LETTER TO NANCY L. KASSEBAUM FROM RICHARD J. KERR

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61) Federal Women's Program
Central Intelligence Agency
24 May 1989
NOTE TO: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM:
Acting Federal Women's Program Manager
1. On behalf of the Director, Office of Equal Employment
Opportunity, and the Agency's Federal Women's
Program Manager, I wish to thank you for introducing
Senator Kassebaum at our program in celebration of Women's
History Month. Your participation in the program is very much
appreciated.
2. Enclosed is a photograph to remind you of that
occasion. It was indeed an honor to have you address the
first Agency-wide audience as our new DDCI. Thank you again.
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington. D. C.20505
The Honorable Nancy L. Kassebaum
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Kassebaum:
APR 1989
OCA 89-1258
I want to thank you for your visit to the Central
Intelligence Agency to help us observe Women's History Month.
Your thoughtful remarks on women and family issues as well as
national affairs provided unique insights for our officers. I
particularly appreciated your joining us for our memorial
service.
I am enclosing a videotape of your speech. I hope you
will have an opportunity, to visit us again in the near future.
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17 March 1989
Dick:
RE: Your proposed remarks for the
Women's History Month Program
20 March 1989 10:00 a.m.
Headquarters Auditorium
On 20 March 1989 you will be introducing Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum,
the keynote speaker for the Agency program celebrating National Women's
History Month.
In preparing your remarks, we drew from Senator Kassebaum's official
biography and from the Congressional Quarterly's Portic in America. These
biographies are attached opposite. We also soke to who
provided us with the background material on y It, too, is
attached opposite.
We found little worth commenting on in the statistics concerning women in
the Agency. These statistics were supplied to us by Office of Personnel/Equal
Employment Opportunity. In case you want to include something from them, we
have included them.
Your proposed remarks -- both in full text and talking point format --
are attached.
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PROPOSED REMARKS
BY
RICHARD J. KERR
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AT THE PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
HEADQUARTERS AUDITORIUM
MARCH 20, 1989
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GOOD MORNING. I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE A PART OF THIS
PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. IT IS IMPORTANT
THAT WE TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER AND TO RECOGNIZE THE
CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WOMEN HAVE MADE TO OUR COUNTRY AND TO OUR
AGENCY. AND TODAY IT SEEMS FITTING TO REFLECT FOR A MOMENT ON
THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS THAT WOMEN HAVE MADE TO INTELLIGENCE.
DURING WORLD WAR II,
PEOPLE SERVED IN THE OFFICE OF
STRATEGIC SERVICES. ONE IN EVERY FIVE OF THOSE
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WOMAN. SOME WOMEN, WHO SERVED FIRST IN THE OSS AND LATER IN
DIFFERENT INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, WERE SELECTED TO
EXCEPTIONALLY DEEP COVER ASSIGNMENTS. IN MANY CASES, NEITHER
THEIR NAMES NOR THEIR COVER CAN BE REVEALED EVEN NOW.
TODAY WOMEN MAKE UP 41% OF OUR AGENCY POPULATION, AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTIONS AND INFLUENCE ARE A PART OF EVERY DIRECTORATE.
BUT WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS HELPED SHAPE INTELLIGENCE, ALWAYS HELPED
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EXTEND THE DEFINITION OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE. ONE SUCH WOMAN,
PATRIOTISM.
HAS NO EQUAL IN COURAGE, ACCOMPLISHMENT, OR
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SINCE THE DAYS OF
MANY WOMEN HAVE SERVED IN
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE, COMPLETING THE MYRIAD TASKS AND
CONTRIBUTING THE INDIVIDUAL GENIUS WHICH HAS DISTINGUISHED OUR
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE.
WE ARE PRIVILEGED TODAY TO HEAR FROM A LEADER WHO HELPS
SHAPE SOME OF THE NATIONAL POLICIES WE SUPPORT AND IMPLEMENT.
SENATOR NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM IS KNOWN FOR HER HONESTY,
INDEPENDENCE, AND PRINCIPLED ACTION IN REPRESENTING THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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A NATIVE OF KANSAS, SENATOR KASSEBAUM WAS BORN IN TOPEKA.
SHE RECEIVb HER BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AND HER MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. SHE WAS
FIRST ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN 1978 AND WAS
RETURNED TO THE SENATE SIX YEARS LATER WITH 76 PERCENT OF THE
VOTE.
SHE HAS BEEN A THOUGHTFUL AND IMPORTANT PLAYER AS THE
SENATE HAS CONSIDERED SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT POLICY ISSUES
OF OUR TIME. IN A PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE
ON THE BUDGET, SHE ACTIVELY PROMOTED A MEASURE TO HELP CONTROL
THE FEDERAL DEFICIT. AS FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE AVIATION
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND
? TRANSPORTATION, SHE HELPED GUIDE SENATE CONSIDERATION OF A
NUMBER OF PROPOSALS AFFECTING THIS COMPLEX, BUT VITAL INDUSTRY,
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IN THESE AND OTHER ASSIGNMENTS, SENATOR KASSEBAUM HAS NOT
HESITATED TO TAKE STRONG, PRINCIPLED STANDS ON CONTROVERSIAL
ISSUES -- ISSUES SUCH AS IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA AND
EXAMINING U.S. SUPPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS. SHE IS A FORMER
CHAIRMAN AND NOW THE RANKING MINORITY MEMBER OF THE AFRICA
SUBCOMMITTEE. ON THIS SUBCOMMITTEE, SHE HAS ADVOCATED GREATER
U.S. SUPPORT TO FAMINE VICTIMS IN AFRICA AND TO THE PROSPECTS
FOR DEMOCRACY IN MANY OF THE CONTINENT'S TROUBLED NATIONS.
SENATOR KASSEBAUM, YOUR SENATE COLLEAGUES RESPECT YOU FOR
YOUR CAREFUL AND THOUGHTFUL APPROACH TO IMPORTANT POLICY
ISSUES. WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO TELL US
TODAY.
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Jim:
RE: Your'proposed talking points for the
Women's History Month Program
20 March 1989 10:00 a.m.
Headquarters Auditorium
15 March 1989
On 20 March 1989 you will be introducing Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum,
the keynote speaker for the Agency program celebrating National Women's
History Month.
In preparing your talking points, we drew from Senator Kassebaum's
official biography and from the Congressional Quarterly's Politics in
Awrica. These biographies are attached opposite. Statistics concerning
women in the Agency were supplied to us by Office of Personnel/Equal
Employment Opportunity. They, too, are attached opposite. Although the
statistics provided us did not show progress in all areas, we mentioned the
areas in which there appeared to be some positive developments.
Your proposed talking points are attached.
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TALKING POINTS FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM
MARCH 20, 1989
Nancy Landon Kassebaum. Republican Senator from Kansas
0 A native of Kansas, she
was born in Topeka.
received her B.A. from the University of Kansas in Political
Science.
-- received her M.A. from the University of Michigan in diplomatic
history.
0 She was first elected to the United States Senate in 1978.
She was the first female U.S. Senator from the State of Kansas.
She was returned to the Senate in 1984 with 76 percent of the
vote.
0 She has been a thoughtful, important player in Senate consideration
of key domestic and foreign policy issues.
In a previous assignment to the Senate Committee on the Budget,
she actively promoted a measure to help control the federal
deficit.
She is a former chairman and now the ranking minority member on
the African Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. From those positions, she has advocated greater
U.S. support to famine victims on the continent and to the
prospects for democracy in many of Africa's troubled nations.
0 She has not hesitated to take strong, principled stands on
controversial issues, such as imposing sanctions on South Africa and
examining U.S. support of the United Nations.
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0 In this 100th Congress, she is a member of the following committees:
Committee on Foreign Relations
Committee on Labor, Health, and Human Resources
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Career Prospects for Agency Women: the Statistics
0 Women in the Central Intelligence Agency have made some gains in
recent years in being fully represented in the Agency work force --
in fiscal year 1988, almost 41 percent of the Agency work force were
women.
0 Although we have fewer women than we would like at the higher grade
levels, women today have a greater opportunity for advancement than
ever before.
And the promotions are coming. In FY 1988, 5.9 percent of the
SIS ranks were composed of women. This is up from 2.7 percent
in FY 1980, the year we instituted the senior service.
In the grades of GS-13, GS-14, and GS-15, the percentage of
women in FY 1988 was 17.5 percent, compared to 6.1 percent in
1975.
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Nancy Landon Kassebaum
United States Senator
Kansas
Elected to the U.S. Senate, 1978. Re-elected in 1984.
Born July 29, 1932. Daughter of Theo Cobb Landon and Alfred M. Landon, Governor of Kansas from
1933 to 1937 and Republican presidential nominee in 1936.
B.A. Degree, University of Kansas, political science
M.A. Degree, University of Michigan, diplomatic history
Mother of four
Former member, Maize, Kansas, School Board
Member, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development
? Council studies problems faced by nation's teenagers
Honorary chairman, Commission on the Future of Community Colleges
Member, U.S.-Mexico Commission
? Commission studies issues of common concern to the two nations
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Committee on Foreign Relations
? Former chairman, now ranking member, African Affairs Subcommittee
Comm-ittee-en-the- Budge-t- Committee on Labor, Health, and Human Resources
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Finance (2nd of 9 Republicans)
Social Security and Family Policy (ranking); Health; International
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Rules end Administration (6th of 7 Republicans)
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Robert Dole (R)
Guy MacDonald (D)
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246,664
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1988 Primary
Robert Dole (R)
Shirley J. Ashley Landis (R)
228,301
42,237
(84%)
(16%)
Previous Winning Percentages:
1980
(64%) 1971
(51%)
1988 (60Y.) 1988* (69%)
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1980* (59%)
? House elections.
Campaign Finance
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1988
Dole (R)
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Nancy Landon
Kassebaum (R)
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Born: July 29, 19:92, Topeka, Kan.
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Family: Divorced; four children.
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Religion: Episcopalian.
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Political Career: Maize School Board, 1973-75.
Capitol Office: 302 Russell Bldg. 20510; 224-4774
Key Votes
Produce MX missiles (1985)
Weaken gun control laws (1985)
Reject school prayer (1985)
Limit textile imports (1985)
Amend Constitution to require balanced budget (1986)
Aid Nicaraguan contras (1986)
Block chemical weapons production (1986)
Impose sanctions on South Africa (1986)
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In Washington: Successful candidates of-
ten come to Congress vowing to be "citizen
legislators" who will represent the views of the
average person without regard to politics or
party. Within a few years, most become just as
tied to the nuances of partisan and electoral
advantage as the professional politicians they
started out despising.
But nearly 10 years in the Senate have not
worked that change on Kassebaum. Perhaps
more than anyone else in the chamber, she still
has that quality of plain-spoken honesty and
common sense she had when she arrived in
1979, an almost complete political neophyte. In
the best sense, she remains an amateur ? an
intelligent housewife and businesswoman
brought out of obscurity to make decisions on
national policy. Kassebaum is a conservative,
but not in a very ideological way. She seems to
lie able to cast individual votes on merit with-
out fit ting. them into some larger scheme. Nor,
despite her popularity in Kansas, does she
'vett) much concerned about strengthening her
polo ical posit ion.
Kassebaum's personal style has not
changed much over the years. She still appears
on occasion to be a shy woman uneasy in a
public role. "Someday I'm going to hit someone
over the head for calling me diminutive and
soh-spoken," she once said. Then she added,
"But I am."
At times, Kassebaum's lack of guile contin-
1,t'ti to cause problems for her. During the
.enate's bitter 1986 debate over the nomina-
tion of Daniel A. Manion to be a federal ap-
l!eals judge, she sought to offer a common
aNienate courtesy by "pairing" her vote with the
tsent Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Assured by
Hanion strategist Dan Quayle of Indiana that
dwater intended to vote for the nomination,
t?assebaurn withdrew her own negative vote ?
Kansas - Junior Senator
in effect providing the margin needed for the
nomination to go through. But Goldwater actu-
ally had not made up his mind, she later
discovered, observing ruefully that she had
been "misled." Characteristically, she added
that she did not think the misleading had been
done on purpose.
Yet Kassebaum has a tough side as well,
one that has emerged in recent years as she has
become an important player in battles over the
budget and foreign policy. She no longer ap-
pears intimidated by her male colleagues, and
will stand up to anybody when she gets mad.
She does not like to be used as a symbol,
even though she is one of only two women in
the Senate. When officials of the 1984 Republi-
can convention sought to have her appear on
the podium with other prominent GOP women,
she pointedly declined. "I'd be happy to speak.
on substantive issues," she said, "but to be
treated as a bauble on a tree is not particularly
constructive." She has also expressed the same
skepticism toward suggestions she might be the
GOP vice presidential candidate in 1988.
The forceful side of Kassebaum's personal-
ity has been most apparent in recent years on
the Foreign Relations Committee. She has
played an important role on the issues of com-
bating leftist forces in Central America and
imposing economic sanctions on South Africa.
In both cases, she sought to steer an indepen-
dent course between President Reagan and his
congressional critics.
In 1983, amid widespread reports of hu-
man rights violations by the government in El
Salvador, she sponsored a successful amend-
ment in committee tel reduce military aid to the
regime there and to call for unconditional dis-
cussions with the country's leftist rebels. She
insisted that the measure declared firm support
for the Salvadoran government, but did not
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With the fading of debate over El Salvador
in the 99th Congress, Kassebaum turned her
attention to Reagan's efforts to aid the contra
rebels opposing the leftist government of Nica-
ragua. Although she was critical at times of the
contras, she voted for Reagan's aid proposals.
As the issue approached a decisive moment
early in 1986, she and a group of other Republi-
can centrists sought to use their status as key
swing votes to win concessions from the admin-
istration. She voted for the $100 million in
military aid, but only after securing Reagan's
promises that he would push the contras to
undertake reforms such as civilian control of
the military, curbs on human rights abuses and
improvement in their internal unity.
Then, even though she backed the aid,
Kassebaum lambasted the administration's
tactics in pursuing it. She attacked contra
supporters for portraying the issue as "a dis-
agreement between Republicans in white hats
and Democrats in red banners," and for sug-
gesting that "this is a matter of patriotism ?
those who love America will support the presi-
dent and those who oppose him want to aban-
don San Diego to the Sandinistas."
Kassebaum's position as chairman of the
Africa Subcommittee gave her an important
part to play in the confrontation between Con-
gress and the White House over sanctions on
South Africa. From the beginning of debate,
she expressed skepticism about the value of
sanctions, which she warned could do much
harm and little good to oppressed blacks. "All
of us are unsure of the path we are starting
down," she said as the committee considered
sanctions legislation in 1985. "The punishment
we mete out to the guilty will also fall on the
innocent."
By 1986, however, stepped-up repression
by the South African government had helped to
resolve Kassebaum's doubts. She repeatedly
prodded Reagan to propose new steps, and
actively backed congressional sanctions when
he did not. Even though sanctions would not
force South Africa to change its policies, she
said, they were needed to "send a decisive
message" that the United States was support-
ing the black majority. Still, Kassebaum's views
were somewhat overshadowed by full commit-
tee Chairman Richard G. Lugar's well-publi-
cized break with Reagan over the issue.
Another controversial stance has been as a
critic of the United Nations. In the fall of 1983,
Kassebaum offered a floor amendment to cut
the U.S. contribution to the U.N. by about $500
million over four years. The amendment at.
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cause it came shortly after a much-publicized
statement by an American representative
the U.N. that he would not mind if the interna.
tional body moved its headquarters from NE,
York.
Kassebaum said that she did not want 4,
attack the U.N. itself, but only to cut back un
its bureaucracy. "The U.N. can no longer be a
sacred cow," she said two years later, when she
won Senate approval of an even more
cant amendment restricting U.S. support fof
the world body. Her proposal limited the US
contribution to most U.N. organizations to no
more than 20 percent of their budget, down
from 25 percent under existing law. The flea
limit was to go into effect unless the organiza.
tions adopted rules changes giving the US.
more say in how its money was spent.
On the Budget Committee, Kassehaum ha,
promoted a spending "freeze" to help control
the federal deficit. Working with Republican
Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Democrat,
Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Mai
Baucus of Montana, she sponsored the leading
alternative in 1984 to the budget proposal
backed by President Reagan; dubbed Mr
"KGB" plan for its sponsors, it would have set
funding for each federal agency at the level ot
the year before.
With three-year savings estimated at
around $250 billion, the proposal almost won
the approval of the Budget Committee. It ma,
defeated 2-to-I on the Senate floor, however.
after GOP leaders argued that its halt to De.
. fense Department spending increases would
weaken national securit y. The proposal met
similar fate during floor debate on the budgel
in 1985.
When the Senate turned later that year I'.
another overall budget -limiting plan,
Kassebaum was not interested. She drama':
her support for the Gramm-litidman anti.defi.
cit proposal after sponsors agreed to exemPl
Social Security from its strictures. The On
could not work, she said, if Congress insisted on
singling out programs for special protection.
On Commerce, where she has served to
chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Kassebaum was a major participant in leading
complex airport development and aviation tat
legislation to final enactment in 1982. She al':
has fought to preserve funding for the Federal
Aviation Administration, and against RegBil
administration plans to allow airlines to se
landing slots at major airports.
At Home: Kassehaurn can trace muchhat
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her success to her middle name ? the one
links her to her father, Alfred M. Landon, he
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publican presidential nominee in 1936.
' Before 1978, Kassebaum's political activity
had been confined to service on the school
lord in a town of 785 people and one year as
an aide to GOP Sen. James B. Pearson. Most of
her adult life had been spent raising four
children and managing a Wichita radio station.
But when Pearson announced his intention
to retire in 1978, she joined a large field of
aspirants to succeed him. There were nine
names on the Republican primary ballot that
August, and most of the other contestants,
including some veteran Kansas politicians,
found it difficult to attract much attention in
the crowd.
Kassebaum had instant name recognition,
and she built upon it with a series of television
ads featuring her father, then 91 years old. The
result was a clear victory.
That fall, she faced a well-known Demo-
cratic opponent, former U.S. Rep. Bill Roy,
who had come close to defeating Republican
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Roy, however, turned out to be weaker
than many had predicted. The Watergate re-
sentment that had helped him against Dole had
disappeared, and the farm discontent aimed at
a GOP administration in 1974 now focused on
President Carter. Kassebaum, meanwhile, had
no record for Roy to aim at, and her gentle
campaign style made attacks on her inexperi-
ence seem like bad manners. She defeated Roy
much more comfortably than Dole had.
Kassebaum's moderate record has satisfied
nearly everyone in Kansas except dyed-in-the-
wool Democrats and the Right to Life lobby,
which has picketed her appearances to protest
her support for legalized abortion.
Any re-election worries she had ended in
March 1983, when Democratic Rep. Dan Glick-
man decided running against her would be too
risky. The Democratic nomination went by
default to investment executive Jim Maher,
who lost two earlier Senate bids. Kassebaum
obliterated him.
C:nansrnp Committees
Budget (3rd of 11 Republicans)
Commerce, Science and Transportation (3rd of 9 Republicans)
Aviation (ranking); Science, Technology and Space; Surface
Foreign Relations (3rd of 9 Republicans)
African Affairs (ranking): Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps
Affairs.
Select Ethics (3rd of 3 Republicans)
Key Votes
Produce MX missiles (1985)
Weaken gun control laws (1985)
Reject school prayer (1985)
Limit textile imports (1985)
Amend Constitution to require balanced budget (1986)
Aid Nicaraguan contras (1986)
Block chemical weapons production (1986)
ImPose sanctions on South Africa (1986)
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Interest Group Ratings
ADA ACU AFL-CIO CCUS
45
35
45
35
50
35
41
48
55
36
42
60
21
10
45
24
29
5
58
69
61
42
53
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Elections
1984 General
Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R)
757,402
(76%)
James R. Maher (D)
211,664
(21%)
Previous Winning Percentage:
1978
(54%)
Campaign Finance
Receipts Expend-
Receipts from PACs Rums
1984
Kassebaum (R)
$576,455
$234,595
(40%)
$360,964
Maher (D)
$ 32,909
$ 2,450
( 7%)
30,444
Voting Studies
Year
Presidential
Support
S 0
Party
Unity
S 0
Conservative
Coalition
S 0
1988
70
24
77
21
80
13
1985
76
19
79
17
75
22
1984
79
19
75
24
81
17
1983
78
20
71
25
59
36
1982
78
19
74
24
77
21
1981
82
17
77
20
80
18
S = Support 0 = Opposition
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