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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Budget Speech Hollywood Palladium
Transcript of Kick-Off Telecast
April 20, 1966
Sept. 9, 1966
Pages 230 - 243
Pages 391 - 402
Elk Grove Speech
BROWN * REAGAN Interview
May 11, 1966
Issues & Answerzs Broadcast
-TV
Pages 244 - 249
Cct. 2, 1966
Pages 403 - 420
Speech
Cal. Farm Bureau Fed. Questins
March 24, 1966
421 - 423
Pages 250 - 257
Speech Republican State Convention
Sacramento, Aug. 6, 1966
Statement State Co lege Tuition
10/3
page 424
Pages 258 -268
Reagan Statements Stripped From Context
Exec. Board Meeting D.A. County
and Otherwise Distorted
Roger Young Auditorium, 9/28
Pages 269 - 271
( San Francisco Rioting) 425
Position Statements
Cel. Real Estate Assoc. Conv.
Pages 272 - 286
Oct 6, Pages 426 - 434
Reagan Background
Daily Breeze St. tement (Lack
Pages 287 - 289
of Leadership) 10/7/66
Pages 435 - 436
Term
Pages 290 - 292
Carmel Valley Club 10/7
(Crime) Page 437
StatementsFor Reference
Speeches, Placerville, San Mateo,
Pages 293 LEW 295
1001 Rench, Chico, Masonic Temple,
Colton, Sen Bernardino. 10/6 thru
10/13 Pages 438 - 449
Quotes Printed in Publications
Various Subjects
Radio Spots- c/ 28, 9/20
Pages 296 - 307
Pages 450 - 462
Position Papers and Issues
Open Letter - Ford MotorCo.
Pages 308 - 390
Employees. Page 463
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Letter to Calif. Rifle & Pistol Assoc.
10/18/66
Page 464.
RR Position Calif. Liquor Industry Fair Trade Law
Page 465
RR Position & Statements Milk Industry,
Editorial in Dairyman. Oct, 1966. Page 466
STATEMENTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT -- RR
Interview in Long Beach Press Telegram 8/14/66
Pages 467 - 468
Property Tax
page 469
Southern University
Quotes on Crime newspaper#. 10/20/66. Pages 470, 471
Quotes on appointive offices, Judgeships, Education, Law Enforcement,
self-goverment. THE DOCKET, 10/20/66. Pages 472, 473
KTVU Telethon, Gakland, Sunday, Oct. 23. State parks and natural resouces.
Redwoods. Pages 474, 475
Excerpts speech to Reagan for Governor Committee and Republican Central
Committee of Riverside County, Riverside, Oct. 13. Pages. 476 - 477. (Rumford Act
Excerpts speech Cow Palace, May 12. Pages 478 - 481. (Berekuly).
Excerpts speech, Holtville, May 19. Pages 482 - 483. (Farming)
RR Statement Business Climate in Cal. 3/29/66. Pages 484 - 485.
Excerpts speech to employees Pacific Telephone Co. San Diego, May 6. Pages 487 - ;
(Unemployment Insurance, employment, etc.)
Excerpts speech Sacramento, Sept. 27. Pages 490 - 497. (Education. I
Statement of Ronald Reagan regarding John Birch Socierty. Page 498.
PR & Robert Finch speak our on issues. Pages 499 - 502. (Education).
Excerpts speech RR on education . Pages 503 - 505.
Excerpts speech Calif. Narcotics Assoc,, Edgewater Inn Marina Hotel, Oct. 20.
Pages 506 - 507, (Crize, law enforcement, police training).
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2.
The "Five Commandments" offered by RR & Finch. Pages 508 - 509. (Tax Reform) 9/6/66
Pages
Excerpts Hayward Speech, Sept. 27, 66. / 510- 514. (Welfare)
Excerpts Seal Beach speech. Rossmore Leaisure World, Sept. 29. Pages 515 - 519.
(Senior Citizens.)
Commonwealth Club speech ( excerpts. ) 10/28. San Francisco.
CONSERVATION, REDWCODS, PARKS
pages 520, 521, 522.
INDEX
AGENCIES 134, 157, 207, 210, 227, 265, 317, 319
AGRICULTURE 5, 43, 87, 88 89, 94, 106, 107, 132, 133, 134, 146, 148, 149,
153, 224, 233, 24, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 271, 282, 312,
\
328, 333, 334, 363, 364, 373, 421, 422, 446, 436, 482, 483,
APPOINTMENTS 85, 96, 217, 218, 256, 265, 313, 328
BACKGROUND(REACHN) 184, 271, 287, 288, 316, 326, 341, 436,
Berkeley 478, 479, 480, 481,
BIRCH SOCIETY 2, 3, 7, 271, 283, 289, 415, 498,
BUDGET 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 44, 81, 82, 93, 96, 186, 199, 200, 212,
213, 214, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 256, 263, 270, 374, 360
BUREAUS 189, 207, 210, 227
BUSINESS 45, 57, 58, 84, 105, 110, 137, 143, 156, 158, 168, 191, 196, 212,
217, 239, 335, 336, 430, 431, 48L, 485,
CAMPAIGN 1, 8, 35, 37, 33, 39, 172, 203, 216, 240, 264, 265, 268, 397, 419,
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 11, 227, 228, 467, 468, 471,
CIVIL RIGHTS 8, 42, 65, 68, 140, 270, 280, 332
CONSERVATION 427, 428, 438, 430, 474, 475,520, 521
INDEX
CIVIAL STRVICE 322,
COMMUNICATIONS 36, 37, 33, 39, LO, L2, 11, 45
297, 299, 300, 303, 306, 350
CRIME 96, 232, 255, 308, 327, 339 340, 350, 361, 352, 396, 397, 428,429,
435, 437, 470, 471, 503, 507;
2, 153, 2190 LIL,
ECONGHY L, 25, 28, 32, 34, 90, 105, 105, 109, 159, 150, 161, 162, 185, 190, 191,
194, 199, 207, 203, 213, 232, 233, 393, 431, L85,
EDUCATION
6, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, 8, 69, 99,
113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 111, 142, 167, 11, 172, 10, 195, 219, 220,
232, 241, 253, 254, 269, 270, 272, 27, 2,4, 215, 310, 311, 327, 327,
473, 329, 479, 100, 460, 481, 490,' 491, 492, 293, 493, Dr, 497, 499, 500, 472,
334, 2.0, 343, 344, 350, 353, 354, 371, 372, 318, 339, 450,451, DSI, 38,
LOI,
1.='.
501, 502, 503, 504, 505
EXPLOYENT L, 5, 6, 18, 22, 26, 34, 43, 04, 87, 90, 156, 190, 191, 208, 209,
238, 21, 2L7, 325 421, 123, 429, 514,
EXTREMISM 452, 453,
FINANCE
10, 16, 17, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 14, 136, 207, 213, 216,
234, 235, 256
FIRMS 333, 164,
FREEWAYS 448, 522,
SUDS 8, 67, 94, 240
INDIX
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regular
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69,
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33,
91,
11;,
133,
137,
130,
10 153, 157, MI 150, 163, 167,
209,
210,
214,
254,
292,
215, the E 314, 169, # 316, 173, 328, 165, 196, 213, 454,
455,
199, 254
STATE
11, 23, 33, 133, 237, 250, 019
72, 107, IFT, 715, 2,1, 29, 432, 440,462, 476,
E, 110, 143, 11, 139, 251, 212, 30, 278, 430, 465, 466,485,
197
2, 2.5, 20, 36, 212, 422, L87
AND ******** DAI,
72, 429,
INVIX
433, 472,
20, 22F, 255, 472, L73, 503,
LEADERSHIP 456, 457
UNIT 137, 111, 217, 228, 300
INVIMANTH
56, 203, 227, 232, 317, 350, 435, 465, 466,
15., 133, stat
421, 422, 423, 435, 446, 447,458, 450, 463
which 27, 27, 267, 27L, 31.5
MOPALITY IN GOV'T. 454, 455
It
NATURAL REFOURCES 427, 428, 438,474, 475, 520, 521,
92, 117, 20, 250, III, 113, 425,
07,1302, 21., DRI, 519,
INC
20, 313 474, 475, 520, 521,
451,
PROPOSITION 1- - 322,
11
432, 440, 476, 509,
100,
101,
102,
103,
101,
272,
1818, 453,473,
CARE
110, 113,433,
139
217, 300, 300 427, 521,
RIPWOODS 174, 475, 520, 521,
RICTING
425,479,
515, 516,
31, I.D, 135,
517, 519,
ANALE
11.
g5
16,
132, 201,
430, 431, 443,
456, 463,
484, 503, 504, 505, 508, 509,
2014
13, 101, Day, all, 200, 202, 313
TRANSPORTATION 448, 449, h22, LET,
151, 212, 432, 269, 275, 319, 392,
s 456 422, 429, 484, 407, 488,
STATE 111, 120; 271, 27F, n/c, 215, 333,
463,
1, 351, 250 250
200, 101, 237, ME, 27, 1,28, 439,
= E, 2,2, 1.3, 11, 10, 302, 425,430,
9
NY Mag 460,461,510, 511,
512, 513, 511, 517, 518,
"I can't begin to find the words to say thanks to all of you. Wish you
could know all the thoughts and memories that are going through my mind. I
sat here and thought of all the many benefits here in this place that Manny
Harmon and I used to meet backstage, laugh, and look at each other and say,
"We're doing another one together. "
"And Duke, for you to stand here and say those things that you said and
I remember the number of times in battles in the Guild when it only took
getting on the phone, calling your number; you were there with the gang the
gang on the right side of things.
"It all stops right here. I want to tell you that as of tonight, I
could quit and be richer than I've ever been in my life. The people here on
this platform- - those who ve entertained you know, I've had a feeling with
some of the campaign oratory from the other camp that they have, perhaps,
been trying to push me into a position where I would try to avoid or deny
my connection all these years with show business and the people of show
business. Well they ve got a long wait coming. I have known great friends;
they 're here tonight-- a number of them. And as for the rest of you--all of
you here I couldn't begin to thank the people here at this head table who
have done so much and so unselfishly-- not for me, but for the cause in which
we happen to believe together. You know- the people out there there are
just as many of them, working unselfishly and hard for this cause.
"You know, if my memory serves me correctly- the Republicanshik have been
picked on for a long time and back in an earlier day, I even used to do a
little of the picking myself on the basis that Republicans were old fogies--
never introduced anything or innovated anything new. But I think I also
remember that the first man to give his entire salary to the government was
Herbert Hoover.
÷ few days ago, on April 15th, everybody did!
Incidentally, speaking of that, if we're still with that old fogy image
that they say we are--take a look at the gentlemen up here--and lady--who are
chairmen in this particular cause on our side. Look at these people gathered
here and look at yourselves-- and there's a new image to the Republican Party.
And the other side better find it out--and pretty quickly they re living in
the past and we're way out in front moving into the 20th Century.
"Buddy, you worried me there for a minute, when you started talking about
those phony coins that imitation money. I remember when I was a small boy,
we used to go out, if we could get our hands on a penny, and put it on the
car track and when the street car / come by and you'd have a nice great big
shiny blob of copper. / Now the Great Society is doing it and selling it for
a quarter.
"Nancy and I have found this political world a very exciting thing--a very
exciting place--as you can kmage imagine. The other day I left the house in
the station wagon; I got down as far as the first stop light and was sitting
there, looking out the window kind of daydreaming in the sun when a sonic
boom or something happened I thought--anyway, me and the station wagon landed
in the middle of the intersection. I put my head back on, getting it from
the rear seat and I got out. There was a woman getting out of a Lincoln behind
me, holding her jaw and we started toward the scene of the damage and suddenly
she stopped and pointed and said: "I seen you on televison- I'm gonna vote for
you!
"So I said: "No harm done."
We have a seven-year old at home the Skipper he thinks this is all a lot
of foolishness. He does see why I have to be away from home all this time--or
we have to come down and do things like this. He'd been watching Death Valley
Days--he's got the whole thing simplified in his mind. He figures I just aukkx
to go to Sacramento, stand in the middle of the street and say:
"Pat, one of us has got to be out of town by sunup!"
"Four years ago. on January 24th, tge Governor reopened his election
campaign at that time, and he said "the record is good and we have practiced
economy. 11
"While, now, I don't challenge that statement. They probably have
practiced economy, but in the business that I've been in, you don't sell
tickets to a rehearsal. Exkiks I'd like to see a performance. Come to think
of it--a finished performance.
"But on that January day in '62, he told us that unemployment was a
priority problem in California and it would be pushed below 5%; that fraud
in welfare should be cut; that crime problem attacked; and local property
taxpayers helped; the farmers should be insured of an adequate labor force,
"including braceros". And then he said there should be more efficiency in
government; there is too much government in California.
Makes you wonder who's been Governor these last four years?
Unemployment is almost 40% higher than in the rest of the nation. We
spend double on welfare what we were spending five years ago and the spending
is increasing faster than the spending on education. Crime has increased
until we have double our share. There is more crime in the United States
than in any place in the world and there's more crime in California than in -
in
any place in the United States. Education is our biggest budget item and/our
state, for every dollar we spend on education, the cost of crime is $1.11.
And as for that help the local property taxpayer was going to get, property
taxes have increased twice as fast as personal income and Californians carry
the heaviest kandxuf local property tax levy in the nation. This, combined
with other local and state taxes means that, if you are the average family of
four, your family's share of the state burden is $400 higher than it is for
=
people in the other 49 states.
And that promise of adequate labor for the farmer when the time came
to keep that promise--when he could have done so by lifting his voice in
protest against the Federal government:= and their ridiculous decision to
make guinea pigs out of California farmers in a sociological
experiment he remained silent and a near-catastrophe came to our biggest
single industry. The net income in the high labor crops dropped $149 million
but the gross remained higher than it's ever been and the housewives in the
audience know why every time kaxzx they go to market. andxxx Stand in front
of the asparagus counter today and you discover that it's cheaper to eat
money.
And that brings us to the finale of his campaign song of four years
ago: There's too much government in California. Well, there is and it's
been increasing more than twice as fast, in both size and cost, as the increase
in population.
And now we're hearing his new campaign saga song. It sounds like a
re-play of the old one, but he's got a few bars of "Everything's Comming
Up Roses" thrown in.
Keeping up with the Governor's promises is like reading Playboy Magazine
while your wife turns the pages.
Quoting from a speech just the other day, the Governor--and incidentally,
thing
the Governor said the only/he fast feared is the facts--but he said the
budget is much more than a mere exercise in bookkeeping; it reflects the
policies and principles of this administration.
Now he said that; I didn't. But I agree--this budget reflects the
policies and principles of this administration. On Page A-49, there's listed
$4 million in "Estimated Unidentifiable Savings' and no one will explain
this away as swamp gas--but by the time that $4 million figure crosses the
page just a couple of inches to the Total Column--there S a typographical
e
error occure and it becomes $6 million. Now if that error was in our favor,
I'd keep my mouth shut. But somebody, before the year's out, is going to
spend that $2 million mistake.
There's another $2 million blooper in the budget while when they 're asking
and I understand I was challenged today to say where I could cut it because
of the passage of Medicare, and the implementing of Medicare in our state,
there are two state welfare programs that went out of existence as of March
1st--but there's still $2 million in the budget for administrative salaries--
the administrators of those two programs that no longer exist.
This budget was made up by an administration with eight years of political
experience. If they don't know how now, we can hardly expect them to come up
as financial geniuses in a ninth year, or tenth, or even eleventh or twelfth.
In his campaign oratory, he's claimed this will be the eighth balanced
budget in a row and that we ve had six consecutive years without a major
revision of the state's tax system.
Now I don't know how many dollars it takes to be 'major' but I don't
think $22 million is small change/ and that was the one-time windfall, in
1 963, when the insurance tax was revised and accelerated to hide the fact
there would be a deficit in that budget. And there were three more such
deceptive gimmiks between then and now--the installment privilege on personal
income tax was eliminated, and that resulted in the one-time increase of $45
million bank and corporation tax was changed to eliminate installment privi-
leges and require partial pre-payment, and that resulted in $83 million in
a single lump. And last year, that bare bones budget, was balanced by
accelerating the payment of sale tax revenue by the large retailers. And
that was a one-time windfall of $90 million.
Each time it .ES done to hide the fact that in contravention to our
Constitution, there vas a deficit in our budget and he was reluctant to ask
for new revenue outright.
Now maybe those aren't major sums that I've just read off. Or maybe
they just don't seem SO big if you've been spending someone else's money
for a long time.
But now we come to the budget he calls "lean and hard". That's what
.he's doing- leanin' hard! on us.
And this is the end of the line. Each of the othergimmicks has meant
collecting money in advance--collecting money ahead--and this deficit now--
which can be as much as $300 million--brings up Gimmick #5: a change in the
bookkeeping system.
Counting as money in the till tax revenues not yet collected on trans-
actions that haven't taken place yet and could possible not take kplace.
And
it won't hurt a bit, until after the election. Sometimes when he keeps
assuring us how everything is alright, I'm reminded of that old XN story--
I'm sure you all know -about the prizefighter having a bad time in the
ring and he was backpedaling away from his opponent and every time he passed
his corner, his manager would yell in and say "Stay in there. He can't hurt
us!" And about the fifth time around, the fixty fighter said to the manager,
"Keep your eye on the referee! Somebody in here's kicking my brains out."
The Governor's own Senate Fact-Finding Committee says that this new
bookkeeping gimmick with "produce no revenue and it will show up on next years;s
bill and it will make a gigantic tax increase next year a certainty.
"
It almost makes you think hat he isn't planning on being around next uear,
doesn't it?
236
"I've been warned it's politically unwise to talk about the budget--
that people like ourselves are unable to comprehend figures like $4.6
billion and maybe that's so, but I think Californians can understand the
family budget that has to be. trimmed and reduced of some of the good
things they'd like to have and that make life worthwhile because when they
reach
in their pocket to buy them, they find that
the government's hand has been in there first.
"Now, we seen our embattled few - the Republican caucus--the
Republican minority- those few legislators we have in Sacramento--standing
against the dishonest efforts of *** this administration to portray this
as a balanced budget. Unfortunately, they're limited in what they can
accomplish simply because of their lack of numbers and because they are
provided with an inadequate research staff and because, actually, the
Governor's office is the important focal point in making such a reduction
SHEW as we demand and is as required. The Legislature works within the
confines of statutory and policy limitations. If the Governor, on the
other hand, has a desire, he can call for major program revisions and the
reductions of fiscal operations and spending. And I have that desire.
"The budget is extremely difficult to analyze. Actually, I belieye
it's more complex--more complicated than the Federal budget. Many of
the departmental expenditures are hidden in a variety of ways. There's
one things they can't hide that deficit of $300 million that must be
faced next year. Now, it's possible that that budget deficit can be
reduced in the coming year with an increase in revenue that results from
inflation and the fact that there's going to be a jump - there is a jump--
in defense spending in California brought on by the Viet Nam conflict.
This increase in revenues could run between $50 and $75 million. Very
shortly the Governer will come forth with a speech in which he will announce
this and he will ancounce it as an accomplishment of his administration
I='s just the nature of the thing.
"But, this leaves some $240 million deficit to be concealed by book-
keeping tricks that would jail a private citizen if he tried them.
"Let's took at what could be done if our Republican minority was not
so outnumbered and if there was a Republican Governor willing to make the
cuts in the fat.
"In the first place, each budget of these last several has been based
on a preceding one and automatically assumes that that budget represented
the ultimate in économy and efficiency, and then, just as automatically,
increases are added and explained as necessary by XMXX reason of inflation
and the increase in population. Well, even if we accept that questionable
premise regarding that first budget that started the spiral, the annual
increases have been greater by far than the growth in population or inflation.
"Now, I've eliminated no programs, although I am sure there are some we
dazx could do without. I haven't touched on the payments required by law,
the expenditures for education except some capital outlays that were
recommended as being disapproved by our Legislative Analyst Alan Post. My
reductions are in the nature of holding the line and they're based on project-
ing back against this disproportionate growth of government with relation to
the increase in population and the size of our state.
"The Health and Welfare budget stands at $795.5 million- that's an
increase of 12.5% over last year. Without taking anyone off welfare, that
budget can be cut by almost $90 million. County superintendents,
including our own, regularly suggest administrative reforms to save millions
of dollars on overhead; and their suggestions are ignored. In public hearings,
the counties reported having to submit, every month, to sacramento more than
7 180 reports; and county case workers are guided by, and have to keep up with,
22 manuals and handbooks which, when stacked up and crammed together, fill a
five-foot shelf. But, they can't even keep ahead of them because in the Capitol
the rule changers have made 1, 655 revisions TTTL in this books in 18 months.
there could be a great increase in efficiency and a better utilization
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trained personnel if they could be free of this paperwork blizzard. And
= goes without saying that eliminating this excessive paperwork would permit
employees to do work for which they are trained, and it could undoubtedly
have an added advantage with reducing welfare fraud as they went out into
the field instead of being chained to their desks and kept closer in contact
with the actual recipients.
"Now, let me make it plain if I havent. This reduction would in no way
eliminate the deserving recipients, nor does it cancel out our obligation to
those people who depend on our compassion for their livelihood.
"Using this same system, the $470 million budget for transportation, which
represents a 7.8% increase since last year, can be cut $43 million and still
permit some increase over last year's budget.
"Following the same formula, in Resources Development, Corrections,
Fiscal Affairs, Business and Commerce, Public Safety, and that great catch-all,
Shared Revenue and Others, we can have a savings of $175.5 million.
"Now, you advise add in the Legislative Analysts's recommended reductions
in capital outlays XX of almost $38 million, plus $32 million of capital
construction which, if not cancelled, could at least be delayed. such $162,000
for remodeling the toilets in the State House--and you've got a grand total of
$245 million and a more than balanced budget.
"And I challenge them to prove that these cuts can't be made or that
essential servis services have to be reduced.
"And I claim that in arriving at these figures, I also contemplated keeping
in the budget the pay raises for the state employees in the coming year.
"Now before the Governor starts denying the practicality of these proposals
I think he should know that his own staff is in that pot for something like
$12,189 $400,000. This budget provides him with a staff of now that half
bothers me--unless perhaps EXXXXXX that's a cousin twice removed. The last
Republican Governor, Goodwin Knight, was allowed, in the budget 589 58 staff
-4-
members at a cost of less than half of the present staff that the present
Governor has and Goodwin KKN Knight never found it necessary to
fill even all those positions which he was allowed: and this Governor has
never managed to get through the year with those that were allowed him in the
budget.
"In the days ahead, I intend to take a program, not included inthe
budget, and show where millions of dollars can be cut there also=to put our
system of unemployment insurance on a sound fiscal basis and take a step, if
we could do this, toward reinstituting our fine business climate that is now
so deteriorating.
"The working men and women of our state have a right to know that this
program exists for their protection and not as a pre-paid vacation plan for
freeloaders. This administation has re-interpreted that program- what was
XNEEN intended to be insurancexza is defined now as a part of welfare. And
the benefit payments have increased 350% in the last eight years. Now, if
we could only have the same efficiency in our behalf that displayed in
Sacramento right now with regard to their own solication of campaign funds
things would NEXXEXX be very fine indeed.
Now if we could only have the same efficiency on our behalf that's
displayed in Sacramento right now with regard to their own solicitation of
campaign funds, things would be very fine indeed.
I have a copy of a memorandum on my desk, explaining to the govern-
appointees
mental employeesather the need for funds to re-elect the present administra-
tion and there's a chart with the salaries of the appointees and the a maxi-
mum contribution that would be desirable and the minimum contribution that
would acceptable. And the KENXXE return address is a hotel room in Sacramenot
registered in the name of Roger Kent the campaign mamager for the Governor.
Weel I think it's time we asked ourselves if we want to go on playing the
same old game or if we aren't ready to call for new cards.
I, for one don't believe we should go on standing paxx pat!
That's an old card-playing expression I learned at the Friars Club.
All of us share a great sesponsiblity. Only through a Republican victory
can we move ahead
away from those who retreat into the past and rule of the
many by the few. Dinners and rallies--occasions like this--are really only
the starting point. There's a long, hard road ahead and people like yourselves
will be doing the hard *aks ringing doorbells, and all the other serious
things that must be done as a part of a campaign. And at the same time, you,
doing those things, must X match your efforts against the full power of govern-
ment financed, ixaxizakkyxenaughxxxhxxpxx ironically enough, by our own money.
Today one party controls the White House and the Executive Branch- a 2/3
majority in both Houses of Congress, has appointed a majority of the Supreme
Court Justices- controls 60% of the nation's governors and legisla-
tures. One party rules the nation. And one man rules that party.
Well, the fight back can begin here in this state if you and I are willing
to accept it.
But as Republicans, let's play it smart for once. We don't win by
destroying our opponents; we convert them. We have to be salesmen; we don't
the indifference and the lack of leadership.
There is also int morality and a decency gap in Sacramento with little men
building big government and then treating it as a hunting preserve for their
own pleasure.
Well, if you and I are willing to accept this double standard of
morality a strict code in our private lives, but political expediency and e
easy virtue by those entrusted with public power then we share their guilt.
But I believe we want something better. I believe the people will follow
our party if we have the courage to stand on principle and make no compromise
with basic truth.
Can any of you deny that down in your own hearts you have a desire and,
at the same time, a bakieve belief<whether you ve ever expressed it or not=that
government can be something deserving of our respect and worthy of our pride?
0 I want that for our children; I think you want the same thing
government, of and by, and well as for the people government reflecting our
faith in God as the Author of our freedom-- and this can be ours.
It's just as near as the ballot bax box.
If we fail in this challenge, can anyone here assure us or even prédict-
that we 11 every have another chance?
Between us, we can wage a moral crusade a crusade that we must wage,
not for political victory, but because freedom itself is at stake and the
torch is in our hands. And I assure you that while I am in this all the way,
I can go no place or do none of the things that I have suggested without your
help and I earnestly beg for that help.
But I tell you also, we have a pledge to make to each other deep in our
hearts we must make this pledge- and it must not be dulled fox or dimmed by
the enthusaasm that carries us through a primary--once the primary votes are
over, you and I have a greater responsibility than anyone's personal desire
and that is to ensure there will be a Republican victory and that we will
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.OW I've saved 'til the last that final promise that he made! four
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that he WES going to promise the farmers of California an
lequate labor force including braceros. He could have kept that promise
just by raising his voice in protent when the Secretary of Labor Wirtz
conducted that ridiculous experiment that made farmers in California
sociological guinea pigs for the planners in Washington. Here, they
brought near disester on Culifornia "arming, and I would like to point
out because this problem crosses party lines, that when this was put
the
to 1 vote of Congress last yearevery Republican California Congressman
voted against cancelling the bracero program and 15 Democratic California
Congressmen voted to cancel and the bill carried by only 12 votes. It
would only have taken a Few of than to stop being a rubber stamp for a
moment and represent the people they were chosen to represent
Californians and we wouldn't have bad that catastrophe that took place
in last harvest season, Now the Governor trice to meter : the experiment
was 2 success. He says that the total toonige was up and that we had
a gross income of $3.7 billion. Well, we did. ! gross income. But
he never talks net. Actually, vegetables, malons, strawberries, other
kinds of fruit
the tonnage was the lowest level in five years. Some
of the acreage was reduced and not planted, and other farmers who did
plant had the tragedy of standing and watching the cropsripen and rot
in the field and be ploved back into the insund bacause there wasn't any
one
to
pick
them.
The
government
the total loss
EM
docline to the
high labor croos and associated industries was more than $200 million
and I suppose everyone here knows better without By telling them about
that tomato picking school Then the pressure came on For tonatoes, of
$125, 000 to teach 500 young people == how to pick tomatoes. Only 234 of
.0 500 nabred 42. They got $52 ? valid for two wheks and room and board
and it the bnl of two weeks *yax they out the $110 in their pocket/ and
wenn name and nobody picked tomatoes. I don't know whether you know
about the peach crop >= not but this one is always well, it's a tragedy.
I don't know whe I'm smiling. But you know that ve had an unusual summer
last year and the harvest season stretched cut and the crops didn't overlap
in the harvesting and 3) we were able to move the limited work force from
one harvest to the other. Until the poaches rigened at the same time the
tomatoes ripened. And it looked like V.C were really going to be in trouble.
And we were in trouble. There was an undersonal rain. And 1/3 of our
total peach crop was wiped out in one 24 hour period by a fungus disease
that attacks the peaches when they get noist around them at that stage of
ripening. And in the peach trade that disease is known asbrown not."
Never has there been such an arrogant disregard by government for the
people's welfare or for reality. They provised the Fermers of California
an adequate donestic labor force. They said that the power of the State
Department of Labor and the United States Labor Department through its
arm placement service could furnish all the employees we needed for our
harvest and our peak season, So California formero asked for 50,000
workers and the United States Department of Labor was able to deliver
3,272. And many of them only used this an excuse to get to California.
Because when they arrived hire they spent such a short time in the fields
that the bill for their trinsportation assessed arainst the farmer averaged
out to 97 ¢ an hour for every hour they but in our fields and our groves.
Down in the San Diego area one packing company was asked to furnish
transportation from a pocket of great unimployment, to bring the unemployed
who had been recruited by the State Department of Labor to the orange
groves/ where unskilled workers were earning more than $2 20 hour for
picking orgages. And for four months they provided Free transportation
7000 then 100 of these the Dates 17 name! norc than 0.0 lays
in the orange proves before they want back on one of our many welfare
programs, California's net farm income is the lowest that it has been :- =
five years. The California farmer is receiving the lowest percentage of
the food basket dollar he has ever received. But the housewife, as every
one of you present knows,
well, when you husbands, if you conder why the
household allowance inn't going as far 33 it did last year, why don't you
go to the market the noxt time with your ifs, stand in front of the
vegetable counter, look at the prize 11 decide it's cheaper to eat
money. In
,
California list years there were 7,000 acres of
winter
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fresh tomatoes planted. This year there were 40 acres. The rest are
planted across the border in Mexico. 200 canning companies that have
given jobs and handled our crops here in this state have moved, are moving
and making plans to move across the border. And what were the sins of the
California farmers that brought down such havec from the planners in
Washington?
greatest single industry of
our state; nangonsible directly or indicectly for 1/3 of all our enployment,
03 of all of our cash business transactions, Tell, probably the nost
unforgivable sin is the fact that 93% of Califrrnia's farming is out on
the free market, not subsidized by the federal agricultural program, and
we've been paying 400 an hour higher than the national average to our
employees. And what indicates that the Secretary of Labor could-tura out
to be such 2 Jolly Green Giant? The Secretary of Labor on Tarch 22 bent
a letter to 10 California Compressmen and he told them that down in
Florida in the citrus groves they had worked cut a new kind of piece work
pay scale. And he said it vas no successful that it raised their incomes
or their sularies 30; above the minimum which, incidentally, he had set in
Florida at $1.15 75 hour. he set the minimum in California at$1.40 at hour,
But, he couldn't understand why California coulin't learn from Florida.
711, the 10 vary happy 10 -: This letter. Than
even happier when they Learnel that the direct :- been Invented in
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California. We had it in effect for a long time and it had raised the
erage wage in our organge groves to $2.06 an hour and we'd written the
Secretary of Labor a letter about it explaining it to him more than a year
ago! and we'd never received an answer. The next time a Senate committee
decides to hold a hearing to investigate the problems of farm labor, I
suggest they hold it in some other state besides California. And that
also goes for those professional blaeding hearts who conducted that 300
mile Easter egg roll -from Delano to Sacramento, And now what do the planners
have in mind as they ve. that the government failed miserable last year to
provide the needed labor? Well, two weeks ago, not too far from here, I
saw the asparagusfields, the growers there discing and plowing out ripe
crops of asparagus because there was no one to pick them. And last week
they asked for 2,500 supplemental laborers, broceros to be admitted to save
some of those crops and they were donied the right to do this. Last year
was
white soparagus in California the crop/nith only 1/2 of what it was the
year before and next year or this year it will probably only be 1/4 of
what it was two years ago unless there is some relief ebtained. But the
Department of Labor
and the growers are making every effort they can
possibly make with advertisements on the radio and in the newspapers in the
areas of high unemployment, trying to get people to come into the fields
where workers are able to make from $2 to $3.50 an hour, and they can't get
them. And the entimated loss now, with the government's refusal to give
bracero labor, is estimated at 15,000 acres and $10 million. But suddenly
the State Labor Department, within the last 24 imens hours, has ridden over
the hill like the Cavelry to the rescue. Not to the asparagus growers
it's too late to help then
no, Mr. T
of our State Department of
.00, has =. the inventment, "% the Inbonces to pick the
strubborries in the Salines near." And SC the government is going to allow
for Like weeks 1,0.0 Thy, you'd almost think an Mostion
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year. cldn't you? If it was norally wrong to have braceros pick the
strasserries last year, what makes it suddenly morally right for them to
.ck the strawberries this year? A cynical administration in both Sacramento
and Washington has, as I said before, made Califrrnia farmers guinea pigs
for a social experiment. And now they're re making them guinea pigs in a
vote-buying experiment. The government has shown a complete disregard for
the farmers welfare. And a few grandstand stunts, I don't think are going
to assure us that any change they Ray evidence now is going to be evidenced
after the election and the votes are counted. If this was true, why didn't
they come to the defanse of the farmers down in the Imperial Valley? Most
of you know that the farners down there have had a conteact with the federal
government exempting them from the 130 Acre libitation had this contract
for more than 30 years. but now the federal "r, Udall, has
told then, "reduce your farms to 160 acres or no more water. 19 Well, this
= problem that if we had a Govennor in California who was interested in
the welfare of the beople in this largest of our single industries, would
right nov be mobilizing the Governors in the Council of Governors from
the other states and would 33 storning into Was Ington now nointing out
that the 160 acre limitation on farms is utterly ridiculous, old-fashioned
and should be done away with all over our country, not just down in one
particular area. Se should all have a contract that reconnizes that
farming today has become 30 expensive that it is unrealistic to consider
holding farmers down to this particular limitation in size. There are
additional things that he should be urging, and that is 1 realistic
approach to the property tax with regard to formers. And if there's to be
a minimum wage in agriculture that minimum wage should be uniform throughout
the United States and not higher for Californiano and lower for the poople
1n the other and the southern states. Cortainly there should be an
explosation made of the idea of at practical piece rate optional plan in
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to a minimum rate. All this is possible if we had a creative
soc_.Ty, if we had a government that would replace the tired cliches
the great society, that had faith in the people and their ability
to run their own affairs. All this could be possible if the Governor
would have a State Board of Agriculture and a Director of Agriculture
who knew something about farming problems, was sympathetic to the
farmers problems, and that when the = farmer had a problem and voiced it
there would be someone in Sacramento who would listen. There's more
than this at state in the coming election. That is at stake this year
is a need for a moral crusade, not just 3. political victory. There is
a morality and a decency 322 in our State Ompital. There is a leddership
gap and there is no more tragic evidence of this than what has taken place
in the last few months on the camius of I great university
The principal issue before the people of California today is the issue
mich confronts this country and the entire world. It is the dominant question
which overtides ill other considerations. It is the issue of our age--and of
the ages. The entire question can be summed up in one word: Freedom.
Here, in this country, 200 years 2,0, a revolution took place that estab-
lished once and for all that freedom was maa's God-given right, and that
government existed only through the permission of the people. Government's
sole function was to insure and guarantee man's permanent possession of the
right to be free.
Today, 172 Americans bear an almost total responsibility for the entire
world to preserve freedom. And I believe that the ultimate responsibility for
carrying on the fight for freedom rests with the Republican Party.
This is the unique heritage which has come to those of us who call
ourselves Republicans, The Bill of Rights is still a radical document to
many, and it must be products! by those of US the transure it and the freudons
it guarantees.
These freedoms have become 30 familiar to US that they are dog-eared
from thumbing: The right to life and liberty, freedom of worship, freedom ==
assembly, freedom to speak out as I an doing in this space. Yet, when we step
and think how much we would miss any one of the freedoms guaranteed by our
Constitution and Bill of lights, then :3 realize anew how very precious they
are, and A2 appreciate the Imporcance of protecting those rights.
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights vas to place these freedoms beyond
the reach of majocity rule. This was done by placing thise rights in a very
special catagory: Unalianable Cod-given rights. According to the American
concept, these rights are not conferred by government, for if that were the
case, government world also have the legitimate power to take away those rights.
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Basically, today's conservative is actually the radical of the revolu-
tionary period. Cn the other hand, those who advocate the liberal philosophy
could best be described--15 they had livel during that period--as the Tories.
The revoluticnists of that ora wase conservative in the Edmund Burke
concept of Conservativicm. They were revolutionists in their determination
to revise the aga-old status quo. They were radical in their devotion to the
idea that rule should be only by the consent of the governed.
However, the Togies were content with the king! they supported rule of
the many by the Eew, That's the equivilent of today's superstate--an all-
powerful, centralized government.
The conservative today is chicacterized by advocating less control of
the people by government, less centralization of authority. And the liberal
of boday supports the idea that all our problems 280 be solved by government,
preferably the Federal government.
I think the dinger lies in the so-called liberal's willingness to sacri-
fice individual freedom because of a feeling that the material needs of the
people are more important and thus the and justifies the means.
Liberalism as we know it today, carried to its logical extrema, would
pass successively through the planning and controls of the Great Society to
a modified Harxion as we find it in the Scandinavian countries and in England,
to the totalitarianisu of the Soviet Union.
Since the conservative believes in individual freedom and the limited
power of goverment, conservatism, corried to its logical extreme, would be-
come increasingly Inissez-fuire until ultimately no law and order would exist
and we would have wordly.
Screwhere there the extradad of lafe :: sight, there is the
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ideal: The ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order.
Let me make it plain. I believe that the government has a legitimate
place in our lives. The government must provide a framework for our daily
competition vita each other to make sure that in our individual pursuit of
happiness, we do not trample on the rights of others.
And it would be extramism to dany our responsibility as a nation for the
less fortunate among us. But government must never become a substitute for
the people. Only the people have the capacity to manage their own affairs.
I strongly support welfare programs designed to prover the permanently
disable, the aged and the infirm with, not only the nacessities of life, but
also some of the conforts which can make life worth living.
Another area of walfare has to do with those who are in need of tempo-
rary help wntil they oon regain their rightful places in our productive
economy. It is here that we have, too often, strayed from welfare's original
purpose. We fraquently perpetuate poverty by making welfare a way of life
rather than by using it to help people back to productive jobs.
As Governor, I will propose a commission to redefine welfare's goals and
recommend appropriate legislation.
I will explore every avenue hereby, through state, business, and labor"
cooperation, the business climate can be Improved and thousands of new jobs
provided.
I will seek to provide useful employment in our public institutions, or
training, for 26 many welfare recipients CS possible in order to give them
the self-respect which comes from useful service and to haston the day when
they can take their rightful placed in Cilifornia's productive economy.
There are TWO WIF of achieving chool opportunity for all our citizens,
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One way is to remove the restrictions that place a ceiling over some of our
citizens. The other any is to extend that cailing so that all people are
equally restricted and restrained.
The first way is morally right and it is consistent with the American
dream. The second way is the Maruian concept which was described by Winston
Churchill as the philosophy of failure. It operates according to the gospel
of envy. Its greatest virtue is the charing of micery.
I believe that many Americans the are Pagro have been led astray by
the leadership of the other political porties. Those who have been misled
find that they have been consigned to a political ghatto. They are treated
contemptously as a bloc vote.
The Republican Party has done the most to advance the cause of the
individual, and that includes, of course, the individual Megro. The Repub-
licen Party offers refress of grievance and applicy of opportunity neither
because of, nor in spite of, race CI religion or any other difference batween
us, but because all Americans are entitled to nothing less.
Sometimes I wonder if we ever pause to contemplate the strange paradox
that this nation, founded on individual freedom, should depart from this
principle to establish a system of compulsory elucation. This is a strange
dichotomy, but I think the explanation rests with the fact that we can reasin a
free people only if T43 are a literate people.
Education is the bulwark of freedom, but if it is removed too for from
perental influence, it can become the tool of typenny. Local control of
education is basic to the traditions of America. Only with local control
can Americans be regured that their children vill receive the finest educu-
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tion possible with safeguards against ideological or political indoctrination.
Cur time-tasted system of local control over our school systems i3
threatened by an increasingly PO verful Paderal government which has dried
up the sources of local and state tration, Financial support of education
at the local level his becoue difficult. So, the Federal government steps in
and offers to solve the problem it created in the first place!
With the offer of Federal grants and alds has come concern among educa-
tors and administrators that Federal control will GO hand in hand with Federal
aid.
As an example, a memorandum was uncovered about a year ago in the office
of Community Relations Service, There is a contence in that membrandum which
is very disturbing. It says we should conduct a systematic effort to contact
all publishers and school boards to encourage their publication and adoption
of text books conforming to establishal standards.
Congress recently uncovered a book which is being circulated by the
Department of Health, Blucation & Welfare. The book outlines a plan for a
national education agency.
As Governor, I will introduce legislation to put unification of local
school districts on a voluntary--not compluscry-busis,
I will do all in my power to decentralize the State University system
and State Colleges to make them responsive to the needs of the local comuni-
ties they serve,
I will explore every innovation in education that could lead to giving
the tampayers more for their educational dollar,
I firmly believe that with such 3 program and in of notion, is can
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work towards the creative educational system that Californions need and
deserve.
The crime problem in this state precents a distressing picture. With
nine percent of the nation's population, California accounts for 17% of the
nation's crime,
Cur skyrocketing crime rate dates from certain judicial rulings that
took much of the law enforcement authority away from local police and left
them handicapped in their efforts to protect the law-abiding citizen from
the increasingly insolent criminal element,
As Governor, I will bake positive action to rectore to the cities and
counties their rights to snact local criinances designed to meet local law
enforcement problems.
I will call on the logislature to Tenanact those key crime
bills passed overwholmingly by the legislature at its last session but validad
by the Covernor. When re-enicted, I vill sign thate messures into law.
I will ask legislative support in an effort to end the growing flood
of smut and pornography aimed primarily at degrading our young people.
I will sponsor legislation aimed at curbing the growing use of narcotics,
halluninatory drugs and pap pills, especially in schools and on compuses.
It will be my purpose, C3 Governor of California, to see to. II that
California's streets and deighborhoods become safe again.
I think from years back we've been plagued by the prestitution of our
judicial process by the political appointment of judges. There is a plan at
work in the state of Missouri which I think boars close watching. Something
similar is maeded in California--a plan under which 3 committee of lawyers
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from the bar association and a connittee of laymen come up with a panel of
qualified legal minds from which the Governor must make his appointments to
the bench. Ne need to take the political partisanship out of the appointment
of judges once and for all.
As Covernor, i will support and work for is plan to take the appointment
of judges out of politics.
California's pro rate share of state and local government today costs
each individual $100 more than the national average. We have just been pre-
sented with a budget of four billion, six, million dollars.
You and I have a right to expect that as the budget gets this high--the
highest in the nation--it vould represent sophisticacad and impeccable com-
puting and accounting. But this budget has been characterized by incompe-
tence and sloppindes, and I submit that this 13 typical of something inherent
in government as it agins to grow Leyond the consent of the governed.
As an example, there 13 a two million dollare typographical edsor in
the budgat--and it's not in 04 favor, it's in their favor. You can rest
assured that they will find a use for that two million dollar typographical
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error, because government does not tax to get the money they need--they
always find = need for the money they get.
Just think, governmental function has become SO aplified that a govern-
ment typist's little slip can cost the taxpayers $2,000,000!
This example underscores the fallacy of 2 19th Century concept which
holds that there is come intellectual elite that should run the people's
affairs and make their decisions for them.
I suggest that 7.3 move into the 20th Century with a Creative Society,
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mobilizing the full resources of the people. This country has been fighting
the most successful 05 or poverty the world has ever seen. I think we have
the energy and the ability on the pers of the people to solve every problem
that confronts US.
I envision a state government mobilizing these energies of the people,
turning to the people in the various walks of life where problems exist and
helping them organize their -Wn solutions to those problems.
The founding fathers of this country were not professional politicians.
They were citizen politicians, earnestly concerned with the tremendous problems
our brave Cav country faced, and wholeheartedly dedicated to the task of find-
ing solutions to those problems.
Today, as our great state--number one in the nation faces the complex
problems of this age, I hope to concinue, no 2 citizen politician, in the
tradit on of the founding fathers.
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