SPEAKING INVITATION PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY MALIBU, CALIFORNIA 11 FEBRUARY 1989

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• Publication Date: September 26, 1988
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS
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STAT
11 February
Speaking Invitation - Pepperdine U
William M. Baker
Director, Public Af airs
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PAO 88-0326
RE: Speaking Invitation
Pepperdine University
Malibu, California
11 February 1989
26 September 1988
The Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law, Ronald F. Phillips, has
invited you to serve as the presiding justice for the final round of the
Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot Court Competition on 11 February 1989, at 2:30 p.m.
You could expect more than 100 students to participate in this upper division
intramural competition which has been an annual event for 15 years. The moot
court program is administered by third-year students with experience in moot
court competitions. Each year prominent legal figures preside over the final
round. In recent years the presiding judges have included Supreme Court
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Harry Blackmun, former Attorney General
William French Smith, and last year, the Honorable Malcolm Lucas, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of California.
You are also invited to be the featured speaker at the annual Law School
Dinner that same evening. At the dinner there will be approximately 700
judges, attorneys, professors, students, and University friends. Last year,
both events were open to the public.
You already have major addresses scheduled for January and March, and
during February you are likely to be called upon for testifying on the Hill.
Therefore, I recommend that you decline. this invitation. If you agree, a
letter of regret is attached for'your signature.
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Please note attached package. I spoke
w/you re same yesterday. To refresh
your memory, the Judge signed and wrote
a handwritten note on a xerox copy. We
(PAO) retyped the letter with the PS
typed on and wanted to get it autopenned
However, when I retrieved the original
package from Peggy(0/DCI), she thought
because of the personal nature of the
handwritten note, we should send out
the xerox copy w/original handwritten
note. So with these instructions
am returning package for dissemination.
Thanks. Any questions call
STAT
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4 October 1,088
Dean'Ronald F. Phillips
School of Law
Pepperdine University
Malibu, California 90265
Dear Dean Phillips:
I appreciate your invitation to serve as presiding justice at the
Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot Court Competition and to addressthe annual Law
School Dinner on February 11th. I would certainly enjoy-participating in the
day's events, but unfortunately I cannot make a commitment at this time.
February is the month for hearings on the Hill and my schedule must be kept
open, as I'm?sure you understand.
I wish you a very. successful day.
Sincerely yours,
STAT
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William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
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September 13, 1988
Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
It is my distinct pleasure on behalf of Pepperdine
University School of Law to invite you to participate in two
important events on February 11, 1989. At 2:30 p.m. we will
be holding the final round of the Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot
Court Competition. Historically, this intraschool event
attracts in excess of 100 student participants. Our
invitation is that you serve as the presiding justice for
the three-person final round bench.
That same evening, the Annual Law School Dinner will be held
at the Stouffer Concourse Hotel, with a reception at 6:30 p.m.
and dinner at 7:30 p.m. We invite you to serve as the
featured speaker for that occasion.
A few of the individuals who have served in these
capacities in recent years include United States Supreme
Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Harry Blackmun,
former Attorney General William French Smith, the Honorable
Frank R. Richardson, the Honorable William Clark, and this,
past year, the Honorable Malcolm Lucas.
Both the final round of the moot court competition and the
annual Law School Dinner are very well attended, with the
black tie optional dinner usually attracting some 700 or so
law students, professors, judges, attorneys and University
friends.
In order to reduce the amount of time required of you to
prepare for the moot court competition, you would be
furnished a copy of a bench brief well in advance.
Additionally, members of the Moot Court Board would be
available to answer any. questions which you might have
pertaining to the problem.
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Honorable William H. Webster
September 13, 1988
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As you may recall, we invited you to visit us on other
occasions but your schedule would not permit it. Because
you are so highly respected and admired by those of us at
Pepperdine University, you would be an ideal person to serve
in these important functions for our University. Should you
accept our invitation, we will be in further touch with your
office to work out the details of your trip. Naturally, we
would wish to bear the costs that would be involved.
It is our tradition to announce the individual who will
preside at the Dalsimer Moot Court Competition and speak at
the Annual Law School Dinner well in advance of the
occasions. For that reason, we would like to finalize our
plans at this time.
Please feel free to discuss their Pepperdine visits with
Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Blackmun, and Scalia. I am
confident that they will want to encourage you to accept
our invitation. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a
founding member of our Law School Board of Visitors and our
very special friend. Two.summers ago he taught a class for
our students on Constitutional Law History. In 1979, he
delivered the dedicatory address for the Law School's home,
the Odell McConnell Law Center. I am confident that he is
able to answer any questions you have concerning our
institution.
Thank you very much for considering this request. With your
permission, I would like to check with your office soon to
further discuss this matter.
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a few items concerning the School which may
to you. May God bless you.
Ronald F. P- 1illips
Dean
School of Law
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Law
September 13, 1988
Honorable William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Director Webster:
It is my distinct pleasure on behalf of Pepperdine
University School of Law to invite you to participate in two
important events on February 11, 1989. At 2:30 p.m. we will
be holding the final round of the Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot
Court Competition. Historically, this intraschool event
attracts in excess of 100 student participants. Our
invitation is that you serve as the presiding justice for
the three-person final round bench.
That same evening, the Annual Law School Dinner will be held
at the Stouffer Concourse Hotel, with a reception at 6:30 p.m.
and dinner at 7:30 p.m. We invite you to serve as the
featured speaker for that occasion.
A few of the individuals who have served in these
capacities in recent years include United States Supreme
Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Harry Blackmun,
former Attorney General William French Smith, the Honorable
Frank R. Richardson, the Honorable William Clark, and this
past year, the Honorable Malcolm Lucas.
Both the final : round.-of -the-moot ...court competition''and the
annual Law School Dinner are very well attended, with the
black tie optional dinner usually attracting some 700 or so
law students, professors, judges, attorneys and University
friends.
In order to reduce the amount of time required of you to
prepare for the moot court competition, you would be
furnished a copy of a bench brief well in advance.
Additionally, members of the Moot Court Board would be
available to answer any questions which you might have
pertaining to the problem.
Malibu, California 9026; Telephone [phone]
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Honorable William H. Webster
September 13, 1988
Page Two
As you may recall, we invited you to visit us on other
occasions but your schedule would not permit it. Because
you are so highly respected and admired by those of us at
Pepperdine University, you would be an ideal person to serve
in these important functions for our University. Should you
accept our invitation, we will be in further touch with your
office to work out the details of your trip. Naturally, we
would wish to bear the costs that would be involved.
It is our tradition to announce the individual who will
preside at the Dalsimer Moot Court Competition and speak at
the Annual Law School Dinner well in advance of the
occasions. For that reason, we would like to finalize our
plans at this time.
Please feel free to discuss their Pepperdine visits with
Justices Rehnquist, O'Connor, Blackmun, and Scalia. I am
confident that they will want to encourage you to accept
our invitation. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a
founding member of our Law School Board of Visitors and our
very special friend. Two summers ago he taught a class for
our students on Constitutional Law History. In 1979, he
delivered the dedicatory address for the Law School's home,
the Odell McConnell Law Center. I am confident that he is
able to answer any questions you have concerning our
institution.
Thank you very much for considering this request. With your
permission, I would like to check with your office soon to
further discuss this-matter.
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a few items concerning the School'which may
to you. May God bless you.
With best regards,
Ronald F. P1illips
Dean
School of Law
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Governor George Deukmejian Delivers Keynote Address
at the 1988 Commencement
Dean Ronald F. Phillips greets Governor George Deukmejian and Judge Pamela Amer
prior to the 1988 commencement.
was elected state attorney general, and four
A class of 146 Pepperdine University years later the people of California
School of Law graduates received juris elected him to his first term as governor.
doctor degrees on May 21, 1988. The They reaffirmed their confidence in him
commencement ceremony was held outside with his 1986 reelection which was
the Odell McConnell Law Center attained by one of the state's largest vote
surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains margins ever. Deukmejian received his juris
and the Pacific Ocean. The day was doctor degree from St. John's University
beautiful, with a warming sun and a in New York City.
comforting ocean breeze. Parents, spouses, Deukmejian's message to the graduates
and friends of the graduates filled all 1,800 touched upon the astounding population
seats provided while a few hundred more growth in both the State of California and
gathered around the ceremony on the the nation. While there is a seeming
shaded, grassy areas nearby. overabundance of attorneys in the world,
Governor of California George the governor reassured the graduates that
Deukmejian delivered the keynote "there is always room for one more good
commencement address. Deukmejian's person in every field."
first public-elected office came in the Deukmejian continued by emphasizing
form of an Assembly seat-a post he held the graduates' need to actively participate
for two terms. In 1966 he won his first in their new profession "where the quality
of four consecutive terms in the state of service, fairness, honesty, civility,
Senate. As a result of the recognition and responsibility, compassion, and common
respect for his work as the Republican sense are not passe" His message urged
Minority Whip in the Assembly, he was the graduates to challenge themselves to
voted Senate Majority Leader by his greatness, to be better than they have to
fellow party members in 1970. In 1978 he be, to exercise their imagination, and to
"remember that today's limitations arc
tomorrow's frontiers." Deukmejian con-
cluded his message by encouraging the
graduates to "enrich the legal profession
with good moral character, integrity, and
dedication."
Just prior to Deukmejian's commence-
ment address, he was presented for the
honorary doctor of laws degree by
Chancellor Charles B. Runnels. President
David Davenport awarded him the degree
and Mrs. Margaret Martin Brock did the
investiture.
Judge Pamela Ann Rymer also
received an honorary doctor of laws
degree. Rymer is currently a United States
district judge for the Central District of
California, and in April 1988, was
nominated by President Ronald Reagan for
a judgeship on the United States Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit. She was described
by one of her co-judges as "the best writer
on the court, tough but very fair, a
workaholic, feminine, brilliant, and a
person of the highest quality."
In Rymer's remarks to the graduates,
she offered guidance saying, "whether you
go into private practice, or practice on the
public as I do, do it with integrity. It is
the one commodity that has no price: it
is the greatest influence on your success
and reputation; and the reputation that
precedes and follows you is the single
greatest asset you shall ever have." She also
reminded the graduates of their "obligation
to contribute to tomorrow."
"Lawyers have traditionally been on
the cutting edge of everything that counts
in our society, so find a way to return some
measure of yourself in your time, in your
talent to the public, to the profession, and
to Pepperdine. In that way you will have
achieved what being a lawyer is all about-
never destined to walk in the vales, always
as here in the high hills."
Prior to the awarding of the degrees,
Dean of the School of Law Ronald F.
Phillips thanked the governor for appointing
him to the California Commission on
Uniform State Laws. Phillips continued by
offering his witty interpretation "as to the
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