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4.8.57 - Daily Variety - tatement by RR (from interview?)
" There appears to be a lessening of certain moral standards and
certain principles of honesty and honor in our country, even a lessening
of patriotism. 111
"Any tax for necessary government expenses can be accepted by the
people even if it is a little patitive painful, but this is a punitive
tax. /refering to income tax/ This is the tax that says: We T re going to
make it rough on anyone who is able to earn one dollar more than someone
else. It is a law that doesn't respect the individual and the individual
loses respect for this kind of law. It is a cancerous growth that spreads. "
8.3.59 - - Beverly Hills Citizen--interview re Congressional opposition
and the lobbying against pay television
"We've fallen into a rut today in asking the government for
everything. 111 /refering to lobby's attempt to outlaw pay tv by legislation/
/refering to possible death of movies and free tv by pay tv/
""I don't know. Perhaps it would, but under our system of
free enterprise I for one would do nothing to stop them.
Schember
There's
also the chance that they might fall flat on their face. But I recognize
their fundamental right to try.'"
3.6.61 - - Hollywood Citizen News--RR interview
"Reagen said the United States' tax foundations offered the quickest
means of Red victory. 'No country that collects one - third of a man's
income as taxes has
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ever been able to hold off a socialist or
communist revolution, , he said.' 11
4.6.62--Santa Monica Evening Outlook - - news Item re presentation to RR of
the Brotherhood-Humanitarian Award of the Santa Monica Bay Area chapter of
the National Conference of Christians and Jews by Walter Marks
/refering to the n value and effectiveness of private - initiative
in charitable work/
refered to the lack of need = for the help ""of an army of
bureaucrats. "
Ronald Reagan
SPEAKS OUT ON THE ISSUES.
CRIME
California, with 9% of the nation's population, has 17% of the nation's
crime. It costs the average family of four a minimum of $ 1, 000.00 a year.
Our skyrocketing crime rate dates from certain judicial rulings that
took much of the law inforcement 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:
1. Take positive action to restore to the cities and counties their
rights to enact local ordinances designed to meet local law
enforcement problems.
2. Support and work for a plan to take the appointment of judges
out of politics.
3. Call on the legislature to re-enact those key crime prevention
bills passed overwhelmingly by the legislature at its last session
but vetoed by the Governor. When re-enacted, I will sign these
measures into law.
4. Ask legislative support in an effort to end the growing flood of
smut and pornography aimed primarily at degrading our young
people.
5. Recommend legislation aimed at curbing the growing use of
narcotics, hallucinatory drugs and pep pills, especially in
schools and on campuses.
It will be my purpose to see that California's streets and neighbor-
hoods become safe again.
Southern California Headquarters: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
Northern California Headquarters: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
#2
RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
PUBLIC WELFARE
I strongly support welfare programs designed to provide the permanently
disabled, the aged and the infirm, with not only the necessities of life,
but also some of the comforts which can make life worth living.
Another area of welfare has to do with those who are in need of ten-
porary help until they can regain their rightful places in our productive
economy. It is here that we have, too often, strayed from welfare's ori-
ginal purpose. We frequently 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:
1. Propose a commission to redefine welfare's goals and recommend
appropriate legislation.
2. Explore every avenue whereby, through state, business, labor
cooperation, the business climate can be improved and thousands
of new jobs provided.
3. Seek to provide useful employment in our public institutions,
or training for as many welfare recipients as possible in
order to give them the self-respect which comes from useful
service and to hasten the day when they can take their places
in California's productive economy.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
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RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
EDUCATION
Education if the bulwark of freedom. Removed too far from parental
influence, it can become the tool of tyranny. Local control of education is
basic to the traditions of America. Only with local control can Americans
be assured that their children will receive the finest education possible,
with safeguards against ideological or political indoctrination.
Financial support of our state's school system was once evenly div-
ided between the local communities and the state. Today, the state's
share has fallen to 35 per cent.
As Governor, I will:
1. Work to increase the state's contributions to local school
districts, to relieve the growing burden on local property
taxpayers.
2. Seek appropriate ways to help local school districts attract
and keep good teachers.
3. Call for legislation to put unification of local school dis-
tricts on a voluntary--not compulsory--basis.
4. Work to assure the teaching profession a position of dignity and
respect, and to restore to our educational system the teaching
of the traditional concepts of individual responsibility and
good citizenship.
5. Explore every modern technique and technology in education that
could lead to giving, the taxpayer more for his educational
dollar.
With such a program and plan of action we can work toward the creative
educational system that Californians need and deserve.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
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RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
#4
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Nothing exposes the "leadership gap" in Sacramento more glaringly than
recent events that have taken place on campuses of some of our California uni-
versities.
In preserving academic freedom, we must preserve the right to learn as
well as to teach. We must make sure the principal purpose of our universities
is served; namely, to provide an education for the thousands of young men and
women who go there for that purpose.
Faculty, from teaching assistants to professors, must be ever aware of
a responsibility that goes beyond teaching a subject in a classroom. Members
of the faculty must set examples in and out of the classroom of adult behavior,
decent conduct and good citizenship for the young people in their charge.
Preservation of free speech does not justify letting beatniks, and advo-
cates of sexual orgies, drug usage and "filthy speech disrupt the academic
community and interfere with our universities' purpose. No one would deny
that free speech includes the right to criticize every aspect of national
policy, but when some Americans are fighting and dying for their country,
free speech must stop short of lending comfort and aid to the enemy.
As Governor, I would consider it my responsibility to take the lead
in returning our universities to their original purpose as institutions of
learning and research, and restoring to them the respect they deserve and
which has been lost through indifference and lack of leadership.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
#5
RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
AGRICULTURE
Agriculture is the biggest single industry in California. Our
99,000 farms are larger and have an estimated value four times higher
than the farms in the other 49 states. Directly, or indirectly, farming
in California is responsible for one-third of all our jobs and 70% of
all cash transactions.
We lead the nation in variety of crops--some 200 in all and 98% of
them are produced with no government subsidy. California farm workers
receive an hourly wage 40¢ higher than the national average.
In spite of this, the present administration has refused to meet its
obligations to agriculture. Only a weather miracle prevented a catas-
trophe last year when California farmers were treated like guinea pigs in
a sociological experiment by the Federal government. Violating a campaign
pledge, the Governor refused to speak in behalf of the farmer when it was
evident that domestic labor would be inadequate.
Net income to California farmers was the lowest in five years by
$200,000,000 due to the labor shortage.
The farmer's problems become the housewife's problems as she shops.
Today she is paying the highest prices she has ever paid, but the grower
is receiving the lowest share of the market basket dollar he has ever
received. A responsible administration would offer more than empty words
and unkept pledges.
As Governor, I will:
1. Provide the agricultural community with sufficient status in the
state government so as to insure recognition and understanding
of the farmers' pressing problems.
2. Review the tax structure with a view towards elimination of
discriminatory and regressive taxes.
3. Face squarely the problem of farm labor and the need for a
solution that will guarantee an adequate labor supply with pro-
tection for both the welfare of the farmer and the worker.
4. Use the prestige of the Governor's office to press upon the
Federal government the need for a complete review of the 64-
year old unrealistic limitation of 160 acres on the size of ir-
rigated farms.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
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POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS
I firmly believe that the most qualified persons must be chosen to fill
appointive offices in California. The present Governor has repeatedly violated
this principle by selecting political cronies, hacks, and defeated Democratic
candidates to fill important positions. This has been done in an attempt to
build a political machine. As a candidate obligated to no one, I have no
political debts to pay.
As Governor, I will:
1. Make all appointments to state offices on the basis of experience
and qualifications, and not on the basis of personal loyalties or
political obligations.
2. Provide extensive background information on every appointive
officer so that the legislature and the public will be assured
of their qualifications.
3. I will establish an independent review board of lawyers, scholars,
and representatives of the public to nominate a panel of five
outstanding attorneys to fill each judicial vacancy. This will
insure the integrity and independence of the Judicial system in
California.
These proposals are in line with my positive program to make California
government honest, efficient, and responsive to the people.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94100 (415) 392-8305
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RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
TAXES AND EXPENSIVE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT
Taxes in California have reached the breaking point. They are the highest
in the nation and $100 per person above the national average. Under the present
administration's costly budget practices, they will soar even higher next year.
California's budget is growing faster than its population and the effects
of inflation, combined. California's state bureaucracy is growing more rapidly
than even Parkinson's Law allows for.
Yet, the Governor refuses to face up to his responsibility to hold spending
to a minimum, consistent with providing for the general welfare. He compounds
his personal failures by appointing hacks, cronies and defeated candidates to
positions of high responsibility.
This year's budget can be cut by $245 million, without elimination of a
single program. It is commonly accepted business practice that a budget can be
cut 10% to 15% without impairing efficiency. My proposal calls, initially, for
a 5% cut.
As Governor, I would:
1.
Establish a task force to look into further ways to reduce the
budget without reducing services or efficiency, and with an cyc
toward implementing cost-effectiveness studies in all of the state's
major programs.
2.
Call in a committee made up of the state's best tax brains to devise
a complete revision, modernization and simplification of the state's
entire tax structure.
3.
Cut the budget consistent with good business practice.
My purpose is to make government, once again, the servant of the people
at a cost the people can afford to pay.
UTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108
(415) 392-8305
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RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT
ON THE ISSUES
LABOR - MANAGEMENT
(Ronald Reagan speaks out on labor from a background of 22 years as a union
member, including six terms as president of a working union and many years
of collective bargaining experience for his union.)
In an era of changing technology and increasing inflation, and a time when the
dignity and the worth of the individual is of growing importance, labor-management
relations occupy a special place in the affairs of men and government.
It is vital, however, that government remain impartial but keenly interested
in such relations, striving to insure that the entire community be the long-term bene-
ficiaries in any collective bargaining agreements.
Noither labor Lor management must be allowed to dominate, and government must
make sure it is not captured by the political arm of either side and thus rendered
icapable of dealing fairly with the problems of both.
As Governor, I will:
1. Seek legislation that would submit to a secret ballot all union
policy matters, including strike votes. This would ensure labor's
rank-and-file the right to make decisions governing their futures
without coercion from either unions or management.
2. Work in the field of farm labor, to ensure fair wages and good working
conditions for the laborer, while, at the same time, insisting that
no farm union would be able to take action to prevent the harvesting
of crops.
3. Make it my business, as Governor, to make such bargaining an effective
and equitable instrument in California, since collective bargaining
is the basis for all labor-management relations.
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ON THE ISSUES
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SMOG CONTROL
I am strongly committed to eradicating smog in California. Unfor-
tunately, the present administration in Sacramento has provided us with
too little and too late in the field of smog prevention and control.
As Governor, I will:
I. Work to establish uniform laws on air pollution to insure
minimum state wide standards for the reduction of pollutants
from diesel trucks and buses, autos, and industrial plants.
2. Call for legislation to coordinate research in California
on smog prevention and control that is currently being
conducted separately by the state, county agencies, auto
manufacturers, and the Federal government.
3. Work closely with local agencies in making certain that
pollutants from industry are adequately regulated and con-
trolled.
4. Remove smog from politics and influence by special interest
groups to insure that positive steps toward air purification
are taken immediately and without fear of political reprisals.
With decisive action, such as this, we can hasten the day when
all Californians can once more breathe clean, fresh air.
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NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS : 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
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ON THE ISSUES
CALIFORNIA'S RECREATION AREAS
Every state park loses money each year (except one) and this is
due--in great part--to waste, inefficiency, and poor management of the
park system.
Funds for park acquisition and restoration have been diverted
by the Governor to othe r projects, and this should be stopped. However,
land now in the state park system plus federal lands meet all need pro-
jections for the future. Parks in the state system are only 20% developed
at present. The cost of full development of these existing parks is esti-
mated at $564 million.
Many of those in the Division of Beaches and Parks who are "know-
ledgeable" are frustrated because of the appointed "administrators" they
must answer to--administrators who are political "cronies" with no real
knowledge of the problems.
California must assure, at minimal cost, complete access to state
owned recreational facilities. While recreation area development is an
expense to the taxpayers, revenues from increased tourism more than
compensate for the expenditures. Furthermore, in order to compete with
neighboring states for tourists, the cost for the use of state facilities
should not exceed substantially the costs charged by other states.
As Governor, I will:
1.
Favor any legislative proposals which would endeavor
to fully develop these recreational facilities.
2.
Establish realistic use-costs which would make these
facilities easily available to those interested Cali
fornians and out-of-state tourists who might be avoiding
California parks because of lack of development and
unreasonable costs.
3.
Insist on maximum development of high-use areas before
considering new areas.
SOUTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 3257 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90005 (213) 381-5771
NORTHERN CALIF. HEADQUARTERS: 46 Kearny Street, San Francisco 94108 (415) 392-8305
Ronald Reagan Speaks 0⁻ On The Issues
HEALTH
Our unmatched health industry with its basic general and convalescent
hospitals; registered nurses; licensed technicians, therapists and pharma-
cists; and doctors of medicine, dentistry, optometry, podiatry and chiro-
practic was developed under our free enterprise-creative society system.
To insure the continuing high quality of medical care for all our
citizens, I strongly support:
1. the free choice system in health care, and
2. actuarily sound, privately operated health insurance to augment
Social Security and public welfare.
As Governor, I will:
1. Continue to respect the traditional, ethical doctor-patient rela-
tionship and will vigorously oppose any interference with this
age-old relationship;
2. Continue to protect the independence and integrity of our local
religious and community hospitals. Each institution must be
allowed to develop at the local level so that it can best meet
local conditions and needs. These institutions, operating at no
burden to the taxpayer, must be allowed to maintain their tradi-
tional autonomy;
3. Appoint to the State Health and Welfare Agency and its review
council professional and public people who will encourage the
creative genius of our magnificently trained professional peo-
ple and our independently, privately financed health institutions
to work at the local levels for the betterment of the health of
all our people;
4. Rededicate our civil servants in the areas of health and welfare
to the task of providing the best service possible for those
they serve by keeping their services oriented toward the commun-
ity, instead of toward Sacramento.
California government must again become the servant of the people, at
a cost the people can reasonably be expected to pay.
. ONALD REAGAN
BOVERNOR
"Insurance is a part of the American we of life. The fact
that SO many persons turn to voluntary insurance plans to protect
themselves, their loved mes and their property is a continuing
tribute to American independence, self-reliance and initiative--
those qualities which have made our nation treat.
"Tu most Americans. insurance is the free man's alternative
to charity or welfare 01 compulsory savings. Insured people are
responsible people--responsible to themselves and to their
community.
"I salute an industry that has brought Insurance within the
reach of almost all who want it or need it.
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Ronald Reagan
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Phone Be
RONALD REAGAN
GOVERNOR
Southern Cald Charaman :* Iiii Battagha
1.57 WHISHIRE BOULEVARD
hairman
105 ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 90005
RONALD REAGAN. A CITIZEN POLITICIAN, WILL RETURN GOVERNMENT TO THE PEOPLE.
"My philosophy, if I had to simplify it, is nothing more than a belief
in the capacity of the people for self-government. I believe that the
great problems confronting California can better be solved by mobilizing and
utilizing the energies and abilities and resources of the people than they
can by trying to create some little intellectual elite in Sacramento that
will make all the decisons in our behalf.
"Instead, I envision a state government mobilizing the energies of the
people, turning to the people in the various walks of life where problems
exist and helping them organize their own solutions to those problems.
"This view of state government I call the Creative Society. "
Ronald Reagan
RONALD REAGAN
GOVERNOR
Southern Calif Chairma Pring Battagra
3257 WILSHIPE BOU: EVARD
Finance Chairman
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 90005
Ronald Reagan was born in 1911 in Tampico. Ill.. son of a shoe salesman.
He grew up in a succession of small Illinois towns. worked his way through
Eureka College, earned a degree in Economics and Sociology.
He entered radio, became a sportscaster, took a screen test, won a
movie contract and appeared in more than 50 films. then starred on TV.
A reserve officer, Reagan was called to active duty shortly after Pearl
Harbor, served as adjutant officer at an Air Force base.
Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild six terms, on its board
14 years. He served two terms as president of the Motion Picture Industry
Council, on its board ten years. He served on the board of a college, a
hospital, an insurance company and a holding company, and operates a ranch.
Always active in politics, Reagan was a liberal Democrat until 1952 when
he voted Republican. He played a key role in blocking an attempted Communist
take-over of Hollywood.
Reagan delivered countless speeches for Republicans in 1960 and 1962.
served as California Co-Chairman of the Republica: Presidential campaign in
1964. He announced his candidacy for the GOP gubernatorial nomination last
January, swept to a landslide victory.
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RONALD BEAGAN
GOVERNOR
Southern Calif. Chairman: Pailip Battagha
3257 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
Finance Chairman: Edward Mills
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90005
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RONALD REAGAN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
"I believe in the aims of civil rights legislation, and I believe
anything less than complete equality for everyone in America is morally
wrong. "
1.4.66
"I think one pattern to be extended and followed concerning the Watts
situation is the very fine example that has bean set by the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce which has already enlisted the aid of more than 100
industries and expects to expand that and has already found jobs for more
than 5,000. They also have some people on 2 job training program in pri-
vate industry and they hope to expand that program.
"I think an expansion of this entire program is needed possibly with
tax incentives to improve the business climate because the solution to a
great many of these problems lies in more jobs for people. "
1.4.66
"I an opposed to hyphenated Americans and I believe the problems
that have to be solved are of interest to every American. 11
1.4.66
"I think the Runford Act was a bad piece of legislation. I think
that Proposition 14 was a bad attempt to remedy what was wrong.
"I think we have CO get down to what is the basic problem. Ic is a
moral problem that TUBE be solved, but it just be solved between the people,
I worked for aquality of opportunity before it ever became the popular
issue it i = today, and I could not consciously use prejudice. I would not
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consciously patronize any business that discriminated against any human
being on the basis of prejudice. But, at the same time, I do not believe
that you can cure this situation by giving government a right that could
then some day be invoked against all human beings. Basic rights could be
invaded.' "
3.5.66
RONALD REAGAN ON FARM UNIONIZATION
"I am one who looks with great disfavor on the Secretary of Labor's
sociological experiment. We have about 325,000 permanent farm employees
in California, and we have had to augment this in harvest season by another
100,000--and about 70,000 of those have in the past been braceros. The
percentage of braceros in '57 was 15%. To show that we were curing the prob-
lem through mechänization and technologoical improvements--in the last year
we were allowed to have them it was down to 9%. We were reducing the out-
side force, but at no time was labor in this country able to provide enough
people for the peak harvest season.
"As Governor, I would seek to mobilize in the Council of Governors
those Governors of other states that require this outside labor force and
use the power and the prestige which in the political world I am sure these
several states would have, to demand of the Federal government that they
make available outside labor when it is definitely established, as it must
be, that the domestic labor force cannot fill the need.
"Now, as regards the Delano strike. I am in favor of collective bar-
gaining. I believe in it, but I do not believe that this outside force at
Delano represents the bulk of the people. They have proven it doesn't
because they stayed -n the fields and in the vineyards working, and they
have formed an independent group which may well turn out to be a bargaining
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agent. They, as an independent group, may now want to sit down and bargain
with the growers and I am in favor of that that is the way unions should
start. But Mr. Chavez, particularly, is seeking to impose industrial type
unionization on the farm economy and it won't worl. There can be no fair
bargaining if you've got at the bargaining table one fellow who just sits
back until the tomatoes start to get ripe and then says: 'We're not packing.
What power does the employer have at the bargaining table on that basis, and
how can you apply the terms of hourly requirements, overtime, etc., to an
occupation where a lot of days you only work part of the time and go fish-
ing, but there are a lot of days when you work until the moon is well up
because the crops are ripe and they must be picked at that particular moment?
I do not believe in what is going on at Delano and I don't think it
represents the thinking of the workers- the people in the fields. "
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RONALD REAGAN ON BERKELEY
"The report of the Senate Un-American Activities Subcommittee cannot be
dismissed or swept under the rug as was the last. The people of California
are entitled to a complete hearing on this and the Governor cannot escape
his responsibility to take action. Those who have permitted the degrada-
tion of the once-great university must be removed immediately."
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"I had had evacence and reports--eyewitness reports--of the VDC Dance
of March 27th as well as one of two others on the campus, and I had been
throughout the state criticizing this complete departure, on a campus, from
what I consider just normal, ethical, and moral behavior."
5.29.66
Committee
To Elect RONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR
NEWS RELEASE
REAGAN STATEMENT
BUSINESS CLIMATE IN CALIFORNIA
"While I was in Detroit I had the opportunity to talk with a number of promin-
ent industrialists about the economy of California--jobs and plant expansion things
that the Governor really doesn't seem to care much about.
"These people verified what some of us have long thought that California's tax
laws and unemployment regulations make it difficult for big industry to locate in
California and reluctant to expand plants already here.
"When California's taxes are $100 higher than the national average per person,
when business must pay unemployment insurance at record rates--often for people who
are using their unemployment money as sort of a vaction with pay industry looks
twice, and after the second look, usually decides to go elsewhere.
"Beyond this, eastern industrialists tell me the Governor just doesn't seem to
care, He has made little real effort to attract the plants that would provide the
jobs that would reduce California's unemployment to somewhere near the national
average instead of continuing to run 40% higher.
"Frankly, I am appalled that after eight years as Governor of the greatest state
in the Union, the Governor still does not understand what makes our economic system
work
that he still thinks a handout from Washington will solve every problem.
"Well, I don't think this. And after the November election, I expect to take
concrete steps that will bring new industry into the state and encourage expansion
of industry already here so that California can again provide jobs for all those who
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want to work.
"I have already proposed to some of these men that, when I am Governor, they
join with me and with leaders of California industry and labor to help devise a
plan that will bring additional business into California.
"Some of the ways are obvious: get rid of punitive. tax laws, offer tax incen-
tives, eliminate some of the needless, time-consuming, expensive state forms and
paper work, inaugurate meaningful job training programs WITCH industry directly
involved.
"And above all, offer state cooperation instead of state harassment, state help
instead of state penalties.
"Along with this, when I am Governor, I will propose to the new Lieutenant
Governor--and there will be one--that he join me in a major undertaking involving
personal contact with expansion-minded businesses all over the nation, aimed at
convincing them that California is not only people-oriented and job-oriented, but
is also business-oriented.
"We will work to bring new businesses and new jobs to California to give our
state the kind of prosperity that should go along with its climate and its natural
resources and that will alllow the state to meet its obligations and shoulder its
necessary burdens at a minimum cost to the people.
"After all, it makes little sense to anyone--except the Governor and other
so-called experienced politicians- that Californians should pay nearly $1,000 for
each family of four as the annual price of their state government, when Michigan,
once nearly bankrupt and in the same deep fiscal trouble as California is in now,
can operate in the black and take care of its people at about one-third the cost
for that same family of four.
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"Michigan has proven, as we can prove, that a citizen-oriented, citizen-run
government, operating close to home, can do the job better and more cheaply than
a politician-run government whose only solutions consist of turning to Washington
and soaking the people. "
3.29.66
Calef Refle&Pistal Rifle ASSN
CallCornia voters Shive ? right =0 qualifications for the office of
Covernor and to I will approach problems confronting our state.
My degree is in Communito and As rix-bire president of a working
union; 32 officer in the ' It Corpo; twice president of the Notion
Picture InJustry Council, and I vorking concline, I have the administrative back-
ground needed to govern California,
OF particular insurest to readers of this publication should be the stand I
have taken regarding personsion c ?
There is a carong sovenent to med rigid control of possession and purchase
of guns asceptably = Jany criminal elemnts 200305 to then. Novever of first
constituation is the baile Conscitetional right of 2 citizen to own and bear aus.
The dinial 3 : this right could have SERVE 33 history has shown that
whenever it his been taken Scon the people their Trandon is andangered.
Solutions to problems such as there CAME: : found by shridging basic rights.
Insured, 12 must insure that loanl 127 andered the appeains ore suppered to provent
acquisition by kno in criminal elevents.
As Governor I will turn to the people for help in solving their problems;
move to return 23 much government 03 possible to the Local level, and stand 23 I
bul tark Letroon the people ini the of Toleral Covern. mt.
I HILL to: resures Final integrity and individual property
solve the provides of crice and terration; closh -? the COSS at Dosholay.
It is time to recurn the Irosh air of common sence to California Government.
5.01.03
LONG BEACH NEWS AND ARCUS
The principal issue before the people of California today is
the issue which confronts this country and the entire world. It is
the dominant question which overrides all other considerations, It
is the issue of our age--and of the ares, The entire question can be
summed up in one word: Freedon.
Let me make it plain. I believe that the government has a
legitimate place in our lives, The government must provide 3 frame-
work for our daily competition with each other to make sure that in
our individual pursuit of happiness, we do not tranple on the rights
of others.
And it would be extresism to deny our responsibility as in 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 walfare programs designed to provide the
permanently disabled, the aged and the infirm with, not only the
necessities of life, but also some of the comforts which can make
life worth living.
I propose a commission to re-define welfare's goals and recommend
appropriate legislation.
With nine percent of the nation's population, California
accounts for 178 of the nation's crime. Our skyrocheting crime rite
dates from certain judicial rulings that took much of the lay inforce-
ment authority away from local police and laft. them handicapped in
their efforts to protect the law-rbiding citizen from the
increasingly insolent criminal element.
- - Beach News & arvus---Pare 2
I will call the legislature to enact those key crime
prevention bills prosed overwhelmingly by the legislature at its
list bession, but watcod by the Governor,
Nothing exposes the leadership 392 in Sacramento more glaringly
than recent events on the Barkeley campus at the University of
California. Since the Regents have been given the responsibility
of investigating the University 07 which they are a most important
part, I feel streetly that accion must be taken to avoid any charges
that the situation will be swept under the rug or that the people of
California are not being given all the facts. I urge that their
hearings be made public and that the administrators be called to
testify at these hearings,
I am strongly consitted to ergéicating SMOP in California.
Unfortunately, the present adninictration in Secremento has provided
us with too little and too late in the field of smog prevention and
control.
The Governor of California is head of an executive branch and
administrative officer of a number of bureaus and agencies.
3
I believe I have had a reasonable amount of experience in these
fields. First of all, my education: My college degree was in
economics and sociology, During the second World Jar, I was Adjutant
of a military post with about 1,000 nen and officers and several
hundred civilians. The Adjutent is the administrative officer.
Following the war, I came back to the Screen Actors Guild, I
have had 22 years - : its board and six terms as president. The Cuild
is a working union with 15,000 members. The budiet for our Los
Angeles office alone runs between $200,000 and 0000,000 7217,
"
have 7 for York office, onlin in Yey Orleans, ; Prancisco, Chicago 111
Beach News E Aruo---Pare 3
number of other cities because we are a national union.
Then there was the motion picture industry council with which
I was associatel, This is made 4? of reppepentatives of 40-odd
unions and all management and ownership groups. I was on the board
ten years and twice president,
In addition to this, I 17 on the board of an insurance company,
a holding company and at hospital. I YES on the board of trustees
of my college.
I think I' I've had a reasonable amount of experience, more then
perhaps a great many businessmen, containly nore than the average
lawyer. After all the theories and principles of administration are
the same, regardless of what is to be administered.
I envision ? state government wobilizing the enorgies of the
people, turning to the people in the various walks of life where
problems exist and helping them organice thair own solutions to
those problems.
The founding fathers of this country were not professional
politicians. They were citisen-politicians, earnestly concerned with
the tremendous problems our brave new country faced, and wholcheartedly
dedicated to the task of finding solutions to those problems.
Today, as our great stata--number one in the nation--facas the
complex problems of this 972, I hope to continue 13 3 citizen-
politician, in the tradition of the founding fathers.
Ronald Rougan
5,24.56
View
"The principal insue before the people of Colifornia today is The
insue which confronts this country and the entire world. It is the
dociment question which overnidos ill other considerctions It in the
issue of our age--and of the ages. The entire question can be sunded
up in one word: Fraedon,
"Today, We Americans bear In almost total responsibility for the
entire world to preserve freedom.
"I envision 2 crite government nobilising the energies of the
people, turning to the people in the various valks of life where
problems exist and helping then organize their 073 solutions to those
problems.
"The founding fathers of this country were not produccional
politicians. They NODA citigon politicians, surrectly concerned with
the trenenious problems our brave new country Facel, and wholcheartodly
dedicated to the task of finding solutions in those problems,
"Today, as OUT great state--pumbor one in the nation. faces the
complex problems of this 170, I hope to continue, as a citizen
politician, in the tradition of the Founding fathers. 11
Ronald Pennan
201 CALIFORNIA
by Ronald Rodgen
This country 133 Sounded 01 individual freedom; yes, 1,2 have departed
principle :- i system 55 compulatry stude-
tion. In Stat, developed the product public school system in the
world.
The explounation Whind this to obvious: We recognize, 13
the Sounding Enchare Mad before 1,1, The :12 to free and in control of
our 0 injury - ;- 21 Minutes people,
We have this compromise controlling the school system at
the local lovel. This mains what the Instituble clartes batween the
teacher's cinis to include nil the purent's squally valid claim
to 3 voted in be his child will be bought, tale place at the local lavel.
This individualist, The L : bacause all of us charmac,
face to face, and out.c manolucina = I the conflinus - - 1 differences
which 000 bound to thise.
Today, our but system in by 3.1
incruntingly ? brild Faloral government thish has Crist 43 the sources of
local and state consition for its 0.00 purposes. Having craited the problem
to Login 11th, the government than offers Faieral grants chd aids
as orlution.
From the finic DAL Toloril nid to almostica :-: proposed, concern
has back Address: this Telenal control All UP hand in hand
with Faderal aid.
There on 13 = India the alection is the bullock of frazion. Due,
resored 100 for personal influence, it cha antily recome the tool of
typesity, Only with 10001 control 071 institutions be documed that their child-
Street crotota, inst
Even these ene not the threat =1 2 nationalizal
school system chould question whenher the Faderal government has demon-
strated any Balont 0.2 doing the you Dector then It's done at the lossi lovel.
In one city, Sur comple, the providey program has issed a Scent for
training CT re-tuniting S, The entire budget for those
3,000 in the Folorni to have the entire school budget of
that school system for aducating 25,000 students,
The resson for this La the no imports 1111 be paid; in faci, a drop-
out in this Federal program will be pill double hat the legitimate student
ean earn Chana part-tille job.
Is this 30 information to aducation--to 727 the student a dividend for
dropping out? Or is it not a perversion of the classic philosophy of inten-
tives?
Financial support of ONE state's school system Jan case availy Glvided
Latween the leanl commition and the secue. Code, the state's share his
fellon to 337.
As Governor, I vill institute the 2621. Ing Sircepoint program
1. Work to increase the state's contributions to local school Aye-
tricts, to relieve the growing burden on local property texpoyers.
2. Scell appropriate ways to help local school districts attract no!
keep good teachers.
3. Call for legislation to pwc unification of local school discribts
on a voluntary--not
4. Work to assure the teaching profession 1 position of liguity and
respect, and to restore =0 OUT adventional system the teaching of
the traditional concepts of individual responsibility and good
citizensive.
i. Employe in evacution the
to giving the Forthis adventional dollar.
With this programmend plan of action, I Tullave ve can vork together
toward 0.00 constitute Shirt Colifordians need and desirva.
4.25.60
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YOUR
If my philosophy had to be surfied up very briefly, it would be simply
this: I believe in the capacity of Americans for self-government.
There is = ability centered La Sacramento which was not drawn from the
people. I believe that the great problems confronting California can better
be solved by mobilizing and utilizing the energies and abilities and resources
of the people than they can by trying to create some little intellectual elite
in Sacramento that will make all the decisions in our behalf,
While I recognize, of course, that government has a responsibility, we
should do everything .. e cen within the framework of our free enterprise system.
We do not need a power alite to tell us how to manage our lives. It is unnec-
essary because the creative ability to solve our problems resides with the
people.
I propose we set up a statewide program to mobilize the full creative
abilities of the people, with the government providing the leadership. This
is the program I have called "The Creative Society." There is no problem 12
cancot solve by a cooperative effort using government and the full creative
talent of all our people.
Ronald Reagan
7.14.65
The Capital Herald
THE she propide of Colldornia coday 10 the Issue which
confronts this country the the native world, IM is the dowinnnt quastion Truck
proceides all what Mond. It is de Latue of our agee-and of the 3235.
The entire quastion 222 to S1 studied -? is 013 Freedom.
"Lat 23 dutio 11 FILLA, = Tallava Titu the processent has a legitimate place in
OUT lives. The govern 372 thist provide 3 Edwark for our daily competition with
each other to make sure that in sur includical purpuit of hoppiness, we do not
tranple 02 the rights of others.
"And it vould be ortposism = dray ONE responsibility as 2 nation for the less
fortunate arong us. Date 318 must navor = cubstitute for the people;
only the people have the suppoity DO meage Mair on affairs.
"I strongly support willire programs designed [] provide the permunantly 663-
abled, the aged and the InVire with, IDS only the of life, but also come
of the conforms which 1120 reach
We have all too often strayed from valdere's original purpose by ackler us1-
fare 2 Tay of 112a instead of using Le to help people back to productive jobs.
"I propose a commission to re-delice welfore's goals and recommend appropriate
legislation.
"Taxes in California have reached the bracking point. They are the highest in
the nation--010) per person the national amera_ :. Under the prodent disinistra-
tion's costly Budget proccises, they will 20:00 even higher next year.
"I propose 3. countries vale 42 6: 1.12 state's Good tax Utates to davide ? 00:2-
plate revision, and simpliZiontion of the state's entire tax structure.
With on 52 the notion's pupulation, California for 173 of the nacion's
crice. Our crime cate Choco cardita julicial rulings that Stole
such of the 1-7 Informal 1.10 authority many from local police and then is
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"I will cill 07 the logiclatore in re-enset those key crime pro ention 51116
passed overwhell Visity 7 the in at Les last causion, but vatioud by the
Governor.
"I will alric 12 jistabile support in 03 address be 32d the growing flood of smut
and pernography, and the growing use of nutustics, hillutinatory drugs and pep pills,
expecially in schools and DG company.
"Nothing expense the IF P in Charge 1100 note glaringly than recent
events on the Dorhalay congus 11 the of California, You have read about
the report of the Tenaca 02 Aotivities--it's charges that
the campus has Tenuna is mullying point for Communists 111 a conler of scrual mis-
conduct,
THE in gare Joes 'deadable have to do ALth rioting, with
vith Type to Costro} the pri If / purpose of the University thich 1.s to
educate our young people?
"I have called upon the State Lagininture to hold public hearings into the
charges of Communish and blatent secual misconluct on the compus. Only in this way
can T3 yet the foods, Only this my can we determine scep. must be taken.
"I envision 2 state _overnment mobilicing the margies of the people, turning
to the people in the various wishs of where problems exist and helping
cramite their : == : colutions to those problems.
"The Counding Puthers of this country :322 no: professional politicions. They
were citizen-politicians, carnectly concerned with the trenendous problems COZ heave
new country fucul, and dedicated to the task of Mading solutions to
those problems,
"Inday, 2. = IPP... one in the the complex progr
Counti
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I served for 20 yours Ca the hourd of = weeking union-the Scroen
Accors Title, = nazvo the as 3'3's provident. I ma-
usin = strong Vilaver - the rishts of unions, 23 tall as the rights of the
individual. il the =1 = frie non to join a union, oni the
right to refune => carl: over Jade principales, The strike is 12 inalianable
waspon of any citizen.
Housver, = Rollava MO :- and file the right to
take decisions governing their mircion from sither unions
OC understant, Thereform, I vould posit ingislation that will submit to a
sceret ballot all union policy refunns, imaining strike votes,
I believe in collects 2 Duegaining 00 the basic for
relations,
The best clinion Ent collective is a belance of power be-
twoon Ishor and management. Mithort tuch a belonce, leter contracts to:d
to become inaguitable 00 they from 002 alta too much over the other, and
in the long pun, arror 2.3 Loans from undered contracts.
Without collective Burgaining, the worker finds that the balance gE
power is chifted heavily In Favor of Lind,Iment, This can produce an un-
healthy business clirate the to look of Luying power every the veritors, and
is will have a my the Lest employees 23 they stat higher paying joins alsa-
Store.
Cn the other brad, then 1-bos holds 12 undair = divintage, parhaps by
using government person 23 2 club OVER imagement's hand, Bublates is driven
cut 26 it basics a core hospitable clinate for Ltc conditions It
follows, of counce, that 1500 200 Lost, the that Dana 13 assorved and the :-
time promisity : ' 11.1 an.
information,
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teletions 2 special place in the affairs of 121 cal
government.
While It La deal the govern this unintria a keen interest in these
problems, gover provide, contributing to the
balance BE 29 30. Nattless labor and must be allowed to doulnate,
and government rick volte sure it to 111 by the political 251 of
either sude and :- Cooling fatily /ith the problems
of both. Covern HIS 1139 strive to that the intire comunity becomes
the long-term to any colliative agrounts.
As Covernor, I vould the it my Luvinces to dure Bargaining is an
effective and aquivalle innoctment in California,
Donald Redgen
3.20.05
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FOR USE TO ANSWER INQUIRERS
RONALD REAGAN PARTICITION IN COLLEGE STRIKE
The following is for those interested in the facts
concerning
Ronald Reagen's participation in 2 student strike when he was in college.
The facts mills make it clear the student striken was concerned
E3 exclusively with a college crisis; the students were anxious about the
future value of 1 dagree from Euraka College due to changes proposed by
the then-college president. The students did not demonstrate against our
country's foreign policy nor any other governmental question. There was
no disorder, no violence. The students struck in a Dull successful effort to
make sure that the degrees they would earn would be academically recognized.
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Ronald Reagan entered Eureka College at Bureka, Illinois (near
Peoria) in 1923 on an athletic scholarship for half his cuition; he
washed dishes and worked as E lifeguard and
smith
swimming instructor for
the other half.
Eureka was a small college and like most such institutions experienced
financial difficulties, During Reagan's freshman year, the new president of
Eureka favored a plan calling for such a duesstic drastic cutback academically
that many juniors and seniors would have been cutails off without the courses
needed for graduatic in their chosen majors, The faculty would have been
decimated and Eureka would have lost its high academic rating.
Looking back, Reagan has said? "I'm afraid I get a bit smug when I
contrast that collegiate scrike to some of the 'penty raids' and fevered
pickating of these more modern times, Ours was no riotous burning in
effigy but a serious, well-planaed program, engineeral from the ground 42
Full
professor on the campus."
Students offerel to this PROPOR by the president; be
1:,
board rejected the pericion. Then the students went out on strike.
Redgan recently said of his strike activityR: "Nly participation
on the strike committee was as a representative of the freshmann class
and, as such, I was Far from a ringlander, :
However, Reagen was selected by the cormittee AUMH to make the
motica for 2 strike : before the assembled students. Following his
rousing speech, the motion to strike vas shoepted by acclamation.
The strike plan was simple. Few students attended classes. All the
professors attended their classes, marked all the absentees present, then
went home. Normal College activity ground to a standstill,
However, students did not neglect their studies. The strike committee set
up regular study hours and enforced them; they made up assignments and
worked them out.
The strike obtained national publicity, and the strike committee set up
a public relations office. "The President and the students, " Reagan said,
"Fought a battle of the mimeograph. "
The publicity helped, Reagan has reflected, 'but in the end it was our
policy of polite resistance that brought victory. After a week, the new
President resigned. A high-level conference was held. Eureka got back into
the business of education
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Unlike recent disruptive campus demonstrations which left students and
faculty deeply divided and embitteried, the strike to maintain high academic
standards at Eureka left "the most tightly knit groups ever to graduate from
Eureka, " Reagan has observed. "Campus spirit bloomed. A remarkably close
bond with the faculty developed."
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STREET CITIZENS 3
Our cenior citizens face many problem, some of then heartbresking.
There comos a time has the family is gene, with the children varried and
raising thair 0.0 fantline, M1 too office, the didd Easl unmacassary--as if
their life purposes have already bueu They are left alone, and
sometimes they fuil included Evon life. Many 223 adjustments are required;
in truth, the very fact of sivencing yours tokes come getting used to.
Not the least oz the problems froing claior citizens is that of simply
providing for themselves. Upon redicement, their incomes often are drastic-
ally reduced, Souz draw Social Security in sufficient amounts to prove really
helpful, but others drav little or nothing : t all.
Many who invested their ecrnings down through the years in a home find
that property takes 200 so high, they must sell their bords instead of living
outstbeir yours in them du they had long planned. All too frequently, these
prople west trade specials, couloctible homes Which hold with
them and which they love for tiny coors In a cadlor citizens' actablishment.
Now, I ED not knocking "retiroment hotels ***say of them are fine entab-
lishments which serve a useful purpose. But anyone who vants to see courage
in action should visit one of these places, because you will fLud men and
women who are advanced in years--and are often hanlicapped by severe incuse
sions upon their physical still able to Face 1125 7022
tenacity and unflappic; spirits.
A3 regards Social Security, not only to 7.1 accept Lt as 2 fact of 115,
but 23 a good fact. It is here to stay--it langt, it enght to Se, 17 Ltd
proper love. OF course, Social Security benefits recipients; but enother
important fact /hich LS often overlookad 13 that It also serves all of 00 to
the extens that it codes to level off aconomic ups-and-uowns by keeping pus-
My principal sension Yeart Sholal Cecurity retults Cross the
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tent I have charged in the admimistration of this program.
Social Subvrity Should be a geoding Insurance program, run 00 2 sound
actuarial Yells. Instant, Machington has allo 21 Tocial Security to fall
into the .elders In Coot, the government went to court
and legally Icolal Security 11 not insurance.
It is this view of Includ 11th I take exception. Social
Security 723 conselved 32 In insurance PROPERT against the honords of advanced
AGA. It should be returned to the original concept. If administered as an
inverance INSURED, it can have bullt inco Le . conceln amount =5 security--
similar to the security 02 22 insurance policy with I soundly managed insur-
once doughay. To should return the tonusity in Sucial Security.
Although Social Security 1s a Federal STREET, over which a Governor has
no control, I Fould urge that it be prote back on C. business-like basic. IF
Cocial Sucurity Is made CUTCLE donger subject to the hind of
colders and future generations need have no Sear
the han it CODES their turn to its Incial payments, the cuptoard
will be bare. This 10 what I 0.2 affaid of unlass comething Ls done about
the current Machington attitude toward Social Security and its administration.
I support the principle of usdical care ist the agod. For that mater,
I have always supported time principle of madical 2000, regardings of 012,
3.5 validad in this Inti to provide mailical CITC for thincel 12,
This does that : have agreed /ith every riece of ligiblation purpore-
Lag to provide alical 0.23 for the agal, Too such of this logiclation has
Seen hocal on the clinre consept when the proges hypronch could be to take
advantage of proven insurance principles,
52 5.13 to the cird Shuch handwit 1021 alomatily
promote of through WD dual of : desting x
DD 11:10 persons inform : and the 3.1.13 time
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valuable assistance to underprivileged young people who disparataly need 2
hilping hand.
Many retiral people 22 butt THREE and in 2 lidecine
of work 1: thair telled, in: hich they can endov upon
those young people Septemed INC Netts V20 are struggling to
improve thomselves and make thomselves sad capable of advancing
in life.
I think 12 cugbt to look into the possibilities of utilizing these
retired people in this my. Such beneking and training projects med not
always be conducted within the deprived area; instead, it night be wise to
take these young prople out of such 50 rehibilitation and retroining
DECISIONS alor tore,'
There is 20 denti in 47 wind theormary mistred Mothore, cruftstion and
professionals could Blooms the opportunity 10 Duite 1 significant contribe-
tion to towards the solution c 2 this prevoing and national problem,
Renall Redgen
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6/16/66)
PAGE 355
SENIOR CITIZENS
Our senior citizens face many problems, some of them heartbreaking.
There comes a time when the family is gone, with the children married and
raising their own families. All too often, the aged feel unnecessary--as if
their life purposes have already been fulfulled. They are left alone, and
sometimes they feel isolated from life. Many adjustments are required; in
truth, the very fact of advancing years takes some getting used to.
Not the least of the problems facing senior citizens is that of simply
providing for themselves. Upon retirement, their incomes often are drastically
reduced. Some draw Social Security in sufficient amounts to prove really
helpful, but others draw little or nothing at all.
Many who invested their earnings down through the years in a home find
that property taxes are so high, they must sell their homes instead of living
out their years in them as they had long planned. All too frequently, these
people must trade spacious, comfortable homes which hold rich memories for
them and which they love for tiny rooms in a senior citizens' establishment.
Now, I am not knocking "retirement hotels"--many of them are fine estab-
lishments which serve a useful purpose. But anyone who wants to see courage
in action should visit one of these places, because you will find men and
women who are advanced in years--and are often handicapped by severe incursions
upon their physical capabilities-- yet, still able to face life with
tenacity and unflagging spirits.
As regards Social Security, not only do I accept it as a fact of life,
but as a good fact. It is here to stay--at least, it ought to be, in its
proper form. Of course, Social Security benefits recipients; but another
important fact which is often overlooked is that is also serves all of us to
the extent that it tends to level off economic ups-and-downs by keeping pur-
chasing power (among the people?)
*
My principal concern about Social Security results from the mismanage-
*unclear in the original. MST
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ment I have observed in the administration of this program.
Social Security should be a genuine insurance program, run on a sound
actuarial basis. Instead, Washington has allowed Social Security to fall
into the welfare category. In fact, the Federal government went to court
and legally established Social Security as welfare, not insurance.
It is this view of Social Security with which I take exception. Social
Security was conceived as an insurance program against the hazards of advanced
age. It should be returned to the original concept. If administered as an
insurance program, it can have built into it a certain amount of security--
similar to the security of an insurance policy with a soundly managed insur-
ance company. We should return the security in Social Security.
Although Social Security is a Federal program, over which a Governor
has no control, I would urge that it be put back on a business-like basis. If
Social Security is made secure once more--no longer subject to the whims of
welfare administration--present and future generations need have no fear that
:
when it comes their turn to draw Social Security payments. the cupboard
will be bare. This is what I am afraid of unless something is done about
the current Washington attitude toward Social Security and its administration.
I support the principle of medical care for the aged. For that matter,
I have always supported the principle of medical care, regardless of age,
for anyone in this land who cannot provide medical care for themselves.
This does not mean that I have agreed with every piece of legislation purport-
ing to provide medical care for the aged. Too much of this legislation has
been based on the welfare concept when the proper approach would be to take
advantage of proven insurance principles.
Another avenue of help to the aged which has not been adequately explored
holds promise of serving the dual purpose of restoring a feeling a purpose
to those retired persons who feel such a need, and at the same time providing
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PAGE 357
valuable assistance to underprivileged young people who desparately (sic) need a
helping hand.
Many retired people possess skills and knowledge--gained in a lifetime
of work in their trades, crafts and professions- which they can endow upon
those young people from deprived areas such as Watts who are struggling to
improve themselves and make themselves employable and capable of advancing
in life.
I think we ought to look into the possibilities of utilizing these
retired people in this way. Such teaching and training projects need not
always be conducted within the deprived area; instead it might be wise to
take these young people out of such areas to rehabilitation and retraining
programs elsewhere.
There is no doubt in my mind that many retired workers, craftsmen and
professionals would welcome the opportunity to make a significant contribu-
tion towards the solution of this pressing state and national problem.
Ronald Reagan
6.16.66
(transcribed from the original in Book II, 1966 Campaign Book of RR
Speeches and Statements
Molly Tuthill
Hoover Institution
1/11/83)
FOR USE TO ANSWER INQUIRERS (pages 353-357 6/16/66)
PAGE 355
SENIOR CITIZENS
i'
Our senior citizens face many problems, some of them heartbreaking.
There comes a time when the family is gone, with the children married and
raising their own families. All too often, the aged feel unnecessary--as if
their life purposes have already been fulfulled. They are left alone, and
sometimes they feel isolated from life. Many adjustments are required; in
truth, the very fact of advancing years takes some getting used to.
Not the least of the problems facing senior citizens is that of simply
providing for themselves. Upon retirement, their incomes often are drastically
reduced. Some draw Social Security in sufficient amounts to prove really
helpful, but others draw little or nothing at all.
Many who invested their earnings down through the years in a home find
that property taxes are so high, they must sell their homes instead of living
out their years in them as they had long planned. All too frequently, these
people must trade spacious, comfortable homes which hold rich memories for
them and which they love for tiny rooms in a senior citizens' establishment.
Now, I am not knocking "retirement hotels"--many of them are fine estab-
lishments which serve a useful purpose. But anyone who wants to see courage
in action should visit one of these places, because you will find men and
women who are advanced in years--and are often handicapped by severe incursions
upon their physical capabilities-- yet, still able to face life with
tenacity and unflagging spirits.
As regards Social Security, not only do I accept it as a fact of life,
but as a good fact. It is here to stay--at least, it ought to be, in its
proper form. Of course, Social Security benefits recipients; but another
important fact which is often overlooked is that is also serves all of us to
the extent that it tends to level off economic ups-and-downs by keeping pur-
chasing power (among the people?) *
My principal concern about Social Security results from the mismanage-
*unclear in the original. MST
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ment I have observed in the administration of this program.
Social Security should be a genuine insurance program, run on a sound
actuarial basis. Instead, Washington has allowed Social Security to fall
into the welfare category. In fact, the Federal government went to court
and legally established Social Security as welfare, not insurance.
It is this view of Social Security with which I take exception. Social
Security was conceived as an insurance program against the hazards of advanced
age. It should be returned to the original concept. If administered as an
insurance program, it can have built into it a certain amount of security--
similar to the security of an insurance policy with a soundly managed insur-
ance company. We should return the security in Social Security.
Although Social Security is a Federal program, over which a Governor
has no control, I would urge that it be put back on a business-like basis. If
Social Security is made secure once more--no longer subject to the whims of
welfare administration--present and future generations need have no fear that
:
when it comes their turn to draw Social Security payments. the cupboard
will be bare. This is what I am afraid of unless something is done about
the current Washington attitude toward Social Security and its administration.
I support the principle of medical care for the aged. For that matter,
I have always supported the principle of medical care, regardless of age,
for anyone in this land who cannot provide medical care for themselves.
This does not mean that I have agreed with every piece of legislation purport-
ing to provide medical care for the aged. Too much of this legislation has
been based on the welfare concept when the proper approach would be to take
advantage of proven insurance principles.
Another avenue of help to the aged which has not been adequately explored
holds promise of serving the dual purpose of restoring a feeling a purpose
to those retired persons who feel such a need, and at the same time providing
-3-
PAGE 357
valuable assistance to underprivileged young people who desparately (sic) need a
helping hand.
Many retired people possess skills and knowledge--gained in a lifetime
of work in their trades, crafts and professions which they can endow upon
those young people from deprived areas such as Watts who are struggling to
improve themselves and make themselves employable and capable of advancing
in life.
I think we ought to look into the possibilities of utilizing these
retired people in this way. Such teaching and training projects need not
always be conducted within the deprived area; instead it might be wise to
take these young people out of such areas to rehabilitation and retraining
programs elsewhere.
There is no doubt in my mind that many retired workers, craftsmen and
professionals would welcome the opportunity to make a significant contribu-
tion towards the solution of this pressing state and national problem.
Ronald Reagan
6.16.66
(transcribed from the original in Book II, 1966 Campaign Book of RR
Speeches and Statements
Molly Tuthill
Hoover Institution
1/11/83)
THE CENTREMS
Our cenior citizens face many problem, some of then heurtbreaking.
There comes a time han the family is gene, with the children varried and
raising their 0.2 families, All too often, the aged feal if
their life purposes have already been They are left alone, and
scretimes they feel included from life. Many == adjustments are required;
in truth, the very fact of advancing yours takes come getting used to.
Not the least of the problems incing cenicr citizens is that of simply
providing for themselves. Upon retivement, their incomes often are drastic-
ally reduced. Soue draw Social Security in sufficient amounts to prove really
helpful, but others draw little or nothing at all.
Many who invested their earnings down through the years in a home find
that property taxes are so high, they must sell their benes instead of living
out-their years In them as they had long planned. All too frequently, these
people must trade specious, confectable littles Which hold with compries
them and which they love for tiny rooms In a carior citizens' actablishment.
Now, I an not knocking "retiroment hotele"--hany of them are fine entab-
lishments which serve a useful purpose. But anyone ,ho vants to see courage
10 action should visit one of these places, because you will find zen and
women who are advanced in years--and are often hanlicapped by severe incure
sions upon their physical still able to face 112a 70th
tenacity and unflagging spirits.
As regards Social Security, not only do I accept it as 2 Soot of 115,
but 23 a good fact. It is here to stay--it lanst, it cught to ha, 17 its
proper form. OF course, Social Security benefits recipients; but another
important fact mich LS often overlocked is that it also serves all of UC to
the extent that it tends to level off aconomic ops-and-uowns by keeping pur-
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similar to the security of 23 insurance policy with a soundly managed insur-
once company. To should return the security in Scolal Security.
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I think 12 ought to look into the possibilities of utilizing these
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