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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Roberts, John G.: Files Folder Title: JGR/Fundraising (2 of 3) Box: 26 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 5, 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS 820 SUBJECT: Request for Presidential Letter to be Used in Charitable Fundraising The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a royally chartered British charity, has asked the President to submit a letter he wrote as a child or a letter to him from a child for inclusion in an anthology NSPCC plans to publish to raise funds. Katherine Shepherd of Presidential Correspondence has asked if we have any problems complying with the request. Our standard practice is to deny such requests for Presidential items to be used in fundraising, and I see no reason to depart from that practice in this case. We deny such requests, even from the worthiest charitable organizations, because the White House is in no position to monitor the affairs of the charities, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to lend his name to them, and because granting some requests of this sort would inevitably generate a flood of similar, indistinguishable requests. Further, use of Presidential items for fundraising is really just selling the prestige of the office, and that is not for sale, not for any price, not for any cause. The Queen has submitted a letter for the anthology, but that is what royalty is for. A draft reply to NSPCC is attached for your review and signature. Attachment THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 5, 1984 Dear Ms. Poute: Thank you for your letter to the President, requesting that he submit a letter he wrote as a child, or a letter to him from a child, for inclusion in an anthology to be published to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. I must advise you that we cannot comply with your request. The White House adheres to a policy of generally not approving the use of Presidential memorabilia in connection with fundraising efforts, however laudable those efforts might be. This policy is necessary for several reasons. The White House is not able to monitor the activities of particular charitable organizations, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to lend his name to an organization. In addition, acceding to some requests for Presidential participation in private charitable fundraising would inevitably generate countless similar requests. The President could not, of course, grant all such requests, and out of fairness he has been compelled to deny them all. I hope you will understand the reasons we must take this position, and also understand that it in no sense constitutes an adverse reflection on your organization. Best of luck with your worthy efforts. I am sorry our response could not be more favorable. Sincerely, Orig. signed by FFF Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Ms. Jenny Poute National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Ardeley Bury, Near Stevenage Hertfordshire, Walkern 458 FFF: :JGR:aea 9/5/84 bcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 5, 1984 Dear Ms. Poute: Thank you for your letter to the President, requesting that he submit a letter he wrote as a child, or a letter to him from a child, for inclusion in an anthology to be published to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. I must advise you that we cannot comply with your request. The White House adheres to a policy of generally not approving the use of Presidential memorabilia in connection with fundraising efforts, however laudable those efforts might be. This policy is necessary for several reasons. The White House is not able to monitor the activities of particular charitable organizations, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to lend his name to an organization. In addition, acceding to some requests for Presidential participation in private charitable fundraising would inevitably generate countless similar requests. The President could not, of course, grant all such requests, and out of fairness he has been compelled to deny them all. I hope you will understand the reasons we must take this position, and also understand that it in no sense constitutes an adverse reflection on your organization. Best of luck with your worthy efforts. I am sorry our response could not be more favorable. Sincerely, Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Ms. Jenny Poute National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Ardeley Bury, Near Stevenage Hertfordshire, Walkern 458 FFF:JGR:aea 9/5/84 bcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron ID # 251650 CU JV WHITE HOUSE PP012 CORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET 0 . OUTGOING H INTERNAL I . INCOMING Date Correspondence Received (YY/MM/DD) / / Name of Correspondent: Katherine Shepherd MI Mail Report User Codes: (A) (B) (C) Subject: a letter written by h child to RR for Requests letter from RR's Childhood or anthology of letters from Children for fund Raining for national to Society for the ROUTE TO: repeation of Crulelty ACTION Children DISPOSITION Tracking Type Completion Action Date of Date Office/Agency (Staff Name) Code YY/MM/DD Response Code YY/MM/DD WHolland ORIGINATOR 84,08,14 / / Referral Note: WAT 18 5 84,08,25 Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: ACTION CODES: DISPOSITION CODES: A * Appropriate Action I . Info Copy Only/No Action-Necessary A Answered C Completed C Comment/Recommendation R Direct Reply w/Copy B - Non-Special Referral S Suspended D Draft Response S For Signature F * Furnish Fact Sheet X Interim Reply to be used as Enclosure FOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE: Type of Response = Initials of Signer Code = "A" Completion Date = Date of Outgoing Comments: Penny Poute' letter to the Pres. attached Keep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter. Send all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB). Always return completed correspondence record to Central Files. Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Date: 8/13/84 251650 To: Fred Fielding Do you see any problems with us complying with their request? Thanks for your help. KATHERINE SHEPHERD Presidential Correspondence Office Room 98, x7610 NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN 31 CENTENARY DEVELOPMENT APPEAL KD Chairman Duke of Westminster Patrons: Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother President: HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Dzae Mr. President, We are working on an Anthology of letters from children, in order to raise money for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Contributions SO far, include a letter written by Her Majesty the Queen when she was eight, a letter to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales from one of her ex-pupils, Sir Winston Churchill's first letter to his mother and many others. We would be most grateful if you would donate a letter - ideally one of your childhood letters, or perhaps a letter written by a child to you. Whilst we hope to generate a substantial sum for the society we also hope to illustrate the two extremes of childhood. "You cannot imagine what a Queen of the Earth I was when I was twelve years old Oh how you would have loved me. And how I miss myself" Colette "One never recovers from one's childhood" Leon Paul Farque Yours succerely. Jenuy Poute. ARDELEY BURY and Paqan Binnie NEAR STEVENAGE HERTFORDSHIRE THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 10, 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS 826R SUBJECT: Use of Communications From the President With Regard to the International Education Program of the American College of Cardiology George D. Webster of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, on behalf of his client the American College of Cardiology, has requested permission to reproduce various letters to the College from the President in a fundraising brochure to be distributed by the College. For over twenty years the College has sponsored an international education program, utilizing the volunteered services of cardiologists. The President has on several occasions commended the College for this private sector voluntarism effort, and, most recently, sent an April 19, 1984, letter of commendation to each of the volunteering physicians. In his letter to you Webster notes that Federal funding for the program was eliminated in 1980, and that the College is now compelled to solicit funds. Established policy, frequently invoked, generally precludes use of Presidential letters in private charitable fundraising. This policy is based on the inability of the White House to monitor the fundraising activities the President would be endorsing, and on the unfairness of endorsing some charitable fundraising efforts while declining other essentially indistinguishable requests. A draft letter to Webster advising him of our policy in this regard is attached for your review and signature. Attachment THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 11, 1984 Dear George: Thank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that letter you inquired if the White house would have any objection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting letters from the President in a brochure to be used to solicit funds for the College's international education program. I must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such use of the letters from the President. The White House generally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the President's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or items associated with the President, in connection with private charitable fundraising. There are several reasons for this policy. The White House is not in a position to monitor private fundraising activities, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to become associated with them. In addition, the President can hardly accede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular fundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them all, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast number of requests from equally laudable organizations. I hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and understand that our inability to grant your request is in no sense an adverse reflection on the important and praise- worthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology. Sincerely, Orig. signed by FFF Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President George D. Webster, Esquire Webster, Chamberlain & Bean 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 FFF: JGR:aea 9/11/84 bcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 11, 1984 Dear George: Thank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that letter you inquired if the White house would have any objection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting letters from the President in a brochure to be used to solicit funds for the College's international education program. I must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such use of the letters from the President. The White House generally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the President's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or items associated with the President, in connection with private charitable fundraising. There are several reasons for this policy. The White House is not in a position to monitor private fundraising activities, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to become associated with them. In addition, the President can hardly accede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular fundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them all, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast number of requests from equally laudable organizations. I hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and understand that our inability to grant your request is in no sense an adverse reflection on the important and praise- worthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology. Sincerely, Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President George D. Webster, Esquire Webster, Chamberlain & Bean 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 FFF:JGR:aea 9/11/84 bcc: FFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON September 10, 1984 Dear Mr. Webster: Thank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that letter you inquired if the White house would have any objection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting letters from the President in a brochure to be used to solicit funds for the College's international education program. I must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such use of the letters from the President. The White House generally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the President's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or items associated with the President, in connection with private charitable fundraising. There are several reasons for this policy. The White House is not in a position to monitor private fundraising activities, which would be necessary to some extent were the President to become associated with them. In addition, the President can hardly accede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular fundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them all, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast number of requests from equally laudable organizations. I hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and understand that our inability to grant your request is in no sense an adverse reflection on the important and praise- worthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology. Sincerely, Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President George D. Webster, Esquire Webster, Chamberlain & Bean 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 FFF: JGR:aea 9/10/84 bcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron 254436 ID #. CU WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET o - OUTGOING BRAI4 H . INTERNAL I . INCOMING Date Correspondence Received (YY/MM/DD) / Name of Correspondent: Hearge D. Webster MI Mail Report User Codes: (A) (B) (C) Subject: Une of Communicatin Arom the President with regard to the international education program of the american College of Caldiology ROUTE TO: ACTION DISPOSITION Tracking Type Completion Action Date of Date Office/Agency (Staff Name) Code DDU YY/MM/DD Response Code YY/MM/DD CULtrlland ORIGINATOR 84108131 / / Referral Note: WAT 18 D 08/109,04 5 84,09,14 Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: ACTION CODES: DISPOSITION CODES: A. Appropriate Action L. Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary A Answered C Completed C. Comment/Recommendation R - Direct Reply w/Gopy B . Non-Special Referral S Suspended D Draft Response S - For Signature F Furnish Fact Sheet X . Interim Reply to be used as Enclosure FOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE: Type of Response = Initials of Signer Code = "A" Completion Date = Date of Outgoing BECOME: Comments: Keep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter. Send all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB). Always return completed correspondence record to Central Files. Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 LAW OFFICES GEORGE D. WEBSTER WEBSTER, CHAMBERLAIN & BEAN CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN 1747 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N. W. J. COLEMAN BEAN ARTHUR L.HEROLD WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 ALAN P. DYE BURKETT VAN KIRK (202) 785-9500 FRANK M. NORTHAM 254436 all C. MICHAEL DEESE GERARD P. PANARO JOHN P. MCALLISTER August 29, 1984 JOHN W. HAZARD, JR. BRAD D. WEISS Fred F. Fielding, Esq. Counsel to the President The White House Washington, D.C. 20006 Dear Mr. Fielding, One of our clients is the American College of Cardiology, a tax-exempt educational and scientific organization. As one of its activities, the College maintains an International Education Committee which, since 1961, has sponsored an international education program. The program is a volunteer program under which selected professors of medicine from United States institutions are sent to foreign countries to conduct educational seminars and clinics regarding developments in cardiology and medical care. Until 1980, funding for the program was partially subsidized by the United States Department of State. Since that time, the American College of Cardiology has sought to continue the program, using the College's own funds. Because the College cannot support the program entirely from its own funds, it now intends to solicit funds and/or grants for use in the continuation of the program. As part of the brochure which would be used in soliciting such funds, the College wishes to reprint, in whole or in part, various communications which it has received from past presidents and from President Reagan praising the international education program. I am unaware of any legal contraints on such a usage of presidential correspondence but, I wanted to check with your office to be sure that there would be no objection. I would appreciate your letting me know if there are any limitations on the usage of presidential correspondence for the purposes outlined above. Sincerely yours, Geoge Webster GDW:alc THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 30, 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR MARY ANN MELOY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON FROM: ASSOCIATE COUNSEL Dol TO THE PRESIDENT JOHN G. ROBERTS SUBJECT: Renaissance Women Fundraiser for Martha's Table, December 14, 1984 Your memorandum of November 27 to Counsel to the President Fred F. Fielding on the above-referenced topic has been referred to me for consideration and response. In that memorandum you advised that Faith Whittlesey had been invited by Renaissance Women to be a sponsor of a Christmas party to benefit Martha's Table. As we have discussed, Mrs. Whittlesey should not accept the invitation to appear as a sponsor of the fundraiser. White House policy provides that staff members may be listed, in their private capacities (no official title), on invitations to or programs for fundraisers as "honored guests, not as sponsors. This policy is necessary to avoid potential conflict of interest problems arising in part out of the fact that prospective donors may have business pending with the White House or various Federal agencies. Thank you for raising this matter with us. ID #. CU WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET 0 OUTGOING H INTERNAL I . INCOMING Date Correspondence Received (YY/MM/DD) / / Name of Correspondent: Mary ann Meloy MI Mail Report User Codes: (A) (B) (C) Subject: Renaissance Women Fundraiser for Martha's Table, December 14, 1984 ROUTE TO: ACTION DISPOSITION Tracking Type Completion Action Date of Date Office/Agency (Staff Name) Code YY/MM/DD Response Code YY/MM/DD CUHOLL ORIGINATOR 84,1128 / / CUAT18 Referral Note: R 84/11/28 S 84,11 ,29 Referral Note: AM / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: ACTION CODES: DISPOSITION CODES: A Appropriate Action I - Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary A Answered C Completed C. Comment/Recommendation R. Direct Reply w/Copy B - Non-Special Referral S Suspended D Draft Response S. For Signature F Furnish Fact Sheet X- Interim Reply to be used as Enclosure FOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE: Type of Response = Initials of Signer Code = "A" Completion Date = Date of Outgoing Comments: Keep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter. Send all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB). Always return completed correspondence record to Central Files. Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 27, 1984 MEMORANDUM FOR FRED FIELDING COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT FROM: MARY ANN MELOY MAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON SUBJECT: Renaissance Women Fundraiser for Martha's Table December 14, 1984 Faith Whittlesey has been asked to be a member of the sponsoring committee for the subject event and would appreciate your opinion. If you have any questions, please ask a member of your staff to call me (x6270). Attachment The Renaissance Women 205 Third Street, S.E. (202) 546-4143 Washington, D.C. 20003 Faith Whittlesey Office of Public Liaison The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Faith, The Renaissance Women, a non-profit (501-C-3) educational organization was founded to promote individual growth and productivity. Whenever possible we encourage community involve- ment and private sector initiatives as an alternative to government funding. One such project we have worked on to reach our goal has been Martha's Table. It was founded twelve years ago by Dr. Vernonica Maz after taking her University students through the poorer sections of town to study "poverty." She was so overwhelmed with what she saw, she formed Martha's Table. It has since seen the addition of "House of Ruth," and "SOME" (So Others Might Eat). These organizations house, feed and clothe the homeless and destitute. She is applying the principles set forth in the Bible, and those practiced by conservative politicians. As Renaissance Women, we want to honor Dr. Maz and her efforts by sponsoring a Christmas party to raise money, food and clothes for the shelter. This will be Friday, December 14, December 14, and the party for the children will be the next day from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Martha's Table in the District of Columbia. We will distribute the food and gifts to the children at that time. We would be honored if you would agree to be a member of the sponsor committee. We have businessmen, congressmen, athletes and journalists on the committee. We need sponsors who support the growth of the private sector, and its involvement in the needs of the community. You have been an encouragement to those who feel the burden of caring for the poor and homeless should be shifted from the Federal government, back to the community where personal involve- ment and commitment are the solutions to these problems. Please let us know as soon as possible as the 14th is rapidly approaching. I am anxious for your response. If you have further questions, please call me at 546-4143. All the best, Aina Nina May Chairman, Renaissance Women Enclosed: Article about Martha's Table from the Renaissance Report. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING OCTOBER 1984 Photographed by Art Freda ONE WOMAN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE E very evening at five a re- donated bread. Volunteers of- converted old ice-cream ered to help paint and refur- truck known as "McKenna's ish the premises-and soon Wagon" (named for the late here were enough people to Horace McKenna, a Jesuit operate the program. priest who ministered to the Although most of the needy poor) begins making its rounds who took advantage of the soup to various parks in Washington, itchen were men, women occa- D.C. Each time the wagon sionally showed up too. Then stops, volunteers hop out to dis- one day a homeless woman was tribute hot soup and sand- ound brutally murdered in wiches to homeless and hungry the backyard of the building. people who are waiting in line As a result of the tragedy, for what may be their only Veronica became determined meal of the day. to do something to help home- The people on line are not ess women. only those we think of as being She began "scrounging" the traditional destitute but again, and in 1976, with the also the "new poor"-people Her name is donations she solicited from who have always worked but, Veronica Maz and friends and strangers alike, she due to job cutbacks, are now opened a women's shelter unemployed. Many of these single-handedly called "House of Ruth" in men and women express frus- she has given hope- northwest Washington. The tration and humiliation at day the shelter opened its their plight; others are simply and life itself-to doors, eight women moved in grateful that the wagon exists. The food wagon is the brain- thousands of people and slept on their coats on the floor. Since then more than child of one remarkable wom- in Washington D.C. 20,000 battered and homeless an-46-year-old Veronica Maz, By Sandra McElwaine women have used the facility. Ph.D., a former sociology pro- More recently Veronica fessor at Georgetown Universi- the project by doing what she turned her attention to home- ty in Washington. An energetic calls "scrounging"-cajoling less children-youngsters who and optimistic woman, Veroni- people to donate office space have been either abandoned, ca had always had a special and money and to volunteer neglected, or abused by their interest in helping the poor and their time and labor. She per- families and forced to live on had done volunteer work in suaded one inner-city landlord the streets. In 1982 she opened community antipoverty pro- to give her rent-free space for "Martha's Table," a soup kitch- grams. But in the winter of her project. Then she began en for children located in a 1969 she saw something that knocking on doors in the neigh- vacated day-care center. turned her concern into com- borhood asking to borrow McKenna's Wagon is a spin- mitment. As she walked down a spoons and bowls-and plead- off of the children's program. street in a rundown section of ing for dollar donations. She Instead of waiting for the Washington one cold morning, also spread word of the project needy to come to her, Veronica she saw a group of men hud- every chance she had. decided to go to them-with a dled around a makeshift camp- A few months later she traveling soup kitchen. A local fire, cooking soup made from opened SOME-So Others businessman donated an old chicken claws. Veronica was so Might Eat. Her optimism was ice-cream truck, and Veronica distressed by the scene that contagious-the project's suc- was once again in business. she knew she had to do some- cess exceeded even Veronica's Today the wagon serves about thing to change it. She decided expectations. Neighborhood of- 200 people a day. to leave her university teach- fice workers and taxi drivers Where does Veronica find the ing job and use her small pri- began stopping by to leave help for all her projects? What vate income to open a soup homemade soups and other began as a small informal band kitchen for the needy. food. After she sent out news- of volunteers has grown into a Armed with a belief in peo- letters on the project to area large efficient organization. ple's generosity, she started stores, several supermarkets ONE WOMAN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE continued Over 200 unpaid volunteers-doctors, lawyers, students, church-group mem- bers-donate their spare time to mak- ing sandwiches. picking up supplies, and taking turns driving the food wag- on. On the occasions when Veronica her- self rides the wagon, she hops out at each stop to dispense encouragement along with the food. The "street peo- ple," drawn to her warmth and com- passion, confide in her. Many have been coming to the food line for over a year and they tell her about their unsuc- cessful job hunts. Some carry their clothes and all their other possessions around with them. Since federal funds for the needy have been cut back, Veronica's pro- grams are a blessing. "We have to give them hope," she says. "They have no one else to turn to, and we keep them going till they find a job.' H er drive to help others stems from her own stable, affectionate child- hood. She grew up in a comfortable, middle-class family in Alquippa, Pa., where her parents managed a hotel. "My mother could grow a whole yard of the most beautiful flowers," she says. "I like to deal with people in the same way-make them bloom." Veronica lives alone in an apartment in Washington's Georgetown section but spends most of her time in the small, ramshackle office a floor above Martha's Table, where she directs her operations. She does not draw a salary, living only on her own income. Veronica believes strongly in the power of volunteerism-ordinary peo- ple joining forces to find solutions to social problems. Along with recruiting volunteers and resources, she gives seminars to people interested in start- ing self-help programs with little or no money. Along with the satisfaction of know- ing that she is providing an important community service has come painful awareness. "There's a real fine line be- tween homeless people and you and me," Veronica stresses. "We have others for support groups. They have nobody." Veronica's energy seems to be boundless. One of her future goals is to take her traveling soup kitchen nation- wide. Another is to open a food-stamp restaurant where, for one dollar, people using food stamps will be able to buy a well-balanced hot meal. "We're such a wasteful society," Veronica observes. "If we could only learn to share all our surpluses, there probably wouldn't be any poverty at all." In sharing herself, Veronica Maz has convincingly shown the enormous difference one woman can make. Gaithersburg Focus July 13, 1984 It Starts with One About nine people come to my house three nights a month, and we make 600 sandwiches together." One of the side benefits of volunteering, Cindy says, is watching the neighborhood pull together. "The fun of it is to see it snowball, not only in products, but in people. And it's fun getting to know one's neighbors." Still, why does Cindy Manarin care enough about street people to help pay for and make 600 sandwiches?" do it because I want to be a part of humanity, to be able to identify with people. It's a healthy thing to do, a pro- ductive use of my time and it makes me feel I'm doing something worthwhile." Moreover, Cindy believes "you can't live life in isolation and live fully. The more exposed you become to parts of life, the more whole Cindy, right, chats with Dr. Veronica Maz, founder of you become. Martha's Table. In the background is the commercial "It starts with one person - and you could very well be freezer provided by IBM through the Fund for Com- that one person - but somebody's got to start it. My munity Service. friend got me involved, and I in turn became a catalyst, This is a story about Martha's Table, a soup kitchen on getting my neighbors and other friends involved. To use an old FSD theme, 'one person can make a dif- 14th Street in Washington, D.C., for homeless people. ference'." It is also about the spirit of helpfulness and how catch- ing it is, and how, thanks to the efforts of Cindy Manarin, there's a shiny new freezer at Martha's Table. The president and founder of Martha's Table is Dr. Veronica Maz. Styling herself as a "full-time scrounger with a Ph.D.," Dr. Maz says her mission is "to help the homeless get their life together." One of the ways the former sociology professor has done this is through the distribution of a "wish list." Cindy, a program manager in Communications, had been volunteering time and food to Martha's Table for more than a year when she noticed, on this list, that they needed $2,200 for a commercial freezer. That was when it occurred to What's in the pot? One of Charles Mosley's (right) Cindy to put in a request to IBM's Fund for Community famous soups that complement the sandwiches served Service. In April, her request was granted. "We waited to Washington's homeless by Martha's Table. so long for that," says Dr. Maz, as she proudly shows What sticks in the mind are the stories Dr. Maz tells to off the new freezer. show how hard life can be for homeless people: how it "People who don't believe that breadlines exist in is almost impossible for the homeless to find a drink of Washington should ride once on McKenna's Wagon," water; how, once, a three-year-old child wandered into remarks Cindy. Every day, Martha's Table distributes Martha's Table carrying what Dr. Maz thought was a upwards of 1,500 sandwiches from a recycled step- doll, until she heard the doll cry, and she saw it was the van called "McKenna's Wagon," named for the late little girl's six-month-old baby brother. Father Horace McKenna, S. J., who was assistant Besides the children's soup kitchen and McKenna's pastor of St. Aloysius Church, Washington, D.C. Wagon, there are two other non-profit programs op- "In January of '83," Cindy recalls, "a friend of mine told erating under the umbrella of Martha's Table: the me about McKenna's Wagon. I started helping by pick- Children's Learning Center, offering innovative work ing up bread. You need 40 loaves to make 500 and study programs; and the National Institute of sandwiches. Gradually, I started doing a little bit more Neighborhood Self-help, which offers nationwide, and a little bit more." intensive one-day workshops on "How to Start Your Own Soup Kitchen or Shelter Without Money." An avid Redskins-fan, Cindy loves football but hates to waste time, so she put the television in the kitchen and IBM has been steadily increasing its commitment to watched the games as she made sandwiches, two the community since the Fund for Community Service hours a night, two nights a week. Occasionally things was first announced 14 years ago. IBM invites any would pile up (lives of busy people sometimes get employee who is actively involved in a local com- behind schedule), so Cindy began calling on her neigh- munity service organization to use the Fund hv submit- THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 10, 1985 MEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS 026R SUBJECT: Request that the President Donate a Personal Firearm for a Charity Auction Catherine Lincoln, on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has written you to ask that the President donate a firearm to be auctioned at an auction of celebrity firearms to benefit the museum. The attached draft advises Lincoln of our established policy against providing memora- bilia for auction. Attachment THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 10, 1985 Dear Ms. Lincoln: Thank you for your letter of June 5, requesting that the President donate a firearm to be auctioned to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Established White House policy generally precludes providing memorabilia to be auctioned to benefit charity. As you might imagine, the White House receives countless requests to support charitable fundraising through the donation of memorabilia or other means. We cannot comply with all such requests, and out of fairness have adopted the general policy of denying them all. I hope you will understand why WE cannot comply with your request, and that our inability to do SO is in no sense an adverse reflection on the museum. = trust that the auction will be a great success. Sincerely, Orig. signed by FFF Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Ms. Catherine R. Lincoln 414 MacArthur Avenue Vienna, VA 22180 FFF: JGR:aea 6/10/85 CC: FFFielding JGRoberts Subj Chron THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 10, 1985 Dear Ms. Lincoln: Thank you for your letter of June 5, requesting that the President donate a firearm to be auctioned to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Established White House policy generally precludes providing memorabilia to be auctioned to benefit charity. As you might imagine, the White House receives countless requests to support charitable fundraising through the donation of memorabilia or other means. We cannot comply with all such requests, and out of fairness have adopted the general policy of denying them all. I hope you will understand why WE cannot comply with your request, and that our inability to do so is in no sense an adverse reflection on the museum. I trust that the auction will be a great success. Sincerely, Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Ms. Catherine R. Lincoln 414 MacArthur Avenue Vienna, VA 22180 FFF: JGR:aea 6/10/85 CC: FFFielding JGRoberts Subj Chron Dg 322896 ID #. CU PR014-02 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET o - OUTGOING R H . INTERNAL I . INCOMING Date Correspondence Received (YY/MM/DD) / / Name of Correspondent: Catherine R. Sixtabn MI Mail Report User Codes: (A) (B) (C) Subject: Requests that the President donate a personal firearm An a Charity auction ROUTE TO: ACTION DISPOSITION Tracking Type Completion Action Date of Date Office/Agency (Staff Name) Code YY/MM/DD Response Code YY/MM/DD CULtillard ORIGINATOR 8510610 TWS / / Referral Note: WATE 8 D 85,06110 58506120 WS Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: / / / / - Referral Note: ACTION CODES DISPOSITION CODES A. Appropriate Action I . Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary A Answered C Completed C Comment/Recommendation R Direct Reply w/Copy B - Non-Special Referral S Suspended D. Draft Response $ For Signature F Furnish Fact Sheet X Interim Reply to be used as Enclosure FOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE Type of Response = Initials of Signer Code = "A" Completion Date = Date of Outgoing Comments: Keep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter. Send all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB). Always return completed correspondence record to Central Files. Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 322896cu Four One Four MacArthur Avenue Vienna, Virginia 22180 June 5, 1985 The Honorable Fred F. Fielding Counsel to the President Second Floor, West Wing The White House Washington, D.C. 20008 Dear Mr. Fielding: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would be most grateful for the support of President Reagan in a charity auction to be held at Christie's auction house in New York in September, 1985. This will be an auction of antique and celebrity firearms, sponsored by Mr. Philip Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum. Mr. Montebello is coordinating donations of firearms and already Mr. Gene Autry has offered a personal firearm from his collection. The Museum would be most honored if the President could also make a similar gift, which would give tremendous momentum to the success of the auction. Would you kindly let me know, since the auction catalog is now being compiled. With grateful thanks, I remain, Sincerely yours, Cathine R. hindu, Catherine R. Lincoln CC. Robert Kline, President, the U.S. Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia Philip Montebello, Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 10-17 TO: FFF FROM: John G. Roberts, Jr. FYI COMMENT ACTION THERE IS A STRONG WHITE HOUSE POLICY AGAINST AUCTIONING MEMORABILIA THIS ITEM SUGGESTS THE RNC HAS A CONTRARY POLICY SHOULD WE LOOK INTO THIS? I THINK IT LOOKS BAD WHEN WE TURN DOWN THE RED CROSS OR GIRL SCOUTS AND THEN SEND ITEMS TO THE COLORADO REPUBLICANS. 20. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1985 USA TODAY PEOPLE A time to toast BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE FAMOUS AND THE FASCINATING Liza Leading women NEW YORK - About 3.00 partygers (jammed the Pali- inspired by men dium nightclub Wednesday night to celebrate Liza Minne- in dramatic TV debut in the Who influenced Connie in public and always had to NBC movie. A Time to Law Chung. Gloria Stetnem, Jeane push himself beyond his cape- New York Daily News 00 Kirkpatrick and Sally Ride billties." says Stetnem. "I iden- umnist Liz Smith. host of the most titled with that because It was event. described Liza as "ons Men that's who many years before I had the of the few performers who NET In the November issue of courage to speak to public think is a real human being am McCall's. some of the USA's Mario Thomas cites Ralph Liza, in a pink beaded min leading women pointed to men Nader. "He has stayed pure for and a new reddish blond punt Nex as the major influences in their 20 years" Thomas says hairdo. arrived with husband A professional live Robert Crippen. command- Mark Gers, designer Halston wer "Narrowly and literally I er of both her space Rights. and pal Andy Warho. and would have to say that my role was Ride's role mode. Liza said the film "was 8 coll models, professionally. were "There were very few women wonderful experience. TV is and men" says Kirkpatrick ex. research physicists." says Ride, fast but terribly fulfilling a United Nations ambessador "and obviously there were no "They were the scholars and women astronauts (she was the professors whom 1 greatly ad- first) at all" antred as a student" NBC enchorwoman Chung Lily and Gerry: She also cited Adial Steven- names Walter Creakite Mutual fans son, Harry Truman and for "Even today there still aren't mer Secretary of State Dear very many women role models Geraldine Ferrare is a Lily Acheson as early role models. for us," says Chung. "When I Temlin fan. and she's going to For Geraldine Ferraro, started in 1969, the one I at 3st the comedian know ± President Kennedy was the ways watched was Walter Tuesday night. Ferraro role model, while Ms. mage- Cronkite eaught Tomlin's smash Broad- nine founder Gleria Steinem Chung also taps a male col- may solo turn. The Search for cites Robert Kennedy lege journalism professor and Signs of Intelligent Life in the "He was extraordinarily mbs, & marvelous gentleman by the Universe. She says It was "ab- found at very difficult to speak name of Edwis Newman." solutely phenomenal." and has signed a copy of her autoblog raphy -Ferraro: My Story - that she's mailing to the uter Lity's show praises Ferrare, PEOPLE too. During a second-act piece about Semintern, the audience hears a news citp about Ferm- ro's historic candidacy Briefly Little Richard is in stable condition after surgery Tues- day on a broken leg be out. tered in an auto accident last week. A spokesman at Cedars- Sinal Medical Center in Los An- geles says the rock star re- celved calls from Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney. Did Chirl Stevic and Per CBarrotti "They're not here. and next time Reported by Jeannie call on the teen-agers' phone." Williams, Matt Roush, Craig Wilson, Richard David Story THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 18, 1985 MEMORANDUM FOR RICHARD A. HAUSER FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS 828 SUBJECT: Use of Presidential Letter in Fundraising Appeal Ralph Showers runs Rainbow Acres Ranch in Arizona, a facility for mentally retarded adults. In 1982 he sent the President a letter describing his ranch, and received a laudatory reply from the President dated May 24, 1982. That reply, complete with signature, was featured in a recent brochure soliciting contributions for the ranch. The contributions sought were in the form of annuities, with the income to the donor until paid off, and the remainder to Rainbow Acres. A letter to Showers is attached for your signature. The letter insists that he cease immediately any use of the President's letter in his fundraising solicitation. Attachment THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 18, 1985 Dear Mr. Showers: Your brochure soliciting participation in the Rainbow Acres Partnership Trust has been brought to our attention. That brochure features a reproduction of a letter from the President to you, dated May 24, 1982, complete with a facsimile of the President's signature. White House policy generally prohibits such use of letters from the President in private charitable fundraising appeals, and strictly prohibits any use of such letters in solicitations for funds with investment characteristics. Your use of the President's letter creates the false impression that the President has endorsed your fundraising appeal or the investment vehicle you offer in the brochure. This misuse of the President's letter must cease immediately. In particular, your brochure containing the President's letter may not be further distributed. Please advise this office as soon as possible of the steps; you have taken to comply with this letter. Sincerely, Original signed by RAH Richard A.. Hauser Deputy Counsel to the President Mr. Ralph K. Showers President Rainbow Acres Ranch Post Office Box 1326 Camp Verde, Arizona 86322 RAH: JGR:aea 12/18/85 bcc: FFFielding JGRoberts Subj Chron THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 18, 198 5 Dear Mr. Showers: Your brochure soliciting participation in the Rainbow Acres Partnership Trust has been brought to our attention. That brochure features a reproduction of a letter from the President to you, dated May 24, 1982, complete with a facsimile of the President's signature. White House policy generally prohibits such use of letters from the President in private charitable fundraising appeals, and strictly prohibits any use of such letters in solicitations for funds with investment characteristics. Your use of the President's letter creates the false impression that the President has endorsed your fundraisinc appeal or the investment vehicle you offer in the brochure. This misuse of the President's letter must cease immediately. In particular, your brochure containing the President's letter may not be further distributed. Please advise this office as soon as possible of the steps you have taken to comply with this letter. Sincerely, Richard A. Hauser Deputy Counsel to the President Mr. Ralph K. Showers President Rainbow Acres Ranch Post Office Box 1326 Camp Verde, Arizona 86322 RAH: JGR:aea 12/18/85 bcc: FFFielding JGRoberts Subj Chron ID # 361746 JV. CU WHITE HOUSE PRO14-09 CORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET o - OUTGOING H 185 INTERNAL I - INCOMING Date Correspondence Received (YY/MM/DD) / / Name of Correspondent: Ralpa Showers M1 Mail Report User Codes: (A) (B) (c) Subject: uses letter from R.R. to make fundraising appeal ROUTE TO: ACTION DISPOSITION Tracking Type Completion Action Date of Date Office/Agency (Staff Name) Code YY/MM/DD Response Code YY/MM/DD CUHOLL ORIGINATOR CS 85,11,20 / / Referral cuat 18 A/D 85111.21 Note: for RAH segnature 585,120100 Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: / / / / Referral Note: ACTION CODES: DISPOSITION CODES: A Appropriate Action I Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary A Answered C Completed C Comment/Recommendation R Direct Reply w/Copy B Non-Special Referral S Suspended D Draft Response S For Signature F Furnish Fact Sheet X Interim Reply to be used as Enclosure FOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE: Type of Response = Initials of Signer Code = "A" Completion Date = Date of Outgoing Comments: See ID 080733 Incoming is from anonymous individual Nov 20 85 anne Heggins memo to FFF Keep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter. Send all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB). Always return completed correspondence record to Central Files. Refer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590. 5/81 RAINBOW ACRES PARTNERSHIP A NEW AND EXCITING INVESTMENT IN R THE SPONSOR PLAN - DESCRIPTION Rainbow Acres is a Ranch home for From September 1 through Dec. 1, 1985, Rainbow Acres is Mentally Retarded Adults. It was started offering partnership units in the Rainbow Acres Partnership Trust RAPT - Series 85. in 1973 with the purpose of training and educating each retarded person in five Partnership units are being offered at $500 increments, with basic areas - to grow Physically, Mentally, different partnership classifications available depending on the number of units purchased. Socially, Vocationally and Spiritually. On Dec. 1, 1985, all contributions which have been collected over The success of Rainbow Acres to pre- this period will fund an annuity for each participant. Each partner pare each of the residents in these five will receive-a fixed annuity amount (7.5% of contribution) each areas is phenomenal. Nowhere in the year for 15 years. These annual annuity payments will be made around Dec. 15 of each year. world has so much change come over such a group of Mentally Handicapped TAX BENEFIT people. Each partner will qualify for a current 1985 tax deduction of approximately 43% of his/her partnership contribution. One of the first goals that Rainbow Acres has conquered was to not have any RETURN OF GIFTED AMOUNT dependence on government money. The By the 15th year each partner will have received back 100% of his/her contribution. ranch has set out from the beginning to be self-supporting and self-sustaining. CONTINUING BENEFIT TO RAINBOW ACRES At the end of the 15th year, the partnership will be dissolved and Because of the desire to be worthwhile, the remaining amounts in the trust will continue strictly as an businesses have been started at the ranch endowment fund for Rainbow Acres so that the residents can work toward For the protection of both Rainbow Acres and the many partners self-support. Everyday the businesses get who participate, the collected funds will be invested in low risk. stronger and stronger and the residents high return investments. learn to carry themselves straighter and Example 1: taller. Mrs. Acres contributes $1,000 to the RAPT - Series 85. She It is to this end that Rainbow Acres is then receives an annual annuity payment of $75 each Dec. 15th for 15 years (15 years X $75 = $1,000 or 100% of initial trying to reach for maturity. contribution). Mrs. Acres can also deduct $430 (43% of $1,000) on her 1985 income tax return. Example 2: Mr. Rainbow contributes $50,000 to the RAPT - Series 85. He then receives a check for $3,750 each Dec. 15th for 15 years (15 years x $3,750 = $50,000 or 100% of his initial contribution). Mr. Rainbow can also deduct $21,000 (43% of $50,000) on his 1985 income tax return (any amount of this deduction that he can't use in 1985 can be carried forward for five additional years). The legal name for this annuity/remainder gift plan is a "Group Qualified Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust". This brochure has been prepared for illustrative purposes only. The legal and tax aspects of this plan as it pertains to your individual circumstances should be reviewed by your own tax or legal advisor. RAINBOW ACRES PARTNERSHIP TRUST Rainbow Acres Rainbow Acres Ranch Where Hesitant Hands Become Helping Hands Through God's Guidance New rate gives higher 43% tax deduction Rainbow Acres Inc. Campe Verde, Ariz. 86322 plus a full 100% return of the exact amount that you give. Mr. Ralph Showers P.O. Box 1326 SPONSORED BY RAINBOW ACRES CAMP VERDE, ARIZONA 2 Mr. President: Did you really write the letter below? Do you really know anything about the operation? endorse just anything Mon you!!!! THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES The FBI-should quietly check out this Religious Cult. May 24, 1982 CPBeakMr. Showers: gives me great pleasure to commend you on the wonderful work you are doing. This is a belated response, but sometimes it takes a while for mail to reach my desk. Through simple acts of love and concern. we are all recipients of many forms of charity. The sacrifices that are made in a charitable spirit measure the scope of our character and the fullness of our lives. Our nation's well-being is enhanced whenever people help each other in time of need. As there can never be a replacement for the assistance which caring and concerned individuals can provide for each other, we all have an important part to play in mak- ing our communities better places for us to live together. You have my great admiration and I want to wish you continued success in your efforts as you enrich the lives of your fellowmen. Sincerely, Ronald Reagon Mr. Ralph K. Showers President Rainbow Acres Ranch Post Office Box 1326 Camp Verde, Arizona 86322 TRUST INBOW ACRES HOW TO PARTICIPATE Partnership Classification: ($500 per unit) 1-5 Units - Junior Partner 5-10 Units - General Partner 10-15 Units - Senior Partner 50-99 Units - Honorary Partner Name Address Enclosed please find my check for $ , which qualifies me for the position of: Junior Partner General Partner Senior Partner Honorary Partner Detach this form and mail along with your partnership check to: Rainbow Acres P.O. Box 1326 Camp Verde, Arizona 86322 Upon receipt of your check you will be sent a receipt and support document showing your annual annuity payment amount and your qualifying tax deduction amount.

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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Roberts, John G.: Files\nFolder Title: JGR/Fundraising (2 of 3)\nBox: 26\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 5, 1984\nMEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING\nFROM:\nJOHN G. ROBERTS 820\nSUBJECT:\nRequest for Presidential Letter to\nbe Used in Charitable Fundraising\nThe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to\nChildren (NSPCC), a royally chartered British charity, has\nasked the President to submit a letter he wrote as a child\nor a letter to him from a child for inclusion in an\nanthology NSPCC plans to publish to raise funds. Katherine\nShepherd of Presidential Correspondence has asked if we have\nany problems complying with the request.\nOur standard practice is to deny such requests for Presidential\nitems to be used in fundraising, and I see no reason to\ndepart from that practice in this case. We deny such\nrequests, even from the worthiest charitable organizations,\nbecause the White House is in no position to monitor the\naffairs of the charities, which would be necessary to some\nextent were the President to lend his name to them, and\nbecause granting some requests of this sort would inevitably\ngenerate a flood of similar, indistinguishable requests.\nFurther, use of Presidential items for fundraising is really\njust selling the prestige of the office, and that is not for\nsale, not for any price, not for any cause. The Queen has\nsubmitted a letter for the anthology, but that is what\nroyalty is for.\nA draft reply to NSPCC is attached for your review and\nsignature.\nAttachment\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 5, 1984\nDear Ms. Poute:\nThank you for your letter to the President, requesting that\nhe submit a letter he wrote as a child, or a letter to him\nfrom a child, for inclusion in an anthology to be published\nto raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention\nof Cruelty to Children. I must advise you that we cannot\ncomply with your request.\nThe White House adheres to a policy of generally not approving\nthe use of Presidential memorabilia in connection with\nfundraising efforts, however laudable those efforts might\nbe. This policy is necessary for several reasons. The\nWhite House is not able to monitor the activities of particular\ncharitable organizations, which would be necessary to some\nextent were the President to lend his name to an organization.\nIn addition, acceding to some requests for Presidential\nparticipation in private charitable fundraising would\ninevitably generate countless similar requests. The President\ncould not, of course, grant all such requests, and out of\nfairness he has been compelled to deny them all.\nI hope you will understand the reasons we must take this\nposition, and also understand that it in no sense constitutes\nan adverse reflection on your organization. Best of luck\nwith your worthy efforts. I am sorry our response could not\nbe more favorable.\nSincerely,\nOrig. signed by FFF\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nMs. Jenny Poute\nNational Society for the\nPrevention of Cruelty to Children\nArdeley Bury, Near Stevenage\nHertfordshire, Walkern 458\nFFF: :JGR:aea 9/5/84\nbcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 5, 1984\nDear Ms. Poute:\nThank you for your letter to the President, requesting that\nhe submit a letter he wrote as a child, or a letter to him\nfrom a child, for inclusion in an anthology to be published\nto raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention\nof Cruelty to Children. I must advise you that we cannot\ncomply with your request.\nThe White House adheres to a policy of generally not approving\nthe use of Presidential memorabilia in connection with\nfundraising efforts, however laudable those efforts might\nbe. This policy is necessary for several reasons. The\nWhite House is not able to monitor the activities of particular\ncharitable organizations, which would be necessary to some\nextent were the President to lend his name to an organization.\nIn addition, acceding to some requests for Presidential\nparticipation in private charitable fundraising would\ninevitably generate countless similar requests. The President\ncould not, of course, grant all such requests, and out of\nfairness he has been compelled to deny them all.\nI hope you will understand the reasons we must take this\nposition, and also understand that it in no sense constitutes\nan adverse reflection on your organization. Best of luck\nwith your worthy efforts. I am sorry our response could not\nbe more favorable.\nSincerely,\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nMs. Jenny Poute\nNational Society for the\nPrevention of Cruelty to Children\nArdeley Bury, Near Stevenage\nHertfordshire, Walkern 458\nFFF:JGR:aea 9/5/84\nbcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron\nID #\n251650\nCU\nJV\nWHITE HOUSE\nPP012\nCORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET\n0 . OUTGOING\nH INTERNAL\nI . INCOMING\nDate Correspondence\nReceived (YY/MM/DD)\n/\n/\nName of Correspondent:\nKatherine Shepherd\nMI Mail Report\nUser Codes: (A)\n(B)\n(C)\nSubject:\na letter written by h child to RR for\nRequests letter from RR's Childhood or\nanthology of letters from Children\nfor fund Raining for national to Society for the\nROUTE TO:\nrepeation of Crulelty ACTION Children DISPOSITION\nTracking\nType\nCompletion\nAction\nDate\nof\nDate\nOffice/Agency\n(Staff Name)\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nResponse\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nWHolland\nORIGINATOR 84,08,14\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\nWAT 18\n5 84,08,25\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\n-\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\n-\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\nACTION CODES:\nDISPOSITION CODES:\nA * Appropriate Action\nI . Info Copy Only/No Action-Necessary\nA Answered\nC Completed\nC Comment/Recommendation\nR Direct Reply w/Copy\nB - Non-Special Referral\nS Suspended\nD Draft Response\nS For Signature\nF * Furnish Fact Sheet\nX Interim Reply\nto be used as Enclosure\nFOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE:\nType of Response = Initials of Signer\nCode = \"A\"\nCompletion Date = Date of Outgoing\nComments: Penny Poute' letter to the Pres. attached\nKeep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter.\nSend all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB).\nAlways return completed correspondence record to Central Files.\nRefer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590.\n5/81\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDate:\n8/13/84\n251650\nTo:\nFred Fielding\nDo you see any problems with us\ncomplying with their request?\nThanks for your help.\nKATHERINE SHEPHERD\nPresidential Correspondence\nOffice\nRoom 98, x7610\nNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN\n31\nCENTENARY DEVELOPMENT APPEAL\nKD\nChairman Duke of Westminster\nPatrons: Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother\nPresident: HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon\nDzae Mr. President,\nWe are working on an Anthology of letters from children, in\norder to raise money for the National Society for the\nPrevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).\nContributions SO far, include a letter written by Her Majesty\nthe Queen when she was eight, a letter to Her Royal Highness\nthe Princess of Wales from one of her ex-pupils, Sir Winston\nChurchill's first letter to his mother and many others.\nWe would be most grateful if you would donate a letter -\nideally one of your childhood letters, or perhaps a letter\nwritten by a child to you.\nWhilst we hope to generate a substantial sum for the society\nwe also hope to illustrate the two extremes of childhood.\n\"You cannot imagine what a Queen of the Earth I was when I\nwas twelve years old\nOh how you would have loved me.\nAnd how I miss myself\"\nColette\n\"One never recovers from one's childhood\"\nLeon Paul Farque\nYours succerely.\nJenuy Poute.\nARDELEY BURY\nand Paqan Binnie\nNEAR STEVENAGE\nHERTFORDSHIRE\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 10, 1984\nMEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING\nFROM:\nJOHN G. ROBERTS 826R\nSUBJECT:\nUse of Communications From the President\nWith Regard to the International Education\nProgram of the American College of Cardiology\nGeorge D. Webster of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, on behalf\nof his client the American College of Cardiology, has\nrequested permission to reproduce various letters to the\nCollege from the President in a fundraising brochure to be\ndistributed by the College. For over twenty years the\nCollege has sponsored an international education program,\nutilizing the volunteered services of cardiologists. The\nPresident has on several occasions commended the College for\nthis private sector voluntarism effort, and, most recently,\nsent an April 19, 1984, letter of commendation to each of\nthe volunteering physicians. In his letter to you Webster\nnotes that Federal funding for the program was eliminated in\n1980, and that the College is now compelled to solicit\nfunds.\nEstablished policy, frequently invoked, generally precludes\nuse of Presidential letters in private charitable fundraising.\nThis policy is based on the inability of the White House to\nmonitor the fundraising activities the President would be\nendorsing, and on the unfairness of endorsing some charitable\nfundraising efforts while declining other essentially\nindistinguishable requests. A draft letter to Webster\nadvising him of our policy in this regard is attached for\nyour review and signature.\nAttachment\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 11, 1984\nDear George:\nThank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that\nletter you inquired if the White house would have any\nobjection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting\nletters from the President in a brochure to be used to\nsolicit funds for the College's international education\nprogram.\nI must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such\nuse of the letters from the President. The White House\ngenerally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the\nPresident's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or\nitems associated with the President, in connection with\nprivate charitable fundraising. There are several reasons\nfor this policy. The White House is not in a position to\nmonitor private fundraising activities, which would be\nnecessary to some extent were the President to become\nassociated with them. In addition, the President can hardly\naccede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular\nfundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them\nall, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast\nnumber of requests from equally laudable organizations.\nI hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and\nunderstand that our inability to grant your request is in no\nsense an adverse reflection on the important and praise-\nworthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology.\nSincerely,\nOrig. signed by FFF\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nGeorge D. Webster, Esquire\nWebster, Chamberlain & Bean\n1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20006\nFFF: JGR:aea 9/11/84\nbcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 11, 1984\nDear George:\nThank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that\nletter you inquired if the White house would have any\nobjection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting\nletters from the President in a brochure to be used to\nsolicit funds for the College's international education\nprogram.\nI must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such\nuse of the letters from the President. The White House\ngenerally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the\nPresident's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or\nitems associated with the President, in connection with\nprivate charitable fundraising. There are several reasons\nfor this policy. The White House is not in a position to\nmonitor private fundraising activities, which would be\nnecessary to some extent were the President to become\nassociated with them. In addition, the President can hardly\naccede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular\nfundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them\nall, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast\nnumber of requests from equally laudable organizations.\nI hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and\nunderstand that our inability to grant your request is in no\nsense an adverse reflection on the important and praise-\nworthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology.\nSincerely,\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nGeorge D. Webster, Esquire\nWebster, Chamberlain & Bean\n1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20006\nFFF:JGR:aea 9/11/84\nbcc: FFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 10, 1984\nDear Mr. Webster:\nThank you for your letter of August 29, 1984. In that\nletter you inquired if the White house would have any\nobjection to the American College of Cardiology reprinting\nletters from the President in a brochure to be used to\nsolicit funds for the College's international education\nprogram.\nI must advise you that we cannot grant permission for such\nuse of the letters from the President. The White House\ngenerally adheres to a policy of not permitting use of the\nPresident's name, likeness, photograph, or signature, or\nitems associated with the President, in connection with\nprivate charitable fundraising. There are several reasons\nfor this policy. The White House is not in a position to\nmonitor private fundraising activities, which would be\nnecessary to some extent were the President to become\nassociated with them. In addition, the President can hardly\naccede to all the requests he receives to endorse particular\nfundraising projects. Fairness dictates that he deny them\nall, rather than arbitrarily select some from among the vast\nnumber of requests from equally laudable organizations.\nI hope you will appreciate the reasons for our position, and\nunderstand that our inability to grant your request is in no\nsense an adverse reflection on the important and praise-\nworthy efforts of the American College of Cardiology.\nSincerely,\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nGeorge D. Webster, Esquire\nWebster, Chamberlain & Bean\n1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20006\nFFF: JGR:aea 9/10/84\nbcc: FFFielding/JGRoberts/Subj/Chron\n254436\nID #.\nCU\nWHITE HOUSE\nCORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET\no - OUTGOING\nBRAI4\nH . INTERNAL\nI . INCOMING\nDate Correspondence\nReceived (YY/MM/DD)\n/\nName of Correspondent:\nHearge D. Webster\nMI Mail Report\nUser Codes: (A)\n(B)\n(C)\nSubject: Une of Communicatin Arom\nthe President with regard to\nthe international education program\nof the american College of Caldiology\nROUTE TO:\nACTION\nDISPOSITION\nTracking\nType\nCompletion\nAction\nDate\nof\nDate\nOffice/Agency\n(Staff Name)\nCode DDU YY/MM/DD\nResponse\nCode YY/MM/DD\nCULtrlland\nORIGINATOR 84108131\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\nWAT 18\nD 08/109,04\n5 84,09,14\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\nACTION CODES:\nDISPOSITION CODES:\nA. Appropriate Action\nL. Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary\nA Answered\nC Completed\nC. Comment/Recommendation\nR - Direct Reply w/Gopy\nB . Non-Special Referral\nS Suspended\nD Draft Response\nS - For Signature\nF Furnish Fact Sheet\nX . Interim Reply\nto be used as Enclosure\nFOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE:\nType of Response = Initials of Signer\nCode = \"A\"\nCompletion Date = Date of Outgoing\nBECOME:\nComments:\nKeep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter.\nSend all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB).\nAlways return completed correspondence record to Central Files.\nRefer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590.\n5/81\nLAW OFFICES\nGEORGE D. WEBSTER\nWEBSTER, CHAMBERLAIN & BEAN\nCHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN\n1747 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, N. W.\nJ. COLEMAN BEAN\nARTHUR L.HEROLD\nWASHINGTON, D. C. 20006\nALAN P. DYE\nBURKETT VAN KIRK\n(202) 785-9500\nFRANK M. NORTHAM\n254436 all\nC. MICHAEL DEESE\nGERARD P. PANARO\nJOHN P. MCALLISTER\nAugust 29, 1984\nJOHN W. HAZARD, JR.\nBRAD D. WEISS\nFred F. Fielding, Esq.\nCounsel to the President\nThe White House\nWashington, D.C. 20006\nDear Mr. Fielding,\nOne of our clients is the American College of Cardiology, a\ntax-exempt educational and scientific organization. As one of\nits activities, the College maintains an International Education\nCommittee which, since 1961, has sponsored an international\neducation program. The program is a volunteer program under which\nselected professors of medicine from United States institutions are\nsent to foreign countries to conduct educational seminars and\nclinics regarding developments in cardiology and medical care.\nUntil 1980, funding for the program was partially subsidized\nby the United States Department of State. Since that time, the\nAmerican College of Cardiology has sought to continue the program,\nusing the College's own funds. Because the College cannot support\nthe program entirely from its own funds, it now intends to solicit\nfunds and/or grants for use in the continuation of the program.\nAs part of the brochure which would be used in soliciting such\nfunds, the College wishes to reprint, in whole or in part, various\ncommunications which it has received from past presidents and from\nPresident Reagan praising the international education program. I\nam unaware of any legal contraints on such a usage of presidential\ncorrespondence but, I wanted to check with your office to be sure\nthat there would be no objection.\nI would appreciate your letting me know if there are any\nlimitations on the usage of presidential correspondence for the\npurposes outlined above.\nSincerely yours,\nGeoge Webster\nGDW:alc\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nNovember 30, 1984\nMEMORANDUM FOR MARY ANN MELOY\nASSOCIATE DIRECTOR\nOFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON\nFROM:\nASSOCIATE COUNSEL Dol TO THE PRESIDENT\nJOHN G. ROBERTS\nSUBJECT:\nRenaissance Women Fundraiser for\nMartha's Table, December 14, 1984\nYour memorandum of November 27 to Counsel to the President\nFred F. Fielding on the above-referenced topic has been\nreferred to me for consideration and response. In that\nmemorandum you advised that Faith Whittlesey had been\ninvited by Renaissance Women to be a sponsor of a Christmas\nparty to benefit Martha's Table.\nAs we have discussed, Mrs. Whittlesey should not accept the\ninvitation to appear as a sponsor of the fundraiser. White\nHouse policy provides that staff members may be listed, in\ntheir private capacities (no official title), on invitations\nto or programs for fundraisers as \"honored guests, not as\nsponsors. This policy is necessary to avoid potential\nconflict of interest problems arising in part out of the\nfact that prospective donors may have business pending with\nthe White House or various Federal agencies.\nThank you for raising this matter with us.\nID #.\nCU\nWHITE HOUSE\nCORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET\n0 OUTGOING\nH INTERNAL\nI . INCOMING\nDate Correspondence\nReceived (YY/MM/DD)\n/\n/\nName of Correspondent: Mary ann Meloy\nMI Mail Report\nUser Codes: (A)\n(B)\n(C)\nSubject: Renaissance Women Fundraiser\nfor Martha's Table, December 14,\n1984\nROUTE TO:\nACTION\nDISPOSITION\nTracking\nType\nCompletion\nAction\nDate\nof\nDate\nOffice/Agency\n(Staff Name)\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nResponse\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nCUHOLL\nORIGINATOR 84,1128\n/\n/\nCUAT18\nReferral Note:\nR 84/11/28\nS 84,11 ,29\nReferral Note:\nAM\n/ /\n/ /\n-\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/ /\n-\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/ /\n-\nReferral Note:\nACTION CODES:\nDISPOSITION CODES:\nA Appropriate Action\nI - Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary\nA Answered\nC Completed\nC. Comment/Recommendation\nR. Direct Reply w/Copy\nB - Non-Special Referral\nS Suspended\nD Draft Response\nS. For Signature\nF Furnish Fact Sheet\nX- Interim Reply\nto be used as Enclosure\nFOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE:\nType of Response = Initials of Signer\nCode = \"A\"\nCompletion Date = Date of Outgoing\nComments:\nKeep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter.\nSend all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB).\nAlways return completed correspondence record to Central Files.\nRefer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590.\n5/81\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nNovember 27, 1984\nMEMORANDUM FOR FRED FIELDING\nCOUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT\nFROM:\nMARY ANN MELOY MAM\nASSOCIATE DIRECTOR\nOFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON\nSUBJECT:\nRenaissance Women Fundraiser for\nMartha's Table\nDecember 14, 1984\nFaith Whittlesey has been asked to be a member of the sponsoring\ncommittee for the subject event and would appreciate your\nopinion.\nIf you have any questions, please ask a member of your staff to\ncall me (x6270).\nAttachment\nThe Renaissance Women\n205 Third Street, S.E.\n(202) 546-4143\nWashington, D.C. 20003\nFaith Whittlesey\nOffice of Public Liaison\nThe White House\nWashington, D.C. 20500\nDear Faith,\nThe Renaissance Women, a non-profit (501-C-3) educational organization was founded to\npromote individual growth and productivity. Whenever possible we encourage community involve-\nment and private sector initiatives as an alternative to government funding.\nOne such project we have worked on to reach our goal has been Martha's Table. It was\nfounded twelve years ago by Dr. Vernonica Maz after taking her University students through the\npoorer sections of town to study \"poverty.\" She was so overwhelmed with what she saw, she\nformed Martha's Table. It has since seen the addition of \"House of Ruth,\" and \"SOME\" (So\nOthers Might Eat).\nThese organizations house, feed and clothe the homeless and destitute. She is applying the\nprinciples set forth in the Bible, and those practiced by conservative politicians.\nAs Renaissance Women, we want to honor Dr. Maz and her efforts by sponsoring a Christmas\nparty to raise money, food and clothes for the shelter. This will be Friday, December 14,\nDecember 14, and the party for the children will be the next day from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at\nMartha's Table in the District of Columbia. We will distribute the food and gifts to the children\nat that time.\nWe would be honored if you would agree to be a member of the sponsor committee. We have\nbusinessmen, congressmen, athletes and journalists on the committee. We need sponsors who\nsupport the growth of the private sector, and its involvement in the needs of the community. You\nhave been an encouragement to those who feel the burden of caring for the poor and homeless\nshould be shifted from the Federal government, back to the community where personal involve-\nment and commitment are the solutions to these problems.\nPlease let us know as soon as possible as the 14th is rapidly approaching. I am anxious for your\nresponse. If you have further questions, please call me at 546-4143.\nAll the best,\nAina\nNina May\nChairman, Renaissance Women\nEnclosed: Article about Martha's Table from the Renaissance Report.\nGOOD HOUSEKEEPING\nOCTOBER 1984\nPhotographed by Art Freda\nONE WOMAN\nWHO MADE A\nDIFFERENCE\nE\nvery evening at five a re-\ndonated bread. Volunteers of-\nconverted old ice-cream\nered to help paint and refur-\ntruck known as \"McKenna's\nish the premises-and soon\nWagon\" (named for the late\nhere were enough people to\nHorace McKenna, a Jesuit\noperate the program.\npriest who ministered to the\nAlthough most of the needy\npoor) begins making its rounds\nwho took advantage of the soup\nto various parks in Washington,\nitchen were men, women occa-\nD.C. Each time the wagon\nsionally showed up too. Then\nstops, volunteers hop out to dis-\none day a homeless woman was\ntribute hot soup and sand-\nound brutally murdered in\nwiches to homeless and hungry\nthe backyard of the building.\npeople who are waiting in line\nAs a result of the tragedy,\nfor what may be their only\nVeronica became determined\nmeal of the day.\nto do something to help home-\nThe people on line are not\ness women.\nonly those we think of as being\nShe began \"scrounging\"\nthe traditional destitute but\nagain, and in 1976, with the\nalso the \"new poor\"-people\nHer name is\ndonations she solicited from\nwho have always worked but,\nVeronica Maz and\nfriends and strangers alike, she\ndue to job cutbacks, are now\nopened a women's shelter\nunemployed. Many of these\nsingle-handedly\ncalled \"House of Ruth\" in\nmen and women express frus-\nshe has given hope-\nnorthwest Washington. The\ntration and humiliation at\nday the shelter opened its\ntheir plight; others are simply\nand life itself-to\ndoors, eight women moved in\ngrateful that the wagon exists.\nThe food wagon is the brain-\nthousands of people\nand slept on their coats on the\nfloor. Since then more than\nchild of one remarkable wom-\nin Washington D.C.\n20,000 battered and homeless\nan-46-year-old Veronica Maz,\nBy Sandra McElwaine\nwomen have used the facility.\nPh.D., a former sociology pro-\nMore recently Veronica\nfessor at Georgetown Universi-\nthe project by doing what she\nturned her attention to home-\nty in Washington. An energetic\ncalls \"scrounging\"-cajoling\nless children-youngsters who\nand optimistic woman, Veroni-\npeople to donate office space\nhave been either abandoned,\nca had always had a special\nand money and to volunteer\nneglected, or abused by their\ninterest in helping the poor and\ntheir time and labor. She per-\nfamilies and forced to live on\nhad done volunteer work in\nsuaded one inner-city landlord\nthe streets. In 1982 she opened\ncommunity antipoverty pro-\nto give her rent-free space for\n\"Martha's Table,\" a soup kitch-\ngrams. But in the winter of\nher project. Then she began\nen for children located in a\n1969 she saw something that\nknocking on doors in the neigh-\nvacated day-care center.\nturned her concern into com-\nborhood asking to borrow\nMcKenna's Wagon is a spin-\nmitment. As she walked down a\nspoons and bowls-and plead-\noff of the children's program.\nstreet in a rundown section of\ning for dollar donations. She\nInstead of waiting for the\nWashington one cold morning,\nalso spread word of the project\nneedy to come to her, Veronica\nshe saw a group of men hud-\nevery chance she had.\ndecided to go to them-with a\ndled around a makeshift camp-\nA few months later she\ntraveling soup kitchen. A local\nfire, cooking soup made from\nopened SOME-So Others\nbusinessman donated an old\nchicken claws. Veronica was so\nMight Eat. Her optimism was\nice-cream truck, and Veronica\ndistressed by the scene that\ncontagious-the project's suc-\nwas once again in business.\nshe knew she had to do some-\ncess exceeded even Veronica's\nToday the wagon serves about\nthing to change it. She decided\nexpectations. Neighborhood of-\n200 people a day.\nto leave her university teach-\nfice workers and taxi drivers\nWhere does Veronica find the\ning job and use her small pri-\nbegan stopping by to leave\nhelp for all her projects? What\nvate income to open a soup\nhomemade soups and other\nbegan as a small informal band\nkitchen for the needy.\nfood. After she sent out news-\nof volunteers has grown into a\nArmed with a belief in peo-\nletters on the project to area\nlarge efficient organization.\nple's generosity, she started\nstores, several supermarkets\nONE WOMAN WHO MADE A\nDIFFERENCE continued\nOver 200 unpaid volunteers-doctors,\nlawyers, students, church-group mem-\nbers-donate their spare time to mak-\ning sandwiches. picking up supplies,\nand taking turns driving the food wag-\non.\nOn the occasions when Veronica her-\nself rides the wagon, she hops out at\neach stop to dispense encouragement\nalong with the food. The \"street peo-\nple,\" drawn to her warmth and com-\npassion, confide in her. Many have\nbeen coming to the food line for over a\nyear and they tell her about their unsuc-\ncessful job hunts. Some carry their\nclothes and all their other possessions\naround with them.\nSince federal funds for the needy\nhave been cut back, Veronica's pro-\ngrams are a blessing. \"We have to give\nthem hope,\" she says. \"They have no\none else to turn to, and we keep them\ngoing till they find a job.'\nH\ner drive to help others stems from\nher own stable, affectionate child-\nhood. She grew up in a comfortable,\nmiddle-class family in Alquippa, Pa.,\nwhere her parents managed a hotel.\n\"My mother could grow a whole yard\nof the most beautiful flowers,\" she\nsays. \"I like to deal with people in the\nsame way-make them bloom.\"\nVeronica lives alone in an apartment\nin Washington's Georgetown section\nbut spends most of her time in the\nsmall, ramshackle office a floor above\nMartha's Table, where she directs her\noperations. She does not draw a salary,\nliving only on her own income.\nVeronica believes strongly in the\npower of volunteerism-ordinary peo-\nple joining forces to find solutions to\nsocial problems. Along with recruiting\nvolunteers and resources, she gives\nseminars to people interested in start-\ning self-help programs with little or no\nmoney.\nAlong with the satisfaction of know-\ning that she is providing an important\ncommunity service has come painful\nawareness. \"There's a real fine line be-\ntween homeless people and you and me,\"\nVeronica stresses. \"We have others\nfor support groups. They have nobody.\"\nVeronica's energy seems to be\nboundless. One of her future goals is to\ntake her traveling soup kitchen nation-\nwide. Another is to open a food-stamp\nrestaurant where, for one dollar, people\nusing food stamps will be able to buy a\nwell-balanced hot meal.\n\"We're such a wasteful society,\"\nVeronica observes. \"If we could only\nlearn to share all our surpluses, there\nprobably wouldn't be any poverty at\nall.\" In sharing herself, Veronica Maz\nhas convincingly shown the enormous\ndifference one woman can make.\nGaithersburg Focus\nJuly 13, 1984\nIt Starts with One\nAbout nine people come to my house three nights a\nmonth, and we make 600 sandwiches together.\"\nOne of the side benefits of volunteering, Cindy says, is\nwatching the neighborhood pull together. \"The fun of\nit is to see it snowball, not only in products, but in\npeople. And it's fun getting to know one's neighbors.\"\nStill, why does Cindy Manarin care enough about street\npeople to help pay for and make 600 sandwiches?\" do\nit because I want to be a part of humanity, to be able to\nidentify with people. It's a healthy thing to do, a pro-\nductive use of my time and it makes me feel I'm doing\nsomething worthwhile.\" Moreover, Cindy believes\n\"you can't live life in isolation and live fully. The more\nexposed you become to parts of life, the more whole\nCindy, right, chats with Dr. Veronica Maz, founder of\nyou become.\nMartha's Table. In the background is the commercial\n\"It starts with one person - and you could very well be\nfreezer provided by IBM through the Fund for Com-\nthat one person - but somebody's got to start it. My\nmunity Service.\nfriend got me involved, and I in turn became a catalyst,\nThis is a story about Martha's Table, a soup kitchen on\ngetting my neighbors and other friends involved. To\nuse an old FSD theme, 'one person can make a dif-\n14th Street in Washington, D.C., for homeless people.\nference'.\"\nIt is also about the spirit of helpfulness and how catch-\ning it is, and how, thanks to the efforts of Cindy Manarin,\nthere's a shiny new freezer at Martha's Table.\nThe president and founder of Martha's Table is Dr.\nVeronica Maz. Styling herself as a \"full-time scrounger\nwith a Ph.D.,\" Dr. Maz says her mission is \"to help the\nhomeless get their life together.\" One of the ways the\nformer sociology professor has done this is through\nthe distribution of a \"wish list.\" Cindy, a program\nmanager in Communications, had been volunteering\ntime and food to Martha's Table for more than a year\nwhen she noticed, on this list, that they needed $2,200\nfor a commercial freezer. That was when it occurred to\nWhat's in the pot? One of Charles Mosley's (right)\nCindy to put in a request to IBM's Fund for Community\nfamous soups that complement the sandwiches served\nService. In April, her request was granted. \"We waited\nto Washington's homeless by Martha's Table.\nso long for that,\" says Dr. Maz, as she proudly shows\nWhat sticks in the mind are the stories Dr. Maz tells to\noff the new freezer.\nshow how hard life can be for homeless people: how it\n\"People who don't believe that breadlines exist in\nis almost impossible for the homeless to find a drink of\nWashington should ride once on McKenna's Wagon,\"\nwater; how, once, a three-year-old child wandered into\nremarks Cindy. Every day, Martha's Table distributes\nMartha's Table carrying what Dr. Maz thought was a\nupwards of 1,500 sandwiches from a recycled step-\ndoll, until she heard the doll cry, and she saw it was the\nvan called \"McKenna's Wagon,\" named for the late\nlittle girl's six-month-old baby brother.\nFather Horace McKenna, S. J., who was assistant\nBesides the children's soup kitchen and McKenna's\npastor of St. Aloysius Church, Washington, D.C.\nWagon, there are two other non-profit programs op-\n\"In January of '83,\" Cindy recalls, \"a friend of mine told\nerating under the umbrella of Martha's Table: the\nme about McKenna's Wagon. I started helping by pick-\nChildren's Learning Center, offering innovative work\ning up bread. You need 40 loaves to make 500\nand study programs; and the National Institute of\nsandwiches. Gradually, I started doing a little bit more\nNeighborhood Self-help, which offers nationwide,\nand a little bit more.\"\nintensive one-day workshops on \"How to Start Your\nOwn Soup Kitchen or Shelter Without Money.\"\nAn avid Redskins-fan, Cindy loves football but hates to\nwaste time, so she put the television in the kitchen and\nIBM has been steadily increasing its commitment to\nwatched the games as she made sandwiches, two\nthe community since the Fund for Community Service\nhours a night, two nights a week. Occasionally things\nwas first announced 14 years ago. IBM invites any\nwould pile up (lives of busy people sometimes get\nemployee who is actively involved in a local com-\nbehind schedule), so Cindy began calling on her neigh-\nmunity service organization to use the Fund hv submit-\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 10, 1985\nMEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING\nFROM:\nJOHN G. ROBERTS 026R\nSUBJECT:\nRequest that the President Donate a\nPersonal Firearm for a Charity Auction\nCatherine Lincoln, on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of\nArt in New York, has written you to ask that the President\ndonate a firearm to be auctioned at an auction of celebrity\nfirearms to benefit the museum. The attached draft advises\nLincoln of our established policy against providing memora-\nbilia for auction.\nAttachment\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 10, 1985\nDear Ms. Lincoln:\nThank you for your letter of June 5, requesting that the\nPresident donate a firearm to be auctioned to benefit the\nMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\nEstablished White House policy generally precludes providing\nmemorabilia to be auctioned to benefit charity. As you\nmight imagine, the White House receives countless requests\nto support charitable fundraising through the donation of\nmemorabilia or other means. We cannot comply with all such\nrequests, and out of fairness have adopted the general\npolicy of denying them all.\nI hope you will understand why WE cannot comply with your\nrequest, and that our inability to do SO is in no sense an\nadverse reflection on the museum. = trust that the auction\nwill be a great success.\nSincerely,\nOrig. signed by FFF\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nMs. Catherine R. Lincoln\n414 MacArthur Avenue\nVienna, VA 22180\nFFF: JGR:aea 6/10/85\nCC: FFFielding\nJGRoberts\nSubj\nChron\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJune 10, 1985\nDear Ms. Lincoln:\nThank you for your letter of June 5, requesting that the\nPresident donate a firearm to be auctioned to benefit the\nMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\nEstablished White House policy generally precludes providing\nmemorabilia to be auctioned to benefit charity. As you\nmight imagine, the White House receives countless requests\nto support charitable fundraising through the donation of\nmemorabilia or other means. We cannot comply with all such\nrequests, and out of fairness have adopted the general\npolicy of denying them all.\nI hope you will understand why WE cannot comply with your\nrequest, and that our inability to do so is in no sense an\nadverse reflection on the museum. I trust that the auction\nwill be a great success.\nSincerely,\nFred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nMs. Catherine R. Lincoln\n414 MacArthur Avenue\nVienna, VA 22180\nFFF: JGR:aea 6/10/85\nCC: FFFielding\nJGRoberts\nSubj\nChron\nDg\n322896\nID #.\nCU\nPR014-02\nWHITE HOUSE\nCORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET\no - OUTGOING\nR\nH . INTERNAL\nI . INCOMING\nDate Correspondence\nReceived (YY/MM/DD)\n/\n/\nName of Correspondent:\nCatherine R. Sixtabn\nMI Mail Report\nUser Codes: (A)\n(B)\n(C)\nSubject:\nRequests that the President donate\na personal firearm An a Charity auction\nROUTE TO:\nACTION\nDISPOSITION\nTracking\nType\nCompletion\nAction\nDate\nof\nDate\nOffice/Agency\n(Staff Name)\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nResponse\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nCULtillard\nORIGINATOR\n8510610 TWS\n/\n/\nReferral Note:\nWATE 8\nD\n85,06110\n58506120\nWS\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\n-\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\n-\nReferral Note:\n/\n/\n/\n/\n-\nReferral Note:\nACTION CODES\nDISPOSITION CODES\nA. Appropriate Action\nI . Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary\nA Answered\nC Completed\nC Comment/Recommendation\nR Direct Reply w/Copy\nB - Non-Special Referral\nS Suspended\nD. Draft Response\n$ For Signature\nF Furnish Fact Sheet\nX Interim Reply\nto be used as Enclosure\nFOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE\nType of Response = Initials of Signer\nCode = \"A\"\nCompletion Date = Date of Outgoing\nComments:\nKeep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter.\nSend all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB).\nAlways return completed correspondence record to Central Files.\nRefer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590.\n5/81\n322896cu\nFour One Four MacArthur Avenue\nVienna, Virginia 22180\nJune 5, 1985\nThe Honorable Fred F. Fielding\nCounsel to the President\nSecond Floor, West Wing\nThe White House\nWashington, D.C. 20008\nDear Mr. Fielding:\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York\nwould be most grateful for the support of\nPresident Reagan in a charity auction to be\nheld at Christie's auction house in New York\nin September, 1985.\nThis will be an auction of antique and\ncelebrity firearms, sponsored by Mr. Philip\nMontebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum.\nMr. Montebello is coordinating donations of\nfirearms and already Mr. Gene Autry has offered\na personal firearm from his collection.\nThe Museum would be most honored if the\nPresident could also make a similar gift,\nwhich would give tremendous momentum to the\nsuccess of the auction. Would you kindly let\nme know, since the auction catalog is now being\ncompiled.\nWith grateful thanks, I remain,\nSincerely yours,\nCathine R. hindu,\nCatherine R. Lincoln\nCC. Robert Kline, President, the U.S. Historical\nSociety, Richmond, Virginia\nPhilip Montebello, Director, Metropolitan\nMuseum of Art, New York\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\n10-17\nTO: FFF\nFROM: John G. Roberts, Jr.\nFYI\nCOMMENT\nACTION\nTHERE IS A STRONG WHITE HOUSE\nPOLICY AGAINST AUCTIONING MEMORABILIA\nTHIS ITEM SUGGESTS THE RNC HAS\nA CONTRARY POLICY SHOULD WE\nLOOK INTO THIS? I THINK IT\nLOOKS BAD WHEN WE TURN DOWN\nTHE RED CROSS OR GIRL SCOUTS AND\nTHEN SEND ITEMS TO THE COLORADO\nREPUBLICANS.\n20. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1985 USA TODAY\nPEOPLE\nA time\nto toast\nBEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE FAMOUS AND THE FASCINATING\nLiza\nLeading women\nNEW YORK - About 3.00\npartygers (jammed the Pali-\ninspired by men\ndium nightclub Wednesday\nnight to celebrate Liza Minne-\nin dramatic TV debut in the\nWho influenced Connie\nin public and always had to\nNBC movie. A Time to Law\nChung. Gloria Stetnem, Jeane\npush himself beyond his cape-\nNew York Daily News 00\nKirkpatrick and Sally Ride\nbillties.\" says Stetnem. \"I iden-\numnist Liz Smith. host of the\nmost\ntitled with that because It was\nevent. described Liza as \"ons\nMen that's who\nmany years before I had the\nof the few performers who\nNET\nIn the November issue of\ncourage to speak to public\nthink is a real human being\nam\nMcCall's. some of the USA's\nMario Thomas cites Ralph\nLiza, in a pink beaded min\nleading women pointed to men\nNader. \"He has stayed pure for\nand a new reddish blond punt\nNex\nas the major influences in their\n20 years\" Thomas says\nhairdo. arrived with husband\nA\nprofessional live\nRobert Crippen. command-\nMark Gers, designer Halston\nwer\n\"Narrowly and literally I\ner of both her space Rights.\nand pal Andy Warho.\nand\nwould have to say that my role\nwas Ride's role mode.\nLiza said the film \"was 8\ncoll\nmodels, professionally. were\n\"There were very few women\nwonderful experience. TV is\nand\nmen\" says Kirkpatrick ex.\nresearch physicists.\" says Ride,\nfast but terribly fulfilling\na\nUnited Nations ambessador\n\"and obviously there were no\n\"They were the scholars and\nwomen astronauts (she was the\nprofessors whom 1 greatly ad-\nfirst) at all\"\nantred as a student\"\nNBC enchorwoman Chung\nLily and Gerry:\nShe also cited Adial Steven-\nnames Walter Creakite\nMutual fans\nson, Harry Truman and for\n\"Even today there still aren't\nmer Secretary of State Dear\nvery many women role models\nGeraldine Ferrare is a Lily\nAcheson as early role models.\nfor us,\" says Chung. \"When I\nTemlin fan. and she's going to\nFor Geraldine Ferraro,\nstarted in 1969, the one I at\n3st the comedian know ±\nPresident Kennedy was the\nways watched was Walter\nTuesday night. Ferraro\nrole model, while Ms. mage-\nCronkite\neaught Tomlin's smash Broad-\nnine founder Gleria Steinem\nChung also taps a male col-\nmay solo turn. The Search for\ncites Robert Kennedy\nlege journalism professor and\nSigns of Intelligent Life in the\n\"He was extraordinarily mbs,\n& marvelous gentleman by the\nUniverse. She says It was \"ab-\nfound at very difficult to speak\nname of Edwis Newman.\"\nsolutely phenomenal.\" and has\nsigned a copy of her autoblog\nraphy -Ferraro: My Story -\nthat she's mailing to the uter\nLity's show praises Ferrare,\nPEOPLE\ntoo. During a second-act piece\nabout Semintern, the audience\nhears a news citp about Ferm-\nro's historic candidacy\nBriefly\nLittle Richard is in stable\ncondition after surgery Tues-\nday on a broken leg be out.\ntered in an auto accident last\nweek. A spokesman at Cedars-\nSinal Medical Center in Los An-\ngeles says the rock star re-\ncelved calls from Michael\nJackson, Paul McCartney.\nDid Chirl Stevic\nand\nPer\nCBarrotti\n\"They're not here. and next time\nReported by Jeannie\ncall on the teen-agers' phone.\"\nWilliams, Matt Roush, Craig\nWilson, Richard David Story\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDecember 18, 1985\nMEMORANDUM FOR RICHARD A. HAUSER\nFROM:\nJOHN G. ROBERTS 828\nSUBJECT:\nUse of Presidential Letter\nin Fundraising Appeal\nRalph Showers runs Rainbow Acres Ranch in Arizona, a facility\nfor mentally retarded adults. In 1982 he sent the President\na letter describing his ranch, and received a laudatory\nreply from the President dated May 24, 1982. That reply,\ncomplete with signature, was featured in a recent brochure\nsoliciting contributions for the ranch. The contributions\nsought were in the form of annuities, with the income to the\ndonor until paid off, and the remainder to Rainbow Acres.\nA letter to Showers is attached for your signature. The\nletter insists that he cease immediately any use of the\nPresident's letter in his fundraising solicitation.\nAttachment\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDecember 18, 1985\nDear Mr. Showers:\nYour brochure soliciting participation in the Rainbow Acres\nPartnership Trust has been brought to our attention. That\nbrochure features a reproduction of a letter from the\nPresident to you, dated May 24, 1982, complete with a\nfacsimile of the President's signature.\nWhite House policy generally prohibits such use of letters\nfrom the President in private charitable fundraising appeals,\nand strictly prohibits any use of such letters in solicitations\nfor funds with investment characteristics. Your use of the\nPresident's letter creates the false impression that the\nPresident has endorsed your fundraising appeal or the\ninvestment vehicle you offer in the brochure.\nThis misuse of the President's letter must cease immediately.\nIn particular, your brochure containing the President's\nletter may not be further distributed. Please advise this\noffice as soon as possible of the steps; you have taken to\ncomply with this letter.\nSincerely,\nOriginal signed by RAH\nRichard A.. Hauser\nDeputy Counsel to the President\nMr. Ralph K. Showers\nPresident\nRainbow Acres Ranch\nPost Office Box 1326\nCamp Verde, Arizona 86322\nRAH: JGR:aea 12/18/85\nbcc: FFFielding\nJGRoberts\nSubj\nChron\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDecember 18, 198 5\nDear Mr. Showers:\nYour brochure soliciting participation in the Rainbow Acres\nPartnership Trust has been brought to our attention. That\nbrochure features a reproduction of a letter from the\nPresident to you, dated May 24, 1982, complete with a\nfacsimile of the President's signature.\nWhite House policy generally prohibits such use of letters\nfrom the President in private charitable fundraising appeals,\nand strictly prohibits any use of such letters in solicitations\nfor funds with investment characteristics. Your use of the\nPresident's letter creates the false impression that the\nPresident has endorsed your fundraisinc appeal or the\ninvestment vehicle you offer in the brochure.\nThis misuse of the President's letter must cease immediately.\nIn particular, your brochure containing the President's\nletter may not be further distributed. Please advise this\noffice as soon as possible of the steps you have taken to\ncomply with this letter.\nSincerely,\nRichard A. Hauser\nDeputy Counsel to the President\nMr. Ralph K. Showers\nPresident\nRainbow Acres Ranch\nPost Office Box 1326\nCamp Verde, Arizona 86322\nRAH: JGR:aea 12/18/85\nbcc: FFFielding\nJGRoberts\nSubj\nChron\nID #\n361746\nJV.\nCU\nWHITE HOUSE\nPRO14-09\nCORRESPONDENCE TRACKING WORKSHEET\no - OUTGOING\nH 185 INTERNAL\nI - INCOMING\nDate Correspondence\nReceived (YY/MM/DD)\n/\n/\nName of Correspondent:\nRalpa Showers\nM1 Mail Report\nUser Codes: (A)\n(B)\n(c)\nSubject: uses letter from R.R. to make\nfundraising appeal\nROUTE TO:\nACTION\nDISPOSITION\nTracking\nType\nCompletion\nAction\nDate\nof\nDate\nOffice/Agency\n(Staff Name)\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nResponse\nCode\nYY/MM/DD\nCUHOLL\nORIGINATOR CS 85,11,20\n/ /\nReferral\ncuat 18\nA/D 85111.21\nNote: for RAH segnature\n585,120100\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/ /\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/ /\nReferral Note:\n/ /\n/ /\nReferral Note:\nACTION CODES:\nDISPOSITION CODES:\nA Appropriate Action\nI Info Copy Only/No Action Necessary\nA Answered\nC Completed\nC Comment/Recommendation\nR Direct Reply w/Copy\nB Non-Special Referral\nS Suspended\nD Draft Response\nS For Signature\nF Furnish Fact Sheet\nX Interim Reply\nto be used as Enclosure\nFOR OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE:\nType of Response = Initials of Signer\nCode = \"A\"\nCompletion Date = Date of Outgoing\nComments:\nSee ID 080733\nIncoming is from anonymous individual\nNov 20 85 anne Heggins memo to FFF\nKeep this worksheet attached to the original incoming letter.\nSend all routing updates to Central Reference (Room 75, OEOB).\nAlways return completed correspondence record to Central Files.\nRefer questions about the correspondence tracking system to Central Reference, ext. 2590.\n5/81\nRAINBOW ACRES PARTNERSHIP\nA NEW AND EXCITING INVESTMENT IN R\nTHE SPONSOR\nPLAN - DESCRIPTION\nRainbow Acres is a Ranch home for\nFrom September 1 through Dec. 1, 1985, Rainbow Acres is\nMentally Retarded Adults. It was started\noffering partnership units in the Rainbow Acres Partnership Trust\nRAPT - Series 85.\nin 1973 with the purpose of training and\neducating each retarded person in five\nPartnership units are being offered at $500 increments, with\nbasic areas - to grow Physically, Mentally,\ndifferent partnership classifications available depending on the\nnumber of units purchased.\nSocially, Vocationally and Spiritually.\nOn Dec. 1, 1985, all contributions which have been collected over\nThe success of Rainbow Acres to pre-\nthis period will fund an annuity for each participant. Each partner\npare each of the residents in these five\nwill receive-a fixed annuity amount (7.5% of contribution) each\nareas is phenomenal. Nowhere in the\nyear for 15 years. These annual annuity payments will be made\naround Dec. 15 of each year.\nworld has so much change come over\nsuch a group of Mentally Handicapped\nTAX BENEFIT\npeople.\nEach partner will qualify for a current 1985 tax deduction of\napproximately 43% of his/her partnership contribution.\nOne of the first goals that Rainbow\nAcres has conquered was to not have any\nRETURN OF GIFTED AMOUNT\ndependence on government money. The\nBy the 15th year each partner will have received back 100% of\nhis/her contribution.\nranch has set out from the beginning to be\nself-supporting and self-sustaining.\nCONTINUING BENEFIT TO RAINBOW ACRES\nAt the end of the 15th year, the partnership will be dissolved and\nBecause of the desire to be worthwhile,\nthe remaining amounts in the trust will continue strictly as an\nbusinesses have been started at the ranch\nendowment fund for Rainbow Acres\nso that the residents can work toward\nFor the protection of both Rainbow Acres and the many partners\nself-support. Everyday the businesses get\nwho participate, the collected funds will be invested in low risk.\nstronger and stronger and the residents\nhigh return investments.\nlearn to carry themselves straighter and\nExample 1:\ntaller.\nMrs. Acres contributes $1,000 to the RAPT - Series 85. She\nIt is to this end that Rainbow Acres is\nthen receives an annual annuity payment of $75 each Dec.\n15th for 15 years (15 years X $75 = $1,000 or 100% of initial\ntrying to reach for maturity.\ncontribution). Mrs. Acres can also deduct $430 (43% of\n$1,000) on her 1985 income tax return.\nExample 2:\nMr. Rainbow contributes $50,000 to the RAPT - Series\n85. He then receives a check for $3,750 each Dec. 15th for\n15 years (15 years x $3,750 = $50,000 or 100% of his initial\ncontribution). Mr. Rainbow can also deduct $21,000 (43%\nof $50,000) on his 1985 income tax return (any amount of\nthis deduction that he can't use in 1985 can be carried\nforward for five additional years).\nThe legal name for this annuity/remainder gift plan is a \"Group\nQualified Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust\". This brochure\nhas been prepared for illustrative purposes only. The legal and\ntax aspects of this plan as it pertains to your individual\ncircumstances should be reviewed by your own tax or legal\nadvisor.\nRAINBOW ACRES\nPARTNERSHIP\nTRUST\nRainbow\nAcres\nRainbow Acres Ranch\nWhere Hesitant Hands Become Helping\nHands Through God's Guidance\nNew rate gives higher 43% tax deduction\nRainbow Acres Inc.\nCampe Verde, Ariz. 86322\nplus a full 100% return of the exact\namount that you give.\nMr. Ralph Showers\nP.O. Box 1326\nSPONSORED BY RAINBOW ACRES\nCAMP VERDE, ARIZONA\n2\nMr. President: Did you really write\nthe letter below? Do you really know\nanything about the operation?\nendorse just anything\nMon you!!!!\nTHE PRESIDENT OF THE\nUNITED STATES\nThe FBI-should quietly check out this\nReligious Cult.\nMay 24, 1982\nCPBeakMr. Showers:\ngives me great pleasure to commend you\non the wonderful work you are doing. This\nis a belated response, but sometimes it\ntakes a while for mail to reach my desk.\nThrough simple acts of love and concern.\nwe are all recipients of many forms of\ncharity. The sacrifices that are made in a\ncharitable spirit measure the scope of our\ncharacter and the fullness of our lives. Our\nnation's well-being is enhanced whenever\npeople help each other in time of need.\nAs there can never be a replacement for\nthe assistance which caring and concerned\nindividuals can provide for each other, we\nall have an important part to play in mak-\ning our communities better places for us\nto live together.\nYou have my great admiration and I want\nto wish you continued success in your\nefforts as you enrich the lives of your\nfellowmen.\nSincerely,\nRonald Reagon\nMr. Ralph K. Showers\nPresident\nRainbow Acres Ranch\nPost Office Box 1326\nCamp Verde, Arizona 86322\nTRUST\nINBOW ACRES\nHOW TO PARTICIPATE\nPartnership Classification:\n($500 per unit)\n1-5 Units - Junior Partner\n5-10 Units - General Partner\n10-15 Units - Senior Partner\n50-99 Units - Honorary Partner\nName\nAddress\nEnclosed please find my check for $\n,\nwhich qualifies me for the position of:\nJunior Partner\nGeneral Partner\nSenior Partner\nHonorary Partner\nDetach this form and mail along with your\npartnership check to:\nRainbow Acres\nP.O. Box 1326\nCamp Verde, Arizona 86322\nUpon receipt of your check you will be sent\na receipt and support document showing\nyour annual annuity payment amount and\nyour qualifying tax deduction amount."
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