Quide the Formation of Any Social Policies, Particularly Those Affecting Families, from a Conservative/Pro-Family Point-Of-View

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MEMORANDUM

TO; The Coalitions

FROM; Connie Marshner

DATE: May 20, 1981

SUBJECT: Yale Conference This week I participated in a conference at Yale University sponsored by the Rush Center for Child Development on the topic of "What is Pro-Family Policy. The list of speakers with their biographies is attached. The Bush Center for Child Development is a project supported by the Bush Foundation which is the 3-M Corporation Foundation. There are four such centers at universities around the country: Michigan, California, North Carolina and Yale. This conference was one of several they have during the year at which Bush Center people from all over the country come to hear and to participate. Mv talk on Tuesday was a straight-forward explanation of what principles shoul4 quide the formation of any social policies, particularly those affecting families, from a conservative/pro-family point-of-view. I had been expecting a much more lively controversy to be provoked than I ended up getting. In fact the wh 1 conference was more staid and dull than I had expected, even for an academic environment. I am not sure to what to attribute this. Perhaps the profession 1 child development types there felt there was no point in trying to ar^e with me. Perhaps they had anticipated what I was going to say or perhaps they don t ca e what the principles of pro-family policy are, but in any event it was less lively a conference than I had been expecting. I might note in passing that the afternoon speaker on Monday, Alan Crawford, made sort of a fool of himself and did not provoke any interest on the part of the audience either. Crawford's presentation was proceeded by that a Sociologist from Yale. Rieder had already examined and discredited Crawford s theory of the New Right before Crawford ever spoke and had done so from a very good intellectual perspective. Furthermore after Crawford spoke, when he was asked questions on Family Policy, he said you know,_"I don't know." At one point he was asked, "Well what does your kind of conservative feel about, say, teenage preg nancy." He said, "Well you have to understand that my kind of conservative is me and one other person," and then went on to say that he didn't know anything about teenage pregnancy but he guessed that he was against it unless teenagers wanted to be pregnant. So Crawford himself stated that he doesn t represent respectable current of thought and his attitude was so flip and so casual through out that he ended up with the respect of nobody there. Lewis Koch was on the program at my request and he was a definite asset to the program. Koch had been the public affairs officer for the White House Conference on Families who left in disgust at the way that charade was conducted.^ He is knowledgeable about the intellectual issues that this conference was discussing and he was very critical of the professional establishment and the callousness of government policies. Being a former SDS sympathizer as he is, Koch's creden tials to now critize the Human Services establishment were impeccable. He also got little argument from the audience on his points. In conclusion, then, I guess the most interesting thing about this symposium at Yale was not what went on at it but the fact that it happened at all and the fact that they were so interested in hearing the pro-family point-of-view that they would have a relatively balanced program. Also that they would adjust their schedule as they did to put on Lew Koch at my urging. But unfortunately I was Memo to the Coalitions, from CRCM, May 20, 1981, Yale Conference, Page 2 not able to give information on the Family Protection Act in any detail at the symposium contrary to the indication on the schedule because Senator Jepsen had not yet signed off on the provisions on the bill so I was not at liberty to dis cuss the current version of the Family Protection Act. PRESENTERS

Bush Interest Group/Sjnmposium What Pro-Family Policy?

May 18-20, 1981

Monday, May 18

JONATHAN RIEDER is assistant professor of sociology at Yale University. His field of interest is American politics and culture, and he is the author of the book The Trials of Liberalism: The Making of Middle America in Canarsie, 1960-1980, forthcoming in 1982 from Harvard University Press. He is currently doing research on the New Right.

AT.AN CRAWFORD is a journalist and author of Thunder on the Right. He has worked as a reporter for The Washington Post and as editor-in-chief of a West Virginia daily newspaper. Mr. Crawford has also been editor of New Guard, the magazine for Young Americans for Freedom, and first assis tant editor of Conservative Digest. He has published articles in The .National Review, The Nation, Social Policy and Inquiry. He wrote speeches for former Senator James Buckley, and has also been a press secretary for three different Republican Congressmen. Mr. Crawford is at work on a second book.

LEWIS Z. KOCH is a broadcast and print journalist. From 1967 to 1972 he was a writer-producer for NBC News in Chicago. From 1972-1975, he wrote a syndicated column on the problems facing the American family. Mr. Koch has also been an editor of the Chicago Journalism Review and a contributing editor for Chicago Magazine. From July 1979-January 1980, he was a public affairs director for the White House Conference on Families. Mr. Koch has published numerous articles on marriage and the family in Psychology Today and other magazines. He and his wife Joanne wrote the book The Marriage Savers.

Tuesday, May 19

CONNAUGHT MARSHNER is director of the Family Policy Division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and editor of the Family Protection Report. She is chairman of the Pro-Family Coalition, and she helped develop the strategy for sending pro-family delegates to the White House Conference on Families — a responsibility she shared with Phyllis Schlafly. Mrs. Marshner was instrumental in the formulation of the Family Protection Act, introduced by Senator Paul Laxalt in the 96th Congress. Prior to joining the Free Congress Foundation, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity, for Congressman Philip Crane, and for the Heritage Foundation. Trained as a teacher, she is also an education critic and the author of Blackboard Tyranny.

ELLEN HOFFMAN is director of Governmental Affairs at the Children's Defense Fund. From 1971 to 1977 she served as staff director and professional staff member for the former U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth chaired by Walter F. Mondale. In that capacity, she was responsible for a wide variety of domestic policy issues in the area of children and youth womens' rights and education. She is author of the Child Abuse Prevention' and Treatment Act, the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Act, the Senate version of the Women's Educational Equity Act and the Women's Vocational Education Amendment of 1976. Prior to her legislative activities, Ms. Hoffman worked for five years as a reporter for the Washington Post, specializinp Tn education and urban affairs. " CATHERINE ROSS is assistant professor of history at the Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine and assistant head of the section on hiistory and social policy sponsored jointly by the Yale Bush Center and the Child Study Center. She was an editor of Child Abuse; An Agenda for Action published last fall by Oxford University Press and of numerous chapters and articles on social history and social policy concerning children and families. She is currently writing a book on the social history of child welfare.

NATHAN GLA2ER is a professor of education and sociology at Harvard University. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held non—academic positions as a staff member of Commentary Magazine, as an editor for Doubleday Anchor Books, and as an urban sociologist for the Housing and Home Finance Agency in Washington, D.C. Professor Glazer is well known for his numerous books and major monographs. These include The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman and Reuel Denney); American Judaism; Beyond the Melting Pot (with Daniel P. Moynihan); Remembering the Answers: Essays on The American Student Revolt; Ethnicity; Theory and Experience, (co-editor with Daniel P. Moynihan); Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy; and The Urban Predicament (co—editor with William Gorham).

EDWARD ZIGLER is Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and as the Head of the Psychology Section of Yale's Child Study Center. In the sixties, he was a member of the national planning and steering committee of Head Start, and served on Head Start's first national research council. Professor Zigler was responsible for administer ing the program from 1970-1972 in his capacity as the first Director of the Office of Child Development of the U.S. Department of Health^Education and Welfare. He was also formerly head of the U.S. Children's Bureau. Author of several books and numerous articles in scientific journals and popular periodicals. Professor Zigler's research interests include motivational determinants of children's performance, cognitive development and mental retardation, developmental theory of psychopathology, effects of socio economic deprivation, and the impact of social action programs on child and family life.

SANDRA SCARR is professor of psychology at Yale University. Prior to coming to Yale in 1977, she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Minnesota. She was also a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. Author of numerous journal articles. Professor Scarr's research interests include genetic and environmental influ ences on intelligence, aptitude and achievement. She is well known for her studies conducted among families with twins and among families with both bio logical and adopted children. She is editor of Developmental Psychology and has been an associate editor of the American Psychologist, and a consulting editor for Child Development. -.v'

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VI. GARY WINGET is a Mid-Career Fellow at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. He is presently on leave from his position as Executive Director of the Child Care Council in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a lobbyist for the Minnesota Children s Lobby, and a member of the Interim Steering Committee of the National Campaign for Child Daycare for Working Families. His current child care policy interests include state and federal sliding tax credits for workxng parents, xnvolvmg parents xn the evaluatxon of chxld care services, reform of regulation of child care services, and long-range child care trends.

SUSAN MUENCHOW directs public education activities at Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. Prior to coming to the Bush Center, she worked on the staff of the Carnegie Council on Children. She has also been reporter and survey editor for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston and a researcher in education and religion for Time Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she writes frequently for Parents' Magazine on child development and social policy affecting children and families. ROBERT MORONEY is professor of social planning in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, and a faculty member at the Bush Institute for Child and Family Policy. He directed a study evaluating the effects of Medicare and the UAW Health Insurance Program on nursing home utilization. He has also worked for the Office of Planning and Coordination, Office of Administration and Finance in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and for the U.S. Public Health Service. Since 1977, Professor Moroney has been editor of The Urban and Social Change Review. He is the author of numerous journal articles and chapters on family policy and human services. -r r«. ' ' fj ' ■ - ■■■ - ■•------I -ri

'd . frank van der Linden column 1626 - for Jun;e J9.8J

A FLOATING ARSENAL IN THE PERSIAN GULF

By Frank van der Linden

WASHINGTON The critics ridiculed it as a Navy scheme to waste

money "bringing out rusty buckets to scare the Soviets". Sen, Barry Goldwater charged that reviving old battleships "would be like trying to revitalize the Array by digging up old General Custer." It is true, the Arizona senator said, that the battleship New Jer sey, with its sixteen-inch guns, could bombard the coast of some foreign land and prepare for the Marines to land there. But, he said, "we are terribly short of landing craft--I am not allowed to use the figures, but we could not land enough Marines to

take Coney Island . " So Goldwater and several like-minded senators opposed the Navy's plan to bring the New Jersey out of mothballs and re-equip it as a float

ing arsenal, loaded with guided missiles. Former President Carter blocked the idea a year ago.' But this time President Reagan, the Navy, and a majority in both houses of Congress have agreed to move "full speed ahead" on a crash program to bring the big battleship back into the fleet within twenty-one months, at a guar

anteed maximum cost of $326 million. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Tower answered the "excessive cost" charge by getting a firm commitment to the ceiling from Navy Secretary John Lehman. Tower coped with the "age" objection that the New Jersey dates back to World War Two — by noting that it has actually been in service only 13 years and it was refurbished once

for the Vietnam war. True, the ideal plan would be to build brand-new, modern vessels like the Virginia class guided missile cruisers. But they would take "bout five yea..s to build, and we don't have five years to wait The Navy has told Congress that, for the first time, the United States has lost its superiority over the Soviet fleet. Our Navy trimmed down to fewer than 500 ships, is a one-and-a-ha1f ocean Navy stretched

thin for a globaL mission.

Sen. Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, an > an admiral and a former Navy flier La 111 ad IS a neroic prisoner of war in Vietnam,xri warned that if the fleet is not quickly brought up to the level of stren,^- strengtn recommended by Reagan : ts SLtnation would ho unconscioniolV dangerous." I Prank van der Linden column J626 - page 2

Thp New Jersey will be transformed into a floating arsenal of mod ern firepower in less than half the time it would take to build a new smaller ship and it will "fill a perioious gap" the admiral said. Its supporters see the New Jersey as a potential flagship for the Rapid Deployment Force, being formed to show the United States military might in the oil-rich region of the Persian Gulf. The battlewagon will carry its nine 16-inch guns capable of firing a 2,700-pound projectile 23 miles. They will provide excellent support for the Marines and many targets in the Persian Gulf, on land and sea, will be within range of its guns. The New Jersey will also add 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles, with a range of 700 to 300 miles, each, for attacking land targets, plus 16 harpoon cruise missiles, with a sixty-mile range, as anti-ship weapons, plus the Phalanx rapid-fire guns. The ship can carry helicopter and

VSTOf. aircraft, which can go straight up from the deck. Critics complained that the New Jersey will require a large crew of 1 ,300 men, too many in a time of manpower shortages. The defenders retorted that several hundred have already, volunteered to serve aboard

the New Jersey, and that will be no problem. Opponents charged that battleship was"too slow. But Sen. John jle'inz of Pennsylvania said, "In fact, it is as fast as the Nimitz air

craft carrier or the Kirov, the Soviet Union's newest battle cruiser."

So the New Jersey will get a new lease on life, and the United

States will have a powerful nev/ guardian of its vital interests in the

Persian Gu1f.

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(Copyright, 1981 , United States Press, Inc. Frank van der Linden Column 1628 - for June 5, 1981

"REVOLUTIONARY" REAGAN

Ey Frank van der Linden

WASHINGTON Ronald Reagan is such an amiable, mild-mannered man, that it is difficult to see him in his true character -- as a

2revolutiori3.3ry • The makers of revolutions are supposed to be wild men, waving guns or carrying bombs in their pockets, but the smooth old former Hollywood star doesn't look the part at all. Yet it's true; He is launching a revolution to break down the entire Rube Goldberg machine of the bureaucratic super state which the free-spending liberals have built in Washington during the past couple of decades. He revealed the secret of his long range plan the other day while chatting with a group of state and local officials

from the North Central States. Reagan had called the visitors to the Old Executive Office Building to ask their help in persuading a reluctant Congress to scrap the "catergorical" grants, which funnel billions of federal dollars into specific programs in the health, welfare, education and many other fields -- in every case, accompanied by reams of federal regu

lations and guidelines. The President wants to wrap up those programs into a few "block' grants, hand the money to the states and let them decide precisely where to spend it. The Democrats, who created those pro'grams during their long years in control of Congress, are fighting furiously to

keep them intact. "We ne^d your help," the President told the visiting officials, "because this is going to be probably one of the most difficult of all the parts of our reform program to bring about." He noted that federal officials have "a great reluctance to trust the people there; they believe that inhaling the fogs.-off the Potomac imparts a wisdom

that is not generally shared."

That line about "inhaling the fogs off the Potomac" drew an

ax ,'eciative laugh for the veteran trouper. Then he said, very seriously; "I have to tell you that my long distance dream is that

the block grants are only a bridge; that the real ultimate goal should

Ee to transfer the actual sources of taxatiort to state and local gov-

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Reagan thus expressed his basic pnilosophy, which is to trans

fer whole functions of government back from Washington to the local level, along with the taxing pov/er. It is a revolutionary idea,

which will meet with great resistance from those who enjoy the power

and the perquisites that go with the big super state of today. Reagan, who switched from the Democrat ic. party to the Re.publi- . cans officially in 1962, showed that, in his deepest political beliefs, he is remarkably close to Thomas Jefferson, whom the Democrats claim

as the Founding Father of their party. Reagan said; "We're unique

in all the world in that we v;ere set up to be a federation of sover eign states, with as much law as possible kept at the local level." Reagan's views are the pure Jeffersonian doctrine embodied in the

Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which specifically declares that all powers not granted by the Constitution to the federal govern

ment are reserved to the states and to the people.

The modern Democratic party - with help from some of the Republi

cans - has moved in- the opposite direction, building up more federal agencies at great expense and constantly expanding the budget until

it has reached a record high of about $700 billion a year while the

national debt is zooming up almost to the $1 trillion mark.

Reagan, the Revolutionary, is starting a mighty effort to make

a complete U-turn in the direction of the government. He will not be

deterred by the protests he hears. "Most of the screams of pain,"

he said, "are coming from the bureaucracy and not from the supposed

victims of our cuts."

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EXECUTIVE TRUSTEES: 3ames J. Rose, Chairman February 4, 1981 JLos Angeles, California Bay Boyd. Vice Chairman XSarland. Texas Larry Reger, Secretary .Buffalo. New York Mr. Alan Rothenberg Joe M. Baker. Jr., Treasurer -.i Washington, D.C. 11 Dupont Circle, N.W. •'Harry Bi'air Suite 405 Denver, Colorado Washington, D.C. 20036 C. Carroll ;^yssbi;'guerque. New Mexico Dear Mr. Rothenberg: •i?Tj£;',- W. Hartshorn PaSSi Tr-. -S We have your letter of the 19th of January requesting funds for Tr,c^n.S£.-J. McCartney ^Nashua, New Hampshire the 1982 election campaign of Sen. Chafee. Brendan Murray Omaha,, Nebraska Even though Sen. Chafee is a Republican, I question very seriously Valdez Taylor the wisdom of donating to the campaign of a man who has con iGoleta, California sistently supported organized labor throughout his first term in the senate. y^VlSORY TRUSTEES; Vito J- Arsena In fact, if I did not know personally that Sen Chafee is a Cleveland, Ohio Republican, I would presume that he was a part of the Democratic Donald J. Chambers Mansfield, Ohio organization in the senate! John Macioce Monroeville, Pennsylvania I am personally inclined to recommend to our PAC's Beard of James Oren Executive Trustees that we watch this election carefi lly and if Dayton, Ohio a conservative opponent appears on the scene, priraar> or general Robert A. Pierce election, we lend our support to him, rather than to the man Los Angeles, California who has supported our opposition for the past five years. •Lester M. Purcell Salem. Oregon If you feel I am wrong, let me know.

Sincerely yours.

9\j^e M. Baker, Jr. Executive Vice President

cc: Ray Boyd Vemon L. Raymer James J. Rose A1 J. Ricca Robert F. Watkins Richard Creighton

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May 21, 1981

Mr. Paul Weyrich President Committee for the Sruvival of A Free Congress 721 2nd Street', N. E. Washington, D. C. 20002

Dear Mr. Weyrich:

I wish to thank you for your support in my effort to be appointed to a position in the Reagan Administration. I have been appointed Deputy Director of the Minority Business Development Agency in the Department of Commerce effective May 11.

During my tenure, it is my expectation to further enhance and strengthen the viability of minority businesses, domestically and internationally, as it relates to the goals and objectives of the Reagan Administration. My personal commitment to the program, as you know, is strong; and, with your continuous support and encouragement, I feel positive to successfully accomplishing this mission.

Thank you again for your support.

Sincerely,

Cli Young Deputy Director iff I

•« Citizens For \bluntary Community Action

haiiman Donald F. Sammis

Executive Director Albert E. Strong

May 26, 1981

Miss Connaught Marshner Legislative Director Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Inc. 721 Second Street, NE Washington, DC 20002

Dear Connie: On behalf of Mr. Donald F. Sammis I would like to thank you for meeting with us recently. Mr. Sammis and 1 came to Washington somewhat uncertain as to the reception we would receive. May 1 say that without exception we were treated with the utmost courtesy and helpfulness. On the whole we were very gratified by the initial support given our concept, the "Human Services Option," as well as the more general goal of revitalizing the private voluntary sector. As we mentioned when we met with you, we would like to stay in touch. From time to time, in the near future, we will be developing material and would like to send it to you.

Again, thanks for your time, interest, and most of all your input. We found your comments and advice to be extremely valuable.

Sincerely,

ExecutiveAlbert E. Strong/ Dir-^tor

I66u N. ( ircle Drive « Suite D'O » Sen Diego. Caliibinia t g? .| -D 29^-0760 Y <» 0 Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress

Washington. D.C. 20540 May 27, 1981

Mr. Paul Weyrich Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Inc. 721 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002

Dear Mr. Weyrich:

Being recently made aware of your participation in our latest Legis lative Institute held at Fort McNair, I wanted to thank you personally for the contribution which you made to the program. It is my understanding that the presentations given by Victor Kamber and yourself were dynamic, candid and knowlegeable responses to a variety of queries.

After a long day of learning about the nuts and bolts of legislative process, the participants responded strongly to this lively session on current issues. Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and convictions with us and, for your contribution to our program.

Sincerely,