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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign: Files,\n1966\nFolder Title: RR Speeches and Statements Book II\n(5 of 6)\nBox: C30\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digitized-textual-material\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/white-house-inventories\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/research\nsupport/citation-guide\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nPAGES\n440 - 441\nARE MISSING\nTHE ORIGINAL COPY WAS TO FAINT TO DUPLICATE\nSUBJECT:\nADDRESS TO:\nEXCERPTS FROM RR SPEECH - LODI\nDATE: 10-12-66\n442\nCitizens Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR\nNEWS RELEASE.\nContact: Lyn Nofziger\nRelease: Thurs. 10.6--7:30 pm\nEXCERPTS FROM SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN, CHICO, OCTOBER 6\nThe Governor, in his customary attempt to hoodwink the voters by telling them where\nhe might stand and where he would like them to think I stand, is running around the\ncrate referring to his \"free higher education\" program. And he says I would endanger\nfree education.\nNow, I wonder who he thinks he is kidding. Education, higher or lower, inSCalifornia\nor out, is not free.\nIt is paid for by you and me the taxpayers whether or not we own property.\nAnd now the Governor's fiscal policies are endangering the quality of our entire ed-\nucation system at every level.\nThese policies have already forced a nearly-50% cut in state funds to local school\ndistricts and doubled the property tax to our homeowners.\nAnd at the higher education level, he is juggling funds and using up reserves to meet\ncurrent needs. Money specifically earmarked for other purposes is being used to help our\nstate colleges and universities.\n$230\nAnd even this is not enough. We are being forced to go to a S213 million bond issue\nfor school construction. I approve of, and endorse, this bond issue, Proposition 2. it\nhas been made necessary by the irresponsible fiscal policies of this Governor; but this\nshould be the last time. Hereafter, we should be able to meet expansion and construction\nas of our colleg: university system on 3 pay-as-you-go basis.\nOur college professors are underpaid and, to cut costs, the Governor reneges on the\n443\nsiz\npromised pay incr ase.\nour Legislature approves more than $400 million a year for higher education, or approx-\nmately $1,300 for each state college student, and approximately $2,900 for each state\nuniversity student.\nAnd yet, this Governor allows 18;500 out-of-state students to attend our schools\nfor 3 tuition of one-half to one-third of the actual costs. And you pay the difference->\nE subsidy for out-of-state university students of nearly $2,000 a year.\nFree higher education? Not for you, the takpayer.\nAnd as costs continue to spiral and demand continues to mount, it grows less and less\nfree.\nNow, I have not advocated an immediate program of tuition charges for in-state stu-\ndents, but I do say that we must begin to study the problem lest we reach the point where\nthe only other alternative is to cut back on the quality of the education our colleges\nand universities can offer.\nWith tax burdens in California already double the national average, with property take.\nalready at the breaking point, how long can we continue asking you to pay virtually all\nthe costs of a voluntary education program? How long can we ask the average taxpayer\nto subsidize these students from wealthy families who go to state universities to take\nadvantage of the fine facilities they have to offer?\nEducation in California is complusory through high school. We pay those costs gladly\nknowing that a literate citizenry is necessary to make our form of government work SUCCESS\ntelly.\nUniversity and college training is voluntary. True, the good that accrues to 745\nstate from our university graduates is immunsyrable, but that good also accrues to then\nwho is to say that all of us, in one way or another, should not pay for the benefits\nchild cont to us as individuals? It is my belief that we all must pay a share of our My\nThe question I raise 1. long can We continue to put an ever-increasing burden\nX\nWhere is his breaking point?\nInk we are approac try it. And when that time comes, our alternative will then\nButtion, or a poorer quality of education. I. think we should look strongly at these\nalternatives and then, if we, the people, chose partial tuition, we must do so within\nthe context of a program that will make certain that the students who cannot afford tui-\ntion can still have an education.\nIf we chose this course, we must also have an augmented program of scholarships for\nthe acidy students. There must be a plan of tuition payment deferred until after gradu-\nation when the student is earning. This, plus our many student loan funds, should pro-\nbest the right of every student, who wants an education, to get it. Then, I make one\nadditional proposal. The Governor, through the Council of Governors, should urge the\ngovernment to grant tax credits to parents for at least a portion of the cost of\neducating their children.\nWe must do everything in power to assure those persons, who wish a higher education,\n1\nchance to get it at a price they can afford. Though, we must also do it at a price the\nready over-burdened taxpayer--you and me and all of us--can afford.\n10.6.66\nNOTE:\nSince Mr. Reagan speaks from notes, there may be changes in the above text.\nHowever, he will stand by these quotes.\n445\nCitizens Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR\nNEWS RELEASE.\nContact: Lyn Nofziger\nRelease: ON DELIVERY\nClyde Beane\nEXCERPTS FROM SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN, MASONIC TEMPLE, OCTOBER 11, 1966\nNow, as you know, I am an advocate of cost-of-living increases for those persons\nliving on Social Security on the grounds that inflation each month is cutting more\ndeeply into their purchasing power.\nThere is also another group that is living off a fixed income and faces the same\nproblem of ever-dwindling purchasing power. That group is made up of our retired\nteachers, who received their last general increase in benefits ten years ago in 1956.\nSince then clre cost-of-living index has increased more than 20%.\nParticularly affected are those teachers who retired before 1956. At that time\nteachers' salaries were so low that their pensions, based on those salaries, do not\neven provide bare existence.\nCertainly, we as citizens of a state which has one of the great educational systems\nin the world, can do better than this for those people who have made this system what\nit is.\nTherefore, as Governor, I would propose to the Legislature that retired teachers\nespecially those who retired bafore 1956, be granted a cost-of-living increase and that\ntheir pensions hereafter have a cost-of-living clause in them.\nOnly in this way can we assure our retired citizens that the deliberately-planned\ninflation inflicted on our people from Washington will not wipe out their savings and\nreduce them to lives of hardship in their retirement years.\nNOTE: Since Mr. Reagan speaks from notes there may be changes in this text.\nHowever, he will stand by the above quotes.\nNORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS: 46 ST., SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 94103 PHONE (415) 302-3305\nCALIFORNIA ADQUARTERS 3157 BOULEVARD. LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 90005 PHONE (213) 631 5771\n446\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR HEADQUARTERS\n3257 Wilshire Boulevard\nLos Angeles\n213-381-5771\nRELEASE: As of 6:30 p.m.\nContact: Lyn Nofziger or Clyde Beane\nEXCERPTS CF SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN\nPublic Town Heeting Rally, Colton High School Whitmer Auditorium\nCctober 13, 1966\nCne of the promises the Governor made four years ago was the\npromise of an adequate farm labor force.\nLike so many of his promises this one, too, remains unkept.\nCh, the Governor's people put out figures, and so does the\nU. S. Department of Labor. to show that there's been no real problem,\nlabor is plentiful and everyone is making money.\nI like in particular the one from the Department of Labor\nthat said only three states were in trouble over getting enough pickers\nfor their row crops--Florida, Texas and California. The Department\nneglected to mention that the row crops from these three states\nprobably comprise 90 percent of the nation's total.\nBut here in this San Bernardino country it isn't the row\ncrops that are being hurt the most this year. It is the grape growers.\nAnd they face a nearly #3 million dollar loss because they\ncannot get enough labor to meet their peak harvest needs. They faced\nthe same problem last year and 3,000 acres of grapes were not even\npruned as a result.\nThis year the situation will be even worse. Government red\ntape makes it nearly impossible for them to get the labor they need--\n1,300 workers.\nBecause of the cancellation of the bracero program farmers\nin this area have been forced to recruit workers from as far away as\n447\nCOLTON EXCERPTS\npage 2\nTexas. This year to date they have recruited 5.745 workers to maintain\nan average work force of just 350. How with 1,300 workers needed they\nare in real trouble. Troubles that cannot be solved this year. These\nproblems can be solved only when an aggressive state government makes\nup its mind that California's farm labor needs cannot be met at peak\nharvest time without an able, willing supply of supplemental labor.\nOnce that need is recognized--as it has not been in Sacramento in the\nlast seven years--then an administration that knows the problems of\nthe farmers and sympathizes with them--can set out at both the state\nand national levels to help recruit that labor force.\n10.13.66\nNOTE: Since Mr. Reagan speaks from notes there may be changes in this\ntext. However, he will stand by the above quotes.\nREASAN F12 GOVERNOR HEADQUARTERS\n3457 Lilshire Boulevard\nLCS Angeles\n213-381-5771\nRELEASE: As of 12:30 p.m.\nContact: Lyn Nofziger or Clyde Beane\nEXCERPTS FROM SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN\nInter-Service Club Council of San Bernardino, October 13\nJust recently, in another one of those flurries of activity\nthe Governor is so famous for in election years, the Transportation\nAgency announced it had awarded a contract to a research firm to study\nthe economic benefits that might come from using the space over and\nunder freeways. The firm that received the contract is Real Estate\nResearch Corporation of Los Angeles.\nNow I am not saying that such a study of the space over and\nunder freeways is not a good idea. It is. In fact if it had been\ndone sooner it might have prevented at least one lucrative contract\nfrom being awarded. Although I'm not sure. As the recent bidding on\nhighway patrol cars shows, a lot of lucrative contracts have been going\nout from this administration over the last seven years.\nYou remember the highway patrol car bids. For six years\nthe specifications were written in such a way only one dealer could\nbid. Then when a public spirited citizen named Manning Post raised a\nruckus the specifications were re-written. And the result was bids\nfrom nine dealers and a low bid that saved the state more than 2600,000\nover last year.\nBut the Highway Fatrol Commissioner isn't the only member of\nthe Governor's inner circle involved in lush contract awards.\nThe Transportation Agency, which suddenly is interested in\nstudying use of space above and below freeways has done pretty well by\nat least one firm.\nSAF BERMANDINC EXCERPTS page 2\nThat firm has been allowed to lease an area under a Los\nAngeles freeway for a net return to the state of $142.41 a month. Then,\nin turn this same firm contracts with the state to store automobiles\non the property at an average payment from the state of 2,690 a month\nlast year.\nThis is a pretty fair return on a 142 investment.\nNow, as I am sure you know, I have no objection to business\nmaking a profit but it seems to me that a profit of more than\n15 hundred percent is just a little exorbitant, especially when that\nprofit is coming out of the taxpayers' pockets.\nI think it is high time the entire system of state contracts\nand state bidding procedures got a good looking at.\nThe so-called experts have told me I can't cut the state\nbudget. But I can tell you that if this kind of contract award is\ncommonplace in this administration a new Governor won't have to cut\nthe budget very much. He can balance the budget just by demanding\nthat the state adhere to the normal practice of awarding contracts\nto the lowest responsive and responsible bidders.\nAnd by demanding that his department heads quit writing\nspecifications so that only one company can bid.\n#####\n10.13.66\nNOTE: Since Mr. Reagan speaks from notes there may be changes in this\ntext. However, he will stand by the above quotes.\nDelevision\nclient\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE script title \"BERKELEY\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no.\nL-8476\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\n30-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I think you'll agree nothing exposes\nthe leadership gap in Sacramento more glaringly than events\nthat have taken place on campuses of some of our universities.\nPreservation of free speech certainly doesn't justify letting\nbeatniks disrupt the academic community and interfere with\nour universities' purpose. We must preserve the right to learn\nas well as to teach. As Governor, I will work to return our\nuniversities to their original purpose as institutions of\nlearning and research, and to restore to them the respect they\ndeserve.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n451\nclient\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE\nscript title\n\"BERKELEY\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no.\nL-8475\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\n60-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan, I'd like to talk with you a minute about\nBerkeley. I think you'll agree nothing exposes the leadership\ngap in Sacramento more glaringly than events that have taken\nplace on campuses of some of our universities. Preservation\nof free speech certainly doesn't justify letting beatniks and\nadvocates of sexual orgies, drug usage and filthy speech disrupt\nthe academic community and interfere with our universities'\npurpose. In preserving academic freedom, we must preserve the\nright to learn as well as to teach. As Governor, I will work to\nreturn our universities to their original purpose as institutions\nof learning and research, and to restore to them the respect\nthey deserve, which has been lost through indifference and lack\nof leadership. As Governor, I will also ask legislative support\nin an effort to end the growing flood of smut and pornography\nthe growing use of narcotics, hallucinatory drugs and pep\npills\nespecially in schools and on campuses.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n452\nclient RONALD REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR\nscript title\n\"EXTREMISM\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8463\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\n30-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. My opponents want to make extremism\nan issue in the campaign, well, I'm not the founder or member\nof any extremist organization. But Misters Brown and Cranston\nare the proud co-founders of the California Democratic Council,\nthe ultra-loft-wing organization that is for admission of Red\nChina to the UN, abolishing the House Committee on UnAmerican\nActivities, -- it's even against the anti-riot bill. I leave\nyou to decide who is extreme.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\nclient RONALD REAGON FOR GOVERNOR\nscript title\n\"EXTREMISM\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8464\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\n60 SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. My opponents have tried very hard\nto make extremism an issue in the campaign so far, instead of\nduscussing the real issues. Well, as long as they brought up\nthis matter of extremism, I'd like to point out a few things.\nIn the first place, anyone who votes for me is buying my\nphilosophy -- I'm not buying his, And what's more, I'm not\nthe founder or even member of any extremist organization. But\nMisters Brown and Cranston are the proud co-founders of the\nC.D.C. - the California Democratic Council - the ultra-left-\nwing organization that is for admission of Red China to the\nUN, abolishing the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities,\nending the bombing of North Vietnam and is even against the\nanti-riot bill. Mr. Brown seems to be taken over by this\ngroup he started and whose positions parallel those of the\nCommunist party. So, on the basis of deeds, not words, perhaps\nextremism should be an issue in this campaign, and on the basis\nof these facts, I leave it to your good judgment to decide\nwho is extreme.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n454\nclient\nproduct\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR\nscript title\nMORALITY IN GOVERNMENT\nrev. no.\nW.O. no.\nSept. 28, 1966\nL-8461\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\nair date\n:30 Radio Spot\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I believe that morality in government is a\nmajor issue in the campaign for governor. I strongly object to the\ngovernment becoming a hunting ground for public officials, with\nfavors being granted to friends, and relatives. The present Governor\nhas repeatedly selected political cronies, hacks and defeated\nDemocratic candidates to fill important positions\nin order to\nbuild a political machine. I have no political debts to pay. As\nGovernor I will make all appointments on the basis of experience\nand qualifications.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n455\nclient REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR\nscript title\n\"MORALITY IN GOVERNMENT\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8462\nfilm or et code no.\nlength 60-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I believe that morality in government\nis a major issue in the campaign for governor. I strongly\nobject to the government becoming a hunting ground for public\nofficials, with favors being granted to friends, and relatives.\nI firmly believe that the most qualified persons must be\nchosen to fill appointive offices in California. The present\nGovernor has repeatedly violated this principle by selecting\npolitical cronies, hacks and defeated Democratic candidates to\nfill important positions in order to build a political\nmachine. I have no political debts to pay. As Governor I will\nmake all appointments on the basis of experience and\nqualifications. And in order to insure the integrity and\nindependence of California's judicial system, I'll establish\nan independent review board - representing the public is -,to\nnominate a panel of five outstanding attorneys as candidates\nto fill each judicial vacancy. This is in keeping with my\nposition that California government must be honest, efficient,\nand responsive to the people.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n456\ncilent REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR\nscript title\n\"EXPERIENCE\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8477\nfilm or et code no.\nlength 60-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. For eight years, an experienced\npolitician has been running California. That experienced\nleadership has led us to an unemployment rate 40% higher\nthan the rest of the country. Our taxes average $100 more\nper person than anywhere else in the country. We are national\nleaders as far as crime rate goes -- and campus disorders.\nAll this under experienced leadership, Well, I think we\ncan do better than that and I think what can make the difference\nis a difference in leadership -- a difference in philosophy.\nI believe a great society must be a free society -- that is,\na creative society, calling on the genius and power of the\npeople instead of relying on the doubtful genius and\naccumulated power of a few people in Sacramento. I think what\nis needed is not so much professional politicians -- we've had\nenough of that -- but rather, new faces, new ideas, new\ncitizen-politicians and, above all, a new faith in freedom.\n457\nclient REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE\nscript title \"EXPERIENCE\"\nproduct\nrev. no. 9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8478\nfilm or et code no.\nlength 30-SEC, RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I submit to you that after 8 years\nof leadership by an experienced politician, California has\nthe highest rate of unemployment and taxes in the country.\nIt's also a leader in crime and campus disorders. Well, I\nthink we can do better with fewer professional politicians\nand more citizen-politicians. People from all walks of life\nwith a common sense approach to our problems. The future\nof California requiresnew ideas, new faces, and above all,\na new faith in freedom.\n458\nVelerision\nclient REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE script title \"LABOR\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O.no. L-8479\nfilm or et code no.\nlength 60-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. In an era of changing technology and\nincreasing inflation, and at a time when the dignity and worth\nof the individual is of growing importance, labor-management\nrelations occupy a special place in the affairs of men and\ngovernment. Neither labor nor management must be allowed to\ndominate. Government must make sure it is not captured by the\npolitical arm of either side and thus rendered incapable of\ndealing fairly with the problems of both. As Governor, I\nwill seek legislation that would submit to a secret ballot all\nunion policy matters, including strike votes. This would\nensure labor's rank-and-file the right to make decisions governing\ntheir futures without coercion from either unions or management.\nFurther, I will work in the field of farm labor to ensure fair\nwages and good working conditions for the laborer, while, at\nthe same time, insisting that no farm union would be able to\ntake action to prevent the harvesting of crops. Since collective\nbargaining is the basis for all labor-management relations, I\nwill make it my business, as Governor, to make such bargaining\nan effective and equitable instrument in California.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n459\nclient\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE\nscript tifteABOR\"\nproduct\nrev. 19/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8480\nfilm or et code no.\nlength\n30-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I believe government must make sure it\nis not captured by the political arm of either labor or\nmanagement since it would then be rendered incapable of dealing\nfairly with the problems of both. As Governor, I will seek\nlegislation that would submit to a secret ballot all union\npolicy matters, including strike votes. This would ensure\nlabor's rank-and-file the right to make decisions governing\ntheir futures without coercion from either unions or manage-\nment. I will make it my business, as Governor, to make\ncollective bargaining an effective and equitable instrument\nin California.\nPaid for by Reagan for Governor Committee.\n460\nclient REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE\nscript title\n\"WELFARE\"\nproduct\nrev. no.\n9/28/66\nW.O. no. L-8468\nfilm or et code no.\nlength 60-SEC. RADIO\nair date\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I want to make my position on welfare\nperfectly clear. I strongly support welfare programs that\nare designed to provide the pormanently disabled, the aged and\nthe infirm with, not only the necessities of life, but also\nsome of the comforts which can make life worth living. Another\narea of welfare has to do with those who need temporary help\nuntil they can regain their rightful places in our productive\neconomy. But here we too often stray from welfare's original\npurpose. The problem is we frequently perpetuate poverty by\nmaking welfare a way of life rather than using it to help people\nback to productive jobs. Welfare recipients increase in number\nalmost three times as fast as our increase in population and\nthe cost has doubled in 5 years. As Governor, I will propose\na commission to redefine welfare's goals and recommend\nappropriate legislation.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n461\nclient\nscript title\nWELFARE\nproduct\nREAGAN FOR GOVERNOR\nrev. no.\nSept. 28, 1966\nW.O. no.\nfilm or et code no.\nL-8467\nlength\nair date\n:30 Radio Spot\nThis is Ronald Reagan. I want to make my position on welfare\nperfectly clear. I strongly support welfare programs for the\npermanently disabled, the aged and infirm\nincluding the\ncomforts that make life worth living. However, we must not\nperpetuate poverty by making welfare a way of life. Welfare\nrecipients increase in number almost three times as fast as our\nincrease in population. I propose a commission to redefine\nwelfare's goals and recommend appropriate legislation.\nPaid for by the Reagan for Governor Committee.\n462\nCOPY\nClient:REAGAN FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE\nSpace:\n\"HOUSING\"\nProduct:\nColors:\n9/29/66\nTo Appear:L-8465\nWO Number:\nTyped:30-SEC. RADIO\nAD Number:\nThis is Ronald Reagan. In 1964 the voters of California chose\nto nullify the Rumford Act and restore their freedom. to sell\nor rent or dispose of their property according to their own\nwishes. Governor Brown saw bigotry in this decision by two-\nthirds of California's voters, and the Brown appointed State\nSupreme Court declared Proposition 14 unconstitutional. You\nmay be interested to know that on September 11, Governor Brown\ntold a nationwide audience this law only applies to multiple\ndwellings, whereas, in fact, it applies to every home with an\nFHA, Cal Vet or GI loan.\n463\nOpen Letter to the Ford Motor Company Employees\nCalifornia bno had too much of professional politicious running and ruining\nthe state. This 10 precincly why I had the doutings to cak for this job, because I\nthink sometimes 10 takes the hind of claim, fresh air thinking from someone who is\nnot guided by preendence, who gets in and seys, \"Prove to me that we need this - and\nsee if we can do without LE.\"\nMy purpose is to males government, once again, the servent of the people at a\ncost the people one afford to PAV. in this scate have reached the breaking\npoint. They are the highest is the nation and $100 par person shove the national\naverage, The budget is growing facter than the population and the effects of inflation\ncochined.\nYet, the Covernor refuses to face = to his responsibility to hold spending to\na minimum consistent with providing for the general walfure. As Governor, I would\ncall in the state's best tax broins to davise 2 complete revision, modernization\nand simplification of the scate's entire car structure.\nIn an are of changing technology and increasing inflation, and at a time when\nthe dignity and the worth of the individual is of growing importance, labor-manujament\nrelations occupy 2 special place in the affairs of men and government.\nIt is vital, however, that government remain an importial but keenly interested\nthird party in such relations, striving to insure that the entire community be the\nlong-term benaficiaries in any collective burgaining agreements. Neithor Labor nor\nmanagement must be allowed to dominade.\nI will cesk logiclation that would to = secret billot all union policy\nmathers. This winld BRBUND Lubor's charright : decisions govern-\ning chair futures. I spack out on later from - background of 22 years 23 = union\nmember, including six terms as president of 2 working union and many years of collect-\nive burgaining duperience.\nI have 2 very strong Cosire to try and put into alfect in Secremento the things\nin which I believe, and I would be very proud and hoppy for any of you the dialded\nto IP 7 way.\nThank you very much,\n464\nCitizens Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN\nGOVERNOR\nState Chairman:\nPhilip Battaglia\nSouthern Calif. Co-Chairmen:\nDirk Eldredge\nThomas Pike\nNorthern Calif. Chairman:\nTo:\nCalifornia Rifle & Pistol Association\nThomas Reed\nI know there is a strong movement toward rigid control of the use\nand purchase of guns; however, any regulatory measure regarding firearms\nshould be devised only after consultation with law enforcement officials\nand recognized sportsmen's associations.\nFirst consideration is the Constitutional right of a citizen to\nown and bear arms.\nThe CRPA's point that illegal use of and not the ownership of guns\nshould be the subject of legislative controls is a good one. Persons\nwith criminal records or juveniles could well be subject to restrictions.\nWe need both education and safety laws to reduce gun accidents and\nthe misuse of firearms while at the same time protecting the traditional\nright to possess firearms. The legitimate use of arms in hunting, target\nshooting and gun collecting should not be forgotten, or the right for a\nperson to protect his home and family.\nA proposal to aid the hunter-sportsman by my running mate, Robert\nFinch, has merit. Requirement of mandatory hunter safety instruction\nprior to issuance of the first California hunting license would be comp-\narable to our present regulations for a young driver.\nI reiterate that laws aimed at reducing crime require careful con-\nsideration so that government does not infringe on legitimate ownership\nand use of firearms.\nRonald Reagan\n10.18.66\nNORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS: 46 KEARNY ST., SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO.\n465\n()\n=7S Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN\nGOVERNOR\nRONALD REAGAN SUPPORTS CALIFORNIA LIQUOR INDUSTRY FAIR TRADE LAWS\nRonald Reagan states that after reviewing the important question of\nCalifornia's liquor industry Fair Trade laws, his position is:\n(1) Since I favor the present California legislation\npertaining to minimum pricing for alcoholic beverages,\nshould the California Supreme Court uphold its\nconstitutionality In the pending Holzheiser case\nI will vigorously enforce such current laws; and\n(2) Should the California Supreme Court hold the current\nlaws to be unconstitutional, I will work closely with\nthe Iiquor retailing industry to propose a new law\nwhich will meet constitutional standards and still\nafford protection to this important industry which\ntraditionally has consisted of numerous individually-\noperated stores risking lifetime savings to operate a\nprofitable small-scale business.\nMr. Reagan has taken this position because the abolition of current\nfair trade protection in this important retailing area would merely\nincrease the likelihood of monopolistic practices, and would not\nnecessarily result in lower retail pric 3 as claimed by opponents of\nthis legislation.\nEDITORIAL PAGE-\n4Ldo\nThe\nReagan supports Milk Act\nthe importance to the dairy industry in California of strong and\nDAIRYMAN\nproper leudership by the Governor, next month's gubernatorial election is of major\nintere\nWith the necessity for diligent and strict enforcement of the Milk Stabilization\nValume 46, No. 10\nOctober, 1966\n.t in the future, The Dairyman asked Republican candidate Ronald Reagan the\nCopyright R. M. McCune 1966\nllowing questions to make his position known:\nAll rights reserved\nQ: Do you approve and support the Milk Stabilization Act of the State of Califor-\n14970 Chandler Ave., Corona, Calif. 91720\nnia?\nPhones: (714) 628-8946\n(714) 735-2730\nA: \"Yes! I approve and support the Milk Stabilization Act of the State of\nVERIFIED AUDIT CIRCULATION\nCalifornia. Agriculture is the number one industry of the state and the milk\nMEMBER\nand dairy industry is one of its major segments. I believe it is essential in pro-\ntecting the consumer and the dairy farmers to assure the dairy farmers a fair\nPUBLISHER: R. M. 'Bob' McCune\nprice for their product, that will properly compensate them for the large in-\nEDITOR: Dolores Davis\nvestments in their herds and dairies and which will adequately pay them for\nADVERTISING MANAGER: Jack D. Miller\nthe long hard hours that they put in. producing the finest milk in the world.\"\nBUSINESS MANAGER: Frank Raymond\nQ: Would you support the vigorous enforcement of the Milk Stabilization Act\nof California?\nFIELD EDITORS:\nA: \"Yes. I realize that in California we have the most modern and efficient dairy\nLillie L. Madsen\nLee Elam\nplants in the world; therefore, we should have a Director of Agriculture that\nNeale Leslie\nM. O'Harra\nwould cigorously support and enforce the Milk Stabilization Act in eccry way.\nRutheda LaCrosse\nB. L. Kinley\nI would appoint a strong Director of Agriculture capable of carrying out the\nprovisions of the Act and I would specifically instruct him to see that this was\nCIRCULATION MANAGER: Hal McCune\ndone. I would eliminate the Director as a political tool of the Governor and\nEASTERN REPRESENTATIVE:\nwould take politics out of the milk business. I would eliminate all special facors\nJohn E Boisseau Co.\nand interests by the Department. I would insist that the Director of Agricul-\n211 E. 43rd St., New York. New York 10017\nPhone: OXford 7-1950\nture and the Department, without favoritism or without political interest,\nMIDWESTERN REPRESENTATIVE:\nmake every effort to see that California is provided with an adequate supply\nThompson Associates\n20 N. Wacker Dr.\nof wholesome milk and dairy products and fair and reasonable prices for the\nChicago, III. 60608\nconsumer, dairymen and distributors. I would strengthen the Act in every\npossible way; and I would not allow the Department to act as a political tool\nsuch is now the case.\nIN THIS ISSUE:\nDo you feel that the Act has been adequately enforced in the past? If no,\nNational News\n6\nwhat would you do to make more effective enforcement possible?\nA:\n\"No.\" \"For many years the Act has not been adequately enforced and as a re-\nPeople and Places\n10\nsult every dairyman and distributor knows that a great mass of unfair and\nJ & N Dairy\n22\nunjust business practices have arisen and exist. I would not allow my Director\nand his staff to close their eyes to these conditions, but I would insist upon\nComing Events\n36\nstrict enforcement and do everything within my power to eliminate the unfair\nThey Say\n37\nbusiness practices and the causes which have created them. We cannot close\nour eyes to the facts concerning the conditions which exist and these will not\nMarket Review\n39\nbe eliminated without vigorous, diligent effort. I will insist upon action which\nBack Talk\n40\nwill be in the best interests of the dairy industry and all of the people of\nCalifornia.\"\nQ: How would you proceed in arriving at a position if legislation was proposed\nTHIS MONTH'S COVER\nthat would substantially change the Milk Stabilization Act?\nHow now, black and white cow? It could\nA: \"I would not arbitrarily make a decision on any such legislation, but I would\nbe bovine ladies at a sale, but it isn't.\nmeet with the leaders of all segments of the industry and endeavor to develop\nThe group on this month's cover were\nthe unity within the industry necessary to adopt legislation for the best in-\nterests of the people and of dairy industry as a whole rather than the interests\nenjoying a cooling and cleaning shower in\nof special groups.\nthe wash pen at the Jake Cloo Dairy,\nChino, Calif., when THE DAIRYMAN visited\nI am firmly against a Federal milk order for California because facts and statis-\nto do the story on page 22. The COWS\ntics proce that none of the Federal orders in the States where they exist have\njammed in the pen intrigued our photog-\noperated as efficiently or as satisfactorily to the benefit of the dairymen, dis-\nrapher\n...\nthey reminded him of New\ntributors or public, as the California Milk Stabilization Act. A Federal order\nYork City subways during the rush hours.\nwould only mean more distant Federal bureaucracy with arbitrary, uneconomi-\n(There is a similarity, although the con-\ncal and inefficient decisions from Washington. The California Milk Stabiliza-\ntented expressions here are dissimilar to\ntion Act has proved to be one of the finest legislation of its kind in the United\na subway scene) After he took this pic-\nStates. I am in favor of strengthering this Act and seeing that it is cigorously\nture he had the cleanest legs (from waist\nenforced.\"\ndown) in town.\nBy his answers Reagan has committed himself to uphold and strengthen the\nand its enforcement.\nPublished the first Saturday of each month\nOn the other hand the incumbent, Gov. Edmind C. \"Pat\" Brown, Democrat.\nfor market milk producers, processors) and\ndistributors.\nhas come out in favor of state-wide pooling for California.\nSUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year; 3 years\n$5.00. Foreign: $3.00 per year; 4 years, $10.00\nAt a meeting Sept. 6. at Clovis, Calif., Gov. Brown said. \"With regard to the\nSingle copy, 25 cents.\ndainy industry. I 1:111 in favor of state-widh pooling. and I will work stre monsly to\nADVERTISING DATES: Furnished on application.\nAccepted as controlled circulation publication 1'\nachieve it in the legislatica your of 1967.\"\nParamount, California,\nPAGES 468\nARE MISSING\nTHE ORIGINAL COPY WAS TO FAINT TO DUPLICATE\nSUBJECT: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT\ndi\nADDRESS TO: LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM\nDATE:\n8-14-66\nRONALD REAGAN ON PROPERTY TAX\n\"I lean very definitely toward the idea that the property tax,\nas it is administrated, is archaic and old-fashioned, and in its origin\nit never contemplated a system where millions of homeowners would own\nplots of ground that were not productive of wealth and that would continue\nto increase in value, due to factors beyond their control, to such an\ninflation where the average homeowner would have to realize that he could\nA\nnot live out his life in his own home - simply because of the tax burden.\nNor did they envision a credit system in which millions of people would\nbe taxed on the basis of owning a home when they only owned a small\nequity in it and the rest was a mortgage held by someone else.\n\"I believe a tax reform would reveal a combination of income and\nsales tax, where the money goes in and the money goes out - plus a third\ntax which is, wherever possible, a tax that pays for a specific service\nto that service, such as our gas tax to our highways.\n\"Property taxes are increasing twice as fast as personal income and\nB\nare a factor in the slump that has hit our building industry five times\nharder in California than in the rest of the nation.\"\nA. Source. Speech at CRA Convention, San Joss, April 2, 1966.\nB. Campaign kick-off speech (telecast), Sept. 9, 1966. Biltmore Hotel,\nIo:\nUNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER\nThe crime problem in this state presents a distressing\npicture. With time persons of the nation's population, California\naccounts for percent of doe nacion's crice.\nOur skyrociating crime Tate dause from certain judicial\nrulings that took much of the Law enforcement authority away from\nlocal police and laft them handicapped in their afforts to procest\nthe 1ow-sbiding citizen from the increastagly insolect criminal\nelement.\nAs Covernor, I will take positive secion CD resipre to the\ncities and counties their vights =0 TODGE local outinesses designed\nto meet Local Lew enforcement problems.\nI will cell 02 the Incisipture to re-unset those key crime\nprovention bills passed overwhaldingly by the logislature at in;\nlist session but veteed by the Governor, Moon re-anacked, = will\nsign these measures into law, as Governor.\nI will ask legislative support in an effort to end the\ngrowing flood of critic and postiography simed primarily as degrading\nour young people.\nI will sponsor legislation nimed at curbing the growing\nuse of menuntics, hallustmacory drugs and pep pills, expecially in\nschools and on compuses.\nI vill $93 to it, =s Governor of California, that the\nstreets and neighborhoods Lecome cofe again.\nI think from yours backmalve been pingued by the political\nassointment of judges. There is C. plan it work in the state of\nMissouri which I think betrs ilose vataking,\nSomething similar is needed in California--u plan under\nwhich\nImprove,\nscholuce\n11\nof\nthe\n-2-\npublic 001.0 #? with : pistl of legal minds from which the\nGovernor EMICE min his to the boach. We used CO take\nthe political participaty 000 :1 the appointment of judges once and\nfor all.\n13 to strilli, police boards. I think this\n1s : Milk shat whenever evidence is pre-\nsended, UNITED have 2 cevil your police commission.\nWhenever to revealti re 2. :: Cuty are not living up to their\nduty and AVOID obligation, this V.: community should do something about\nit.\nCa capital punishment, : don't think there is anyone in this\ncountry 2010 doesn't wish 123 world each the day when 10 is univicessary.\nDut, consphing the Stat , Cave che vight to take Lives, in the\ndefense 02 our CUT and the opinions of ECC in 100 inforce-\nment was fact it is = deberrone to crime 5.15 check ic does provent\nnurders, I have DO application of the continuation of capical punishment.\nI will my, however, 15 Grar entivience indicates capital\npuniciment is purply and not ai determent, then cortainly\n10 should be abulished.\nI believe 1.- ONE entire penal system, IS no Bouger being purply\nversonnes, but = system for tobabilitation and deterrence,\n10.20.66\nTo:\nTHE DOCKET\nThere are many issues in Chis campaign --- crime, high cost of\ngovernment, julicial appointments, wildore and education --- but\ninvolved 1: all of these is the overriding problem of a leadership\ngap in Sacremento.\nOnly the best qualified persons should be chosen to fill appoint-\n1ve offices in California. Tat the present Covernor has repeatally\nviolated this principle by selecting political dronies, hacks and\ndefeated Democratic Party candidates to fill important positions. As\na citisen-politicion, obligated to no political machine, I will be\nfree 02 policiesi debts in choosing by appointmes. I will provide\nextensive background information on every appointive offloer 30 that\nthe legislature and the public will be assured of their qualifications.\nIn niking appointments to judgships, I will ascablish an independent\nreview board of lawyers, scholars and representatives of the public 2\nnominate a panel of five outstanding attorneys to fill each judicial\nvaccnay, This will tend to insure the integrity and indepandence of the\njudicial system 10 California.\nEducation is the bulwark of freedom, We must work toward the\ncreative educational system that Californians noad and deserve. Because\nof the ever increasing cost cl education, we are going to have to explore\nthe idea of assessing a part of the cost of state collage educations by\nincreased tuition against those who are receiving the elusation, I sug-\ngestia @ study of this matter bacause the alternative to not charging\ntuition eight CARD :s the againsing choice of limiting the quality of\nour college and university systems. But, 18 and when buicien 13 decided\nupon, it should be accompanied by on sugmented program of scholarships\nfor needy students --- a plan for allowing students to defer payment of\ncuition until after graduation. And, while the news thing Ls Fuseral,\ncertainly we should urge upon the Federal government income tax credits\nto parents for part of the educational costs.\nCalifornia sulbroment afficials have been handlemped by car-\nthis ****** judicial rilits thich book law mis maders authority any\n-2-\n1.3\nfrom local communities. As I will : take positive socion to\nrescore 20 wishe : CREDE Resul addresses\ndesign :)\n2021 : problems. In the future, the\nstate 1 gistions\ninfluits\nAllis L: passive 300 intended DD\npremings so that judges do Lot have\nto male CALLS\nMy children's AMERICANCE in L. films billed 10 the capacity of\nthe people doe the yours problems\nCalifornia our base To solvation whittering and millising the notli-\nties and enargies of the prople.\n10.20.66\nJ TELETHON, OAKLAND, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1966'\n\"Well Jack, this is really a misquote and it bothers me because all my\nlife I've been a nature lover, I'm an outdoorsman and I burn a lot of oak-\nwood off our own ranch in a fireplace, but I always wait until the limbs fall\noff the tree before I cut them up for the fire, and I've never cut one down.\nWhy this came about was, I was trying to explain my support of a program\nup in the Redwoods called the \"Redwood Park and Recreation Plan\" in contrast\nto the proposed national parks\nbecause a great deal of misinformation has\nbeen given to the people.\nWe have already 28 state parks, scattered from the Oregon border down\nsome 500 miles. We have probably the greatest and most successful conservation\nprogram that has ever been conducted any place in the world. We have preserved\nin those28 parks some 115,000 acres which represents all but six or eight\nthousand acres of the truly virgin growth--the big trees as we think of them--\nthe stately groves.\nAnd of the six or eight thousand acres still outside the park, at least\nhalf of that has been earmarked by the private owners and has been held invio-\nlate, waiting until the state can acquire those groves and add them to the parks.\nNow presently, Congressman Don Clausen has a new plan which could lead to\na national park and which could possibly be helpful in that area with regard\nto tourism and giving them an additional factor in thier economy; and it would\nnot involve privately-held land because-- of the four counties particularly--\nmore than 50 percent of those counties is presently owned by the government--\nthe Federal government\nthe Six Rivers National Forest is 416,000 acres! And\nit doesn't seem much sense\nto take privately-hold, tarparing\nland off the tax roles and addit for the purpose of a park when the government\nalready owns these hundreds of thousands of acres to this same area,\nNow his plan is one that involves- if there is to be a national park--\nutilizing already held government-ownad land.\nNow, where the misquote came from. I was speaking to an audience in a\ncity--San Francisco, to be exact--and I thought maybe, being a farmer myself,\nthat it might be necessary to explain how big was 115,000 acres.\nSo I pointed out that--if you could visualize it in a picture if you\nhad it in a strip a mile wide with a road running down the middle SO that you\nhad a half a mile of trees on both sides of you of this type of forest--and\nthen you set out to drive through 115,000 acres, you'd have to drive almost\n200 miles to go through that many acres.\nAnd since the redwood parks are not so much for recreation- they're a\nscenie attraction CO view; we found that the tourists who go there go to\nsee; to look--as a matter of fact, you can't get very far into those redwood\nforests without being overwhelmed by the ferns and the underbruch and the growth\nand SO forth, and then you're SO surrounded that there isnt anything to se--and\nI made the remark 20 not as it's quoted- I made the remark that 200 miles of that,\nthat's an awful lot of trees to look at.\nBut I didn't mean it in any way that we do not want to preserve that\ngreat heritage in that area. And we have preserved it, and, if we are to have\na national park, my contention is: let's have it for the right reasons let's\nnot pretend that it's necessary to preserve something (when) we should be very\nproud of what we have done already in preserving the giant virgin growth of our\nredwoods,\n476\nCitizens Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR\nNEWS RELEASE\nContact: Lyn Nofziger\nRelease: As of 8:30 p.m.\nClyde Beane\nEXCERPTS OF SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN\nDelivered to -Reagan for Governor Committee and Republican\nCentral Committee of Riverside County, Riverside, October 13\nNow once every four years the Governor all of a sudden starts\nlistening to the people. From June to November he wants what they want. But\nfrom November until the June of four years later he wants what the CDC wants.\nTake for instance the Rumford Act. All of a sudden the Governor\nwants a blue ribbon commission to study it. To suggest changes. But three years\nago when it was before the Legislature it was suggested that a commission be\nappointed to study the problem before enactment of any law and the Governor\nwould have nothing to do with the idea.\nInstead he had his lieutenants ram it through the Legislature. Then\nhe challenged the right of the people even to vote on a proposition to repeal\nit and when the courts ruled in favor of the people's right of petition the\nGovernor charged them with being reminiscent of Nazism and labeled them the\nshock troops of bigotry.\nBut now it is election year and the Governor has seen polls that show\nthree-fourths of the people oppose the Rumford Act. That's too big a body of\nshock troops of bigotry for the Governor to let go by--he needs that vote too.\nSo he decided to appoint a blue ribbon commission. Hopefully this\ncommission will give the appearance of helping both the opponents and proponents\nof the adt without reaching any conclusions harmful to his campaign.\nNORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS: to WEARNY ST SUITE 600. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 91103 PHONE (415) 392 3205\nSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS: 3257 LSHITE BOULEVARD LOS ANDELES. CALIFORNIA 90005 PHONE (213) 231\n:_ TRSIDE EXCERPTS page 2\nThis ploy is so obvious that many good people asked to serve on the\ncommission refused and it took him weeks to round up a commission it's too\nlate and too little.\nAnd then the Governor went further. He decided this issue should be\ntaken out of politics. We shouldn't talk about it.\nWell, I intend to keep talking about it. I, for one, don't believe\nthe people of California are the shock troops of bigotry. I believe that the\nright to dispose of and control one's own property is a basic human right and\nas Governor I will fight to uphold that right.\n10.13.66\nNOTE: Since Mr. Reagan speaks from notes there may be changes in this text.\nHowever, he will stand by the above quotes.\nCitizens Committee To Elect\nRONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR\nNEWS RELEASE..\nContact: Lyn Nofziger\nRelease: MAY 12--4:00 p.m.\nEXCERPTS FROM A SPEECH BY RONALD REAGAN, COW PALACE, MAY 12\n\"There is a leadership gap and a morality and decency gap in Sacramento.\n\"And there is no better illustration of that than what has been perpe-\ntrated on the Berkeley campus at the University of California at Berkeley where\na small minority of beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates have brought\nsuch shame to and such a loss of confidence in a great University that applica-\ntions for enrollment were down 21% this year and are expected to decline even\nfurther next years.\n\"You have read about the report of the Senate Subcommittee on Un-American\nActivities--its charges that the campus has become a rallying point for\nCommunists and a center of sexual misconduct.\n\"Now I have not seen that report--it has not yet been made public--but I\ndo have information that verifies at least part of that report. The incidents\nin this report are so bad, so contrary to our standards of decent human behavior\nI cannot recite them to you in detail.\n\"But there is clear evidence of the sort of things that should not be per-\nmitted on a university campus.\n\"The report tells us that many of those attending were clearly of high\nschool age. The hall WaS entirely dark except for the light from two movie\nscreens. On these screens the nude terses of men and women were portrayed from\nCALIFORNIA HEACQUARTERS: 46 KEARNY ST.. SUITE 500 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 91103 PHONE (415) 392 331-5771 8305\nNORTHERN SQUTHERN CALIFORNIA HEASQUARTERS: 3237 WILSHIRE SUBLEVARD, LOS : MORNIA 90005 PHONE (213)\n479\n-2-\ntime to time in suggestive positions and movements.\n\"Three rock and roll bands played simultaneously. The smell of marijuana\nwas thick throughout the hall. There were signs that some of those present had\ntaken dope, There were indications of other happenings that cannot be mentioned\nhere.\n\"How could this happen on the campus of a great University? It happened\nbecause those responsible abdicated their responsibilities.\n\"The dance was only called to a halt when janitors finally cut off the\npower in the gymnasium forcing those attending to leave.\n\"And this certainly is not the only sign of a leadership gap on the campus.\n\"It began a year ago when so-called 'free-speech advocates', who in truth\nhave no appreciation of freedom, were allowed to assault and humiliate an\nofficer of the law. This was the moment when the ring-leaders should have been\ntaken by the scruff of the neck and thrown off of the campus--permanently.\n\"It continued through the filthy speech movement, through activities of\nthe Vietnam Day Committee and all this has been allowed to go on in the name of\nacademic freedom.\n\"What in Heaven's name does academic freedom have to dc with rioting, with\nanarchy, with attempts to destroy the primary purpose of the University which\nis to educate our young people?\n\"This is why I know there must be some substance to the Committee's report.\nThis is why I am also convinced that just the issuance of that report is not\nenough, not enough for the people of California and not enough for those involved.\n\"The charges made by the Committee are the results of private investiga-\ntions. They must now be brought out in public haarings 2: which those involved\nmust be forced to testify.\n-3-\n\"Otherwise there is a real danger that the charges will be swept under\nthe rug.\n\"These charges must neither be swept under the rug by a timid adminis-\ntration or by public apologists for the University. The public has a right\nto know from open hearings whether the situation at Berkeley is as the report\nsays.\n\"The citizens who pay the taxes that support the University also have a\nright to know that, if the situation is as the report says, that those respon-\nsible will be fired, that the University will be cleaned up and restored to\nits position as a major institution of learning and research.\n\"The Covernor has abdicated his responsibility in this area. His only\nanswer has been to ask the Board of Regents to investigate. This is a straight\ncoverup. What kind of political nonsense is it to ask the Board of Regents\nto investigate a situation in which it may be involved?\n\"For this reason I. today have called on the State Legislature to hold\npublic hearings into the charges of Communism and blatant sexual misbehavior\non the campus. I have sent personal wires to Senator Hugh Burns, the Presi-\ndent Pro Tem of the Senate and to Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh urging that\nthey hold joint public hearings.\n\"Only in this way can we get at the facts. Only this way car. we find\nwho is responsible for the degradation of a great University.\n\"Only this way can WE determine what steps must be taken to restore the\nUniversity to its position, steps that might go even beyond what I have already\nsuggested.\n\"Yes, there are things that can be done at the University even if a\nhearing is never held. This administration could make changes. It could\n-4-\ndemand that the faculty jurisdictions be limited to academic matters.\n\"It could demand that the administrators be told that it is your job\nto administer the University properly and if you don't WE will find someone\nwho will.\n\"The faculty could also be given a code of conduct that would force them\nto serve as examples of good behavior and decency for the young people in\ntheir charge.\n\"When those who advocate an open mind keep it open at both ends with no\nthought process in the middle, the open mind becomes a hose for any idea that\ncomes along. If scholars are to be recognized as having a right to press\ntheir particular value judgments, perhaps the time has come also for institu-\ntions of higher learning to assert themselves 35 positive forces in the\nbattles for men S minds.\n\"This could mean they would insist up:n mature, responsible conduct and\nrespect for the individual from their faculty members and might even call on\nthem to be proponents of those ethical arf moral standards demanded by the\ngreat majority of our society.\n\"These things could ba dons and should be done. The people not only have\na right to know what is going on a: their universities, they have a right to\nexpect the best from those responsible for it.\"\n5.12.66\nNOTE: Since Mr. Reagan speaks from notes, th-re may be some changes in his\nquotes. However, he will stand by any statements in these excerpts.\nBook2\n478-481\nEXCERPTS FROM RONALD REAGAN SPEECH AT COW PALACE\nMay 12\n\"There is a leadership gap and a moràlity and decency gap in Sacramento.\nAnd there is no better illustration of that than what has been perpetrated\non the Berkeley campus at the University of California at Berkeley, where\na small minority of beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates have\nbrought such shame to, and such a loss of confidence in, a great University\nthat applications for enrollment were down 21% this year and are expected\nto decline even further next year.\n\"You have read about the report of the Senate Subcommittee on Un-American\nActivities--its charges that the campus has become a rallying point for\nCommunists and a center of sexual misconduct.\n\"Now, I have not seen that report--it has not yet been made public--but\nI do have information that verifies at least part of that report. The\nincidents in this report are so bad, so contrary to our standards of\ndecent human behavior, I cannot recite them to you in detail.\n\"But there is clear evidence of the sort of things that should not be\npermitted on a Unversity campus.\n\"The reporttells us that many of those attending were clearly of high\nschool age. The hall was entirely dark except for the light from two\nmovie screens. On these screens the nude torsos of men and women were\nportrayed, from time to time, in suggestive positions and movements.\n\"Three rock and roll bands played simultaneously. The smell of marijuana\nwas thick throughout the hall. There were signs that some of those present\nhad taken dope. There were indications of other happenings that cannot\nbe mentioned here.\n479\nCOW PALACE SPEECH PAGE 2.\n\"How could this happen on the campus of a great University? It happened\nbecause those responsible abdicated their responsibilities.\n\"The dance was only called to a halt when janitors finally cut off the\npower in the gymnasium forcing those attending to leave.\n\"And this certainly is not the only sign of a leadership gap on the\ncampus.\n\"It began a year ago when so-called 'free speech advocates', who in\ntruth have no appreciation of freedom, were allowed to assault and\nhumiliate an officer of the law. This was the moment when the ring-\nleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown off\nthe campus permanently.\n\"It continued through the filthy speech movement, through activities of\nthe Vietnam Day Committee and this has been allowed to go on in the name\nof academic freedom.\n\"What in heaven's name does 'academic freedom' have to do with rioting,\nwith anarchy, with attempts to destroy the primary purpose of the University\nwhich is to educate our young people?\n\"This is why I know there must be some substance to the Committee's\nreport. This is why I am also convinced that just the issuance of that\nreport is not enough, not enough for the people of California and not\nenough for those involved.\n\"The charges made by the Committee are the results of private investiga-\ntions. They must now be brought out in public hearings at which those\ninvolved must be forced to testify.\n\"Otherwise there is a real danger that the charges will be swept under\nthe rug.\n\"These charges must neither be swept under the rug by a timid administra-\ntion or by public apologists for the University. The public has a right\nto know from open hearings whether the situation is as the report says.\n480\nCOW PALACE SPEECH PAGE 3.\n\"The citizens who pay the taxes that support the University also have a\nright to know that, if the situation is as the report says, that those\nresponsible will be fired, that the University will be cleaned up and\nrestored to its position as a major institution of learning and research.\n\"The Governor has abdicated his responsibility in this area. His only\nanswer has been to ask the Board Regents to investigate. This is a straight\ncover-up. What kind of political nonsense is it to ask the Board of\nRegents to investigate a situation in which it may be involved?\n\"For this reason, I today have called on the State Legislature to hold\npublic hearings into the charges of Communism and blatant sexual mis-\nconduct on the campus. I have sent personal wires to Senator Hugh Burns,\nthe President Pro Tem of the Senate, and to Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh,\nurging that they hold joint public hearings.\n\"Only in this way can we get at the facts. Only this way can we find out\nwho is responsible for the degradation of a great University.\n\"Only in this way can we determine what steps must be taken to restore the\nUniversity to its position, steps that might go even beyond what I have\nalready suggested.\n\"Yes, there are things that can be done at the University even if a\nhearing is never held. This;administration could make changes. It could\ndemand that the faculty jurisdictions be limited to academic matters.\nIt could demand that the administrators be told that it is your job to\nadminister the University properly and if you don't, we will find someone\nwho will.\n\"The faculty could also be given a code of conduct that would force them\nto serve as examples of good behavior and decency for the young people\nin their charge.\n481\nCOW PALACE SPEECH PAGE 4.\n\"When those who advocate an open mind keep it open at both ends with no\nthought process in the middle, the open mind becomes a hose for any idea\nthat comes along. If scholars are to be recognized as having a right to\npress their particular value judgements, perhaps the time has come also\nfor institutions of higher learning to assert themselves as positive\nforces in the battles for men's minds.\n\"This could mean they would insist upon mature, responsible conduct and\nrespect for the individual from their faculty members and might even\ncall on them to be proponents of those ethical and moral standards\ndemanded by the great majority of our society.\n\"These things could be done and should be done. The people not only have\na right to know what is going on at their universities, they have a right\nto expect the best from those responsible for it.\""
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