DINING ROOM EVENTS

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Mr. William J. Casey, host
Rep. C. W. Bill Young, guest of honor
***Mrs. Marian Young, guest
Mr. John N. McMahon, DDCI
Mr. Robert Gates, DDCI -designate
Mr. James Taylor, ExDir
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MENU: Smoked Goose Breast with Rhubarb-Mustard Sauce
Fresh Shad Stuffed with its Roe
Salad
Vegetables
White Wine with Meal
Mango Sorbet
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24 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: David D. Gries
SUBJECT:
Luncheon for Rep. C.W. (Bill) Young
1. You are scheduled to host lunch for Rep. C.W. (Bill)
Young on Tuesday, 25 March at 12:30 p.m. in the DCI Dining
Room. The purpose of the lunch is to present Rep. Young with
a citation in honor of his prior service as a member of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Agency
Seal Medallion, at Rep. Young's request, has already been
delivered to him.
4. Other attendees at the lunch will be: Messrs.
McMahon, Taylor, Gates, Helgerson and Gries.
biography of Rep. Young is attached ror your information..
Att.
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C.W. Bill Young (R)
Of SL Petersburg ? Elected 1970
Rorn: Dec. 16, 1930, Harmarville, Pa.
tclocation: Attended Pennsylvania public schools.
Military Career: National Guard, 1948-57.
occupation: Insurance executive.
'wily: Wife, Marian Ford; three children.
Religion: Methodist.
political Career: Fla. Senate, 1961-71, minority leader,
1967-71.
Capitol Office: 2407 Rayburn Bldg. 20515; 225-5961.
In Washington: Young's slick pompadour
hair style sometimes makes him look like a
ntiddle-aged refugee from a 1950s rock movie,
but he is in reality one of the more serious and
effective conservatives in the House.
Congress has become increasingly suspi-
cious of multilateral foreign aid in recent years,
and Young is the man who has done most to
wize on the mood and intensify it. He left the
Appropriations subcommittee handling foreign
aid in 1981, saying he wanted to work on other
things, but he has never quite let go of the
ixsue. As a member of the Defense Appropria-
tions Subcommittee, he still argues for the need
to switch American aid priorities from eco-
nomic to military.
Young does not oppose U.S. participation
in institutions like the World Bank and Inter-
national Monetary Fund, but he has insisted
the United States should have more say in how
its money is spent. He has opposed attempts to
lend money to communist countries.
Young began to develop his reputation as a
scourge of foreign aid in 1977, when he shocked
the House with his successful amendment to
ban indirect U.S. aid to Cambodia. Laos. Viet-
nam or Uganda. The vote caused a dispute
between the House and Senate, which did not
go along with the ban. It ended only when
President Carter agreed to a compromise in-
.tructing U.S. officials of the programs to vote
against loans to those nations.
Since then, backers of multilateral aid
have been in retreat. In 1979, World Bank
President Robert McNamara agreed there
xould be no new loans to Vietnam in fiscal
1980. In 1980 Young's threat of numerous
amendments killed a bill authorizing $3.24 bil-
lion to the International Development Agency,
the "soft loan" arm of the World Bank.
In the Reagan years, Young's preference
for military aid has been the view of much of
Florida - 8th District
the administration. Reagan budgets have called
for reduced funding for the World Bank, cou-
pled with tighter controls on money for Third
World nations. In 1984, Young quietly voted
for the $11 billion foreign aid package the
Reagan administration had endorsed.
Meanwhile, Young has been shifting his
attention to defense and intelligence issues. In
the 98th Congress, much of his work revolved
around the Select Committee on Intelligence.
which got into several controversies with the
Reagan administration and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency over covert activities in Central
America. A fair amount of Young's time on the
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee was
spent briefing members there on what was
happening in the Intelligence panel.
The Intelligence assignment puts Young in
a position he finds frustrating at times: he is
privy to valuable information, but in most cases
cannot discuss it. He defends Reagan's policy
toward the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
and gets angry when liberals denounce it.
"It is not any activity of the American
government that has turned Central America
into an armed camp," Young heatedly said in
one floor debate in 1984. "We have never been
the aggressor."
Still, Young does chart an independent
course on some matters. He defended the CIA's
successful attempt to exempt certain opera-
tional files from Freedom of Information Act
requests, but he was highly critical of the
agency following disclosures of the CIA role in
helping elect Salvadoran President Jose Napo-
leon Duarte. "Tbe CIA is not the place to run
political campaigns," Young declared. He said
he was bothered by the CIA's arrogance in
refusing to keep Congress informed.
On Defense Appropriations, Young has
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C. W. 8111 Young, R-Flo.
Florida 8
The modern era of Florida politics be-
gan in this district three decades ago, and
the 8th is still a good signpost of political
change statewide.
In 1954, this district made William C.
Cramer the state's first Republican House
member of the 20th century. Cramer owed
his election to the influence of conservative
retirees. In subsequent years, other Repub-
lican candidates prospered as the retirees'
influence expanded elsewhere in Florida.
Today, the retirees are still crucial in
the politics of the 8th, but no candidate can
'afford to ignore the growing numbers of
young people drawn by its steadily diversi-
fying economy. The young newcomers, like
their peers flooding into other parts of Flor-
ida, are in some ways more conservative,
which is good news for the GOP here.
Not too long ago, St. Petersburg was
known as almost exclusively a retirement
haven. The retirees who settled there ?
many of them storekeepers, office workers
and civil servants from the small-town Mid-
west ? brought their Republican' prefer-
ences to Florida with them. The economy
was mostly service oriented, geared to the
needs of elderly residents and tourists. The
morning rush hour saw many younger work-
ers from St. Petersburg driving to jobs in
Tampa, which provided employment in a
greater variety of fields and a faster pace of
life than in St. Pete, where the Shuffleboard
West
St. Petersburg
Hall of Fame is a big attraction.
But during the last decade, St. Peters-
burg sought to broaden its economic base by'
stressing that it offers a good climate for
business investment. Now, St. Petersburg
and Pinellas County firms such Ili
Honeywell, Paradyne, E-Systems and Gen-
eral Electric are busy with research, devel4
opment, production and marketing of cow
puters, communications equipment and
other high-technology items. A number of
the major employers and subcontractors are
engaged in defense-related work.
The median age of the Pinellas Coon
population dropped during the 1970s be.
cause so many young people attracted
well-paying jobs moved into the area. Dem-
ocrats are still competitive in some elections
in the 8th, partly because many retirees
identify the party as the founder and pr
tector of Social Security. But Republicans
have achieved near-parity with Democrats
in the number of registered voters in Pinel
las County, and in practice, 1...my of the
registered Democrats vote Republican, es-
pecially at the national level.
Population: 512,909. White 463,124
(90%), Black 44,983 (9%), Asian and Pa2
cific Islander 2,418 (1%). Spanish origin
7,616 (2%). 18 and over 413,853 (81%), 65.
and over 141,405 (28%). Median age: 45.
been one of the more militant backers of the B-
1 bomber: When opponents argued on the
House floor that the B-1 would very soon be
made obsolete by advanced "stealth" aircraft
technology, Young held up a paper airplane
and said, "This plane in my hand is really the
only stealth bomber we have now or will have
in the near future."
Young also has used the Defense Subcom-
mittee to fight for a proposed headquarters of
the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force at MacDill
Air Force Base in Tampa, near his district. The
full committee reduced the headquarters fund-
ing in 1981 by $9 million, largely because the
Air Force no longer wanted to build it there,
but Young added it again on the House floor.
Young has made useful committee alli-
ances across ideological lines. When some
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Appropriations conservatives wanted to blqc
liberal Silvio 0. Conte of Massachusetts fro
becoming the panel's ranking Republi
Young put ideology aside and helped round
votes for Conte. Later Conte supported Yo
over others for the Defense vacancy. .
Young is equally willing to play dawn
ideology when it comes to money for his d
trict. On the Appropriations subcomm4
dealing with housing matters, he regularly t..p
to increase housing funds for the elderly,
prime concern in his St. Petersburg constt
ency. In 1978 Young tried to add $100 milli
for housing for the elderly on the House .11,
but was defeated. In 1980, after a ship ran in
the Sunshine Skyway bridge near St. Peters
burg. Young managed to wrest $50 million t
repairs from the highwgy trust fund. In.th
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98th Congress he tried unsuccessfully to force
Amtrak to keep its service and repair facilities
in St. Petersburg. ?
Young was careful to separate himself from
efforts in the Reagan administration to cut
back on Social Security benefits. In 1981 he led
group of several House Republicans demand-
to meet with Reagan to discuss the issue.
Later, when the president seemed to change his
mind about Social Security, Young boasted
that "I led the charge on him to back off."
At Home: A high school dropout from a
l'ennsylvania mining town, Young worked his
way to success in the insurance business before
going into politics in 1960. Ten years later, he
inherited Florida's most dependable Republi-
can seat from Rep. William C. Cramer, who left
it when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1970.
Young had known Cramer a long time. He
had met the congressman at a Rotary Club
barbecue in 1955, worked in his 1956 campaign
and was hired as Cramer's district aide in 1957.
In 1960 the Pinellas County GOP organization
urged Young to challenge a veteran Democratic
Florida - 8th District
state senator. He won, and was the only Repub-
lican in the state Senate. By 1967, there were 20
others, Young and was minority leader.
When Cramer announced for the Senate in
1970, there was little question who would re-
place him. Young won 76 percent of the pri-
mary vote and 67 percent in the general elec-
tion. Since then it has been even easier.
In 1980 and 1982, Young was unopposed;
in 1984, he won 80 percent against Democrat
Robert Kent, a former Sunshine Skyway toll
collector. Kent, a Yugoslavian emigre and fre-
quent congressional candidate from Indiana in
the 1960s, changed his name from Ivan
Korunek before running against Young, but the
strategy failed to broaden his appeal.
When prominent Republicans were look-
ing for established politicians to challenge
Democratic Gov. Robert Graham and U.S. Sen.
Lawton Chiles in 1982 both Young and U.S.
Rep. L. A. "Skip" Bafalis were intensively
courted. Young pondered a statewide race, then
ruled it out. Befalls took a chance and won only
a dismal 35 percent against Graham.
Committee
Appropriations (6th of 22 Republicans)
Delense; Labor-Health and Human Services-Education.
Elections
1984 General
C. W. Bill Young (R) 184,553 (80%)
Robert Kent (Di ., 45,393 (20%)
1982 General
C. W. Bill Young (R) Unopposed
Previous Winning Percentages: 1980 (100%) 1978 (p9%)
1978 (65%) 1974 (76%) 1972 (76%) 1970 (67%)
District Vote For President
1584 1980 1976
0 91.393 (37%) D 97,234 (41%) 13 98.426 (49?/e)
R 153,584 (63%) R 124.802 (53%) R 100,586 (50%)
I 12.280 ( 5%)
Campaign Finance
Receipts Expend-
Receipts from PACs Kure.
1981 72 24 83 12
1980 40 56 85 13
1979 30 es 89 9
1978 31 68 83 14
1971 44 48 84 7
1978 69 29 84 16
1975 55 40 82 11
1974 (Ford) 54 44
1974 75 25 79 15
1973 63 31 79 16
1972 65 32 76 20
1971 81 16 86 8
S Support 0 ?? Opposition
t Not eligible for all recorded votes.
Key Votes
Raise Social Security retirement age to 67(1983)
Bar covert U.S. aid to Nicaragua (1983)
Reduce dairy price supports (1983)
Pass Equal Rights Amendment (1983)
Freeze physicians fees under Medicare (1984)
Bar aid to anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua (1984)
Pass bill to revise immigration laws (1984)
Cut education spending (1984)
Authorize procurement of 21 MX missiles (1985)
Interest Group Ratings
as 7
94 4
96 3
92 7
83 5
88 10
87 10
80 12
78 15
76 17
89 6
1964
Year
ADA
ACA
AFL-C10
CCUS
YOUng (R)
Kent (0)
$170,177
$7,936
$73.400 (43%) 5104.190
0 $7.921
1984
1483
25
5
80
89
15
6
60
75
1460
1982
10
73
5
80
Young (R)
$131,188
534,800 (27%) 552,322
1981
1480
5
11
83
88
7
11
94
76
Voting Studies
1979
11
92
26
88
1978
10
93
15
78
Presidential
Party
Conservative
1977
10
83
17
94
Support
Unity
Coalition
1978
5
89
30
69
Year
S 0
s 0
s 0
1975
1974
16
4
93
86
13
0
82
70
1964
54 38
68 24
85 8
1973
16
92
27
80
1983
74 23
77 18
87 11
1972
13
87
18
90
1962
74 16
741 171
84 5
1971
5
97
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