing the
Department of Education and Welfare SO that they could lead toward a national-
ized curriculum and, if you please, a nationalized school system.
On the international scene we find the same pattern of uncontrolled and un-
reasoning growth. We set out to help nineteen war-ravaged countries. Today
we are helping ninety-seven. We spent over a hundred billion dollars. I
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think that Christian charity - charity of the God of Moses, requires that we
should share of our superfluous goods with our needy neighbors, but I don't
think it requires us to go into debt to see that he has an egg in his beer.
Dr. Kirshner, speaking to the Prime Minister of Lebanon recently, reported
a conversation in which the Prime Minister said that his little country had
balanced its budget every year, had no debt, no deficit, no inflation, had
increased its gold holdings from twenty million to a hundred seventy million
dollars. When he had finished, Dr. Kirshner said, "Mr. Prime Minister, my
country hasn't balanced its budget twenty-six out of the last thirty-two years.
Our debt is greater than the combined debt of all the nations of the world.
We're losing gold SO fast that the very stability of our currency is in danger.
We have cronic inflation. Do you think that under these circumstances we should
continue to give your country millions of dollars each year?" And the Prime
Minister said, "No, but if you're foolish enough to do it, we're going to
keep on taking the money." We now find revealed that we ve spent two hundred
million dollars of our aid funds to pay the dues of other nations in the
United Nations. One of the countries we helped in this way - Castro's Cuba.
Now we hear talk of tax reform. Well, there's no doubt it's needed. It's
needed to restore the original purpose of taxation so that it's for the purpose
of raising revenue and not to control the economy and redistribute the earnings
and wealth of our citizens. No nation in history has ever survived a tax
burden that reached a third of its national income. Well today, thirty-
three cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collectors
share. And of that thirty-three cents, twenty-three cents goes to the Federal
government, leaving a dime to be divided between the state, the local community
and the county. Is it any wonder that whatever we need they tell us to turn
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to the Federal Government for an aid program. One Congressman has described
Federal aid as the case of a man giving himself a blood transfusion in the
right arm by taking blood from the left and spilling half of it on the way
across. We need tax reform because of what the personal income tax, the
graduated tax, has done to the great American dream. That dream we ve
nurtured here in this country that there is no ceiling, no limit as to how
high we can fly and, when time, perhaps, has brought the word to some of us
that we're not going to realize the dream, that the pot of gold might not be
just around the corner for us, how many of you out there have invested, re-
invested that dream in your children. A savings to send a son, a daughter on
to a professional education, hoping that they can lift the family to a bracket
that heretofore they ve never known.
Well, let me turn to sports for an example of what has happened to that
American dream. Thirty years ago the graduate of an orphans home and a reform
school, but a fine fellow, named Babe Ruth received the highest salary ever
paid in baseball for hitting sixty home runs. Eighty thousand dollars a
year he received from the New York Yankees. Three short decades later, with
certain changes in the income tax laws, a fellow named Roger Maris hit sixty
home runs. If Maris had received the same take home purchasing pay Babe Ruth
received, and had been able to pay his income tax on that amount, his paycheck
from the Yankees would have had to read $960,000 for the season.
But we'd better make sure we have representatives in Washington who will
determine the tax reform will be accompanied by an end to deficit spending,
that our government will be forced to stay within the limits of its revenue.
This year we have projected another eight billion dollar deficit. The debt
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has an interest payment that calls for eighteen thousand dollars every sixty-
seconds, twenty-four hours of the day, day in and day out. But that's only
the part showing above the surface. Already in legislation and acted into
law, our government is obligated to pay out one and a quarter trillion dollars.
This is an amount equal to four times the assessed valuation of all the real
estate and all the tangible property in this country. We must see that tax
reform reduces the percentage of income taken by the Federal government.
You see, there are others who for the last two or three years, and many of
them employed as advisors by government, who have been considering that tax
reform is needed to get the government more money, not less. They say that
you and I are not smart enough to spend our own money, that the government
must take it from us, through taxation, and buy for us the welfare programs
we're not smart enough to buy for ourselves. We're wallowing in luxury,
they say, at the private sector, while the public sector is starved for funds.
Well, in the last fiscal year, the starvation diet of governments of the
United States was a hundred and seventy-three billion dollars. That pro-
rates out the spending of three thousand and fifty dollars for every family
in the United States. They have suggested the government can get this
added revenue by reducing the rates and presenting the tax reform as a tax
cut, but they'll get the added money by plugging what they say are loopholes
in the present structure; that old age assistance pay and sick leave pay
should be subject to income tax, charitable contributions no longer de-
ductible, or the interest on your mortgage. And one man has explored the
idea that those who own their own homes escape something because they don't
pay rent. He has suggested that you should estimate the rent you're not
paying and pay an income tax on the estimated amount. Well, don't laugh
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at that one, the gentleman who explored that idea is Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in charge of tax policy.
All of this is at stake in this election. We can give our children a heritage
of freedom because freedom is never more than one generation away from extinc-
tion, or we can leave them with a debt that can only be paid by inflating the
value out of their savings. We can restore the constitutional limits on
government power. Now, of course, that tags me as a Neanderthal man, the
Constitution is supposed to be outmoded and old fashioned. Senator Fulbright,
speaking at Stanford University, referred to the President as our moral
teacher and our leader, and he said "he is hobbled in his task by the restric-
tions of power imposed on him by a constitutional system designed for 18th
Century agrarian society," and we've been told that the talk of taking the
country back to the Constitution is talk of taking it back to the days of
McKinley. Well, I for one, don't think that's a bad idea. Under McKinley we
freed Cuba.
Daniel Webster said, "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not
cluster. What has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again.
Hold on to your Constitution for if the Constitution shall fall, there will be
anarchy throughout the world." It has been said that if we lose this way of
ours, this traditional freedom, his tory will report with the greatest astonish-
ment that those who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent it happening.
Well, we can do something about it. We can start by electing to office those
who will guard our freedoms in Washington and in Sacramento. I don't believe
there's ever been a time when State offices have ever been so important -
important because inherent in the growth of central power is the relegating of
the state to the role of a mere administrative agency of the Federal government.
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I'm sure there are many fine individuals among our opposing candidates, but
they cannot cut the umbilical cord that binds them to their party's policy.
We have an opportunity here in California not usually afforded a state. We
can be represented by a Governor who needs no introduction in meetings of
the highest of the world's leaders. He's been there. I ask you to look
deep into your own heart and mind. Can you possibly believe that a man like
Dwight David Eisenhower, whose love of country is beyond question, could have
been closely associated with Richard Nixon as he was for 8 years and now
recommend him for high office, as he is doing, if he did not believe him
worthy to serve.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny; we'll meet the challenge in the
days ahead or we 11 trail in the dust the golden hope of mankind for years
to come. Are we a different breed of American? Has life become so dear
and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains in slavery?
Or, will we pledge our lives and our sacred honor. Are missile bases enough
or will we insist on freedom for all Cubans. Can we go to the Summit with-
out insisting that we discuss the freedom of all those people enslaved
behind the Iron Curtain. We're not war mongers, we're not trying to send
other people's sons to war; we have sons of our own. We believe in peace,
but we know that appeasement that does not give a choice between peace and
war, only between fight or surrender. Will we go on feeding the crocodile
hoping it will eat us last?
I commend to you the words of wisdom of Winston Churchill's who said:
"If you will not fight for the right when you can without bloodshed. If
you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you
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may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against
you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse
case, you may have to fight when there is no chance of retreat because it's
better to perish than to live as slaves."
Thank you.
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TRANSCRIBED FROM RONALD REAGAN'S TELEVISION APPEARANCE - NOVEMBER 4, 1962
Ladies and gentlemen: Perhaps before I start talking, a few words of
explanation are in order. While this is a paid political broadcast, no
one's paid me to say anything, nor have I been presented with a prepared
script. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing. I just have a few
notes here of my own. The sponsor hasn't asked for script approval or
inquired as to what I intend saying, nor has the sponsor made any sugges-
tions as to what I should say. My ideas, my words are my own.
I'd like to talk to you about what I think is at stake. In past years,
there have been elections when voters have made their selection on a sort
of a "may the best man win" idea; elections in which debates raged over
the methods of achieving a desired goal. But there was always general
agreement on that goal, and always it fell within the accepted framework
of our constitutional freedom and liberty. Today, however, we've come to
one of those infrequent moments in history when there is a change; when
we're choosing between two party philosophies and a wide ideological gulf
separates the policies of the two parties.
The Republican Party is polarized around a belief in government rooted in
the local community rather than in some far distant capitol with power
limited to the least amount necessary for the performance of its duties,
a belief that free men can provide for themselves better than government
can do this for them. By their own words, the leadership of the Democratic
Party is committed to a belief that our traditional system of individual
liberty, local rule, are no longer capable of meeting the complex problems
of the twentieth century. They've placed a faith in government playing a
more important role, including a government in directed and planned economy.
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Such a change in our traditional system of individual freedom is advanced as
an answer to the cold war. According to one government advisor, we can have
peace without victory, peace without conflict, by "a peaceful transition into
a not undemocratic socialism."
In other words, as we move to the left into a planned economy, the enemy will
give up his fear and mistrust and he will move to the right and meet us, or,
as the poet Frost said upon his return from Moscow, "the Communists are coming
down to Socialism," and, I challenge his choice of directions when he said,
"we are coming up from Capitalism to Socialism, thus the Lion and the Lamb
will lie down together," which is a great philosophy if we can afford to
throw in a fresh lamb every morning. Mr. Khrushchev has said, "I am
convinced that tomorrow the Red flag will fly over the United States but we
will not fly it, it will be Americans themselves." And at the same time,
standing by waiting, a member of the English Fabian Socialist Society
commenting on the cold war has said, "of course we don't want a Communist
victory," but then he continues, "we don't want an American victory, either."
In other words, they believe the time and the constant pressure of the cold
war will bring to them, just through patience, their Utopian dream of a one
world Socialist state. Now I don't believe in equating this Socialist desire
and the Communist desire that this equating should continue on to those many
people who support the liberal welfare philosophy. I think one thing should
be made plain. The overwhelming majority of our opponents do not knowingly
and would not knowingly support a Socialist or Communist cause. I am con-
vinced they are patriotic, they are sincerely dedicated to humanitarian ideals.
I think it would be foolish and immoral to infer anything else. At the same
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I think it would be foolish to let them have their way without opposition.
If someone is setting fire to the house, it doesn't make much difference
whether he is a deliberate arsenist or just a fool playing with matches.
Our friends seek the answer to all the problems of human need through govern-
ment. Freedom can be lost inadvertently in this way. Government tends to
grow; it takes on a weight and momentum in government programs that goes far
beyond the original purpose that caused their creation. This is what Thomas
Jefferson had in mind when he predicted future happiness for the people if
we can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
In recent years, we've seen the growth of a permanent structure of government
in this country that's beyond the control of the people, and it's getting
beyond the control of Congress. It's taking a part in policy decisions
that should properly belong in the hands of those we choose by ballot. In
1960 candidate Kennedy said, "in the eight years of the Eisenhower administra-
tion a hundred and six thousand employees were added to the Federal payroll.
I think the people should know this." I agree, I think the people should
also know that in the first two years of his administration a hundred and
fifty-eight thousand employees have been added. Secretary of Commerce Hodges
recently received front page attention when he said that he could run the
Department of Commerce with 10% fewer employees than were now in that depart-
ment. And one month later, he'd added 1600 new employees.
There are today over two and one-half million Federal employees. In 1942,
there was one top salaried executive among them for every eighty-nine
government employees. Today there's one for every seventeen. Now I don't
mean that this should be taken as a blanket indictment of all those who serve
the public in positions of government trust. As a matter of fact, the many
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fine public servants employed at all levels of government are the first to
suffer from this unwarranted growth of government. All too often they're
denied a fair return for their labor because of the necessity of sharing
public funds with needless employees, with duplication, with waste and ex-
travagance. At this moment for every six people earning a living in the
United States, one is employed by government. Every five of us earning a
living are paying the full salary of a sixth employee. Today there are
40,000,000 Americans receiving some direct cash payment from the government.
Federal Welfare spending in the last ten years has multiplied and increased
eight times as fast as the increase in population. Now, in the District of
Columbia, there in the shadow of the capitol, they are investigating the
recipients of public welfare and of the people interviewed so far, 58% have
been found to be receiving public welfare dishonestly. In the first quarter
of this century, a great labor statesman, the man who founded the American
Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers said, "doing for people what they should
and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. Let social busy-
bodies and professional morals experts in their fads reflect upon the perils
they rationally invite under the pretense of social welfare."
Our government today is engaged in operating and running more than 17,500
businesses covering 47 different lines of activity. These businesses operate
tax free, rent free and dividend free. They compete openly with our tax
paying citizens and in the process, each year, they lose almost as many
billions of dollars as are collected by the Federal government from all of the
personal income tax.
We have increased through necessity our defense spending 29% in the last few
years. At the same time, we have increased our non-defense federal spending 84%.
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But some tell us that government spending is a necessity. That in this new
theory of government it is government spending that stimulates the economy
and brings about growth and prosperity. Well, let's take a look at some of
this government spending and what a stimulant it's been. There has been no
greater spending done in any single area of the United States than has been
done over the last couple of decades by TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the great power trust of our government. And yet in the 169 counties of that
area, in spite of all this spending, the Labor Department declares that 50%
more of those counties are permanent areas of poverty, distress and unemploy-
ment.
The state has followed the same pattern, our state of California. Under the
Brown administration, spending has gone up 47% and we've increased the number
of state employees by 30%. We have the highest per capita tax in the history
of California, the highest per capita tax of all of the fifty states and for
that we have the highest crime rate per capita in all of the nation.
A government may be the most benevolent, the most well-meaning in the world,
but when it attempts to control the economy and operate the production of a
nation, it must eventually use coereion and force to achieve its purposes.
Since 1933, the Congress of the United States has passed laws governing us that
fill eleven thick volumes. At the same time, the agencies and bureaus of the
government have passed regulations controlling us that fill fifty-nine such
thick volumes, and many of these regulations permit agencies to bring a
citizen before the agency for punishment. Many of them are "final and not
subject to review by any courts."
We virtually lost the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, our protection
against search and seizure. How many of us realize that today Federal Agents
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can invade a man's property if they suspect him of violating a regulation, not
a law, a regulation, and they can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let
alone a trial by jury. And if a fine isn't paid, they can seize and hold his
property or sell it at auction to enforce the payment.
As of this moment, there's a man in New York State, a dairy farmer by the
name of Stocker. Stocker's COWS weren't giving enough milk to satisfy his
customers needs. He went into the market and bought cream in 20 quart containers
to augment his supply. He has been fined $21,000; the fine not subject to
review by any court. The fine? Because he violated a regulation of the dairy
program that said in buying the cream he shouldn't buy it in anything larger
than 2 quart containers.
We've had 30 years to see the connection between subsidy and control; 30 years
in which our government has invaded a section of our economy, the agricultural
area, trying to control the production of a surplus. Today the surplus is
bigger than ever and so is the program. We've paid a billion dollars to farmers
not to plant. We've spent four billion dollars paying them to fertilize and
telling them how to increase the crop yield per acre. In 10 years, the farm
support program has cost the Americans twenty-six billion dollars in an effort
to control this surplus - surplus? and yet in that same period we have imported
farm products from foreign countries valued at forty-two billion dollars. Each
year we pay enough for not growing wheat to buy eight loaves of bread for every
person in America every day of the year.
Recently a reclamation project was dedicated that's going to take water from
the west slope of the Rockies and tunnel it through to the east slope. We
obviously don't need it out here. It's the Arkansas Frying Pan Reclamation
Project. It will prorate out at a cost of $296 for every acre irrigated,
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But there's a government agency standing by waiting to pay them $40 an acre
not to plant the land after they get the water. In Blair, Nebraska, the
country club had 14 acres of ground it didn't need, leased it to a neighbor-
ing farmer who planted corn. Now they ve decided to enlarge the golf course,
they took the 14 acres back, the government sent the country club a check for
$288 for taking corn land out of production.
In the past three years, six government agencies have spent upward of thirty-
five million dollars telling poultry raisers how to increase egg production.
At the same time, a seventh government agency has spent twelve million dollars
buying surplus eggs. We adopt a feed grain program to protect the family
farmer and some of the family farmers we are saving - well, the Louisiana
State Penitentiary gets forty-five thousand dollars a year from this program.
The Waterloo, Iowa, Air Port, fifty-eight hundred dollars; the Kearny, Nebraska,
Air Port, sixty-seven hundred dollars; the City of St. Louis is a family farmer
to the tune of twelve thousand a year. Only 20% of the farm economy is in this
program of regulation and subsidy. Eighty percent of farming is still out in
the open market, governed only by the laws of supply and demand. Most farmers
believe today and have testified that they believe farming should be returned
to this free competitive system. But government never admits that it can be at
fault and SO the government reveals what its thinking is as it suggests a cure
to the farm mess.
Its suggestion and what they ask Congress to approve was that the 80% of free
farming be brought into the program with the 20% and to that end they demanded
a program that would have required a Federal license for the planting, the
harvesting and the distribution of all the 256 agricultural products in this
nation. What this program would have meant? even a housewife couldn't have
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planted a back yard garden without getting a Federal license before she put the
seeds in the ground. In the same bill they asked for the right to fine and
imprison farmers who would not keep books as prescribed by the Federal govern-
ment. The Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to buy farms at his
discretion through condemnation, forced buying, and resell them to private
individuals if he SO chose. They also asked for the right to turn over all
food surplus and the receipt of the sale of all such surplus to the United
Nations. This isn't the only area where government has begun to meddle and
interfere with the free economy.
Recently John Kenneth Gailbraith, our Ambassador to India, addressed an
Indian audience. He told them that under their Socialist Government they had
only managed to nationalize thirteen to fourteen percent of their economy.
And then be boasted in America already one fifth of the industrial capacity of
our nation is planned, fully controlled and disposed of by government.
Now we have a Depressed Areas Bill and we see more government red tape unfurl.
There's a little town in Central California, an agricultural community, that
has just established a record for prosperity; that is, by virtue of retail
sales and personal bank deposits, but the government has declared it under
this new bill a depressed area. It seems that in the summertime in this
agricultural community, a canning company opens to can the vegetables. Some
of the houewives get a few weeks work there, pick up some fall spending money.
Then someone pointed out that after the canning company closed, they were
eligible for unemployment insurance so they've been doubling their take.
Now they depressed because, under this Bill, the Labor Department determines
depressed areas on the basis of applications for unemployment insurance. Now
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they're really going to be depressed, because the entire prosperity of the
community depends on importing migrant farm pickers, crop pickers, every
spring and they cannot do this under the Depressed Areas Bill, SO they have
a committee in Washington asking that they be declared undepressed and the
government says lay down and be depressed.
When we question proposed social reforms, usually we are challenged that we
lack humanity. No responsible person would suggest that our senior citizens,
for example, would reach their non-earning years without savings or pensions
should be denied a livelihood. And yet, most responsible citizens, all of us
as a matter of fact, should ask some questions about the present social
security program. You and I have been told that we and our employers are
paying into a fund and that someday we will call upon this, our own money,
to see us through. A hundred million pieces of literature, published by
Social Security since 1939, tell us that this is an insurance program, but
the Supreme Court has ruled that it is not an insurance program and that he
dues are not insurance premiums but a general tax for the use of the government,
and the government has used that money I. there is no fund.
An actuarial expert of Social Security has admitted that, as of this moment,
Social Security is two hundred and ninety-eight billion dollars in the red.
We pass this fiscal irresponsibility on to our sons. Not an unborn generation,
because already the young man going into the work force at an average salary
will find that he and his employer are today paying in a dollar and sixty-nine
cents for every dollar he can hope to receive back in benefits. That same
amount of money in the open market could buy him a policy that will pay him
two hundred and twenty dollars a month when he reaches the age of sixty-five,
instead of a hundred and twenty-seven he will get from the compulsory government
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program. Always the government presents these ideas for reform in an atmosphere
of emergency.
We ve increased our spending in the school systems one and a half times as
fast as we've increased our income in the last decade. We've raised teachers
salaries on an average in this country from thirty-two hundred to fifty-four
hundred dollars a year. But suddenly we are told we must start building sixty
thousand classrooms a year for the next ten years, and then we discover we've
been building seventy thousand classrooms a year for the last five years. If
money is an answer to our educational problems, has the government found some
new source other than our pockets? And, if the government increases the amount
it takes from those pockets, is it not decreasing the amount left for local
taxation, for contributions to private educational and charitable institutions?
Here in California, would we receive any benefit from Federal aid to education?
We're considered one of the rich states. We have the greatest educational
problem in all the nation because of our rapid growth, yet we are expected
under this program to build our own schools and then put up money to help
build someone else's.
At the very height of denying that control played any part in their considera-
tion of Federal aid, the advocates of this program suddenly were revealed as
having out already a booklet that contained the plans for increasing the
Department of Education and Welfare so that they could lead toward a national-
ized curriculum and, if you please, a nationalized school system.
On the international scene we find the same pattern of uncontrolled and un-
reasoning growth. We set out to help nineteen war-ravaged countries. Today
we are helping ninety-seven. We spent over a hundred billion dollars. I
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think that Christian charity - charity of the God of Moses, requires that we
should share of our superfluous goods with our needy neighbors, but I don't
think it requires us to go into debt to see that he has an egg in his beer.
Dr. Kirshner, speaking to the Prime Minister of Lebanon recently, reported
a conversation in which the Prime Minister said that his little country had
balanced its budget every year, had no debt, no deficit, no inflation, had
increased its gold holdings from twenty million to a hundred seventy million
dollars. When he had finished, Dr. Kirshner said, "Mr. Prime Minister, my
country hasn't balanced its budget twenty-six out of the last thirty-two years.
Our debt is greater than the combined debt of all the nations of the world.
We're losing gold so fast that the very stability of our currency is in danger.
We have cronic inflation. Do you think that under these circumstances we should
continue to give your country millions of dollars each year?" And the Prime
Minister said, "No, but if you're foolish enough to do it, we're going to
keep on taking the money. We now find revealed that we've spent two hundred
million dollars of our aid funds to pay the dues of other nations in the
United Nations. One of the countries we helped in this way - Castro's Cuba.
Now we hear talk of tax reform. Well, there's no doubt it's needed. It's
needed to restore the original purpose of taxation so that it's for the purpose
of raising revenue and not to control the economy and redistribute the earnings
and wealth of our citizens. No nation in history has ever survived a tax
burden that reached a third of its national income. Well today, thirty-
three cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collectors
share. And of that thirty-three cents, twenty-three cents goes to the Federal
government, leaving a dime to be divided between the state, the local community
and the county. Is it any wonder that whatever we need they tell us to turn
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to the Federal Government for an aid program. One Congressman has described
Federal aid as the case of a man giving himself a blood transfusion in the
right arm by taking blood from the left and spilling half of it on the way
across. We need tax reform because of what the personal income tax, the
graduated tax, has done to the great American dream. That dream we've
nurtured here in this country that there is no ceiling, no limit as to how
high we can fly and, when time, perhaps, has brought the word to some of us
that we're not going to realize the dream, that the pot of gold might not be
just around the corner for us, how many of you out there have invested, re-
invested that dream in your children. A savings to send a son, a daughter on
to a professional education, hoping that they can lift the family to a bracket
that heretofore they've never known.
Well, let me turn to sports for an example of what has happened to that
American dream. Thirty years ago the graduate of an orphans home and a reform
school, but a fine fellow, named Babe Ruth received the highest salary ever
paid in baseball for hitting sixty home runs. Eighty thousand dollars a
year he received from the New York Yankees. Three short decades later, with
certain changes in the income tax laws, a fellow named Roger Maris hit sixty
home runs. If Maris had received the same take home purchasing pay Babe Ruth
received, and had been able to pay his income tax on that amount, his paycheck
from the Yankees would have had to read $960,000 for the season.
But we'd better make sure we have representatives in Washington who will
determine the tax reform will be accompanied by an end to deficit spending,
that our government will be forced to stay within the limits of its revenue.
This year we have projected another eight billion dollar deficit. The debt
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has an interest payment that calls for eighteen thousand dollars every sixty-
seconds, twenty-four hours of the day, day in and day out. But that only
the part showing above the surface. Already in legislation and acted into
law, our government is obligated to pay out one and a quarter trillion dollars.
This is an amount equal to four times the assessed valuation of all the real
estate and all the tangible property in this country. We must see that tax
reform reduces the percentage of income taken by the Federal government.
You see, there are others who for the last two or three years, and many of
them employed as advisors by government, who have been considering that tax
reform is needed to get the government more money, not less. They say that
you and I are not smart enough to spend our own money, that the government
must take it from us, through taxation, and buy for us the welfare programs
we re not smart enough to buy for ourselves. We're wallowing in luxury,
they say, at the private sector, while the public sector is starved for funds.
Well, in the last fiscal year, the starvation diet of governments of the
United States was a hundred and seventy-three billion dollars. That pro-
rates out the spending of three thousand and fifty dollars for every family
in the United States. They have suggested the government can get this
added revenue by reducing the rates and presenting the tax reform as a tax
cut, but they'll get the added money by plugging what they say are loopholes
in the present structure; that old age assistance pay and sick leave pay
should be subject to income tax, charitable contributions no longer de-
ductible, or the interest on your mortgage. And one man has explored the
idea that those who own their own homes escape something because they don't
pay rent. He has suggested that you should estimate the rent you're not
paying and pay an income tax on the estimated amount. Well, don't laugh
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at that one, the gentleman who explored that idea is Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in charge of tax policy.
All of this is at stake in this election. We can give our children a heritage
of freedom because freedom is never more than one generation away from extinc-
tion, or we can leave them with a debt that can only be paid by inflating the
value out of their savings. We can restore the constitutional limits on
government power. Now, of course, that tags me as a Neanderthal man, the
Constitution is supposed to be outmoded and old fashioned. Senator Fulbright,
speaking at Stanford University, referred to the President as our moral
teacher and our leader, and he said "he is hobbled in his task by the restric-
tions of power imposed on him by a constitutional system designed for 18th
Century agrarian society," and we've been told that the talk of taking the
country back to the Constitution is talk of taking it back to the days of
McKinley. Well, I for one, don't think that's a bad idea. Under McKinley we
freed Cuba.
Daniel Webster said, "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not
cluster. What has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again.
Hold on to your Constitution for if the Constitution shall fall, there will be
anarchy throughout the world." It has been said that if we lose this way of
ours, this traditional freedom, his tory will report with the greatest astonish-
ment that those who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent it happening.
Well, we can do something about it. We can start by electing to office those
who will guard our freedoms in Washington and in Sacramento. I don't believe
there's ever been a time when State offices have ever been SO important -
important because inherent in the growth of central power is the relegating of
the state to the role of a mere administrative agency of the Federal government.
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I'm sure there are many fine individuals among our opposing candidates, but
they cannot cut the umbilical cord that binds them to their party's policy.
We have an opportunity here in California not usually afforded a state. We
can be represented by a Governor who needs no introduction in meetings of
the highest of the world's leaders. He's been there. I ask you to look
deep into your own heart and mind. Can you possibly believe that a man like
Dwight David Eisenhower, whose love of country is beyond question, could have
been closely associated with Richard Nixon as he was for 8 years and now
recommend him for high office, as he is doing, if he did not believe him
worthy to serve.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny; we'll meet the challenge in the
days ahead or we 11 trail in the dust the golden hope of mankind for years
to come. Are we a different breed of American? Has life become so dear
and peace SO sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains in slavery?
Or, will we pledge our lives and our sacred honor. Are missile bases enough
or will we insist on freedom for all Cubans. Can we go to the Summit with-
out insisting that we discuss the freedom of all those people enslaved
behind the Iron Curtain. We're not war mongers, we're not trying to send
other people's sons to war; we have sons of our own. We believe in peace,
but we know that appeasement that does not give a choice between peace and
war, only between fight or surrender. Will we go on feeding the crocodile
hoping it will eat us last?
I commend to you the words of wisdom of Winston Churchill's who said:
"If you will not fight for the right when you can without bloodshed. If
you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you
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may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against
you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse
case, you may have to fight when there is no chance of retreat because it's
better to perish than to live as slaves."
Thank you.
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HUMAN EVENTS
Vol. XVIII, No. 29 - Section II
July 21, 1961
Encroaching Government Controls
By RONALD REAGAN
I
T MUST SEEM presumptuous to some of you for a
there are plenty of well-meaning but misguided
member of my profession to stand here and at-
people willing to give them a hand.
tempt to talk on problems of the nation
How-
ever, a few years ago "a funny thing happened to
We don't mean to present ourselves as "being able
us on the way to the theatre." Ugly reality came to
to run the circus now that we've seen the monkey,"
our town on direct orders of the Kremlin. Hard
but it is possible we have an awareness not shared
core party organizers infiltrated our business. They
by many of our fellow citizens.
created cells, organized
Communist fronts, and
Most people agree that the ideological struggle
with Russia is the number one problem in the world.
for a time, deceived num-
Millions of words are used almost daily to record the
bers of our people, who
with the best of intentions,
fluctuating temperature of the cold war. And yet,
joined these fronts while
many men in high places in government and many
still ignorant of their true
who mould opinion in the press and on the airwaves,
purpose. The aim was to
subscribe to a theory that we are at peace, and we
must make no overt move which might endanger
gain economic control of
our industry and then sub-
that peace. "Men cry peace, but there is no peace."
The inescapable truth is that we are at war, and we
vert our screens to the
dissemination of Commu-
are losing that war simply because we don't, or
won't realize that we are in it.
nist propaganda.
True, it is a strange war fought with unusual
Whatever the short-
weapons, but we cannot yell foul, because it is a
RONALD REAGAN
comings, Hollywood had
declared war. Karl Marx established the cardinal
achieved a great deal. In
principle that communism and capitalism cannot co-
the finest traditions of free enterprise, 70 per cent
exist in the world together. Our way of life, our
of the playing time of all the screens of the world
system, must be totally destroyed; then the world
had been captured by the output of the American
Communist state will be erected on the ruins. In
film capital. You may disagree sometimes with our
interpreting Marx, Lenin said, "It is inconceivable
"boy meets girl" plot, but all over the world our
that the Soviet Republic should continue to exist for
pictures were a window through which less fortunate
a long period side by side with imperialistic states.
humans had a glimpse of freedom and of our
Ultimately, one or the other must conquer."
material comforts as well. The men in the Kremlin
wanted this propaganda medium for their own
Last November, the Communist parties of 81
destructive purposes.
countries held a convention in Moscow; and on
December 6, reaffirmed this principle of war to the
Confident of their power, the Reds in our midst
death. In a 20,000-word manifesto, they called on
made one mistake in judgment. They mistook their
Communists in countries where there were non-
ability to deceive for success in conversion. Under
Communist governments to be traitors and work for
the guise of a jurisdictional strike, they made an
the destruction of their own governments by sub-
open effort to destroy the guilds and unions who
version and treason.
remained free from their control. Ultimately, they
hoped for one vertical union of motion picture people
Eastern Europe has been taken, and Communists
under the umbrella of Harry Bridges' maritime
are organizing the hordes of Asia around the red
union. After the first shock, the people of the
colossus of China. Even now, it would appear we
movie colony rallied quickly-we lived through
are preparing to drink the bitter cup of capitulation
scenes that heretofore had been only make-believe.
in Laos only partly diluted by face-saving devices.
Thousands of massed pickets overturned cars, homes
Cuba is a Soviet beach-head ninety miles off shore,
were bombed, and threats of acid in the face were
and more than 250,000 Communist organizers are
directed at performers. Months later their power
spread up and down Latin America.
was broken. The studios had remained open thanks
The Communists are supremely confident of
to the refusal of management and the majority of
victory. They believe that you and I, under the
our people to be intimidated.
constant pressure of the cold war, will give up, one
by one, our democratic customs and traditions.
We now know of course that we only won an
We'll adopt emergency "temporary" totalitarian
isolated battle. In the "spirit of Camp David" the
measures, until one day we'll awaken to find we have
Communist party has ordered once again the infil-
grown SO much like the enemy that we no longer
tration of the picture business as well as the theatre
have any cause for conflict.
and television. They are crawling out from under
the rocks; and memories being as short as they are,
Three months before his last visit to this country,
Nikita Khrushchev said, "We can't expect the
Ronald Reagan is a famous motion picture and television actor. This
American people to jump from capitalism to com-
article consists of extracts from an address he made before the Business
munism, but we can assist their elected leaders in
Educational Institute of New Jersey.
giving them small doses of socialism, until they
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awaken one day to find they have communism."
in students over the last decade has been matched
This is not a new thought. In 1788, James Madison
by a 134 per cent increase in spending by the local
told the Virginia convention, "Since the general
communities. An increase of 10 million students
civilization of mankind, I believe there are more
has seen classrooms built for 15 million. Five
instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the
hundred colleges, as of this moment, can take an
people by gradual and silent encroachment of those
additional 200,000 students without adding so much
in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
as a desk or chair. We are told we must build
60,000 classrooms a year for the next ten years, but
Others much more recently have counted on this
they forget to tell us we've been building 68,000
with no realization they would one day be furthering
a year for the last five years and that continuation
the Soviet cause. A socialist clergyman, writing in
of this rate will give us a surplus of classrooms by
the New Leader, the socialist magazine of 1927,
1970.
called for a new strategy. He said socialists should
place themselves in government jobs and work for
Of course, we want teachers to be paid adequately;
government ownership of power, and control of
and we are doing something about it. Their average
railroads, banking, and key industries. He called
pay has risen in the last few years from $3100 to
his program-Encroaching Control."
$5300 annually. The truth is, not one shred of
evidence has been presented that Federal aid of
Appealing not to the worst, but to the best in
any kind is required. Could we possibly believe that
our natures, those of the liberal persuasion have
three-fourths of one billion dollars a year in Federal
used our sense of fair play-our willingness to
aid could solve any great emergency when we are
compromise-and have perfected a technique of
spending nearly twenty billion dollars a year at the
"foot in the door" legislation. Get any part of a
local level?
proposed program accepted, then with the principle
of governmental participation in that field estab-
Federal aid is the foot in the door to Federal
lished, work for expansion, always aiming at the
control. In spite of their denials, their own words
ultimate goal-a government that will someday be
betray them. The Director of Public Education of
a big brother to us all.
the State of Washington tells of the two-year
struggle of his state to meet the rigid requirements
I
T-IS NOW proposed that all people of social security
of the National Director of Education under the
age be given government paid medical and
present act. He says, "This is Federal control by
hospital care. As nearly as can be determined, less
indirection-all the more dangerous because it poses
than 10 per cent of our senior citizens require aid
as a Federal handout."
in meeting their medical needs. The last session
of Congress adopted a measure known as the Kerr-
T
WENTY-SEVEN years ago, our farmers were told
Mills bill to provide money for state administered
that a Federal subsidy did not mean Federal
aid to these people. However, without even waiting
control. Now we have seen a rancher, Evetts Haley,
to see if this meets the problem, a revised version
Jr., fined $4000 for raising wheat on his own land
of the once defeated Forand bill is advocated to
and feeding it to his own cattle. The Supreme
force all people into a compulsory government health
Court upheld his conviction with a single-sentence
insurance program, regardless of need. Why? Well,
ruling-"Yes, an agency of the Federal government
ex-Congressman Forand provides the answer. He
has the right to tell an American citizen what he
says, "If we can only break through and get our foot
can grow on his own land for his own use."
in the door, then we can expand the program after
that." Walter Reuther has said his group makes no
This nation has tried to curb the production of
secret of the fact that they want nationalized health
a surplus by making it so financially attractive to
service for all. New American, a socialist magazine,
produce a surplus that we own enough wheat to
writes, "The Forand bill will not be paid on the
bake twenty-five loaves of bread for every person
insurance principle according to factors of estimated
alive. In the State of New Mexico, citizens learned
risk. It will be paid for through the tax mechanisms
they could rent state-owned land for 25c an acre
of Social Security
Once the bill is passed, this
and immediately apply for and receive $9 an acre
nation will be provided with a mechanism for
from the Federal government for not planting the
socialized medicine."
land.
The press recently told of a group whose religious
All of the "farm mess" is concerned with the 20
belief forbade their participation in any govern-
per cent of agriculture coming under government
ment welfare program. Their property was seized
regulation and subsidy. Eighty per cent of our
and their cattle sold at auction to enforce their pay-
agricultural economy is out in the free market of
ment of Social Security taxes.
supply and demand. It would seem that the answer
to the "farm mess" would be to free the other 20
In education, the foot in the door was the $900
per cent of governmental regimentation; but, what
million National Defense Education Act of 1958.
is being advocated? We are told that the only
The excuse was, as usual, the cold war. Russia had
solution to the problem is to bring the other 80 per
put a sputnik into orbit; obviously, our educational
cent into the government program. To that end a
system must be at fault. Now one of the largest
plan is advanced that would result in the licensing
spending lobbies in Washington is promoting a $2½
of every farm in the United States with complete
billion program to alleviate allegedly crowded
governmental regulation of production and price.
schools, underpaid teachers, and bankrupt school
districts.
Thomas Jefferson said, "If we let Washington tell
us when to sow and when to reap, the Nation shall
Again, the facts seem strangely at variance.
soon want for bread."
Ninety-nine and one-half per cent of the nation's
school districts have not even approached their
Today, no one denies the American people would
bonded limit of indebtedness. A 35 per cent increase
resist the nationalization of industry. But, in
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defiance of this attitude the Federal government
surtax brackets, the steepest rate of increase occurs
owns and operates more than 19,000 enterprises
through the middle income range where are to be
covering 47 lines of activity from rum distilling to
found the bulk of our small businessmen, pro-
the manufacture of surgical equipment. The esti-
fessional people, and supervisory personnel-the
mated book value of 700 governmental activities is
people Marx said should be taxed out of existence.
$260 billion. Operating tax free, dividend free,
At sixteen-to-eighteen thousand dollars of income,
and rent free in direct competition with its own
a man reaches the 50 per cent tax rate. From 50
citizens, the government loses billions each year in
per cent on up to the confiscatory 91 per cent rate,
these undertakings.
the government can only justify these brackets on a
All of these things have led to the growth of a
punitive basis, for the gross revenue derived from
collection of internal powers and bureaucratic
all the tax of 50 per cent or above is less than three-
fourths of $1 billion.
institutions against which the individual citizen is
virtually helpless. We now have a permanent
There can be no normal justification of the pro-
structure of government beyond the reach of Con-
gressive tax. Perhaps that is why the bureaucrats
gress and actually capable of dictating policy. This
pretend it is proportionate taxation. Proportionate
power, under whatever name you choose, is the very
taxation we would gladly accept on the theory that
essence of totalitarianism.
those better able to pay should remove some of the
A year ago, a sub-committee of Congress reported
burden from those least able to pay. The Bible
its findings in the field of Federal employees. There
explains this in its instruction on tithing. We are
are almost 2½ million. In 1942, there was one top
told we should give the Lord one tenth and if the
salaried executive for every 89 employees; today,
Lord prosper us ten times as much, we should
there is one for every 17. The committee further
give ten times as much. But under our progressive
reported it found little evidence that any bureau,
income tax, computing Caesar's share is a little
different. If a $5000 a year man today is prospered
agency, or commission created in answer to an
10 times, his income tax increases 53 times as much.
emergency ever went out of existence after the
emergency disappeared.
Does this help the little man? A man with a
gross income of $3500, a wife and two children will
Some people attempt to justify government in
business on the grounds of greater efficiency due to
find when he has finished paying the hidden and in-
direct taxes, that the tax collector's share of his
central control. An example of this efficiency can
be found in the Claims Department of the Veterans
gross $3500 is $1059. Some suggest the answer to
his problem is to tax the upper incomes even more-
Administration insurance program. In that depart-
ment, three government employees take double the
but what leeway is left? If the government con-
fiscated all personal income above $6000 a year, the
time to perform the task normally assigned to one
employee in a private insurance company.
increased revenue wouldn't pay the interest on the
national debt.
H
OPELESS as it may seem, we can do something
No nation in history has ever survived a tax
about it! We must inform ourselves on the
burden of one-third of its national income. Today,
proposals pending in Congress. Look beyond the
31c out of every dollar earned is tax and of that 31c,
foot in the door to the ultimate aim. Weigh the
23c goes to the Federal government; leaving 8c to
price we must pay in individual liberty and whether
be shared by the state, county, and local community.
these programs qualify as things the people can't
No wonder we are told to ask for Federal aid But
do for themselves. Then write to your Congress-
wouldn't it make more sense to keep the money here
men and Senators. Also, don't forget to write now
in the first place instead of running it through that
and then just to say "well done" to your Represent-
puzzle palace on the Potomac only to get it back
ative when he has acquitted himself well on the
minus a sizable carrying charge?
firing line.
Lenin once said, "The way to destroy Capitalism
A basic point to remember is that none of these
is to debauch the currency and unobservedly con-
extensions of socialism can be effected without
fiscate the wealth of its citizens."
money. The fodder upon which our government has
fed and grown beyond the consent of the governed
Here is the main battleground! We must reduce
is the fruit of the tax system whose only consistency
the government's supply of money and deny it the
is that a levy once imposed is seldom removed. An
right to borrow.
excise tax on telephones imposed during the Korean
War was to curb telephone use during the emergency
Two years ago, I appeared before the House Ways
and really wasn't intended for revenue. The war
and Means Committee as a representative of the
is over, but the tax lingers on-the government has
motion picture industry to urge tax reform. This
discovered it needs the revenue. This particular
was an experience similar to going over the Niagara
tax, plus some of the hundreds of hidden and in-
Falls in a barrel-the hard way, upstream. In a
direct taxes that burden us, accounts for one-third
month of hearings, representatives of practically
of your telephone bill. One hundred such taxes
every segment of our society appeared before the
account for one-half the price of a loaf of bread,
committee. All of them urged some kind of tax
one-fourth the cost of an automobile, one-half your
reform. It was obvious that the majority of the
gas and oil.
committee had little sympathy with our plea, SO it
was no surprise when, several months later, the
Once we were told the income tax would never be
committee decided to hold new hearings. This time
greater than 2 per cent and that only from the rich.
no volunteers were allowed. A hand-picked group
In our lifetime, this law has grown from 31 to more
of predominantly campus economists appeared and
than 440,000 words. We have received this pro-
talked of plugging loopholes to increase the govern-
gressive tax direct from Karl Marx who designed it
ment's tax revenue. Most of these so-called loop-
as the prime essential of a socialist state. In the
holes are the legitimate deductions without which
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the tax structure would have long since proved un-
workable. The suggestions included disallowance
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NOT FORSAKE the other issues; but as Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Strike for the
of property taxes and interest on loans for income
jugular. Reduce taxes and spending. Keep govern-
tax purposes and even the elimination of 100 per
ment poor and remain free." Write to your Con-
cent deductions of charitable contributions.
gressman as individuals. Fifty letters from a
The biggest lobby in Washington pushing tax
group such as this means more than a resolution or
a petition. Demand immediate tax reform which
reform has a bill which will increase the govern-
ment's tax take about $18 billion. It is no coinci-
will reduce the percentage of the national income
taken by government. There is a bi-partisan tax
dence that they have, on the other hand, recom-
reform bill, the Herlong-Baker bill, now before the
mendations for $18 billion worth of welfare legisla-
House Ways and Means Committee. A five year
tion. This measure will actually be presented as
tax reduction with some cut in surtax rates.
gradual reduction of rates makes it the best planned
tax reform bill introduced in the last hundred years.
Those of the liberal persuasion say they "reject
For every billion saved in government spending, we
the notion that the least government is the best
can have a 2½ per cent reduction of income tax.
government." They claim our citizens are not in-
telligent enough to spend their money properly.
If your Congressman should say we must cut
They feel the government should take the money
costs first and then reduce taxes-don't stand for it.
through taxation and then buy the welfare programs
Remind him that no government in history has ever
for the masses which they are not smart enough to
voluntarily reduced itself in size. Governments
buy for themselves.
don't tax to get the money they need. Governments
will always find a need for the money they get.
When the old fashioned idea of living within our
means and paying something on the national debt
There can only be one end to the war we are in. It
is suggested, these same liberals tell us that "only
won't go away if we simply try to outwait it. Wars
State and local debt is bad." Through some exotic
end in victory or defeat. One of the foremost
bookkeeping methods, they seem to feel that the
authorities on communism in the world today has
Federal debt is meaningless. It is-it is incompre-
said, we have 10 years. Not ten years to make up
hensible.
our minds, but ten years to win or lose-by 1970
the world will be all slave or all free.
If I had a four inch stack of thousand dollar bills
In this land occurred the only true revolution in
in my hand, I'd be a millionaire. If we had the
man's history. All other revolutions simply
national debt of $293 billion before us in thousand
exchanged one set of rulers for another. Here for
dollar bills, the pile would be more than 18 miles
the first time the Founding Fathers-that little band
high. Maurice Stans, former budget director, has
of men SO advanced beyond their time that the world
said that this debt is only the part of the iceberg
has never seen their like since-evolved a govern-
which shows above the surface. Legislation already
ment based on the idea that you and I have the God
enacted into law has obligated our government to
given right and ability within ourselves to determine
more than $750 billion. Add to this the local and
our own destiny. Freedom is never more than one
state debts plus the private debts of our citizens, and
generation away from extinction-we didn't pass
we find that we are mortgaged in an amount more
it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must
than double the market value of every tangible
be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to
asset and every foot of real estate in the United
do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset
States.
years telling our children and our children's
When we point out the danger of more deficit
children what it was once like in the United States
spending, we are told, "we are sacrificing our
when men were free.
security on the false altar of a balanced budget."
This is not so. Our individual freedom and our free
enterprise system are the very sources of our
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November 17, 1961
Dear Ronnie:
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,
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Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre
Pacific Palisades, California
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R
November 17, 1961
Dear Ronnie:
Our efforts to reach you by telephone have
failed as the number which we had previously used
seems to be disconnected. I wonder, therefore, if
you would either call me at MAdison 8-0448 or
MAdison 0-1248, or send your telephone number
along so that I might be in touch with you.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
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Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre
Pacific Palisades, California
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October 26, 1961
Dear Ronnie:
This is just a note to tell you how
very much I appreciated your generous com-
ments on my candidacy at your recent press
conference in Santa Rosa.
I also read with interest your
hard-hitting remarks on the Democratic Party.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss
the coming campaign with you and I will call
Reagan, Ronald
you next week after I return from the East to
see if we can work out a mutually convenient
time to get together.
Pat joins me in extending our very
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best wishes to you and Nancy.
Sincerely,
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Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre
Pacific Palisades, California
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To Nancy and Ronald Reagan
who in the Nixon home are real celebrities
and whose friendship we cherish
with every good wish from DN
Mailed 8-28-61 to Mr & Mrs. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onafre ONOFRE
Beverly Hills, California
Pacific Polisades,
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Mr. Reagan:
Reogan
Following our telephone July conversation,
I had our files checked 25 and find that
Ronald
Mr. Nixon wrote to Mr. Maxwell on
July 11th. A copy of the letter is
enclosed.
As you will note, it was sent to The
Chicago Tribune, since we did not know
the name of the hospital at the time.
It may be that it is being held for him at
his office, and perhaps you will want to send
this copy to your friend in Chicago for his
information and possible follow-through.
Many thanks,
Rose Mary Woods
Secretary to Mr. Nixon
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INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Nixon for Governor
RN
To:
Date:
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From:
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Subject:
Ronald Reagan
Distribution:
REAGAN, RONALD
I reached Ron Reagan in Phoenix, Arizona, and he had
not heard of the Jarvis attack. When I read him the essence
of the two TV statements by Jarvis, Reagan said he thought
you should lay off unless it became a major issue.
Reagan said he was "grateful" that you thought of making
the statement, which I read to him, but he thought it might
kick up more of a storm that Jarvis' accusations.
He explained that it is true he was a member of
United World Federalists when it was formed after World War II
but that he has long since resigned when he found there was
no hope for a peaceful agreewith the the Soviet Union. He has
asked X the Federalists to remove his name from their letterhead,
etc, but that has not been done.
He himself will answer the question when and if it comes
up--along withs with the Jarvis charges -- in any Q and A
session he has.
Reagan wants you to know that he has given only the
use of his name to the Lloyd Wright campaign, that he is
out speaking to conservative groups, but has not appeared
on the same platform with Wright.
He says he is staying out of the primary wfight between
you and Shell because he feels he can then be more effective
in the final campaign on your behalf.
He believes he has quite a following among the conservative
element; he has bean talking generally on the factional fight
in the Republican Party--and he fex feels he can go a long way
in leading his conservatives back after the primary.
best
Says he got one of the ovations in Riverside recently
who when he told a pro-Shell audiance that **** they should
pin their candidate down to a clear declaration that when the
primary is over, wex will all unite to beat Brown
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November 22, 1960
Rada, Edward L.
Mr. Edward L. Rada
749 Lakewood Place
Pasadena, California
Dear Mr. Rada:
Thank you so much for your good letter of November 14th.
I know the Vice President is grateful for the thoughts you have
expressed and for the active interest you have taken in these past
weeks and months.
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You can be sure the Vice President will continue to exercise
vigorous leadership of the Republican Party in the months and years
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ahead and to ensure that effective representation is given to the over
33 million people who gave him their support in this election.
We certainly agree with you concerning Ronald Reagan's
effective contribution to the campaign and have heard other excellent
reports concerning his election eve presentation. I am sure Mr. Reagan
can continue to play an important role in the Republican Party in the
future and that the position he represented can be one of siguificance
in the continued building of the Party in the years ahead.
The Vice President wishes to convey his sincere appreciation
to you, as well as his very best personal wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Stanley E. McCaffrey
Executive Assistant
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FILE: RONALD Reagan REGAN
4/12/61
RN gave the following statement to TIME for a story they were doing:
(They asked for "folksy" type comment)
"Our friendship dates from the days that he represented
the Screen Actor's Guild and I was a member of the House Labor Committee
in 1947.
"I think the most accurage way to give my appraisal of
him is in this way. He always has played in movies and on television the
part of the good "guy." As distinguished from some others who traditionally
play such parts, I have found in real life he is an even better guy than he is
in the make-believe life of television and screen. "
Regan Ronald
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The following address was presented by Ronald Reagan, host and program supervisor
of the General Electric Theatre, at the Annual Meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce on March 30, 1961.
ENCROACHING CONTROL
It must seem presumptous to some of you for a member of my profession to stand
here and attempt to talk on problems of the nation. It would be strange if it were
otherwise. We in Hollywood are not unaware of the concept many of our fellow citizens
have of us and of our industry. We realize that our merchandise is made up of tinsel,
colored lights and a large measure of make-believe. It is also true that our business
methods and practices have reflected this footlight glamour more than the very real
side of our very real business.
However, a few years ago "a funny thing happened to us on the way to the theatre."
Ugly reality came to our. town on direct orders of the Kremlin. Hard core party organ-
izers infiltrated our business. They created cells, organized Communist fronts, and
for a time, deceived numbers of our people, who with the best of intentions, joined
these fronts while still ignorant of their true purpose. The aim was to gain economic
control of our industry and then subvert our screens to the dissemination of Communist
propaganda.
Whatever the shortcomings, Hollywood had achieved a great deal. In the finest
traditions of free enterprise, 70 per cent of the playing time of all the screens of
the world had been captured by the output of the American film capitol. You may disa-
gree sometimes with our "boy meets girl" plot, but all over the world our pictures were
a window through which less fortunate humans had a glimpse of freedom and of our mater-
ial comforts as well. The men in the Kremlin wanted this propaganda medium for their
own destructive purposes.
Confident of their power, the Reds in our midst made one mistake in judgment.
They mistook their ability to deceive for success in conversion. Under the guise of a
jurisdictional strike, they made an open effort to destroy the guilds and unions who
remained free from their control. Ultimately, they hoped for one vertical union of
motion picture people under the umbrella of Harry Bridges' maritime union. After the
first shock, the people of the movie colony rallied quickly we lived through scenes
that heretofore had been only make-believe. Thousands of massed pickets overturned
cars, homes were bombed, and threats of acid in the face were directed at performers.
Months later their power was broken. The studios had remained open thanks to the
refusal of management and the majority of our people to be intimidated.
We now know of course that we only won an isolated battle. In the "spirit of
Camp David" the Communist party has ordered once again the infiltration of the picture
business as well as the theatre and television. They are crawling out from under the
rocks and, memories being as short as they are, there are plenty of well-meaning but
misguided people willing to give them a hand.
We don't mean to present ourselves as being able to run the circus now that we've
seen the monkey, but it is possible we have an awareness not shared by many of our
fellow citizens.
Everyone agrees that ideological struggle with Russia is the number one problem
in the world. Millions of words are used almost daily to record the fluctuating
temperature of the cold war. And yet, many men in high places in government and many
who mould opinion in the press and on the airwaves, subscribe to a theory that we are
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at peace and we must make no overt move which might endanger that peace. "Men cry
peace but there is no peace." The inescapable truth is we are at war and we are
losing the war simply because we don't or won't realize that we are in it.
True it is a strange war fought with unusual weapons, but we can't yell foul
it is a declared war. Karl Marx established the cardinal principle that Communism
and Capitalism cannot co-exist in the world together. Our way of life, our system,
must be totally destroyed; then the world communist state will be erected on the
ruins. In interpreting Marx, Lenin said, "It is inconceivable that the Soviet
Republic should continue to exist for a long period side by side with imperialistic
states. Ultimately, one or the other must conquer."
Last November, the communist parties of 81 countries held a convention in
Moscow and on December 6, re-affirmed this principle of war to the death. In a
20,000 word manifesto, they called on Communists in countries where there were non-
communist governments to be traitors and work for the destruction of their own
governments by subversion and treason.
Only in that phase of the war which causes our greatest fear are we ahead
the use of armed force. Thanks to the dedicated patriotism and realistic thinking
of our men in uniform we would win a shooting war. But, this isn't a decisive
factor in the Communist campaign. They never really intended to conquer us by force
unless we yielded to a massive peace campaign and disarmed. Then, the Russians would
resort to armed conflict if it could shortcut their time table with no great risk to
themselves.
In 1923, Lenin said, "We will take eastern Europe, then we'll organize the
hordes of Asia and we'll surround the United States that last bastion of capital-
ism we won't have to take, it will fall into our outstretched hand like over-ripe
fruit."
Well, they've taken eastern Europe, they are organizing the hordes of Asia
around the red colossus of China. Even now, it would appear we are preparing to
drink the bitter cup of capitulation in Laos only partly diluted by face-saving
devices. Cuba is a Soviet beachhead ninety miles off shore and more than 250,000
communist organizers are spread up and down Latin America.
Meanwhile, other communist tactics work on schedule. Bulgarin said, "The
American working man is too well fed, we can't appeal to him, but when through infla-
tion America has priced herself out of the world market and unemployment follows
then we'll settle our debt with the United States. 11
American apathy is due at least in part to our belief that the small number of
American Communists is evidence of weakness and a lack of threat. But, history makes
no secret of the fact that Lenin became the leader of the world conspiracy on just
that issue that the Communist part would remain a small dedicated, highly-trained
cadre which would use and manipulate the masses when necessary. Lenin termed us the
"willing idiots". In our life time, this dedicated handfull has enslaved one-third
of the world's people on one-fourth of the earth's land surface.
The Communists are supremely confident of victory. They believe that you and I,
under the constant pressure of the cold war, will give up one by one our democrative
customs and traditions, only temporarily, of course! We'll adopt emergency totali-
tarian measures until one day we'll awaken to find we have grown so much like the
enemy that we no longer have any cause for conflict.
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Three months before his last visit to this country, Nikita Krushchev said, "We
can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can
assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they
awaken one day to find they have Communism." This is not a new thought. In 1788,
James Madison, told the Virginia convention, "Since the general civilization of
mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violet and
sudden usurpations."
Others much more recently have counted on this with no realization they would
one day be furthering the Soviet cause. A Socialist clergyman, writing in the New
Leader, the Socialist magazine of 1927, called for a new strategy. He said Socialists
should place themselves in government jobs and work for government ownership of power
and control of railroads, banking and key industries. He called his program
"Encroaching Control." Not too long ago, Norman Thomas, six times a candidate for
President on the Socialist party ticket, commented that "the American people would
never knowingly vote for Socialism but that under the name of liberalism, they would
adopt every fragment of the Socialist program."
Appealing not to the worst, but the best in our natures, they have used our sense
of fair play our willingness to comprise, and have perfected a technique of "foot
in the door" legislation. Get any part of a proposed program accepted, then with the
principle of governmental participation in that field established, work for expansion,
always aiming at the ultimate goal a government that will someday be a big brother
to us all.
Traditionally, one of the easiest first steps in imposing statism on a people
has been government paid medicine. It is the easiest to present as a humanitarian
project. No one wants to oppose care for the sick. Today, we have the costliest
governmental medical program in the world in our Veterans Administration hospitals.
All of us are agreed that a man wounded in the service of his country is entitled to
the finest in medical and hospital care. But today three out of four Veterans
Administration beds are filled with patients suffering diseases or injuries neither
originated by, nor aggravated by military service. There are only 40,000 service
connected disabilities in the United States, yet every year the Federal budget con-
tains millions of dollars for additional Veterans Administration hospital building
and expansion. Counting the twenty-three million of us who are veterans plus other
governmental programs, one of four citizens are entitled to some form of government
paid medical or hospital care.
Now, it is proposed that all people of social security age be given government
paid medical and hospital care. Once again, emergency is invoked and we are given a
picture of millions of senior citizens desperately needing medical care and unable
to finance it. In all the emotional presentation, the backers of this program seem
strangely reluctant to face the facts. In the last ten years, 127 million Americans
have come under the protection of some form of medical and hospital insurance. This
includes more than two-thirds of those of social security age and more than 70 per
cent of all citizens. If the present rate of increase continues by 1970, 90 per
cent of the population will be so insured. As nearly as can be determined, less than
10 per cent of our senior citizens require aid in meeting their medical needs.
The last session of Congress adopted a measure known as the Kerr-Mills bill to
provide money for state administered aid to these people. However, without even
waiting to see if this meets the problem, a revised version of the once defeated
Forand bill is advocated to force all people into a compulsory government health in-
surance program, regardless of need. Why? Well, ex-Congressman Forand provides the
answer. He says, "If we can only break through and get our foot in the door, then we
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can expand the program after that. 11 Walter Reuther has said his group makes no
secrecy; they want nationalized health service for all. New American, the Socialist
magazine writes, "The Forand bill will not be paid for on the insurance principle
according to factors of estimated risk. It will be paid for through the tax
mechanisms of Social Security
Once the bill is passed, this nation will be pro-
vided with a mechanism for socialized medicine. 11
In 1937, Social Security started with a 2 per cent contribution on $3,000 of
incomes; now it is 6 per cent of $4,800 and if the proposed expansions plus the
medical program are adopted by 1969, it will be 11 per cent of $5,000. It is no
secret that pressure is being exerted to remove even the $5,000 ceiling and make
social security payments be based on total gross income.
Social Security was never intended to replace private savings, pensions or
insurance. It was to provide a basis for savings so that outright destitution would
not follow unemployment by reason of death, disability or old age. In that light,
the actuarial experts in charge estimated in 1943 that by 1957 Social Security bene-
fit payments would total $1.2 billions per year but the temptation to politicians to
vote people a raise particularly in election years was too great. In 1957, the total
outgo was more than $7 billions and in 1959, outgo began exceeding income. The
recipients of social security benefits today will collect $65 billions more than
they paid in. You and I, who are paying into this program are unfunded to an
amount between $300 -- $600 billions.
The average citizen has been led to believe he and his employer are contributing
to a fund and that some day he will call upon this, his own money, to carry him over
his non-earning years. But this isn't what social security representatives said
before the United States Supreme Court. They stated social security was not an
insurance program and was not based on any actuarial standards. They stated that
social security dues are a tax for the general use of the government and the payment
of that tax does not automatically entitle anyone to benefits. Benefit payments are
a welfare program which can be curtailed or cancelled anytime Congress should so
decide.
And what of our sons the young man joining the work force in the next few
years? He will be taxed to try and catch up on that mounting deficit. If he could
have his social security tax to invest in private insurance, it would provide for
almost double the benefits provided by Social Security.- Nor is this the only price
in individual freedom.
The press recently told of a group whose religious belief forbade their parti-
cipation in any government welfare group. Their property was seized and their
cattle sold at auction to enforce their payment of social security taxes.
In education, the foot in the door was the $900 million National Defense Educa-
tion Act of 1958. The excuse was, as usual, cold war. Russia had put a sputnik into
orbit; obviously, our educational system must be at fault. Now the largest spending
lobby in Washington is promoting a $22 billion program to alleviate crowded schools,
underpaid teachers and bankrupt school districts.
Again, the facts seem strangely at variance. Ninety-nine and one-half per cent
of the nation's school districts have not even approached their bonded limit. A 35
per cent increase in students over the last decade has been matched by a 134 per cent
increase in spending by the local communities
an increase of 10 million students
has seen class room building for 15 million. Five hundred colleges, as of this moment,
can take an additional 200,000 students without adding so much as a desk or chair.
We are told we must build 60,000 classrooms a year for the next ten years but they
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forget to tell us we been building 68,000 a year for the last five years and that
continuation of this rate will give us a surplus of classrooms by 1970.
Of course we want teachers to be paid adequately and we are doing something
about it. Their average pay has risen in the last few years from $3100 to $5300
annually. The truth is not one shred of evidence has been presented that federal
aid of any kind is required. Could we possibly believe that three-fourths of one
billion dollars a year in federal aid could solve any great emergency when we are
spending nearly twenty billion dollars a year at the local level.
Federal aid is the foot in the door to federal control. In spite of their
denials their own words betray them. The Director of Public Education of the State
of Washington tells of the two year struggle of his state to meet the rigid re-
quirements of the National Director of Education under the present act. He says,
"This is federal control by indirection all the more dangerous because it poses
as a federal handout. !!
A former president of the National Education Association states publicly;
"We might have to have temporary federal control to bring about integration in the
South. "
A former chairman of the President's youth fitness program says, "We can no
longer afford local management of the schools. We must have a national school
system to compete on equal terms with Russia."
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has quadrupled its staff and
admits it is working to create national standards of education and a national
curriculum.
In short, federal aid is the first step in a federal school system with teachers
and subjects removed from parental control on the theory that a bureau in Washington
is better qualified to supervise the upbringing of our youth.
Twenty-seven years ago, our farmers were told that a federal subsidy did not
mean federal control. Now we have seen a rancher, Evetts Haley, Jr., fined $4,000
for raising wheat on his own land and feeding it to his own cattle. The Supreme
Court upheld his conviction with a single sentence ruling "Yes, an agency of the
federal government has the right to tell an American citizen what he can grow on his
own land for his own use. "
Today, we have curbed the production of a surplus by making it so financially
attractive to produce a surplus that we own enough wheat to bake twenty-five loaves
of bread for every human being alive in the world. In the State of New Mexico,
citizens have learned they can rent state-owned land for 25¢ an acre and immediately
apply for and receive $9 an acre from the federal government to not plant that land.
All of the "farm mess" is concerned with the 20 per cent of agriculture coming
under government regulation and subsidy. Eighty per cent of our agricultural
economy is out in the free market of supply and demand. It would seem that the
answer to the "farm mess" would be to free the other 20 per cent of governmental
regimentation. But, what is being advocated? We are told that the only solution to
the problem is to bring the other eighty per cent into the government program. To
that end a plan is advanced that would result in the licensing of every farm in the
United States with complete governmental regulation of production and price.
Proponents of the measure admit it will require thousands of additional government
employees, more subsidy on a permanent basis and reduction of supply to raise food
prices 15 to 25 per cent. As an example, meat would be reduced in quantity to about
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Thomas Jefferson said, "If we let Washington tell us when to SOW and when to
reap, the Nation shall soon want for bread. 88
Today, no one denies the American people would resist the nationalization of
industry. But, in defiance of this attitude, the federal government owns and
operates more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 lines of activity from rum distilling
to the manufacture of surgical equipment. The estimated book value of 700 govern-
mental corporations is $260 billions. Operating tax free, dividend free, rent free
in direct competition with its own citizens, the government loses billions each year
in these businesses.
The next time you are caught in a traffic jam take satisfaction in the know-
ledge that one of these government corporations built a six lane highway in Spain.
It runs 15 miles from Madrid to a gambling casino.
All of these things have led to the growth of a collection of internal powers
and bureaucratic institutions against which the individual citizen is virtually
helpless. A permanent structure of government beyond the reach of Congress and
actually capable of dictating policy. This power, under whatever name you choose, is
the very essence of totalitarianism.
A year ago, a sub-committee of Congress reported its findings in the field of
Federal employees. There are almost 22 million. In 1942, there was one top
salaried executive for every 89 employees; today, there is one for every 17. The
committee further reported it found little evidence that any bureau, agency, or
commission created in answer to an emergency ever went out of existence after the
emergency disappeared.
A case in point Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products
Corporation in 1920. Thirty years later, it was still in existence. This corpora-
tion was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane fuselages.
Some people attempt to justify government in business on the grounds of greater
efficiency due to central power. An example of this efficiency can be found in the
Claims Department of the Veterans Administration insurance program. In that depart-
ment, three government employees take double the time to perform the task normally
assigned to one employee in a private insurance company.
Well, we can do something about it! We must inform ourselves on the proposals
pending in Congress. Look beyond the foot in the door to the ultimate aim. Weigh
the price we must pay in individual liberty and whether these programs qualify as
things the people can't do for themselves. And then write to your Congressmen and
Senators and don't forget to write now and then just to say "well done" to your
representative when he has acquitted himself well on the firing line.
But remember, none of these extensions of socialism could be affected without
money. The fodder upon which our government has fed and grown beyond the consent
of the governed is the fruit of the tax system whose only consistency is that a
levy once imposed is never removed. An excise tax on telephones imposed during the
Korean War was to curb our use of phones during the emergency and really wasn't
intended for revenue. The war is over but the tax lingers on -- the government has
discovered it needs the revenue. This particular tax, plus some of the hundreds of
hidden and indirect taxes that burden us, accounts for one-third of your telephone
bill. One hundred such taxes account for one-half the price of a loaf of bread,
one-fourth the cost of an automobile, one-half your gas and oil.
Once we were told the income tax would never be more than 2 per cent and that
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only from the rich. Now in our lifetime, this law has grown from 31 words to more
than 440,000. We received the progressive tax direct from Karl Marx who designed
it as the prime essential of a socialist state. In the surtax brackets, the
steepest rate of increase occurs through the middle income range where are to be
found the bulk of our small business men, professional people and supervisory
personnel --- the people Marx said should be taxed out of existence. At sixteen or
eighteen thousand dollars of income, a man reaches the 50 per cent tax rate but
in New York, the state supreme court says a man of $14,000 income is so poor he is
entitled to subsidized public housing. From 50 per cent on up to the confiscatory
91 per cent rate, the government can only justify these brackets on the basis of
being punitive, for the gross revenue derived from all the tax at 50 per cent or
better is less than three-fourths of $1 billion.
There can be no moral justification of the progressive tax. Perhaps, that
is why they pretend to us it is proportionate taxation. Proportionate taxation
we gladly accept the theory that those better able to pay should remove some of
the burden from those least able to pay. The Bible explains this in its instruc-
tion on tithing. We are told we should give the Lord one tenth and if the Lord
prospers us ten times as much, we give ten times as much. But, under our progres-
sive income tax, computing Caesar's share is a little different. A man of average
income who has prospered ten times as much will find his income tax has increased
53 times as much.
Does this help the little man? A man with a gross income of $3500 a wife and
two children will find when he has finished paying the hidden and indirect taxes,
that the tax collector's share of his gross $3500 is $1059. Some suggest the
answer to his problem is to tax the upper incomes even more --- but what leeway is
left? If the government confiscated all personal income above $6,000 a year, the
increased revenue wouldn't pay the interest on the national debt.
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden of one-third of its
national income. Today, 31¢ out of every dollar earned is tax and of that 31¢,
23¢ goes to the federal government; leaving 8¢ to be shared by state, county and
local community. No wonder we are told to ask for federal aid! But wouldn't it
make more sense to keep the money here in the first place instead of running it
through that puzzle palace on the Potomac only to get it back minus a sizable
carrying charge?
Lenin, in 1923, said; "The way to destroy Capitalism is to debauch the
currency. Through a process of planned inflation, a government can quietly and un-
observedly confiscate the wealth of its citizens."
Henry VII substituted copper for silver in his coins, and we have been no less
deliberate in our inflationary policies. Our dollar has lost more than half its
purchasing power in twenty years. Of course, we are told that incomes have kept
pace and that we are earning twice as much so we are still holding our own. This
reasoning overlooks the part played by the progressive tax which is based on the
number of dollars earned not their value.
As a man doubles his earnings to maintain the same purchasing power, he moves
up through successive surtax brackets, and the vicious cycle begins he must earn
additional dollars to meet his new tax liability. The man who earned $5,000 a
year in 1940, must earn $14,000 today to break even and pay his increased surtax.
The $10,000 a year man faces an increase of $12,000 in his tax bill and must now earn
$31,000 just to maintain the same purchasing power.
Would anyone care to project these figures ahead just 13 years, keeping the
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same annual rate of inflation and the same tax rate, and even pretend that free
enterprise will exist? By 1975, the $5,000 a year man will have to earn $33,000
and the $10,000 a year man will have to earn $84,000 just to maintain their 1940
purchasing power and standard of living. And, a $50,000 a year man will have to
earn $835,000 to break even.
Here is the main battleground! We must reduce the supply of money and deny
the right to borrow.
Two years ago, I appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee as a
representative of the motion picture industry to urge tax reform. This was an ex-
perience similar to going over Niagara Falls in a barrel the hard way, upstream.
In a month of hearings, representatives of practically every segment of our society
appeared before the committee. All of them urged some kind of tax reform. It was
obvious that the majority of the committee had little sympathy with our plea, so
it was no surprise when, several months later, the committee decided to hold new
hearings. This time no volunteers were allowed. A hand-picked group of predom-
inently campus economists appeared and talked of plugging hoopholes to increase the
government's tax revenue. Most of these so-called loopholes are the legitimate
deductions without which the whole tax structure would have long since proved un-
workable. The suggestions included disallowance of property taxes and interest on
loans for income tax purposes and even the elimination of 100 per cent deductions
of charitable contributions. The biggest lobby in Washington pushing tax reform has
a bill which will increase the government's tax take about $18 billion. It is no
coincidence that they have, on the other hand, recommendations for $18 billion
worth of welfare legislation. This measure will actually be presented as tax
reduction with some cut in surtax rates.
Those of the liberal persuasion say they "reject the notion that the least
government is the best government.' BY
They claim our citizens are not intelligent enough to spend their money
properly. They feel the government should take the money through taxation and then
buy the welfare programs for the masses which they are not smart enough to buy for
themselves.
When the old fashioned idea of living within our means and paying something
on the National debt is suggested, these same liberals tell us that "only State and
local debt is bad." Through some exotic bookkeeping methods, they seem to feel that
the Federal debt is meaningless. It is it is incomprehensible.
If I had a four inch stack of thousand dollar bills in my hand, I'd be a
millionaire. If we had the national debt of $293 billion before us in thousand
dollar bills, the pile would be more than 18 miles high. Maurice Stans, former
budget director, has said that this debt is only the part of the iceberg which shows
above the surface. Legislation already enacted into law has obligated our govern-
ment to more than $750 billion. Adding to this the local and state debts plus the
private debts of our citizens, we find that we are mortgaged in an amount more than
double the market value of every tangible asset and every foot of real estate in
the United States.
When we point out the danger of more deficit spending, we are told, "we are
sacrificing our security on the false altar of a balanced budget." Well, our indi-
vidual freedom and our free enterprise system are the very sources of our strength
and there can be no security any place in the free world if there isn't fiscal
stability in the United States.
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Today, with no one using the term Socialism to describe encroaching controls,
we find one out of seven of the nation's work force on the public payroll. In 15
years, a 50 per cent increase in employees has been met with a 170 per cent increase
in the public payroll. One fourth of medicine is socialized. Senator Byrd esti-
mates that forty million Americans receive some form of direct cash payment from
government. We have a tax machine that in direct contravention to the Constitution
is not designed to raise revenue but is used openly and admittedly to control and
direct the economy and to equalize the earnings of our people.
Do not forsake the other issues but as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said,
"Strike for the jugular. Reduce Taxes and spending. Keep government poor and
remain free. Write as individuals. Fifty letters from a group such as this means
more than a resolution or a petition. Demand immediate tax reform which will
reduce the percentage of the national income taken by government. There is a
bipartisam tax reform bill the Herlong-Baker bill now before the House Ways and
Means Committee. A five year gradual reduction of rates makes it the best planned
tax reform bill introduced in the last hundred years. For every billion saved in
government spending, we can have a 22 per cent reduction of income tax.
If your Congressman should say we must cut costs first and then reduce taxes
don't stand for it. Remind him that no government in history has ever voluntarily
reduced itself in size. Government doesn't tax to get the money it needs.
Government will always find a need for the money it gets.
There can only be one end to the war we are in. It won't go away if we simply
try to outwait it. Wars end in victory or defeat. One of the foremost authorities
on Communism in the world today has said, we have ten years. Not ten years to make
up our minds, but ten years to win or lose by 1970 the world will be all slave
or all free.
In this land, occurred the only true revolution in man's history. All other
revolutions simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. Here for the first time
the Founding Fathers that little band of men so advanced beyond their time that
the world has never seen their like since evolved a government based on the idea
that you and I have the God given right and ability within ourselves to determine
our own destiny. But Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
we didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected and handed on for them to do the same.
You and I must do this, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our
children and our children's children, what it once was like in the United States
when men were free.
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Dear Nancy and Ronnie:
As my term of office as Vice President draws to a
close, I want to take this opportunity to tell you how much
I appreciated all that you did in my behalf during the
1960 Presidential campaign.
I realize how much easier it would be for someone
in your position to avoid taking sides on controversial
questions which might adversely affect the popularity which
is so essential for continued success in your chosen profes-
sion. For that reason, I am particularly grateful for the
support which you gave so courageously and unselfishly. I
only regret that my efforts could not have been just that
extra bit more effective which would have brought victory
for those who worked so hard for our cause.
I hope it will not be too long before we meet
again so that I can express my appreciation personally.
In the meantime, Pat joins me in sending our best wishes
for the New Year.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan
1258 North Amalfi Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
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September 2, 1960
Memorandum
Alberti, Jules
To:
Jules Alberti
Celebrities for Nixon-Lodge
Volunteers for Nixon-Lodge
From: Stan McCaffrey Olon
Mrs. Adela Rogers St. Johns has indicated
a number of names she feels would be interested
in our cause. Included among them are James Cagney
and Jerry Wald. This is passed along for your
information.
She also suggests Walt Disney's name, and
that the right man might get Ronnie Reagan to come
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August 8, 1960
Dear Ronnie:
I wanted to send this note to express my appre-
ciation for your letter of July 15.
Your thoughfful observations concerning the
Democratic proceedings contained some excellent guide-
lines for us to follow in Chicago, and I hope you found
the results favorable. I was particularly interested by
your discussion of the non-voters, and in that regard
think you will enjoy reading the enclosed copy of a speech
by Raymond Moley before the Republican Associates of
Los Angeles.
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I shall be counting on your support during the
weeks ahead and hope that you will continue to send your
thoughtful suggestions and comments as our the campaign
progresses.
With kind regards,
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
Mr. Ronald Reagan
1669 San Onofre Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
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letter from: Ronald Reagan
July 1960
1669 San Onofre Drive
Pacific Palisades, California
Dear Mr. Vice Pres.
I know this is presumptious of me but I'm passing on some
thoughts after viewing the Convention here in L.A.
Somehow the idea persists that someone should put an end to
the traditional demonstrations which follow each nomination. True
they once had their place when their only purpose was to influence
the delegates with in the convention hall. Now, however, TV has
opened a window onto convention deliberations and the "demonstration"
is revealed as a synthetic time waster which only serves to belittle
us in what should be one of our finer moments. One has a feeling
that general gratitude would be the reward for anyone who would once
and for all declare the "demonstration" abandoned.
Starting with the opening speech and continuing through all
the speeches until Kennedy's acceptance spee ch, I thought the
Democrats could pick up some campaign money by selling the
collection of addresses as, "talks suitable for any patriotic occasion
with platitudes and generalities guaranteed. " I do not include Kennedy's
acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening
call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to
the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the "challenging new
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and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted
people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans
should try to "out liberal" him. To my opinion this would be fatal.
You were kind enough to write me and comment on the "talk"
I had given and which you had read. That is why I'm presuming on
your busy day with these thoughts. I have been speaking on this
subject in more than thirty-eight states to audiences of Democrats
and Republicans. Invariably the reaction is a standing ovation - not
for me but for the views expressed. I am convinced that America
is economically conservative and for that reason I think someone should
force the Democrats to publish the "retail price" for this great new
wave of "public service" they promise. I don't pose as an infallible
pundit but I have a strong feeling that the twenty million non votes in
this country just might be conservatives who have cynically concluded
the two parties offer no choice between them where fiscal stability is
concerned. No Republican no matter how liberal is going to woo a
Democratic vote, but a Republican bucking the give away trend might
re-create some voters who have been staying home.
One last thought - shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new
imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair
cut it is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing
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I apologize for taking so much of your time but I have such a
yearning to hear fx some one come before us and talk specifics instead
of generalities. I'm sure the American people do not want the government
paid services at "any price" and if we collectively can't afford "free this
and that" they'd like to know it before they buy and not after it is entrenched
behind another immovable government bureau.
You will be very much in my prayers in the days ahead.
Sincerely,
(signed) Ronnie Reagan
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WASHINGTON
December 17, 1959
Dear Ronald:
I greatly appreciated your letter of
December 11 and was particularly happy to learn that
you will be broadcasting the description of the Rose
Parade.
As you can imagine, the Pasadena
Committee has my pretty heavily scheduled that day
but I shall be on the lookout for you because I, too,
would enjoy the opportunity of a visit if we can work
it into the day's activities.
Pat joins me in sending our bxexse very
best wishes for the Christmas Season.
Sincerely,
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December 17, 1959
Dear Ronald:
Reagan, Ronald
I greatly appreciated your letter of
December 11 and was particularly happy to learn
that you will be broadcasting the description of the
Rose Parade.
As you can imagine, the Pasadena
Committee has me pretty heavily scheduled that day
but I shall be on the lookout for you because I, too,
would enjoy the opportunity of a visit if we can work
it into the day's activities.
Pat joins me in sending our very best
wishes for the Christmas Season.
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June 18, 1959
Reagan, Ronald
Dear Ronald:
Bob Christenberry sent me a copy of your address
"Business, Ballots and Bureaus" that you made in New
York recently.
I want you to know that I thought you did an excellent
job of analyzing our present tax situation and the attitudes
that have contributed to it. In recent months 1 have been
greatly encouraged by the apparent trend on the part of the
American people to question the "Tax and tax, spend and
spend, elect and elect" philosophy. Speeches such as
yours should do much to cause some solid thinking about
the inherent dangers in this philosophy with the final result
I hope that you will have many opportunities to repeat
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your wise words.
With all good wishes,
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
P.S. As I read your speech, I recalled our first meeting in 1947
when we discussed some of the labor relations problems in the
motion picture industry.
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Regan, Ronald
July 6. 1959
Dear Ronald:
I greatly appreciated your letter. Since writing
you, our Cabinet Committee on Price Stability has
issued a report, a. copy of which I am enclosing for
your information. As we make reports in the future
I shall see that you are included on our mailing list.
I hope that you will continue your very effective
speeches. You have the ability of putting complicated
technical ideas into words everyone can understand.
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Those of us who have spent a number of years in
Washington too often lack the ability to express our-
selves in this way.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
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Mr. Ronald Reagan
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Pacific Palisades, California
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Mr. Harry Joe Brown
Masquers Club House
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Hollywood, California
Deeply regret that I shall not have the pleasure of participating personally
in testimonial dinner for Ronald Reagan on October 9 because of commit-
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for your thoughtfulness in inviting me and best wishes for what I know
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RONALD REAGAN
June 27 1959
Dear mr. Vice Precedent
JUN 291959
you were very bind to write me about
my talk and 1 feel handred that you took
the twice to read it d am grateful too
for the re asservance your letter gives me
in centinuing to speak on such a contraversial
matter
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give a bit in the past few years and
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every section of the country 2 might
add, the subject and material are my ourn,
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way what L should or should wit say.
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to this talk. audiences are actually
militant in their experession that
samething must be done The only
adverse opinion in the last two years
was an editorial in a local teamster
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further evidence that serend thinking
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is on our side
dn several instances this talle was
broadcast and here too the vaction as
evidenced by mail was unanimous in
support of "sound economy d am
convinced there is a ground swell of
economic conservation building up which
could reverse the entire tide of present
day "statesin as a matter of fact
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mements when the american people with
that wildom which is the strength of
Democracy are ready to say "enerigh
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wrong method had been tried
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have another "spuch" "tor read.
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very best wishes -
Sincerely
Ronald
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September 23, 1959
Reagan, Ronald
Dear Ronald:
There is probably nothing quite as heartwarming
after a trip like the one we have just completed as receiving
a letter such as yours upon our return. You were most
generous in your comments, and I want you to know how much
I appreciated your thoughtfulness in writing as you did.
I was most interested to have your thoughts on the
idealogical struggle, and in my opinion your analysis of the
nature of the basic conflict between the Free World and the Com-
munist bloc is exactly right. Certainly all Americans need to
recognize as clearly as you do the fundamental dishonesty of
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the phrase "peaceful co-existence" as interpreted and practiced
by the Reds. Because of your interest, Yest thought you might like
to have the enclosed copies of some of my recent speeches in
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which 1 discussed this in more detail.
Pat joins me in extending to you and your family our
very best wishes.
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June 17, 1959
Christenberry, Bob
Dear Bob:
This is just a note to thank you for your
letter of June 3 enclosing a copy of an address by
Ronald Reagan.
I have been greatly encouraged to note
within the last few months the remarkable increase
of interest on the part of the American people in the
issue of taxes and spending. At long last the
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Ronald Reagan's objective look at this
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Sincerely,
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Richard Nixon
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Dear Mr. Vice Pres.
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your fine family will be an
important fait of the Pase Paude,
new years Day. Lt seems I'll
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parade for A BC -TV. d. hope
there will be an apportunity same
time during the many activities
to talk to you as well at
any rate we shall look forward
to seeing you.
Hancy joins me in wishing
you all the best Sincerely from the Holiday Peason.
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in areas heretofore the pro-
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insurance. His bill was over-
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which it will increase the
to the heart of the statist.
re-write of that bill, limiting
power and authority of the
Government participation
the benefits of citizens of
FIRST glance I'm sure
central government.
can be so easily justified on
Social Security age, is intro-
some of you will question
It would be immoral and
humanitarian grounds. No
duced. Proponents of the
the pertinence of drawing a
the height of folly to infer
one wants to appear unsym-
measure present an emo-
parallel between the great
these people are less patri-
pathetic to those in need of
tional appeal describing the
problems besetting the world
otic than ourselves. They are
medical care.
plight of millions of senior
today and a jurisdictional
sincerely motivated by the
Today this country has the
citizens, ailing and without
dispute involving a handful
most humanitarian of ideals,
costliest government hospi-
the means to provide ade-
(no more than 26,000 work-
but it would be equally fool-
tal plan in the world - the
quate care. To oppose this
ers) in the Motion Picture
ish to let them have their
Veterans Administration pro-
measure is to be accused of
Industry more than a de-
way without opposition. If
someone is setting fire to
gram. No one of us opposes
throwing our elder citizens
cade ago. Yet the parallel is
the idea that a man disabled
out to die. But what are the
there, like a scale model of
the house, it doesn't really
in the service of his country
facts?
the real thing.
matter if he is a deliberate
arsonist or just a fool play-
should be given the finest of
In the last ten years, 127
On the surface two unions
ing with matches, the dam-
medical and hospital care.
million Americans have ac-
claimed the right to a type
I'm sure no one protested
quired some form of medical
age will be the same.
of work known as "set erect-
some years ago when it was
or hospital insurance. Sev-
ing." Some 43 Unions and
Free Economy
suggested that a veteran
enty percent of our people
Guilds close up sides in the
not wounded in military
are so protected, including
foolishness of a jurisdiction-
the Best Defense
service, but who was in need
2/3rds of our senior citizens.
al strike. Ugly violence
We can lose our freedom
of medical attention and des-
At the present rate of in-
flared, cars were overturned,
all at once by succumbing to
titute, should be cared for in
crease, it is estimated that
homes bombed, men maimed
Russian aggression, or we
a V. A. hospital if the bed
90 percent of the population
and injured.
can lose it gradually by in-
was not required for a pa-
will be covered by 1970.
stallments - the result is
tient with a service-con-
As nearly as we can deter-
slavery. Professor Schlesing-
nected disability. Today 3
mine, the problem involves
er says "The political argu-
out of 4 V. A. hospital beds
less than 10 percent of the
ment for the welfare state is
are filled with patients suf-
elderly who would not be
that the welfare state is the
fering diseases or injuries
able to finance needed medi-
best insurance against revo-
neither originated by nor
cal care. To this end, the
lution". This just isn't true.
aggravated by military serv-
86th Congress adopted the
Our defense against com-
ice. And each year the bud-
Kerr-Mills bill to provide
munism is individual free-
get provides for expansion
Federal funds to the states.
dom and our free economy.
This fight isn't new. In
1917 one of the truly great
labor statesmen, Samuel
Gompers, founder of the
A.F.L. said, "Compulsory
Congress
social insurance is in its es-
sence undemocratic and it
cannot remove or prevent
Congress, soon to be as-
poverty. The workers of
sembled, is a mirror of the
America adhere to voluntary
many images of America.
institutions in preference to
Are there any cracks in it?
Independent
compulsory systems, which
Some, says a long time
are held to be not only im-
gazer into the looking glass,
-
practicable, but a menace to
who also concludes with a
RONALD REAGAN
their rights, welfare and
hope the democratic pro-
their liberty. Compulsory
cess can provide the glue.
sickness insurance for
-The Editor.
The Actors' Guild elected
workers is based upon the
to honor its basic contract
theory that they are unable
By Arthur Edson
Fiel
and dare the massed pickets
to look after their own in-
-many of whom were sup-
terests and the state must
WASHINGTON
plied by Harry Bridges'
interpose its authority and
Maritime Union. Daily the
wisdom and assume the re-
JONGRESS comes back to
little glamour starlets and
lation of parent or guardi-
work Wednesday, and any-
the heroes and bad men of
an."
one who hangs around it
fiction rode through the
Under high flown phrases
much will soon be bored,
lines, kneeling on the floors
"freedom from want,"
amused. excited, irritated,
of police-escorted buses to
"human rights," etc., we see
bored, perplexed, depressed,
escape the flying rocks. All
the Federal Government lay-
impressed, bored.
of this took place in the
ing its hand on housing,
most publicized spot on
health, farming, industry
It's easy to be angered at,
earth and yet today right in
or enamored with, a Presi-
and education.
Hollywood among these
dent. We always venerate a
same picture workers there
Federal Aid
Supreme Court when it sup-
is great confusion. Some of
Reproduced at the Richard NixorpPresidentidblinfaryand damn
those who risked the dang-
to Education
it unsparingly when it
Freedom
by
Installments
Vithout waiting for this to
is offered as the proven ve-
are others who oppose any
come 97. Let's ignore the
put into effect, the advo-
hicle for the medical insur-
ceiling-who say tax should
temptation to talk about
of the Insurance meas-
ance program. We are told
be levied against total in-
items such as the road in
claim the only answer
that here is a government
come.
South Viet Nam which we
the problem is compul-
insurance program in which
started to build for $18 mil-
government health in-
we and our employers pay
In this insurance program
lion and which isn't finished
urance for all, regardless
into a fund SO that someday
that is not insurance, we who
yet, at $125 million.
need. Never mind if the
in our non-earning years we
are participating are un-
ndividual is already insured,
will call on this, our own
funded to an amount more
All such things we could
swallow if free world
an ample income or pos-
money, to see us through.
than $300 billion. In a pro-
great wealth. Per-
posal to make Social Security
strength, S olidarity and
there is a clue to their
Of course this isn't what
friendship had resulted. We
voluntary, Congressman Rou-
purpose in remarks
officials of Social Security
sselot has pointed out that
spent more per capita in
Laos than in any other coun-
by now Ex-Congress-
told the Supreme Court in a
the young man 20 or 21 years
try. Cuba is on the book for
Forand who has said,
recent lawsuit. They said
of age, starting out at an
$21/2 billion. In these 15
if we could only break
Social Security wasn't actual-
average salary, must, with
years, communism has, in
hrough and get our foot
ly insurance-but they used
his employer, contribute
that term to sell it to the
addition, absorbed China,
nside the door, then we
$1.69 for every dollar he'll
North Viet Nam, and Tibet.
ould expand the program
people. Social Security dues
receive in benefits.
Inroads have been made in
that. Like an echo
are a tax for the general
Indonesia, Iran and Syria.
use of the government and
a pamphlet from the
payment of that tax does not
The Foot
They've tightened their grip
Socialist party entitled, "The
on East Germany, Poland
automatically entitle any-
Case for Socialized Medi-
one to the receipt of benefits.
in the Door
and Hungary. We've fi-
It says "we can do
nanced socialism in India,
The benefits are a welfare
verything possible to en-
program which can be can-
Turning from domestic
where the communist party
ourage Federal interven-
welfare to the international
has grown from 4 to 12 mil-
celled or curtailed by Con-
the financing of medical
scene, we find the same pat-
lion in 5 years. In Bolivia
gress at any time.
on a bit by bit basis,
tern of getting a "foot in
part of our money was used
we can work to direct
In 1935 that tax was 2 per
the door" then freezing into
to nationalize the tin mines,
intervention, so that if
cent of $3,000 of income. To-
permanence the temporary
which reduced their output
isn't socialized medicine
day it is 6 per cent of $4,800.
expedient. In the days follow-
50 percent. Thanks in part
roper, at least it paves the
If this medical aid bill is
ing World War II, Senator
to Yankee dollars, the cost of
vay for socialized medicine."
passed, the individual and
Arthur Vandenberg gave his
living in Bolivia rose over
would be well for us to
employers' combined contri-
bi-partisan blessing to for-
250 per cent in 1956 alone.
in mind that if you
bution will, by 1968, increase
eign aid with these words,
Last year the Bolivians
ocialize the doctor, you can
from $288.00 to $444.00. This
"We are not suddenly re-
staged the worst anti-Ameri-
ocialize the patient as well.
is based on a ceiling of $5,200
solved to underwrite the
can riots in South American
of income, but the Secretary
earth. That would be fantas-
history. Creating bureaucra-
Social Security
of Health Education and
tic, improvident and impossi-
cy here and in the receiving
welfare recently told a con-
ble. The plan is for 15
nations we have in effect ex-
nd
Taxes
gressional committee he fore-
months." It is now 15 years,
ported Socialism under the
sees a ceiling of perhaps
and more than $100 billion
utopian ideal of world de-
The flagship of the liberal
$9,000 on the amount taxed
later. The original 19 coun-
mocracy and social revolu-
is Social Security. It
for Social Security. There
tries to be helped have be-
tion.
for Better or
Worse
ported out by a committee
is often considered SO sacro-
Page 15
sanct that little or no tam-
pering is allowed on the
panorama
Pasadena, Calif.
floor. It will be voted up or
down about as it is.
Sunday, Jan. 7, 1962
In the Senate, commit-
tees and subcommittees have
grown like brambles. Sen.
Dirksen counted up on day
Guide for Congress Watchers
and found he was on 19.
"In addition, I have a few
leadership chores now and
then," the Republican lead-
er said, "so we will raise the
total to 20.
"The question is, how does
one dispose of oneself?"
Dirksen did not demand
an answer, but maybe he
should have. Committees are
important, but they should
support, not overwhelm
Congress.
SENATE DEBATE - Sen-
ators drool on about how
they have the world's great-
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delibarative hqdx
ers I've described aren't sure
today that they did the right
An illustration of this is
thing - certainly they have
the legislative battle that
But who can truly love, or
little understanding of what
has raged over "Federal Aid
really hate, Congress
the issues were. This is in
to Education." Knowing the
That's a joke, man. And
The pot-bellied gro
normal desire of all of us
it's as a joke that Congress
sampler.
the classic pattern of Com-
munist conspiracy. For this
to provide the utmost for
is often treated.
was a story of deliberate
our children, we have been
"Suppose you were an
Communist infiltration.
told that an adequate educa-
idiot," Mark Twain used to
tional program is impossible
say in his lecture tours, "and
Hard core party organiz-
unless we turn to the Feder-
suppose you were a member
ers had created cells in
al Government for subsidy.
of Congress - but I repeat
many of our Guilds and
An emergency situation is
myself."
Unions in a move to get
described involving crowded
"Is the field of humor
economic control of the pic-
classrooms, teachers who
crowded?" A young writer
ture industry and subvert
are underpaid and too few
asked Will Rogers.
our screens to the dissemi-
in number. In the face of
"Only when Congress is in
nation of Communist propa-
this we learn that 991/2 per
session," Rogers said.
ganda. According to sworn
cent of our school districts
testimony, the immediate
have not reached their limit
goal of the strike was the
of bonded indebtedness. The
FOR CONGRESS is the
replacement of our many
construction of classrooms
most typical of our Ameri-
Guilds and Unions by one
has been increasing at a
can institutions. Here we
huge union under the char-
faster rate than that of
see mirrored, sometimes
ter of Harry Bridges' Inter-
student enrollment in the
larger than life, our hopes,
The wide-mouthed
Longshoremen's
past decade. A 41 percent in-
our prejudices, our selfish-
and Warehousemen's Union.
crease in student enrollment
ness, our indecisions, our
from 1950 to 1960 has been
pettiness, our doubts and-
Fighting
matched by a 125 percent
alas, too infrequently-the
Without Fighting
increase in spending at the
greatness of which we are
state and local levels over
capable.
Today all of us are con-
the same period. According
Here we also see that
viced that the No. 1 problem
to the President 60,000 class-
rooms must be constructed
democracy, except for times
in the world is the dispute
between the free world and
every year for the next 10
of crises, can be slow and
years if every child is to
cumbersome. Letting every
Soviet slavery. Here too the
have the opportunity of a
man have his say sounds
situation has been highly
full-day education in an ad-
fine in theory; in practice it
publicized and yet the Ameri-
can people are confused, dis-
equate classroom. The Presi-
can pain the ear until it
turbed by a frustrating
dent seems to have forgot-
dulls the mind.
ten to mention the fact that
In self defense, unlisten-
sense of failure, a desire for
action but at the same time
we have been building an
ing has been raised to high
average of 70,000 classrooms
art in Congress.
a concern that action might
result in war.
a year for the last five
"The Senate," Warren G.
years. A continuation of this
Harding conceded 45 years
Mr. Krushchev has said
rate, according to some in-
ago, "does not listen very
that Capitalism will inevita-
formed sources, may give
attentively to anybody."
The pin-headed issu
bly evolve into communism,
us a surplus of classrooms
In the House the confusion
but not all at once. He says
by 1970 and it is more prob-
is so great and the time
there will first come an in-
bable that sometime in the
limitations SO drastic
termediate stage of social-
1960's school construction
a Demosthenes could pass
and he has no place on the
ism. Supremely confident of
will start to decline. Nor do
unnoticed and unheard.
New Frontier. However
victory. the communists say
they tell us that it has been
Yet, with all its faults, no
Or on a wildlife bill:
we will give up more and
one can observe Congress
"Nothing brightens a day
estimated that the post war
more of our democratic
baby boom has been passed
for long and not develop at
SO much as to see a mallard
practices under the pressure
and that in the immediate
least a grudging affection
with its wings outstretched,
of the cold war until one day
years ahead the increase in
for it.
a body containing a perfect
we'll waken to find we have
the rate of enrollment is ex-
aeronautic structure, sailing
become so much like the
pected to decrease.
out and moving down. We
enemy that the reason for
Teachers have been and
KEEPING UP with Con-
see him get the little feathers
enmity will have disap-
I'm sure are underpaid, but
gress is like taking a walk
at the edge of his wings prop-
peared.
we are making progress
in the woods. It can be pleas-
erly placed. He brings his
Well, haven't we been try-
without Federal aid. In
ant at any time, but it's
feet up and makes a landing
ing to fight communists with-
these first several years the
more satisfying after you
that would put any airplane
out really fighting commu-
average salary of teachers
have identified the species
and any pilot to shame.
nism? There is a liberal phil-
has risen from $3100 to
and studied their habits, their
"Nature has provided this
osophy that seems to think
$5200 a year for generally
peculiarities, their song.
ability for the mallard."
of communism as simply an
nine months of work. Little
We Congress watchers, for
Only those familiar with
extension of extreme liberal-
evidence has been introduc-
example, always look for-
Dirksen in his native habitat
ism and that Soviet police
ed which indicates a need
ward to our first glimpse of
could guess the true meaning
state brutality is not an
exists for Federal aid. The
Sen. Everett McKinley Dirk-
in this fine feathered prose.
integral part of communism
professional educationists
sen, R-Ill., and to hearing his
For after soaring grace-
but is rather an error super-
lobby (one of the biggest
soothing, polysyllabic song,
fully, and enjoying every
imposed on the political sys-
spenders in Washington)
SO easy to identify, so im-
moment of it, Dirksen brings
tem. Those motivated by this
denies Federal control plays
possible to imitate.
his feet up and makes a per-
so-called liberal philosophy
any part in their plans, but
Only a Dirksen, in explain-
fect landing: He may like
believe the solution to the
in truth, a Federal school
ing why he didn't want im-
wildlife, but he doesn't like
cold war is to refrain from
system is the entire basis
ported dates included in an
this wildlife bill at all.
any overt act that would
for the school aid plan. The
agriculture bill, would say:
It was Dirksen, too, who
anger the men in the Krem-
foot in the door was the
"Mr. President, unless in
best described fatigue from
lin, while our own system is
National Defense Education
his lifetime one has indulged
over-politicking.
reshaped into a government
Act of 1958. Mr. Graham
in the delight of sinking a
"The deeper we get into
controlled and directed eco-
Barden, the former chair-
molar into a succulent fig
this session," he once said,
nomy. As we move left, the
man of the House Education
newton, much of life has got-
"the longer the tip of my
roughnecks in the Kremlin.
& Labor Committee, report-
ten by him. If he has had no
tongue gets away from my
ashamed of their ways, will
edly said that the purpose
opportunity to sink a molar
brain."
supposedly come a little
of the current 2½ billion
into a succulent cookie filled
right and the conflict will
dollar Federal aid bill is to
with dates, he has not come
ALTHOUGH Dirksenian
dissolve in one world Utopia.
centralize power over the
to grips with life and reality,
prose always has the same
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even their most avid fans, of
whom I am one, find it mis-
The high-flying junketeer
leading, and possibly fraud-
roots
ulent, advertising.
With a few exceptions, any
senator can take the floor
The loophole hunting legal
and talk on any subject as
eagle.
long as he wishes. Frequent-
ly as the Senate is settling
down to meaningful debate
a statesman gets the floor
and begins to speak on a
Rarer Types
completely irrelevant sub-
ject-and off they go, bray-
ing after a new scent.
The peripatetic pigeon-holer.
Too often this problem is
presented as South vs. North,
with the south worried lest
any rules modification lead
The party whip poor bill.
to more civil rights legisla-
tion. Yet the issue is much
broader. Every section has
The gravel-throated gavel
used the Senate rules to its
ll killer
thumper.
advantage.
The two-faced fence straddler.
These questions remain:
-Can the Senate, now
grown to 100 members, con-
tinue to allow talk unlimited
as the nation's business be-
The back bench snoozing
comes increasingly complex?
dove.
-And wouldn't there be
more deliberation, not less,
if senators were kept at least
somewhere near the subject
The pettifogging back
under discussion?
scratcher.
*
HOUSE DEBATE - Here
the problem is percisely the
opposite. House rules have
so shackled talk that any
The log rolling nest featherer.
discussion of a bill becomes
a series of five minute
speeches. These are designed,
The sweet-singing southern
not to influence their col-
ducker.
songbird.
The cotton picking nit picker.
leagues, but to show the
voters back home that their
congressmen are fighting
nobly.
exhiliarating effect on me
said, and must have millions
Yet no one would guess
Whether the House de-
that a fresh catnip mouse
of dollars.
this from their work sched-
pends too much on its com-
has on a kitten, possibly the
"I never saw a man any
ules. Normally both the Sen-
mittees, or whether it too
greatest delight comes from
deeper in wall-to-wall carpet-
ate and the House meet at
severely limits its time can
unexpected goodies.
ing, pleading poverty, than
noon. But whether they meet
be argued endlessly.
The Senate was mulling
did Adlai Stevenson."
then, or an hour or two
But anyone who visits the
over changes in naturaliza-
Or. Sen. George Aiken,
earlier, they stay in session
House soon reaches this con-
tion laws.
R-Vt., with his gentle sense
until they knock off for the
clusion: The quality of its
of humor:
Sen. John O. Pastore, D-
day-or night.
debate is so uniformly poor
"Would it not be a good
R.I., was saying he didn't
This means our heroes
something should be done
way to settle the problem to
agree with every feature of
and heroines must sneak
to improve it.
the bill when Sen. James O.
permit the bill to go to the
away from lunch, or, if the
White House and let the
Eastland, D-Miss., interrupt-
session drags on, for a late
President veto it? He really
SENATE ACOUSTICS -
ed.
snack. A puzzled constituent
has not vetoed a worthwhile
One marvel of this electronic
who finds his congressman
Eastland: "Has the senator
bill this year-or even a very
absent from his post should
age is that the Senate does-
ever agreed with every fea-
bad one."
not know it's in it. Neither
remember: He may be a
ture of every bill?"
desserter instead of a de-
microphone nor loud speak-
Pastore: "There have been
CONGRESS is most typi-
er can be found there. Each
serter.
times. I have agreed with the
cally American - or maybe
senator-as did Henry Clay
Ten Commandments. But I
typically human - in its
and Daniel Webster more
COMMITTEES - The in-
know the senator is jesting."
stubborn refusal to break its
than 100 years ago-depends
vestigatory committees grab
Eastland: "But the Ten
bad habits and lead a better
on his lung power.
all the headlines, but they
Commandments have been
life.
For years Sen. Alexander
play a minor role in congres-
As the legislators come
Wiley, R-Wis., has argued
before the Senate in bill
sional life.
that if a senator is entitled
form."
back to town let's look
Committees are what bills
at a few reforms they
to talk he is also entitled to
And here's Rep. H. R.
are referred to. Here legisla-
Gross, R-Iowa, proud to lead
should, but undoubtedly
be heard. But his crusade,
tive proposals, which may
won't, make:
though delivered in an audi-
the penny-pinching bloc, dis-
vitally effect us, are nur-
ble, amiable bellow, has got
cussing a United Nations
tured, beefed up, killed or,
him nowhere.
proposal
LUNCH - Most deep
most likely, left to die un-
As Warren G. Harding said,
"Only last Friday I saw
thinkers agree that a lunch
mourned.
senators never listen atten-
Mr. Stevenson in the United
hour is necessary and desir-
No question about it:
tively to anybody.
Nations New Missions Build-
able. Most people eat thrice
Committee work is the key
Improvements come slowly
ing, just completed. He was
daily, and, judging from
to Congress. But the sus-
if at all. We can but hope.
ankle deep in wall-to-wall
their waistlines, congress-
picion grows that the key
So welcome back, repre-
carpeting, with figurative
men support this custom en-
has become larger than the
sentatives, senators. And
tears running down his
thusiastically and almost
lock.
speak up so we can hear you.
cheeks. The UN is broke, he
unanimously.
In the House. Я bill re-
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vived by 12 grandchildren.
McGHEE, Carl, beloved husband of Flor-
Services 2:30 p.m. Saturday at
ence, father of Stanliegh McGhee,
RI. 9-4448
Chapel of the Chimes, Ingle-
Pierce Brothers' Van Nuys.
grandfather of Suzanne and Stanley
wood Park Cemetery, under
CHAPMAN, Reuben.
McGhee.
the direction of White & Day
Malinow & Silverman Mortuary.
Services Thursday, 11 a.m., at Ed-
CHAZAN, Ruth H.
Malinow & Silverman
wards Brothers Colonial Mortuary.
Mortuary. Mr. Hall, of 461 29th
Pierce Brothers' Los Angeles.
MORRISON, Arniel R., of 1442 Lucile, Los
LEADING JEWISH
St., Manhattan Beach, died
CHOTINER, Sarah, beloved mother of
Angeles.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Albert and Murray Chotiner.
Private services. Malinow
&
Silver-
Services Thursday, 11 a.m., at Hol-
Monday. He was a member of
lywood Cemetery Chapel. Dilday Fam-
RI. 9-1051
Lawndale Masonic Lodge 753.
man Mortuary, directors.
ily Funeral Directors in charge.
COLLINS, Flora Ainsworth, age 91, passed
He leaves his widow, Blanche;
MORRISON, Bert Chester, of Encino, be-
away Tuesday, July 24, at her home
loved husband of Hilda Morrison,
HARRISON-ROSS
a daughter, Mrs. Betty Thorn-
in Covina after a short illness; widow
of Westwood H. Collins, beloved aunt
passed away July 24.
L. HARRISON
F. E. BENJAMIN
ton, and one grandchild.
Services 12 noon Friday, July 27, at
of Mrs. Josephine Windle Korber and
Utter-McKinley's Valley Chapel, 5530
LU. 8-5214
NE. 6-0806
Miss Louise F. Windle.
Lankershim Blvd. Interment Forest
Services will be conducted 11 a.m.
Friday, July 27, in The Holy Trinity
Lawn, Glendale.
FOREST LAWN
MOSES, Edward W., beloved husband of
Sun, Moon, Tide
Episcopal Church, 3rd and Badillo
Mrs. Ruth H. Moses, father of Dr.
Ave., Covina, with Rev. Frank C.
Undertaking & Cemetery Together
Lincoln E. and Keith H. Moses and
Knebel and the Rev. C. L. Mills of-
Glendale
Hollywood Hills
Cypress
By U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
ficiating. Interment Oakdale Memorial
Mrs. Marilyn Singer; also survived
CL.
4-3131
Ho. 4-6143
TA. 8-3131
NEW
FIRST
FULL
LAST
Park, Glendora. Custer & Christian-
by 9 grandchildren.
Services at 2 p.m., Friday, Little
sen, Covina, directors.
REED BROS.
COOK, Elmer Col. ret. U.S.A., of Baldwin
Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn
Park, survived by his wife Lala L.
Memorial-Park, Glendale.
TAPLEY & GEIGER
Cook, 3 daughters, Mrs. Mildred Jaros
Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.
of Warroad, Minn., Mrs. Hazel Clark
(Contributions may be made to
a
2045 W. WASHINGTON.
RE. 2-6115.
MOON
QUAR.
MOON
QUA
of Sheridan, Wyo., and Mrs. Gladys
favorite charity or Welfare Informa-
Cook of Los Angeles; 2 sons, Maur-
tion Service, Inc.)
Bresee Bros. & Gillette
July 31
Aug.
8
Aug. 15
Aug. 22
ice and Donald Cook, both of Minneap-
MURAKAMI, Kisa, beloved mother of Aki-
THURSDAY, JULY 26
olis, Minn., and 4 grandchildren.
ra and Momoko.
RI. 9-5125
Since 1892
Services 8 p.m., July 27, at Fukui
Sun rises 5:59 a.m., sets 7:59 p.m.
Military services 2 p.m. Saturday at
Moon rises 1:56 a.m., sets 3:56 p.m.
the Baldwin Park Funeral Home. In-
Mortuary.
terment Rose Hills Memorial Park.
NICKERL, Charles R., beloved husband of
EDWARDS BROTHERS
TIDES AT LOS ANGELES HARBOR
DE ROY, Lawrence, beloved husband of
Charlotte E. Nickerl, father of Mrs.
Downtown, 1000 Venice Blvd. RI. 9-8281
July Low
High
Low
High
Cecelia, loving father of George and
Philip Hendry and Robert S. Nickerl.
East L.A., 3827 Whittier Blvd. AN. 1-2481
26 12:47 0.5
6:57
3.5
*11:54
2.0
*6:25
5.8
Mchard.
Services 11 a.m. Saturday at Pierce
27
1:42 0.0
8:04
3.7
*12:52
2.2
*7:13
6.0
OServices Friday, 12 noon, at the
Brothers' Fred A. Turner, Alhambra.
Inside Memorial Park Chapel. Mali-
PIERCE-HAMROCK
28
2:28-0.4
8:55 3.9
*1:42
2.2
*7:57
6.2
NIKOLENKO, Nicholas, of 2880 Ashmont,
29
3:09-0.6
9:35 4.0
*2:26 2.2
*8:37
6.3
now & Silverman Mortuary, directors.
Arcadia, age 40, passed away July 23;
JAMES & CLARENCE PIERCE
30
3:46-0.7
10:11
4.1
*3:06
2.1
*9:14
6.2
DEW Russell E.
survived by wife Vivianne, sons Nicho-
921 VENICE BLVD.
RI. 9-9231
31
4:20-0.6
10:44
4.2
*3:44
2.0
*9:49
6.1
Pierce Brothers' Los Angeles.
las, Michael, mother Taicia Meyers,
father Nicholas Nikolenko both of Los
Aug.
DUNNE, Raymond Anthony.
HOUSE OF HALL
1
4:53-0.4
11:16
4.2
*4:20
2.0
*10:24
5.8
Cunningham & O'Connor, Hollywood.
Angeles, brother Victor of Sherman
2
5:24-0.2 11:47 4.2 *4:59 2.1 *10:57 5,5
FARINACCI, Frank Anthony.
Oaks, sister Nina Hink of Berkeley.
Lawrence J., Marcella T., Lawrence J. Jr.
Services 3 p.m. Monday at Pierce
Services Friday, 11 a.m., Douglass
1607 SOUTH FLOWER ST.
RI. 9-2211
*Denotes p.m.
Brothers' Fred A. Turner, Alhambra.
& Zook Chapel, Monrovia. Interment
All times are Pacific Daylight Saving.
Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena.
CALLANAN MORTUARY
FOSTER, Dr. Douglas E.
Sea temperatures: Long Beach, 65; San-
ORequiem Mass today, 10 a.m., at
NOBLE, Mrs. Madaline H.
SERVING CATHOLIC FAMILIES
ta Monica, 63.
Immaculate Conception Church. Inter-
Cunningham & O'Connor Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES
HO. 2-2266
ment Calvary.
PERRY, Josephine Elizabeth, passed
GARDEN GROVE
JE. 4-7576
Cunningham & O'Connor, directors.
away July 23.
CUNNINGHAM & O'CONNOR
GOODMAN, David, formerly of Chicago,
In repose at Rosedale Mortuary,
1831 West Washington Blvd. Requiem
850 W. Washington.
RI. 9-0297
FREE
E., beloved brother of Fan Goodman,
Mass Saturday, 9 a.m., at St. Columb-
8540 Melrose, Hollywood.
OL. 5-7280
Marian Viner, Louis and Edward
Goodman, member of Universal Lodge
kille Church, 64th and Main.
ARMSTRONG FAMILY
30 DAY SUPPLY
No. 985 of Chicago, III.
PIERSON, Rev. H. Mitchell, of the Cali-
Services Thursday, 2 p.m., at Hill-
fornia Evangelist Association, beloved
1201 SOUTH HOPE STREET. RI. 7-9121
Dde Memorial Park Chapel.
husband of Mrs. Evelyn G. Pierson,
SQUIBB B COMPLEX
Broman Mortuary, directors.
brother of Richard P. Pierson, uncle
GOODMAN, Herman, beloved husband of
of Robert M. Pierson.
FLORISTS
WHEN YOU BUY THE BOTTLE OF ONLY
Pay Goodman, father of Melvyn,
Services Thursday, 1 p.m. from the
Sharon and Maxine Goodman and Ar-
Chapel of Turner & Stevens, Alhambra,
Jene Koenig, brother of Sylvia Toko-
550 East Main Street. Interment Live
witz.
Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia
Services Friday, 10 a.m., Mount
REAGAN, Mrs. Nelle, beloved mother of
Otnai Memorial Park Chapel. Mount
Ronald Reagan of Pacific Palisades
FLOWERS BELONG
Sinai Mortuary in charge.
and Neil Reagan of Los Angeles; also
SQUIBS
COMPLEX
GREEN, George W., in Pasadena, July 22,
survived by 4 grandchildren.
Whatever the occasion,
SQUIBB
beloved husband of Bernice, father of
Services Friday 2 p.m. at the Holly-
ICOMPLEX
Suzanne and John, son of Hazel
wood Beverly Christian Church, 1717
Flowers express your
LINE
Green.
North Gramercy Place, Hollywood.
Memorial services 2 p.m. today in
Pierce Brothers' Santa Monica, direc-
deepest thoughts.
Westminster Presbyterian Church,
tors
for
1757 North Lake Ave., Pasadena, Dr.
REHTMEYER, Kate, of Burbank, passed
Max Morrison officiating; eulogy by
away July 24; survived by daughters,
From $2.50
TestED VitaMin PiCKUP!
Dr. Lee A. Du Bridge. (Contributions
Mrs. Florence Higby, Miss Nettie
may be made to the George W. Green
FLOWERS FOR FUNERALS
Rehtmeyer and son Walter, all of
Memorial Fund which has been
established at California Institute of
Burbank.
Forest Lawn Flower Shop
Limited Time Offer!
Technology, Pasadena.) Ives & War-
Services Friday 2 p.m. at the Fill-
bach-Bailey Chapel, Burbank. Inter-
GLENDALE
CL. 4-3131
ren Co., Pasadena, directors.
HOLLYWOOD HILLS
HO. 4-6143
HALL, Frank W., age 57, of Manhattan
ment Forest Lawn, Glendale.
CYPRESS
TA. 8-3131
Beach, beloved husband of Blanche
REISNER, Rose.
Hall, father of Betty Thornton; also
Services 1 p.m. today at the Hillside
FREE
30
DAY
survived by 1 granddaughter.
Memorial Park Chapel. Groman Mor-
Services 10 a.m., Thursday, at the
tuary, directors.
CEMETERY Lots-Crypts
SUPPLY
Chapel of the Chimes, Inglewood Park
SAMANIEGO, Mrs. Matilde, widow of
Cemetery. White & Day Chapel of the
the late Dr. Manuel Samaniego, loving
mother of Mrs. Josephine Gallego,
8 Spaces Forest Lawn Hills, sells for $295
Good Shepherd, Manhattan Beach, in
Mrs. Juliette Ramler, Mrs. Amalia
per sp. Sell $225.
PO. 3-0953
SQUIBB
charge.
Gerakos, Frank, Albert, Mariano and
HARRIS, Morris.
Rose Hills, 2 choice sps. nr. Church.
Services 11 a.m. Friday at the
Joseph Samaniego.
Exceptionally low price. OL. 1-3154. Br.
VITAMIN
Rosary this evening, 8:30 o'clock, at
Groman Mortuary.
HILLS, Mr. Homer, passed away July 24,
the chapel of Cunningham & O'Con-
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1962, survived by wife, Mrs. Florence
quiem Mass Friday, 9 a.m., at St.
B
COMPLEX
Hills, son Gerald Hills, brother Fred
Vincent's Church. Interment Calvary.
Hills, sisters Mrs. Mary Seymore and
Miss Grace Hills, and 6 grandchildren.
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Thurs., Oct. 19, 1961
San Jose Merrury
Diver May Seek Clu
Ronald Reagan Sees Demo
LONG BEACH (AP)
sank near Loi
The Coast Guard said
Tuesday.
Wednesday it might send a
But they believ
Path Toward Socialism
diver to look for clues
might be too bad
aboard a 50-foot cabin
to yield informat
cruiser which burned and
its identity or .
(Continued from P. 1)
foot in the door of direct
that other persons
termediate stage" before
control of job training and
"busied themselves try-
this country goes commu-
placement and has cre-
ing to clear the way for
nistic.
ated the biggest pork barrel
Nixon," the actor added.
And he deplored "sincere-
of all time."
In the GOP U.S. Senate
ly motivated but foolish"
HOUSING-Now people
primary, Reagan main-
liberals he said are driving
of better than average in-
tained an officially neu-
the federal government to-
come are declared eligible
tral position, but made it
ward socialism.
for subsidy."
clear he thinks Sen.
Bo
"Under high-flown
TAXATION - "No na-
Thomas H. Kuchel has
phrases 'freedom from
tion in history has sur-
cast votes "which helped
want,' 'human rights,' etc.,
vived a tax burden that
Democrats pass their
we see the federal govern-
reached a third of the na-
spending measures."
ment laying its hand on
tional income. Today the
Reagan said moreover he
housing, health, farming.
tax collectors take 33 cents
agrees "completely" on
MILLION
industry and education."
out of every dollar earned,
most issues with Kuchel's
Reagan said, citing the fol-
and of that 33 cents, 23
potential Republican chal-
lowing as signs of such a
cents goes to the federal
lenger, Rep. John Rousse-
trend:
government, leaving 10
lot of San Gabriel, a Birch
EDUCATION "The pro-
cents for the state, county
Society member.
fessional educationists lob-
and local government."
BIRTI
by (one of the biggest
Reagan said he is not
WELFARE-"The federal
spenders in Washington)
a Birch Society member
government must raise
denies federal control plays
himself, but that it "must
$2.10 for every dollar it will
any part in their plans, but
have done a great deal of
spend on the recipients of
in truth, a Federal school
good" in fighting Commu-
federal welfare - a $1.10
system is the entire basis
nism or it would not be
overhead for each $1.00."
of the school aid plan."
subject to the attacks
AGRICULTURE-Twen-
INCOME TAX-"We have
which have been made on
ty-seven years ago the gov-
adopted as proportionate
it.
Fashion
ernment assured the farm-
taxation this progressive
Asked if he approved the
er that subsidy didn't mean
system spawned by Karl
Birch Society's anti-com-
control. Then a farmer
Marx."
munist methods, he asked
named Haley discovered he
In a press conference,
in return, "Do you mean its
could be fined $4.000 for
Reagan said California is
real methods or the
This и
raising wheat on his own
fortunate to have "a man
methods which have been
land
Thus the (Su-
of the stature and back-
attributed to it by certain
preme) Court practically
ground of Richard Nixon"
liberal elements of the press
cancelled out the 4th
running for governor. He
that have attacked it?" He
Amendment of the Consti-
opined that former Gov.
said he understands the
tution - our protection
Goodwin J. Knight has
against search and seizure.'
"lost ground in the Repub-
society to function as a
MEDICINE - "Today
lican Party" by his attacks
"study group."
News-makin
three out of four V.A. hos
on Nixon. Reagan insisted
Reagan said he does not
pital beds are filled with
he was sure "from personal
hold with the aim of Birch
patients suffering diseases
knowledge" that Nixon had
Society leadership to im-
or injuries neither origi
not decided to run for gov-
ernor at the time Knight
peach Chief Justice Earl
nated by nor aggravated by
claimed a Nixon emissary
Warren, though he thinks
in top-draw
military service
Financ
tried to lure him out of
ing medical costs on a bit-
Warren has joined in deci-
the race.
by-bit basis
at least
sions which "usurp legisla-
paves the way for socialized
It is possible, however,
tive powers."
medicine."
$24
SOCIAL SECURITY-"So-
cial Security dues are a tax
RE-UPHOLSTERING SPECIAL!
for the general use of the
government, and payment
BEFORE
AS LOW AS
of that tax does not auto-
matically entitle anyone to
$6950 2 pieces
for
comparable valu
the receipt of benefits
In close-out material
A young man 20 or 21 years
EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS
Choose from a breathtaking array
of age, starting out at an
No Extra Cost for ReStyling
average salary, must, with
yourself in the exciting new "cap
his employer, contribute
AFTER
flares
the casually elegant straig
$1.69 for every dollar he'll
receive in benefits."
thing from luxurious zibelines, p
FOREIGNAID "We
HURRY! Dont Delay!
tweeds and stunning herringbon
spent more per capita in
Our decorator will call at your
Laos than in any other
home with the largest selec-
plus black, beige, grey. Sizes 6 to
tion of materials in the area
country. Cuba is on the
from which to choose. No 00
ligation.
book for $2,500,000,000
Ask about our 10 features
We talk private enterprise
which enable us to guarantee
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our work years.
nationalization of industry
all over the world."
DEPRESSED AREAS
The APEX UPHOLSTERING CO.
Important Fall S
"The Depressed Areas bill
311 AUZERAIS
CY7-1885
has put government's
comparable values $8.98-$10.
Luscious pure wool tweeds, flannels,
Sheaths, pleats, flares Proportioned-
Something WONDERFUL
Shorts, Mediums, Talls. Sizes 8 to 18.
Is about to happen
Nixon Presidential Library
Precious Sweate
injured Wednesday night infle
City Council with four
vided the Council into at
ty said he would
Presidential
Nixon
the
at
ately order all
a spectacular double-bar-
members present yesterday
least two camps.
relled collision on Highway
named land developer and
Council convened yester-
ohers to show up
101 four miles south of
contractor George W. Sieg-
day at 2:38 p.m., 13 min-
today. But he
here. Three others were
fried, 55, of 1727 Laurelwood
utes tardy, in special ses-
fear that some
hurt.
Dr., to fill the seventh seat
sion to make its decision.
ot be notified in
Taken to Wheeler Hos-
on the Council.
It immediately went into
closed conference for a final
pital here with serious in-
Pacific employs
juries were Jack Gibson,
Siegfried replaces Fred
debate on seven "finalists"
55,000 workers in
53, Paicines, veteran CHP
Watson, who was declared
who had survived a series
Nev a Ari-
officer, and Mrs. J. W.
unable to serve after long
of closed interviews held
ew Mexico, Utah
Harper, 60, of 206 San
illness forced him to miss
among the 21 candidates
The rail system
Benito St., Hollister.
five consecutive Council
for the job on Tuesday.
12,000 miles of
sessions.
Names of the "surviving
Gibson, who was pinned
seven" candidates were not
agreement came
between two patrol cars,
The official vote was 4 to
announced. Mayor Paul
ninutes of a federal
suffered compound frac-
0, reported on the fourth
Moore said:
court hearing in
tures of the right leg; a
unofficial W ballot"
ancisco of a last-
possible fracture of the
taken during two stormy
I am bound by the di-
petition by the rail-
right hip; shock, and con-
days behind closed doors,
rection of the members
cussion.
stop the strike.
GEO. SIEGFRIED
and it followed a behind-
of this Council not to re-
Mrs. Harper, who was
Gets the job
the-scenes battle that di-
veal their names."
Wednesday, an
trapped briefly in her car,
federal judge in
suffered possible knee frac-
Council remained in
rancisco dissolved
tures of both legs and se-
REAGAN BLAMES DEMOS
closed session for bout 1½
nction barring the
vere face cuts.
hours before reaching its
phers strike.
Treated for minor in-
decision in favor of Sieg-
Judge Lloyd H.
juries and released from
Socialism Lurks,
fried.
noted that neither
Wheeler Hospital were E.
Upon reconvering, a
Marie Mitchell 26, of 376
3:55 p.m., Council m a n
nor SP was will-
bitrate their differ-
N. Monterey St., Morgan
nd he accused them
Hill; Martha Garrett, 43,
Actor Tells GOP
George Starbird moved for
the selection of Siegfried.
ifference to the
Bakersfield, and her hus-
He noted that Councilman
the public."
band, Arthur O. Garrett,
Parker Hathaway had had
44, Bakersfield.
By HARRY FARRELL
to leave for another meet-
vever, under the
Staff Political Writer
ing, and said he would like
Highway Patrolman Lee
I believe it to be, I
Bowden reconstructed the
Actor Ronald Reagan
Jefferson and wound up
to introduce the name of
no more than al-
accident this way:
charged here last night
in the Republican Party."
Hathaway's candidate for
litigants to move
He and Gibson had just
that "the guiding force in
the post, "and my own se-
n their attempt at
The topic of the slim,
completed their investiga-
the Democratic Party is
lection, as well."
destruction," he
handsome actor was "Los-
tion of an accident involv-
completely opposed to con-
ing Freedom on the Install-
The "Yes" votes were
ing Garrett's pickup truck
tinuation of the constitu-
ment Plan."
thereupon recorded as
red-faced and sar,
and a car driven by Henry
tional form of government
"The Communists gauge
Starbird, Robert Welch,
vound up four hours
D. Pickering, 53, of 376 N.
we all know."
their aggression," he said,
Louis Solari and Mayor
ded on P. 2, Col. 1)
Monterey St., Morgan Hill.
Moore.
Bowden said a car driven
Today's Democratic
"slicing each new gain just
Party, he said, "resem-
thin enough SO that we'll
Asked to comment on the
by Cedric E. Elton, 57, Gil-
roy, had stopped at warn-
bles much more the La-
say, "That isn't worth fight-
selection of Siegfried, the
ing flares set out on the
bor-Socialist Party in Eng-
ing for.'
They have
mayor told the press that
land than the Democratic
harnessed the fear of war
he "declined" comment.
highway. Then, said Bow-
instead of war itself."
nks Boy
Party we have known in
The mayor stated flatly:
den, a car driven by Mrs.
Khrushchev, Reagan
the past."
"I would prefer not to be
Harper hit the rear of El-
said, foresees socialism in
quoted."
ton's car, sending it careen-
Reagan addressed 500
the United States as an "in-
Path
Councilman Robert (Bob)
ing into the first wreck.
Santa Clara County Repub-
(Concluded on P. 4, Col. 1)
(Concluded on P. 2, Col- 5)
Elton's car picked up
licans at the GOP's annual
Gibson and pinned the
$100-a-plate fund raising
train approached
officer between his patrol
dinner at Lou's Village.
rossing yesterday,
car and Bowden's.
What's Inside Your Mercury
C. J. DeVine saw
Though the television
standing between
Mrs. Harper's legs were
and screen star has been
Cosmetics firm blast injures 252
Page 12.
cks watching the
pinned between the front
active in GOP affairs and
*
approach. DeVine
seat of her car and its dash-
was even tentatively men-
Travis air taxi crash kills seven
Page 10.
the brakes in an ef-
board.
tioned last spring as pro-
stop.
Gibson, who has been
spective Republican guber-
Viet Nam emergency declared
Page 11.
with the CHP 23 years, is
natorial timber, he dis-
it was apparent
scheduled to retire in 18
closed while here that he
ld be unsuccessful,
Key Ford plant talks broken off
Page 13.
months.
is still registered Demo-
*
leaped from the
cratic.
nd sprinted to the
f the engine. He
"But I intend to change,"
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Algerians Riot
desperate lunge and
he added quickly.
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27
FINANCIAL
33-35
Timmy.
PARIS (AP) - Thou-
AMUSEMENTS
23
FISHING, HUNTING
65
Asked the reasons for
pair toppled off
sands of demonstrating Al-
ASTROLOGY
37
FREEMAN'S HERE 'TIS
27
his change, he said, "I
cks the youngster
gerians swarmed into the
BOWLING NEWS
64
IMHOF'S SPORTS EXPERT
65
just kept following Tom
his head on the
streets of greater Paris
BRIDGE TIPS
32
NACHMAN'S LOOKING GLASS
36
again Wednesday night
CHILD BEHAVIOR
30
OBITUARIES
66
Johnson told offi-
and clashed with rein-
Today's Chuckle
CLASSIFIED
67-75
TNGLE TOWNS
32
son has no fear
forced riot police. Mass de-
COLUMNISTS
26, 27
TELEVISION, RADIO
36
ns. The youngster
portations of Algerians to
The only trouble with
COMICS
37
SAN JOSE TODAY
15
eated at home for
North Africa as chronic
being a good sport is that
CROSSWORD
37
SPORTS
63-65
пр. Knuppe was not
trouble-makers begin to-
you have to lose to prove
EARL WILSON'S BROADWAY
23
WEATHER MAP
15
day.
it.
EDITORIALS
26
WOMEN'S SECTION
28-31
measure cross over to the executive branch
of government.
2-It would mean an additional burden
on the President, who already has his hard
rows to hoe.
3-It might mean that a President
might deliberately lower income taxes be-
fore an election, if he is SO minded, thus
assuring votes.
4-The statistics released by the Gov-
ernment are not firm and good to warrant
such executive and arbitrary powers.
Reagan On Politics
Actor Richard Reagan, that excellent
character actor, came to town and held
forth on the worth of Richard Nixon.
former Vice President, who is seeking the
Republican nomination for the governor-
ship.
Some things he said, in assaulting the
trend of affairs in Washington. makes
much sense.
But the thing he uttered that makes
most sense is the fact that the Government
is heavily immersed in housing, health,
education, farming, industry and sundry
other matters.
He couldn't be more right.
There is hardly an area in American
life in which this government, since the
New Deal, has not dabbled.
There is hardly a person in this nation
but who does not have some sort of dossier
on him, even if it is only social security
forms.
It was not long ago that the Govern-
ment divorced itself from heavy invest-
ments in the aluminum business. The
Government has vast land holdings that
service no purpose other than national
parks, military installations and sundry
other matters related to national defense.
When one stops to think, it is more than
possible that the historian to come will call
our time a socialistic one. Already, Nikita
Khrushchev says we are in the midst of
Socialism and will go on to Communism.
For once, we agree with him, except for the
end of the road as he sees it.
Reagan spoke well and with force.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
ered at New York Waldorf
mon urged him to buy in-
on ballots and bureaus.
to an oil well being dug in
M:
Nixon spoke about his
Louisiana. Wouldn't you
Entertainment Los Angeles Times
grasp of complex tax is-
know it came in-Just be-
TA
sues as applied to higher
ginner's luck.
BE
wage earners within the
Van Heflin represented
lywo
entertainment industry
the State Department at
and
and approved his stanch
the Berlin Festival before
day
stand.
joining his family in Rome.
awar
Plato and Spyros Skour-
Ted Otis, whom I met
natio
as Jr. bought Niven
on the 20th Century lot, is
Th
Films Stage Music
Buch's "California Street,"
the
which has become a best
son of Otis elevator people.
starri
seller. They'll put it on
He may get a long-term
"Ask
the screen.
contract at that studio. He
An
6
Part III
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1959
DOUBLE DUTY
was in diplomatic service
Fren
Vincent Price due for a
but wanted a career and
Cloch
HEDDA HOPPER
lecture in Wheeling, W.Va.,
started by singing folk
silver
Th
yesterday when he got a
songs while playing a gui-
good role in segment of
chose
Peter Palmer Seen
tar with Theodore Bikel.
TV series Riverboat. His
Cousi
shooting postponed a day
He's been married and di-
A
so he could do both.
vorced and then engaged
went
on 'Li'l Abner' Set
John Cassavetes' TV
to model Sandra Wright,
his
series called Staccato, he'll
but that romance blew
play a piano-playing pri-
The Sadie Hawkins Day
power joining Billy Wild-
sky high.
vate eye. That's a new one.
ballet was in full swing on
er in making "The Living
A friend of Jack Lem-
Released by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News
Syndicate, Inc., 1959
"Li'l Abner" set at Para-
Strong Box." He laughed
mount. Peter Palmer was
and said, "Both of us have
chasing Daisy Mae through
wanted to do this story for
BIG week
Dogpatch wearing his
15 years, Billy's a writer,
I'm not. He's working on
AT THESE $
Sunday go to meeting
the script, I'll produce
THEATRES & DRIVE-INS
clothes: yellow polka dot
tie, black coat, brown
and he'll direct. We won't
FIRST TIME AT.
trousers and orange boots.
get to it till '61." "But
POPULAR PRICES!
He dyed his hair black for
working together you'll di-
the picture and when he
vide your profits," said I.
"We hope it'll be twice as
SHOW
came home his son said,
"Daddy, where's your
good as any picture we've
HONORED
other hair?" Peter has been
done separately," was his
with "Abner" now for
answer.
MOST
MICHAEL TODD'S
more than two years count-
Ronald Reagan had a
ing his Broadway run. "I'm
note from Vice-President
happy I got the chance but
Nixon congratulating him
anxious now for other
on speech Ronnie deliv-
THE
AROUND
things." Leslie Parrish,
who's Daisy Mae, hails
ENTERTAINMENT
from Bucks County, Pa.
THAT PUTS A
She was under contract to
Metro and 20th but noth-
GLOW IN
THE
WORLD
ing happened. Now Para-
YOUR HEART!
mount's talking contract.
COMBINED TALENT
Beautiful 5 ft. 10 in. Ju-
IN
80 DAYS
PR
lie Newmar from stage play
On Sal
Southe
"Marriage Go Round,"
PARK
who is Stupefyin' Jones
there on the set, but not
TECHNICOLOR®
working. When she fin-
ishes this, tells me she'll
Bing
visit Sweden and Italy for
CROSBY
stating
a month before rejoining
Debbie
DAVID NIVEN CANTINFLAS NEWTON SHIRLEY MacLAINE
REYNOLDS
FEATURING 44
"Marriage-Go-Round" on
Broadway. She got such a
PLUS
AT ALL DRIVE-INS
"CAMEO" star
Robert
and PARAMOUNT
thrill in New York lunch-
Screenplay by JAMES POE,
WAGNER
WALT DISNEY presents
JOHN FARROW and PERELMAN
ing with Ingemar Johans-
son and 20 men a few days
TEGEND of SLEEPY HOLLOW
From the Classic by JULES VERNE
before he won the heavy-
SAY ONE
Directed by MICHAEL ANDERSON
fold and sung by BING CROSBY TECHNICOLOR
weight championship of
FOR ME"
DOWNTOWN
HOLLYWOOD
PACIFIC Drive-Ins-Gates Open at 7:00 pm
the world. She said, "I was
CIVIC
CINEN
PARAMOUNT
HAWAII
confident he'd win, yet I
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after pm- Day Sun
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him." I was, too, yet did
Roscoe Sepul.
Gage & Garfield
RAY WALSTON FRANK TASHLIN ROBERT O'SURER
ST 6-7510
TO 2-7185 TO 2-8711
not wager a dime on him.
3rd SMASH WEEK!
NO. HOLLYWOOD
LONG BEACH
Julie's a lovely girl, intel-
IMPERIAL
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ligent and a fine actress.
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to play her role on screen
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they're nuts.
Now
HASTINGS
Found the World in80 days
39th
I told William Wyler I
PATTERSON
JOHANSSON
Also
DRIVE-IN
Rosemead at Foothing
Walt Disneys TheLegendof Sleepy Hollow
Tues. И
CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT FILM
at
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Gates Open at 6:30 p.m.
Show
thought it waste of man-
HERE WITH ALL ITS
SAMUEL
Presents
BRONSTON
MIGHT AND FIGHT!
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library