Correspondence Regarding Bicentennial Community Applications

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Correspondence Regarding Bicentennial Community Applications

Date (Dublin Core)

1974-07-04

Date Created (Dublin Core)

1974-07-04

Congress (Dublin Core)

93rd (1973-1975)

Topics (Dublin Core)

See all items with this valueAmerican Revolution Bicentennial, 1976

Policy Area (Curation)

Government Operations and Politics

Creator (Dublin Core)

Dole, Robert J., 1923-2021

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correspondence

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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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eng

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https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=31&q=

Physical Location (Dublin Core)

Collection 002, Box 234, Folder 4

Institution (Dublin Core)

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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Robert J. Dole Senate Papers-Constituent Relations, 1969-1996

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(handwritten) Bicent[ennial]

July 24, 1974

Mr. {redacted}
{redacted}
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337

Dear Mr. {redacted}:
Thank you very much for your letter of July 4. (crossed out) read your several comments with interest.

Was particularly interested in the matter you brought to my attention regarding plans by the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Committee to construct fifty bicentennial parks throughout the country. I immediately contacted the ARBC to investigate this proposal, and found that the Committee had scrapped this idea some time ago. It is also my understanding that no measures have been introduced before Congress which would provide money for these parks. If the proposed war monument at Junction City which you mentioned is still under consideration, then it must either be a private or a state project.

I do appreciate your bringing this matter to my attention, for it was certainly worthy of investigation. If I can be of further assistance at any time, be sure to let me know.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
United States Senate

BD: rdz

Stamp on top of page:
SENATOR BOB DOLE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
RECEIVED JUL 8 1974

handwritten on top of page:
"7/9/74
ARBC 254-5567
will call me back"
{redacted}
Coffeyville, KS 67337
July 4, '74
Dear Senator Dole,
I was sorry not to attend your meeting with citizens at cefe Tuesday PM, July 2. Wednesday K99F reported your remarks re reducing taxes. Had I been at your meeting I would have asked you about an article which I had just read in fellowship that evening... June, '74. Right now I'm listening to John W. Warner, Bicentennial Adm. I wonder if he knows of the scheme described herein, and do you?"

(not handwritten)
In Manhattan, Ks., the PBC... has unearthed a plan by the official ARBC to finance 50 Bicentennial Parks at a cost to taxpayers of $1.2 billion. Some ARBC officials have complained that the plan was developed, packaged, and readied for presentation to Congress, before they ever heard of it.

...... the Bicentennial Park in Kansas would be a monument to war: a $40 million National Military Museum at Junction City, laid out like a gigantic stat, (each point the size of a football field) and visible for miles. There would be a Hall of Wars, Hall of Manpower, Hall of Materiel (weapons) and others..............

$10,000 has already been allocated to developing exhibits for the Museum and efforts are underway to have tax money allocated to it.

..................... the official ARBC (whose) plans are to celebrate the event by putting $4 billion into the hands of corporations which can profit by various "patriotic" ventures that the taxpayers will subsidize.

handwritten at bottom of page:
"Of all the hideous ways to spend taxpayers' money!

Frank Blair said the mean income of the country is $12,000. He paid 20% above that.

I hear of a "magnanimous" idea in Congress to raise the limit on taxable income by $75.00! What about a $5000 limit, better $7000 to $10,000? How many congressmen would like to get along on $5000? Best way I know to reduce taxes is to"

handwritten on back of page:
"reduce taxes by ceasing to bleed the lower income group, spending their money, for example, on seed schemes as the above, to commemorate wars which have killed or maimed their and other nations' sons!

Yours sincerely,
{redacted}"

(handwritten) Bicent[ennial]

July 24, 1974

Mr. {redacted}
{redacted}
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337

Dear Mr. {redacted}:
Thank you very much for your letter of July 4. (crossed out) read your several comments with interest.

Was particularly interested in the matter you brought to my attention regarding plans by the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Committee to construct fifty bicentennial parks throughout the country. I immediately contacted the ARBC to investigate this proposal, and found that the Committee had scrapped this idea some time ago. It is also my understanding that no measures have been introduced before Congress which would provide money for these parks. If the proposed war monument at Junction City which you mentioned is still under consideration, then it must either be a private or a state project.

I do appreciate your bringing this matter to my attention, for it was certainly worthy of investigation. If I can be of further assistance at any time, be sure to let me know.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
United States Senate

BD: rdz

Stamp on top of page:
SENATOR BOB DOLE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
RECEIVED JUL 8 1974

handwritten on top of page:
"7/9/74
ARBC 254-5567
will call me back"
{redacted}
Coffeyville, KS 67337
July 4, '74
Dear Senator Dole,
I was sorry not to attend your meeting with citizens at cefe Tuesday PM, July 2. Wednesday K99F reported your remarks re reducing taxes. Had I been at your meeting I would have asked you about an article which I had just read in fellowship that evening... June, '74. Right now I'm listening to John W. Warner, Bicentennial Adm. I wonder if he knows of the scheme described herein, and do you?"

(not handwritten)
In Manhattan, Ks., the PBC... has unearthed a plan by the official ARBC to finance 50 Bicentennial Parks at a cost to taxpayers of $1.2 billion. Some ARBC officials have complained that the plan was developed, packaged, and readied for presentation to Congress, before they ever heard of it.

...... the Bicentennial Park in Kansas would be a monument to war: a $40 million National Military Museum at Junction City, laid out like a gigantic stat, (each point the size of a football field) and visible for miles. There would be a Hall of Wars, Hall of Manpower, Hall of Materiel (weapons) and others..............

$10,000 has already been allocated to developing exhibits for the Museum and efforts are underway to have tax money allocated to it.

..................... the official ARBC (whose) plans are to celebrate the event by putting $4 billion into the hands of corporations which can profit by various "patriotic" ventures that the taxpayers will subsidize.

handwritten at bottom of page:
"Of all the hideous ways to spend taxpayers' money!

Frank Blair said the mean income of the country is $12,000. He paid 20% above that.

I hear of a "magnanimous" idea in Congress to raise the limit on taxable income by $75.00! What about a $5000 limit, better $7000 to $10,000? How many congressmen would like to get along on $5000? Best way I know to reduce taxes is to"

handwritten on back of page:
"reduce taxes by ceasing to bleed the lower income group, spending their money, for example, on seed schemes as the above, to commemorate wars which have killed or maimed their and other nations' sons!

Yours sincerely,
{redacted}"

(handwritten) Bicent[ennial]

July 24, 1974

Mr. {redacted}
{redacted}
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337

Dear Mr. {redacted}:
Thank you very much for your letter of July 4. (crossed out) read your several comments with interest.

Was particularly interested in the matter you brought to my attention regarding plans by the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Committee to construct fifty bicentennial parks throughout the country. I immediately contacted the ARBC to investigate this proposal, and found that the Committee had scrapped this idea some time ago. It is also my understanding that no measures have been introduced before Congress which would provide money for these parks. If the proposed war monument at Junction City which you mentioned is still under consideration, then it must either be a private or a state project.

I do appreciate your bringing this matter to my attention, for it was certainly worthy of investigation. If I can be of further assistance at any time, be sure to let me know.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
United States Senate

BD: rdz

Stamp on top of page:
SENATOR BOB DOLE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
RECEIVED JUL 8 1974

handwritten on top of page:
"7/9/74
ARBC 254-5567
will call me back"
{redacted}
Coffeyville, KS 67337
July 4, '74
Dear Senator Dole,
I was sorry not to attend your meeting with citizens at cefe Tuesday PM, July 2. Wednesday K99F reported your remarks re reducing taxes. Had I been at your meeting I would have asked you about an article which I had just read in fellowship that evening... June, '74. Right now I'm listening to John W. Warner, Bicentennial Adm. I wonder if he knows of the scheme described herein, and do you?"

(not handwritten)
In Manhattan, Ks., the PBC... has unearthed a plan by the official ARBC to finance 50 Bicentennial Parks at a cost to taxpayers of $1.2 billion. Some ARBC officials have complained that the plan was developed, packaged, and readied for presentation to Congress, before they ever heard of it.

...... the Bicentennial Park in Kansas would be a monument to war: a $40 million National Military Museum at Junction City, laid out like a gigantic stat, (each point the size of a football field) and visible for miles. There would be a Hall of Wars, Hall of Manpower, Hall of Materiel (weapons) and others..............

$10,000 has already been allocated to developing exhibits for the Museum and efforts are underway to have tax money allocated to it.

..................... the official ARBC (whose) plans are to celebrate the event by putting $4 billion into the hands of corporations which can profit by various "patriotic" ventures that the taxpayers will subsidize.

handwritten at bottom of page:
"Of all the hideous ways to spend taxpayers' money!

Frank Blair said the mean income of the country is $12,000. He paid 20% above that.

I hear of a "magnanimous" idea in Congress to raise the limit on taxable income by $75.00! What about a $5000 limit, better $7000 to $10,000? How many congressmen would like to get along on $5000? Best way I know to reduce taxes is to"

handwritten on back of page:
"reduce taxes by ceasing to bleed the lower income group, spending their money, for example, on seed schemes as the above, to commemorate wars which have killed or maimed their and other nations' sons!

Yours sincerely,
{redacted}"

(handwritten) Bicent[ennial]

July 24, 1974

Mr. {redacted}
{redacted}
Coffeyville, Kansas 67337

Dear Mr. {redacted}:
Thank you very much for your letter of July 4. (crossed out) read your several comments with interest.

Was particularly interested in the matter you brought to my attention regarding plans by the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Committee to construct fifty bicentennial parks throughout the country. I immediately contacted the ARBC to investigate this proposal, and found that the Committee had scrapped this idea some time ago. It is also my understanding that no measures have been introduced before Congress which would provide money for these parks. If the proposed war monument at Junction City which you mentioned is still under consideration, then it must either be a private or a state project.

I do appreciate your bringing this matter to my attention, for it was certainly worthy of investigation. If I can be of further assistance at any time, be sure to let me know.

Sincerely yours,
BOB DOLE
United States Senate

BD: rdz

Stamp on top of page:
SENATOR BOB DOLE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
RECEIVED JUL 8 1974

handwritten on top of page:
"7/9/74
ARBC 254-5567
will call me back"
{redacted}
Coffeyville, KS 67337
July 4, '74
Dear Senator Dole,
I was sorry not to attend your meeting with citizens at cefe Tuesday PM, July 2. Wednesday K99F reported your remarks re reducing taxes. Had I been at your meeting I would have asked you about an article which I had just read in fellowship that evening... June, '74. Right now I'm listening to John W. Warner, Bicentennial Adm. I wonder if he knows of the scheme described herein, and do you?"

(not handwritten)
In Manhattan, Ks., the PBC... has unearthed a plan by the official ARBC to finance 50 Bicentennial Parks at a cost to taxpayers of $1.2 billion. Some ARBC officials have complained that the plan was developed, packaged, and readied for presentation to Congress, before they ever heard of it.

...... the Bicentennial Park in Kansas would be a monument to war: a $40 million National Military Museum at Junction City, laid out like a gigantic stat, (each point the size of a football field) and visible for miles. There would be a Hall of Wars, Hall of Manpower, Hall of Materiel (weapons) and others..............

$10,000 has already been allocated to developing exhibits for the Museum and efforts are underway to have tax money allocated to it.

..................... the official ARBC (whose) plans are to celebrate the event by putting $4 billion into the hands of corporations which can profit by various "patriotic" ventures that the taxpayers will subsidize.

handwritten at bottom of page:
"Of all the hideous ways to spend taxpayers' money!

Frank Blair said the mean income of the country is $12,000. He paid 20% above that.

I hear of a "magnanimous" idea in Congress to raise the limit on taxable income by $75.00! What about a $5000 limit, better $7000 to $10,000? How many congressmen would like to get along on $5000? Best way I know to reduce taxes is to"

handwritten on back of page:
"reduce taxes by ceasing to bleed the lower income group, spending their money, for example, on seed schemes as the above, to commemorate wars which have killed or maimed their and other nations' sons!

Yours sincerely,
{redacted}"