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University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1983
Banners flying for "Reagan-Bush '84" Reagan approves campaign committee
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan gave his formal blessing yesterday to creating a campaign committee that will open next week under the banner "Reagan-Bush '84."
The president agreed to sign a written letter authorizing Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., to go ahead with formation of the campaign committee recently. The official papers must be filed with the Federal Elections Commission.
"At that point," Laxal said, "he will be legally a candidate."
HOWEVER, LAXALT, a Reagan confidant who will serve as chairman of the campaign committee, said the president would wait for several weeks until after Congress wraps up its work to declare his candidacy for a second term.
Laxalt also told reporters that
rumors about first lady Nancy Reagan's not being well enough to withstand another presidential campaign "are not true."
Laxalt, general chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Reagan was "leaving him running for president" in a formal announcement of candidacy.
Laxalt said that Reagan had become unaware to speculations that his budget was tight.
"I don't think it's a subterfuge at all," he said. "It's a perfectly honest approach."
ASKED WHEN Reagan decided to become a candidate, Laxalt replied, "I think probably almost from the beginning it's been apparent to him, as well as to all of us that this job he's not be effective may done in four years."
He said Reagan had "probably focused on it very actively the last few days."
The Reagan-Laxal meeting lasted about 20 minutes. Laxalt said he did not ask Reagan directly he would seek a second term.
The session took place against a backdrop of heightened campaign-related activity at the White House in recent weeks, as behind-the-scenes planning for the re-election committee have been laid out for reporters.
After his meeting with Laxalt, Reagan addressed a group of evangelical Christian women invited to a briefing by administration officials.
EARLIER IN THE day, New Right leader Paul Weyrich released the findings of a telephone poll, conducted by the conservative Free Congress Foundation, that showed that Reagan held a slim lead over Democratic rivals among fundamentalist and evangelical voters.
White House political adviser Edward Rollins is expected to serve as
director of the campaign committee, and his deputy, Lee Atwater, is expected to transfer from the White House to the committee.
Angela Buchanan, who recently resigned as U.S. treasurer, is expected to serve as treasurer of the Reagan Bush campaign, the same position she held in 2010. Secretary Drew Lewis is reported in line to be campaign manager.
ON ANOTHER CAMPAIGN front, presidential aides said that Teamsters union President Jackie Presser made a low-profile visit to the White House Wednesday to discuss a trucking deregulation and the union op-portunities the aides said that Presser made with Reagan's assistant for paint laison, Faith Ryan Whittlesey.
Among those who met with Presser
among his visit was president
Gregory G. Bentley.
Earlier this year, White House legal counsel Fred Field cleaning cauted Meeson and other top Reagan aides about their contacts with Presser.
Democratic candidates debate arms control
By United Press International
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Democratic presidential hopeful Walt Mondale and Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, used arms control debate yesterday to continue trading barbs about inconsistent policy positions.
Mondale and Glenn were among seven Democratic presidential candidates in a debate on arms control. In round-robin questioning of each other, Glenn asked Mondale if he had been consistent in arms control during his three years as vice president, citing the sale of grain to the Russians and the sale of F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia.
But Mondale said he privately argued against the fighter plane sale and defended the Carter administration's arms control record.
"They tried harder in a broader range of arms control than any other administration." Monday said, who then indirectly attacked Glenn's role in the Senate defeat of the SALT II arms control agreement.
"Failure to ratify SALT II was the worst mistake," Mondale charged. "It could prove to be fatal."
FORMER SEN. GEORGE McGovern, returning to the only state he carried in 1972 when he ran against Richard Nixon, said Glenn played a key role in the defeat of SALT II. But Glenn
cuted problems with verifying Soviet weapons reductions.
The agreement was "not verifiable as I saw it," Glenn said. "We were blind as far as SALT II was concerned."
The debate, one of a series of 1984 presidential campaign events put on by Harvard's institute of Politics, also was held at the state University Citizens Coalition for Arms Control.
All the candidates said they supported a nuclear weapons freeze except former Florida Gov. Reuben Askew. Republicans have been telegraph policy decision to the Soviets.
ALL SEVEN ATTACKED the deployment of MIRV's, or multiple independent re-entry vehicles, which
can dispatch warheads to various targets from one missile, as the biggest mistake in U.S. arms control policy. They said deployment of the missiles makes negotiations with the Soviets a headache of acting as a bargaining chip.
Enn. Ernest Hollings, D.S.D., said his stand on arms control was different because he was "realistic" about the issue.
"I think we should not play around with this issue." Hollings said, adding the country needs a president who can "control himself."
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., said he better understands the threat of nuclear warfare and arms proliferation because he grew up in the nuclear age.
"I want to be a president who makes our nation a family again, who puts us on the road to justice again, who takes up the fight for a safer, more peaceful world," the former vice president said.
CUOMO SAID HE was not seeking a place on the Monday table as vice president. He has also been mentioned as a possible keynote speaker at the convention and a potential 1988 presidential nominee.
"We have decided that of all the candidates, Walter Mondale will make the best president," the state's two top Democrats said in a joint statement, 13 months before elections.
New York State has 285 delegates to the Democratic national conven-
Mondale appeared at the Manhattan news conference to accept the endorsement.
second only to California's 345 delegates. Mondale needs 1906 of the 3,804 Democratic delegates in the country for party endorsement.
Because New York Democrats elect convention delegates in slates often put together by the party organization, Cuomo and Moynihan could deliver a sizeable percentage of the delegation to Mondale.
The governor and Moynihan — the seventh governor and seventh senator to endorse Monday — said they decided to back Mondale over the six other announced candidates, not for any one issue, but for the combination of his ideals, ideas and experience.
NEW YORK — Gov. Mario Cuomo and Sen. Dani Moynihan of New York, leaders of the second biggest delegation to the Democratic National Convention next year endorsed Walter Mondale's presidential candidacy
THE GOVERNOR is the titular head of the state's Democratic Party, and his endorsement frees other Democratic leaders in the state to make their presidential choices known.
Earlier this year, Coumo and Moynihan called on New York Democratic leaders to withhold any endorsements until the state Democratic Party had a chance to put the candidates through their paces. All seven spoke at candidate forums held around the state
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
SATURDAY
THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOL-
OLOGY meet at 4 p.m. in the Sup-
perPower Laboratory
THE INTER-VARSITY Christian
PARK EMPLOYMENT at 7:30 p.m. in the
Room, 8900 Parkway
THE IAEC, A professional communications organization will meet at 3:30 p.m.
TRAINING FOR CANVASSING by Latin American Solidarity members will begin with a brunch at noon at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Building. Training will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Canvassing will be for more than 150 students and will increase bearing the message: "No Vietnam War in Central America."
SUNDAY
LATIN AMERICAN Solidarity will sponsor a speech by Roberto Vargas, First Secretary of the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, D.C., at 7:30 p.m. in the ECMC Building.
By United Press International
THE SUNDAY EVENING gathering at the ECMC Building will begin with dinner at 5:30 p.m., which will be led by the service led by the Rev. Keith Alberding.
THE STUDENT Creative Anachronosis will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union.
THE KU Mountainering Association will meet at 7 p.m. in the Rood Room of The University of Chicago.
KJHK'S "AUTERAL Conservations" talk show at 6 p.m. will feature Jim Denney of the KU police department.
Two leaders of Democrats in New York back Mondale
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