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1
Feb. 25, 1966
p25.35B
T.V. Speech
Hilton Inn - San Diego
Ladies and gentlemen, I can't tell you and thank you, my good co-chairman
for your kind introduction for making the long road ahead seem already so
short and easy. But thank all of you also for coming out here. I want you
to know that I an willing to repay it the best I can. I brought germa
enough for everybody. Welcome to Deach Valley Days.
You know there's one thing that's wrong with California though. I've been
breathing in ever since I got here. But the thing is with the colors we
can get. out here, you know you could be dead three days and you'd still
look well and healthy. But you know we've heard the State of the State
Message in the last few weeks. "The state is good, and the state has
practiced economy." Now, if that sounds familiar, that's because you
heard it four years ago when he opened his re-election campaign. The
snow fell on the Sierras that year January 24th. Now I don't challenge
that they have procticed economy, but you can't sell tickets to a rehearsal.
I'd like to see a performance. As a matter of fact, a finished performance.
On that day in January 1962, we were told that there should be more
efficiency in government. " There is too much government in California."
But with ideas like that it's just too bad he hasn't been governor
for the last four years. Now this is not the script for tonights program.
This is the subject of fi remorks tonight. This 13 the California budget.
for the coming year.
Now I've been told that it's politically unwise to talk about that, but for
the average citizens like us, four billion six hund ed
as a figure is meaningless. Well it is. It's incomprehensible. So, I've
been trying to get it down to pocket size, because that's where it is
going to come from. I've used this before, but I'm going to do it again.
If I have here a four inch stack of thousand dollar bills in my hand, I
would be a millionaire. That's a million dollars - that little handful.
But if we had that budget piled up in front of us in thousand dollar bills,
the pile would be more than one thousand five hundred feet high. Now let's
try again. If you're an average family in California of four, your share
of the ant in that budget is a little over a thousand dollars this year.
Now I'm just foolish enough to think that the average Californian has some
interest in what someone in Sacramento is going to do with his thousand
dollars.
Now this budget has been explained to us in easy gemeralities -1 our
increasing population. It means we have a need for more services,
government facilities, state employees. Well there's no argument with that.
I'm sure that we all recognize that as the state grows, we must have growth
in government also and in government services. But there should be some
proportionality. In the last eight years state employees have increased
twice as fast as the increase in population. But the budget has increased
four times as fast as the increase in population, and that average family
of four cwes as its share in the California stateddebt some thirteen
hundred dollars and even with that the budget has increased more than the
debt. Your local property taxes increase twice as fast as your personal
income in the last eight years. Mr. and Mrs. average Californian, this
tax combined with the rest 0 the local and state taxes gives you a tax
burden as a family Lf you're that family of four, four hundurd dollars core
than the national average. And what do we have to show for it - well, that
set of paperbacks, and I'd hardly recommend them though for the collection
they're sending to the men in Viet Nam, although we might shorten the word
a little bit if we dropped it on Henoi. I'd better stop talking about Viet
Nam or you'll think I'm running for the Mayer of Los Angeles.
This budget was made up by administrators with eight years of political
experience. If they don't know how now, we can hardly expect them to
become financial geniuses all at once in a ninth year, eyen in a tenth,
eleventh, or twelfth year. The budget is more than twice as costly as it
was eight years ago, and it's characterized by sloppiness, incompetency, and
a tendency to sell out the future - our future. Now this would be the
opinion I think of any coopetent book reviewer, economist or accountant.
Of course, this would be denied. I've been publicly invited for some of
my statements to cose to Sacramento where very kindly they have said that I
would be given a complete explanation of this budget. I'm not going. I'm
not that inexperienced.
But just so you'll know I'm not above taking advice or because some might
think I'm prejudiced. I've turned to the most competent authority I could
find on this budget, a man employed by the state to analyze the budget. He's
been doing it for fifteen years. His duty to be fair and objective is
spelled out by law. I refer to Mr. Alan A. Post, a legislative analyst.
I've taken a long hard look at this budget, but I couldn't possibly match
his comprehensive findings. I used the terms, harsh terms, a moment ago,
describing h13 budget as sloppy and incompetent. Well, on page A-49, listed
under estimated unidentifieble savings, there is a figure of four million
dollars. But just as you move across the page, by the time it reaches the
total column by some magic the four million has become six million. Now
166,000 state employees do thair work by these figures. Scores of
Californian businesses and industries are directly affected. I3 it a
typographical error, or just new arithmatic - who knows? One of che most
important agencies of our state government is the office of planning. Now,
this office is charged with the providing of accurate information concerning
the problems likely to arise in our vast increase in population. Without
effective planning the terms of economics and social differences, we could
well take off helter skelter like a rudderless rocket only the fall out
would be much more costly than the present incompatence. In the last ten
years you and I have spent four million dollars on this Office of Planning,
and for that we supposed to have had stage 1 of the comprehensive p'an
in 1963, stage 2 in 64, and the completed plan in this coming September.
Well, Mr. Post says, " no plan has yet been produced, CO recommendations,
long range policy alternatives have yet been made." They brought aut a
booklet this time with an impressive title, "California evelopment Plan
Program Progress Report Summary Interpretation of Phase 1 Studies." Well,
Mr. Post wasn't impressed. He said of the booklet, "it represented little
more than an apparently hurried and demonstrably unsuccessful effort to
meet a deadline already passed." Now the reason I bring this up is because
this present budget provides for another $500,000 this year for that par-
ticular office to follow the four million down the same rat hole,
The next item would be funny 11 it didn't represent so much real suffering.
I think that every working man and woman in this state is proud to be
able to help the less fortunate, the aged and the disabled, and those who
through no fault of thair own haven't been able to take care of them selves.
But there's a growing unrest in our state, a strange suspicion that we're
not only helping the neady, but we're making possible the segment of
society that has made walfare a profession, a way of life and some of them
are in their third generation at it. If we could solve this problem, we
could do more for the truly deserving and we'd be better off ourselves. But
this problem won't be solved by a budget providing for 2 million dollars for
welfare programs that don't even exist. That's the figure for adminis-
trative salaries for the public assistance medical care program and medical
assistance for the aged program. Nov before someone screams that I'm against
medical care for the needy and the aged, hear me out.
Because of the new Medicare bill, these two agencies that I've just
mentioned go out of business next week, but Mr. Post says the budget
contains all the administrative costs for these programs for the year
1966 and 1967. They should not be budgeted since they will not exist.
But two million dollars would help a lot of people for a long time.
The next boo-boo is not quite so expensive - maybe it's even funny, that is
if you enjoy spending a few hundred thousand dollars. I seems to me I
heard a noted educator a short time ago suggest that the state should
get out of the business of printing text books. Well, the state printing
plant as you know in Sacramento purchases the rights to print the text
books for our schools and in turn an those books are used and distributed
it pays a royalty on each book, but 1:'s cvidently been a sellers market
lately. We bought too many of several kinds of text books and we're
stuck with them. We've already spent $180,000 printing them, and we
can't get that back, but now if we try to use then or even give them
away, we'll have to pay another $150,000 in royalties. So to save
$150,000 we're not going to burn $180,000 worth of books. I picture the
budget and by curious coincidence I arrived at the governers door. Now
let me quote Mr. Post just once more. He says, "The governor's office
has consistently added positions administratively to its staff. In each
case the office ended up with more positions than were originally proposed
by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature." Now Mr.
Post recognizes the difference in always being able to judge the need
in advance, but he does say, "It is reasonable to expect the office to plen
and budget its needs in a way which is more consistent with the usual
standards." Now here for the first time I depart from Mr. Post. I think
the governor has truly budgeted in line with the usual standards and those
usual standards should be changed. This budget represents a sell out of
our future. No: a future fifty or ten or even five years away. It's
a future beginning now. We've been told according tc our state requirements
that this is a balanced budget, without any increase in taxes needed to make
it a balanced budget. Well it's balanced on a pin point of time and headed
for the edge ofaa cliff. Maybe it's alright for the Dodgers to say wait
till next year" because they have a way of making good every 30 often, but
this administration when it says "wait until next year" it knows that we'll
find the hole in the road next year, for this years deficit was moved up
shead and dumped. New, budgets have more than doubled as I told you in the
last eight years, and each time as they increase they were given a name.
One of them was "Stringent" and this followed by "Stern" and then came
"Frugal" and last year they broke the four billion dollar limit with
"Bare Bones" and we know who's bones ere bare and now I didn't think they
could find another name but this one has been named "Leanin" Hard", on us.
Every budget in recent years has been Faced with a deficit, now to avoid
new taxes and the hard facts that probably should have come before consid-
eration of new taxes of getting in and cutting and reducing the budget,,
These deficits have been met by schemes, one time wind-falls and gimmicks.
A few years ago they eliminated the deficit by advancing the collection of
Sales Tax. They berrowed from the future and now we're spending next years
Business Franchise Tax this year, again borrowing from the future. Than
of course they tried to get that classic of all times gimmick, the withholding
of personal tax at the state level. Well this is a one time gimrick that gives
the government a wind fall, but it's also a free ticket to future tax increases,
because we have the evidence of every state or most that have a withholding
of their state income taxes has seen the ease with which the tax cm be
increased once it's just a figure on the stub of a check and not cash in a
man's hand. In the recent meeting in Palms Spring to discuss this budget,
the presses reported, and to date no one has refuted this, that they discussed
perhaps passing on to the future scae 70 million dollars of this years deficit
by coming to the end of the fiscal year June 30th and post dating the last
employees check for this check to July first to put 70 million dollars of
this years payroll on next years bill. And now they come up with a better Due
they're going to swi.ch the bookkeeping system to an accrual system and this
will MOVE a hundred million dollars of this deficit to next year. Nov
strangaly enough we shouldn't have much of a quarrel with the advantages
of the accrual bookkeeping system. Many states have it and it's, I believe
in the minds of most accountants and economists, a good bookkeeping system.
But our complaint this time is the timing, because this switch is being
made to deceive the people, postpone the day of reckoning to move that
deficit up shead again. And even after they've done that, it will leave
us with a hundred and forty million dollars to make up if we're to have
a balanced budget and this they tell us we'll pick up without raising
taxes, now that's a neat trick if you can do it, and they can do it. They
won't raise the taxes until after the election. The gimmick here is they're
going to cancel out your personal deductions in computing your state income
tax. They won't have to raise the rate any, you just don't get any personal
deductions, and that won't come due until next year. Well that's a
familiar song too. It seems that we had a federal income tax reduction
two years ago before that election. Suddenly the pay checks were fatter
for the several months before the election and then came that cold morning
after and we discovered that we had cut the withholding more than we had
cut the tax and everyone had to anti-up and sit down and write a check once
the votes vere counted. Well, I think there's a better answer than this.
Let me return for a minute to the subject of welfare. The cost has doubled
in California in the last five years. It's increased faster than our spending
on education. The average family of four again, its share of the cost of
welfare is now $248.00, and a good portion of this is dead-end modey.
Yes, it supports some one if you Day the bills for a day and then the
money 13 goan. Well this makes welfare addicts out of cillions of Californians.
I think we should begin investigating how we can direct a grenter proportion
of that money into educational channels, provide training for the
handicapped and the presently untrained so they can take their place in
a productive sociaty, making money that returns to us. aa an investment.
I've referred before to this, but one example. are the deaf children of
our stage, many of then on waiting lists for months and even years unable
to get into thelimited school facilities that we provide for the handi-
capped in that way. And they can't start their education because there
is a shortage of trained teachers in that specialty. There's a shortage
of facilities.
The ancient Habrew book of philosophy, the Talmud, says for a father to
fail to teach his son to .arn a living is the same a S teaching him to
steal, because that might be the eventual result. Instead of harrassing
business and industry with regressive taxes 3 let's adopt a creative approach
and ask how can we use government to further free the people to allow us
to reach our fullest potential. We have a leadership gap in Sacramento.
It abdicated their responsibility and they continue to seak the answer to
every California problem in Washington. The free Federal Mar on Poverty
Funds pay 90% of the bill for a while and then you read thefine print and
you discover very shortly now we're supposed to pick up an increasing share
of the task, but isn't that what I'm advocating - Californiana taking care
of California's problems? Yes, except under this system, we're going to
be paying for programs we didn't plan. They were pre-fabricated in Washington
and the only priviledge and the only voice we had in regard to then was
the priviledge of paying for them. But what can we do about this budget?
Not an awful lot. I can almost predict what will be said about my remarks.
I'll be challenged as to which government program I would be willing to
forsake inorder to get economy with the connotation being that the people
would thus lose out and starve and die on the street. Well maybe we don't
cancel any necessary programs. Maybe ve just get people more for their dol-
lar.
The governor said he was going to make scae gains by getting increased
efficiency out of the state employees. Does he mean that they haven't
been performing efficiently these last eight years? Us in battle fuel.
Our ymen and senators in the Republican caucus in Sacramento last
year stood united and firm and they managed to get scae millions of dollars
cut from last years budget even though they're vastly out numbered. Well
you and I must be united in offering support, in giving them the help they
need if they're to be able to hold out against the twist this year. But
then let's remain united even through the exciting primaries 30 that next
fall more ranks can be augmented and we can make meaningful cuts in the
next budget. Let's make the blue pencil a symbol of our Republicanism.
Walk the precincts get out the votes so that next year a responsible hand
can slash that blue pencil through the layers of budgetary fat. Would you
join me in a dream for just a coment. Now I don't mean sode fantasy or
some idle day dream, but a dream of what California and our nation can be.
We're willing to work to make the dream come true, Haven't we had enough
of schemers. This is a time now for dreamers.
Picture 1f you willah administration in our state capital with out any
printed charts listing the minimum campaign contributions that will be
acceptable from the state employees, Picture instead, an administration
that proclaims there will be no socicitation of campaign funds from state
employees in any campaign, an administration not characterized by political
hacks or hangers on, but one that will seek men to match our mountains.
For the challenge the men and the women of this staté to give their time
and talents in service to their state and to their fellow citizens and be
proud to do 30 - out of this great pool of technical skill and talents
that is the body politic of California, there isn't any problem that we
can't solve 1f we will refer it to the people and trust the people to find
the answer. President Eisenhower said "Does political experience automat-
ically result in the creation of a statesman or does it just provide a
backlog men skilled in political give and take?" Well politically experienced
men drew up this budget with very little give and a great deal of take.
Now I'm not a politician and that's precisely why I ask your support,
precisely why I'm doing what I'm doing in this point of time. I believe
very deeply that the time has come for ordinary citizens to bring honor
and morality and the clean fresh air of common sense to government.
I'll even refer to their own party. How far we've strayed from the day
when men suggested to Woodrow Wilson as president that he appoint his
brother as Post Master and Woodrow Wilson said " The only way I could
conceivably do this was if there was a, other man in the United States
capable of performing that job." But politics is not dirty, just some
politicians are. We have come to a time when we need statesman in our
state government.
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OAKLAND - SAN FRANCISCO
ADVERTISING CLUBS SPEECH AT NOON
GOODMAN HALL - JACK LONDON SQUARE
March 1, 1966
You have valcomed mervery warmly, both when I came in and just now, and I am
most grateful. I understand that I an no longer contagious but I can assure
you that I discovered in the Airport in Los Angeles, before I got on the plane
down there - I expected that on my first day out of bed that I'd probably get
a little out of breath walking upstairs but when I found I got out of breath
riding the escalator up the only thing that made me a little miserable is
that the has lingering in my heart from the occupation that has been mine
these many years is such that here was my first chance to play Camile and I
found out that it was a mob scene. Everybody else is doing it. I guess I'm
just another victim of type-casting. You know what type-casting is. This is
if
one of the occupational hazards in Hollywood. It means that/you play a
sailor in a picture and the picture makes money, buy seasick pills - you won't
see land again for years. Well now, I must question - although I appreciate
being hailed as an expert in this field, but I must question that paratcular
classification, although I certainly 22 no stranger to advertising. My partici-
pation, as you well know, has been one of morecor less executing some of the
adversising plans rather than creating them and I won't deny that sometimes
it seemed execution WAS too good for some of them. You know, always the prob-
1sm on such an occastion 03 this is to determine what is on acceptable theme.
Now, I know It has been supposed that I'd direct by words to a tie-in with your
profession and my present status which is priority target - seek and destroy.
Now, I have always been : little gua-chy doout meeting people inchoir
I'd rather take then on in my our backyard where I know where the rocks are, but
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somehow, talking to you about your business reminds me of an essay that was
written by 2 small girl. It WAS a vary brief essay - only three sentences -
but it was fillal with that irreputable logic that can be so informating in
a family quarrel, that Seninice lozio. Har Bussy read "Socrates was a Creck
Teacher. He went around giving people free advice. They poisoned his. "
But there are 00 many approaches that scasone could use in talking to people
of the Advertising and Public Relations Fields and I'm sure that all of then
are known to you For example: "Truch in Advertising" and I have no doubt
modern
but that we have come a long way in/ddvertising to accepting our responsibil-
itly and matching our glowing phrases scrienhat with the mundane realities of
the product we are out to sell. Still there is hardly a day that the question
doesn't arise "How much proof in advertising?" or we can ask ourselves - "Is
Silence maybe a falsehood?" or do we only have to tell the truth if we are
asked.
There was a salesmen in a small town, in a dreary hocal, and on
a dreary morning whodavoke feeling just the same as the morning and the hotel.
He set there in the dining room and said to the waitress "Ham and Eggs and a
kind word." In about five minutos, poker faced, she set the has and e335 in
front of him and he said "Where is the kind word?" And she sald: "Doa't eat
"3r
the eggs.
New many people today have expressed the consirn, particularly in recent compadges,
about the part that modern advertising and public relations Is playing in determin-
inz the outcome of policical compaigns and people have cirpresed the fear that
venal forces, checkbook heavy and principal life would publicage 2 condidate like
song and seller him to the voters, complete with 3 thous 3003 and 3 slogm.
Some people have 0730 Jone 30 for 23 to the the constitute of Madison
Imunue could this their magic loose and pursuade the pubple :s vote just for about
public Eigure, like pay an motor, and such 2014, of course, (3 sheer Internist
Your of US 11 this undersitizate due si
3.
But I think at the same time practically we all realize more R than anyone
else that the 3022 we sell had better look like soap when the wrapper comes
off and smell like soap, and it had better lather when wet as there isn't
very much we can do about keeping up the sales. Actually, there has been
a traditional relationship in our country between politics and advertising
and public relations. It is just possible that a man named John Seckley
of Virginia was the first of a long line of lily gilders who made the two
party system work in all these many decodes. He was a devoted aid to Thomas
Jefferson, if you question who he might have been, and be was his aid in build-
ing what was known first as the Republican Party, then it changed its name
to the Democrat Party and that name change was a kind of a portent to the
things to come. That party has undergone more than a name change since then.
Jefferson stood for local rule, individual rights, States Rights, and great
limitations on the power of the central government, and his opponent, his
adversary, was Alexander Hamilton who, of course, was strong for the Cencral
Government Theme, the idea of centralizing all authority possible in the
Nation's Capital. Jefferson won. Today, however, I think it would be more
appropriate if the Democrats would hold an annual Familton-Jackson Day Dinner
instead of the traditional Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner because certainly
centralized authority has become a difinite and admitted part of their philos-
ophy, indeed the goal of that party. Well, anyway, Bookley was Jefferson's
propogandisc. It was in the last two decades of the last Century, around the
turn of the Century, that advertising and public relations really firmed up
the merger with politics. The campaign of 1830 sea the real introduction of
compaign literature on a wide scale. This was due in part to the growth of
the press, 2 more abundant supply of cheep paper. I have often wondered if
paper wasn't choup before then, how they managed to have wars before then be-
cause the war that I fought The one in which I become a actional authority on
paper clips and paper. But listen to the modern sound of this. Yen who ware
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learned as regards to issues, the Issues of State, and who possess what
night be termed "173 Foowledge of Applied Psychology". hold the blue pencil.
Paraguaphs, dentandes and words are undered with reference to their effect
in the mind of the readers. that will be of advancage to one part of the
country may be useless, or possibly hormful in other parts. It sounds
pratty modern but that 100 the description of the part being played by ad-
vertising and public relations in the compaign of 1900 and of course radio
in the mid 20's T.V really coming Into full flower in the '52 and '56
compaign, served 20 the approved printing pad in its time, to further
casent this relationship. Well new, I have no real fear of advertising in
modern politics in the sense of the part it plays in presenting cundidates.
In fact, if we really analymeathst electronics may have brought us CS close
23 possible in this age of bigness to the old eyaball to cycball personal
type of compligning. The stump 13 gone but a TV clossup in the family
it
living room is pretty personal and you Imou, I think as the 3.103 clas/ is
harder to hide the inner sincerity that might exist in a candidate from
from
that camera than it was to hide it under the flickering torchlights/us the
people on the other side of the square. I'll admit sometimes we wonder 1f
there isn't a kind OE = duel standard that has come into buing. Does the
agency involved in a campaign pay 23 stri : cole with regard to the
quality and the purity of the products when the product being
is
21 politicion, as the 0203 agency does 15 the qualicy or the product io sorp.
But even here - Y don't = think the public is do mily and completely icolud
as Scue would 11ke to think. I on concerned, however, about mother outgrovth
of this marger with colibics. Jaffarior cild "The P tyle walt take a mistuke
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tion one pl V a vital part in the care of good cluinistration 3 exploring the
injunt of any will streins tod Selote they become
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acute and encouraging a positive scase of unity in national direction," and
I assume Mr. Chaffey mennt that the people would then decide what is the
National Direction. I have & hunch that sounded strange to some of you
when I said that. I know it sounded stranza to as when I put it down here
as a note because haven't all of us come to 2 point today when just for a
moment se find burselves questioning whether the people have the capacity to
make such a decision. Well now this other outgrowth I mentioned - Governments
becoming probably the biggest sponsors 12 tens of thousands of VR men and
advertisers and professionals inding out what the government has decided
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the people should know. the sheer volume and wordage, backed by unlimited
economic powers, they outweightony of the private compatitors or sponsors
today. Now it is true that Government has a responsiblity to tell the people
about the conduct of the people's affairs, but this means in detail and com-
pletely, This, we have true self-goverpment as the people make their wishes
known to their elective representatives. Now you realize that when I speak
of the government grinding out this volume of wordage, I speak of this no
longer in the sense of talking about those we choose by ballot. Actually,
this vast propoganda mill is financed by our money but is managed by bureaus
and agencies. Now this isn't a quarrel with the idea of public service.
Beauracrate has become a kind of epithet and == yet actually Bureauscrat is
something pretty necessary in a Government of our kind. But these people
determine our policy all too often in National Affairs and State Affairs and
it is determined by people who are employed: frozen into persuancy by Civil
Service Regulations rather than those who are elacted by the people and this,
I believe, is reason for concern. It 13 not dn dile
Some of
our agencies in Mashington bodone the biggest lebbylits from the point of
money spent and effort expended. I remember a few months 330, in putting a
speech together, I was trying to get the list of who were the biggest spendars
6.
at the end of the first six months of the year, the most powerful lobbyists
in Washington, and the first two were government agencies. I spoke once on
the subject of the growth of government, some of the agencies, and how they
because
didn't go out of permanent fixtures regardless of whether
the need that caused their creation still existed. When I had finished
talking
a Congression who was in the audiance (end I didn't even know he was
there) took me aside and I thought he was going to challenge me on some of
the points but he didn't. He sald "You know, I wonder if you realize what
has happened in Washington and the problems of 30.18 Congressmen?" He said:
"Do you realize that some of the agencies have become so entrenched and so
powerful that a congressman today has to move with caution if he wants to
stand on the floor of congress and suggest cutting the appropriation or the
budget for some of these agencies, because (he said)- these agencies have
the power to come into our districts and destroy us and keep us from being
re-olected." And, he said: That's really needed in this Country is to get
back to a place in which the Congressmen can feel more beholden to his con-
stituents, more fearful of the opinion of his constituents, than he does of
the agencies and the bureaus of the Federal Government - but, he said, that
isn't the case.' And he told me one of the devices. He said, for example,
"if I speak out and question too much something that an agency 13 doing, the
next time I need the service of that agency for my constituent, to find scme
information in answer to a query, when the secretary gives my name as making
tae phone call, the voice at the other HARRIX end of the phone, at the agency,
says "Tell the Congressman we don't have the manpower to supply that informa-
tion. Now these are the people we elect. The great communications medium
his on aconomic bace in adveržising and vishout economic freedom there 11 no
other freedom possible to it and whether you like it or not, you have a
special responsibility because of this, for the mainteskace of the free
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exchange of ideas. We all know that the Government in Washington has
penly defended the right to lie to the poople. This.was done in testimony
before a Senate Committee. Sarah McClendon, North American Newspaper
Alliance,
the Library of Congress had been ordered not
to answer inquiries about the President's voting record when he was a
Representative and a Senator; not to give out any information about state-
ments he might have made on the floor of Congress during debates. Congress
is being denied access to two studies baing conducted by the Department of
Health, Education and Walfare, studies for a blueprint of the future policy
of that agency with regard to education This a: a time when that agency
is telling the public it has no Dought or idea of ever exerting any control
of the NationalSchool System.
At a recent UPI Convention, Calvin Title, seting director of the Community
Relations Services, told the assembled aditors there that newspapers should
withhold stories of civil disorders until passed upon by police and a
professional of the Human Relations Committee. Ha further said that Civil
Rights stories should not be assigned to a Reporter but that the paper should
be enforced to employ a person grounded in Social Science to cover such stories.
Now, he said, the paper shouldn't be too hard on extremists or people who
agitate or seem to be extremists, and his whole plea was to turn the news media
into a trumpet for Government Prop ganda, 23 their patriotic duty. Needless to
say, the Nation's Press HJ not rushed to put his suggestions into practice. But
we dodt have to go that far free California's golden shore - the pattern spreads.
Indeed Sacremento h13 become an Artesian well in recent weeks, a veritable fount
of knowledge about the doings of the 276 agencies that make up the executive
bronch cE our : Covernment. I don't understand the :ining of this incounted
flo , unless 12 has to do with the Senson's unusually heavy rains. There must
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be scie reason My there is 30 such more of it tesay than has been known in
the past. Put the point is - Do thase tell the people
all the facts that old then in making ducisions, CI do they just make a case
of what the edministration bas declined it wants to do in the people's behalf?
Woodrow Wilson, on March 15, 1913, said "Please do not tell the Country what
Washington is thinking for that doesn't name any difference. Tell Mashington
what the Country is thinking." For example, recent pronouncements anent the
Bracero concellation - He ware toll by Sautemento that there was an adequate
labor force without the Braceros and It MRS a domestic labor force - no hard-
ship resulted, and the farm economy set a new record for prosperity - three
billion, seven hundred alllion dollars, and that any retail prices that
occurred in vegetables and fara puolides was the result of the wasther, New,
the domestic lobor force of 70,000 that they hailed included 35,000 green card
holders, who are only technically termed "Monessies", who actually are from
across another border. It alco included in that 70,000 all of the people the
showed up for half a day and went home with a buckache. The hardship began
before the harvest, when Farmers, anticipating the labor shortage, cancelled
the plans to plant tens of thousands of acres, refused their planting in large
blocks, and exeps did not in the fiells, and some firmare ware totally vigal
out, and the 3.7 billion dollars income was 3ross, and 1f you don't talk "net"
these days you are bankrupt. Actually, the net income to California formars
this year, and this we were not told, VII the lowest since 1951 and incidental-
ly the 3.7 Willion, they didn't tell us, also individual all of these crops like
cuttle that veren's addected by the Deleare ind mary houseville
know, when she good = the market, that the prince FILL 12 C2 fresh vegetrbles
and : 20% VALID
into a to buy 3 hand of locture and - hen she hourd the puter she unid
"Gift
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A plethora of great State Bullatins tells us of the great grown and puosperity
in our State. Wall, growth we've had, an increase in our population, but econ-
onic growth lagged behind the national average by more than 50%. We trail the
national average in retail sales 1n
even a greater percentage, and
almost in the increase in personal income.
I think it would be of value for the people to know the facts - all the facts,
about the effect of the present spending policies on the deteriorating business
climate of our State. But it could be than that the people, knowing all the
facts, would have some opinions on whether everything in that 4.6 billion dollar
budget is absolutely essential. Today the people here in the Bay Area that had,
a3 they picked up their morning papers, the savage reminder that "Crima in the
Streets is not Just a cliche." You ==y say "Mat political administration would
employ public relations professionala, or advertising people, just to confess
its own shortcomings?" New V7 connato the point That would be asking a great
deal of human nature, wouldn't it? Also, it's too much to ask of human nature
the
have
1 political administration/bu at its disposal public relations
professionals and advertising facilities and not use them to sell the people
ontheir particular ability of character of that administration. California
Government must improve its position and recognize advertising and public rela-
tions because, in my view, a sound administration, an effective administration
and
in Sacramento, will have to 370W out of the lives / the problems of the
people rather than be imposed on those lives and problems from above. I guass
that sounds familiar to scue of you - it should. That was a quote frem the
third edition of "Effective Public Relations" by Scott H. Outler, of the
University of Wisconsin and Allen H. Sent- Vice President and Public Relations
of the Matorola, Too, 10 leaturing on Public Relations at Horthwestern.
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10.
Well I've talked and shortly will emplain in some detail my philosophy which
I have choced to call Creative Cociety". In truth 11 is nothing more
than the impirmenting of by calling on the limitless potential
of the people to solve the problems confronting us. Since I can see no way
of placing in Government hands the great power potential of your craft and
your profession and your business without subverting that craft to the possi-
bilities of progogandu. It would be cy intention, if elected to office, to
tuen to the communications needs and to advertising and public relations and
to ask the bast brains among you to Form a council, to suggest a plan whereby
there could be established two-sity communication to keep the Government in-
formed of the thinkings of people and the people informed as to all the work-
ings of government. This would have to include, of course, safeguards to
insure that government could do: recebided or restrain the dissemination of
honest information and HERS. There is = way that I can see that Government
can have as 11 agency of its com public relations and civertising, without
having that public relations and adversising be used in behalf of the particu-
lar partison viewpoint of that administration. No adminis tration, regardless
of party should have that power. The Covernment's only function is to lay
before the commnications milion all of the information conserning the work-
ings of the people not then trust, in that groot communications madia, to
make that information avalable to the people so that the people can make their
wishes and their whats, their opinions known to their
Tarasica to the Subject upon which Dovernment can feel and JOON beyend the con-
sent of the Covernment. To allow the term and "Control and
Planning" in Dusiness for Government 13 to allow business to dosume the polvi-
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Santa Monica
I'm afroid that I must digrass a licale from the progres which you
have Inyed down have Geneuse T Month believe that I as soing to present
exactly a compaign spacch in FV 0.00 behalf, I believe that perhaps in the
question and anownr payied we will deal more in the specifico that you
want, but I have long shared an idea. It's vary I appreciate very much
being have. A great many problems in the world will discppear if we talk
& little more to each other and a little 1300 about each other. So I
would rather talk on just a Lore brand face for Just a form mements than any
specifics about myself.
Since the beginning of time has been plagued by those things that
divide him. Checks my feel or 14 menner of worship, how we
would by governed or variations in pignentation and physical thissup. A
great deal of usn's inhumanity to TIRM has basa scuord by spoa kind of
flow in human nature that's conquired each one of NO. 33 a little wary
anything we think differe from what 133 consider the corn, But having been
createl in God's image, we have a (?). Bridging ill the differences
real or imagin ary there's an urge so deep in anot 032 65 V that 1t more than
any other human trait has made possible our time from the avenp to the share,
the smith that desire of every human Saing to be recognized 23 an individual, and
IF
have the dignity and thefranden to shape 150 own desclay, and to share
in Cod's Sounty for so 2013 23 he docum't day others the right to
do the 0.1.12 thing. Tich this sweat Inherent drann claim that coused the
AI This providery Clil maching 5 other 1
from time to time have reduced tyrenny or removed it by overthrowing an
oppresive government, replacing it with one a little more tolerant at least
for a time, but here for the first time, a revolution took place that estab-
lished once and for all that freedom was man's God given right and that
government only existed through the permission of the people and it existed
only to insure and guarantee man's permanent possession of that right to
be free.
Today America and American's bear an almost total responsibility in the
world for the preservation of that dream. Even in P more enlightened so
called prenation, those other three nations of the world, we've seen
compromise brought about by their inability to match the power of the collectivist
nations who would take all of us back to 3 rule of the many by the few. Here
in America I believe that the ultimate responsibility for carrying on this
fight for freedom rests with the Republicin Party. I don't head to charge that
held
only Republicans have a love of freedon, but there 13 a philosophy, a-guy
named Leaders of the opposition party that freadem from the age old problems,
physical distress etc. is more important than freedom to chart our own lives.
Freedom from hunger and want and noble humanitarian goals, but there is no
validity in our opponents assumption that it can only be obtained by giving
up freedom to choose, freedom to try, yes, freedom to fail and to try again.
And no matter how generous the handout, there's no real security, if the
recipients of that handout are beholding to 2. force that can by its own
decision take as well as give.
A man serving a life sentence in San Quenton has complate lysical and
material socurity. A hundred years =30, every 0.2 of the slave holding
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states had a clause in its constitution that said they had to guarantee
adequate food, sholter, clothing , medical care, and even a provision for
old 230, but 1: wasn't good enough then and it isn't E good enough now
even though its boon indified into I kind of benevoleat fed ral fraternalism.
True security 10 the product of individual freedom. Now there are two way
of achieving equal opportunity. Che Is to recove the restrictions that place
a ceiling OVER some of our citizens OF the other vay is to extend that cailing
80 that all people are equally restricted and restrained. Che way is morally
right and consistent with the American dream. The other way is the Marxian
concept that was deceribed by Winston Churchill 23 the philosophy of
failure. It created ignorance, the goopel of envy its inherent virtue,
the equal sharing of misery. The overwhelming majority of those Americans
who are at the same time Negro, I believe have been load astray by the
leadership of the other political parties that has in truth done little
to from then an unwanted distermation boyond provise, and when they
believe in those promises, 23 30 many have in joining with that other party,
they find that when they try to walk free that they' ve been locked in a
political ghetto, behind a kind of Jerico wall. You Indies and gentlemen
have chosen a different course as evidenced by your presence here, and you
have assumed a great responsibility, because in truth, you, and you alone,
can trumpet down those walls of Jarico. Because the Republican philosophy
13 a belief that each citizen bearing responsibility in his private life
and his comunity life and the government must be restruined by the constit-
ution. The Republican Party has done the most to divance the cause of the
individual. But the Republican party that has had to temper justice
for a hundred years because Its power MA3 an 2533 in OUT country
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that M33 under one party rule and must not because of that be offended. Tito
Republican party offers radress of grievance and equality of opportunity
naither because of, not 17 spite of TWOD 07 religion or any difference
between us, but because Americans ave entitled to nothing less.
Those who love freeden 00038 party lines, and if every relision, every national
origin and every vace will fight to projerve Excedon can fst be one without.
I know that, in suggesting shat this 13 mainly your responsibility, I ask a
great deal of you. You're greatly outhumbored, You'll be subjected to
pressures which I have some knowledge and understanding of. But you have
a great doal to offer, 2 story to tell and your party has such needed as
does your country and the whole of markind, As 2 post wrote in a book
called (?) "Upon the road there is no reward offered. Who goes, goes free
for the great love that is 1a him. The work is his yoursd.
George Chrisbopher:
Thank you very much Mos Stokes and the chairman Wallace Brown etc,
Perhaps I have some olight advantage over the provious speckers
that I will try to take advantage of that slight advantage, and that is
this that I have served in public office for ten years 23 member and
3
president on the board of supervisors (?) 23 the mayor for eight years.
And so, when you look a: Caotge Christopher you might be able to ook thane
specific questions, and say now, you've been in the realn of political service
and
porhaps.....
(?) But Indian and geatlemen, I just-uont to be specific
here this afternoon, I weat to be specific because all of U3 have these
great views about Illerty, fraudon, equal opportunity. The only thing that's
VIO ; 10 this dillovent people have different concepts of that constitutes
5.
George Christopher
equality of educational opportunities, equality of job opportunities, and I
think we ve got to get down to the basics in this coming election and day
to ourselves here 10 what we think about these momentous issues that
confront not only the people of California, the momentous issues that confront
the people of America, Here in California ve have a high unemployment rate
some 40% higher than the national average. This concerns everybody of course
but you and I must know that 1: concerns the minorities more than it cucerns
others because when there is unemployment, the minorities suffer first.
Therefore wh en we say that. Therafore whenlive say that we need 200,000
new jobs at least each year, we say this - We've got to find solutions.
got to have answere, and you just cannot sit about hoping la I milention to
strike us and thus create these jobs. Therefore a3 a free enterpriser I say
P
to you the we can create these 200,00 new jobs or more to create a con-
structive economic climate for all the nations to behold. Too many people
in the east are not coming to California to invest their capital because (?)
I am a salesman yes, and I believe that we can get these big industries to
establish themselves in our city, and the minorities, not only the Negrã
minorities, but the Mexican - American minorities, the Chinese and the
Japanese are all interested in seeing what we have in good sound healthy
fine economic climate in California, so I have just to say to you today, I
repeat what I have said time and time again. The next governor of California
must be concerned with what transpires here, but he must also be concerned
with the educational attitude and apply 1t, all over the United States, because
much of our difficulties today by virtus of the fact that these yesteryears
find
in the states some people, some governors (?) who are not concerned
about equal educational opportunities, so many of our minorities have come
here in California and they have not been and they have not been prepared
to
(?) Face the fact, those people, let us be frank about it, therefore
I say to you that the governor of California musn't he show compassionale
understanding for 311 the minorities not just in this state but throughout
the entire Valced States. I think the Republicon party must cimge its
aspects in some areas and say viag are we not getting at least twenty three
percent of the Democrate to vote for U3, and we might as well face the
fact that unless 2/8 have a condidate thatcan get 23% of the Democrats to
vote for our Republican candidate, once again we shall not win. We not
prove by action rather than by mere words ladies and gentlemen the we
are indeed the party of Lincoln, and the only way that ve can prove that
we are the party of Lincoln is for us to act in the Macolnian way,
remembering his name with reverence on February 12th each and every year.
I think that ve have to prove that Ve are the party of opportunity and the
only may we enn prove that ve are the party of opportunity is by concrete
action and show that compassion te hand of understanding for those who
have been suppressed in past years. We have been catching up to you
in so far as minorities are concerned. We can't say today that
(?)
So I will say to the party leaders, Republicans I've said to then privately
again and again, if we are to become in this great nation of ouro, we
must take concrete action, whether it be in California or in New Jersey,
we must take action to withdraw Eron the Republican party the lable they
seem to have of going about singing anti-Negro sonz3, sati-Jewish songs.
Ee can in many ways condone this kind of action end still proclain ourselves
to the people of America that we are the fat 3I of Lincoln that they say
at the outset that I have observed by virtue of my experience I can point
to some definite action that I have taken. Lodies and gentlemen, the &: tions
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I have taken did not spring from cy mind the day I (?) the office of governor.
Please let me do this, let me 80 back some years, even prior tb the time
I became supervisor to the town of San Francisco
(?) Let's go back to
the time long before I had any concept that I would be running for the office
of governor to the great state of California. My city back in the year of
1945 did have segregation and discrimination and the first order of business
23 a supervisor on my part was to fight for and easet non-sagregation and
non-discrimination causes in the public housing act.
(?) Well ladies and gentlemen just let me rafresh your
memory because it needs to be refrashed from time to time.
Over
ten years ago OUT first order of business was to go to the board of super-
visors and ask for
for the state of California. Now when I go back all
these many years let = assure you that fighting for equal opportunity,
for jobs, fighting cor equal opportunity in housing MSS not as popular
as it 1s today. Don't forget ladies and gentlemen, I'm going back 20 years
but the record is there
and I ask you to look at it.
and
every body told me then that It was politically suicidal to do 30, but
San Francisco survived and progressed and had the greatest
since his tory
in my administration because my administration were working together.,
And then I went into comissions over which I had appointive power and lot
me tell you that I was able to put for the first time, Negroes on the
Housing Commission for SunFrancisco, and on the welfore comission for San
Francisco. They were even on the board of Sducation for the first time in
San Francisco. They were on the Library Commission. Did I do this because
I was looking for votes? No, its because I knew that
we know the
ordeals we had to endure. We the obstacles ze had to overcome for this
great world that comes out to U3 today, equal opportunity
I suffered
with 12 a long the E30. And 30 I say to you, If I 20 become your governor,
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Christopher
I'= not going to come down here and simply say I'm going to appoint
Pegrons
or
Maxican-
mericans
that's baside the point, what I want to
pay to you 10 that I was the minorities involved, I want them directly
involved so they can feel part of the colution and I want then to be
part of decision. Indiat ches to help na nake these great decisions that
will have to be made CO make California the great state it is aspiring to
be. It will be 2. difficult Job at that, but I'm running out of patience
ladies and gentlenen but I know how to
(?) And I only say to
you that 11 you were hiring company to do this job In Sucremento to do
this job for you and for all the people of California, with all respect to
my contempousry candidates I say to you who would you hire to run this big
four and a half million dollar budget UP there in Secremento. This is the
crux of the whole thing. This is the great problem confronting the people
of Colifornia boday. And on the basis of that experience proved in every
way, I submit us candidacy. Thank you very much.
Patrick:
(inaudible)
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Q/A
Q. The Negio has busa 102c out of the main streen in politics and business
and in social life. Non you've noncissed complaing about hiring people for
jobs. V2 have ? Mague here child are not in the mainstreem and
they need the help of their brother Capublicins and we also have many fine
highly educated 20005 Negrees this ene working 32 the things that they can do
least. What would you do to upgrode chase businessman and these young qualified
Negrous?
Patrick:
y
One of the the things that I think that The can to for businessmen, and this
is really the quastion T think you're making is, this again the state
has to step into the situation by guaranteeing losse. This is something I
said coriler; but I'd 11ke to alaborate 1 libili. They, businesseed cannot
set loans to Yun that and this in consching that I
believe that we are not going to be able to do 1: any other way in the
State of California to guarantee business loans.
Christopher:
I balieve that the matter of simplifying the course of conduct that I try to
adhere to in years the partulaing to the minorities 19 not only
economic, but also social. The question that confronts the governor or
the mayoro OT the public official 13 to relate the entire citizenty to
their Hoppe albilities towards their follow human beings, I'm no: propored
to
today On state quarantee losns, because your guarantee loans
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Indian and gontlemen, for the minority, because if you suarantee loans
you have to guarantee these loans for averybody. I think this would be
a serious discussion to sater into, but I believe that I would like to
see very much this squal opportunity all the may through by the.....
detail
after detail 23 to what transpired in the past years in San Francisco.
I think this the real renson that minorities have been oppressed in the
past is because they've not Ltd equal opportunity from the very day that
they were born, and we've get to start right now making up this loot time
and also guarantee every young person who goas to school, whether it's
California or Mississippi or any place else with aqual stock in the race of
life. In the mean time I think that the only May that we can susrantee
some happiness to those who have been oppressed in the past is to do what
that when contracts are left for the construction of now
let there be
discrimination. I balieve the the state government 23 wall as the local
government should institute proceedings Wintsby there shall sogregation 07
discrimination in letting of the contract.
I think that Mr. Pattick said something that is wary very informative here
today. We've got to land a hand but we've also got to pour out our hearts.
This is a combination that is going to be very difficult I preduce until we
educate not 00 much: the oppressed uimerities, but educate the majorities
who Con't quite understand the problems today. So there no necessity, there
is no will, that's why I say my stitement. I just went you to be Involved.
I what you to become involved to the point where there décisions will be
mide. natual (?)
Rengna:
I hate to do this acl give may 2 addunt have, 5.00 I Ical that Yr. Patrick
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1
is 30 distribed about the first that Itus on the right and E. Christopher.
was on the lift of the picture. E2 0 onght to know that 13 an old
trick in bloow business that 12 you get over 03 your right the caption will
always rull, wording Irea laft :0 right that the first name will be the person
standing over 02 the right and most people Coa't read the entire caption,
but they'll 10 loast got that find person's ште.
This is a very strange thing, the Republican 13 supposed to be storn apart
and all of U3 ATE supposed a be representing such different ductions. How
much alike the all counded in OUT approvch tonight. I 210 trying to express
in my com introductory remarks which I thought were only supposed to
be introductory, My balief that one of the great things wrong with this
country 13 the hyphemating of Americans, whether 1: be and
I don't like the tere or and I don't like the term,or
or CT ingthing else, but Americans. And
the people who have layed in the custom of hyphinating... I think have
done as for solfish purposes. They 've done so 30 that they on line up a
block and try to throw out promises to try to set support of that block.
In this particular problem I've-bem talking up and downths store......
Wall, I coined a phrson for it, the Creative Society and I couldn't think of
any other name that I thought ficted it better. I balieve what's wrong is
too much 02 the government from Scoremento loading on the people and not
enough posticipation by the people, 30 I'll sound 26 1: I'm coholog white has
already boan gold, but that's natural, we're all in the are party, and I
think NO all busically chare to 3202 philosophy. 17 Was of the Creative
Society 1: one 1n which 7.12 mlist by very of government in A partnership
within poople of this 111.3 mil called the corrying
of the town. What Yr. Patrick is doing in his own business is adairable
and it should be added to. I would think that the prestige of the governors
office should be used to approach the people of the state on that same busis,
but I think it should also be used to mobilize the industrial and business
minds of this state for more projects, similar to and perhaps even improved
upon where ever 10 can be of the thing going on now in the responsible Los Angeles
Chamber of Cincerce. The operation down there has enlisted the aid of hundreds
of industrialist to put people to work, to find and provide on the job training,
and in turn they have found out that soughly 50% of the unemployed in one
particular area of the operation have a sccial problem, a respensibility of
all of us because at the moment they are unamployable or not qualified for
on the job training for various reasons - disability, complete lack of training,
illiteracy or whatever. Now this 1: what I say is a social problem, but in thi B
sense it sears to die impossible to think that 70 can find anyone, appoint anyone
to governor, or elect dayone to governor who on their can 13 simply going to
have the genius and ability to settle all of the problems that involve
13 million human beings in California. I believe that in avery one of these
problems if the state makes it its business to turn to the people and seek out
and say here you are chairman. I wont a committee of the best brains involved
with this problem. I want you to come back to us to tell what we can do
as a state government to help you , whether it 1s in the area of removing
regressive taxation, or uslagh the device of incentive taxation to stimulate
business, whether it 13 in the area of cooperation in training and education,
I will give just one exceple of how this can work. A couple of years ago
to stimulate one of the recessions, to stimulate business, the congress of the
United States gave = 77. CASH cradit to businession 0= industrialists
and its inconceivable to = that a couple of years later we now have a bill
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in Congress to extend that same 7% the credit for human beings. It bakes
& new place of logislition and y.d don't know yet whether get a tax
They night think 10's Josse butthe Men of saying to 2 business ocn, you'll
get that some T. tox crodit 11 you'll put in on on the job training program
and rebullt human beings 01 well 13 rebuild plants and factories, and this
is the type of thing that I believe the Creative Society can solve. I believe
that it would be particularly effective in the area of human relations because
as has been said very eloquently by M. Patrick this 13 basically a problem of
people and people and a problem of hearts. Where ever these is any
discrimination, there ever there to any violation of siyoncis constitutional
rights, that is the function and responsibility of government to enforce
those constitutional rights regardless of what pover is required or what force
is required, but than to go beyond that into such things as the recent
bome to house program, family to funily program put into adiect by many
of OUT fire Nagro and White elergymen home in bown of gotting fomilies to
volunteer Exce our various churches to meet and get acquainted with families
and eat at their home and learn the problems of husan beings at first hand,
Now this is what I mednt in the phrase talking to otch other instead of about
each other. I balieve that the business genius and talent 10 here to provide
the answare to the quastions you've asked and the unsuployed, those people
who want to work must be provided work and the only one I believe really
provided is the private sector of the economy.
/ Q. Did you fail that your question 523 anowared with the
confidates?
A,
Wall, no, because =y question was spedifically 20 the Republicon
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cundidates because Republicans are leaders in the business world, and the
not successful doalets in the business world are Republicans but they re
little Businessmen you cee, and they neadthe help of these big Republicans./
The question has been anlond by the of the precs to all the
candidates whether or not they faal that Proposition 14 13 constitutional
or unconstitutional. Contlogen, the question has bean directed to all three of
you.
Dhristopher:
Well as you know this is the kind of a question tin politicians always
dodge, and this is the kind of a situation I won't respond,
and is supposed to be politically naive and maybe 1t is but I believe in
dealing with truth and what's real and fair and right and if I'm condenned for
that condomn away. I believe, and I wanc this understood, I balieve the way
it WES designed was misleading and very Ear people fully understood what USS
going on, When you get in 2 situation where yes means no and no moans yes,
I would have a difficult time figuring it our cause I you 1da's know what is
going on. Suddenly I do know what is going on
If at any time that
you sir, black, white, green or any other color are told that you've got
to sell your property because you either like or dislike somebody, I think
that is wrong and I think it 13 unconstitutional. Second, 18 at any time
that a man refuses to sell his property to a Nagro, to a Mexicon, to a Chinuse,
or to anypae elso, I any that is un-inovican. I 3ay that is un-Americon.
So, I don't think thus we can look at it with one aye. Delve got to use our
brains, our minds, and be houset and look at both sides of the situation, and
quit using it 23 2. political football, and as long as people allow it to
=0 22 belog 2 Scottall, them I chink shows you THE not Joing to get anywhere
and I en not going to got angabere and no one is sping to get anywhere.
I think that we've 3: to be honest with ourselves and look at the total
situation.
Rozgen:
I don't bulieve that these questions should be suswared directly as to
constitutionality because it :is DOW before the State Supreme Court. I
think it would be improper to handle it in a manner of that kind, But again
and along the same line as I showed you. I think the great tragedy of the
whole situation and It is now so emotionally involved that valve ignored what
is the basic problem. I think number 1 the
was a bad piece of legislation.
I think that Proposition 14 was 5. bad attempt to remady what was wrong, 30
there we are faced with two choices. What 1-1 think is the problem that with
out emotionalism and that's vivy I wish wa could lorget the mumber, because that
now has become a red flogatorso many of 43 on both siles. I think TAB have
to get down to what is the basic problem. Number 1, morally it is a problem
that must be solved and that must be solved between the paople. I myself
would find it and have all KY life, and I have worked all my 112e and because
of equality of opportunity actively before 1: over become the popular idsue
that it 13, but I therefore could not consciously use prejudice, nor would
I consciously patronize any business that discriminated against any human being
on the busic of projudice. But at the sare time I do not bulieve that you
C monifer the cure that would give the government high procedent a right that
could chen some day be invoked against all human beings, a very basic right
that would be involved. You cea't always guarantee that the government you have
going : 2021 A and 113 the right into have
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vy that you dida't intend it to in uned. In other the and does not justify
the medium, and thursfore, I 00 for shole for what the Remfort (?)
Act was trying to birs. I 2.2 country opposed to the usong hspit of trying
to solve, Ymv I ::10 think again that the proctize of this state government
should be will not 11 in's Lean poluted this :: used hussa engaions 23 a
political football, but should be mil to find a COMMON sense solution that
we should have to these problems that === dividing us 30 in the country
today.
Patrick:
Well I Soa't think I have to elaborate on this natter because again we know
the constitutionality of official ordinances of 1mms with regard to
public housing the matter DOV balog before the State Supreme Court 10 one
that will be a judga and I to you there perhaps this declaion will be
made not by declaton either, Security 10's going D puncle even some
of OUE suprese court justices. I fail there Sera,that while I sympathize
with the purposes of the Runfort (?) Act, and while I have compaigned up and
down the state 100.00.0000
I believe that this decision is not for these three
condidates, I believe that it is a viry, very, serious decision that's going
to be decided by the uninent jurists of the State Suprane Court.
Q. =, Christopher:
The question as I understand it united by
(?) to help the
Bagro businessman. II. Patrick abovered the quastion so point that the
state should stand buhind his. M. Christopher implied that 18 the state
stood bahird for ninority It will Invo to do 00 Soving Done Mr.
Carlos dong Ship chand $ 1 now yot 1: 03 Danits, and
loan institutions ochars?
Christopher:
: do not day that consesions or Negwood can get loans from savings and loan
Associations provided the they have ... adequate colleberal. I any to you
then by all modes you might questionthe constitutionality of the state
setting up on enditions : I 1=7 or .) provision that says that we will
hand yest money OI guarantee you loves only to Engrees. I guaruntee you
that you are Joins to what 1-, and i jist want to guirantee you this afternoon
that this would be challenging the Courts and would be struck down as being
unconstitutional, 30
....
in my optaion it's hardly worth While wasting the
time of these other two candidates discussing about it.
Patrick:
I think that Mr. Christopher USS mislead In this situation. I did not any
only to Monican-Americsns, Negroes. but I'll 343 this, 1: seems only that only
the Negro, and other cincrities cen't 0012 to set along,
We talk about for the last number of years we've tried to do a job that hasn't
been done and I think it's time now that we take whatever steps that are nocessary
to create a fair and equitable situation and I think that the state has
to stand up and the some leadership and initiative, This 10 a lot better
in cry opinion than the state taking cas dollars and throwing it away. This
isn't helping. I think we want a positive program where the businessman
He sald he went down to the bank, tall banks and he couldn't 300 any money.
Now this 13 fairly common. Be couldn't get any insurance. All these
problems. I say that this 13 0 goodsolid program to help the people of this
state. Nov I think this, that any the, whether 150 Yogro, Maxicon, or any
color, aconnole reduced people are put in the position there they can't
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inction. I think It's high the we stopped and do something positive. The
last hundred years CC least we've dois very little, and today we're
trying dolge the iccue, at of the politiciums are, and I'll
say this, that I'm not for distriminating against sitte phople, I'm 023.
Q. Mr. Fragon, we've had 11 lot of discussions here this afternoon about
different minorities and all thacksort of thing, I'd like to know what kind
of a people that you think these American puople are. Do you think that
they balong to A White rice, a Black 5222, allow Tace or any other parcloular
type of religion or Whatever, Can you describe thes e people, the American
people.
(Question ruled out)
Q. Mr, Christopher stated earlier that while he USS miyor of San Frantisco
that he did make certain appointments to Magroes In the city of San Reancisco.
I would like to ask IT. Christopher 1: he has curried out the same policy
in biting Negroes to his exicutive 0: in his can business.
A. Well I might any with regard to the gentleman's question that my
company in San Francisco for 3 long time, many, many years fought to 3
break the hirrier that had always, always existed in unions purticularly,"
and ladies and gentlemen this may astound you that whenever I try to
hire a person though from some of the unions that it's fairly difficult
to hire of the Negro
But my company 7123 the first to break down
that barrier and today I have a growing percentage of Wagross in my
various staffs, than any other similar company in San Francisco. And of
course 18 the goutloria will carde to profit by the prede agent of 7
opposent, I'll So the to Chaver the question.
Q. It Ing to is of 200200 this matter of and opportunity 23 be
projects:
CO
3:12
(?) It 3013 : 12 NAME equal
success or happeness and in equal opportunity we have what would be called
equal opportunity or equal purticipation and equal achievment. Now
opportunity alone is not anough, those must equal conditions and my
question to this
(?) do you propose that we ought to
have preferencial treatment in order to bring up those who of course are
behind in parts of the cultured lide?
Reagon:
Now 1f you're speaking in the area of training and education in which it
is evident from figures that have been brought out in educational circles
that there 159 avens and there are groups of people and not always nedessarily
confined to one racial group that are behind in the start for the race for
life even though granted even though granted equal educational opportunity
et a certain point in their life. They start Schind. That something should
done In a Transdial program such to the head start program to give them
their equal start. I an all for that. Yes, I do believe in that. Beyond
that point, however, once someone 13 given an equal SENTE in life, there is
no vay in this system of ours, not do I believe there should be in a free
enterprise system, where you can ever guarantee that everyone is going to come
down the home stretch and finish equally nt the finishing line, because the
only way you can do that 10 to limit those with the greates ability and birty
that they cannot go 20 fast and as far 43 their ability will take them, and
this would not be right. The only society 11km that right now we find in
Russin, and they don't aven practice it. It's only alright for everybody
except those who are running the government and they've got a little different
scale worked out than those
I don't know how to answer your question
bayond the point, 200 you,
13 10031 0. 1924 not this. I'll JP
way boyond to seems to be concerning U.S have today,
Lo5
I'll take the people in this state right now who are troubled and have
to a great problem 07 handicapped children by reason of being deaf,
caildren nico have to have a spocial kind of education if they re to have a
chince with the rest 68 us, and this why especially trained teachers
and special schools, ANd we are way behind in the state. We've only
got two such schools. We don't have enough teachers and there are children
knowing hearsbreak and parents knowing the heartbreak of looking up their
children in homes are on writing lists for years before they can even start
their education. And I think this 13 a responsibility of the public, of
the state and something should be done about that. Equal opportunity and
equal start in life Co# everyone,
Q. I'd like to direct this question to Mr. Redgen. We SAW the large
effects of the Nugzons from the Republican party due to the fact that
15. Colductor had voted against the Clvil Rights Bill. Now Mr. Resgan
has stated publicly that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Bill
had he been in Congress at that time. Nov what I went Mr. Reigan to
help all of US with is how do ve 30 to our people and explain your position
if vo expect to support the Republican Party in the light of that statement,
A. The quote that is attributed to ne, 1: 10 true J. orde, After a lengthy
question and Insuer sussion at the Prace Club shout the entire issue of
Civil Rights and for quite a long period of time in their discussion I
have been going on at great leagth about my life long posibion in this Eight
and on this side 33 well 83 in the Screen Actors GullA and while I haven't
had the opportunity to employ or hold public office and in case anyone UAS
conservel THE suppenti to : to politic' 1, 1: to purcisely
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because I an not a politicion that I'm running for office. I think that
its time there doze people from the rook and file citizens were getting
together. 'I dM live 20 expectione In the Screen Actor's Cuild in which
there are many fine mobers the found themselves being discriminated against,
and we did a preaty subcessful job 11 Shot guild when I V23 president of
taking care of that situation, That 1123 one union where there was no
discrimination, but T. will second Mr. Curistopher's remarks about many
other unions. Non, this WAS part of the whole discussion and I have discussed
at great length my balief in and support of the goals and aims of the
Civil Rights Bill, but If concern
(?) again would be troubling us
like the present logislation by very of being unconsticutional. I made
the statement and finally someone said aiger all the discussion, "Well,
if you had been there, what do you think? How would you have voted?"
And summing up all of this, I said I guess on the basic of the constitutional
doubt Invould vote no, but egain I vaitoraped, although I'm in favor of
what the bill was crying to mosseplish.. I had a talk one day with Congressnan
Finley from Illinois and 1 told him, I said, you know I said I shouldn't have
said that, because I don't think that anyone really knows how he would bote
unless he VSS party to all the debate that went on and I said that there
are men that certainly 1 respect who voted both ways on the 3111. Congression
Finley said "Noutre right
"and the other day 2 prokage arrived from -
Congresoman Finloy with the entire transcript of the depate on the bill,
but I've been 1 little busylor the last few days 23 you can imagine, so
I haven't been able to do what I'd Mise to do. I'm looking forward to gatting
into this and reading it. Yor, I still challenge, it 523 a bad piice of
legislation and ve have had the 3111 in effect and I think even the people
the were the most active pronoters, agree now that the bill did not alich
what it set DUE to screeplish. It This a bad bill and I'm still in lavor
of legislation that will schieve what the bill set out to do. And I'll 80
one step beyond that. I would say that the party that is taking bons today
for having suppessity done S2 much in chic field, that party has been in
power a number 62 years and I refer : this in my opening remarks, if that
party had winted to, any time 1: vanted to 1: had all the 1nv it needed in:
the constitution to 30 into the south and correct the evils that were going on
and it didn't do it because the basis of this power is the solid democratic
south. May the Republicans should stand out and be mild-conncious about
supposedly not doing something when this has bana the pervaiing philosophy
of the Republicon Patty is beyond me. Now the other thing that I feel
I'd going to take advantage of and answer, I realize in many of your minds,
that the question you would have with 22 23 a condidate is the fact that
I actively supported the Goldwater ticket. I was a Democrat all my life
and I supported the Republican ticket top to bottom in 60. I did everything
then and everything in 62 that I did in 64. I happen to personally know
Barry Coldwater. I've known his for a number of years and it's not my point beste
to defend him and I don't think he needs y,dafonding from L3, but I will
tell you this. If I did not know to cy personal knowledge that Barry Colductor
1.53 the very opposite of a recist and indeed he has a personal record in his
life and in his business and la his political career of actively, agreesively
working for equal opportunity In foreign and ninevity groups, I would not
have supported him.
Patrick: Insuld 11'th to challenge 17. Polgna and 17, to
3 1.7. delate and 1: de PV for it, I think it would be 2 good
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opportunity to get our views before the people and to follow it. Again, back
to the question that you adked. think that if you try to defend an indefensi-
ble position, it is very difficult to do that and I think with the kind of
position here, LE you 30 out and try to spend Barry Goldwater as has been done
before, it would be difficult for US to do that. I believe our problem here
is to 30 out and sell Republican ideas, the kind of ideas that Lincoln had.
This is the kind of Pepublican ideas that we have to sell and let's start
doing it today. Let the deed be dead and buried by the dead. We are living
30 let'd leave and let's live and let's sell living ideas. I suppose I should
add my two cents worth also, due to the fact that the other candidates have
their feuding in the matter. I 02 one of those who believes that the position taken
by Mr. Goldwater at the Presidential Election does more to defact any of the Repub-
lican views as wise practical negro minority than any other situation. I an forced
to recall that when we speak of Civil Rights, many candidates do not adhere to
the official plank in the Platform that we try to put into that platform in San
Francisco during the convention. Also, I am forced to recall, Ladies and Gentle-
men, that through that defeat we have also found that four of the State Senators
in the Summer would 30 out of the country, we well as 39 Congressman. Therefore,
today we are still paying the bill for that major defeat that we endored in 1952.
I'm also forced to recall that such Senators as Senator Dirkson, who was to install
me as a liberal, was for the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, and also Mr. Thurston Warren
was for that Civil Rights Bill at that time. This was practically unanimous
consent of all major Republicans in the Senate and yet we find that this situation
still plagues the Republican Party. I say to you in all sincerity that unless we
dest out this unfortunate image that has envelo dd the Republican as being a party
that is advance to classity interests The are soing to suffer defeats in the future
as we have suffered defects in the past and we must declare now and forever any
type of situation that smallo of begotry or prejudice of any kind.
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Loq
You know, Doctor, I taught school for three years, and my wife taught school
for to: yerrs SD this gives U3 0003 line /1:2ga about education. I think one of
the biggest problems of education ,without eleborating into the many,
many varied decally of 1t, is that a great daul of money is being misminaged
and wasted. I thick The have have DO provide the finast educational
system in the world but the don't have the in the State of California. I think
the Brown Administration Mas our not only by buying his read
maps with his picture on then and this type of thing, but also in the campsign
literabure, etc.
I think that a lot of the Democratic Joney today that is being spent, which is
your Lonay and F7 menty, 10 mismandzement of public Funds and I think this is
something that if we took 2 business approach to running our education WO
would have batter pay for better teachers, and 2 more effective
educational system.
Corcelly there would be no disogramment about this being the most important
function we have and I an in complete agreement and believe that one of the
principal things is to do a great doal of study in Secremento to flud out if
we are getting our entire dollars worth in the educational system. At the
same time, I think we Cil point out what is going on right IN with the cutting
in half of the fundo from the Federal Government on the Inpust ALL Program."
This is the Add Program that everythes should believe in, I think, where the
Federal Government, because of Defense Projects, or something, CODES into on
EXC2 and suidenly forces thousands o: Covernment employee's children onto a
school system, with no tax base to support them and to engast the 10:01 citizens
to pick 17 this Burden, that this to deviously unfoir and the Federal Covernment
1 -2 beinging TRAV 1, 10 nuch per student, to offect this but
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they have just DUE :: in half and DO doubt they have cut it in half as punich-
ment of Legislators in Washington who have not done the President's bidding
and this shows the kind of Vingesnee that 2 Government can sheet on people
when the Governments bee the full pount. And 2DV I an going to say a word of
personal privilege before I sit down. I think I suffered silence for a long
time in this compation but I have one thing to any to all of you. I have tried
my utmost and as sincerely and honestly 23 I can to tell you what is in my
heart and how I feel, In all my life it would be impossible for me to feel
prejudice of my kind. I was reised that may by a sainted mother and father,
both now dead, I have said in public that I believe that Government, when
someones constitutional rights are being imposed upon by reason of rade or
religion, that it is the Government's responsibility to enforce those rights
at the point of bayonet, if necessary. I have further said that I do not be-
lieve there La any Joon in this country over, that any parent should have
to been the tragedy of trying to suplain to a child that that child 13 some
way 13 different.
I would like to have the information by anyone here
that there is anything in the nature of bigotry here in my personality. I
resent it and 23 far 23 I an concerned, out in public I will keep the unity
place of the Republican Party Vit from here on out, don't anyone ever imply
that I lack either integrity or that I an enbund with any kind of bigotry or
projudice because I 22 not and I will not stand by and let cityone imply that
to this group or any other group.
Genclemon, my I have your attention places. There is 021 more question that
ve will present, after which : e 7211 have the conclusion of the diternooa's
meeting.
10. Vanue: di 1000 20 Motor question to 12, Date,
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794 stated cabile 030 that you didn't have a program for the nigro. It has
been accused in the past that everyone his a program for the negro. Now the
nazro himself, in the Injority of times, by
candidates
haven't anything to to with the program that they have. Now, 1£ you would
avail yourself to 20, maybe The could offer 1 full interview by a negro for
Quastion:
negroes. If he, 11. Patrick, has any further program for the negro at the
present time?
Patrick: I think there were two questions involved. I would like to talk with
the negroes anitiled out what you have and what you want. I have some programs
to offer, which I have talked about, but I think there are things that maybe
I don't know about and I want to find out whether you have anything that I can
learn, to find out more about what I want to know.
I want to think you for your periouse and please remember the dianer for 7:30
and thenk these condidates for a spell-in and for being have. Thank you very
much. Secure your tickets for the dinner and this is where I want to make one
statement. Everybody be real quict. I what to give the remaining two candidates
some edvice. (Advice is something that you don't use yourself but who knows when
somebody else can use it.) Don't ever tell a mother, even 12 the child 13 501,
that the child 11 Sed. Don't do that ever, I don't care how bad the child is.
I don't care how bed this doal is CO Civil Rights, I love It and I don't want
you to fight It. I want you to make 1: now. I don't wat you to miss a point.
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Special Privilege
He has balked 00 a mother. I 03 a mother. If my child has done something
wrons, I don't whit in to consinue the of his life doing that thing
wrong. I want to tall his what US where he made his mistake and how
he can make himself a better person In this world. This is a must! Anything
else is ruining that child to adjustito all the problems that prople think
this boy
they have later on because she has been conching/to get off the ground.