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President Lyndon B. Johnson, correspondence
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1963 to 1965
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JUN 15 1964
THE
WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 10,
1964
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June 25,
President:
Just a word of sincere appreciation for your gener-
ous hospitality during the several recent White House dinners.
Both you and Mrs. Johnson are most generous hosts and you
both give not only generously of your hospitality but unselfish-
ly of yourselves.
I wish to especially thank you for the kindness you
extended to my daughter Linda, who was overwhelmed 1 by her
opportunity to visit and meet with both you and Mrs. Johnso
and to share your warm friendship par hospitality.
Also, my very sincere appreciation for the two
autographed photographs taken during the White House dinner.
Mrs. Reuther and Linda both join in extendin
warmest best wishes to both you and Mrs. Johnsor
Sincerely,
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
The White House
Washington, D, C.
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With affection and appreciation,
June 26,
1964
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America.
On March 19, 1964, I wired you, Mr. President, and
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money
against
sed comprehensive program
poverty through a broad
to organize 1 the Citizens Cressée aaueaes pesenty and appro-
dditional $1 million to provide part of the opera
budget to carry on the work of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty.
1964
June 26,
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
600 leaders of
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my invitation,
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I am proud to serve under your leadership in the war
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against poverty. and : am
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the blessings of the great society.
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June
29,
1964
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situation
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talked to the President
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June 24th,
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in Detroit
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on that day.
again at the dinner
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June
Dear
29,
1964
Walter:
Thank you, my old friend, for being by
my side Friday evening at the Democratic
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dinner.
I can always count on you and for that
kind of unswerving friendship, I am mighty
grateful.
Sincerely,
Mr.
Walter P.
President
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441 West Milwaukee Avenue
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This is in response to your telegram of July 2nd asking me to serve on the National
Citizens Committee for Community Relations.
Mr.
President,
I am most willing
to serve on this citizens committee and I pledge to you to do everything possible to
support your leadership and to strengthen your hand as America
takes on the
challenging task of implementing the high moral purposes of the civil rights bill
to the _
that every American
of a free citizen.
becomes
can enjoy first class citizenship and the full dignity
On July 4th when you sign this historic civil rights bill and it
the law of ans
land,
the spirit of Thomas
Jefferson,
Lincoln,
Abraham
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy will be at your side as
will be millions of Americans who are with you in your efforts to build the great
society.
I am honored to be associated with you in this worthy cause and I send
both my congratulations and my appreciation for the courage and compassion which
you have shown and without whith this historic step to a better America would not
have been possible.
Respectfully,
WPR:ob
Walter
P.
Reuther
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WESTERN UNION
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WALTER REUTHER, PRESIDENT, UNITED AUTO WORKERS
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ENACTMENT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WILL CHALLENGE ALL AMERICANS
TO JOIN IN AN AFFIRMATIVE VOLUNTARY EFFORT TO PRESERVE ORDER
AND TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF EQUAL TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITY
FOR ALL AMERICANS. TO ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST THIS VOLUNTARY
CITIZENS* EFFORT, A COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE WILL
BE ESTABLISHED BY THE BILL UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE LUTHER
HODGES AND A DIRECTOR SOON TO BE NAMED. THE SERVICE WILL ASSIST
COMMUNITIES IN PREVENTING OR RESOLVING RACIAL DISPUTES AND
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TENSIONS THROUGH REASON, PERSUASION, AND CONCILIATION.
WHEN THE BILL IS SIGNED,
I INTEND TO APPOINT A NATION-WIDE
COMMITTEE OF DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
WHO WILL AUGMENT THE WORK OF THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE.
I WANT AS ITS MEMBERS LEADING AMERICANS WHO WILL LEND THEIR ©
INFLUENCE,
THEIR SKILL, AND THEIR TIME TO THE CRUCIAL TASK
OF FOSTERING VOLUNTARY OBSERVANCE
OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE
BILL.
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I DEEPLY HOPE YOU WILL ADVISE ME BY RETURN TELEGRAM THAT
YOU WILL SERVE ON THE NATIONAL CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR COMMUNITY
RELATIONS, WHICH WILL BE ESTABLISHED AND PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED
ONLY AFTER FINAL PASSAGE OF THE BILL.
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IT IS CONTEMPLATED THAT AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMUNITY
RELATIONS SERVICE THERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THI€ CITIZENS
COMMITTEE AT WHICH TIME THE DIRECTIONS OF THE OVER-ALL NATIONAL
PROGRAM WILL BE FULLY SPELLED OUT AND YOUR OWN ROLE WILL BE
MORE CLEARLY DEFINED.
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' I URGE YOU AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN TO USE YOUR LEADERSHIP IN
THE MEANTIME TO PROMOTE A SPIRIT OF ACCEPTANCE AND OBSERVANCE
IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS AREA
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July' 14,
President
The White
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House
Washington,
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B,
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Johnson
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The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Reclamation is now considering a proposed contract: between the Bureau of Reclamation and
The
Westlands
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our
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The Industrial Union Department appeared in opposition to this
contract before the Senate Subcommittee along with AFL-CIC,
National Farmers Union, National Grange, California Grange,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, National Catholic Rural Life’ Conference,
American Veterans Committee, National Advisory Committee on Farm‘
Labor and the National Sharecroppers Fund,
We
of
urge that you use your good offices to persuade the
the Interior to withdraw the proposed contract with
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AFL-CIO
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President Lyndon B,
The White House
Washington, D. C,
July 23, 1964
Johnson
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Regret responsibilities in Detroit will prevent my being with you on July 24th.
Please be assured of my wholehearted fullest cooperation on the effective
implementation of the purposes of the civil rights bill.
Reuther
,
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Walter
Kindest regards.
THE HONORABLE LYNDON B JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES _
WHITE HOUSE WASHDC
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MY HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FORTHRIGHT AND BRILLIANT
ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
OF THE WORLD SITUATION AND
TO USE NUCLEAR POWER WITH
DEFENSE OF FREEDOM, AND TO
PEACE WILL EARN THE PRAISE
IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
YOUR CLEAR AND
RESPONSIBILITY
WORK TO BUILD A
AND THE PRAYERS
YOUR COMPREHENSION
COURAGEOUS COMMITMENT
AND MORAL PURPOSE IN
JUST AND LASTING
OF MEN OF GOOD WILL
YOUR DEEP CONCERN AND WARM
HUMAN COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE AND YOUR DETERMINATION TO EXTEND THE
FRONTIERS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HUMAN DIGNITY FOR ALL
AMERICANS, WILLWIN THE APPROVAL OF YOUR COUNTRYMEN, YOUR COURAGE —
TO MEET THE CHALLENGE, BOTH IN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, OF THE RECK=
LESS FEW WHO WOULD ACT IN DEFIANCE OF LAW AND ORDER, WILL MEET WITH THE
WHOLEHEARTED APPROVAL OF THE OVER-WHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS,
WHO WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT YOUR DEDICATED LEADERSHIP AS AMERICA MOVES |
FORWARD TO BUILD THE GREAT SOCIETY IN WHICH THE BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM
AND
EQUALITY
WAY RE
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WALTER
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BEST WISHES
REUTHER
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MY
CONGRATULATIONS
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July 23,
1964
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Mr.
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Lawrence F. O'Brien
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Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington,
D.
C.
Regret most sincerely that my involvement in collective bargaining
negotiations will prevent potmims attending the signing ceremony of the
Commission
on Automation Bill on Wednesday,
August
19th.
Kindest
regards.
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THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 21, 1964
Dear
The
Mr.
Reuther:
President
asked
has
me
to
send
you the enclosed pen used when he
signed S. 2642, the Antipoverty Bill.
With
best
wishes,
Sincerely,
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United Automobile, Aircraft and
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8000 East Jefferson
Detroit 14, Michigan
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Mr.
Lawrence O'Brien,
to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Special Assistant
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Kindest personal regards and all good wishes.
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I am pleased to have this pen to add to my
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Thank you for your kind note of August 21st and
your kindness in sending me one of the pens used by
President Johnson in signing the Anti-Poverty Bill.
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report
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to the American
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to those
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family
decisive
troubled world
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stop
factor
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people
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world
with
as a reflection
give you an overwhelming
your
leadership
America
people
may
share
forward
more
stop
and
firm
survival
day
shares
in the building
fully in the fruits
to
stands
and the
in
survival
(is,
renewed
of plenty
family
of your
vote
programs
of the Great
and for peace
in this
and I am confident
appreciation
your
complex
commitment
with peace
for the human
and with this
was
to the people
responsibility
of decision
deep
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to the
reassuring
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of their
that
is most
October
approach
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mandate
and a Congress
can move
deep
night,
sensible
restraint
recklessly
that will insure
November
and
world
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on Sunday
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and your
of the
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sharp
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and challenging
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House
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superb
Lyndon
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that the
leadership
of confidence
and your
Society where
and the blessings
will
in
purposes,
all of our
of freedom
of our free
Keep
up the
society
stop
My
heartiest
congratulations
and
all good wishes
good work.
Walter
P.
Reuther,
President
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ASSISTANT
SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
OF STATE
22,
1964
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tikes
October
Dear
Mr.
Reuther:
It seemed to me that the words spoken by the President at the
brief ceremony in the White House on October 2 were perhaps more
significant than the formal signing of the Proclamation on International Cooperation Year.
hand
I am sorry that
the President's
through
cooperation
you were not there
deep conviction as
as
the
"assignment
to
he
of
hear them
described
the
and
the
century.”
sense
quest
at firstfor peace
I am sending you a copy of his remarks together with the remarks
of the Secretary of State at the White House and later at his luncheon
Taken together these statements by the framers of
in the Department.
the nation's foreign policy leave no room for doubt that International
Cooperation Year, in their minds, is no mere slogan but a clear call
to
action.
For those of us who want to respond, the question automatically
Only a few people are in a position to make a meanHow?
arises:
But many thousands are in a position
ingful response as individuals.
to contribute in a positive way through the organizations to which they
For this reason, I attach particular importance to what Bob
belong.
Benjamin
said
at
the
Secretary's
luncheon.
As Chairman
of
the
United
Nations Association for the United States of America he was speaking
for an organization to which the Secretary of State had appealed for
help in the intricate task of marshalling the energies of the great
national organizations; and his outline of how the UNA hopes to
function in this respect is of interest to every organization and
every person who wants to play a part in ICY.
Finally,
since
the
ceremonies
on
October
2,
I have
had
occasion
to try to spell out in a little more detail the kind of role I see
for national organizations in this year of concentrated effort to
My talk to the
enlarge the structure of international cooperation.
National Conference of Christians and Jews certainly does not answer
all
Mr.
Walter P. Reuther
President
United Auto Workers
8000 Jefferson Street
Detroit, Michigan
all the questions, but it does at least suggest that there
areas in the realm of international cooperation asking for
For all that has been done there is still much to do.
I hope
these
documents
will
be
are still
attention.
helpful.
Sincerely,
Harlan
Enclosures:
1.
White
4.
Address before National
Christians and Jews
2.
3.
House
Press
Release,
October
2,
Conference
of
Secretary's remarks, October 2 luncheon
Robert Benjamin's remarks, October 2
1964
Cleveland
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FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
OCTOBER
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2,
1964
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE
“HITE
HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
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AND SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK
TO THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION YEAR GROUP
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IN THE STATE DINING ROOM
(AS
ACTUALLY
DELIVERED
AT
12:55
P.M.
EDST)
PRESIDENT JOHNSON:
If you have never been late
a meeting, you won't understand my position, but I do ask
to
your
indulgence and I do thank you very much for what I hope is your
TI didn't
I have been running late all morning.
understanding.
know we had as many Majority Leaders in the Congress as we have.
I am
They are all noping that they can go home this week.
hoping that thev go home, too.
Y have just left more ex-Presidents
Association than I ever realized existed,
of the American
but since they
Bar
I had
I am qlad they were there.
were Lawyers for Johnson,
meet with them, so please forgive me and I promise to try
not to be so tardy in my public appointments in the future.
to
It ar very proud to welcome this most distinguished
I regret that one
assemoly of most distinguished Americans.
of the most distinguished of all cannot be with us this
He is otherwise enmorning -— Anbassadcr Adlai Stevenson.
gaged in Cleveland and Chicago in a pursuit that I regard as
no vice.
You
nave
come
here
and
we
are
brought
toqether
by
a
very old and a very honored American interest -- the interest
of fostering international cooperation instead of international
‘le are here today to proclain 1965 as International
conflict.
Cooperation Year in the United States of America.
This observance will be cormemorated around the
For the United
the menbers of the United Nations.
world by
and other peoples is
cooperation with other nations
States,
always uppsxmost in our minds and is the first aim of our
and
the central instrument of our foreign policy,
policies,
it is the central goal of Administrations of both parties <great leaders of which many are in the room today.
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think
clear
is
not
ginply
to
necessity
an
our
to
ed
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s
it
is
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te
ea
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The greater the nation
survival.
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work cooperatively with other
academic
trated.
nations.
eed aii Wanita scale |
Second,
international
cooperation
subject; it is a fact of life,
Our challenge is not to debate
is
no
longer
an
as I have just illusathe theory or the
concept, but our challenge is to improve and to perfect
strengthen the organizations that already exist.
and
to
In 1965, it is the hope of your Government that
International Cooperation Year may be used for a useful review
For this end, I am appointing a special
and purposeful planning.
Cabinet Committee to direct this work and to develop all
possible
proposals
for
the
future.
It is my thought that we can find many areas to encourand purposeful labor anong the nations
age much more proaressive
I have asked you
‘his is what we shall be doing.
of the world.
nere this morning to make a special appeal to you and to request
your
labors,
too.
I hove
Secretary of State and
story of international
American voeople.
that
each
of you will
help
to
others of your Governnent
cooperation and organization
me
and
the
carry the
to the
Public understanding, public support, is vital and
pasSic to our success in striving for world understanding and
You can't be a statesman unless you get elected,
cooperation.
and it is prettv difficult for us to be successful in a 0vement of this kind if we do not have the broad, solid support
of
the
peonle,
because
under
our
system
they
are
the
masters
= Tee
turned
More
to
than
that,
systenatic
study
I
hope
that
of the
your
next
steps
organizations may take to further this
more extensive interest in this on the
talents
may
that
be
private
cooperation.
private level
There is
than I
think there has ever been before.
Business orqanizations,
organizations,
labor unions, universities, church bodies,
women's groups, professional societies,
are all expanding
interests
with what
world
to
oridefully
try
and their operations abroad and are all concerned
is happening in the other 120-odd nations in the
an
extent
is
throughout
enthusiasm
that ms
never
and proudly.
There
and
and
much
the
interest
been
o
on
to do
even
world.
equaled
:
going
kind of leadership.
So your
gether, how to harness these
in
There
this
is
more
before,
field
much
if
we
in
eneray
nave
task is to help bring
resources and channel
I
coun-
the
right
and
these tothem in th
background
the next
most
conflict.
or destructive
arrogance
in primitive
In short, you are going to have to be the captains of
You are
ment to lead people to love instead of hate.
to
have
to be
preserving
the
humanity
leaders
instead
in
a movement
of destroying
to
guide
it.
people
are
You
to be the leaders in a crusade to help get rid of the
illiteracy, poverty,
enemies of mankind -- ignorance,
disease
also
--
know
peacefully,
because
from
our
we will
we
know
past
have
that
that
if
these
we
to adjust
MORGD
do
things
not
say
many conand his
In this day and in this age man has too
interests to waste his energies, his talents,
substance
their
this
the sroper direction.
Those with the experience and
that you have must make known what 1s going on, what
steps are, and how tnose with time and resources can
usefully join these labors.
,
mon
farm
must
adjust
ao
to
to it otherwise.
a nove~
going
in
going
ancient
and
and
this
we
change
As a great leader said in this room not many years
ago, "If a peaceful revolution is imoossible, a violent
revolution is inevitable."
So I believe that the true
realists in the second half of this 20th Century are those
wno bear the dream of new ways for new cooperation.
You will be frowned uvon.
Some will call you an
idealist.
Some will call you a crackpot,
and some may even
call you worse than that.
They may say you are soft or hard
or don't understand what
fields, but what greater
greater
hum nity
could
satisfaction
that you hed
had provided
it is all about in
ambition could you
come
entered a partnership
the leadership in the
instead
of
destroyed
it.
the
knowledge
with your Government that
world that had preserved
So this year and next year
international cooneration must be an
the community of man.
If I am here
than
to you
some of these
have and what
and in the years to come,
enduring way of life in
<-= I am sneaking
now politically
and
not pnysically -- I don’t anticipate any violence, but if I
am here, I intend next vear to call a Yhite House conference
and I want all of vou to start thinking about it now.
I want
you to talk to your friends about it.
I want to call a ‘“hite
House conference to search and explore and canvass and
thorougaly discuss every conceivable approach and avenue of
ccooneration that could lead to peace.
That five-letter word
is the goal of all of us.
It is hy far the most important
problem we face.
It is the assignment of the century for
each of you and if we fail in that assignment, everything will
come
to
naught.
will
be,
Lf
and
when
all
the
we
it
succeed,
think how wonderful
is already so exciting to me
fruits
the year 2000
that I am just
hoping tnat my heart and stroke and cancer committee can come
us with some qood results that will insure that all of us can
live beyond 1090 so we can participate in that glorious day
are
a
reality.
of
our
labors
and
our
imaginations
today
It
Proclamation
Year
in
morning
the
that
now gives me a great deal of pleasure
designating 1965 to the International
United
States
I am a citizen
of
America.
of a country
I am
and
very
the
to sign the
Cooperation
proud
leader
this
of a
nation that can have voluntarily assembled in the first house
of this land the quality and quantity of talent that faces
me now.
™o each of you, for the time you have taken and aai
waited, for the money you spent in coming here, for the thought
that you have given, but more important, for what you are qoing
to do, on SXehalf of the Nation,
I say we are grateful.
Thank
you very much.
(The
man's
life
I
President
signed
the
Proclamation.)
suppose that the most indispensable part of every
is his family,
that they qive him comfort, strenqth,
and inspiration when he needs it most, but next to my family,
I know of no person that is more beloved or for whon I have
greater respect and admiration and genuine confidence than the
great
and
distinguished
Secretary
of
State,
Dean
Rusk.
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SECRETARY RUSK:
‘Thank you very much, Mr. President.
It is a high privilege for me to join you here in such
distinguished company.
I note with very special satisfaction the
presence here today of Governor Harold Stassen, because he is the
living representative
San Francisco,
American
people
signed
the
of that
extraordinary
on behalf
Charter
of
group who,
of the American
the
United
Government
Nations;
Stettinius, Senator Tom Connally, Senator Arthur
Eleanor Roosevelt, Governor Harold Stassen.
in 1945,
and
Secretary
Vandenberg,
of
in
the
Mrs.
State
We dare not let time erode the meaning of what they did
there.
It is not just that they laid the foundations for the great
bipartisan foreign policies of the American people in this post-war
period.
They inscribed there the long and sober thoughts of the
American people about our relations with the rest of the world,
thoughts which we developed in the agonies of 4 great war, thoughts
which culminated in the hope and the determination to find some way
to relieve man of the scourge of war.
And what some thought at that time was a lofty expression
of the human spirit has now become the elementary necessity for human
survival, and that is why we dare not let time erode what they did.
There have been those from time to time to say that one
of our problems in this country is that foreign policy has no
constituency.
It has been said, and quite truly, that the President
of the United States carried a lonely responsibility.
But, in another sense, neither one of those is entirely true
because a President knows that foreign policy from here on out touches
every home in the country, every family, every farm, every factory, every
school, and that the decisions which the President must make in relation
to the rest of the world draw into his study every citizen of the country.
So,
Mr.
President,
when
we
look
around
the
room
here
and
see
those who in their organizations represent tens upon tens of millions
of American people, we know that they are the constituency of a reasonable
and just foreign policy in relation to the rest of the world.
Peace and freedom are not free.
Both will require
work.
Both will require our highest intelligence.
Both will
the most dedicated commitments, and that is what this Year of
- Cooperation is all about.
diligent
require
International
As the Keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, it is my
privilege to read the Proclamation which the President is today issuing
and to countersign that Proclamation.
(Secretary Rusk read the Proclamation at this point.)
END
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OCT
BY THE HONORABLE DEAN RUSK
SECRETARY OF STATE,
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION YEAR LUNCHEON,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, OCTOBER 2, 1964
REMARKS
AT
I
am
somewhat
embarrassed
by
our
table those who ought properly to be
have earlier called attention to the
We know that we also have with us Mr.
so hard on the very important matter
Cabot Lodge and Jerry Wadsworth, who
Nations
have
with
so
much
really
carried
said
earlier
Please forgive
own colleagues
I
me
of
distinction
a great
for
the
load
for
in
riches
today
because
I
can
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OCT
30
1964
see
at
every
introduced to the group as a whole.
I
presence of Governor Harold Stassen.
Christian Herter, who has been working
of trade and trade expansion; and Henry
were our representatives at the United
so
this
long;
Paul
field
of
Hoffman;
and
others
international
who
cooperation.
not introducing several dozens of those, including
Cabinet, who should properly be introduced at this
this
morning
that
there
is
some
connection
between
my
time.
inter-
I'd like to emphasize
national cooperation and the survival of the human race.
that when we talk about international cooperation we are not talking about
We are
lofty ideals.
We are not talking about disembodied,
sentiment.
talking about the harshest requirements of our period of history.
A nuclear
Nuclear weapons are present in a competitive situation.
The existence of the Northern Hemisphere is at stake.
exchange can occur,
Decisions could be made by governments which would be the last decisions
made by organized governments in most of the Northern Hemisphere,
I
cannot
tell
you
today,
as
we
look
forward
to
International
Cooperation
Those dangers are there and are
Year in 1965, that there are no dangers,
There has been some pause, some glowing sense perhaps of prudence,
very real,
a sense of responsibility in the conduct of world affairs, some sense of the
enormous stakes that are
and dangerous problems,
involved
in
the
way
in
which
we
handle
difficult
There is no final
But the difficult and dangerous problems persist.
It is hard to see how a permanent peace can
solution to Germany and Berlin.
be achieved in Central Europe unless the peoples in that area have a genuine
Cuba remains an explosive question
access to the notion of self-determination.
and in late July, the Foreign Ministers of this hemisphere exhausted the peaceful remedies, the peaceful sanctions available to the governments of this hemisphere, in an effort to get the signal to Havana that their attempts to interfere
in the affairs of other countries must cease and must cease now,
In Southeast Asia, there is an overriding question as to whether there are
The decision must be to leave
those who will not leave their neighbors alone,
There will be very, very dangerous and far-reaching
their neighbors alone,
consequences of a failure to come to that decision and promptly.
So it is not a question
in which there is no danger.
and scope of the danger that
of working on international cooperation in a worl
It is precisely because of the nature and depth
we must, as human beings, seek some basis for
international
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international cooperation.
In other words,
in the
try to find some elements of common interest,
some
together,
And
this
is
what
International
face
ties
Cooperation
of hostility, we must
that tie human beings
Year
is
all
about.
I have said on many occasions that we have 1300 cables coming into the
Department of State on any working day and a thousand cables going out on any
working day.
About 85 percent of that business has to do with international
cooperation, with building a decent world order, with searching out and finding
and acting upon those common interests among ordinary human beings.
That
85 percent is the unknown, the hidden part of our foreign relations.
It gets
very little attention.
If
my
friends
from your city desks
of our business gets
in
the
press
will
forgive
when they say, "No
little attention.
blood,
me,
no
you
understand
news."
So
this
the
85
reaction
percent
In the last calendar year we attended about 550 international conferences
as a United States Government.
Only about 110 of those were even mentioned in
the American press.
So there is an enormous hidden iceberg,
if you like, of
an awful lot of people trying
basic purpose of the American
to build
people.
that
decent
world
order
which
is
the
But then I'm stimulated from time to time to recognize that even that
part of it is only a small fraction of the total international relations of
the American people, and that is where you people come in.
Because the
American people have an enormous complex of constructive relationships with
people in other countries outside the framework of intergovernmental relations.
Look at
directions.
this country
trade.
Here is
and the
Almost 45 billions of trade at the current rate in both
an enormous linkage between the ordinary citizens of
citizens of other countries.
And there are the great international communities of science and scholarship, of arts, of sports, and of all the other normal human activities in
which the American people are linking themselves to people in other countries
and where it is the duty of the Government to encourage but to stay out of
the
way.
So when we approach International Cooperation Year, we are not talking just
about government.
There may be things which government can do and should do to
build upon this concept.
We are talking about a people, an entire people, a
great many of whom have some reason to be in contact with people in other
countries in the course of a year.
I come back to the first idea -- this matter of danger and what it
live in a nuclear world.
[It is too late to be primitive.
It is too
evaluate world events by one's immediate glandular reactions.
It is
to
to
late
for
to
look
peace.
for
the
Because
simplified
there
is
and
just
no
anachronistic
future
there,
formula
no
about
future.
how
to
means
late
too
search
The
whe
The problem is to be in touch with those with wh om you have
the deepest
disagreement in order. to find out whether there may not be
some common interest
on which you can build a little something, a little something.
The small
things accumulatively can be as important as the big things.
And the small
things can make a difference.
Today, as we meet here,
the United States
international bodies somewhere in the world on
Government is
some subject:
a meeting on protection of intellectual property; a meeting
of an international research center on cancer; a meeting on
a meeting on civil aviation planning, etc., etc.
meeting
a coal
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committee;
on the formation
hydrometeorology;
The time has dome in man's history when he must peel all the peeling
off
the banana, ignore national frontiers, put to one side the most di
stressing,
dangerous and difficult questions and ask himself what is required
of homo
sapiens if we are to continue to inhabit the same globe.
to
And I would say
that question.
nothing
is
too
small
as
a
contribution
to
the
answers
From time to time I am asked by students, perhaps, or people that I visit
in various communities,
"What can I do as a citizen to contribute to peace,
to
international relations,
to our foreign policy?"
The answer has to be, ‘Start
from where
you
are",
because
at
that
point
there
are
dozens
of
opportunities,
What is the situation in your community about the great commitments of
the American dedication to freedom?
Is it a gleaming community?
Is it a
community for which we have to apologize to our friends from abroad?
Ls it
a community which mutes our voice when we talk about freedom abroad?
What
about the visitor to that community from another
country?
Is he welcomed
and relaxed?
Is he at home?
Is he welcomed in the friendliest fashion?
What about the members of that community who travel abroad?
Do they travel
with a chip on their shoulder?
Or do they travel with the intention
understanding?
-- not to find liking?
You may be disliked, yet find
of knowledge on which you know why you do or do not like a Situation
particular country.
Judgments
must
be
made
about
the
great
issues
of
public
policy
of finding
the basis
in a
on
which
people are called upon to make a decision in electing representatives in government -- local, state and national.
All these things involve a citizen in the
conduct of our foreign relations and these are the things which give so much
weight to what so many great national organizations do.
We follow very closely
policy questions.
We study
great sobriety.
And we hope
you take as organizations on
your
them
resolutions and your attitudes toward foreign
with great interest and great sincerity and
you will keep sending
these great issues.
to
us
those
positions
that
whe
But
we
are
just
as
much
interested
in
your
own
situation,
what
you
are
doing in terms of this vast activity of the American people an
d their contacts
with people in other parts of the world.
Because these are the ways in which
people find out what the American people are all about.
And therein lies the
greatest strength of the American people.
[f there are foreigners here, perhaps you will forgive me a li
ttle
presumption, but I personally believe that it is a matter of the
greatest
historical importance that a nation which has literally unimagin
able power,
that has power beyond the scope of the human mind to grasp in
terms of its
impact if it were fully used; that a nation which has unimaginab
le power is
committed to the simple propositions to which the American people ha
ve been
committed since World War II -- this is almost something new
in history.
And
this is the basis of our great strength in dealing with pe
ople around the
world.
And this is why, in hundreds and hundreds of meetings throughout th
e year,
they find out what we are all about.
And that is why you don't find ordinary
people in different parts of the world thinking we are trying to take
something
away from them that belongs to them.
And that is why in moments of great crisis
you don't find nearly so much neutralism as one might suppose, becéuse wh
at
you people represent, what your own organizations and member
s represent,
are
the very stuff of our society.
They shape our foreign policy, give direction
to the President and Secretary of State and explain what we are all
about to
people in other parts of the world.
That is the basis of confidence with which we move forward.
And that is
why, in an International Cooperation Year,
from the smallest thing to the
largest,
this is a national undertaking for citizen and government,
for
organization at the national level and at the local chapter wherever ther
e are
those who can put their minds to the question, how can man save himself
and
how can man reach out a hand, even in the midst of danger,
to try to make a
little senge out of a troubled world situation.
Now, we have limited time, but I would not wish us to move forward from
here without a commitment from me that we shall be in touch with you again.
If you leave today without a sense of organization to move forward on
these
matters, we shall be in touch with you.
We are not trying to make a single
monolithic structure of this matter of International Cooperation Year.
We
shall be in touch with you in a variety of ways.
Before we adjourn, I would like to introduce two of my colleagues.
First,
Mr. Robert Benjamin of the United Nations Association,
and then my very distinguished colleague and personal friend, Harlan Cleveland, who is head
of
the Office of which I myself once upon a time had the
pleasure of heading,
who is in charge of our work in International Organization Affairs.
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O
give us all a chance to give
do
conscious direction.to what we now
almost instinctively,
The
United Nations
Association is happy to be called upon to be
the servant of these voluntary organizations in mobilizing their collective
strength in behalf of the purposes
of International
Cooperation
Year.
ger
mer
the
t
abou
ging
brin
in
role
ant
ort
imp
an
ed
play
have
m
the
of
Many
of the American Association for the United Nations
United States Committee
of the merger was to weld the
of each of these long-established organizations
resources
aims
for the United Nations which has brought the
The purpose
new UNA into being.
and the
and ideals
to fulfil the
of both.
s
nd
sa
ou
th
of
on
ti
ca
di
de
the
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
w
ne
In this
in 338 chapters
of individuals
o
wh
ns
io
ll
mi
the
h
wit
ted
uni
w
no
are
y
tr
un
co
the
r
all ove
the
of
t
or
pp
su
in
s
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
n
ow
ir
the
in
er
are working togeth
United Nations
variety
and of effective
education,
alphabet
of interests and skills
agriculture,
religion,
service and welfare
participation in the wide
Our member
of international institutions.
sent a broad range
civic,
United States
-- in business,
professions,
the
organizations.
organizations
repre-
labor,
communications,
They range through the
l.
na
io
at
rn
te
In
a
nt
Zo
to
n
io
at
ci
so
As
n
io
at
uc
Ed
t
ul
Ad
from the
I have no doubt that the UNA membership
and the organizations
h
wit
st
re
te
in
of
ty
nti
ide
e
th
e
iz
gn
co
re
y
tl
associated with us will instan
ICY and will harness
their combined resources of energy and
o2ea
-
imagination to its service.
all too pacvon if it
But the focus of our activity would be
carried on through the
included only the activities of governments
formal institutions of the United Nations system,
wide enough to encompass
span of human activity that
the whole
itself through private
expresses
Our focus must be
as well as public endeavors;
- in short,
through people as well as through governments,
those organizations
of this year must engage not only
the observance
Therefore,
and communities
and its associated agencies,
now working for the United Nations
It must also enlist every organization in
the country engaged in any kind of cooperative
national boundaries,
whether
endeavor
across
or not that activity is directly related to
the United Nations.
To ensure the widest possible
on many
of you here
organization leaders,
this country,
national
private
today to join with other
observance
of ICY.
Citizens
This
citizens
and
of civic energy in
Committee
committee
sector the function the Cabinet
government
prominent
representing all the sources
to form a National
we will be calling
participation,
to lead the
will parallel in the
Committee
will perform
for the
sector.
But even before this committee
and suggestions
is organized,
your thoughts
are earnestly solicited,
Much is already in progress.
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As long ago as last February,
the Conference
Group-of the U.S. National Organizations on the
United Nations held a conference to explore the role of voluntary
organizations in the observance
of ICY,
among
One concrete result,
of this initiative is the
others,
publication by the Foreign Policy Association of a Guide to Program
Planning for ICY.
F PA's
publication,
This guide will be available within a few days in
of specific suggestions
organizations,
of ways
The
:
for UNESCO
personal
terms
has issued a pamphlet
called Mind Your
World,
of American
an account
in which they are bringing themselves,
citizens in action and the ways
their organizations,
can
&.
co-sponsored by 41 national organizations,
It presents
of
and communities
in which organizations
Commission
in dramatic
than a dozen pages
of hundreds
culled from the reports
of this Year,
serve the purposes
U.S.
It contains more
INTERCOM,
their communities
and their country in closer
touch with the world,
Many
similar activities are underway.
But these are enough
st
li
en
to
d
ke
as
g
in
be
e
ar
we
h
ic
wh
in
to suggest that the campaign
ourselves
has demonstrated
The task now,
and develop the means
its potential appeal.
it seems
by which
to me,
is to broaden the participation
each of us,
can most effectively respond to the theme
in our
own
organizations,
of the Year.
es
iz
as
ph
em
y
da
to
re
he
d
ar
he
ve
ha
we
Everything
as
the
.
ny
mo
re
ce
n
tha
her
rat
e
nc
ta
bs
su
on
g
in
at
tr
en
nc
co
of
ce
an
rt
impo
on
ce
en
er
nf
Co
e
us
Ho
e
it
Wh
a
of
l
goa
the
us
re
fo
be
ve
We ha
roughly a year from now.
International Cooperation
to me
that every
private
organization and professional
This suggests
6s
ccintinn
rte
in
e
lv
vo
in
t
tha
es
ti
vi
ti
ac
n
ow
its
of
ew
should begin now a revi
e
ng
ra
a
al
ve
re
l
wil
y
dl
te
ub
do
un
ew
vi
re
a
ch
Su
national cooperation.
and richness
en
ev
se
ri
rp
su
l
wil
t
tha
nt
me
sh
li
mp
co
ac
d
an
or
of endeav
the participants.
But the purpose
the
we
Rather,
satisfaction of this discovery.
how far we have
determine
can set our
course
prepare
would
come
we
in international
I believe,
cooperation
so that
if the leaders of our voluntary
summarizing
papers
projecting their plans for the future,
activities,
should seek to
for the future,
It would be helpful,
organizations
ought not to be for
of such an assessment
their international
and setting forth
s,
se
ri
rp
te
en
al
on
ti
di
ad
p
lo
ve
de
t
gh
mi
rs
he
ideas on which they or ot
Conference,
Prior to the White House
s
on
ti
za
ni
ga
or
e
es
th
of
s
er
ad
le
e
th
be useful if
for an interchange
of a rough
to enable
of their plans
consensus
and ideas,
on priorities,
The
each organization to complete
White House
Conference
Bu
could meet together
and for the development
central purpose
would be
its preparation for the
with the knowledge
,
do
to
ng
ni
an
pl
d
an
g
in
do
e
ar
rs
othe
it undoubtedly would
and stimulation of what
-Should such a procedure
of organizations,
commend
itself to a sufficent number
the United Nations Association would undertake to
convene this preparatory symposium.
d
ul
wo
g
in
et
me
a
ch
su
at
th
on
ti
na
The inspiration and coordi
provide
e
us
Ho
e
it
Wh
e
th
en
wh
at
th
re
su
in
lp
he
could
the leaders
Conference
is held,
rd
co
re
ng
ti
ci
ex
an
th
bo
t
en
es
pr
to
le
ab
of this country will be
ne
do
be
to
l
il
st
bs
jo
e
th
of
on
ti
ni
fi
of achievement and an enlarged de
through international
cooperation,
by public and private agencies.
s
si
ha
mp
-e
re
a
es
id
ov
pr
y
ll
ca
ti
One thing is certain:- ICY automa
of the belief that peaceful and creative
found,
solutions
to grave
problems
can be
g
in
rk
wo
in
d
te
la
mu
cu
ac
ve
ha
we
s
ce
en
and that the skill and experi
,
re
tu
fu
e
th
r
fo
ce
ur
so
re
le
ab
lu
va
in
an
together are
,
ul
ef
ac
pe
ly
te
na
in
is
n
ma
at
th
t
es
gg
su
to
t
This is no
of peace;
is capable
not that he is free from aggression,
but that he
but that he is
;
on
si
es
gr
ag
r
fo
ty
ci
pa
ca
s
hi
t
ou
ab
growing increasingly concerned
not
c
si
ba
e
th
g
in
et
me
r
fo
nt
me
ru
st
in
that he has yet fashioned the perfect
necessities of human life,
e
ps
im
gl
g
in
iz
al
nt
ta
a
ht
ug
ca
s
ha
he
but that
of its possibilities.
l
ra
mo
of
e
ns
se
is
th
en
ht
ig
he
to
y
In ICY we have an opportunit
,
ty
li
bi
si
on
sp
re
l
na
io
at
rn
te
in
d
an
discipline
awareness
of the power
and to nurture people's
s.
ir
fa
l
af
na
io
at
rn
te
in
in
n
io
at
er
op
co
d
an
on
as
of re
Y,
IC
g
in
ch
un
la
of
sk
ta
e
th
on
up
r
te
en
As we
reasonable
to restate an obvious
truth:«6
The
it would seem
United Nations
Organization, -
indeed,
the whole
principle
than the endorsement
of international
it receives
from
cooperation
the people
- is no stronger
of its representative
nations,
I believe that ICY
the concrete
achievements
organizations,
can serve as an effective vehicle to dramatize
of the United Nations
both private and official,
a blueprint for future action,
momentum
of mankind's
it can produce
a massive
aspirations for peace
dignity.
In conclusion,
let me
say that I am
given the opportunity to serve the ideal,
determination
than that,
so that ICY will provide
toward the advancement
and a life of human
More
and of other international
President
country's great resources
Johnson has
proud that UNA
has been
- to find and to carry out the
expressed,
''to use all this
to work with other nations to find new methods
of improving the life of man",
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AN ADDRESS BY
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NEW YORK CITY
October
1964
8,
A
za
ni
ga
or
al
on
ti
na
of
s
er
ad
le
200
h
wit
met
n
so
Last Friday President John
n
io
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Co
l
na
io
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In
in
n
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rt
pa
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Am
tions to set the scene for
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ar
le
"c
a
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n,
the
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sai
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n,
io
at
er
op
International co
Year 1965.
he
Peace,
said,
we
I guess
is
shouldn't
the
of
assignment
"the
really need
century."
a Presidential
proclamation
-- American
of
ds
dre
hun
in
d
ime
cla
pro
n
bee
has
on
ati
per
coo
l
ona
leadership in internati
ts
en
em
ir
qu
re
the
ut
abo
d
rne
lea
we
ce
sin
ds
dee
of
nds
usa
tho
and
declarations
be
to
d
sai
be
can
we
s
war
two
er
Aft
.
War
ld
Wor
ond
Sec
for survival in the
ld
wou
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els
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uti
tit
ins
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ona
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ern
int
of
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pioneers in the buildi
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ity
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div
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tha
her
rat
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tio
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dom
for
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saf
ld
wor
the
e
try to mak
of
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tor
his
the
in
ent
mom
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abl
ark
rem
and
s
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Our pioneering came at a cur
s
ld'
wor
the
us
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mad
ly
den
sud
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eng
str
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rel
Our
international politics.
to
era
any
in
er
pow
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fir
the
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first power; but our phi
we
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say
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oft
so
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our
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and
exp
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be utterly disintere
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pos
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get
for
we
n
eve
t
tha
s
ple
peo
er
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have no ambition to domina
for a great power is historically unique.
And
manifest
on
so our manifest destiny
destiny is to build the
coercion
but
on
Our
new to our generation.
of world community, based not
is something
institutions
consent,
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to
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like a road-map of the United States.
We
consent
only
worth
way
hold that a community
-- organizations that
a small
keeping.
and
It
is
fragile
indeed
of working
do things,
world
the
will
on
d
se
ba
ns
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ta
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fo
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not
keep
Assignment
the
of
peace
the
--
Century.
and
make
the
peace
ts
ar
st
ul
tf
fi
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an
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fi
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in
pa
by
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me
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for two
s
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,
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of
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In
s.
on
ti
ra
st
ni
mi
Ad
n
so
John
n.
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ve
in
al
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so
of
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fu
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ve
it
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pa
ve
ha
we
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an
,
me
ti
of
t
lo
a
t
no
is
The
oe
The words about peace sometimes sound visionary.
What we have been
doing about peace has been anything but visionary.
It has required, and
will require in the future, clear-headed and far-sighted vision by men of
public and international affairs -- by Presidents, by leaders of Congress,
by leaders of action and opinion, in every part of our own diverse democracy,
Intensely practical,
international cooperation
confusion.
We
all
know
that
you
even technical reasons impel us toward more and
-- as the alternative to a wholly impractical
just
cannot
explore
outer
space
without
some
more
agree-
ment among the nations about who is going to use which radio frequency for
what.
For this task of rationing the invisible waves, international organization is a simple necessity.
The same can be said about flying airplanes
around the world or getting rid of malaria or delivering mail or keeping
the seas from oil pollution or maintaining a world weather watch or doing
several thousand other things that just have to be done at the international
level in this day and age.
and
Sometimes
excursions
this technological imperative is in close
of political rivalries among nations:
contrast
to
the
alarms
~ Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution the United States and
the Soviet Union have been working together in the hunting of
seals in the Bering Sea <= simply because it makes sense to do
so, Cold War or no.
~ Ever since the early 1930's the Turks and the Russians have
maintained an annual joint cattle market -- even while Stalin was
claiming
sold.
the
very
areas
of
Turkey
:
where
the
cattle
are
raised
and
~ And in Southeast Asia, despite the Viet Cong, despite the
prickly relations between Cambodia, South Viet Nam, Thailand and
Laos, those four nations which share the Lower Mekong Basin have
never missed a meeting of their Coordinating Committee to discuss
and develop the Mekong River for their mutual benefit,
It is the
only place they do meet with any regularity,
And it is only people
working on Mekong projects that have safe passage throughout the
politically turbulent Basin of that mighty and undeveloped river.
tion
So there is nothing
and world community
Disorderly,
Impractical,
Yes.
No.
wooly~headed or misty-eyed about international
in the latter-half of the 20th Century.
coopera-
>
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- An alliance of man to cope with his environment is beginning to look like
‘That is why we all who are privileged to be working at
plain common sense.
the building of international institutions find we are working in a growth
is that common sense is in global
The difficulty, of course,
industry.
The purpose of International Cooperation Year 1965 is to
short-supply.
increase the quantum of common sense, by getting many more citizens of
every country to look with a calculating eye at the vital interests they
share with the citizens of other nations.
it
All
this
is
--
I hope
--
of
some
interest
to
you as
American
citizens,
but what does the experience have to do with you as American citizens intercommunity relations, and human
ested in doing something about discrimination,
rights through the National Council of Christians and Jews.
I think your special
special assignment within
interest makes it natural for the
the "Assignment of the Century".
NCCJ to take on
Let me explain.
a
In the President's Proclamation last week, he called upon “our national
citizen organizations ... to inform their membership of recent progress in
international cooperation, and urged them to consider what further steps can
The farm organizations will be considering how to do a better job
be taken.
The medical and public health constituencies
of achieving freedom from hunger.
The
will be charting next steps in the ancient battle against disease.
organized educators will be thinking hard about literacy campaigns and
They
education for responsible leadership in the developing countries.
will all be invited -- the President said last week -- to come to the White
House sometime in 1965, and tell the President what they think the priority
targets are for international cooperation in the fields they know best.
And while this is going on, what will the National Council of Christians
Why don't you -- with other organizations of like mind
and Jews be doing?
and heart -~ make a special effort to chart a policy for the United States
in the neglected, under-developed, and poverty-stricken field of international human rights.
is the most difficult field, full of
almost -- but not quite -- too hot to touch.
it, and why not you?
It
Of
course,
our
own
American
record
in
philosophical
But somebody
human
rights
is
potholes, and
had better touch
hardly
without
But the very fact that we are working hard on our own problems,
blemish.
that we are clumsily but irreversibly engaged in trying to make good on the
promises of our forefathers about human dignity and equal rights for all men,
gives reason for a parallel international concern.
the
for
not
We have reason to know, because we have been at it for so long, that
achievement of nationhood is only an early stage of a people's struggle
We also have reason to know that the struggle for freedom is
freedom.
over until all members of a national society are free and equal.
The
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of
The founders
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say it with
separateness.
In
In the fifty years just past,
the shackles
enforced inequality have been -- and rightly so
international
the shackles
Indonesia to
relations.
took
West
In Japan
and
along
the
of
--
contrived,
legalized,
the chief devil in
China
and
India
coasts,
the form of extra-territorial concessions;
from
Africa the shackles appeared as colonial governors
and colonial troops and the serfdom of plantation economics; in Latin
America the shackles were oppressive land systems and labor practices.
For reasons of history,
then, the clear and present devil in the
nationalist revolution has generally been a foreign power, or foreign
interest, or both -~ and the devil has generally been painted racially
white.
But now that almost all the world's peoples have achieved nationhood,
we the peoples of the United Nations need to rethink these obsolescent
forms of deviltry.
The time has surely come to think harder, and do more
internationally, about the requirements of freedom and equality within
each nation.
The achievement of national independence is still too often
equated with the achievement of freedom.
But freedom and equality are not
aspirations of nations or states or ethnic groups.
They are the aspirations
the very essence of the "natural dignity" -- of individual men and women
and
children.
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The natural dignity of individual men and women and children is not
threatened today in more than a handful of places by colonialists -- which
is to say, by foreigners,
It is mostly threatened by the abuse of power
by majorities -- by the inhumanity of public man to private man within
nations.
The inhumanity of man to nearby man is of course an incident in
internal politics of nations -- the continuation of the struggle for
inside national societies after nationhood has been achieved.
Surely
Declaration
unconcerned
our
of
dedication
Independence
about
inhumanity
to
freedom
says,
just
"all
for
Men"
because
"all
--
the
Men"
does
men
--
that's
what
practice
it
not
who
permit
other happen to be enclosed in common national boundaries.
powerless to do anything effective about it, but we always
to care -- and to complain out loud,
us
our
to
on
manage
- As long as governments
and religion to be citizens
religion to vote on a basis
do
-of
their
imigration
be
each
We may well be
have the power
We hold, do we not, that the aspirations of equality and freedom
individual human beings -- the achievement of the human dignity which
the natural right of every person -- is not fulfilled:
- As long as governments
racial discrimination;
the
freedom
to
support
not allow persons of every
and citizens of every race
equality;
race
and
for
is
we
abs
every
treat
not
do
governments
or
~ As long as
before the law;
-~ As long as governments do not allow
dominant group to seek political power.
non-members
If
self-evident,
we
still
hold
truths
like
these
to
be
equal
as
person
of
the
then
we
all
have our work cut out for us.
The winds of the Sixties -- the post-nationalist
winds of freedom and equality for individuals -- are blowing through every
society represented in the United Nations, and through those that are not
represented there too.
In political terms every government in the world is
threatened to some extent by these winds of the Sixties.
None of us -- let's
face it -- none of us is yet doing everything that can be done, about the
promotion and protection of human rights.
And yet there are and must be
each government, clothed with
what
to the
peoples
over
whom
it
limits to
juridical
exercises
life
the international concern
sovereignty,
is doing for
and
death
control.
with
and
Virtually the whole world is enraged by one nation's policy of government-sponsored racial discrimination.
Some of us are also worried when we
see racial bars to employment, racial bars to citizenship, racial bars to
travel, when we see discriminatory trade and business arrangements designed
for the advantage of man of one color or group or class, and for the exclusion
of others.
But the problem is, how far do we want the UN to go in doing
something about these matters?
We were clear that we wanted the UN to
promote the achievement of nationhood by the principle of self-determination
of peoples -- which often meant self-determination by racial groups.
Are
we equally clear that we want the UN, in the words on which we have agreed
in Article 55, to promote the "universal respect for and observance of,
human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to
race, sex, language or religion" or that we intend to take (as Article 56
enjoins us to take) "joint and separate action in cooperation with the
Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55''?
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The words I have just quoted from the UN Charter are not very familiar
ground to most Americans <= or to the citizens of other UN countries,
either,
The reason is simple:
they are the underdeveloped area of the Charter.
In the UN's short history,
the golden Charter words about peace and
security have been invoked against 20 armed conflicts and 20 more near-wars.
On 13 occasions they
peacekeeping force.
have
provided
the
basis
for
the
raising
of
a UN
In this same brief period, the Charter goal of "better standards of
life in larger freedom" has served as inspiration for a world-wide war on
poverty, prosecuted by the UN through 9 specialized and technical agencies,
spending some $350 million a year in 127 countries and territories for
technical and pre-investment aid -- and lending almost another $1% billion
a
year
from
international
banks
and
funds.
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to go with its
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same 19 years have produced very little operational acti
vity
noble words about "human rights and fundamental freedo
ms for
determination of peoples.
But there is a good deal of uncertainty as to how
far we -~ and our fellow members -- want the UN to go in cr
iticiging and
correcting the ethical delinquencies of peoples once they ha
ve declared their
national independence.
Realistically, what could the UN do about human rights, anyw
ay?
My own
feeling is that an international agency could at least sh
ine the searchlight
of fact-finding and exposure into ethically darker corners
of the world,
But right here is a policy question for us.
We Americans need to consider
whether, as the necessary price for shining the UN's searchlight on
oppression
elsewhere, we are prepared to have the UN turn its embarrassingly public
attention to the moats and beams in our own eye,
The prospect does not fill me with alarm, I must Say.
Nothing the UN
could do would much increase the candle power of public attention
that already
Surrounds the scene wherever racial or religious discrimination
is practiced
by public agencies against the law, the constitution, and the pu
blic policy
of the United States,
The UN is unlikely to reveal anything about America
that is not already thoroughly in the public domain, courtesy of our
own
political debates, our own wire Services,
and our own television networks.
So here is a question for consideration during International Cooperation
Year by the National Council of Christians and Jews, which has impres
sive
credentials in the promotion and protection of human rights and fund
amental
freedoms.
The
question
is:
How
far
should
the
United
States
want
the
UN
to
go
in
holding its member nations to their human rights obligations unde
r the Charter?
Are there practical ways,
consistent with the sovereign equality of nations,
which is also a Charter principle, by which an international organization
can
protect
their
and
own
promote
national
the
rights
society,
and
and
even
freedoms
against
of
individual
their
own
men
and
governments?
women
within
The question is not rhetorical, but real.
No answer appears in the back
of any book of mine -- or in the classified files of the State Department,
either.
No answer can even be attempted inside your government until there
has been a great deal more discussion of the issue by the citizenry
to which
your government is responsible.
Year
You could make no more
in 1965 than to tackle
satisfactory contribution to
this question in public, and
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there will
extension
most
recre-
of
fair
compensation
workers
be a shortage
in our
of
Ametican farm workers when the flow of Mexican farm labor is curtallied, Let the agricultural employers pay a living wage and. —
there will be no. labor deficit.
My experience tells me that where
ever an honest day's wage is paid for an honest day's work, there
are aiways sufficient workers available to satisfy the demand,
I respectfully urge that Public Law 414 not
to circumvent justice for American farm workers,
?
be used’
| Sincerely,
Walter P, Reuther,
Industrial Union
AFL-CIO
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Reverend James L. Vizgzard, S.J.
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
Washington
Dear
Father
5,
D.C.
Vizzard:
Thank you for your letter of October 21 and a
copy of the letter addressed to the President regarding the
Mexican Farm Labor problem under Public Law 78.
I have asked my
communication
which
staff to prepare
I will address
to the
an appropriate
President
matter.
With kind personal
regards.
Sincerely,
WPR:lm
Walter
P.
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President
Reuther
on this
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P.
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Attached is a copy of a letter and attachment which I
My reply to him is also attached.
received from Father Vizzard.
Would you prepare
President of the IUD.
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an appropriate
reply
in my name
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NATIONAL
CATHOLIC
RURAL
LIFE
CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON OFFICE .
1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
3801 Grand Avenue
Des Moines
Washington 5, D.C.
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October
PRESIDENT—
EPISCOPAL ADVISER
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John L. Morkovsky,
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DIRECTOR OF
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WASHINGTON OFFICE
Rev. James L. Vizzard, S.J.
1964
Coadjutor of Galveston-Houston
Houston, Texas
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Rt.ReveMsgr. William Schimek
Mapleton,
Minnesota
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Joseph Berg
Panhandle, Texas
THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Linus Kiefer
Belle Rive, Illinois
FOURTH
Dr.
PRESIDENT
VICE
Taff
Cc.
Paul
2021 GreenBriar Circle
Ames, Iowa
TREASURER
Mr. Arthur Schmid,
Jr.
Plankinton Bldg.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
RECORDING SECRETARY
Rev. Edward J. Shepherd
St. Mary’s, Dodgeville
Sperry, Iowa
Mr. Walter Reuther
President
United Automobile Workers
Solidarity House
8000 East Jefferson
Detroit, Michigan
Dear
Walter:
But
I hate to bother you again at this extremely busy time.
the matter discussed in the enclosed copy of my letter to
It was Jack Henning who
the President is of importance,
urged me to get communications to the President at this time
I hope you can do something too.
and along these lines.
With
every
good
wish.
*
*
sincerely
Rev.
James
}
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward W. O’Rourke
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Very Rev. Msgr. J.G. Weber
Very
Enclosure
yours,
0 Vind
L.
Vizzard,
Letter
&
DIRECTOR FOR
INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rt. Rev. Msgr. L.G. Ligutti
Carlo
Palazzo S.
Vatican City, Europe
Christ to the Country...
The Country to Christ
S.
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October
DIRECTOR OF
WASHINGTON OFFICE
Rev. James L. Vizzard, S.J.
7-3553
1964
20,
PRESIDENT
EPISCOPAL ADVISER
Most Rev. John L. Morkovsky,
S.T.D.
Coadjutor of Galveston-Houston
Houston,
Texas
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Schimek
William
Rt.Rev.Ms
Mapleton,
Minnesota
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Joseph Berg
Panhandle, Texas
Dear
THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
Mr. Linus Kiefer
Belle Rive, Illinois
FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Paul C. Taff
2021 GreenBriar Circle
Ames, lowa
TREASURER
Jr.
Mr. Arthur Schmid,
Plankinton Bldg.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
RECORDING SECRETARY
Rev. Edward J. Shepherd
St. Mary’s, Dodgeville
Sperry, Iowa
EXECUTIVE
Rt.
Rev.
DIRECTOR
Edward
Magr.
We O’ Rourke
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Very Rev. Msgr. J.G. Weber
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&
DIRECTOR FOR
INTERNATIONAL
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The White House
Nashington 25, D. C.
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Mr.
As you
Public
President:
know, the Mexican Farm
Law 78 comes to an end
Labor (bracero) program under
on December 3lst of this year.
t
tha
ng
ati
cul
cir
n
bee
e
hav
s
ort
rep
g
bin
tur
dis
For some weeks,
as
ers
loy
emp
o
cer
bra
le
sca
gelar
m
fro
ts
ues
req
to
in response
you
ice
off
for
s
ate
did
can
and
als
ici
off
ve
cti
ele
m
fro
well as
,
ary
por
tem
of
ion
ans
exp
ge
lar
a
of
al
rov
app
ng
eri
are consid
lic
Pub
er
und
ico
Mex
m
fro
on
ati
igr
imm
,
ent
man
per
and perhaps
Law
414
as
a substitute
for
braceros.
y
atl
gre
be
ld
wou
e,
tim
s
thi
at
rly
ula
tic
par
p,
ste
h
Any suc
War
r
you
ded
lau
app
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hav
who
us
of
se
Tho
inappropriate.
see
can
it
in
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ati
per
coo
ly
ive
act
are
and
y
ert
Pov
Against
y
ntr
cou
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thi
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ngi
bri
for
n
tio
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tif
jus
no conceivable
r,
poo
ly
ate
per
des
s
lve
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the
,
ico
Mex
m
fro
thousands of people
ing
liv
and
g
kin
wor
ine
erm
und
to
and
s
to compete for the job
conditions
of
the
very
poorest
of
our
own
citizens.
do
not
l
wil
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wo
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ze
ti
ci
t
tha
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ins
s
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gr
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the
y
tl
ac
ex
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doi
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wh
of
ty
ri
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ma
the
farm labor force,
ge
lar
a
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re
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ti
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ic
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same jobs, have
ial
rac
l
ca
ti
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id
of
is
ce
for
k
wor
n
ze
ti
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the
proportion of
al
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ph
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sam
the
y
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h
wit
nd
ou
gr
ck
ba
and cultural
characteristics
as the
Christ to the Gountry...
braceros.
The Counter to Ghrist
President
Page -2-
Lyndon
B.
Johnson
October
20,
1964
What the growers really mean is that citizen workers are most reluctant
to do these jobs, and take them only as a last resort, simply and solely
In every
because the wages and working conditions are so abominable.
other segment of our economy employers know they have to offer an
American job in order to get American workers.
There is no reason
either in economics or in morality why this segment of American agriculIf the
ture should be exempt from the demands of justice and decency.
jobs are as difficult as the employers claim, the recompense ought to
The time is long past
be greater rather than less than for other work.
when growers should be allowed to perpetuate poverty on this side of
the border by exploiting the even greater poverty on the other side,
President, that you are genuinely concerned about
I am convinced, Mr.
Please do not
so many of our citizens.
lich Pepys
the poverty
allow that concern to be vitiated by responding to the demands of those
whose only concern is cheap labor,
To be very specific, I request that you direct the Department of Labor
to draw up for these jobs acceptable American standards which must be
offered in good faith to United States citizens before any consideration
Morecan be given to applications for Mexican workers under P.L. 414.
over, I believe it to be necessary that you direct both the Bureau of
Employment Security and the Justice Department's Bureau of Immigration
to be diligent in the effective enforcement of such standards.
One needs no more than a superficial knowledge of the situation to be
quite sure that employers of seasonal farm labor will try by evary means,
legal or otherwise, to keep wages and working conditions at a minimum
Unless these poor people can count on
far below the poverty level.
to protect their jobs from a competing flood of Mexican
their government
workers and to improve their wages and working conditions to an acceptable level, then, at least to them, the War Against Poverty will be
nothing but a hollow mockery.
With
every
good
wish.
‘
Very
sincerely
Rev.
James
L.
yours
Vizzard,
S.
J.
—” October 30, 1964
Dear
Mr.
Cleveland:
Thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending
me a copy of the remarks by President Johnson and
Secretary Dean Rusk on the occasion of the International —
Cooperation Year group meeting at the State Department.
Il also appreciate having a copy of your address
before the National Conference of Christians and Jews
_ which I look forward to reading at the earliest opportunity.
|
|
—
Kindest personal regards.
| Sincerely,
WPR:lm
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iavrlan
wa
whey
Cleveland
Assistant Secretary
Washington, D.C.
|
of State
WHITE
THE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October
Dear
28,
1964
Walter:
I was grateful for your thoughtful telegram concerning my address to the nation on October 18.
I consider it imperative to maintain the closes
possible contact with the people during these
difficult times, for itis only with the understending of the people that the government can continue
to pursue the policies and programs vital for this
nation's security and for the security and prosperity of the free world.
Again,
many
thanks
for sharing
Sincerel
Mr.
Walter P.
President,
Reuther
International UAW
441 West Milwaukee
Detroit, Michigan
your views
with me.
December
Dear
2,
1964
Larry:
I regret that my absence from the country
responding to your kind note of November 5,
delayed my
The results of the election were most rewarding and
you and all the others who played such a vital role have every
right to feel a great sense of achievement.
I was generally
pleased with the contribution made by the American labor
movement but I was especially proud of the contribution that
My
Roy made in the critical area of increasing registration.
only regret is that I did not have more brothers to contribute
to the campaign.
With the improved composition of Congress, we have
an historic opportunity to enact necessary legislation to move
America forward in the realization of the Great Society.
I
look forward with pleasure to the privilege of continuing to work
with you in this common task.
Kindest personal regards and all good wishes...
Sincerely,
WPR:lm
oeiu42
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
WHITE
THE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November
Dear
1964
5,
Walter:
In reviewing the campaign and our mutual political activity of
the last few months I wanted to tell you how impressed I have
been with Labor's performance this year. In my role as the
Director of Campaign Organization I had occasion to travel the
country and meet with political and Labor leadership state by
state. As you know Roy traveled with me through much of this
period andI am sure he has told you we had an opportunity to
evaluate the performance of the campaign in depth.
I could not have been more
impressions
repeatedly
impressed and I
to the President.
proud -- Al Barkan did an
to a man were on the ball.
the cause over an extended
I have written to President
made
You
note of my
can well be
egional Directors
excellent job and hi
dédication to
Needless to sdy Roy's
ajor contribution.
period of time
Meany expressing my thoughts.
I shall always treasure the memory of the cooperative and
meaningful support extended by you and the leaders of organized
Labor through the last four difficult years in the enactment of the
Legislative Program and in the conduct of the campaign.
With kindest personal regards,
a
Sincerely,
te
O'Brien
Lawrence F.
Special Assistant to the President
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
United) Automobile , Aircraft and Agricultural and
Implement Workers
8000
East
Jefferson
Detroit 14, Michigan
Street
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November
Dear
5,
1964
Walter:
In reviewing the campaign and our mutual political activity of
the last few months I wanted to tell you how impressed I have
been with Labor's performance this year.
In my role as the
Director of Campaign Organization I had occasion to travel the
country and meet with political and Labor Leadership state by
As you know Roy traveled with me through much of this
state.
period andI am sure he has told you we had an opportunity
evaluate the performance of the campaign in depth.
to
I could not have been more impressed and I made note of my
You can well be
impressions repeatedly to the President.
proud -- Al Barkan did an excellent job and his-Regional Directors
to a man were on the ball. Needless to say Roy's dedication to
the cause over an extended period of time was-a-major contribution.
I have written to President Meany expressing my thoughts.
I shall always treasure the memory of the cooperative and.
meaningful support extended by you and the leaders of organized
Labor through the last four difficult years in the enactment of the
Legislative Program and in the conduct of the campaign.
With kindest personal
regards,
Sincerely,
A
Lawrence
F.
O'Brien
Special Assistant
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile, Aircraft
Implement Workers
8000
East
Detroit
Jefferson
14, Michigan
Street
and Agricultural
and
to the President
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural
and Implement Workers
8000
East
Detroit
Jefferson
14, Michigan
Street
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President:
I regret my delay in advising you —
of my acceptance to membership on the National Comm
sion on Technology, Automation and Economic Progr. ess,
Please be assured of my fullest coopera-
tion in helping to further the work of this important
Commission
so that its report and recommendations
to
you may be meaningful and constructive and helpful in
your efforts to find answers to the complex problems
our 20th Century technological revolution in order that
our free society can realize its bright promise.
I shall do my very best to be worthy of
your confidence.
Kindest personal regards.
Respectfully yours,
WPR:ob
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President Lyndon B, Johnson
The White House
Washington, D. C.
of
TR. eS
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DRAFT
The
American
to their
We,
year
principle
problems
that free
grave
and far reaching
atmosphere
which
and again threatened
The
contract
th
whLamilies;
Gt
will have
to the historic
and free management
climate
of free
can find solutions
collective
of open,
settlements,
and,
'
far ranging
responsibilities,
in the automobile
in the free
time
challenge
are proud that labor and management,
contract negotiations
arom
labor
a crucial
in the democratic
in the UAW,
respective,
1964 presented
we
to be
believe,
—_
beneficial
recognizing
successfully
and despite
a breakdown
of the bargaining
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cuss
will advantage
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as
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a series
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well.
UAW
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effect upon the communities
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their
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industries
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process,
members
larger
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in which
and
se
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live
and,
in the
The
final analysis,
success
the result of your wise
of our
on the
social
negotiating
and judicious
and
economic
efforts
was
decision to permit
welfare
in no small
of the
nation.
measure
the collective
bargaining
process
entire
to run its full course
period
of the long,
In behalf
families
we
considerateness
of the
wish
one
to express
and wisdom
and the vital importance
these
drawn
who will benefit from
successes,
pleased
without
and proud
negotiations.
over
out and,
and
one-half
our
of these
reflected
collective
public
eruptive
million
appreciation
the favorable
intervention
at times,
the results
which
of free
government
your
UAW
during
the
negotiations.
workers
and
their
collective bargaining
for the
grasp
bargaining.
comments
understanding,
of the
We
sensitive
were
you made
patience,
process
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We ars Los angeles Area CAUSE Alumni.
it,
the
we
hope,
field
of
a
crank
War
your
letter.
on
Poverty.
n
bee
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hav
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and
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r
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of
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the
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s
goe
ter
“2 this let
It WELL.
sir, we hope that you will take the time to read it.
your desk,
It will
seke mach less time to read it than it has taken to write it.
nts
ide
inc
the
for
en
tak
has
it
n
tha
it
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rea
to
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tim
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to ovucur Wich have necessitated its writing.
July of this year, nearly two thousand men and women left their
their children to train at various
their husbands,
somes, their wives,
sir, in what
To train,
-jive-sities in various parts of the country.
. be_iteved to be a new and dynamic approach to the problem of poverty.
-ais training cost the citizens of the United States millions of dollars.
This
dollars of the impoverished must be counted in that sum.
te
“he
.2 cost the CAUSE candidates thousands of dollars in lost income
~oin
and untold and unaccountable heartaches and
personal losses,
a
Children were without
sir.
Families were separated,
orivations.
,oaeir “*athers or without their mothers, wives and husbands were separated,
We
young ,eople sourned lucrative job offers to accept this challenge.
can only syeculate on the monetary loss incurred during those two months
We cannot even speculate on the emotional and mental
of CAUSE training.
hardsnips.
In
om
NE A RA AE
SERIES
ra
mame
we
believed.
We
accepted
the
idea
that
a dynamic
new
approach
to
problem as old as time requires men and women, young and old, who
:
ere caoable of venturing into the unknown and strong enough to bear
The personnel at the Universities stressed this as did the
harcships.
spresentatives
of
the
Federal
Government.
Sa
he
i lee
tt a
acl
eae
Rae
ces
but
pay
ped
hel
d
lan
the
of
r
poo
the
and
,
ips
dsh
har
se
the
e
bor
we
<5
Now the training is over, almost three months past,
‘or ~26 experience.
healing the personal
- 2, and we are still paying the personal prices,
Poverty still ravages the land,
sands, anc the poor are just as poor.
.aad there has not been a single skirmish in this War,
What did we learn about poverty
Many of us
leazced from each other.
Mostly we
during CAUSE training?
are old acquaintances of poverty.
ie
’o4 we learned from the people of the areas of the training
-* ag went out into the "Mean Streets" of American cities.
Some of us were beaten,
We found it brutal.
coverty ugly.
We found it not pretty.
2% least one woman was assaulted.
with
Van
Doren:
I went aeons the
of such a city
mean
As should haa moved
But it was a pity.
Many
sites.
We found
knifed, and
We saw along
streets
my
wrath;
I did not count the sad eyes,
They were so many.
I listened for the singing;
There was not any.
O thieves of joy, O
Who blink at this,
Beware.
There will
With witnesses.
thoughtless
be
judgement,
Can a government escape judgement for these conditions?
administration within a government escape judgement by waging
War' on a real and devastating enemy?
Where
hunared of
are
the
Can an
a ‘Paper
,
we now, sir?, the soldiers in your War on Poverty.
Seven
eighteen hundred successful CAUSE graduates were hired by
Stats Employment Offices.
The remaining eleven hundred were not even
extended the courtesy of an official communique.
They were left to pick
uo the pieces of their lives where they were left scattered by the
telegram that sent them into training in July.
: nd what of the seven hundred who have been hired?‘ Very few among) {~~
us were unaware last July that jobs were available with State Employment"
Services
we did not seek these positions then because we were not
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TRANSPORTATION
O.
DALE
COMMITTEE
Chairman
ROY CHALK
Chairman
6th and Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D. C. 20025
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Telephone: Area 202—783-2858
Walter
and Mrs.
Mr.
United Auto Workers
1126 16th Street,
Washington,
D. C.
and
Mr.
1964
23,
December
Dear
MILLER
Reuther
N.W.
Reuther:
Mrs.
of the
honor of the distinguished members
Cabinet and the distinguished mem‘United States
Chalk
Mrs.
bers of the Transportation Committee,
the pleasure of your company at a
and I request
the seventeenth of
Sunday,
reception and dinner,
In
January at seven o'clock.
be black tie) will be held
"Walnut
war
Hill",
(about
ton).
2116
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The affair (which will
at my Virginia home,
Annandale
minutes
Falls
Road,
from
downtown
Church,
Washing-
Transportation has been arranged for you and
other guests of honor from the D. C. Transit ExecNorthwest
utive office Building at 3600 M Street,
(Georgetown).
minutes
from
"Minibuses"
6:45
p.m.
will
throughout
leave
the
every
ten
evening.
It should be a festive evening and an opporor
sp
an
Tr
the
on
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fr
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to
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With
kindest
personal
regards.
Sincerely,
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January
Sunday,
Transportation Committee
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activities
COMMITTEE
TRANSPORTATION
O. ROY CHALK
Chairman
Roy Abernethy, President
American Motors Corporation
S. A. Girard, President
Kaiser Jeep Corporation
George Meany,
AFL-CIO
F. W. Ackerman, Chairman
L. E Glasgow,
Arjay
Miller,
President
Floyd
Commander
C. W.
Moore,
President
Greyhound
Corporation
Akers,
President
Central Airlines
President
Abe McGregor
Ford Motor Company
Goff, Chairman
Charles Allen
Allen & Company
John Gordon, President
General Motors Corporation
—
William M. Allen, President
Peter Grace, President
lint
George W. Apperson, President
Thomas
Boeing
Transit
hl
a
Ozark
Union
James W. Austin, Chairman
Northeast Airlines
ak
aie:
.
:
D. W. Nyrop, President
Northwest Airlines
Lines
Harold E. Gray, President
Pan American. World Airways
J. J. O'Connell, Jr., Chairman
Leslie O. Barnes, President
Allegheny Airlines
;
;
H. Vance Greenslip, President
Greyhound Corporation
Charles E. Beard, President
Braniff International Airways
C. S. Gross, Chairman
.
Lockheed Aircraft ‘Corporation
Charles J. Bell
Harold W.
Walter J. Bierwagon, Vice President
Amalgamated Transit Union
Floyd D. Hall, President
SOS wee" Saree
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Southern Railway Company
Exec.
Buckley,
M.
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Central
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President
Aviation
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Air Transport Association
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T. C. Drinkwater, President
Lewis W.
Frontier
David
Lines
Airlines
Slick Airways
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President
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American Airlines
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Stuart Saunders, Chairman
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Union
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John
H. Magoon,
Hawaiian
Santa
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Chairman
D. Storm,
Edward
Commissioner
"Chrysler Corporation
Dionisio
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President
Caribbean-Atlantic Airlines
Walter J. Tuohy, Vice Chairman
Chesapeake
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Jay Turner,
& Ohio Railroad Company
President
Washington
Central
Labor
Council
Underwood,
Chairman
nsig
Pdr
Thomas
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D. : Webb, e Jr ahs
Attorney at Law
Admiral John M. Will, President
American
Fe Railroad
National Airlines’
°
Export
Isbrandtsen
William E, Williamson, Clerk
—
Lines
House of Representatives Interstate Commerce Committee
James Franklin, President
Airlift International
David J. McDonald, President
United Steel Workers
Charles F. Willis, Jr., President
Alaska Airlines
R. W. Freeman, Chairman
Delta Air Lines
Charles B. McInnis,
Safeway Trails
C.
President
Railroad
Trans: World Airlines
is putes Towsiiaile President
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Airlines
LL. B. Maytag, Jr., President
Lines
Pacific Railroad
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E. S. March, President
Freight Company
Air
& Potomac
Maryland Public Service Commission
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. e "ae ean
E. V.
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Airways
A. E. Sto d dar “y Presi ae
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American Airlines
Island & Pacific Railroad
President
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Smith,
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Continental
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Stuart Shumate, President
Richmond, Fredericksburg
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Robert
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George H. Love, Chairman
Chrysler Corporation
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Joseph C. Mackey, President
President
D. C. Transit System
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Southern Pacific Railroad
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States Senate Commerce Committee
Chicago,
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United
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D. J. Russell, Chairman
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Committee
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trauapaer’ Corporation
Yale
PFC
W. H. Kendall, President
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- Louisville & a
Railroa
Company
C. L. Egtvedt, Chairman
Boeing Company
Gerald
Edward’ jeran, Clerk
Safeway
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Airlines
World
Claude A. Jessup,
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President
M. Jackson,
Seaboard
:
President
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Edwards,
Richard
—
President
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Donald is Perel
D ougias
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Aire
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Donald W.
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Douglas Aircraft Company
Western
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Corporation
Motors
General
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Frank W. Hulse, President
se
Southern Airways
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Fred C. Donner, Chairman
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Gen. Donald S. Dawson
Attorney
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Walter Reuther, President
United Auto Workers
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Henry M. Hubshman, Jr., President
Hubshman Factors
Neil J. Curry, Chairman
American trucking Association
Davis,
Vice President
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Paul
W., Thomas Rice, President.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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Judge H. Lester Hooker, Chairman - Commission
Transit
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Metropolitan
Washington
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John
Richard E. Cross, Chairman
American Motors Corporation
T. H.
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Chairman
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New York Senitar Rallroad
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Arthur M. Hill, Director
Greyhound Corporation
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A. Patterson,
Mohawk Airlines
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Airlines
Robert E. - Peach,
:
‘Hon. E. William Henry, Chairman
:
Workers
James H. Carmichael, Chairman
Airlift International
President
:
as
ioks Central Airlines
:
.
James B. Carey, President
International Union of Electrical
N. Carr,
;
-Lloyd Hartman,
-
President
Vice
Trans Caribbean Airways
Hal
|
Central
Col. Michael
Sen a
Rear Admiral John Harlee, Chairman
aries Commission
Federal
Trans World Airlines
Irving
o3
=
President
Hallmark
ale ney
Ernest R. Breech, Chairman
Brosnan,
et
Haase, President
J. C. Hall,
Alan S. Boyd, Chairman
Civil Aeronautics Board
D. W.
W.
International Railways of Central America
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a
oy
Lake
.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
.
Murchi
;
L. Grace, President
Air
‘
oe
:
Murchison, Jr., President
Clint
Murchison Brothers
Company
R. Grace
W.
Company
Helicopter Airways
Chicago
Commission
Interstate Commerce
Capitol Cadillac-Oldsmobile Company
President
E. Woolman, President
Delta Air Lines
Inaugural
TRANSPORTATION
O.
DALE MILLER
Chairman
COMMITTEE
ROY CHALK
Chairman
10h
6th and Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D. C. 20025
Telephone: Area
INAUGURAL
ACTIVITIES
Calendar
Date
Sunday,
January
202—783-2858
of
1965
Events:
Event
17
Place
and
Time
Reception and Dinner
Honoring Members
of the
U S Cabinet and Members
of the Transportation
Committee
Walnut
Hill
2116 Annandale
Falls Church,
7 p.m.
Road
Va.
Monday,
January
18
Reception for Distinguished Ladies
National
Gallery of
Art,
3 to 6 p.m.
Monday,
January
18
Democratic
Gala
National
Reception
Sheraton-Park
Armory,
Tuesday,
January
19
Governors’
Tuesday,
January
19
Reception Honoring the
Vice President-Elect
and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey
Shoreham
Mayflower
7 p.m.
to
Tuesday,
January
19
Young Democrats
tion and Dance
Tuesday,
January
19
Inaugural
Wednesday,
January
20
Official
Ceremony
Wednesday,
January
20
Parade
Wednesday,
January
20
Citizens
Humphrey
Recep-
Concert
Inaugural
3
6
to
to
Johnson-
Reception
Transportation Committee
Listed on Reverse Side
8
8:45
8:30
Hotel
p.m.
Hotel
l a.m.
p.m.
Hall
The Capitol
11:30 a.m.
p.m.
International
T
to
9
p.m.
Hotel
p.m.
Constitution
1:30
for
6
Guard
p.m.
Inn
‘-
ae
TRANSPORTATION
O.
ROY
COMMITTEE
CHALK
Chairman
Roy Abernethy, President
American Motors Corporation
S. A. Girard, President
George
F. W. Ackerman, Chairman
Greyhound Corporation
L. E. Glasgow,
Arjay Miller, President
Ford Motor Company
Floyd Akers, President
Capitol Cadillac-Oldsmobile
Commander
Kaiser
Jeep
Central
Company
President
Abe McGregor
Commerce
President
AFL-CIO
Corporation
Airlines
Interstate
Meany,
Goff, Chairman
Commission
C. W. Moore, President
Chicago Helicopter Airways
Charles Allen
Allen & Company
John Gordon, President
General Motors Corporation
Louis
H.
William M. Allen, President
Boeing Company
Peter
W.
Clint
Murchison,
George W. Apperson, President
Amalgamated Transit Union
Thomas L. Grace, President
Ozark Air Lines
D. W.
James
Harold E. Gray, President
Pan American World Airways
J. J. O'Connell, Jr., Chairman
W.
Austin,
Northeast
Leslie
Airlines
Grace, President
R. Grace Company
Northwest
H. Vance Greenslip, President
Greyhound Corporation
W.
E. Beard,
President
C. S. Gross, Chairman
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Col.
Airlines
Braniff International Airways
Charles J. Bell
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Harold W. Haase, President
international Railways of Central
Floyd D. Hall, President
Walter J. Bierwagon, Vice President
Amalgamated Transit Union
Eastern
Air
J. C. Hall, President
Hallmark
Alan
Rear Admiral John
Chairman
Federal
Board
Civil Aeronautics
Maritime
Commission
Ernest R. Breech, Chairman
Lloyd Hartman, President
Lake Central Airlines
D. W.
D. J. Haughton, President
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
World
Airlines
Brosnan,
Southern
President
Railway
Irving M. Buckley,
Trans Caribbean
Company
Exec. Vice
Airways
President
James B. Carey, President
International Union of Electrical
Workers
Hon.
E. William
Federal
Arthur M.
Commission
James H. Carmichael, Chairman
Airlift International
Judge H. Lester Hooker, Chairman
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission
Hal N. Carr, President
North Central Airlines
John Hoving, Vice President
Air Transport Association
Richard E. Cross, Chairman
American Motors Corporation
Henry M. Hubshman, Jr., President
Hubshman Factors
Neil J. Curry, Chairman
American Trucking Association
Frank W. Hulse, President
Southern Airways
T. H. Davis, President
Piedmont Aviation
Richard M. Jackson, President
Seaboard World Airlines
Gen. Donald S$. Dawson
Attorney at Law
Edward
Fred C. Donner, Chairman
General Motors Corporation
Claude
Donald W. Douglas, Chairman
Douglas Aircraft Company
W.
Donald W. Douglas, Jr., President
Douglas Aircraft Company
United
States
Clerk
Senate Commerce
A. Jessup,
Safeway
Trails
David
Airlines
Edwards,
President
Committee
Chairman
H. Kendall, President
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Compary
George L. Killion, President
Committee of Steamship Lines
Slick Airways
C. L. Egtvedt, Chairman
Boeing
Gerald
Yale
Company
Eskow,
President
Transport
Corporation
Dan Loomis, President
Association of American
Railroads
George H. Love, Chairman
Chrysler Corporation
Joseph C. Mackey,
Mackey Airlines
W.
Fiying
President
Prescott,
Tiger
President
Line
Delos Rentzel, Chairman
Slick Airways
Thomas Rice, President
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
D. J. Russell, Chairman
Southern Pacific Railroad
Sadler,
American
President
Airlines
Stuart Saunders, Chairman
Pennsylvania Railroad
C.
Edward J. Lazear
International Association of Machinists
Frontier
Paul
& Potomac
Railroad
Robert F. Six, President
Continental Air Lines
Lewis
President
Michael
Stuart Shumate, President
Richmond, Fredericksburg
Jervis Langdon, Jr., Chairman
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Dymond,
Airlines
Andrew B. Shea, President
Pan American Grace Airways
T. C. Drinkwater, President
Western Air Lines
W.
Central
Marion
Corporation
Jarrett,
Airlines
Walter Reuther, President
United Auto Workers
Hill, Director
Greyhound
President
E. Perlman, President
“New York Central Railroad
W.
Henry, Chairman
Communications
President
A. Patterson, Chairman
United Air Lines
Robert
Harlee, Chairman
Jr.,
Robert E. Peach, President
Mohawk Airlines
A.
Lines
Harry O. Bercher, President
International Harvester Company
S. Boyd,
.
America
Lines
Brothers
Nyrop,
Lake
Chairman
Air
Murchison
President
Allegheny
Trans
Continental
Barnes,
O.
Charles
Chairman
Mueller,
R. Smith, Chairman
American Airlines
A. E. Stoddard, President
Union Pacific Railroad
Hon. Edward D. Storm, Commissioner
Maryland Public Service Commission
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., President
Trans
World
Airlines
Lynn A. Townsend,
Chrysler
Dionisio
President
Corporation
Trigo, President
Caribbean-Atlantic
Airlines
Walter J. Tuchy, Vice Chairman
Chesapeake
Jay
Turner,
& Ohio
President
Washington
Central
Railroad Company
Labor
Council
E. V. Underwood, Chairman
Mohawk Airlines
Henry Ford, II, Chairman
Ford Motor Company
John H. Magoon, Jr., President
Hawaiian Airlines
Thomas D. Webb, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Morris Forgash, President
United States Freight Company
E. S. March,
Admiral
Morris
L. B. Maytag, Jr., President
National Airlines
William E. Williamson, Clerk
House of Representatives Interstate Commerce Committee
James Franklin, President
Airlift International
David J. McDonald, President
United Steel Workers
Charles
R. W. Freeman,
Charles B. McInnis,
Safeway Trails
C.
Fox,
First Vice
D. C. Transit System
Delta Air Lines
President
Chairman
Santa
Fe
President
American
Railroad
President
John
Alaska
M. Will, President
Export
F. Willis,
Airlines
Isbrandtsen
Jr., President
E. Woolman, President
Delta Air Lines
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for
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of
purpose
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with
American
workers.
farm
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to
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be the same . . «
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be
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is the nub of the problea,
Mr. President,
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more impore
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at
wh
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ar
under existing federal lawe and
state
governments
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to
extend
to
answer
most other workers,
theiv
bitter
difficulties
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necessary
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fl
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wa
ng
vi
li
a
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there will
be no. labor deficit,
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of
is cure
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and
me that where
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October 22,
1964
Reverend James L. Vizzard, S.J.
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
1312
Massachusetts
Dear
Father
Washington
5,
D.C.
Avenue,
N. W.
Vizzard:
Thank you for your letter of October 21 anda
copy of the letter addressed to the President regarding the
;
Mexican Farm Labor problem under Public Law 78.
I have asked my staff to prepare an appropriate
communication which I will address to the President on this
matter.
With kind personal
regards.
Sincerely,
WPR:lm
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:
Walter
P.
President
Reuther
October
Would you prepare
President
of the IUD.
an appropriate
reply
22,
1964
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Houston,
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Rt.Rev.Mser.William Schimek
Mapleton, Minnesota
VICE PRESIDENT
SECOND
Mrs. Joseph Berg
Panhandle, Texas
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Mr.
you
As
President:
know,
the
Mexican
Farm
Labor
(bracero)
under
program
.
ar
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th
of
st
3l
er
mb
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Public Law 78 comes to an end on
at
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to be diligent
~
be
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me
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legal or otherwise, to keep wages an
on
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i.
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Me
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et
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th
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eo
accept~
an
to
conditions
working
and
workers and to improve their wages
be
will
Poverty
Against
War
the
able level, then, at least to them,
nothing but a hollow mockery.
With
every
good
wish.
¢
Very
sincerely
Rev.
James
L.
yours,
Vizzard,
S.
J.
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