CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX., CHAIRMAN RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA. MARGARET CHASE SMITH, MAINE WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J. STUART SYMINGTON, MO. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA JOHN STENNIS, MISS. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. STEPHEN M. YOUNG, OHIO KENNETH B. KEATING, N.Y. THOMAS J. DODD, CONN. HOWARD W. CANNON, NEV. United States Senate SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, FLA. COMMITTEE ON J. HOWARD EDMONDSON, OKLA. AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES FRANK C. DILUZIO, STAFF DIRECTOR EVERARD H. SMITH, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye

United States Senate

Dear Senator:

Thank you for your letter of December 18

informing me of your appointment as Chairman of the Speakers

Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and

asking me to make myself available for speech assignments.

I congratulate you on your appointment but

regret that my health is such that it does not permit my taking

a lot of speaking engagements.

Sincerely yours,

Clinton P. Anderson

CPA:O CARL HAYDEN, ARIZ., CHAIRMAN RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, MASS. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA. MILTON R. YOUNG, N. DAK. LISTER HILL, ALA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. JOHN L. MC MCLELLAN, ARK. MARGARET CHASE SMITH, MAINE A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, VA. THOMAS H. KUCHEL, CALIF. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH. ROMAN L. HRUSKA, NEBR. SPESSARD T. HOLLAND, FLA. GORDON ALLOTT, COLO. United States Senate JOHN STENNIS, MISS. NORRIS COTTON, N.H. JOHN O. PASTORE, R.I. CLIFFORD P. CASE. N.J. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA. ALAN BIBLE, NEV. ROBERT C. BYRD, W. VAi GALE W. MCGEE, WYO. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. E. L. BARTLETT, ALASKA WILLIAM PROXMIRE, WIS.

EVERARD H. SMITH, CLERK THOMAS J. SCOTT, ASST. CLERK February 6, 1964

Hon. Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

I have your letter of February 3 relative to plans for assisting Democratic candidates who are seeking re-election this year.

It occurs to me that I may not be able to do much traveling but certainly you can count on me for a speech or two. Since you gave me a choice as to subject matter let me say here I would prefer dis­ cussing natural resources of the nation.

With highest regards, I am

Sincerely yours, CARL HAYDEN, ARIZ*, CHAIRMAN RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Mass. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA. MILTON R. YOUNG, N. DAKs LISTER HILL, ALA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. JOHN L; MCCLELLAN, ARK. MARGARET CHASE SMITH, MAINE A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, VA. THOMAS H. KUCHEL, CALIF. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH. ROMAN L. HRUSKA, NEBR. United States Senate SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, FLA. GORDON ALLOTT, COLO. JOHN STENNIS, MISS. NORRIS COTTON, N.H. JOHN O. PASTORE, R.I. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA. ALAN BIBLE, NEV. ROBERT C. BYRD, W. VA* GALE W. MCGEE, WYO. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. E. L. BARTLETT, ALASKA WILLIAM PROXMIRE, WIS.

EVERARD H. SMITH, CLERK THOMAS J. SCOTT, ASST. CLERK February 6, 1964

Hon. Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

I have your letter of February 3 relative to plans for assisting Democratic candidates who are seeking re-election this year.

It occurs to me that I may not be able to do touch traveling but certainly you can count on me for a speech or two. Since you gave me a choice as to subject matter let me say here I would prefer dis­ cussing natural resources of the nation.

With highest regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

E. L. Bartlett JAMES O. EASTLAND, MISS., CHAIRMAN OLIN D. JOHNSTON, S.C. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, ARK. ROMAN L. HRUSKA, NEBR. SAM J. ERVIN, JR., N.C. KENNETH B. KEATING, N.Y. THOMAS J. DODD, CONN. HIRAM L. FONG, HAWAII PHILIP A. HART, MICH. HUGH SCOTT, PA. EDWARD V. LONG, MO. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, MASS. United States Senate BIRCH BAYH, IND. QUENTIN N. BURDICK, N. DAK. COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

February 4, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Dan:

Thank you for your letter of February 3 in which you outlined pre­ liminary plans for the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for engagements during the 1964 senatorial campaign. You may be sure that I will be glad to help in any way possible to the extent that my obligations to assist in the Indiana election and other previous commitments will permit. The physical arrangements you men­ tioned seem very adequate and are quite satisfactory.

In reply to your request for specific information, I trust the follow­ ing will be helpful:

1. Introduction. In most circumstances a simple introduction as "Birch Bayh, Junior Senator from Indiana, chairman of the Judiciary Sub­ committee on Constitutional Amendments," might suffice. Other information which could be included would be my advocacy of youth programs, leadership in aid to education measures, support of conservation of water resources, and my selection as one of the ten outstanding young men by the rational Junior Chamber of Commerce.

2. Other Activities. If time will allow, I would be willing to meet at least on some trips with various local politicians, businessmen, students or other groups. Of course, you realize full well the many duties which could hamper my participation in these kinds of activities.

3. Subject Matters of Speeches. I would prefer to talk on the fol­ lowing topics: civil rights; education; general Democratic programs.

Please call on me if we can provide any further information. I will be looking forward to learning about your plans in more detail.

Sincerely,

Birch Bayh United States Senator CARL HAYDEN, ARIZ., CHAIRMAN RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, MASS* ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA. MILTON R. YOUNG, N. DAK. DEC 10 1983 LISTER HILL, ALA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, ARK. MARGARET CHASE SMITH, MAINE A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, VA. THOMAS H. KUCHEL, CALIF. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH. ROMAN L. HRUSKA, NEBR. SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, FLA. GORDON allott, COLO. United States Senate JOHN STENNIS, MISS. NORRIS COTTON, N.H. JOHN O. PASTORE, R.I. CLIFFORD P. CASE, N.J. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA. ALAN BIBLE, NEV. ROBERT C. BYRD, W. VA. GALE W. MCGEE, WYO. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. December 19, 1963 MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. E. L. BARTLETT, ALASKA WILLIAM PROXMIRE, WIS.

EVERARD H. SMITH, CLERK THOMAS J. SCOTT, ASST. CLERK

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington, D.C.

Dear Dan:

I have your letter of December 18th,

and. I will be delighted to help you in any way

I can in the 1964 campaign.

My regards. Senator Frank Church Idaho Addresses: ...... ​...... ​...... ​ ...... ​...... ​...... ​...... ​......

FRANK CHURCH, Democrat, of Boise, Idaho; born July 25, 1924, at Boise; attended public schools: A.B. Stanford University; enlisted as private in United States Army during, War II and commissioned as officer on 20th birthday, serving with Military Intelligence in China, Burma, and India; en- gaged in private law practice, married to former Bethine Clark, daughter of United States District Judge and former ldaho Governor Chase A. Clark; two sons: Forrest, 15, and Clark, 6, two terms Department Judge Advocate, Idaho Department of State chairman for Freedom, 1954-55- State chairman, Young Democrats of Idaho, 1952-54; Keynoter, Demo­ cratic National Convention, 1960; elected to the United States Senate on Novem­ ber 6, *1956; reelected November 6, 1962.

Church______Foreign Relations. Interior,and Insular Affairs. J. W. FULBRIGHT. ARK.. CHAIRMAN JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT. MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. WAYNE MORSE, OREG. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. ALBERT GORE, TENN. FRANK J. LAUSCHE, OHIO United States Senate FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO STUART SYMINGTON, MO. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS THOMAS J. DODD, CONN. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA.

CARL MARCY, CHIEF OF STAFF DARRELL ST. CLAIRE, CLERK March 27, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee United States Senate Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Here are the answers to the questions asked in your February 3, letter.

1. Introduction. My practice is to furnish a current biographical sheet, sample enclosed, and trust to luck.

2. Other activities. I am willing, as time allows, and with reasonable provision for rest and privacy.

3. Subject matter of speech. I have an "all- purpose" speech for partisan political occasions. I adapt it to the local situation, of course, and its basic content evolves with use to allow for changes in the mold of the public and in the issues which concern them. It is quite general in scope, and could not be described as dealing mostly with civil rights, national defense, peace, or any other single issue, although it touches upon these and others. PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL., CHAIRMAN RICHARD BOLLING, MO., VICE CHAIRMAN JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. WRIGHT PATMAN, TEX. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. 9 64 HALE BOGGS, LA. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, WIS. HENRY S. REUSS, WIS. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS, MICH. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. THOMAS B. CURTIS, MO. JACK MILLER, IOWA CLARENCE E. KILBURN, N.Y. LEN B. JORDAN, IDAHO Congress of the United States WILLIAM B. WIDNALL, N.J. JAMES W. KNOWLES, JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CREATED PURSUANT TO SEC. 5(a) OF PUBLIC LAW 304, 79TH CONGRESS) January 3, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Senator:

Thank you for your letter.

I shall be glad to cooperate with you and with the Committee, but I want to If pick the states into which I go.

With all best wishes,

Faithfully yours,

V'

. Douglas

PHD/jce J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK., CHAIRMAN

JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT. MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. WAYNE MORSE,OREG. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. ALBERT GORE, TENN. FRANK J. LAUSCHE, OHIO United States Senate FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO STUART SYMINGTON, MO. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS THOMAS J. DODD, CONN. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA.

CARL MARCY, CHIEF OF STAFF DARRELL ST. CLAIRE, CLERK December 20, 1963

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

I have your letter of December 18 concerning your plans for the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

It is, of course, impossible for any of us to forecast the circumstances some months hence, but I will be pleased to discuss the matter with you in person as soon as time permits.

With best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season, I am

Sincerely yours

J

JWF:fdh A BIOGRAPHY OF SENATOR FRANK CHURCH (March, 1964)

Frank Church of Boise is Idaho’s senior Senator, in his second term at 39, and the first Democratic United States Senator ever to be re-elected in Idaho. He was keynote speaker and temporary chairman of the i960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

Church is a Liberal, and has been strongly identified with conservation, civil rights, public power, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, and foreign relations. He is the first Idahoan to serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since his famed predecessor, the late William E. Borah. In 1957, his first year in the Senate, Church led the success­ ful fight for Senate passage of the bill to authorize a high Hells Canyon Dam.

Also in 1957, it was Church who modified the Jury Trial Amend­ ment to the Civil Rights bill to assure Negroes the right to serve on federal juries — a procedural safeguard which opened the way for the first Senate action on Civil Rights in nearly a century. This same year he was named one of the ten outstanding young men of the nation by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce.

In 1961, Church was floor manager of the Wilderness Bill, which passed the Senate with a resounding 78 to 8 vote. In 1962, Church was named by Life Magazine as one of the one hundred up-and-coming young leaders in the United States.

Church was a delegate to the Economic Conference of the Organization of American States in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957; the International Parliamentary Union at Warsaw, Poland in 1959, and Canadian-American Parliamentary Conference at Ottawa, Montreal and Washington in 1959 and 1960. He led a delegation on a five-weeks fact-finding tour of Africa in i960, and made a personal inspection of American bases and trouble spots in the Pacific area late in 1962.

Early this year, Church was a delegate to the Ditchley Confer­ ence in England.

The Idaho Senator has spearheaded an economy campaign in foreign aid, successfully reducing military assistance appropriations especially to prosperous NATO members. In the Foreign Relations Committee, Church is Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Organizations. A member of the Interior Committee, he chairs the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs. -1- FRANK CHURCH

Democratic Nominee for U. S. Senate from Idaho

Born at Boise, Idaho, July 25, 1924. Graduate in law.

Served in U. S. Army throughout World War II.

Engaged in private practice of law at Boise.

Never before a candidate, has been active in Democratic

Party and American Legion affairs.

Widespread opposition to Republican opponent Herman Welker reflected by following quotation from the INTERMOUNTAIN & ALAMEDA

ENTERPRISE, whose editor is a Republican member of the Idaho Legislature:

"Welker's nomination does not alter my opinion of him as a bad Republican, a man of little principle, misrepresenting his record and his state, misusing his payroll, mistreating the Eisenhower ad­ ministration, abusing senatorial privilege and serving interests that exploit Idaho.

"He has guts and some talent as an orator and I do not underestimate his campaign ability. A loyal Republican might decide that in November he will hold his nose with one hand and his pencil with the other and vote for Welker in order to vote for Republican

control of the organization of the Senate.

"Whatever obligation I have as a Republican can't bring me

now to represent Welker as a different Senator from what he is, and

to pretend his nomination is not an injury to Idaho ..." FRANK CHURCH

Biography

Native of Idaho

Frank Church comes from a pioneer Idaho family. His grandparents lived in Idaho City during the gold-rush days. The family moved to Boise when his grandfather was appointed United States Assayer by President Grover Cleveland, before the turn of the century. Church was born in Boise on July 25, 1924. He is married to the former Bethine Clark, daughter of U. S. District Judge Chase A, Clark, who was Governor of Idaho from 1940 to 1942. The Church family has one son, Forrest, aged seven.

War Service

Frank Church enlisted as a private in the United States Army on the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1942, He served in the ranks for eighteen months, and then was commissioned as an infantry officer on his twentieth birthday. Church was assigned to the military intelligence and saw action in India, Burma, and China. Since the war, he has taken an active part in veteran activities, having served two terms as Department Judge Advocate of the American Legion for the Department of Idaho.

Community Service

Frank Church has rendered outstanding community service of both political and non-political character. He is an officer in the Elks Lodge and a member of the Boise Junior Chamber of Commerce. During the years 1954 and 1955, Church was Idaho State Chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, the privately financed organization carrying messages of truth behind the Iron Curtain. He has also been prominent in the affairs of the Democratic Party for the past five years. He delivered the keynote address at the 1952 Democratic Platform Convention, He was State Chairman of the Young Democrats of Idaho from 1952 to 1954.

Lawyer and Speaker

Frank Church has engaged in a successful private law practice in Boise for the past several years. A noted speaker, Church brought recognition to the Gem State when in high school, he was named national winner of the American Legion Oratorical Contest. In 1943 he was chosen to address the Second War Congress of American Industry in New York. Four years later, as winner of the 53rd annual Joffre Debate he was awarded the coveted Medaille Joffre in San Francisco.

Travel and Experience

Frank Church has been on both sides of the Iron Curtain, both in Europe and in Asia. He has enjoyed an exceptional opportunity to observe world conditions. Only last fall, he was invited by the Government of free Berlin, as one of the sixty American citizens, to represent the United States at ceremonies in Berlin marking the fifth anniversary of the presentation of the famed Freedom Bell to West Berlin by the American people. ERNEST GRUENING ALASKA United States Senate WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 19, 1963

Dean Dan:

Replying to your letter of December 18th,

I would be delighted to serve as often as I

can in whatever states the Senatorial candidates

desire to have me.

With best regards, I remain

Cordially yours,

Ernest Gruening, U.S.S. Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D. C. DANIEL B. BREWSTER MARYLAND DEC 23 1963 United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 20, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate

Dear Dan:

Many thanks for your letter advising of your appointment as Chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

You can certainly count on my full support and cooperation.

With all good wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

DANIEL B. BREWSTER BIOGRAPHY - SENATOR FRANK CHURCH (October, 1961)

Idaho’s 37 year-old Frank Church, second youngest member of the United States Senate and keynoter of the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, has filled his first term with a variety of accomplishments.

In 1957, his first year in the Senate, it was Church who modified the Jury Trial Amendment to the Civil Rights measure to assure Negroes the right to serve on federal juries. This procedural safeguard opened the way for the first Senate action on Civil Rights in nearly a century,

In the same year, it was Church who led the successful fight for Senate passage of the bill to authorize a high Hells Canyon Dam,

In the present Congress, Church was the Floor Manager of the Wilderness Bill, which passed the Senate with a resounding 78 to 8 vote.

He also set something of a record as a freshman Senator by serving on four committees.

In the 86th Congress he was named to the important Foreign Rela­ tions Committee -- the first Idahoan to serve on the Committee since the late William E. Borah.

Today, he confines his Senate committee work to Foreign Relations and Interior and Insular Affairs, which has jurisdiction over most Western mat­ ters, and where he is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, and the Senate Special Committee on Problems of the Aging..

As a member of the African Affairs Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, Church led a delegation which included Ted Kennedy, brother of the President, on a five-weeks fact-finding tour of Africa late in 1960 An extensive report on the delegation's findings was subsequently published by the Foreign Relations Committee, and personal reports given President Kennedy and other Administration officials.

Church was chosen as a delegate to the Economic Conference of the Organization of American States in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957; the Inter­ national Parliamentary Union at Warsaw, Poland, in 1959, and Canadian-American Parliamentary Conferences held at Ottawa, Montreal, and Washington in 1959 and I960.

Throughout his term, Church has advocated that the United States press resolutely for a nuclear test ban agreement with the Russians to avoid danger tothe world's population. Proposals which he made to the State Department be­ came adopted policy at the Geneva negotiations.

Church was the Senate Interior Committee's representative at ses­ sions with the International Joint Commission, which has jurisdiction over inter­ national waters between Canada and the United States. He was an ardent advocate of the U.S.-Canadian treaty on the Columbia River, and was invited to the White House when the pact was signed.

The Idaho Senator campaigned in Idaho and across the nation for President Kennedy in 1960.

The National Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1957 chose Church as one of the ten outstanding young men of the United States.

A son of pioneer Idaho parents, Church was born July 25, 1924, at Boise, where he attended grade and high school as a top scholar and debater. As a junior he was chosen as the nation’s number one high school speaker in the American Legion Oratorical Contest -- an award that included a $4,000 scholar­ ship at Stanford, where he went to study law.

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He enlisted in the Army as an 18-year-old private on December 7, 1942, and by his 20th birthday had been commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, Transferred to Military Intelligence, he served in the China-Burma- India theater. He was commended for his duties with the Chinese Combat Com­ mand and awarded the Bronze Star. On July 22, 1946, he was discharged as a First Lieutenant,

Church returned to his studies at Stanford, became a Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Madaille Joffre for winning the 53rd Annual Joffre debate. He studied briefly at Harvard, but returned to Stanford to obtain his law degree in 1950,

The same year he passed the Idaho bar, was licensed to practice before U.S. District Courts and the Idaho Supreme Court, and became legal counsel for the Idaho Office of Price Stabilization, In 1951 he established a private law practice in Boise,

Church served two terms as Department Judge Advocate of the American Legion for the Department of Idaho, was an officer in the Elks Lodge, and active in fraternal and civic work.

State Chairman of the Crusade for Freedom in 1954 and 1955, Church attended the 5th Anniversary of the presentation of the Freedom Bell to West Berlin by the American people.

From 1952 to 1954, he served as State President of the Young Demo cratic Clubs of Idaho. In 1956 he entered the Democratic Primary to narrowly de feat former Senator Glen Taylor and two other opponents, and then went on to de feat incumbent Republican Herman Welker for his United States Senate seat -- by one of the largest pluralities ever given a candidate for the office in the state’s history.

Frank Church is married to a childhood sweetheart, the former Bethine Clark, daughter of U.S. District Judge and Mrs. Chase A. Clark, Judge Clark, a Democrat is a former Idaho Governor.

Senator and Mrs. Church have two children, Forrest 13, and Clark, 4.

The Senator’s mother, Laura B. Church, resides in Boise, Idaho. He has one brother, Colonel Richard B. Church of the U.S. Marines.

#### ERNEST GRUENING GEORGE SUNDBORG . ALASKA ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

HOME ADDRESS: HERBERT W. BEASER Box 1001 LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT Juneau, Alaska United States Senate WASHINGTON, D.C.

February 5, 1964 Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman, Speakers bureau, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Dan:

Replying to your letter of February 3rd, as I recall telling you verbally I will be most happy to serve in the nexrt campaign in behalf of our fellow-Democrats wherever these gentlemen would like to have me speak in their states and subject, of course, to other prior commitments.

In regard to the requests for material, I am appending herewith the answer to "1. Introduction", which is, in fact, my curriculum vitae from which the introducer can select what he wishes.

In regard to 2." Other Acvtivities," I will be glad to do whatever our fellow-Democratic candidate feels would be helpful.

In regard to "3 Subject of Speech , I would be glad to speak on almost any of the subjects, being expert at none of them-- which therefore qualifies me admirably.

With best regards, I remain Cordially yours,

Enclosure Ernest Gruening, U.S.S. Ernest Gruening originally intended, to "become a physician so that he might follow in the footsteps of his father who had achieved eminence in New York - as an ophthalmologist and otologist. He was graduated from Harvard College with the Class of 1907 and from Harvard Medical School, Class of 1912. From there he moved on to a career as newspaper and magazine editor, author, government official, Governor of Alaska and "general practitioner" in the public service.

The dedication of his energies over two decades to the cause of Alaska statehood was climaxed by the admission of the 49th State and his election to the United States Senate, where he took office January 7, 1959.

Ernest Gruening was born February 6, 1887. He was graduated from Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., in 1903 Three honorary degrees have been bestowed upon him, an LL.D, University of Alaska, 1955l an LL.D., University of Alberta, Canada, 1950, and Brandeis University, 1959.

He was married to Dorothy E. Smith of Norwood, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1914. Their son, Huntington Gruening, is vice president for Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines at Juneau, Alaska, and the father of three Gruening grandchildren, Clark, Winthrop and Bradford. Winthrop and Bradford were born in Juneau in 1948. Two of the sons of Senator and Mrs. Gruening, Ernest, Jr., and Peter, are deceased.

The home of Senator and Mrs. Gruening is at Eagle River Landing, near Juneau.

Journalism - to 1933

In 1911, during his last year at medical school, Ernest Gruening gave up medicine for journalism when he became a reporter for the Boston American. After receiving his M.D. in 1912, he joined the Boston Herald as a reporter. During the Lawrence, Mass., strike of textile workers against American Woolen Company, the newspaper favored the company, but as a reporter Ernest Gruening presented the side of the strikers, who were grossly underpaid and worked long hours. The next year he was promoted to editorial writer.

Gruening moved from the Boston Herald to the Boston Traveler, where he became Managing Editor. Among instructions he gave to the staff was the following:

"In editing stories which involve Negroes, please ask yourselves how the story would read if the word, ’Jew’, ’Irishman’ or ’Swede' were substituted for the word ’Negro'. Refer to the color of the indi­ vidual only when it is of particular and special interest and when the story would be manifestly incomplete and inaccurate if the color of the person involved were concealed..."

This was the first time, as far as is known, that such instructions were issued to a metropolitan daily newspaper and put into effect.

As Managing Editor of the Boston Traveler, he conducted a crusade to save Leo Frank, unjustly accused of murdering a teenage girl in his Atlanta pencil factory. (Leo Frank was in part the victim of anti-Semitic prejudice aroused by the demagogic journalist Tom Watson, later United States Senator from Georgia.) Gruening secured a delegation, including Governor Eugene Foss of Massachusetts to travel to Atlanta to plead for commutation of the death sentence imposed upon Frank as a result of mob hysteria. (Governor Slayton of Georgia commuted. Frank’s sentence to life imprisonment, but before Frank could be brought to a new trial, he was taken from his prison by a band of masked men and lynched.)

After exposing Mayor James Michael Curley in an act of flagrant mal­ feasance, Gruening resigned from the Boston Traveler when the publisher of the paper refused to support his position and agreed to apologize to Curley.

From 1916 to 1918, Gruening served first as Managing Editor of the Boston Journal--a liberal newspaper--and then as Managing Editor of the New York Tribune. Gruening's experiences at the Tribune are described in part in Nathaniel Benchley's biography of Robert C. Benchley.

Following a World War I tour of duty in the Field Artillery of the United States Army, Gruening became Managing Editor of The Nation Magazine, where he remained until 1923.

Gruening conducted a vigorous campaign to get the U.S, Marines out of Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He secured a senatorial investigation of the military and financial occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and although the investigation proved a "white-wash," he persisted in writing about it as a freelance writer, urging a "Good Neighbor Policy." (American occupation was ended by the Roosevelt Administration in 1933.)

Unceasingly editorializing against other aspects of American imperialism, Gruening called for recognition in Mexico of the Obregon Administration, which the Harding Administration had failed to acknowledge unless Obregon would first agree not to condone Mexican land policies involving breaking up of large land estates, some of which were owned by American interests.

In 1923, Gruening went to Mexico to get the story of the Mexican Revolution and he presented his case through Collier's and The Nation Magazines.

After serving as national director of publicity for the Robert LaFollette presidential campaign of 1924, Gruening wrote the definitive volume Mexico and Its Heritage, published in 1928 and still in print.

In 1927, Ernest Gruening founded the Portland, Maine, Evening News— which he made into a crusading liberal newspaper. Five years later, he left Portland to return to The Nation Magazine which he edited for one year, strongly supporting the Roosevelt New Deal.

Then came his second book, The Public Pays_, which was an expose of private power company attempts to subvert public opinion and to condemn such projects as Muscle Shoals (later TVA), municipal ownership of public utilities and public power generally. The Public Pays is being reprinted.

Director of Territories: 1934-39

In 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt became President, Gruening was appointed as advisor to the United States Delegation, headed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to the Seventh Inter-American Conference at Montevideo.

Gruening's appointment as advisor became the subject of a diplomatic protest from the Dominican Embassy because of an article which Gruening had written in The Nation, denouncing the Trujillo dictatorship, and which was circulated by the Foreign Policy Association, of which Gruening was a director. In order to alleviate any embarrassment in view of Gruening's appointment as United States advisor, Secretary Hull suggested that Gruening resign his Foreign Policy Association directorship.

At Montevideo, over the opposition of a majority of the delegation, the groundwork was laid for the implementation of the Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America; that is, (1) abjuring American armed intervention, (2) multi­ lateralizing the Monroe Doctrine--making it a "joint concern" of all the American Republics--and, (3) scrapping the Platt Amendment which had established a virtual U.S. protectorate over Cuba.

In 1939, the U.S. News wrote: "Millions of Polynesians, Eskimos, Spanish-Americans, Negroes and Whites throughout the world, especially in Oceania, now look upon Ernest Gruening to administer their civil affairs. Since 1934, upon creation of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the Department of the Interior, Mr. Gruening has directed the affairs of Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii and five islands in the South Pacific..."

- 2 - It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who appointed Gruening the first Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, a new agency in the Department of the Interior created by Executive Order. Gruening assumed --and he acted on his assumption-- that it was the function of his office to work for the abolition of the agency as soon as possible by securing a maximum of autonomy for all dependencies and for Hawaii and Alaska statehood. To that end, Gruening worked closely with Delegates Sam King of Hawaii and Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska.

The next year Gruening was appointed also as Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, which was designed to establish a going economy in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration laid the foundation for the economy in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Adminis­ tration laid the foundation for the economic resuscitation of the island de­ pendency. Gruening directed the building of schools, housing, a new plant for the University of Puerto Rico and large hydroelectric dams. The PRRA purchased privately-owned power and light companies and incorporated them in the publicly- owned system. It carried forward the soil conservation projects, acquired a sugar central and made it a cooperative to act as a yardstick. It established a government cement plant to reduce the high cost of imported cement (the plant was so successful that it has operated continuously ever since); it paid off amorti­ zation and interest in a few years and was sold to private enterprise, which established a second plant to supply demand.

Gruening initiated and carried forward plans for the economic rehabili­ tation of the Virgin Islands, which has been labelled a "poor house" by President Hoover. Gruening acquired Canton Island in the Pacific for the United States as a needed intermediate U.S. commercial stop to the Antipodes, when the other so-called "line" islands, Howland, Baker and Jarvis, proved inadequate for the purpose. (Canton Island is a coral atoll capable of accommodating both float and wheel planes, which the other islands are not.)

In 1938 Gruening was appointed a member of the Alaska International Highway Commission designed to study the feasibility of and to promote a highway between the United States and Alaska. This highway was built in 1942. To the very eve of Pearl Harbor, military authorities had declared such a highway of no military value whatsoever.

Governor of Alaska: 1939-1953

President Roosevelt designated Gruening to become Governor of Alaska in August, 1939. Gruening first declined the appointment on the ground that an Alaskan should be appointed but he later accepted the governorship at the President’s insistence that his familiarity with federal procedure and the New Deal administration’s purposes would make him of great help to Alaska. Upon his appointment, said the U.S. News:

"This week a 52-year-old government official will set out for a vast almost uninhabited wilderness, a land one-fifth the size of the United States, a land of forests and fish and minerals, a land with only 60,000 human beings—one person for every ten square miles. The wilderness; Alaska. The Official: Dr. Ernest Gruening, the territory’s newly appointed Governor.

"That Dr. Gruening may have something up his sleeve is evident from a statement he made last week in which he said that a democracy ’has no business having colonies’, and urged that American terri­ tories be prepared for a political equality with States."

The U.S. News went on to say, reflecting on Gruening's career that: "for the last 15 years, long before the New Deal, in print and on the platform, Dr. Gruening has been a crusader for the ’good neighbor policy’."

One of Governor Gruening’s first moves was to fight discrimination against Alaskan workers on naval bases in Alaska where construction had begun. Under existing arrangements between Seattle contractors, the Navy and Seattle labor unions, "outside" labor had priority in employment and special advantages which were denied Alaskan labor. Governor Gruening found it necessary to go as high as Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison to win this skirmish-- which proved to be a continuing battle on other government construction projects.

When he came to Alaska, the new Governor found that there was discrimi­ nation in public places against the Alaskan Natives--Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos. This he vigorously opposed, both privately and publicly. He sponsored legislation to outlaw such discrimination and succeeded in having it enacted. Polling places in Eskimo and other communities were established. Owing to the former lack of polling places, the inhabitants had been disenfranchised. - 3 - Governor Gruening fought and diminished the stupidities of war censorship of Alaska mails which impeded rather than aided the war effort, taking this matter before the United States Senate. He sponsored and finally secured an adequate revenue system. Many companies and individuals, previously making enormous profits had been paying little or no taxes and leaving nothing for Alaska public services. Now they began to pay their fair share.

There were many problems which beset the Territory of Alaska in its struggle for equality with the states. There were many things which had to be done, and the Governor--sensing the importance and urgency of the situation-- fought long and hard. He secured establishment of an Alaska Development Board to promote industry in Alaska and to diversify its economy, previously limited essentially to fisheries, gold mining and furs. He secured establishment of a Department of Agriculture to promote this basic pursuit of potentials for making Alaska more self-sustaining in food production. He fought consistently against the Seattle Steamship monopoly and he managed to delay and diminish freight rate increases which it would otherwise have secured. He secured establishment of an Alaska Housing Authority which was instrumental in relieving the intense housing shortage.

With Delegate Bartlett, he fought against abolition of the cost-of-living differential for Federal employees, succeeding in having it retained. Unceasingly he urged higher salaries for teachers, which were increased in all of the seven regular sessions of the Legislature during his governorship.

Prior to World War II, an Alaska National Guard was established under Governor Gruening's direction, and after its units were federalized, a Territorial Guard was established whose units were later incorporated in the re-established National Guard after World War II. (The early units were called "Gruening's Guerrillas.")

In his first message to the Legislature in 1941, Governor Gruening proposed armories, which were finally obtained, to serve not merely their pre­ scribed military purposes but, most usefully, an important function as civic centers. After the end of hostilities, the War Department denied overseas discharge points for Alaskan veterans; Governor Gruening fought for and secured reversal of this policy to permit veterans’ earlier return to civilian life.

Governor Gruening urged as a supreme duty upon the 1945 Alaska Legis­ lature, meeting in January, the enactment of veterans' legislation for servicemen and women of World War II. When this proposal was defeated by reactionary oppo­ sition within the Legislature, the Governor called a special session in 1946 to enact it. This was the first veterans act enacted by any state or territory after World War II. (Under the Alaska Veterans Act, more than 6,500 Alaska veterans have secured either bonuses or loans-- a program which has given the economy of Alaska an enormous lift.)

Ernest Gruening, when Governor, established a full-time Department of Health. He got a special appropriation for tuberculosis and began to diminish the shockingly high incidence of TB in Alaska. (The TB death rate was nine times that in the 48 states.)

In 1945 he sponsored a referendum on statehood for a subsequent general election which marked the beginning of a 13-year battle for Alaska statehood, finally won in 1958. The Alaska Statehood Committee was established in 1949, and soon thereafter an honorary nationwide committee of 100 persons--five-star generals and admirals, state governors and many others prominent in all walks of life-- to press for Alaska statehood.

In view of the favorable statehood vote in the 1946 referendum, Governor Gruening attended the 1947 National Governors Conference held in Salt Lake City to seek a statehood resolution. He secured a unanimous resolution in behalf of statehood from state governors and repeated this in the five subsequent conferences up to and including 1952. (No such resolution was obtained by the Governor's two successors.) He sponsored legislation to ban billboards on Alaska highways, adopted in 1949.

He sponsored legislation to establish an Alaska Department of Fisheries, to diminish the destruction of salmon resources, to help restore the economy of Alaska’s coastal communities from dependency on fisheries and to prepare Alaska for the responsibilities of statehood.

Through 50 telegrams to members of Congress, he protested the abandonment of Alaska defenses and decommissioning of its bases after VJ Day--aware of the coming greater peril from the Soviet Union. In 1949 Governor Gruening proposed the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line--in order to reverse action already under way to remove the aviation industry from the Puget Sound area. As a direct result of this recommendation, radar screens were established around Alaska.

When Ernest Gruening retired from the governorship in April, 1953, Alaska was on the march with a new high in prosperity and a surplus in the territorial treasury.

The State of Alaska to Alaskan Statehood

In 1953 and 1954 Gruening wrote his 606-page book The State of Alaska, published by Random House-- which was to serve as a handbook in the fight for statehood. During the next two years he wrote pro-statehood articles which appeared in Harper’s, Atlantic. Current History, the Progressive and other peri­ odicals. He lectured widely throughout the States in behalf of statehood. Then, in 1955 he delivered the keynote address to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, where he for the first time raised publicly (with ample documentation) the issue of "colonialism" in respect to Alaska--which idea proved a powerful weapon in hastening statehood.

The next year Ernest Gruening and William Egan were elected provisionally to the United States Senate under the Alaska-Tennessee Plan to work for statehood in the Congress. When it was found that some Republican votes for statehood in the Senate would be secured if candidates agreed to run anew for election after statehood was adopted. Senator Gruening and his colleague relinquished their titles. (Under the Tennessee Plan, Senators are elected from a territory prior to statehood to "lobby" for statehood and to assume their position upon the enactment of statehood.)

United States Senator - since 1959

Statehood was achieved in 1958. Ernest Gruening was "re-elected" November 25m 1953, and took his oath of office as a United States Senator on January 5, 1959 along with Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, who was chosen by the people of Alaska in the same election in November of 1958 to represent the 49th state for the first time in the United States Senate. By a toss of the coin Bartlett was designated as the senior Senator and Gruening as the junior. In a traditional ceremony the two Senators drew lots at the Senate President's desk which determined that Bartlett would have a two-year term and Gruening a four- year term. Senator Bartlett was re-elected in 1960.

Gruening was re-elected to a full six-year term in the Senate in November, 1962. He based his campaign on his record of accomplishment for his fellow Alaskans and the nation during the 86th and 87th Congresses.

Much of the legislation he has sponsored has been in the interest of achieving a smooth transition for the Last Frontier from territorial to state status; much, too, has been in the broader field of constructive national policy.

His accomplishments include approval and financing of the planning of the long-awaited study of an Alaska road system to be made cooperatively through the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and the State of Alaska.

Gruening has geared a great deal of his efforts in developing the State’s great natural resources. The 87th Congress authorized construction of two new hydroelectric power projects : the Crater-Long Lakes division of the Snettisham project near Juneau and the Bradley Lake project on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. They are the first hydroelectric projects approved by the Congress for the State since the Eklutna project under the Truman administration.

Senator Gruening’s untiring efforts on behalf of the proposed huge Rampart dam power project in central interior Alaska have been productive. Through his persuasion funds to undertake the study of the Rampart project were first secured in 1959 over Administration protests. The study will be completed in Fiscal Year 1964. Rampart dam when completed will be the biggest power producer in the free world. Its total estimated Federal cost is $1-1/3 billion, which will build a dam with an installed capacity of approximately 5 million kilowatts and will produce energy at a cost of 2 mills at the bus-bar and not to exceed 3 mills per kilowatt-hour at tidewater. The project, according to existing private studies, would help illuminate Alaska and create a busy, prosperous economy.

Major issues affecting the state upon which the Senator is working include realistic water freight rates, consistency of laws affecting homesteaders, development of agriculture, improved government service to the state and fisheries rehabilitation.

- 5 - On the national and international scene the Senator seeks a realistic foreign aid prograin based on economic assistance to provide training rather than military assistance which perpetuates oligarchy. Gruening has a long record in support of civil rights.

An author of international stature, his book Mexico and Its Heritage is a classic 35 years after its publication in 1928. He is a contributor to numerous national periodicals, including The National Geographic, The Nation, The New Republic and others.

Gruening serves on three Senate Committees; Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works and Government Operations. Each is regarded as a major committee, and he is one of very few members with three such assignments.

As a member of the Interior Committee, he is chairman of the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels, and a member of the Subcommittee on Public Lands and the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs.

On the Public Works Committee he serves on the Subcommittee on Public Roads and the Subcommittee on Flood Control—Rivers and Harbors.

As a member of the Government Operations Committee, he served on the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations and the Subcommittee on Insecticides and Pesticides.

Ernest Gruening has been an energetic spokesman of the public interest. John F. Kennedy has said: "I have the highest regard for Ernest Gruening. His keen mind and vast knowledge of Alaskan and international affairs are greatly needed in the United States Senate."

- 6 - United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 31, 1963

The Honorable Daniel Inouye United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

The Democrats are still disappointed that you were unable to come and speak to them in Oregon last month.

I have just received a letter from Mr. Richard Kaplan, asking me to invite you to speak at the banquet of the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon on February 15. It is my understanding that the banquet will be held in Portland, and the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon will provide you with round-trip transportation, Washington-Portland-Washington.

This banquet is being held in conjunction with the annual convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of Oregon, and I certainly hope that your schedule will permit you to accept the invitation.

With kindest personal regards, and best wishes for a Happy New Year,

Wayne Morse

WM: jc PAT MCNAMARA, MICH., CHAIRMAN JENNINGS RANDOLPH, W. VA. JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, KY. STEPHEN M. YOUNG, OHIO HIRAM L. FONG, HAWAII EDMUND S. MUSKIE, MAINE J. CALEB BOGGS, DEL. ERNEST GRUENING, ALASKA JACK MILLER, IOWA FRANK E. MOSS, UTAH JAMES B. PEARSON, KANS. LEE METCALF, MONT. B. EVERETT JORDAN, N.C. United States Senate DANIEL B. BREWSTER, MD. DANIEL K. INOUYE, HAWAII COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS BIRCH BAYH, IND. GAYLORD NELSON, WIS. RON M. LINTON, CHIEF CLERK AND STAFF DIRECTOR February 25, 1964

The Hon. Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau . Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Senator Inouye:

In reply to your letter concerning speeches during the coming campaign, I want to say that I have no particular desires in the terms of the type of intro­ duction, and that I will be willing to participate in other activities as arranged at the local level.

Generally, in terms of subject matter, I do not like to be tied down, but like to be able to speak generally on the important issues of the day.

I trust that this satisfactorily answers your requests.

Sincerely yours,

GAYLORD NELSON U S Senator

GN:wsg MAURINE B. NEUBERGER OREGON

United States Senate WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 20, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Your appointment as Chairman of the Speakers

Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

pleases me very much. And I will do whatever I can

to assist in the 1964 campaign for the re-election

of Democratic Senators.

With best wishes for the Holiday Season,

regards,

Maurine B. Neuberger

MBN:dd CLAIBORNE PELL RHODE ISLAND

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

December 30, 1963

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Old Senate Office Building

Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Thank you for your letter of December 18th, 1963, bringing me up to date on your responsibility vis-a-vis being Chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

I look forward to being of whatever help I may, and to sit down with you at any time to discuss this matter.

Ever sincerely,

Claiborne Pell CLAIBORNE PELL RHODE ISLAND

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

February 11th, 1964

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Thank you for your thoughtful letter of February 3rd, 1964. Enclosed is my rough idea of an introduction.

As far as participation in other activities goes, that would depend on the event and the tightness of my schedule.

Foreign policy, intercity rail transporta­ tion, party organization, and nation's growth are subjects that I feel most competent to discuss.

Ever sincerely,

Claiborne Pell

Enclosure A. WILLIS ROBERTSON, VA;, CHAIRMAN Dec 20 1983 JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL; JOHN G. TOWER, TEX; JOSEPH S. CLARK, PA. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, WIS. MILWARD L. SIMPSON, WYO; HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., N.J. PETER H. DOMINICK, COLO. EDMUND S. MUSKIE, MAINE EDWARD V. LONG, MO. United States Senate MAURINE B. NEUBERGER, OREG. THOMAS J. MC INTYRE, N.H. COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY

MATTHEW HALE, CHIEF OF STAFF

December 19, 1963 15

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

I am pleased to learn from your letter of the 18th that you have agreed to serve as Chair­ man of the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Fortunately, my term runs until 1966. The term of Senator Byrd expires next year and I hope that he is a candidate for reelection but he has made no an­ nouncement on that subject. However, Byrd has been in the Senate for thirty-one years and consequently, the voters of Virginia are either for him or against him and no campaign speaking in his behalf will material­ ly alter that situation.

With kind regards, I am

A. Willis Robertson FEB 8 1964 EDWARD V. LONG COMMITTEES AND SUBCOMMITTEES:

MISSOURI Committee on the Judiciary Constitutional Rights Antitrust and Monopoly National Penitentiaries, Chairman Administrative Practice and Proce­ United States Senate dure, Chairman WASHINGTON, D.C. Committee on banking and Currency Housing Financial Institutions Securities

Special Committee on Aging Employment and Retirement Income Frauds and Misrepresentations Af­ fecting Senior Citizens Health

February 7, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Senator Inouye:

Appreciate the information you furnished me concerning Speakers Bureau plans. Following is information you requested for your confidential file for all speakers:

1. Introduction. Do not wish any special introduction.

2. Other Activities. Am willing to participate in other activities, such as meeting with local politicans, members of the business community, student groups, labor groups, etc.

3. Subject matter of speech. Natural resources, agriculture, national economy, taxation, national defense, freedom of information, disarmament, and permanent world peace. Civil liberties, in general, such as wire tapping; search and seizure, which would be particularly good for specialized groups such as lawyers; housing; aging; small business; war on poverty.

Kindest personal regards.

EVL:dmk April 22, 1964

The Honorable Emilio Q. Daddario House of Representatives Washington, D. C.

Dear Mim:

Attached is a copy of a letter dated April 20th from Sarge Shriver advising me of his regrets.

This letter is in reply to mine dated April 14th, a copy of which was sent to your office.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKI:ki Enc. April 15, 1964

The Honorable Emilio Q. Daddario House of Representatives Washington, D. C.

Dear Mim:

Attached is a copy of a letter addressed to

Sargent Shriver, as per request submitted by Senator

Vance Hartke.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKI:ki Enc. The Honorable Warren G. Magnuson Chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Attached is a copy of a letter dated April 20th from Sarge Shriver advising me of hie regrets.

This letter is in reply to mine dated April 14th, a copy of which was sent to your office.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKI:ki Enc. April 15, 1964

The Honorable Warren G. Magnuson Chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Attached is a copy of a letter addressed to

Sargent Shriver, as per request submitted by

Senator Vance Hartke.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKIski Enc. April 22, 1964

Mr. Paul Pendergast Democratic National Committee

Washington, D. C.

Dear Paul:

Attached is a copy of a letter dated April 20th from Sarge Shriver advising me of his regrets.

This letter is in reply to mine dated April 14th, a copy of which was sent to your office.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKI:ki Enc. April 15, 1964

Mr. Paul Pendergast Democratic National Committee

Washington, D C.

Dear Paul:

Attached is a copy of a letter addressed to

Sargent Shriver, as per request submitted by

Senator Vance Hartke.

Sincerely,

DANIEL K. INOUYE United States Senator

DKI:ki Enc. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA., CHAIRMAN OLIN D. JOHNSTON, S.C. GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT. SPESSARD L. HOLLAND, FLA. MILTON R. YOUNG, N. DAK. JAMES O. EASTLAND, MISS. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, KY. B. EVERETT JORDAN, N.C. J. CALEB BOGGS, DEL. EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, MINN. E. L. MECHEM, N. MEX. MAURINE B. NEUBERGER, OREG. United States Senate GEORGE MCGOVERN, S. DAK. J. HOWARD EDMONDSON, OKLA. COMMITTEE ON HERBERT S. WALTERS, TENN. AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY COTYS M. MOUSER, CHIEF CLERK

December 20, 1963

Dear Danny:

Thanks for your letter of December 18th.

I will be glad to cooperate on your Speakers Bureau project whenever possible. It is imperative that we elect forward- looking qualified candidates next year.

Best wishes on this new assignment.

SincerelY,

George McGovern

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington 25, D.C. GEORGE MCGOVERN FEB 7 1964 SOUTH DAKOTA

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

February 4, 1964

Dear Danny:

Thanks for your letter of February 3rd outlining the policy for the Speakers Bureau Committee in the coming campaign. Let me take your points in order:

1. Introduction. I have no special preference as to the way I am introduced. The fact that I won by the shaking margin of 597 votes may be a good point to use.

2. Other activities. I would be happy to arrange other appearances to a limited extent. As a hepatitis victim a couple of years ago, I do have to restrict my pace somewhat more than before, but within reason I would be glad to take on other meetings.

3. Subject matter of speech. My primary interests have been defense expenditures and national security, economic conversion planning, agriculture and natural resources, although I have a broad interest in the whole range of legislation.

I hope this is helpful for your files, and I will look for­ ward to working with you in this important election year.

Sincerely,

George McGovern

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Senate Office Building JOHN L MCCLELLAN, ARK., CHAIRMAN HENRY M. JACKSON, WASH. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAKi SAM J. ERVIN, JR., N.C. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. JACOB Ki JAVITS, N.Y. ERNEST GRUENING, ALASKA JACK MILLER, IOWA EDMUND S. MUSKIE, MAINE JAMES B. PEARSON, KANS. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. THOMAS J. MCINTYRE, N.H. United States Senate ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN. DANIEL B. BREWSTER, MD. COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WALTER L. REYNOLDS CHIEF CLERK AND STAFF DIRECTOR December 24, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Dan: Congratulations on your appointment as Chair- man of the Speakers Bureau of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

The importance of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is such that I expect to spend a good deal of time in New Hampshire between now and March 10, 1964 After that date much of my time will be taken in advancing the Democratic candidates for Governor and the two Congressional seats in the November General Election. Consequently, I am afraid that my time will be somewhat limited. However, within the framework of my availability, I will be pleased to assist you and the Campaign Committee in every way possible.

Some time after the first of the year we should sit down to discuss the Committee’s plans in detail. Why not drop by at ray office any time that might be convenient to you.

Sincerely,

Tom McIntyre, U.S.S.

TM:km JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, ARK. CHAIRMAN HENRY M. JACKSON, WASH. KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. SAM J. ERVIN, JR., N.C. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. ERNEST GRUENING, ALASKA JACK MILLER, IOWA EDMUND S. MUSKIE, MAINE JAMES B. PEARSON, KANS. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. THOMAS J. MCINTYRE, N.H. StatesUnited Senate ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN. DANIEL B. BREWSTER, MD. COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WALTER L. REYNOLDS CHIEF CLERK AND STAFF DIRECTOR February 6, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee United States Senate Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator Inouye:

In reply to your letter of February 3 let me say that I am ready, willing and able to be of whatever help the Speakers Bureau requests of me,

I need no special introduction and would feel that most anything of an extemporaneous nature that is normally followed would be satisfactory. I would appreciate as complete briefing as possible. This would involve the names of the people with whom I would be in contact and the dos and don'ts of any particular political situation in any given area, I would be entirely willing to supplement any speech making by appearances before any type of group that may be the wish of the local party leaders. Insofar as subject matter for speeches is concerned most any of the current topics are ones that I have no difficulty in handling, I would appreciate however, some assistance on speech writing. This would consist of nothing more or less than filler type of stuff so that the burden would not rest com­ pletely on my staff.

There are only two qualifications that should be made known to you. One is my dislike for long distance air travel so that I would hope that my assistance could be confined to the more eastern or middle western part of our country. Page 2:

The last qualification is probably the most important. In New Hampshire this year we'll be attempting to re-elect our Governor. We will also be attempting to make a good try in both Congressional districts. Consequently, I will be needed up there and in addition to that our Governor is doing so well I need some identification with him. So my New Hampshire campaigning works both ways.

I am delighted that you are assisting in this very vital job and I know that you will perform it in your usual top notch manner.

Tom McIntyre, U. S. Senator

TM:rk FEB 8 1964

LISTER HILL, ALA;, CHAIRMAN PAT MCNAMARA, MICH. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ. WAYNE MORSE,<)REG. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. RALPH YARBOROUGH, TEX. WINSTON L. PROUTY, VT. JOSEPH S. CLARK, PA. JOHN G. TOWER, TEX; JENNINGS RANDOLPH, W. VA. LEN B. JORDAN, IDAHO HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. Senate EDWARD M. KENNEDY, MASS; LEE METCALF, MONT. COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE STEWART E. MCCLURE, CHIEF CLERK JOHN S. FORSYTHE, GENERAL COUNSEL Zip Code 20510 7 February 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate

Old Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. Dear Danny:

Thank you for your letter of the 3rd. I am preparing the following information if I should be called upon to assist any of the incumbents or the Committee feels that I could be of assistance in the course of the forthcoming campaign.

One: Introduction. I have no special desire to be introduced in any way. We have a mimeographed biography which is much too long that accompanies this letter, but any modification of this is satisfactory. Two: Other activities. I feel that any person who participates in some Democratic dinner or meeting should make himself available for any other activities that go along with it—TV appearances, knife and fork clubs, student groups, labor groups, etc. and I would certainly participate in such activities if they were arranged. Three: I feel that I can be more effective in the fields of conservation, natural resource development, education and labor. I am hopeful that this will help you in your very efficient organization of the Speakers Bureau and permit me to compliment you for already doing more than any other chairman in my experience.

Kindest personal regards.

Very truly yours,

enclosure Biographical Information on Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.)

Senator Lee Metcalf was bom January 28, 1911, at Stevensville, Montana, son of the late Harold E. Metcalf, cashier of the First State Bank of Stevensville, and the former Rhoda Smith, native of Ravalli County and daughter of Bitter Root

Valley pioneers. His mother now lives at Lakeside, California, Los Angeles suburb.

Metcalf attended grade and high school at Stevensville. After a year at

Montana State University, he transferred to Stanford University from which he was graduated with a degree in history and economics before taking his law degree at

MSU in 1936.

In the fall of that year, he was elected a State Representative from

Ravalli County and served in the 25th Legislative Assembly. In 1937, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General of Montana by Harrison J. Freebourn, with whom Metcalf sat on the State Supreme Court in later years. In December, 1940, he was appointed First Assistant for the remaining weeks of Attorney General Free- bourn's term. In 1941, Metcalf returned to the private practice of law at

Hamilton.

After Pearl Harbor, Metcalf enlisted in the Army in March, 1942. He trained with the 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion, was sent to Officer Candidate

School, commissioned in April 1943 and went overseas for the Normandy invasion.

He took part in five campaigns through France, Belgium and Germany, serving with the 1st Army and the 9th Infantry Division.

Immediately after entry of Allied troops into Germany, Metcalf established the first civilian court and occupational police system. After the collapse of the resistance in Germany, he supervised thousands of displaced persons, their camps and repatriation. He helped draft the ordinance for the first free local elections in Germany and supervised free elections in Bavaria.

Metcalf was released from the Army in 1946 and was elected Associate

Justice of the Montana Supreme Court on the non-partisan judicial ticket that year.

He was completing a six-year term on the Court in 1952 when he ran for the Demo­ cratic nomination and was elected Representative from Montana's First (Western)

Congressional District to succeed Mike Mansfield, who was elected to the Senate.

Metcalf was appointed first to the Committee on Education and Labor, serv­ ing also on two of its subcommittees, General Education and Labor Standards. In

1956, he headed a special subccmmittee on Mine Safety, which held hearings through­ out the West. In 1955 he was named also to the Interior and Insular Affairs Com- mittee and to four of its subcommittees, on Reclamation, Indian Affairs, Mining and Public Lands. He also was a member of the special subcommittee on Coal

Research. In 1958, Metcalf left the Interior Committee and was appointed to the

Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, forerunner of the present standing Committee on Science and Astronautics. In January, 1959, he was elected to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, whose Democratic members serve as the

Democratic Committee on Committees in the House.

In 1954, in his first term, Metcalf was cited for "distinguished service to conservation” by the five national conservation organizations, the National

Wildlife Federation, the National Parks Association, the Isaak Walton League of

America, the Wilderness Society and the Wildlife Management Institute.

Metcalf is sponsor of legislation concerning education, labor, conservation, resource development and Indian affairs. During the 86th Congress, he and the late

Senator James E. Murray (D-Mont.) were the principal sponsors of the Murray-Metcalf bill, the major proposal for general Federal aid to education.

Metcalf was elected to the Senate in 1960 to succeed retiring Senator

Murray. His Committee assignments are Labor and Public Welfare and Public Works.

In 1938, Metcalf married Donna Hoover of Wallace, Idaho, 1935 journalism graduate of Montana State University. Their foster son, Jerry, graduated from MSU in 1960, in 1961 received his M.A. in Advertising and Public Relations from North­ western University and is now employed in New York.

[1963] CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. CHAIRMAN HENRY M. JACKSON, WASH. HENRY DWORSHAK, IDAHO ALAN BIBLE, NEV. THOMAS H. KUCHEL, CALIF. JOHN A. CARROLL, COLO. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ. FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO GORDON ALLOTT, COLO. ERNEST GRUENING, ALASKA JACK MILLER, IOWA FRANK E. MOSS, UTAH EVERETT MC KINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. OREN E. LONG, HAWAII United States Senate QUENTIN N. BURDICK , N. DAK. LEE METCALF, MONT. COMMITTEE ON J. J. HICKEY, WYO. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

RICHARD L. CALLAGHAN, STAFF DIRECTOR

Zip Code 20510

24 December 1963

Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Office Building Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator Inouye:

Please call on me for any help I can offer within

the very limited area where I can help and be substituted

for more senior or better known members of the upper

body.

With best wishes,

Sincerely, LISTER HILL, ALA., CHAIRMAN PAT MCNAMARA, MICH. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ. WAYNE MORSE, OREG. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. RALPH YARBOROUGH, TEX. WINSTON L. PROUTY, VT. JOSEPH S. CLARK, PA. JOHN G. TOWER, TEX. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, W. VA. LEN B. JORDAN, IDAHO HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR.. N.J. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. United States Senate EDWARD M. KENNEDY, MASS. LEE METCALF, MONT. COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE STEWART E. MCCLURE, CHIEF CLERK JOHN S. FORSYTHE, GENERAL COUNSEL

Washington, D. C. December 21, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senator

Washington 25, D. C.

My dear Senator Inouye:

Let me, in Senator Hill's absence, acknowledge your letter of the 18th which, you may be sure, will be brought to his attention upon his return to the office.

With kindest regards and best wishes, I am

Very sincerely,

JEC:md FEB 12 1964 B. EVERETT JORDAN, N.C., CHAIRMAN CARL HAYDEN, ARIZ. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. HOWARD W. CANNON, NEV. JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, KY. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. HUGH SCOTT, PA. JOSEPH S. CLARK, PA. ROBERT C. BYRD, W. VA.

GORDON F. HARRISON, STAFF DIRECTOR United States Senate HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, CHIEF COUNSEL COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

February 11, 1964

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Thanks for your letter of the 3rd regarding informa­ tion for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Although we will not have a Senator up for election in our State this year, we will have an unusually hard battle against the Republicans in some of our Congressional Districts and I have agreed to spend as much time in my own State helping our Demo­ cratic Congressmen as I possibly can. Therefore, I feel that I will not be able to take on any assignments outside of North Carolina.

Thanking you for the grand job you are doing, and with all best regards, I am

BEJ: ml B. Everett Jordan, USS LISTER HILL. ALA.. CHAIRMAN DEC 23 1983 PAT MCNAMARA, MICH. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ. WAYNE MORSE, OREG. JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y. RALPH YARBOROUGH, TEX. WINSTON L. PROUTY, VT. JOSEPH S. CLARK, PA. JOHN G. TOWER, TEX. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, W. VA. LEN B. JORDAN, IDAHO HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., N.J. CLAIBORNE PELL, R.I. United States Senate EDWARD M. KENNEDY, MASS. LEE METCALF, MONT. COMMITTEE ON

STEWART E. MCCLURE, CHIEF CLERK LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE JOHN S. FORSYTHE, GENERAL COUNSEL 20510

December 21, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye

Old. Senate Office Building Washington, D. C.

Dear Colleague:

Thanks for your letter of December 18. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is fortunate in having you as Chairman of the Speakers Bureau for 1964.

You may depend on my cooperation. I shall hope to be as active as feasible and will be pleased to discuss this matter, as you suggest.

With every good wish for the Holiday Season to you and yours, I am

Sincerely, V

HARRY FLOOD BYRD, VA., CHAIRMAN RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. ALBERT GORE, TENN. THRUSTON B. MORTON, KY. HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. EVERETT MC KINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. EUGENE J. MC CARTHY, MINN. United States Senate VANCE HARTKE, IND. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN.

ELIZABETH B. SPRINGER, CHIEF CLERK February 17, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee United States Senate

Dear Dan:

Thank you very much for your recent letter.

I am enclosing several of my standard bio­

graphies for your files.

Sincerely,

Abe Ribicoff

Enclosure June 6, 1963

BIOGRAPHY OF SENATOR ABRAHAM RIBICOFF

Abraham Ribicoff took office as United States Senator from

Connecticut on January 9, 1963, after his election on November 6,

1962.

Senator Ribicoff serves on the Finance Committee and the

Government Operations Committee. On the former he is actively concerned with tax laws, foreign trade matters and is a leading spokesman for health insurance for the elderly under social security. Within the Government Operations Committee, Ribicoff serves on the Subcommittee on National Security Staffing and

Operations, Reorganization and International Organizations, and

Intergovernmental Relations. Designated to conduct a study of environmental hazards for the Subcommittee on Reorganization, he opened hearings in May, 1963.

Ribicoff brings to the Senate a wide experience and a broad background unique in American public affairs. He is the only public official who has served as a member of a state legislature, a judge, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, a gover- nor, a cabinet member, and now a U. S. Senator.

From January, 1961 until July, 1962, Ribicoff was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the cabinet of President

John F. Kennedy.

As Secretary of HEW, Ribicoff was responsible for some of the most far-reaching innovations in the history of the nation's health, education, and welfare programs.

An entirely new approach to welfare operations was insti­ tuted by Ribicoff, placing greater emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation.

The Social Security system was improved by Congress’s adoption of Ribicoff’s proposals for lowering the retirement 3

Ribicoff announced in December, 1961, that universities

chosen to participate in the high school teachers training

institutes under the National Defense Education Act would have to agree that there would be no discrimination in the

institutes.

Ribicoff was the first HEW secretary to urge the striking

of the "separate but equal" clauses from the Hill-Burton

Hospital Construction Act and statutes governing Federal assis­

tance to land grant colleges.

Before going to Washington, Ribicoff had been twice elected

Governor of Connecticut; in 1954 by a slim margin of 3,115 votes,

and in 1958 by the history-making plurality of 246,348 votes.

As governor, Ribicoff gained nation-wide attention for the

swift and efficient action he took to' combat the disastrous

floods of 1955, and for his highly successful program of traffic

safety.

Ribicoffs legislative program while Governor gave Connec­

ticut the most modern court system in the nation, the first

statewide adult probation program, one of the first laws in the

nation curtailing discrimination in private housing, and the

largest road-building program in the State's history.

The outmoded county government system was abolished by

Governor Ribicoff, educational assistance to towns and cities

increased, the University of Connecticut and the state colleges

expanded, unemployment compensation and workman's compensation

laws were improved.

Ribicoff provided far-sighted leadership to the state's

programs for mentally ill and mentally retarded men, women, and

children. The Department of Mental Health was reorganized and

strengthened, and there was created a new Office of Mental

Retardation. 4

Ribicoff began his career of public service in 1938, when he was elected Representative from Hartford to the Connecticut

General Assembly. He was reelected in 1940. Newsmen at the

State Capitol voted him the "most able representative."

He served two terms as a judge of the Hartford Municipal

Court, and for a number of years Ribicoff was a hearing examiner under the State's Fair Employment Practices Law. In

1948 he was elected to the U. S. Congress from Connecticut's

First Congressional District, (Hartford County), and served two terms.

Ribicoff is an attorney by profession and practiced in

Connecticut before entering public life. He was born in New

Britain, Connecticut, in 1910, son of an immigrant family. He went to the publicschools of New Britain and worked "his way through the University of ChicagoLaw School, from which he graduated cum laude.

For his distinguished record of public service, Abe Ribicoff has been awarded honorary degrees from 17 colleges and univer­ sities throughout the country.

He is married to the former Ruth Siegel. He has a daughter,

Jane, and a son, Peter, who was married in 1961 to the former

Mercedes Haziot. A son, Jacob, was born to the young Ribicoffs in March, 1963.

/ / / / / June 6, 1963

BIOGRAPHY OF SENATOR ABRAHAM RIBICOFF

Abraham Ribicoff took office as United States Senator from

Connecticut on January 9, 1963, after his election on November 6,

1962.

Senator Ribicoff serves on the Finance Committee and the

Government Operations Committee. On the former he is actively concerned with tax laws, foreign trade matters and is a leading spokesman for health insurance for the elderly under social security. Within the Government Operations Committee, Ribicoff serves on the Subcommittee on National Security Staffing and

Operations, Reorganization and International Organizations, and

Intergovernmental Relations. Designated to conduct a study of environmental hazards for the Subcommittee on Reorganization, he opened hearings in May, 1963.

Ribicoff brings to the Senate a wide experience and a broad background unique in American public affairs. He is the only public official who has served as a member of a state legislature, a judge, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, a gover­ nor, a cabinet member, and now a U. S. Senator.

From January, 1961 until July, 1962, Ribicoff was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in the cabinet of President

John F. Kennedy.

As Secretary of HEW, Ribicoff was responsible for some of the most far-reaching innovations in the history of the nation’s health, education, and welfare programs.

An entirely new approach to welfare operations was insti­ tuted by Ribicoff, placing greater emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation.

The Social Security system was improved by Congress’s

adoption of Ribicoff's proposals for lowering the retirement 2 age for men as well as for women to 62, raising retirement benefits for widows, and increasing minimum Social Security payments more than 20 per cent.

Ribicoff initiated the act which now provides aid to dependent children whose parents are the victims of unemploy­ ment.

The first law passed by Congress to curb juvenile delin­ quency and counter school drop-outs was drafted under Ribicoff's direction.

A law providing funds for the use of educational television stations was proposed by Ribicoff and passed by Congress— another first.

The Cuban refugee program was set up by Ribicoff to find homes and jobs for the thousands who have fled the Castro regime.

A new drug bill, written under Ribicoff’s direction, will greatly strengthen the Government's ability to keep harmful drugs, such as thalidomide, off the market, and enables the

Government, for the first time, to prevent the sale of worthless drugs.

Ribicoff has been the Administration's leading spokesman for a program of health insurance for the aged under Social

Security.

The new Federal Water Pollution Control Act was passed under

Ribicoff's leadership and now provides a strengthened program for

cleaning up the nation's polluted waterways.

In March, 1962, Ribicoff, through administrative action, made the historic decision that children whose parents live or work at Government installations would no longer be required to

attend local public schools in the Fall of 1963 if those schools

remained segregated, but, instead could attend desegregated

schools on the Federal bases. 3

Ribicoff announced in December, 1961, that universities chosen to participate in the high school teachers training institutes under the National Defense Education Act would have to agree that there would be no discrimination in the institutes.

Ribicoff was the first HEW secretary to urge the striking of the "separate but equal" clauses from the Hill-Burton

Hospital Construction Act and statutes governing Federal assis­ tance to land grant colleges.

Before going to Washington, Ribicoff had been twice elected

Governor of Connecticut; in 1954 by a slim margin of 3,115 votes, and in 1958 by the history-making plurality of 246,348 votes.

As governor, Ribicoff gained nation-wide attention for the swift and efficient action he took to combat the disastrous floods of 1955, and for his highly successful program of traffic safety.

Ribicoff's legislative program while Governor gave Connec­ ticut the most modern court system in the nation, the first statewide adult probation program, one of the first laws in the nation curtailing discrimination in private housing, and the largest road-building program in the State's history.

The outmoded county government system was abolished by

Governor Ribicoff, educational assistance to towns and cities increased, the University of Connecticut and the state colleges expanded, unemployment compensation and workman's compensation laws were improved.

Ribicoff provided far-sighted leadership to the state's programs for mentally ill and mentally retarded men, women, and children. The Department of Mental Health was reorganized and strengthened, and there was created a new Office of Mental

Retardation. 4

Ribicoff began his career of public service in 1938, when he was elected Representative from Hartford to the Connecticut

General Assembly. He was reelected in 1940. Newsmen at the

State Capitol voted him the "most able representative."

He served two terms as a judge of the Hartford Municipal

Court, and for a number of years Ribicoff was a hearing examiner under the State's Fair Employment Practices Law. In

1948 he was elected to the U. S. Congress from Connecticut's

First Congressional District, (Hartford County), and served two terms.

Ribicoff is an attorney by profession and practiced in

Connecticut before entering public life. He was born in New

Britain, Connecticut, in 1910, son of an immigrant family. He went to the public schools of New Britain and worked his way through the University of Chicago Law School, from which he graduated cum laude.

For his distinguished record of public service, Abe Ribicoff has been awarded honorary degrees from 17 colleges and univer­ sities throughout the country.

He is married to the former Ruth Siegel. He has a daughter,

Jane, and a son, Peter, who was married in 1961 to the former

Mercedes Haziot. A son, Jacob, was born to the young Ribicoffs in March, 1963.

/ / / / / HARRY FLOOD BYRD, VA., CHAIRMAN RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. ALBERT GORE, TENN. THRUSTON B. MORTON, KY. HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, MINN. United States Senate VANCE HARTKE, IND. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN.

ELIZABETH B. SPRINGER, CHIEF CLERK March 25, 1964

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate

Dear Dan:

Thank you very much for your invitation to attend the testimonial dinner for Joseph M. Montoya.

I sure wish that I could join you. Un­ fortunately, a previous commitment for that date makes it impossible.

Sincerely,

Abe Ribicoff JAN 8 1954

HARRY FLOOD BYRD, VA., CHAIRMAN RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. ALBERT GORE, TENN. THRUSTON B. MORTON, KY. HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. EVERETT MC KINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. United States Senate EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, MINN. VANCE HARTKE, IND. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN. ELIZABETH B. SPRINGER, CHIEF CLERK January 7, 1964

Hon. Daniel K. Inouye United States Senator New Senate Office Building Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Dan:

Many thanks for your letter of December 18th.

As Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for three straight elections, you can be assured that I will do everything in my power to help you in any way possible. With warmest regards, I m Sincerely,

George A.. Smathers, USS

GAS:wjk GEORGE A. SMATHERS Committee on Finance FLORIDA Committee on Foreign Relations Special Committee on Aging—chairman Select Committee on Small Business United States Senate WASHINGTON, D.C.

March 31, 1964

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye Chairman, Speakers Bureau Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee g Washington, D. C.

Dear Danny: I apologize for this long delay in answering your letter with respect to helping out with speeches during the coming campaign.

Count on me for any area, place or time you think I can be useful. Sincerely,

George A. Smathers

GAS:shw J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. CHAIRMAN JOHN SPARKMAN, ALA; BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, IOWA HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN. GEORGE D. AIKEN, VT. MIKE MANSFIELD, MONT. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. WAYNE MORSE, OREG. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. RUSSELL B. LONG, LA; KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK. ALBERT GORE, TENN. FRANK J. LAUSCHE, OHIO FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO STUART SYMINGTON, MO. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS THOMAS J. DODD, CONN. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA;

CARL MARCY, CHIEF OF STAFF DARRELL ST. CLAIRE, CLERK December 20, 1963

Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Dan:

Thanks for your letter of December 18. I am very glad that you have been appointed chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the Senatorial Campaign Committee. I wish for you much success in your task.

Throughout the years I have helped in both national and senatorial campaigns and, of course, I am willing to do so again subject only to the extent to which I may be required to be in Alabama.

As you probably know, our State Legislature has not yet redistricted the state. It appears now that our eight Congress­ men will have to run again from the state at large. If this is true we shall have a real fight on our hands from the Republicans and, of course, my first obligation will be there. To such extent, however, that I can get away I shall be glad to cooperate with you.

With best wishes and kindest regards, I am

Sincerely,

John Sparkman HARRY FLOOD BYRD, VA;, CHAIRMAN RUSSELL Bi LONG, LA. JOHN Ji WILLIAMS, DEL; GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. ALBERT GORE, TENN. THRUSTON B. MORTON, KY; HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, ILL. EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, MINN. United States Senate VANCE HARTKE, IND. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK; COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN. ELIZABETH Bi SPRINGER, CHIEF CLERK December 20, 1963

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Washington, D. C.

Dear Senator;

Thank you for your letter of December 18. The Committee has selected a fine man for the post of Chairman of the Speakers Bureau. I will be glad to discuss the subject of making "speeches with you at a mutually convenient time.

With kind personal regards, I am

Sincerely, FEB 8 1964

HARRY FLOOD BYRD, VA., CHAIRMAN RUSSELL B. LONG, LA. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, DEL. GEORGE A. SMATHERS, FLA. FRANK CARLSON, KANS. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, N. MEX. WALLACE F. BENNETT, UTAH PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL. CARL T. CURTIS, NEBR. ALBERT GORE, TENN. THRUSTON B. MORTON, KY. HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, MINN. United States Senate VANCE HARTKE, IND. J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, CONN. ELIZABETH B. SPRINGER, CHIEF CLERK February 5, 1964

The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye United States Senate Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Washington 25 D. C.

Dear Dan: Thank you for your letter of February 3.

Please let me know of any service I may perform.

With kind personal regards, I am Sincerely,