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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Speeches - Reports to the People, 1968\nBox: P20\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\n3/31/68\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nFOR RELEASE\n5:00 P.M.\nSacramento, California\nSUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1968\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n3.29.68\nPLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE\nRELEASE\nTRANSCRIPT OF GOVERNOR REAGAN'S REPORT TO THE PEOPLE OF 3/31/68\n(Taxes)\nMy fellow Californians:\nBy April 15 most of you will have dipped into your savings or\ngone to the bank for a loan in order to pay your share of California's\nstate income tax.\nAnd most of you are going to be puzzled--and angry.\nI have come to you today to tell you that I share your anger\nthat we had to raise taxes.\nTo tell you why we had to raise them.\nAnd to assure you again that this administration is dedicated\nto the proposition that government will operate efficiently and that\ntaxes will not be raised again.\nIn a few weeks I understand billboards will begin to appear\ncriticizing me for saying \"taxes should hurt.\"\nThose billboards will not carry the rest of the statement which\nsaid, \"taxes should hurt so that the people will be aware of what\ngovernment is costing them and will make it clear to their legislators\nhow big a tax burden they are willing to bear.\"\nIf indeed, you are angry, if, indeed, taxes have hurt you this\nyear, then it is time for us to begin demanding responsible, efficient\ngovernment at all levels.\nI also want that. And I hope to help you get that message across.\nLet me show you what has happened in California in the last 10\nyears.\nPopulation has risen 39 percent.\nBut, the costs of welfare have jumped 247 percent. Higher\neducation costs have increased 138 percent. State support of schools\nAltogether,\nis up 98 percent. Other costs are up 88 percent.\n/\nthe cost\nof running your government has increased more than three times faster\nthan population. With your help we can reverse that trend,\nNow, of course, we will have taxes as long as we have government--\nand if we did not have a government to guarantee freedom, to preserve\norder, to educate our children and help those who cannot help them-\nselves, we would have something much worse than taxes.\n-1-\nBut taxes, to be just, must be spread as evenly and fairly as\npossible among all the people. It is equally important to ensure\nthat for each tax dollar, we all get a full dollar's worth of\nservices.\nEven more important, in view of today's exorbitant taxes, neither\nthe Legislature nor the administration should attempt to adopt new\nand expensive programs that will require even higher taxes. On the\ncontrary, we should sharply reduce the cost and extent of government,\nwherever possible.\nLet me talk for just a few moments about why your state income\ntaxes this year are so high.\nWhen I took office, we found that spending for the year ending\nlast June would exceed revenues by $446 million.\nWe didn't have enough time, but even so, we reduced spending by\n$125 million. Later, I bluepenciled $43 million that the Legislature\nput back in the budget, and finally, I vetoed nearly $80 million more\nin special appropriation bills passed by the Legislature. Despite all\nthese economies the General Fund, which handles most of the spending\nof the state except highway costs, was still $194 million in debt.\nWe should all realize that 66 to 68 percent of our total spending\nis fixed by the Constitution or by permanent statutes. This means\nthat most of the money the state spends to support public schools,\nprovide welfare (and our welfare programs are among the highest in\nthe nation), and build highways--all of these and more cannot be\nreduced, nor be allocated for other purposes unless we change our\nConstitution and many of our laws.\nBecause of these problems we were forced to seek new revenues.\nAnd we concluded that good government practices required that we try\nto balance our budget without tax gimmicks.\nSo we asked for a tax increase of about $900 million to pay off\nour inherited debt, to meet the built-in and self-perpetuating cost\nincreases of our social welfare and education programs, to provide\nproperty tax relief, and to cope with the spiralling costs of the\nfederal inflation.\nThe Legislature gave us that tax increase--and it has produced\nenough revenue to keep the state in the black, to take care of the\nlegitimate needs of the people, and to give $155 million for local\nproperty tax relief next year, plus $39 million more to local govern-\nments to enable them to reduce inventory taxes, and $22 million more\n-2-\nfor tax relief for low income senior citizens.\nNow, despite our fiscal problems and the fact that we cannot, by\nlaw, permit expenditures to exceed income, there are those who insist\nthat we spend more. In fact, if every bill approved by Assembly and\nSenate committees last year had become law, your taxes would have had\nto go up another three-quarters of a billion dollars.\nFortunately, most of those bills failed when brought before the\nentire Legislature. But it is important to note that there is an\nincreasing effort by some in government to get a bigger hand on your\npocketbook.\nMeanwhile, another major problem has developed. We put into our\nbudget this year and next the amounts the Legislature told us would\nbe needed to pay for the new school bill. Unfortunately, they were\nwrong in their estimates by about $152 million. To correct this,\nwe have asked the Legislature to reiterate its earlier intent and\nput a ceiling on the state's share of public school spending in the\namount of 226, 000, 000-the amount the Legislature intended to be\nspent. If they do not correct this mistake, then we have no other\nlogical choice under the law but to take the money from other state\nservices such as higher education, Medi-Cal, or funds for welfare.\nSome have said we should abandon our goal of local property tax\nrelief, and instead permanently use the $155 million to make up for\nthis error. But I do not think the answer to mistakes of this kind\nis to always take money from the people. I think we should correct\nthe mistakes.\nWe pledged local property tax relief and I intend to keep that\npledge.\nLet me be crystal clear--I am not going to ask the Legislature\nfor more taxes--we have an ample state income and we will live within\nit, while I am governor. In fact, I hope we can do better than that--\nI hope we can not only reduce local taxes, but that we can look forward\nto the day when state taxes themselves will be lower.\nThat would be the greatest tax reform of all--it is a reform we\nwill ceaselessly work for.\nMeanwhile, there are many things we have done and can do to lower\nthe cost of state government, improve its administration and make it\nmore responsive. We have already made 265 changes in the operations\nof our executive branch agencies with potential annual savings of\nnearly $50 million.\nBut, there are two long-range goals we must reach if we are\never to achieve any significant tax reduction in California:\nFirst, the federal government must be persuaded to share its\nrevenues with the states. Right now, the federal government is\ndoling out $17 billion a year to the fifty states for programs it\nthinks we ought to have. Let me cite one program.\nMany demand matching funds from the state or locality, thus\nsending your tax bill even higher. Currently 60 percent of the total\ntaxes you pay go to support the federal government and its programs.\nOnly about 20 percent goes to support all our state functions and\nprograms.\nWhat I seek is an agreement that the federal government return\nto California a small part of the income tax our citizens pay to\nWashington, and I want it to come back free and unfettered--so that\nwe can spend it on the programs Californians think best--or even,\npossibly, and I know this is revolutionary, use it to reduce state\ntaxes.\nThe only way we will achieve this is to persuade enough Congress-\nmen and Senators that it should be done. I intend to ask our\nCongressmen, and other governors, to join with me to plan the continuous\nstrategy needed to get these federal tax moneys shared with the states.\nSecond, we must have more flexibility in making up our own\nbudgets. Until your governor and legislators can determine to a far\ngreater extent than is now possible what our tax moneys should be\nspent for each year, we are almost inevitably doomed to even higher\nbudgets.\nI believe that each year we should be able to determine what are\nthe highest priorities for the revenues we have, and to spend our\nmoney accordingly.\nSome preliminary studies of this problem have been completed, and\nI will request the Legislature to study my recommendations with the\nhope that suitable constitutional and statutory amendments can be\nproposed next year to enable your elected officials to assign proper\nspending priorities each year.\nOtherwise, our present system virtually guarantees that the\nLegislature will have to vote higher taxes every few years.\nThere are some immediate reforms which we hope can be adopted\nshortly, such as a far more simplified state income tax return. How\nsimple it would be if a carbon copy of the federal tax return could\n-4-\nbe filed as the st e income tax return. The ate tax would then be\nfigured as a percentage of the federal tax and many of the problems\nwe have encountered this year with tax credits instead of exemptions\nwould be solved. The voters in 1966 narrowly rejected a constitu-\ntional amendment authorizing this. I hope if offered again such a\nconstitutional amendment will pass. Under this change we could\ncollect state income taxes at a substantially lower cost.\nAnother tax reform that would reduce costs and assure far greater\nservice to the taxpayers would be the creation of a Department of\nRevenue. While it is not a new proposal, I am convinced it is\nessential. It is impossible to justify the current dispersion of our\ntax collecting and administering activities among three major state\nagencies, with the attendant duplication, double harassment of the\ntaxpayers by double and sometimes triple audits, unnecessary personnel\nand many other factors. A modern, streamlined Department of Revenue\norganized as are other departments is clearly the answer. Such a\ndepartment has been recommended by every group that has looked into\nthe problem. The proposal needs no further study, but should be\nenacted promptly.\nThere has been a great deal of discussion about withholding.\nMost of the arguments in favor of withholding are based on the con-\nvenience to the government.\nNo question, of course, there's a certain convenience to the\nindividual in any installment paying. But obviously the greatest\nconvenience is to the state to have your tax payments early and to\nhave the employer act as tax collector. In addition, under with-\nholding, the state actually takes more of your money than it does\nunder the present system.\nBut I believe we should consider the taxpayer first. I would\nmuch prefer to return to the system in effect before 1964. Under it\ntaxpayers were allowed to pay their state income taxes for the prior\nyear in quarterly installments.\nThis privilege was taken away as another sleight-of-hand means\nof trying to balance the budget without taxes. It cannot be restored\nnow because the state would simply not have enough cash on which to\noperate. I hope that when we get our heads above water, we can go\nback to installment payments. But in the meantime perhaps there is\na way to make the payment easier.\nI have directed the Superintendent of Banks and the Savings and\nLoan Commissioner to attempt to work out a voluntary system by which\n-5-\nthe taxpayer could, if he wanted to, have an amount deducted from\nhis paycheck, as many do now with other payroll deduction plans, and\npay into a savings account of his own, similar to a Christmas savings\nclub, as a means of accumulating in advance the amount necessary to\npay the state income tax.\nFirst the money remains in his possession. In the event some\nemergency arises he can use it and at the same time he is getting\ninterest on his money to help pay his taxes.\nIf this can be done for the income tax, then I would strongly\nrecommend that similar arrangements be worked out for the real\npioperty taxpayer.\nBut ultimately, broader approaches must be applied to this whole\nfield of tax reform. We now have a piecemeal tax system which breeds\ninequities, duplication and, basically, an unbalanced result, with\nsome taxpayers and some transactions bearing far too great a share of\nthe total tax burden, and othersescaping without bearing their fair\nshare.\nOne requirement is careful study of whether real property should\ncontinue to be the principal tax supporting local government. Ideally,\ntaxes should be based upon benefits received as well as upon ability\nto pay. Heavy taxation of real property frequently violates both of\nthese objectives. Even worse, too high real property taxes can and\ndo discourage the attraction of new capital to California. And with-\nout new capital and new enterprise many of our proudest programs and\nactivities will have to end, because we will not have the broad tax\nbase and the jobs here to support them. There has not been a basic\nstudy in California of public finance on a proper scale for more than\n40 years.\nWe know, for example, that the property tax provides more than\n40 percent of the cost of education in California and yet, there is\nno clearly established relationship between the owner of property\nand education as a function.\nThe property tax also supports about 50 percent of all our public\nhealth services. Yet, again, there is no direct relationship between\nthe property tax, and these services.\nNow, we have made our preliminary proposals. We are prepared to\nshare these with every level of government in California. Tonight I\ncall on the Legislature and our city and county governments to join\nwith me in this program so that we can have ready for the opening\n-6-\nof the next legislative session an omnibus tax reform bill for the\npeople of California. I would hope such a reform measure will move\nus away from the over-reliance we have been putting on the property\ntax.\nI also hope that the Legislature will consider and make rec-\ncommendations concerning our whole budgetary process. Far too often,\nthe supposed needs of government are considered first, and taxes are\nthen raised to support these needs. I believethis process should be\nreversed. I believe we should make up our budgets with a knowledge\nof what revenues the existing tax system will produce, and that we\nshould then bring the cost of government into line with the existing\ntax base. This is the way you run your own affairs. You spend\naccording to what you earn. By the same token, then, government\nshould not spend above the amount the tax base will support. For\nthat reason I believe government should not be allowed to increase\nyour taxes except by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.\nSuch a two-thirds vote would be additional insurance that the\npeople's money is spent wisely and carefully. I recommend it strongly.\nIn the Executive Branch, we are pushing ahead with the establish-\nment of the program budget. Such a budget involves the presentation\nof actual cost of the programs that the state government is engaged\nin, and it will give the Legislature and the Executive Branch a far\nbetter idea not only of the cost of each individual program but,\nmore important, whether we should continue to spend the amount of\nspending\nmoney we are/oñ a particular program. The present budget only tells\nus how much each department costs each year, and whether one depart-\nment is getting more typewriters or employees than it had last year.\nIt does not tell us how effective its work is compared to its cost,\nnor does it tell U.S. what we are spending on activities that cross\ndepartmental lines.\nWe have been told that such a budget cannot be operating until\n1971. It is my hope that we can put it at least partly into effect\nnext year.\nWe hold the same hope that the Legislature will act in those\nareas I mentioned previously.\nI have already sent letters to the leadership of both parties\nasking them to meet with me to discuss not only these measures, but\nalso to help iron out the problem of overpayment to the school\ndistricts.\n-7-\nThis is a legislative problem and only the Legislature can\nsolve it. I will strongly urge it not to attempt to solve it by\ntaking away from the taxpayers the 155 million dollars we have\npromised them. I would not, and I am sure they would not want to be\nin the position of having to explain away such a breach of faith.\nI am sure that members of both parties can and will sit down\nand work together to solve the problems of California in a way that\nis of the most benefit to all our citizens.\nTonight I have been discussing with you the taxes which bear\ndown upon us as the citizens of California. But taxes are just a\nsymptom of society and one of the measures of government is its cost,\nits efficiency, its quality. The simple facts are we are over-\ntaxed, over-spent and over-budgeted.\nAs I said a few minutes ago, by April 15th there will be a lot\nof angry taxpayers in California. And this is as it should be.\nBecause, an angry taxpayer is the strongest weapon we have, you and\nI, in the fight for good government. I intend to carry on that fight.\n#\n#\n#\n-8-\nPB\nat\n39/m/4\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: 5:(\nP.M., SUNDAY, JULY 14\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\nPLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE\n445-4571\n7.12.68\nRELEASE\nTRANSCRIPT OF GOVERNOR REAGAN'S REPORT TO THE PEOPLE OF 7-14-68\n(Equal Opportunity)\nThis is Ronald Reagan.\nFor the next half hour I want to talk to you and show you how\nyour state government is working with the independent sector and with\nthe minority communities to solve the unique problems within those\ncommunities.\nThis administration has a commitment to all Californians to work\ntoward the goal of assuring every Californian the opportunities and the\nrights guaranteed him by our system of government.\nI have a great faith in all the citizens of California and in their\nability and desire to live together in harmony. I have faith, too, that\nour system can provide justice and equal opportunity for all. But for\nsome, especially our Negro citizens and Americans of Mexican descent, the\nroad to opportunity and prosperity has been difficult.\nMany of our minority citizens have legitimate grievances. It is\nimperative- and it is morally right that we attend to these grievances;\nthat we correct whatever injustices may exist; that we remove unnatural\nbarriers; and that we guarantee equal rights to all of our citizens\nregardless of color or creed. And this administration- working with\npeople of the minority communities--with business, with labor, and with\nother levels of government--this administration will do all that it can\nto see that every citizen has the opportunity to become whatever his\nmanhood and his vision can combine to make him.\nWe cannot guarantee every citizen success, but we must guarantee\nevery citizen an equal place at the starting line and his right to try\nto succeed.\nWe have discovered that it takes more than a memorandum from the\nhead of the company to insure that hiring policies will reflect his\nsincere desire to provide increased employment opportunities for minority\nmembers. He has to see that shop stewards and foremen, that every level\nof his company is aware of his concern in this matter.\nWe have learned this is true of state government as well. We have\nalso learned that we must be on guard for that occasional instance of\noutright discrimination.\n-1-\nA man, one of Lose working to help find jows in a minority area,\ntook a young Negro boy to one of our state offices to fill out an\napplication. Outside, after they had filled out the papers, the\ninstructor asked the boy if he had put down certain things that would\nbe helpful. The boy admitted he had forgotten. They went back. Only\nten minutes had elapsed, but they couldn't find the application. On a\nhunch, the man walked over to the wastebasket and there it was.\nI am sure this isn't widespread, but we cannot afford even one\nsuch violation of a citizen's rights. A lot of effort has been put\nforth by well-meaning people who would have us be our brother's keeper.\nIt is time we became our brother's brother. He needs a hand up---not not\na handout.\nFailure to solve the problems of human misery is not due to lack\nof effort. Billions have been expended in a multiplicity of programs,\nbut somehow there has been misdirection, and a great deal of social\nand as the promises\ntinkering. Hopes have been raised by glowing promises/failed of ful-\nfillment, frustration resulted.\nOther well intended legislation has hurt, not helped. Urban\nrenewal promised new and better housing for the poor. But it destroyed\nhomes and failed to provide new ones they could afford.\nThere was a vast difference all too often between the amount\nbudgeted for poverty programs and the amount that actually benefited\nthose who needed it.\nMore than half of many programs goes for administration and over-\nhead; others teach outmoded skills or are mere leaf-raking projects.\nWelfare should be salvaging people instead of perpetuating poverty\nand institutionalizing it into a kind of permanent degredation. The\nthird and fourth generations of some families are now on welfare. They\nknow no other life. It's a story of too much promised\ntoo little\ndelivered a story of ineptitude and bungling and in some cases,\ndeliberate deception.\nIt is the goal of this administration to see to it that the\npromise of America can be a reality for all our citizens. It is our\nbelief that the proper function of government is to lead, not delude,\nto produce, not to promise.\nWe can and we intend to provide adequate education, including\nspecial education for our Spanish-speaking children, and job training\nand jobs for our youth and our untrained adults. Lack of these things\nhas meant second class economic citizenship for many.\n-2-\nIn Bob's work sund the state--and through. our own meetings at\nthe neighborhood level--it has become increasingly apparent as I said\nbefore that the main problem has to do with jobs. We have set up a\ngreatly revamped and streamlined system in key minority and unemployment\nareas which brings under one roof the many diversified and specialized\nservices which the state offers those in need of assistance. We call\nthese our neighborhood service centers.\nIn charge of this program--and working very closely with Bob\nKeyes--is Robert Collins. We caught Bob on his way into our Venice,\nCalifornia service center the other day and asked him why the service\ncenters are set up as they are. (filmed interview)\nThese community centers also provide an important local contact\nfor the people with a direct representative of my office. We feel that\nthis is one of the most important steps any state or federal agency has\ntaken toward bridging the expectation and communications gaps. One of\nthe requests we heard most often in our meetings was for more communica-\ntions with the governor's office, and a greater awareness of their\nproblems.\nThat is why I have appointed--from the local community--personal\nrepresentatives in each of our six community service centers.\nHopefully, this will also help break down the barriers that exist in\nany bureaucracy.\nWith me here in my office are two of the most recent such\nappointees. Working out of Sacramento is Sal Espana, and working\ndirectly out of my office in Los Angeles is Rudy Castro. Operating out\nof our San Diego service center is Ted Patrick. In East Los Angeles,\nwe have Ralph Morales. In Richmond, Bill Thompson serves as my personal\nrepresentative with the people of the community. In Venice, working out\nof that service center, we have John Alston whom we see here assisting\na young man to find a better job. Working out of the San Francisco\ncenter is Charlie Booker whom we see outside of the Hunter's Point\ncooperative market which we will talk about a little later. And in\nSouth Central Los Angeles serving the Watts area is Ray Parr whom you\nmet earlier. (filmed interview)\nAgain, I want to emphasize that these are my personal represents-\ntives. They are working in the community and they serve as a direct\nline of communications from the people to the governor's office.\n-5-\nThere are four ajor forces whose interest and involvement in the\nproblems of the minority communities are essential. There is you and\nyour family. There is the private sector---business and labor. There\nis government--local, state and federal. And there is the minority\ncommunity itself, a community comprised of individuals who must want\nto help the other three forces that seek to help them prepare for,\nobtain and hold jobs.\nYou have a right to ask what this administration is doing to help\nprovide jobs for qualified minority members and insure against job\nprejudice. To begin with, we have appointed more members of minorities\nto executive and policy making positions than any other administration\nin the history of California. And while this has been mentioned once\nor twice recently, this is the first public announcement that has been\nmade about this.\nA career opportunities development program has been formed to\ndevelop new employment opportunities for the disadvantaged. We feel\nthis is an important and long needed step by the state as a major\nBut to me,\nemployer- to help the disadvantaged to better help themselves. /one\nof the most exciting things going on in California is a program headed\nby Mr. H. C. \"Chad\" McClellan in which more than 20,000 industrialists\nin 16 urban areas have banded together in a job training and placement\nprogram to put hard core unemployed in private enterprise jobs.\nChad McClellan started this program immediately after the Watts\ndisturbance in 1965. In the next year and a half, 17,800 unemployed\nwere put to work. The day after the election I asked him if he would\ntake on the job statewide, and he did. In San Diego, the program has\njust placed its 1000th man in a job. In the Los Angeles-Long Beach\narea where the program has been operating longest, the unemployment\nratio between whites and non-whites is now 1½ to 1. Nationwide, it is\n2½ to 1. And to prove that the walls of the ghetto are indeed economic,\nnearly 30 percent of those placed in jobs from the Watts area have\nmoved, many of them nearer to their new jobs.\nWe are pushing for greater participation by industry and labor in\napprenticeship programs. And we are urging students in high school to\nremain in school, to learn, and thus to qualify for these apprentice-\nship programs which pay well and, in turn, lead to even better jobs.\n-6-\nI don't deny t place of necessary legis tion, but it does not\ndo much good to pass bills with a big fanfare that they will open doors\nof opportunity if the person they are supposed to help can't afford\nthe ticket to go through that door.\nLet us direct our effort toward making it possible for him to earn\nthe price of admission to a share in California's prosperity.\nBut while recognizing that there are problems and legitimate\ngrievances to all of our citizens, let me say this. Just as it is the\nfunction of government to lead in solving problems, so it is the\nresponsibility of government to keep order and maintain the law.\nAbraham Lincoln said, \"There is no grievance that is a fit object of\nredress by mob law.\" Mobs do not generate progress; they retard it.\nMobs do not establish rights; they trample them. No mob will ever\nbuild a better California, or a better world. And those who would lead\na mob are double-crossing the very people they pretent they are trying\nto help.\nSociety can have law and order without freedom. But no society--\nand no man--can have real freedom without law and order. Every law\nabiding citizen--regardless of color--has the right to expect that his\ngovernment will insure the safety of his person, his home and his\nfamily. And every homeowner, every businessman, every resident of every\ncommunity has the right to expect his government to protect his property\nagainst the criminal, the arsonist, the rioter and the looter. No man\nshould be above the law, and no man should be beneath it.\nAnd I know that at least 98 percent of our minority citizens feel\nthe same way have the same desire to feel safe and protected on the\nstreet and in their homes. They are responsible and law abiding. Here,\nfor example, are typical answers given to my representative in Watts,\nRay Parr, when in front of our service center there he asked, \"Is\nviolence the way to solve the problems?\"\n(filmed interview)\nWe have not done all that can be done or all that must be done,\nbut we are going to keep faith with these men and women.\nBut we are not going to grandstand with the kind of grandiloquent\npromises that have misled them in the past; promises that cannot possibly\nbe kept.\nThere are a few gaps to be closed---an expectation gap for one,\na chasm between what is and what should be. There is a communications\ngap between the majority and minority communities. We are trying to\nclose both of these gaps, not with promises, but with action and\nprograms.\n-3-\nOver the last 1 / months now, I have been tiavelling up and down\nCalifornia meeting with neighborhood leaders in our minority\ncommunities. You didn't read about this because the press was not\nnotified. Publicity was not the purpose of these meetings.\nI used the term leaders a moment ago, but I do not necessarily\nmean the names that you have heard about or read about. I mean those\nmen and women who are dealing first hand with the problems of their\nneighborhoods and attempting to solve them.\nI went mainly to listen and I heard suggestions, complaints, hopes\nand frustrations. I did not hear any requests for more welfare, but I\ndid hear about the need for jobs---self respect-building jobs in our\nproductive economy. I did not hear anything about bussing school\nchildren, but I did hear requests for better education and discipline\nin the schools their children are now attending. I have learned how\nour educational system has failed them; how in too many instances, we\nare passing their children from grade to grade simply because they\nhave reached the end of the term, until eventually handed a certificate--\nor a diploma--which is meaningless, because no knowledge goes with it.\nThey are unable even to read and comprehend the directions at the\nbeginning of a job training program.\nIn these meetings I have heard how our economic system has too\noften failed to extend its bounties, as it should, to all who are\nwilling to make an honest effort. I listened as one man told me: \"We\nwould pull ourselves up by our own boot straps, but we have no boots.\"\nI have heard and seen and experienced their disillusionment with\nprograms promising an instant tomorrow, but designed too often with\npolitical opportunism and expediency in mind.\nYes, we have learned from these meetings--both sides have\nlearned--and the meetings will continue. And we will continue to learn.\nAnd based on this expanded communication, we will continue programs that\nthis administration has undertaken to help the people of our minority\ncommunities help themselves. The problems won't be solved overnight.\nThe road is long and hard, but between us, we can find the answers.\nPlaying an active and highly important role in our overall human\nrelations program is Secretary for Human Affairs Robert Keyes. Bob was\nout in the field, working with the minority community as we were pre-\nparing this report, so here, in one of our community service centers,\nis Bob who will briefly describe his activities and area of\nresponsibility. (filmed interview)\n-4-\nIn addition to yreatly expanding their own ,ob programs for\nminorities, such major employers as Kaiser Industries, Montgomery Ward,\nPacific Telephone, Transamerica Title, Wells Fargo, Bank of America,\nBank of California,\n/Shell Development, Lockheed and others are also using $117 thousand\nof their own money, plus personnel and equipment--in a most unique--and\npractical program. Conceived originally by the students and principal\nat McClyman's High School in Oakland, this is a program which enables\nyoung people to gain first hand knowledge of the type of work involved\nin a variety of career fields in which they may be interested, and then\ncustomize their educational program to courses which provide the specific\nknowledge and know-how for a given specialty or career. This program\nalso enables them to see just where and how they will use the knowledge\nthey gain from their courses in the line of work in which they are\ninterested. Pooling their money and technical assistance with some\n$30 thousand in elementary, secondary education act and neighborhood\nyouth group funds, these companies--working with the University of\nCalifornia, the Oakland and Alameda schools, the West Oakland community,\nand many others--are making a major contribution in helping to reshape\nthe education and future employment picture for young people in the\nminority community.\nAn economically failing food Coop in the Hunter's Point area has\nhad new economic breath pumped into it by a competitor--Safeway Stores--\nwhose president, Bob McGowan, brought in top Safeway personnel as well\nas financial assistance, so that local citizens could be hired and\ntrained to operate the store on a sound businesslike basis.\nLockheed, in Sunnyvale, has not only expanded its employment\nopportunities--as have other major California employers--but has set up\nspecial training programs where minority members and others can learn\nnew skills to qualify them for better paying jobs.\nThese are just a few examples of progress, by the private sector,\nworking with community organizations, school boards, neighborhood groups,\nlocal and state government, and with the people of the minority com-\nmunities.\nMeanwhile, we in Sacramento are attempting to correct inequitable\nlaws and back up--with legislation--programs and policies which we find\nmust be developed.\n-7-\nIn the last se. ion of the state legislatu- over 200 bills were\nsigned into law dealing with minorities and others in low income levels.\nThe individual, working as an individual, as part of a family,\nand as an active member of a church, school, neighborhood or local\ngovernment action program, is also helping to build a better community\nand to make community relations programs succeed.\nProject Focus in Fresno is one example of an attempt at total\ninvolvement of representative groups of the entire community in an\neffort to identify community needs, their scope, degree of severity,\npersons affected, and then to develop specific, programs to resolve\nthese problems. This is part of a great community effort, using the\ncombined talents of all levels of government and the active participation\nof the local community.\nIn our community service centers and elsewhere throughout\nCalifornia, state employees and volunteers work with minority and low\nincome families to help them stretch their food dollar and thus help\nthem to get the best value for their money.\nCommunity leaders from all walks of life, including men like\nformer light-heavy weight boxing champion Archie Moore and his\nassistant Loy Lake, are giving time and talents to teach minority\ncommunity youngsters to develop their physical skills and to use them\nproperly in addition to learning rules of good sportsmanship, and how\nto be good citizens.\nThrough local community chapters of girls clubs and boys clubs\nand in parks and recreation programs, youngsters also learn athletic\nskills and the value of good sportsmanship, under the supervision of\nstaff and volunteer local residents from the community.\nOwnership of property and the acceptance of responsibility are\nclosely linked. In this self help housing program in Yolo County, each\nfamily spends an average of 1,000 hours building its own home under\nsupervision of a construction foreman hired by self help housing.\nFinanced from the Farmer's Home Administration, the loans are at five\npercent for 33 years. This money--combined with do-it-yourself\nconstruction--makes it possible for these families to own decent homes.\nUnder our \"Operation Sandlot\" program, temporary surplus state\nland is leased to a local community for $1 a year providing that the\ncommunity, through service clubs, local action groups, community\norganizations, will use it for recreational purposes during the time\nit is available.\n-8-\nWe only had to menti\nthe idea to the service\nlbs throughout the\nstate and they were off and running. The extent of development, of\ncourse, depends on how long the land will be available before being put\nto its ultimate use, but in all cases where land is turned over to\nOperation Sandlot, it will be available to the community for at least\ntwo years.\nIn other areas, such as here in San Diego, local city government,\nworking with and through the community, provides important recreational\nfacilities for all the children of the community. In addition to\nlearning to swim, these youngsters learn to get along and to grow up\ntogether, not as Negroes, Mexican Americans and Whites, but as\nCalifornians, as Americans, who can learn to live and work together while\nthey play together.\nDuring this half hour, I have attempted to put into a little\nclearer perspective what we--and that means all of us--are doing, can\ndo and must continue to do in this important area of community relations.\nWhat it perhaps boils down to is that we are coming to a realization\nthat those who look only to government for the answers have failed for\nsome years to recognize the great potential force for good among those\nwho instead have placed their faith in the doctrine of the individual.\nThe American dream that we have nursed for so long in this\ncountry and neglected so much lately is not that every man must be on\nthe same level with every other man, but that every man has the right\nto live, to be himself and to become whatever thing his manhood and\nhis vision can combine to make him. that he will be free to be whatever\nGod intended he should be.\nThe restoration and the perpetuation of that dream is the\ngreatest challenge confronting every one of us today.\n# # #\n-9-\n39/2/21\n21\nRELEASE:\n6:30\np.m.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSunday, December 8.\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n12-7-68\nTRANSCRIPT OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN'S REPORT TO THE PEOPLE\n12-8-68\n(Higher Education)\nThe following stations will carry a Report to the People on the\nsubject of higher education by Governor Ronald Reagan on Sunday evening,\nDecember 8:\nBakersfield\nKERO\n8:30 - 9:00 p.m.\nChico-Redding\nKRCR\n7:00 - 7:30 p.m.\nKFRE\n7:00 - 7:30 p.m.\nFresno\nEureka\nKIEM\n7:00 - 7:30 p.m.\nLos Angeles\nKHJ\n7:00 - 7:30 p.m.\nPalm Springs\nKPLM\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nSacramento\nKCRA\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nSalinas-San Luis Obispo\nKSBW\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nKSBY\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nSanta Barbara\nKEYT\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nSan Jose\nKNTV\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nSan Diego\nKFMB\n7:30 - 8:00 p.m.\nSan Francisco\nKTVU\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m.\nKPIX\n11:30 - 12 Midnight\nHere are the Governor's remarks:\nDevotion to learning, teaching, scholarship and recognition of\nlearning's importance to the full manner of life this should be\nthe preoccupation of our schools and colleges.\nGood evening. Tonight I want to discuss a subject with you\nwhich I know is of great interest and concern to all of us\nthe\nstate of our University and college campuses.\nThis report is for all Californians:\nThe great silent majority of students on our campuses\nyou\nladies and gentlemen who support these institutions and pay the\nsalaries of those who administer and teach in them the dedicated\neducators who share our common concern over the disruption of classes\nand the shattering of the atmosphere of tranquility and intellectual\npursuit\nand those of you who for whatever reasons motivate you are\nintent on taking over or destroying one of the great University and\nstate college systems in the world, often hiding behind academic\nfreedom, this report is for all of you.\nThe people of California founded and generously support what\nhas become the finest system of public higher education in the land.\nWithin this system there are now nine University campuses, nine-\nteen state college campuses and eighty-one community colleges, plus\nmany fine independent colleges and universities which are also\nsupported, for the most part, by the people of California,\n1 -\nThe system has worked well.\nGraduates of our colleges and universities have made great\ncontributions to the world and to our society. Alumni include nobel\nprize winners, captains of industry and labor, world and national lea-\nders\nand\ncloser to home hundreds of thousands of thoughtful, hard-\nworking men and women who quietly and effectively contribute so much\nto society by the way they do their jobs\nraise their families\nparticipate in community affairs\nand set a good example for their\nchildren and others to follow.\nYes, on these campuses, generations of Californians have pursued\nknowledge within the widest range of disciplines. They have sampled\nwidely of man's knowledge of man, of the history of his ideas and of\nwhat he knows of the world around him.\nThis is the role of higher education in California. At least\nthis has been the case up until recently.\nWithin the past five or six years something new has been added\na violent, strident something that has disturbed all of us\na\nsomething whose admitted purpose is to destroy or to capture and use\nsociety's institutions for its own purpose\nI say whose admitted\npurpose because the leadership minces no words. It is boastful,\narrogant and threatening.\nConsider these words from a campus teacher:\n\"I think we agree that the revolution is necessary and that you\ndon't conduct a revolution by attacking the strongest enemy first.\nYou take care of your business at home first, then you move abroad.\nThus we must make the University the home of the revolution.\" \"\nFrom the capture of a police car and negotiations conducted in\nan atmosphere of intimidation, threats and fear, we went from free\nspeech to filthy speech.\nThe movement spread to other campuses. There has been general\nincitement against properly constituted law enforcement authorities,\nand the general trampling of the will, the rights and freedom of\nmovement of the majority, by the organized, militant and highly vocal\nminority.\nThough the causes were cloaked in the dignity of academic and\nother freedoms, they are in fact a lusting for power. Some protestors\neven marched under banners that ranged from the black flag of anarchy\nthe\nred\nflag\nof\nrevolution\nto the flags of enemies engaged in killing\nyoung Americans\nthe North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong.\n2\nWhat is so traç is that it all begins wit this kind of\nexhortation and ends up with the physical takeover of buildings and\nproperty belonging to the Universities and state colleges and there-\nfore to the people of California.\nThe tactics change and they will continue to change. But from\nSDS, PLP, BSU, YSL and other radical organizations, we find a common\ndesign:\n1--Find a few core people on a campus;\n2--Train them in the tactics of insurrection;\n3--Have them find the issues of potential strain on their\nparticular campus-whether it's the food in the cafeteria, campus\nrules regarding the use of facilities, or visitation rights in\ndormitories;\n4--Seek out support in strategic places in the community;\n5--Push constantly for just a little more than is allowed;\n6--Harass the local administrators verbally, as well;\n7--Wait for the mistake you produce;\n8--Paint the administrators as rigid and authoritarian;\n9--Be prepared to win either way--you either win the building\nor you point to police brutality if you are removed from it;\n10--Be willing to nibble, because each success makes easier\nthe next one.\nThis is the strategy of takeover.\nOne of the great tragedies in all of this is that an entire\ngeneration--a a great educational system--are being indicted---and\nI believe most unfairly.\nI know, and I feel it imperative that all of you watching tonight\nknow, that the chaos on our campuses is not caused nor approved by\nthe great majority of our young men and women. In fact, 87 percent\nof the students on our college and University campuses have recently\nbeen found to reject the coercive tactics of the organized and highly\nvocal minority.\nIf these young people are guilty of anything, it is that they are\nsilent\nas are the great majority of dedicated educators who--like\nthe majority of students--are being deprived of their rights and--if\nyou will--their academic freedom--by the destroyers.\nPerhaps this silent non involvement is natural in an academic\natmosphere where the true student and the true educator are simply not\nused to violence, force and confrontation politics.\n3 1 I\nI want to make it crystal clear that I--and the majority of\nyour fellow Californians--even those of us over thirty--have a great\nrespect for you and the problems you are going through,\nWe also know that yours is a time of life when you must seek\nknowledge and truth and express yourself on your opinions.\nIt is tragic, then, that too often you--as individuals and as\na generation--are put into the same bag with those who are actually\ndepriving you not only of your reputation and your just place in the\nsun, but of your rights, privileges and freedom as well.\nJust as it is tragic that a great University and college system\nis, likewise, painted with the same brush.\nThere are a number of issues and opinions which at first may\nappear to divide us.\nYet in our differences of opinion, lies our strength and unity\nof purpose if we are sincere about preserving the Universities and\ncolleges and protecting true academic freedom.\nLet us remember that the real purpose of higher education is\nto transfer the intellectual treasure of mankind.\nThere are many things to be learned in our colleges and\nUniversities and there are other things which can best be learned in\nother places in hospitals, in the slums, in the artist's studio, in\nfactories or business offices, in church\nand in the home.\nThere are some very important truths that come only with\nexperience in life\nand I submit that it is not the purposes of our\nhigher education system to duplicate these forms of learning.\nWhich brings us directly to the subject of academic freedom,\nthe true meaning of which we must fully understand. For as we have\nseen, many who wrap themselves in the mantle of defenders of academic\nfreedom are, in reality, those who would destroy it.\nAcademic freedom is that commodity which is so precious to the\npursuit of knowledge.\nIn the first part of its formal statement on academic freedom,\nregulation number 5, the University of California sums it up so very\nwell:\n\"Essentially the freedom of a university is the freedom of a\nUniversity of competent persons in the classroom. In or der to protect\nthis freedom, the university assumes the right to prevent exploitation\nof its prestige by unqualified persons, or by those who would use it\nas a platform for propaganda.\"\n- 4 -\nIt therefore ta' S great care in the appointment of its teachers:\nit must take corresponding care with respect to others who wish to\nspeak in its name.\nThe University respects personal belief as the private concern of\nthe individual. It equally respects the constitutional rights of the\ncitizen. It insists only that its teachers shall likewise always\nrespect--and not exploit--their University connections.\nTrue academic freedom has served free men well; it has served\nbest and been held in highest esteem, when those who claimed it for\ntheir own have kept constantly in mind that they are, in fact, scholars.\nWhere, then, is our heritage of good taste when a faculty senate\ndemands the continuation of plays so vile and so obscene as to be\nabsolutely without any redeeming social importance? Where is the quest\nfor education in classes that are disbanded because the professor is\nout leading a demonstration? Where are our high academic standards\nwhen a faculty senate approves the use of foul-mouthed felons as\nlecturers even for credit?\nWhere is our leadership--and for that matter, the overall rights\nand freedom of the majority of students and faculty on a campus closed\ndown because of the militant demands of a violent minority protesting\nthe firing of a faculty member who urged his students to bring guns to\nschool.\nAcademic freedom is one of the important freedoms to go in the\nnew order envisioned by the New Left. There was no academic freedom in\nHitler's Germany.\nThere is no academic freedom in Mao's China or Castro's Cuba.\nAnd there is no academic freedom in the philosophies or the actions of\nthe George Murrays, the Eldridge Cleavers or the Jerry Rubins.\nIt is therefore most imperative that the great and thoughtful\nmajority of citizens--of all races--keep our perspective. We must\nrecognize the manipulations being carried out to frustrate our common\ninterest in living together with dignity in one American society.\nAnd we must also recognize that those who exercise violence must\nbe held accountable for their actions and held equally accountable\nregardless of their color.\nThe State College Trustees and Acting President Paul Blomgren\nwere appropriately color blind--and correct--when they took decisive\naction, regardless of who was involved against militants at San\nFernando State College last month, as were the Trustees and Chancellor\n- 5 -\nDumke in their recent decision regarding the termination of Mr. George\nMurray's relationship as a graduate student and instructor at San\nFrancisco State College.\nBut here again, we must ask ourselves, where is the true freedom--\nthe freedom of all of us, black and white. Those on the faculty and in\nthe student body must work not only to preserve, but to improve their\nfine institutions\nbut within the lines of authority and responsibility\nof that institution. Never can we capitulate\nsurrender\nto the\nvocal, abusive minority of militants, thus completely closing down an\nentire depriving the majority of students the education they\nseek and are entitled to--and depriving the vast majority of responsible\nfaculty of their rights to exercise true academic freedom.\nYet we continue to hear demands that the universities and colleges\nshould be run by the students--the academic senate--a coalition of the\ntwo.\nThe people of this state--through due process of the law--have\nestablished a Board of Regents to govern the University of California.\nThis is a body of 24 members.\nA Board of Trustees was established to govern the California State\nColleges. This board consists of 21 members. A majority of the\nmembers of each board are appointed by governors\nI say governors\nbecause the terms of Regents are 16 years and of Trustees, eight\nyears\nsimply to insure that no governor will be able to exercise too\nmuch influence over either board.\nFor example, my own appointments to the Regents have been two\nand to the Trustees, three. The balance of the boards were appointed\nby Governors Warren, Knight and Brown.\nOur entire system of government is based on the premise that the\npeople are the ultimate authority that government has only such power\nas is delegated to it by the people. This great university and college\nsystem belongs to the people. The Regents and Trustees are the agents\nof the people.\nAs a matter of good administration, the Regents and Trustees have\nauthorized the administrators of each campus\nand through them the\nfaculty and students\nto make decisions with regard to academic\nmatters curriculum, appointments, etc. But the responsibility for\nthose decisions must be borne by the Regents and Trustees who are\naccountable to the people.\n- 6 -\nAuthority can\ndelegated\nand should be.\nResponsibility cannot.\nWe must trust the people as the source of all power.\nAnd if there is any question as to how the people feel on this,\nlet the Regents and the Trustees and any other college administrator-\ncome to Sacramento and read my mail.\nI am but one member of the Board of Regents of the University of\nCalifornia and the Board of Trustees of the State College system. I\nwill do everything in my power as a Regent and a Trustee to communicate\nyour thoughts and wishes to the others for they, as I, am responsible\nto you\nthe people of California.\nAs your governor, I also have another responsibility that of\nupholding the law, maintaining order and insuring the safety and\nfreedom of the people of this state.\nAnd for the record, let me state here and now that I intend to\nuphold this responsibility\nbe it on a campus of the University of\nCalifornia, a state college, a private university or a neighborhood\nstreet.\nAnarchy will not prevail.\nI would also like to say this to all of you\nand especially to\nour young people.\nThere is an artificial separation between you as students and\nthe youth of this state and what is referred to as the public interest.\nLet me stress that this is an artificial separation. It really\ndoes not exist.\nThe majority of Californians want justice\nso do you. You want\nrelevance in education as you want relevance and meaning in every other\nphase of your life. So do the majority of Californians. You support\ntrue academic freedom and oppose anarchy and tyranny SO does the\nmajority of your fellow citizens of all ages.\nYou want your campuses free of strife, threats and violence\nso do the majority of Californians.\nYour interest is the public interest.\nI wonder if you don't agree, in order to protect true academic\nfreedom and assure the continuation of our heritage, that disorders\nwhich disturb or disrupt the work and educational activities of any\nuniversity or college campus can no longer be tolerated.\n- 7 -\nIt reasonapie to see that the chier campus officer and all\nother persons in aut rity on any campus, upon arning of any incident\nwhich causes or threatens to cause the disruption or disturbance of any\nactivity on the campus, shall immediately notify the campus police and\nany other law enforcement agencies necessary to restore and maintain\norder--a normal classroom atmosphere--promptly and to insist that all\ncampus officials cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities\nin carrying out this order.\nNationwide, experience has shown that prompt dealing with\ndisturbances leads to peace. That hesitation, vacillation and appease-\nment leads to greater disorder.\nIsn't it logical, in view of past experience, to ask that no\ncampus official negotiate or hold conferences with any individual or\ngroup while such individual or group is disturbing or disrupting campus\nactivities, violating any rule or regulation of the campus or its\ngoverning board, or committing any criminal offense.\nAnd likewise, to insist that there shall be no consideration\nof the demands or requests of any such individual or group while their\ndisruptive or disorderly conduct continues.\nAnd, finally, isn't it time to demand that when individuals\nhave been arrested as a result of their participation in the disturb-\nances and disorders, the chief campus officer--or such other person\ndesignated by him--shall sign a criminal complaint against such\npersons and shall cooperate in the prosecution of those individuals\nand shall immediately suspend them from the University.\nAren't such steps not only reasonable and proper, but absolutely\nnecessary if we are to preserve our system of higher education in\nCalifornia and truly carry out our responsibilities for our young people\nwho, after all, are our great hope for the future.\nThese institutions of higher learning represent man's value\nfor preserving and communicating the knowledge he has acquired through\nthe ages\nand for pushing ever forward the frontiers of knowledge\nthrough continuous inquiry and research\nresearch which has upgraded\nhard stoop labor jobs and improved working conditions while providing\nmore and better food\nresearch which is helping to preserve the lives\nof our highly mobile citizens on our highways, beginning with our\nchildren\nresearch on smog for a healthier atmosphere for all Cali-\nfornians\nresearch in our colleges and Universities, in the field of\nmedicine for the overall betterment of our society and all of our\ncitizens. These are just a few examples of the great progress that is\nbeing made through University and college research projects.\nThat is why we are doing everything we can to preserve these\ninstitutions, why higher education gets a greater share of the state\nbudget than any other single group, why this year's budget for higher\neducation in California represents a 21.2% increase over last year's\nexpanded budget. We are spending more for higher education per student\nthan any other previous administration. And that's why your help is\nneeded to see that these campuses are preserved for today's young\npeople\nfor their children and their children's children.\nFrom these campuses have come many great Americans. And from\nthese campuses will come tomorrow's leaders. Future Presidents of\nthe United States, future Nobel Prize winners, scientists, writers,\nSenators, and even a Governor or two are now attending classes on\nthese campuses.\nFrom which group will we--and really, from which group will\nyou young people now going to college--elect your future leaders?\nWill it be from the few, but militapt, anarchists and others\nnow trying to control and run our campuses or will we elect our\nfuture leaders from the majority of fine young men and women dedicated\nto justice, order and the full development of the true individual.\nAt this moment in history we have a great responsibility. The\npeople of the nation and the world--equally concerned with true demo-\ncracy, academic freedom, relevant education and the freedom and\nindividuality of man--look to us for leadership. But what is perhaps\neven more important is that our young people look to us. Are we\nresponding? Or do we leave them alone and easy pickings for the\nviolent few? For one tick of history's clock we gave the world a\nshining, golden hope. Now the door is closing on that hope, on the\ngreat challenges to our generation and to tomorrow's generation. Can\nwe hold open the door to that shining golden tomorrow?\nCan we afford not to! Let it never be asked in the years to come,\nwhere were you when we called for leadership. What were you doing\nthat was more important than the survival of our great educational\nsystem\nand the fate of this society.\nThank you, and good night.\n# # #\n(The above text may vary slightly from the actual televised report,\nhowever, Governor Reagan will stand by the above.)\n-9-"
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