Speeches on various topics, including American politics, women's issues, the economy, Watergate, the Nixon administration, and the Democratic Party from 1973 forward [01]

Speech for Housing Rally, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 17, 1973; Remarks of Jean Westwood, Frank Lockett Association, January 26, 1973; Southern California Speech, April 25, 1973; Speech for Illinois Democratic Women, May 3, 1973

SPEECH FOR HOllS I NG RAllY JANUARY 17; 1973 JEAN M. WESTWOOD LAD I ES AND GENTLEMEN--ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY, FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE INAUGURATION OF WE NIXON PRESIDENT AND HIS NEW ADMINISTRATION FOR A SECOND FOUR-YEAR TERM. EITHER IN PERSON OR REPRESENTED BY LETTERS, WIRES, RESOLUTIONS, WE ARE A CROSS-SECTION OF THIS COUNTY, STATE, AND NATION - THE HOME BUILDERS, THE SUB­ CONTRACTORS WHO WORK WITH THEM, THE UNIONS, THE WORKING MEN AND WEN WHO WORK FOR THE THE BUILDERS. COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENTS WHO KNOW NOT ONLY THEIR DESPERATE HOUSING NEEDS BUT ALSO THE NEEDS FOR COMvlUNITY PLANNING, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL, PUBLIC FACILITIES, SEWER AND WATER, FOR OPEN SPACES WHERE CHILDREN MAY PLAY AND TRE5MAY HELP KEEP OUR ECOLOGICAL BALANCE AND OUR SPIRITUAL BALANCE - THE FARMERS WHO SEE THE HOPE OF DECENT HOUS I NG FOR THEMSELVES AND THOSE WOO WORK FOR THEM VANISHING ALONG WITH THEIR LABOR FARM GRANTS AND LOANS AND THEIR BIGGEST INSURANCE AGAINST CATASTROPHE -- THE DISASTER LOAN PROGRAM . AlL. OEL.THESE ARE:_ REPRESENTED HERE OR ARE PROTESTING IN OTHER WAYS. , flsOVE AND BEYOND THEM ALL ARE THE PEOPLE -- THE ELDERLY ON F I XED I NCCJIlES , THE YOUNG NEEDING EITHER COLLEGE HOUSING OR THE CHANCE TO BEGIN MARRIED LIFE IN A HOUSE THEY CAN AFFORD; THE LAKE CoUNTY $5,000 18,000 FAMILIES AND li,OOO OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN SALT AND THE EQUAL NLMBER IN THE REST OF THE STATE WHOSE INCOME IS BELOW AND WHO NEED DECENT LCM COST APARTMENTS TO RENT OR HOUSES TO BUY: THE POOR WHO CANNOT FIND 8t:fj_ HOUSING WITHOUT RENT OR If'ITEREST SUPPLEMENTS, THE MIGRANT WORKER AND THE FULL-TIME FARM WORKER AND THE SMALL FARMER, THE INDIANS IN BOTH OUR URBAN PAGE 2 AREAS AND ON OUR SEVEN RESERVATIONS. THIS IS AN INFORMATION RALLY AND THE FACTS WHICH CONCERN ALL OF US - ARE AS FOLLOWS: AT CHRISTMAS A FOUR YEARS AT H.U.D. GEORGE ROMNEY FAREWELL PAR1Y, HAD BEEN A FAILURE AND THAT SCJv1E CHANGES WERE Ifvfv1INENT WHICH WOULD BE FAR-REACHING. ON JANUARY 5 HE SENT A TELEGRAM WHICH PUT A WATER HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ON THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: PUBLIC FACILITY LOANS, OPEN SPACE lAND PROGRAMS, SECTION 235: No INDICATED THAT HE FELT HIS AND SEWER GRANTS, AND SECTION 106 SECTION 236 AND NO APPROVALS. No RENT SUPPLEMENTS: LOtJ-RENT FEASIBILITY LETTERS, FUND RESERVATIONS OR INSURANCE COMITMENTS. No -- CONDITIONAL COMMITMENTS EXCEPT PURSUANT TO PREVIOUS FIRM RESERVATIONS OR OUTSTANDING CONDITIONAL COMVlITMENTS. HOUS I NG : "TEMPORARY" FURTHER ANNUAL CONTR IBUT ION CONTRACT LI STS MAY BE APPROVED WITH PRELIMINARY APPROVAL MUST WAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. PUBLIC THOSE • CoLLEGE HOUSING: No FUND RESERVATIONS. SEPARATELY, THE TION OF THE SUSPENSION OF AND LOANS; 515 SECRETARY RavlNEY OF HavlE BUILDERS, FATE ON NOTICE THE FARMER'S HCJv1E AD"lINISTRA­ INTEREST SUBSIDY HOUSING PROGRAMS; AND LOANS AND 504 IN A SPEECH AT THE HOUSTON AS WELL THAT FUNDS FOR JUNE 30. SECRETARY RavlNEY REPAIR GRANTS 5'14-5116 DISASTER LOANS. CHANGES AND RlJv10UR THAT THE FREEZE WAS FOR BY SAME 502 AGRICULTURE OF COOP ERATI VE HOUS I NG I NTEREST SUBS IDY HOUS I NG PROGRAMS, IbMESTIC FARM lABOR GRANTS THESE DEPARTMENT l8 MONTHS WERE CONFIRMED CONVENTION OF THE iVbDEL CITIES AND NATIONAL AsSOCIATION URBAN RENEWAL DECLARED THAT THERE WERE FACE THE 250,000 APPROVED UNITS ALREADY IN THE PIPELUNE, WHICH ONLY POSTPONES THE DAY OF RECKONING SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN, DEVELOPMENT, RESPONDED AT WI-OSE HOUSTON SENATE BY SAYING, COMMITTEE HANDLES HOUSING AND URBAN "WE CANNOT LET STAND THIS ARBITRARY EXERCISE OF EXECUTIVE POWER TAKEN IN VIOLATION OF THE INTENT OF CoNGRESS, AND IN PAGE 3 COMPLETE DISREGARD OF THE HOUSING NEEDS OF ll-IE POOR AND ILL-HOUSED OF OUR HE INDICATED THAT ll-IERE MAY BE COURT OR LEGISLATED ACTION AGAINST "ll-IE CoMvlITTEE'S HOUSING SUBCOfVl.1ITTEE, CHAwRMAN OF THE STATED THAT THE HOUSE BANKING NIXON ABUSE BY FUNDS." THE EXECUTIVE OF ITS POWER TO IMPOUND CONGRESSIONALLY APPROPRIATED REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM BENNETT (PA.l NATION." AND CURRENCY AD'1INISTRATION WAS USING THE MJRATORILJv1 AS BLACKfV1AIL TO TRY TO FORCE CONGRESSIONAL PASSAGE OF ITS SPECIAL REVENUE SHAR I NG PLAN A VI EW WH I CH I S SHARED BY MANY OTHER MEMBERS OF - THE PICTURE EVEN BLACKER, IN HOUSTON BoARD CoNGRESS To • HOUSE BANKING CavivlITTEE CHAIRMAN, WRIGHT PATMAN, THERE ARE AMPLE SIGNS THE NIXON ACMINISTRATION AND THE MAKE INDICATED FEDERAL RESERVE WILL fvDVE JOINTLY IN POLICIES THAT WILL BRING NEW ROUNDS OF INTEREST RATE INCREASES AND THAT THIS WILL FORCE A SERIOUS DOWNWARD REVISION IN CONVENTIONAL HOUS ING STARTS. NIXON As A FI NAL BLO\"I, RENT CONTROLS WERE REMOVED I N PHASE I I I OF THE ECONOMIC GAME PLAN. THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE AND GROUPS I AavlINISTRATION'S ACTIONS. TALKED ABOUT TODAY, BOTH IN GOALS SET BY CONGRESS FOR 1969-78 WHAT UTAH DO THEY MEAN TO ALL THE AND IN THE INCLUDING THOSE UNITS IN ll-IE PIPELINE, 1.4 NATIONWIDE, 4.7 WE HAVE THROUGH 1973, MILLION ASSISTED UNITS WILL HAVE BEEN PRODUCED IN ll-IE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE DECADE, LEAVING INSTEAD 26 AND CONFIRMED BY THE ADMINISTRATION WERE MILLION NEW AND REHABILITATED UNITS, SIX MILLION TO BE ASSISTED. SECOND FIVE YEARS. NATION? THE HOUSING 4.6 MILLION NEEDED FOR THE OF CUT-BACKS, WE NEED TO TRIPLE THE NI.JvlBER WE ARE PRODUCING. MILLION HOUSING UNITS WITHOUT PLLMBING TODAY, 2.7 MILLION UNITS SO OVERCROWDED AS TO DEPRIVE THEIR TENANTS OF DECENT LIFE. IN UTAH,: 'STATE ESTIMATE'S INDICATE AN IMMEDIATE NEED FOR REHABILITATED UNITS: FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME FAMILIES. OF S.L.C. AND CoUNTY NEEDING CLEARANCE. SHOWS THESE 24,656 30,000 THE MASTER PLAN PROGRAM UNITS REQUIRING REHABILITATION AND ARE ONLY THE STATISTICS -- 1,000 NEW OR 5,984 UNITS NEED FOR UNITS lliMESTIC 4 PAGE FARM LAsOR HOUSING, ON OUR INDIAN RESERVATIONS. IN 18 WHAT PLUS THE END OF TI-iE NEWLY BEGUN PROGRAM TO MEET TI-iE NEEDS PERHAps MONTHS WE WILL BEGIN AGAIN HAPPENS TO TI-iOSE FAMILIES DURING THE BLACKfv1AIL AND PASSES THE -- 18 MONTHS? 18 MONTHS FURTHER BEHIND. IF CONGRESS GIVES INTO THE SPECIAL REVENUE SHARING PROGRAM, AND SEWER GRANTS AND OPEN SPACES AND PUBLIC FACILITIES WE MAY AGAIN GET WATER -- IF THE FUNDS ARE NOT AGAIN IMPOUNDED, BUT NOT HOUSING. SEVENTY 17 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF PROJECTS, A SWIMMING POOL, A CIVIC CENTER, PARK PROJECTS, AND 4,000 REPRESENTATIVE KOCH AREA. HOUSING UNITS WILL BE POSTPONED IN THE ESTIMATES THAT IN HALT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVITIES. ROBERT W. f"lt\FFIN, REDEVELOPMENT OFFICIALS 30,000 NEW YORK CITY ESTIMATES ll-IAT AN $16.5 ALONE THE ACTIONS WILL UNITS AND ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN CONSTRUCTION DIRECTOR OF THE LOSS TO THE ECONOMY ESTIMATED AT WASHINGTON, D.C., J.8 NATIONAL AsSOCIATION OF HOUSING AND rvDNTH CURTAILMENT WOlLD RESULT IN A TOTAL BILLION AND 1,898,000 MAN-YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT OVER A ONE-YEAR PERIOD, NOT TO MENTION THE ENORrvDUS LOSS IN HUMAN TERMS. EACH DOLLAR OF GOVERNMENT ASS I STANCE FOR HOUS I NG RESULTS I N A DIRECT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT OF FI FTEEN TO lWENTY DOLLARS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND LAND IMPROVEMENT. THIS TOTAL INVESTMENT CREATES A DEMAND FOR HOUSING-RELATED SERVICES WHICH IS REFLECTED IN EXPENDITURES FOR REAL ESTATE TAXES, INTEREST, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE. ALL OF THESE DIRECT EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSING, AS WELL AS EXPENDITURES FOR COMMUNITY FACILITIES TO SUPPORT THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOUSING, ARE SUBJECT TO A MULTIPLIER EFFECT WHICH RESULTS FROM THE ADDITIONAL PURCHASING POWER CREATED BY THE PAYMENT OF WAGES AND PAYMENTS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES. IS lWO. THE COMMONLY ACCEPTED MULTIPLIER PAGE 5 THUS,. AND PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMS -- PERIOD,' OVER A TWELVE-+1ONTH B I LLI ON DOLlARS THE • FISCAL YEAR 1973 AT THE LEVEL ALITHORIZED IN ., WOULD RESULT IN A CONSTRUCTION LOSS OF APPROPRIATIONS 235)236, A MORATORILM ON NEW HOUSING CONSTRUCTION UNDER THE 6'.77 BILLION OOLLARS WITH AN ANNUAL TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT OF OVER TOTAL DI RECT EMPOYMENT LOSS WOULD BE ABOLIT [13'.'4 779,000 MAN- YEARS. CoRRESPONDINGLY, THE 6.7 BILLION REDUCTION IN DIRECT EXPENDITURES WOULD REDUCE THE CURRENT RATE OF RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION BY WOULD CAUSE A 1.3l PERCENT REDUCTION IN THE 15.5 PERCENT. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT OOUBLE THE PRESENT NLMBER OF UNEMPLOYED CONSTRUCTION WORKERS. REDUCTION SUCH A CUT AND rvDRE THAN FURTHERrvDRE, THIS IN HOUSING CONSTRUCTIDN WOULD CAUSE A CONCOMITANT REDUCTION IN Cavtv1UNITY DEVELOPMENT, EXPENDITURES FOR ROADS, SCHOOLS, WATER AND SEWER LINES, AND OTHER ITEMS, WITH A TOTAL DIRECT IMPACT OF APPROXIMATELY OF APPROXIMATELY EXPENDITURES THE 131,000 FOR RELATED SERVICES OF LOCAL $675 -- BILLION AND A LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT WOULD ALSO BE AN ANNUAL REDUCTION IN MILLION. FARMER'S HorvlE AavlINISTRATION PAST YEAR ON SUSPENDED PROGRAMS $13 THERE MAN-YEARS. $1.14 OFFICE GAVE THESE FIGURES FOR THE rvDNEY THAT WILL NOT BE SPENT I N MILLION ON RURAL HOUSING, THREE- QUARTERS OF A MILLION FOR FOR LIVESTOCK, MACHINERY, LAND, AND OPERATING COST LOANS, COfvVv1UNITY SERVICES (SEWER AND WATER LOANS) - $22 UTAH FARMER'S $2,750,000 -­ PROGRAMS FOR RURAL AND A HALF MILLION OOLlARS FARMERS USED LAST YEAR THAT WILL BE UNAVAILABLE NOW IN THREE PROGRAMS ALONE. USERS ASSOCIATION NEXT YEAR THE UTAH WATER HAS ALREADY DRAWN UP A RESOLUTION ASKING FOR A CHANGE ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, WHICH WAS SO VITAL IN OUR WATER-SHORTAGE STATE IN INCREASING WATER EFFICIENCY, CONTROLLING EROSION, AND MINIMIZING THE POLLLITION OF OUR STREAMS. OUR A.S.C. SOIL CoNSERVATION OFFICES ARE PAGE 6 TO BE cur I N HALF -- ALL E PROGRAMS AIMED AT HELPI NG THE SMALL FARMER AND FARM LABORER WERE E ONES cur BACK JUST AS IT WAS THE LOW AND fv10DERATE HOUSING - SUBSIDIES AND LOANS, THE WATER, SEWER, OPEN SPACE, MODEL CITIES, PUBLIC FACILITY f'IONIES AIMED AT HELPING T:I-:IE LOW INCOME AND WORKING MAN AND WCJI1AN, THE DYING RURAL TOWNS AND DECAYING INNER CITIES WHERE HELP IS MOST NEEDED HERE AT HOME IN UTAH STATE H.U.D. JANUARY 5 HAD BEEN $7,856,000 FOR 8200 UNITS AND IN 236 MONEY $381,230 FOR 399 UNITS, WITH RENT SUPPLEMENT ALLOCATIONS OF HOUSING OF 1971 460 PERIOD HOUSING, UNITS FOR $8,429,349 $5,3tO,000 $3,087,000 $8,429,000 WAS APPROVED IN 1972. IN PUBLIC FACILITY LOANS PLUS $2,829,000 IN "LEGACY $576,000 PARKS" FOR 991 LOW-RENT PUBLIC HAD USED THROUGH THE $40,248,000 $1,574,000 OF MONEY ROUGH UNITS. WE IN MATCHING SEWER AND WATER GRANTS; IN MODEL CITIES, 235 FIGURES SI-OW THAT ALLOCATION OF AMERICA. IN COIJ...EGE IN NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES, OPEN SPACE -- AND HAD SO MANY PROJECTS IN THE PLANNING STAGES E LOSS TO ALL OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR ECONOMY WILL BE HARD TO MEASURE. WE CAN AFFORD TO UNLEASH BILLIONS OF OOLLARS WORTH OF BOMBS AND LOSE BILLIONS OF OOLLARS WOR OF AIRPLANES IN lWO TO THREE WEEKS TO CHANGE A FEW WORDS OF AN AGREEMENT WE HAD SUPPOSEDLY ALREADY AGREED TO, IN A TINY COUNTRY WHERE NEITHER SIDE IS RIGHT AND WHERE ANY WRITTEN PEACE WE ACHIEVE IS GIVEN ONLY A SLIM CHANCE OF CHANGING E LONG, LONG STRUGGLE ITS PEOPLE HAVE FACED UNDER THE CHINESE, THE RUSSIANS, AND OUR OWN MISGUIDED INTERFERENCE. WE FRENCH, THE CAN AFFORD TO BavtB I-OSPITALS, EMBASSIES, AND THE CAMPS WHERE WE ADD TO OUR OWN PRISONERS-QF-WAR. CAN AFFORD TO PRavlISE' NoeTH lAND SOLITH VIETNAM (AS WE SHOULD) WE BILLIONS IN AID TO RESTORE THEIR SHATTERED CITIES AND LANDS WHICH WE SPEND BILLIONS OF OOLLARS AND THOUSANDS OF WASTED LIVES DESTROYING. PAGE BlIT 7 WE CANNOT AFFORD TO l:IOUSE OUR OWN POOR AND ELDERLY THAT GOOD CLEAN WATER AND GOOD SEWAGE PLANTS PROMISE - -- WE CANNOT AFFORD THE HEALlH WE CANNOT AFFORD TO TACKLE THE CITY PROBLEMS WHICH CREATE THE CLIMATE THAT BREEDS CYNICISM, DRUGS, AND CRIME. WE HAVE A RESOLUTION TO PRESENT TO OUR LEGISLATURE WHICH WILL BE SENT TO PRESIDENT NIXON. ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY GROUPS GATHER IN RALLIES, IN UNION HALLS, IN SCHOOLS, IN LEGISLATURES, IN CONGRESS, IN MEETINGS, IN CHURCHES, TO PRESENT PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS, TO PASS LEGISLATION TO MEET THE PROBLEMS, TO WALK OR TO TALK IN PROTEST. I FEAR THAT IT I S ALL HOPELESS. WEEK FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. HE PRES IDENT NIXON WILL BE I NAUGURATED TH IS HAS DETERMINED THAT HE AND AN A1Jv1INISTRATION THAT IS OF A NEW A DIFFERENT KIND IN THIS COUNTRY SHALL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THE DECISIONS AS TO WHICH PROGRAMS ARE WISE AND PRUDENT FOR OUR COUNTRY FUNDS SHALL BE SPENT -- ALONE MAKE -- WHERE ON GUNS AND BavtBS AND TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS IN FAR-AWAY COUNTRIES AND WHERE THEY SHALL NOT BE SPENT - ON THE SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT CITIZEN IN THIS COUNTRY WHO IS POOR OR FARMS OR WORKS WITH HANDS AND TOOtS AND BLUEPRINTS TO BUILD HOMES, OR WHO NEEDS Hav1ES. NEVERTHELESS, OUR' ONLY NIXON HOPE IS TO SHOW THAT THE MANDATE WE GAVE WAS NOT A MANDATE SUCH AS THIS -- PRESIDENT IT WAS AN ELECTION ON A PROMISE GIVEN OF PEACE AND ON SPEECHES OF CONCERN FOR THE ORDI NARY MAN AND WavlAN WHO BEll EVES I N THE CHANCE OF ADVANCING TO A BETTER LIFE IN IS BUILDING. GIVE AMERICA -- IN THE NIXON WORK ETHIC, WHICH US BACK THE BUILDING OF OUR Hav1ES AND CITIES AND THE JOBS AND THE HOPE THEY PROVIDE, PRESIDENT NIXON, WE PETITION YOU TODAY. At"ARKS IF .EAI WESTWOOD fRANK LOCKETT ASSOCIATION JANUARY,26, 1913 A LOSER'S CAllE I \tIOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT J AJII; HERE TODAY 8ECAUSE I M A SUCCESSFUL BUSIIE IIIOIliM - BUT THAT'S NOT IIIMY YOU ASKED E HERE, fF COURSE. 1'. HERE BECAUSE I .AS AN UNSUCCESSFUL POLITICIAN LAST YEAR, AND YOU SUSPECT 1 LOST BECAUSE I .AS A .aIllAN. YOU THINK I NIGHT NAVE SO SPECIAL SECRET TO HELP YOU SOLVE n£ "PROBLElII" Of .,lIEN 1ft IYSt.ESS. I DIONtrr ION OR LOSE MELL, GENTtE•• , YES AND ID. LAST YEAR " - BECAUSE " .. AI PReBLE •• Alii A ••AN. -- AND I 010 BOTH ".VER, I 9JlKNO. SOMETHING ABOUT Tt£ NO OlE COULD HAVE BEEN IN POLITICS - OR IN BUSINESS -­ THESE LAST fE. YEARS WITHOUT rINDING OUT TNAT AMERICAN M[N ARE QUESTIONING A LOT fF CONVENTIONAL IDEAS, MD CAUSING EVERYONE A LOT IF t£ADACHES. B8TM POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN HAVE CONE TO IIIITH 10RRIED fACES AND rURROD BROWS, ASKIN' ·IftJAT DO THEY !A!I, ANY..,. b -- THESE 1lI0II[.'. , 'RX)AY you HAVE ASKED..& TO TALK ABOUT HOW .,.N CAN BREACN THE BARRIERS TO SUCCESS IN BUSI_SS. NOW THAT'S THE MlRONG QUESTION. ARE AI ENEIIIY aREACHINe THOSE BARRIERS -- SOMEHOI, 'R. THAT ClUESTION, ONE GETS THE LINES. IT I.PlIES THAT IiIOM:N AND IT LEAVES 1M[ ACTION UP TO THE •• A PICTURE IF HEROIC BUSINESStllEN DEF'ENDINC IT SUCGESTS TNAT SOBNE .ILL "WIN" AND SOMEONE WILL "LOSE", If THOSE BARRIERS r ALL. IT'S ST N8T THE RIGHT QUESTION. LIKE THIS, INSTEAD. AT THE TIP' I THINK _HAT NEED TO ASK IS SOMETHING lit......CH 'WILL...,. BUSINESS LOSE ARE WOMEN .RKERS A THREAT' -- OR GAIN -- IF" WOIllEN eEl IN IS EQUALITY fOR IIIOlIIEN GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE- - OR IS THERE A WAY t-CtN MAKE IT PRDrITABLE? TO ANSIER THOSE QUESTIONS IS DI"ICULT, BUT IT NAY BE WORTH OUR IIIMILE. . RAISINe ALL THIS AND AN ASSET OR A LIABILITY? IS JUST ""0 IS THE "IIIORKI.; .,111.'" /· / RUMPUS?l THOSE . KING YOURSELF AlE QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD BE YOU'D lETTER at SURE YOU'RE lOT aASING YOUR ANSMERS ON IIIVTHS. YOU .AY TURI OUT TO I[ A REAL LOSER TO TIY AGAIN IN 'OUR .HE YE ARS: -- ."MY IS SME -- IF YOU AlE MD II BUSINESS yau OOI'T T A CH.CE '). YOU'VE ALL t£ARD THE TV' AD I .. .., TELLS _RICAI .MEI ·YOU'VE C_ A LONC .AV, BAIV'" BECAUSE I!I1 ,.,ST ilJRKING .. lIEN PILE RATfEl THINLY .,fEN THEY toEAR Mill' -­ KNO •• MEIIE THEV ARE -AID TtC OILY PLACE Tt£V'1[ A LlWC IIIAY'R. IS WHERE THEY fIIPE Tt€Y'f£ GOINC, NOT RAE Tt£Y'VE B£I. SO IIIAYIE THAT'S THE r JRST flYTH \1IE OUCHT TD GET RIO IF. THAT LONG-LECGED BEAUTY IN JIOO CLOTHES tllHO STRIDES ACROSS THE SCREEN BREATHING SUCCESS AID YOUTH All) EXCITEIENT. CIRL -- IS H tllHAT YOU THINK IF .tEN YOU THINK IF Tt£ AIlERICaN WORK INC IN rACT DO YOU STILL CALL THE. "GIRLS'" YOU RE RIGHT.II 1920 -- THE AVERAGE .RlCING ..AI THEN IIIAS TIENTY YEARS OLD, SJNCLE, AND NOT VERY W:LL EDUCATED. HO.a:VER, 1920 THINKING I. 1910 CAN CAUSE YOU A LOT" PI08LEIltS IN BUSINESS, AS YOU KIOW. so IIING IS TI£ IIIORKING .OIIIAI II TI£ 1970'S' NElli PICTURE. LETt E IF tIE CM GET A HER IlEDIAN AGE IS FORTY, MD St£'S PROBABLY NARRIED. StE'S ONE " 33 ,ULLlO..... I.. "RK, ALfIIOST HAU" IF TtC 'E-ALE POPULATION OF' THE NATION. 51£ MAKES UP 31 PERCENT IF YOUR LAlOR. fORCE, AND HER ,,_RS ARE caRIWIN& DAILY. StEeS JUST AS IELL EOUCAl£D AS MER fltALE COUNTERPART, LEVEL, LIKE MIS, IS T\£LVE AND ONE.:.MALF . TODAY HAS A COLLECt DEGREE -- ARS. HER MEDIAN EDUCATION 01[ OUT IF EVERY rIV' ... JNC AID EIGHT OUT OF TEN ARt IICH SCHOOL GRADUATES. THE MHE EOUCATION SHE HAS THE lORE LIKELY StE IS TO 8£ .RKING -- MD THE .aRE LIKELY SHE IS TO STAY ON TI£ a. StE' S .. RKJNC IECAUSE Stl: HAS TO .,.. NOT reft "PIN fIIONEY." EVERY NINE _RICAN 'AMILIES IS HEADED 8'1 A .,IIIAN. .... ARE SUPPORTING 'MILIES, OR THE"SELVES, aNt IF SEVENTY PERCENT IF 'ALL '*lIKINC OR ARE .AlRtED TO •• WHO EARN LESS TNAN "0oa A VEAl. AUIOST HALF CF ALL .AKIN' ,lOCI HAVE CHILDRE. -- AND LABOR DEPARTMENT STUDIES SHD. THESE '*IRkING .,THEIS ME -liST AS RELIABLE Are PRlFESSIONAL AS MY OTHER CROUP OF' .AKERS. THIS WORKIN' ... CF TODAY IS .,T MY III)RE LIKELY TO IE ILL TH. THE •• AT Tt£ NEXT S' -- StE AVERAets rIVE DAYS A YEAR AISENCE Dut TO ILLNESS, ' JUST LIKE HE DOES. SHE •• LIKELY TO QUIT 11 .. aUT THE DIFFERENCE Ifl RATES IF SEPARATION IS so .ALL ....... PERCENT 'OR ... C.PAR£D TO 5.2 PERCENT 'OR WOllEN THAT IT IS NEGLICIBLE. IN,. ACT, THAT DI'FERENCE JS PROBABLY DUE TO LACK IF OPPORTUNITY RATHER 1M. SEX. SIE IS DUFERE.T 'ROllI HAVE A lEAK II EIPLOYIIENT OTIC,••_RS I. -t -- lAY. SHE IS NOAE LIKELY TO BUT H IS ALSO .aRE LIKELY TO RETURI TO HER tlllPL8YER .HEN HER CHILDRE. ARE IN SCHOOL. TMAT'S •• THAI YOU CM SAY ABOUT TI£ YOUN' ...... 8 'DR YOU 'OR A 'E. YEARS MD THE. QUITS TO TRY YOUR COIltPETJTOR, 0" GaES IF' TO DO THREE YEARS MILITARY SERVICE. IE BACK. .!I.. "".AlLY .. 'T ME •• ·T HAVE LaT Ttl: .O.JIG 'ORCE, aUT ME'S PROBABLY LUT _- ARE YOU IECJNNlNC TO SEE THIS -.oRKING A.· A LITTLE DIfFERENTLY' .'s NOT A 'LIGHTY YOUIC THINC, ., .'s NOT UEDlJCATED OR .SKILLED, MD SHE'S 18T, JUST -OUT F'OR KICKS" AI,.,.. I;ARNS, ., IIIOR[. SHE MEEDS TO ••• SO ..AT'S TME PROBLEM StEeS PROBABLY IORTH EVERY PEI'Y SHE ltE .MTS TO 10 •• .•, IS SHE ANCRY IN 1973' ,,"AT'S .ROIe' IllELL, F'IR _ TMINC, _'S UNDERPAID AND utI)[R-UTIlIZED, AND SM£ CAl THE CAP BETlEE. iCR OIAN SALMY AND THAT f'E A -AN DOIN' iCR J08 PROVE IT. IS LARGE -- AfIO GROWIIG LARGER. IN 1111 teA EARNINGS CRE ABOUT THOSE " A .AN, Bur •• 1970 THEY \cRE DO.. TO •• PERCEIT. a.. NT ... E VEl 11TH A COLLEGE DEGREE SHE OM. Y EARlS '1 PERCENT AS NUCM AS THE CUY •• GRADUATED WITH HER. H WAITS TO 0. IIIMY. (SIIIULDN'T YOU 8[ .lIDtAINC IIIMY, Toe? ') fi)' IYO - .. st£ PROBABLY .RKS IN • ....PAID AND IE.I-SKILLED .Ill, IaIITN LITTLE CHANCE TMIRTy-rOUR PERCENT IF ALL •• INC WJEN ARE CLERICAL IIORKERS .. ADVANCE.NT. 1ItOf£ THAN TEN .. ILLlO,. OF' Tt£.. AND rOURTEEN PERCENT IF THOSE HAVE HAD rOUR YEARS IF COLLEc:E: -i' J s: ALTMOUCH 38 PERCENT rF ft.. -.,. rORCE ARE IIIOIIEN, OILY 11 PERCENT (F Tt£ .AKING WOMAN WANTS TO klOlJ IIIMY. IIIANAti£RIAL 'ORCE AlE. -- -r1+b: OO.'T ·YOU .IDER, TOO? If' SHE eET THE ..1)8 J1 SEVEN OUT [F EVERY TEN lIEN WHO ARE IN THE .ANAGEIENT CATEGORY EARN .. 110,010 A 'EAR, BUT OILY AT THE .RIFIED TWO OUT IF EVERY TE .... IN 1MAT CAtEGORY 00. 12!,aaa A YEAR LEVEL IT'S EVEN IIfORSEI ONE IN ONE HUNDRED ro. "EN. EVERY RBBULY caVE UP EQUAL PAY TO LUCKY ENOUGH TO 8£ A .MAGER, SHE ONE IN 1£1 'OR IllEI IHY? -- AND WHY' PROFESSIONAL JOB CATEGORY HAS A LOIllER PERCENTAGE (F .IIEI TN. THERE ARE .,.. II Ttf; WJRk F'DRCEI ONLY NINE PERCENT (F OUR SCIENTISTS ARE EVE. ON TM£ 'ACULTIES (F I.N, DIlLY THREE PERCEIT tF OUR LAWYERS. THE PERCENTAGE IS LOI, AID GDIIC LOIlE., TCNTY-EIGHT PERCENT II IMI. DU COLLEGES, 1l1ENTY-DlO PERCEIT TaDAY CDIIIPAR£D TO ALL THIS IN SPITt " TH£ f'ACT THAT SIXTY PERCENT Il101£ IIIONE. T.E ADVAICED DECREES TODAY THAN DID rIVE YEARS 1;0. DO YOU NEED MOlE PUZZLING STATISTICS? TI£ _RICAN .,RKI,,': •• AN'S CHANCES CF BtllC UNEillPLOYED ARE lIIeM CREATER THAI A •• ·S. TME UNEMPU1_1T RITE f'DR WHITt IIIALES IS ONL.Y 'OUR PERCENT - BUT 'OR WHItt F'IALES IT'S fIVE AND OlE-HALF' PERCENT. AND 'OR IIIINGRITY .,•• IT'S ALMST TtN PERCENT. ...,' AS A COLLEct GRADUATE st£ EARNS LESS THAN .ALE HIGH SCHOOL HAS A GREATE'R CHANCE (F BEING OUT IF A .l)S. AS A' HIGH SCHOOL CRADUAlE st£· EARNS LESS THAI MALES ITH ONLY EIGHT YEARS IF SCHOOL or BEINe; .. T IF A ..lis. GRADUATES, MD -_ AID HAS A IlllUCH GREATER CHANCE IIfMY? EVEN THOUGM st£ IS AS .eLL EDUCATED, AS SKILUO, AS SERIOUS ABOUT .ORKING, AS RELIABLE, AND AS MUCH II NEED IF A JOB AS A IIIAI, St£ KNO"S Sf£ .ILL S1"ART OUT .ITM A LI••• SALARY 1M. A •• - AND EIO UP WITM A LOIC.· IEn •• IT. AND SHE .AY EVER GET THE CHMCE TO DO THE Jl8 S":'S BEEN TIAIIED TO 00 • . • _. S ASKlle QUESTIONS. II THE LAST TEN YEIRS AI"'Y 10.. "AVE T AKIN THOSE QUESTI.S TO 'hIE CONelESS .., 10 TI£ COURTS .. AND Ttl:Y NAVE •• A LOT OF THROUGH LEClSLITIDI LIKE THE EIIlL PAY ACT. TITLE VII IF THE CIVIL LECAL IITTLES. RIGHTS ACT. THE 1972 EDUCATION ACT. THROUGH STATE UIliS AID COURT CASES AT EVERY lEVEL, ... HAVE .. THE LEGAL RIGHT . TO EQUAL PAY MD EQUAL lDUC TIOia. CHANCES. . aUT THE CAP BETUEEN LAW MD REALITY STILL EXISTS -'l -t ND e;ec IIIHtCH IS 1IIMY YOU ASKED lIE HERE TODAY, AID tIIMY YOU ARE III.DERIIG IMAT TO DO AlOUT ... II BUSINESS. I" ORDER TO REALLY CHAIGE THE' STATUS or ..,.. I1INO .RIC, IT .ILL IE NECESSARY 'OR THE. TO CHANGE THEIR IIliAGE 'OR flU. THEY AtE GOING TO NAVE TO 1'20, IIIME YOU SEE TIE,.. AS TMEY ME, .T AS THEY USED re IE II MD NIT AS SONE TV ADVERTISING ... SEES THE •• S.OLD YOU IE DOING SGIIIETNIIC TO HELP? HOI Cal YOU ME." SHOtJLD-IOT BECAUSE IF CHIVALRY, aUT BECAUSE IT'S COOD BUSINESS. ARE THINKINe or .aIEl AS A IUSINESS R£S8URCE - 'EARS. -- YOU WILL II r ACT YOU .AV STOP TNI.I.... IE ... AS A PROBLEM • AYBE YOU·LL BEGIN TO THINK or .a. 'OR AID I MOPE YOU ARE .W THAT YOU YOU fillY STOP THINKING .. IT AS A IT ART ASlCIIC A ..LE NEW SET or QUESTII"S. ...... S _aLE. .- I Ttfl. YOU • AS. AI ASSET YOU NAVE PROBAILY BEEI _ASTING USING ASSETS WISELY IU'T EITt£R RADICAL OR BENEVOLENT, IT'S -IlST CIGD. SEN... AND IF TI£ .IICM ... AI .,RKER 1i AN ASSET, AI UNUSED OR tJlDERUSED RESOURCE, MD YOU REALIZE IT BEFORE YOUR COMPETITOR DOES -- TO TELL 10U TNAT'S TI£ SECRET IF SUCCESS IN 8USllESS, II POLI.TICS. tat DO YOU. WORKII' WOllE.. ., JUl .LL, 1 OOI·T HAVE lEG!. BY '1IDINe: OUT ALL TME REAL 'ACTS AIIUT TOOAY' S I'VE IlENTIOIED ONLY A r.ACTION or Ttl: STATISTICS. GET Tf£ 1 .. 0IlllATI0. THAT'S .,.rERED 8Y THE .MII· S BUREAU iF THE DEPARTIllENT (f' LABOR. GET IN 01 01£ rF THEIR IUSIIEsi.I.USTRY.AlO UNION CDNSULTATJO,.S. 'liD OUT ABD.UT _._ ·AIARENESS PROCRMS" FOR YOUR PERSONNEL DEPARTfJENT. ONE IF THE "'N'5 ACTION GROUPS. GET ON TI£ IIlAILINe LIST 'OR tIIOST (F TI£. PUT OUT NEWSLETTERS WHICH MIGHT BE lORE HELPF"UL TO YOU RIGNT 10. THAN THE tIIALL STREET JOURNAL - AT LEAST IN THIS AREA. DO A LITTLE PROFESSIONAL SPYING. 'IND OUT WHAT CU.PANIES LIKE lB. AND CENERAL ELECTRIC ARE DOING TO INCREASE THEIR USE IF .. AN PDlllER. eET TtC CHEM F THE CROP. AND THEY'RE .RKIN&: AT IT. . SHOULDN'T YOU BE? lOW THAT YOU HAVE A FRESH lAY tI" LOOKING AT Wll'EN INVENTDRY IF THOSE YOU HAVE. RIGHT flO.' TI£Y WANT TO tIORKERS. TAKE AN ...••UCM IF THAT VALUABLE f£SOURCE ARE YOU WASTIN&: CHECK YOUR TYPING POOL - ANY COLLEGE GRADUATES TIt:R£' HEIIE_ER, rooRTEE. PERCENT IF ALL .tllEN IN "LESS SKILLED" CLER CAL JOBS ARE COLLEGE G,RADUATE5-- AND rORTY-EIGHT PERCENT HAVE 'RD. ONE TO THREE YEARS or COLLEGE. DO AN' or THE. WORK rOR YOU? CAN YOU REALLY AFFORD TO CO ON WASTING THEI. BRAINS AIO TRAININC? 00 YOU HAVE WIllEN II MMACEJENT JOBS? TMIITY-I IMY NOT? ARE YOU ONE IF TI£ PERCENT or ARICAN BUSINESSES .MICH HAVE NONE? TRAINING PROGHA. rOR IIlANACEfJENT AND ARE Tt£RE IOIIEN IN IT? DO YOU HAVE A DO YOU HAVE BOTH EN AND .,IIIEN IN fUDDLE LEVEL IIMAGEIlENT JOB8---ANO DO THEY 80TH GET A CMANCE TO IIIOVE UP? DO THEY RECEIVE THE SAllIE PAY, AID THE SAa.£: IIIOTIVI110N 11 STAY IIIIT" YOU? PERHAPS ONE Of' 1M[ lEST tlAYS TO CHECK YOUR O. ATTITUDE IS TO LOOK AT THAT WONDERrUL "GIRL- NOsr OF YOU HAVE--THAT -GIRL rRIDAY", THAT INDISPENSABLE WONDER. VDUR SECRETARY. TRY WRITING A JOB DESCRIPTION rOR WHAT SHE DOES AS THOUCH YOU WERE COIIG Tooor'ER MER JOB TO A MAN. WHAT WOULD IT SAY? ASSISTANT? ADMINISTRATOR? AND .HAT WOULD YOU HAVE TO PAY HI.? I CAN SEE YOU SAYINe TO YOURSELVES "BUT SECRETARIES TYPE." THINK ABOUT THE TYPEIRITER fOR A INUTE. LL, LET'S THAT WONDEAFUL MACHINE fREED THE AMERICAN .. AN FR. THE HOUSE SEVENTY YEARS ACO--BUT nr IS NOtil t£R ENENY. IIORE AND IIIOR[ YOUNG IOMEN HIDE THEIR TYPING ABILITY fROM YOU IN ORDER TO AVOID BEING BeIBY-TRAPPED INTO A DEAD-END -liS. IS YOUR BUSINESS ONE CF THOSE .ITM TYPE.RITERS .HleH ARE IF TYPING IS CONSIDERED A "PLUS" rOR lIEN ..0 .aRK rOR DEAD-END TRAPS rOR WOIEN? YOU -- AND A "tIIUST" rOR WOllEN -- ASK YOURSELF WHY. AND 10. TI£ HARDEST QUESTION Of' ALL. DON'T -lJST ASK THE •• N ..HO .ORK r8R YOU ITS rAIR SHARE or COLLEGE GRADUATES? IN THAT CATEGORY. -- HO. DOES YOUR BUSINESS LOOK TO IOPlEN? ASK YOURSELF" • IS YOUR COMPANY GEnIle .III£III8ER _-rIfTH IF ALL .. aKING IIDIE. ARE DO YOU HAVE YOUR SHARE? I' NOT, IT MAY BE BECAUSE THERE'S NO FutuRE IN WORKING rOR YOU. IS YOUR TURN-OVER RATE MIGt£R 'OR IIOIEN THAN TME IATIONAL AVERAGE? MAYlE YOU'VE BEEN auSY TRAININC -ONEN TO lURK FOR YOUR COMPETITORS GOOD THING .t£N THEY SEE IT. -- If' SO, _MD KNG. A CAN YOU IITORO THAT'I HO., _eM or A CHAt..L£NCE ARE YOU (FF'ERINC "N .0 *IRK FOR YOU-AND HOW IllUCH CF A FUTURE. IF YOU DO"'T LIKE TI£' ANSWERS YOU GET TO T"Ri£ QUESTIONS AND YOU RESOLVE TO 00 SOfIIETMING ABOUT IT, YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO A NEW KINO IF THIIKINe AND AN EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITY rOR YOUR BUSINESS AND rOR TNE IIDIEN IfHO .0Rk IN IT. ALL Of' THIS IS JUST ANOTHER PROBLE. AT ALL. WAY or SAYINe THAT MAYSE IOMEN AREN'T THE" .AYBE TEY ARE, AS ONE IF THE. SAID THE OTHER OAY,..,.HE GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCE IN THE NATION:" M'YBE.I' YOU HURRY YOU CAN eET IN ON THE RUSH TO KNICK DO.. TNE BARRIEIS .HICH kEEP AMERICAN BUSINESS 'RO. GETTING THE NOST VALUE OUT or ALIOST HALf' or THE AMERICAN WORKING 'ORCE -- THE AJERICAN -ORKING "'AN. KEEP RE.8ERING. THE INEQUALITIES -HICN ARE BARRIERS FOR N£N IORKERS ARE PROBABLY SOMETHING ELSE -- THEY ARE PROBABLY A BUSINESS LOSS 'OR YOU. I KNO. THAT NONE or YOU WANT TO BE THAT KINO or A LOSER. :-{If7 > !lptll I AM, OR WAS, THEY OF THIS PANEL. IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT POSITION THAN THE OTHER MEMBERS ARE IN GOVERMENT, I AD MINISTRATIONS IN POWER. IN PAID POSITIONS AS PART OF AM SURE THEY WILL DISCUSS WITH YOU BOTH THE REWARDS AND THE LIMITATIONS THEY HAVE FOUND IN TRYING TO WORK IN SUCH POSITIONS, AND THE AMOUNT OF PO\tER THEY HAVE OR HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN IN EITHER DETERMINING OR CARRYING OUT POLICY. I WAS PART OF WHAT IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE FOURTH BRANCH OF OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNf'1ENT, BUT ONE THAT I S ONLY OFF I C I ALLY RECOGN I ZED BY -- THOSE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATE IN IT, THE POLITICAL BRANCH WHICH TRIES IN S1E MEASURE TO DETERMINE THE POLICIES ITS PARTICIPANTS BELIEVE SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT BY SUCH PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND TO ELECT MEN AND WOMEN WHO WILL CARRY OUT TI10SE POLICIES. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT I WAS ALMOST LIKE A HOLLYWOOD STARLET OF THE OLD STORIES, DISCOVERED IN A DRUGSTORE AND THRUST BY A PRODUCER ONTO A STAGE OR INTO A FILM WITHOUT ANY BACKGROUND BUT WITH THE HOPE THAT SOME QUALITY THE PRODUCER SA WOULD BE CAUGHT BY THE CMv1ERA. I WAS, TO MANY PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY TO MANY WOMAN, A SYMBOL ONLY--BOTH IN BECOMING THE FIRST WOMAN CHAIRMAN OF A 1AJOR POLITICAL PARTY AND THEN AGAIN IN LOSING THE CHAIRMANSHIP WITHIN A SIX-MONTH SPAN, AND PERCEIVED BY MANY IN BOTH CASES TO BE PRI1ARILY BECAUSE THAT EVERY I I WOULD PICK UP THE MANTLE AND BE WOMAN'S IT WAS A WOMAN. WAS ALSO AUVlOST AUTOMATICALLY ASSLMED PRIMARILY A SPOKESMAN FOR EVERY CAUSE OF 1OVEMENT, ALL or THESE A GREAT DEAL MORE FALSEHOOD. HAD, OF COURSE, S(]VlE KERNEL OF TRUTH TO THEM, BUT PERCEfrION IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, AND 2 13r I ALL THREE OF THESE PREMISES WILL BE WIDELY BELIEVED, AM SURE, F0R" MANY PEOPLE. How DID I BECOME CHAIRf''1AN? WAS I THAT? BOTH WI N AND LOSE BECAUSE OF AND ONLY A SYMBOL, AND DID I HOW DO STAND ON OfV1EN I S I CAUSES? of THESE COME DOWN TO, vHAT KIND OF WOMAN, 4HAT KIND OF PERSON, AND WHAT ALL KIND OF POLITICIAN AM IF I I I MUST DRAW PARALELLS, SH I RLEY CH I SHOLM BE I NG A ALL. I? THAN A I SUPPOSE GLOR I A STE I NEM I • COME MUCH CLOSER TO AM A HUMAN 1ST FIRST OF DO NOT BELIEVE IN SEGREGATION, \A/HETHER IT BE OF RACE OR OF SEX OR OF AGE OR OF ECONOMIC STATUS. THEREFORE I DO NOT BELIEVE IN SEPARATISM OR IN SEPARATISM ORGANIZATIONS EXCEPT AS A STEP ON THE WAY TOWARD EQUALITY. AND I YET, SUPPOSE I RaLLY BECAME CHAIRIv1AN BECAUSE I BECAME DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE REFORf'1 OVEf\1ENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, TO OPEN UP THE PARTY TO MORE PARTICIPATION BY THOSE GROUPS WHO WERE BEING EXCLUDED FRavl THE PARTY I FELT BY TRAD I TI ON SHOULD CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE I R I NCLUS ION I • WAS NOT EXACTLY A HOLL'MOOD STARLET IN POLITICS, BUT LI KE MANY WOMEN WHO HAVE WORKED FOR YEARS IN THE POLITICAL PARTIES, BEEN IN THE NATIONAL LIMELIGHT. INDEED, I HAD NEVER CAME INTO POLITICS FROM WHAT MIGHT NOT BE EXACTLY A FEM IN 1ST POS I TI ON OF TODAY. EASTERN LAH I I GREW UP I N A SMALL TOWN IN IN THE CEITER OF A COAL-MINING COUNTY, AND IT WAS A PLACE AS NEARLY WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS A TOWN OF THAT TIME COULD BE. AS FAR AS RACE OR RELIGION GOES. AND BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEPRESSION ANYONE, MAN OR WOMAN, WHO COULD FIND A JOB TO FEEDA FAMILY V.JORKED. WAS THE BATTLE TO UNIONIZE THE MINES. I HE HAD ONE BITTER STRUGGLE AND THAT WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE MINERS. US ARE PARTLY THE PRODUCTS OF OUR BACKGROUNDS--AS I ALL OF AM SURE ALL OF YOU MUST THROROUGHLY REALI ZE FROM THE DI SCUSS IONS OF RECENT YEARS ABOUT THE IMAGES OF THE ROLES OF MEN AND JOMEN THAT ARE FOSTERED BY THE BOOKS AND COURSES OF OUR EDUCATIONAL YEARS. I AM THE PRODUCT OF MiNE-, AND SO I AM AN IDEOLOGICAL LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WHO STILL BELIEVES IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A COUNTRY WITH THE TOLERANCE OF ALL PEOPLE OF MY C8LLDOOD TOWN. 3 AND WHO STILL BELIEVES THAT YOU CAN ONLY ACHIEVE SUCH OBJECTIVES TO PUT THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS FOR THEM AND IN WHICH YOU ARE WILLING IN HARD, LONG UNREWARDING HOURS AS THE MINERS WERE WILLING TO PUT INTO WORKING FOR THEIR LABOR ORGANIZATION AND TO SACRIFICE AND BE SACRIFICED FOR THAT BETTER GOOD. AND, MAY I ADD, WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT ANY SUCH ORGANIZATION IS GOING TO BE IMPERFECT AND CAN EASILY FALL INTO THE HANDS OF A FEW WHO CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN POWER AND WELL-BEING RATHER THAN THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE THEY ARE SUPPOSED BUT TO REPRESENT I THAT, EQUALLY, THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT SUCH TAKE-OVERS IS TO KEEP THE ORGANIZATIONS OPEN TO PARTICIPATION BY THE MANY RATHER THAN THE FEW AND TO KEEP THEM INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. SO, ALL MY ADULT LI FE ' 1 HAVE WORKED I N THE DEMOCRATI C AT FIRST AS A PRECEINT WORKER IN MY OWN VOTING PRECINCT, THEN (AND I VIEYJ) COME FROM A TRADITIONAL FEMALE ROLE, RATHER THAN THE MODERN PARTY, THIS IS WHERE AS A YOUNG MOTHER WHO DID NOT LIKE THE EDUCATION MY CHILDREN WERE RECEIVING, WORKING FIRST TO ELECT SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES WHO AGREED \AIITH MY IDEAS, THEN STATE LEGISLATORS WHO AFTER ALL CONTROLLED THE MONEY AND THE SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO A GREATER EXTENT, AND THEN AS MY INTERESTS BROADENED TO OTHER AREAS WORKING IN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS, BECOMING A DELEGATE TO COUNTY AND STATE CONVENT,IONS OF MY PARTY, CONGRESSMAN'S THEN RUNNING A CAtPAIGN AND BECOMING HEAD OF HIS LOCAL OFFICE, THEN BECOMING A NATIONAL DELEGATE, THEN A NATIONAL COfvY'.1ITTEEWOMAN, CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE WESTERN STATES FOR THOSE L4 REGIONAL DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION AND CHAIRING A CONENTION STATES, AND THEN A M8v1BER OF THE EXECUTIVE Corv1MITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CQMV1ITTEE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN THE ON THE rNDATES OF THE L968 MCGOVERN CONVENTION WHICH AND L O'HARA CoMVlISSIONS WITH A FEW OTHER WERE WORKING LIBERALS, \A/ORKED VERY HARD TO GET PAST A COMVlITTEE WHICH MAINLY LI KED THE OLD SETTLED WAYS THE BEST ALONG THE WAY I HELPED RUN CftMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS FOR MY STATE, ESPECIAALLY FOR GOVERNORS AND SENATORS AND STATEWLDE RACES, AND BECAt1E THE ONLY t'JOMAN ON OUR I . ., STATE'S PARTY FINANCE COMMITTEES. SO THAT WHEN GEORGE MCGOVERN JANUARY IN EARLY CO-CHAIRMAN OF HIS CAMPAIGN, ASKED ME TO BEEOME NATIONAL OF L97L, HE DID NOT QUITE WOMEN PICK ME OUT OF A WOODPI LE, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE MANY BETTER KNOWN IT IN THE COUNTRY I WAS QUITE OBVIOUS, OF COURSE, THAT HE WANTED A WOMAN AS CO-CHAIRMAN TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CONCERN FOR WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSES. AND TO THAT EXTENT IWAS, AND THAT I I REMAINED, A SYMBOL. I MADE IT QUITE CLEAR DID NOT WANT THE POSITION IF THAT WAS ALL IT WAS--A NAME ONLY POSITION. I OR ONE WHERE PUT TOGETHER WOMEN1S TEAS AND MET CELEBRITIES AT THE AIRPORT OR MADE THEIR DINNER AND HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS-ALL JOBS I HAVE OONE AND DID DO DURING THE CAMPAIGN BUT WHICH TRADITIONALLY HAVE BEEN THE TOTAL INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS. THERE I WERE MANY TIMES DURING THE CAMPAIGN, BOTH BEFORE I BECAME CHAI RMAN AND AFTERWARDS, WHEN WAS NOT CLEAR WHAT MY ROLE WAS BUT I THEN THAT WAS TRUE OF EVERYONE ELSE, TOQ--IN WHAT WAS AS UNSTRUCTURED A I CAMPA I GN AS HAVE EVER WORKED I N I I AM NOT SAY I NG THAT ONLY I N A DEROGOTORY WAY--IN THE PRE-CONENTION DAYS THE ABILITY OF EVERYONE IN THE CAMPAING TO TAKE ON ALMOST EVERY ROLE AS THE OCCASION DEMANDED ADDED MArw STRENGTHS, ALTHOUGH THE SAME STRUCTURE CAUSED A LARGE SHARE OF OUR PROBLEMS AFTER AUGUST I WERE TIMES WHEN I THERE WAS VERY MUCH A SUBORDI NATE AND THERE WERE TIMES WHEN I WAS IN COMPLETE CHARGE--SOME OF THOSE BEING IN ALL OF THE WESTERN STATES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE OREGON CALIFORNIA, WHERE I ONLY CAME IN FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS AFTER RUNNING PRIMARY, THE RULES COfv1MITIEE, THE LAST FE\t DAYS OF THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE, AND OF COURSE, THE CALIFORNIA WHEN GEORGE rCGOVERN I CHALLENGE. ASKED ME TO BECOME CHAIRMAN OF THE PARTY, KNEW THAT, TOO, WAS PARTLY AS THE W<J'lAN SYMBOL, BUT AGAIN ONLY PARTLY I ME, AS HE HAD WHEN HE HANDED ME THE COfvVv1AND OF THE CAMPAIGN. OF CALIFORNIA COURSE, CHALLENGE, THAT GARY HART, LARRY O''BRIEN, I HE TOLD WAS TO BE IN OVERALL AND AT LEAST FIVE 5 DIFFERENT PEOPLE TRAVELING ON THE CMv1PAIGN PLANE ALSO THOUGHT THEY WERE IN COMPLETE CHARGE. KlfYVvlELMAN AND I SUPPOSE, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, THE TWO TREASURERS, IbNALD PETRIE, HENRY HAD AS MUCH FINAL SAY AS ANYONE IN THE C,LVvlPAIGN DID. Bur I CofYVvlITTEE, CofvV'ITIEE ROBERT DoLE, WAS NOT ALONE. AT THE FOUND THAT THE VARIOUS OTHER COfYlMANDS AT THE TO RE-ELECT PRESIDENT A REPUBLICAN NATIONAL WHITE HOUSE AND THE HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS THAN HE HAD AS TO HOW INDEED, A CMv1PAIGN SHOULD BE RUN AND WHO WAS IN CHARGE. RIGHT NOW A GREAT MANY OF THOSE MEN ARE HURRYING UP TO SAY THEY DEFINITELY WERE NOT IN CHARGE, AND DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT \1AS GOING ON, WELL, I I FOR WHAT ALWAYS KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. THOUGHT WE SHOULD BE DO I NG I I I ALWAYS SPOKE UP LOST AS MANY BATILES AS I V'JON, AND CERTA I NLY A FEW OF THEM WERE BECAUSE SOME OF THE MEN ON THE STAFF THOUGHT "WavlANISH/' WAS BEING LOOKING TO DISLIKE THE SAME THINGS CAMPAIGN I I BACK, HOWEVER, FIND THAT THE VOTER SEEl'1ED DISLIKED AND TO AGREE WITH THE PARTS OF THE THOUGHT WERE GOOD AND RIGHT. WHEN I SAY I ALWAYS KNEW WHAT WAS GO I NG ON, THERE WAS A GROUP WORKING TO TRY TO "TAKE BACK" PUT IN THEIR OWN CHOICE AS A CHAIRMAN. WEREN'T I I McGOVERN I S CHOICE, I PARTY AND TO PART OF IT WAS THAT THEY SURE JUST HOW TO DEAL WITH A WavlAN CHAIRMAN. A WavlAN AND AS ALSO KNEW THAT DEMOCRATIC THE CERTAINLY, I BUT FAR BEYOND THAT, AS WAS A SYMBOL--A SYMBOL OF THE CHANGE THE REFORMS HAD BROUGHT TO THE PARTY, THE PARTICIPATION BY NEW AND DIFFERENT GROUPS NOT UNDER THEIR CONTROL. INDEED, IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT KIND OF JOB I DID AS CHAIRMAN, IN THE CAMPAIGN TO DISOLDGE ME THEY WERE CAREFUL TO SAY THAT I HAD OONE A GOOD, SOUND TECHNICAL JOB OF RUNNING THE COMMITTEE AND KEEPING IT FINANCED. BUT THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF A PARTY OPEN TO THE VOTER TO DECIDE ON DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION AND ON tHE CHOICE OF A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION REQUIRED TO BRING IN GROUPS b'HO ClAD TRADITIONALLY I:W) HUGE HURDLED TO OVERCOME-- 6 TO THE OLD CONCEPT WOMEN, MINORITIES, YOUNG PEOPLE-AS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE "REWARD" OF DELEGATES BEING A TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS, TO THOSE /HO HAD WORKED SIJVlE OF THEIR OWN LONG YEARS FOR THE PARTY, TO THOSE WHO HAD INVESTED LARGE I AND THEIR ORGANIZATION S MONEY IN THE PARTY. ELECTION I I I KNBAJ THAT I F WE LOST THE WOULD VERY PROBABLY LOSE THE CHAIRMANSHIP--BUT I FELT THAT UNLESS TO VOICE fvlADE A FIGHT ALL THOSE PEOPLE HO HAD COME IN WOULD HAVE NO CHANCE THEIR CONCERNS. THE FACT THAT THE VOTE WAS SO CLOSE, BOTH ON MY STAYING IN AND THEN ON THE NEW CHOICE FOR A CHAIRMAN, Pc )/e vvf1h MOEY THAT IN SPITE OF THE TREJv1ENDOUS PRESSURE /-1 BY IS NEEDED TO RUN CAMPAIGNS THROUGH THE OFFICIALS WHO NEED THAT MONEY AND WHO HAD ALSO FELT LEFT OUT OF THIS YEAR1S DECISIONSAT VERY CLOSE VOTE SAID THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THOSE PRESSURES THE NEW FORCES WILL NOT LEAVE THE PARTY, WILL NOT LET THE CLOCK BE TURNED ALL THE WAY BACK. - LET ME STATE CLEARLY HERE MY OWN POSITION, SO THAT RIDE UNDER FALSE COLORS. I AM AN OLD LINE PARTY POLITICIAN. I Piv1ERICAN DO f'DT WAS ANATIONAL DELEGATE AND BECAME A NATIONAL COfYlM ITTEEWOMAN UNDER THE OLD SYSTEJv1. STRONGLY BELIEVE, AS A HLMANIST AND AN I BUT I CavvvlITTED TO PARTICIPATORY DEJv10CRACY, THAT NEITHER OUR POLITICAL PARTIES, OUR SYSTEJv1 OF GOVERr\MENT, NOR ANY OTHER PEOPLE-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, CAN SURVIVE IF THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY A FEW PEOPLE FROM THE TOPTHAT THE 55% VOTER TURNOUT THIS YEAR WHICH CONTINUES A DOWNTREND THAT BEGAN FIVE ELECTIONS AGO AND HAS . GREATEST OR THREAt "POLITICS THEREFORE, I . IS THE LI li 8L!tP ITIItAT 1: OLITICS ID DIRTYII AND GROWNTEADILY I \E FACEI'AT CYNICISM AND APATI-fY HITERESTS" IS ONLY FOR THE SECICIAL CAN DESTROY THIS COUNTRY I AM FOR PARTY RULES AND STATE AND NATIONAL LAWS WHICH ENCOURAGE THE BROADEST POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM a BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD BE REWARDS FOR THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTE MONEY AND TIME TO POLITICS, AID THAT THE VOICES OF THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE MUST BE LISTENED TO AS WELL AS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPl.i.· I BELIEvE IN REASONABLE REp·RESENTATION AS IV} It t M Il4S 7 I se:A 'tJAY OF OPEN I NG ooORS--BlJT BELI EVE THAT QUOTAS CAN TURN INTO M-W*1 1tfs-'" t M I\I'MU$, EXPAND. AS WELL AS ND CAN LIMIT AS WELL AS LET ME ASK, IF NESSMEN? YOU HAVE A QUOTA FOR WavlEN, 00 YOU HAVE ONE FOR BUS I A QLOTA FOR BLACKS, 00 YOU HAVE ONE FOR LABOR QlXlTA ARE FOR THOSE W\-K) HAVE PREvIOUSLY AND DEl'1OCRATIC ELECTION OF DELEGATES 'I} i.y C / -. /' '/1,1 FIT INTO THE I I}I\l '1 c PICTURE? J (It J}!7' {'v J t, I ()-yt,(l Ut; YOU CAN I v fJf'l I YOU ARE ORGANIZED, YOlJTH I TE YOU HAVE EVEN IF ALL THE BEEN LEFT our, WHERE OOES THE VOTER ACCOING .r jlli.,{vy. 'ii)&BECAUSE I BELIEVE '7 VJtfl AND UNIONS? YOU HAVE IF CITIZENS? A QUOTA FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, DO YOU HAVE ONE FOR SENIOR IF t {1" TO PREiSIDENTIAL PREFERENCE J u« ( " ": h, ') {A $ C I P e1/1 t;; "r' rY}1! tl J «» (. I vC-- r . _./ 7Y' vp.. ',J(,I!PJ (\ +0 I (?'j1) -t .fGttP '", VIEW1BETrERF PRES YOURINT OF 1.1/ j M!l ....", ALSO BELIEVE IN CAUCUSES--BLACK, SPANISH-AMERICAN, WOMEN, ORGANI'ZAf-l'ef'-5o' F@R",UXeRESSING-.-A ,f>ART,IClJLAR"J?{)lNT, Of. ¥IEW AND· '".,;r ... M8lG tli-SURE II- I tMR&gI;r, ,AtS. PtRE LABOR UNIONS, (ON} n"t j fit.-1('" II ulV e1V1 If' L- FARMER'S ORGAN IZATIONS, i BlJT THERE IS A POINT AT BAR ASSOCIATIONS, ABD COUNTLESS OTHERS. t> f< 'if JY I tt$ WHICH THOSE ..cAaE&- WHICH BELIEVE IN SIMILAR IDEAS tUST GIVE A LITTLE ON ''''' THEIR OWN POINTS OF DIFFERENCE AND WORK TOGETHER FOR THE IDEAS ON \t'/HICH THEY ALl- AGREE, OR WE J\fILL END UP WITH "THE ()/,G T /JIO l'H' /}Nli,f'rfD"$ THE MANY WOMEN'S ENTIL:j :O, ,Itt" 6 S" I ;11osr SEPARATISM" I1tITTI Po wt. !=t(L. I(t:- DeI(FIAt- /'Hil/)l;' ORGANIZATIONS POINT NCMI UNTRY SPLIT INTO G,fcliurJf6t IN TI-IIS COUNTRY ARE AT THAT FEAR THAT WE SPEND MORE THE DEBATING WHETHER WE AGREE WITH ('J A S' tV! All­ flEet; ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE EXREMES OF EACH ORGANIZATION nAN WHETHER THERE IS I) NOT A BROAD SPECTRl1 OF INl:ERESTS OF WOMEN ON JHICH vJE CAN ALL WORK TOGETHER, AND BEYOND THAT IF THERE IS NOT A VI&! OF WHATTHIS COUNTRY OUGHT TO BE AND MEAN TO EVERYONE LIVING IN IT WITHOlJT REGARD TO RACE .. RELIGION, SEX, OR ECONavlIC STATUS THAT IS NLY THE FlJTURE TO 4HICH WE OUGHT TO BE WORKING BUT THE BASIS UPON WHICH OUR WHOLE SYST1 WAS FOUIDED--THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AMJ-1l-IE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. EACH HUMAN BEING, the individual dignity and worth of AND THE RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH CITIZEN TO PARTICPATE IN THE POLITICAL DECISIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY." -r- 1HE' PI!;. SPEECH FOR I llINOIS DEl'OCRATI C WOMEN AFTER PRESIDENT NIXON'S SPEECH LAST MONDAY FOR ONE OF THE NElWORKS CALLED ME AND ASKED ME, OR NI-GHT, "DID I A FEEL REPORTER VINDICATED FRUSTRATED?" My ANSWER HAD TO BE, BOTH. A STUDENT DO I NG A THES I S ON POll TI CS , HAD JUST ASKED FOR COPIES OF SOME OF MY MAJOR SPEECHES DURING LAST FALL S THE CAMPAIGN. AMERICAN VOTER TO RE-ELECT CAME; A FRUSTRATION THAT I FELT THEN IN TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO THE JUST WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE PRESIDENT, WHITE HOUSE AND THE CoMMITTEE AND THE DEAF EARS WITH WHICH MOST PEOPLE MET IT BACK TO ME FULL FORCE. I HADTO FEEL SOMEWHAT VINDICATED--BECAUSE SO MUCH OF IT HAS NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A FREE PRESS WHICH REFUSED TO BE INTIMIDATED, BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE AS TRUE AS WE KEPT TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT IT WAS BbJFttNG ifHE FAL[. t,.A5f '(G-IIZ J 4""\ THE FRUSTRATION, NOW, OF COURSE COMES TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE I WE BECSE IT IS STILL NOW FACE THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF WONDER I NG HOW DEEP INTO THE ADMINISTRATION THE CORRUPTION GOES, HOW WELL IT HAS BEEN CLEANED OUT. DBMOCRATIC EVEN IF ALL OF THE FACTS ON THE ESPIONAGE, THE SABOTAGE OF CANDIDATES AND OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM ITSELF, THE USE OF FUNDS TO GIVE A FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THE VOTERS OF THIS COUNTRY WERE BACKING THE PRESIDENT IN HIS POLICIES, THE COMPLETE DISCOQSURE OF ALL THE CAMPAIGN FUNDS THAT WERE COLLECTED FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF RICHARD NIXON BY ,ALL OF THE CQY1MITTEES INVOLVED AS REQUIRED BY EITHER THE OLD OR THE NEW CAMPAIGNING FINANCING LAWS, AS MUCH DISCOLSURE AS POSSIBLE BY THBaOUGH INVESTIGATION OF HOW THOSE FUNDS WERE ALL USED-EVEN HAPPEN--WHAT OF THIS IF ALL OF THIS HAPPENS, AND I AM STILL NOT SURE IT WILL WI LL THE ATTITUDE BE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO STI LL REfYlAI N AS PART AlJV1INISTRATION? 2 WILL AN THEY STILL BE CONVINCED THAT THEY WERE GIVEN AMERICANS ABSOLlITE MANDATE BY THOSE STILL FEEL THAT THE AND WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE FALL? WILL WHO VOTED LAST ALONE KNOtJS WHAT IS BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY, WE, "REAL MAJORITY" WANTS? THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, HAVE WE HELPED TO CREATE THE SITUATION IN WHICH WE NOW LIVE. THE PRESIDENCY INTO A r1:>NARC, THEY HAVE TENDED TO TURN TO REVERE THE MEN WE HAVE ELECTED TO THIS QUESTION EITHER THEIR OFFICE TO THE POINT THAT WE FEEL IT IS UNPATRIOTIC TO JUDGMENT OR THE I R MOTIVES, WE DESPARATELY WANT TO BEll EVE THAT THEY ARE AND THAT OUR ABOVE POLITICS, FORGETTING THAT IN OUR SYSTEM THEY CANNOT BE, GREATEST STRENGTH IS NOT IN HAVING OFFICEHOLDERS WHO ARE NOT POLITICIANS, BlIT INSTEAD IN HAVING OFFICEHOLDERS WHO MUST ANSWER TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ELECT THEM TO OFFICE. SO, OF THE PEOPLE AROUND THE PRESIDENT, BE SUSPICIOUS, BECAUSE I JVV1 SAD THAT I I DURING THE FALL, I I FOUND THAT AS I QUESTIONED THE INTEGRITY WAS OFTEN THE ONE WHO WAS CONSIDERED TO WAS QUESTIONING OUR RESPECT FOR THAT GREAT OFFICE. NOW FEEL VINDICATED, BECAUSE THE PROPER TIME FOR THOSE QUESTIONS .<'" TO BE DISCUSSED WAS DURING THE CJVV1PAING ITSELF--BEFORE THE CHOICE FOR THE NEXT v FOUR YEARS WAS MADE--BlIT SO MANY JVV1ERICANS HAVE BECOME SO CYNCIAL ABOlIT THE POLITICAL PROCESS THAT INSTEAD OF WEIGHING THE QUESTIONS RAISED DURING A CJVV1PA I GN, THEY DI SM I SS IT ALL AS WHEN, I iMit4tEl1 SAID IN "POll T I CAL SMEAR SEPTBMBER OF L972, AT A " I TIONAL PRESS CLUB THAT THE OVERALL PHILOSOPHY OF THE NIXON SPEECH, AI1'1INISTION WAS GOVERNMENT BY REWARD--THE FEELING THAT THOSE IN POWER HAVE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY {O NOT THE PUBLI C INTEREST, BlIT TO THE I NTEREST OF THE STOCKHOLDERS I NSUR I NG THOSE r» BIG CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS THAT THEY WILL GET SUFFICIENT RETURN ON THIER INVESTMENTS-. WILL THE FACTS THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT IN RECENT WEEKS CHANGE THAT IN THE CI=IARGES BENING THAT SPEECH MADE? I I ASKED THE SAID, "DOES PRESIDENT THE ATTITUDE? WHAT HIS RESPONSE WAS TO PRESIBENT GO ON TELIVSION AND 3 UNDERMINES PUBLIC EXPRESS OUTRAGE AT EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY, WHCH /I OFFICIALS? TRUST IN GOVERNMENT ECHELONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN TODAY, THERE ARE MEMBERS IN THE LOWER WHO ARE BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT THEIR ACTIVITIES. FACTS THAT IS ONLY AS DETERMINED INVESTIGAffiORS PERSIST AND DRAG OUT THE IT ONLY MEMBERS OF THE Al)VlINISTRATION ARE ASKED TO LEAVE, GEORGE BUSH AT THE YOUNG KEN REITZ, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL Cofv1v1ITTEE WHO HEADED THE L972 NIXON A WEEK OR AGO WAS BEING ASSURED THAT YOUTH CAMPAIGN, WAS ABSOLUTELY INCORRUPTIBLE AND NOT INVOLVED, AND HE HAD PICKED KEN o HTHE L974 \ l' Now KEN lIJRS OUT TO HAVE HIRED AT LEAST ONE STUDENT CAMPAIGN. MAJORITY NEW I AS PART OF THE SABOTAGE EFFORT , I SAID THE Aav1 I NSTRAT I ON /I THE AND I LOUDER IN SEPTBMBER REM I NDED ME OF (l,C»/V£,JJ ,/115 A 1'10 HA THAT THE OF CORRUPTION WITHIN EXTENJT RALPH WALDO EMERSON I S FAMOUS COfv1v1ENT, HE TALKED OF HIS HONOR, THE FASTER WE COUNTED OUT SAID THAT IF THE PRESIDENT DISAGREEITH TO 00 A FEW SIMPLE THINGS-- REVEAL THE NAMES OF ALL r\6 00 YOO, OR THEY, HAVE TO (As HIDE? Yiii OF NOW, I SPSONS€" MY CONCOLUSION HE HAS ONLY ./ 5 CAMPAING CONTRIBUTORS? WHAT JOHN GARDNER ( fc) 4 IS STILL DIGGING II WITH A COfYVYlON CAUSE SU IT AND NEW BOXES OF SavlEHOW OVERLOOKED NAMES KEEP COMING TO LIGHT) IfI.Afv/st3:lf DISCLOSE RESTORE ALL THE FACTS OF THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN, YOURSELF. PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE HANDLING OF THIS CASE BY APPOINTMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR WHO WILL SEEK OUT THE TRUTH WITHOUT REGARD TO FREINDSHIPS. AND THEN TAKE DECISI ACTIONS TO FORCE THE INFLUENCE-PEDDLERS AND BACK ROOMS SPECIAL INTERESTS IN ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT TO COME OUT INTO THE OPEN. PRESIDENT NIXON, YOU STILL MUST TAKE ALL THESE STEPS TO RESTORE FULL PUBLIC CONFIDENCE, NOT ONLY IN YOU BUT IN GOVERNMENT. CHANGING THE FUTURE RULES WILL NOT HELP NOW--ANYMORE THAN THE NEW CAMPA I GN F I NANC I NG LAW STOPPED '(tJvR COLLECTION OF SECRET MONEY BEFORE IT ENT INTO EFFECT, 4 You CANNOT EXTEND SPECIAL EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TO TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND SAY THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE ONLY TO THE EXECTUIVE BRANCH AND CANNOT TALK TO CONGRESS WITHOUT CLEARANCE FROM YOU, AND You RESTORE THAT TRUST. CANNOT ABUSE THE AGRICULTURAL CENSUS BY TAKING NOT ONLY THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES BUT THE INCOME FIGURES FROM FARMERS TAX VORMS AND RESTORE TRUST IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. You CANNOT ASK GOVER['iV1ENT EMPLOYEES TO FILL OUT A FORM WHICH DOES NOT ASK WHERE THEY LIVE BUT DOES ASK SEECIFICALLY WHERE THEY VOTE WITHOUT HAVING THEM FEAR THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE JUDGED, NOT ON THEIR COMPETENCE, You BUT ON THEIR VOTE LAST NOVEMBER. SECRECY AND ASK THE THE WHITE HOUSE AMERICAN CANNOT CONTINUE TO CONDUCT ALL GOVERNMENT IN PEOPLE TO TAKE THE JUDGMENT OF YOU AND YOUR ADVISORS IN AS WISE AND ALL-KNOWING WHEN IT HAS JUST BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT EITHER YOU WERE NAIVE IN YOUR TRUST IN THOSE ADVISORS AND THEREFORE MIGHT BE NAIVE IN OTHER JUDGMENTS, OR YOU WERE PART OF AND CONDONED THEIR ACTIONS AND THEREFORE WERE AS CYNICAL AS THEY WERE. WE PRESIDENT CAN NEED TO RESTORE THAT TRUST I N GOVERNt'1ENT, AND RIGHT NOW ONLY THE DO?OANIfkk CAN DO THAT ONLY BY CONSULTING WITH THE WISE MEN AND WOMEN IN CONGRESS OF BOTH PARTIES AND LISTENING TO THEIR ADVICE ON WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS, RATHER THAN ARROGANTLY OVER-RIDING THEIR JUDGMENT WHENEVER IT DISAGREES WITH THAT OF HIS AND HE THOSE CLOSE ADVISORS. CAN DO THAT BY TRULY ACCEPTING THE RESPONSIBILITY HE ACCEPTED . IN NAME ON MONDAY ENTRIELY NIGHT, BY MOVING AWAY FROM HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES TO AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR NOT ONLY OF THE WATERGATE ITSELF BUT OF ALL THE SECRET ASPECTS Ii"") HE OF THE CAMPA I GN • c1DNTRUBUTED THOSE PEOPLE WHO I IT WAS0SVIOUS CAN DO THAT BY HIMSELF DISCOLSING THE NAMES AND AMOUNTS OF ALL TO THE VARIOUS NIXON CAMPAIGN COfvTv1I TTEES , TOLD AN AUDIENCE IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER THAT TO ME AFTER THOUSANDS OF CONVERSATIONS IN HUNDRED OF COMMUNITIES THAT AMERICA WAS SUFFERING FROM A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE. THAT THERE WAS A PERVASIVE LACK OF . - ,_. . TRUST BY THE PEOPLE IN THE . - .. NATIONiS POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS, THAT 5 THE PEOPLE WERE SUSPCIOUS OF POLITICAL LEADERS, POLTICAL PROMISES, AND POLITICAL PROGRAMS. I SAID THAT, WITHOUT TRUST, DOOCRACY AND OUR REBRES­ ENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT CAN WITHER AWAY, THAT THE VACUIJV1 WIIIICH IS LEFT IS AN INVITATION TO DBMAGOGUES. I AMERICA I TOLD AN AUDIENCE AT STEVENS COLLEGE THAT REMEMBERED WHEN WAS CONSIDERED THE FRIEND OF DECENCY EVERYWHERE, AND THAT MEN IN EITHER PARTY WHO WERE ACCUSED OF IMPROPRIETY AROUSED THE UTMOST PASSION IN THIS COUNTRY, SO THAT If'1V1EDIATE ACTION WAS TAKEN TO EITHER LAY TO REST THE ACCUSATIONS OR REMOVE THE OFFENDERS FROM OFFICE AND SO RESTORE TRUST IN THE OFFICEHOLDER AND THE PARTY. I SAID THEN THAT OUR FREEDOM, NOT IN OUR WEAPONS. THAT tlrOUR HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN OUR$TRENGTH STRENGTH IS IN OUR SENSE OF PRIVATE LIBERTY AND PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY, NOT IN GOVERNMENT THREATS TO CONTROL OUR NEWSPAPERS OR WASHINGTON FILES ON OUR PRIVATES LIVES. I SAID THAT TOO MUCH IN THE NIXON AIJV1IN$STRATION WAS HIDDEN P'Ravl THAT PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY, THE USES OF MONEY, THE FACTS ABOUT TREATIES SIGNED IN SECRET AS EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS INSTEAD OF BROUGHT BEFORE THE SENATE FOR APPROVAL AS OUR CONSTITUTION DEMANDS, AND THE NNvlES OF THE MEN WHO HOLD REAL POWER. I SAID THAT THERE WERE lWO MANY FACELESS MEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH NO RESPONSBILITY TO THE PUBLIC AND NO CUU\PBILITY OTHER THAN BEING FIRED IF THEY MADE A MISTAKE, THAT CONGRESS COULD v NOT GETII AND THE TRUTH FROM THEM, AND NEITHER CAN THE PEOPLE. THEN I SAID THAT WITH SCANDALS AND RLMORS OF CORRUPTION AT EVERY LEVEL, MOST PEOPLE COULD NOT IDENTIFY VERY STRONGLY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND WHO THE SECRET MEN WERE AND HOW THEY FIT INTO OUR GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE. A SECRET GOVERNfYlENT IS AN INSULT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OF FREE MEN AND WOMEN, I SAID THAT THEN, AND IT IS STILL TRUE. EVEN MORE SINCE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION PRESIDENT NIXON HAS MOVED RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE LEVEL OF THE CABINET WHICH MUST BE CONFIRMED AND REPORT TO THE CONGRESS INTO THE HANDS OF AIJV1INISTRATORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHO EYOKE EXECUTIVE PRIYILIGE WHEN THERE ARE QUESTIONS THEY DO NOT WANT TO ANSWER. 6 PROCESS, IS NO WAY TO RESTORE THE NEEDED TRUST IN THE POLITICAL AND THAT, TOO, THE A1JV1INitISTRATION AND THE GOVERNMENT',' PRESIDENT NIXON MUST CHOOSE v14 t: IfY1 o c;e. Tt? . . PEOPLE'S SECRECY AND FEAR OF THE BElWEEN e IZ JUDGMENT, OPENNESS AND DEMOCRACY TO RESTORE THAT TRUST I N GOVERNMENT. I LEAGUE TOLD THE BEEN TO FIND A WAY TO GET/! THE OF WOMEN VOTERS THAT THEIR EFFOR T HAD ALWAYS FACTS TO THE VOTERS, AND THAT IN FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY OVER THAT KI ND OF PROBLEM I How L.972 I DO YOU MAKE SURE THAT THE FACTS AND OPINIONS OF BOTH SIDE ARE HONESTLY PRESENTED TO THE IN WAS PEOPLE? ALL POLITICAL YEARS WE FIND TRUTHFUL MEN DISAGREEING, ON WHAT THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE, AND THE 80LUTUIONS FOR THOSE PROBLEMS. PARTIES. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE CONTEST'SR IS WHY OFFICE. HARD TO DISCOVER AND HARDER TO PUT ACROSS. I Birr w· HAVE IN L.972 lWO POLITICAL THETRUTHWAS TOLD THOSE WQ'VlEN THAT THERE WAS AN ORGANIZED AND WELL PLANNED EFFORT TO FOOL THE PEOLE, AND THAT IT WAS WORKING TOO WELL FOR COMFORT. NIXON Now IT HAS BEEN DOCUVlENTED THAT THIS WAS TRUE. PRESIDENT CANNOT RESTORE TRUST IN GOVERNMENT BY THE PRESENT POLICIES OF ORDERING All. THE AGENCIES TO USE SPEECHES AND PRESS RELEASES PROVIDED TO THEM BY HIS WHITE HOUSE STAFF TO DISCOUNT AND DISCR THEJ:S MAJOR PROGRMS OF CONGRESS WITH WHICH HE WHO ARE PROPOSING THESE PROGRAMS. rp AfreAf1 MUST INSTEAD ALLOW BOTH CASES TO BE DISCUSSED BEFORE TH£VOTER AND CONVINCE THE HE DISAGREES, AND THE MEMBERS OF CoNGRESS VOTER HIS PROGRAMS ARE RIGHT AND THAT THEY SHOULD SO INFORM THEIR CONGRESSMEN--IF '-- HE REALLY WANTS TO RESTORE TRUST IN GOVERNMENT. WE HAVE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO rvlOVE AWAY FROM OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DIVSION OF POWERS INTO A NEAR MONARCHY, WHERE THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISORS ARE BOTH WORSHIPPED AND FEARED. WE ARE NOW AFRAID TO SERIOUSLY QUESTION THE MAN FOR FEAR WE WILL LOSE OUR POWER IN THE WORLD IF WE DEMEAN THE OFFICE. . .. .. THIS WHOLE SORDID AFFAIR I OUT OF . HOPE THAT FIRST OF ALL WE WILL REGAIN OUR SENSE OF PROPORTION AND REALIZE THAT nus GOYERNMENT IS BASED ON A DIYSION OF WERS, NOT 7 ON ONE MAN--THAT WHILE THERE ARE CERTAIN JUDGMENTS A PRESIDENT MUST AND IS CONSTITUTfONALLY SUPPOSED TO MAKE, I N MANY OTHER CASES THE JUDGMENT I S TO BE MADE BY (ITHER CONGRESS OR THE COURTS AND THE PRESIDENT AND THE DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERNMENT ARE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE THE AJlV1 I N I STRATORS, NOT THE DEC I S ION MAKERS. WE WORKERS IN BOTH PARTIES, THE MEN AND WOMEN WE HAVE ELECTED TO CONGRESS, AND THE AMERICAN VOTER ARE ALL PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLOWING THIS CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE DISTRUST AND CYN[CISM IF ABOUT THE POLITICAL PROCESS WHICH HAS ACCOMPANIED IT. WE DO NOT DEMAND BETTER, WE WILL NOT HAVE BETTER. WE DEMOCRATS MANy THAN WE DIDIDED OURSELVES. BECAUSE THEIR FEELINGSWERE MCGOVERN REPUBLICANS TO DIVIDE US, MUCH rvDRE AMONG US PREFERRED TO ELECT RICHARD NIXON HURT EITHER BY THE NEW PARTY RULES OR BY SOME OF ........ THE I NEXPER I ENCED ALLOWED THE CAMPA I GN WORKERS. MANY AMONG US BEll EVED ALL THE INNUENDOS, THE LIES, THAT THE SABOTAGE OF THESE MEN CREATED. WE ARE THE OPEN PARTY, THAT WE BELIEVE IN BRINGING ALL WE AMERICANS FORGOT THAT INTO THE POLTICIAL SYSTEM, THAT WE ARE THE PARTY THAT CARES ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO CARE ABOUT THEM OR SPEAK UP FOR THEM--WE WANTED TO BE REPUBLI CRNS , TOO, TO FORGET ABOUT ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT WERE USSOLVED AND LEAVE !TALL TO THE BIG POWERS TO SOLVE. WE GO AWAY. WE WANTED TO PUT OUR HEADS I N THE SitD\ND WERE TIRED OF THE SHrnDTING, THE PROTESTS, THE PROBLEMS. WERE RIPE FOR THE ARE RESPONSIBLE. RHETORIC WE OF THE REPUBLICANS. WE. THAT BACKBONE AGAIN, TO SAY, PB SECET INTERESTS." OF US TOO, WERE RESPONSIBLE AND DEMOCRATS I N THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE, OF FREEDOM, OF DOOCRACY. TO MANY WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE BACKBONE, THE SPINE OF THIS PARTY, WORKING NAMELESSLY AND UNTIRINGLY TO ELECT UNLESS HOPE THE PROBLEMS WOULD AND "UNLESS Now BECAUSE WE BELIEVED I TIS UP TO US TO BE WE ARE CLEAN OURSELVES, WE CANNOT JUDGE. DOOCRJW'}:lE CANNOT CONDEMN SECRECY AND ALLl.EGANCE 8 PRESIDENT NIXON IN HIS MONDAY SPEECH SAID THAT WE MUST CAN NEVER HAPPEN REFORM THE POLITICAL PROCESSES SO THAT SUCH A THING AGAIN. YET WHEN THE REPUBLICAN RIPON SOCIETY PROPOSED SOME MODEST LAST REPUBLICAN REFORMS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE REFORMS WE HAD MADE AT THE CONVENTION, THEY WERE GREETED WITH AN ABSOLUTE COLD SHOULDER, SENATOR SftM IRVIN AND Mi/te)l1iiHIS COfv1MITTEE HAVE SAID THAT PART OF THE RESOLUTION UNDER WHICH THEIR COMMITTEE IS OPERATING STATES THAT THEY SHALL LOOK AT THE WHOLE POLITICAL PROCESS, HOW IT MAY HAVE BEEN SUBVERTED DURING THIS YEAR'S ELECTION, AND WHAT LEGISLATIVE CHANGES COULD BE PROPOSED TO STOP SUCH ABUSES. WH I LE I BY THAT SUBVERSION THAT WAS CHA I RMAN OF THE PARTY I I HAD BECOME SO ALARMED HAD PROPOSED A COMMITTEE OF ATTORNEYS TO HELP EDUCATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GROUPS AS TO THE TYPES OF SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION THAT COULD HAPPEN IN A CAMPAIGN AND THE MEASURES WE COULD TAKE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM SUCH EVENTS. ALL OF THESE PROPOSALS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON--A REALIZATION THAT THE BASE OF DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY IS A FREE AND OPEN POLITICAL PROCESS WHICH VOTERS MAY TRUST TO PRESENT THE TRUE DIFFERENCES IN THE APPROACHES AND CA NDIDATES OF TH TWO PARTIES SO THAT THEY MAY MAKE A TRUE CHOICE AS TO THE OFFICEHOLDERS AND THE PARTIES SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE NATION. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS PRIDED ITSELF FROM THE BEGINNING OF ITS HISTORY ON BEING THE BROAD, OPEN PARTY WHICH CARES ABOUT TH PROBLEMS OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY AND WELCOMES THEM ALL INTO THE POLITICAL PROCESS. WE BELIEVE THAT DEMOCRACY CAN ONLY SURVIVE BY THE PARTICIPATION OF AND THE TRUST OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THIS GREAT NATION, AND BY BEING THE EXAMPLE OF A GREAT AND GOOD GOVERNMENT BASED ON THAT FREEOOM AND LEAD THE WAY IN RESTORING THAT DEMOCRACY AND TRUSTl tiJiRUST I WE MUST NOW