LETTER TO WILLIAM WEBSTER FROM STANLEY L. TAIT

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• Document Release Date: November 7, 2011
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• Publication Date: July 29, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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July 29, 1987
The Honorable William Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
The
Florida,
Economics
Club
864 East Park Avenue
Tallahassee, FL 88901
The Board of Directors cordially invites you to address the Florida
Economics Club at a time of your convenience this year or next.
The Florida Economics Club is recognized as Florida's most important
forum for distinguished speakers on issues of the day. We are patterned
after the Economic Club of Detroit and the Commonwealth Club of San
Francisco.
Our membership of 400 comes close to being a Who's Who of Florida's
capital city. It includes past and present Governors, members of the
State Cabinet and Supreme Court, heads of government agencies and
leaders of the business and professional and educational community in
Florida's capital city.
Our meetings are covered by one of the largest capital press corps of
any state. These correspondents -- approximately 40 -- represent every
major daily newspaper and television station in the state.
Our meetings are usually held at noon on Fridays but we can adjust to
meet your schedule.
We sincerely hope you can accept our invitation.
L. Tait
ST/tmb
Enclosures
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Florida's
most Important
forum for
distinguished
speakers
on issues
of the day
Friday
May 1
We are pleased to present
the 131st in our series
of distinguished speaker programs.
CLIVE CHAJET
Chairman and CEO
Lippincott & Marguiles, Inc.
New York, New York
11:45 a.m.
Cash Bar
12:00 Noon
Buffet Luncheon
Grand Ballroom
Silver Slipper Restaurant
12:40 p.m.
Introduction by:
Dr. Mary Pankowski
Associate Vice President
FSU Center for
Professional Development
12:45 p.m.
Address by Mr. Chajet
"CORPORATE IDENTITY:
THE COMMUNICATIONS
COMPONENT OF
CORPORATE STRATEGY"
Questions from the audience
In today's jumble of mergers, ac-
quisitions and divestitures, corporate
identification programs have become
a booming business for companies
specializing in corporate communica-
tions planning. Clive Chajet is the
chairman and chief executive officer
of the nation's oldest and largest of
these consulting firms - Lippincott &
Marguiles, Inc.
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RICHARD SCHIFTER
Friday
May 8
We are pleased to present
the 132nd in our series
of distinguished speaker programs.
RICHARD SCHIFTER
Assistant Secretary of State
for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs
U.S. Department of State
11:45 a.m.
Cash Bar
12:00 Noon
Buffet Luncheon
Grand Ballroom
Silver Slipper Restaurant
12:40 p.m.
Introduction by:
Carrol Dadisman
Publisher
The Tallahassee Democrat
12:45 p.m.
Address by Ambassador Schifter
"HUMAN RIGHTS - A FOCAL
POINT FOR AMERICAN
FOREIGN POLICY"
Questions from the audience
Richard Schifter has been the
Assistant Secretary. of State for
Human Rights and Humanitarian
Affairs since late 1985. He also serves
as the United States member of the
United Nations Human Rights Com-
mission, a position which he has held
since 1983. During 1984-85, Mr.
Schifter served as Deputy United
States Representative in the Security
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Chajet
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Founded in 1945 by Walter P.
Marguiles, the firm has developed
corporate identity programs and
communication strategies for many of
the Fortune 500 companies including
American Express, Amtrak, Chrysler
Corporation and The Standard Oil
Company. The company pioneered
the discipline of corporate identity,
creating an understanding in the busi-
ness community that corporate com-
munications plays a significant role in
a company's overall corporate strat-
egy.
Prior to being named chairman in
June 1986, Mr. Chajet was vice
chairman and CEO. And, before
merging with Lippincott & Marguiles
in 1983, he operated his own com-
munication consulting firm, whose
client list included The Coca Cola
Company, Johnson & Johnson and
Beatrice Foods.
Mr. Chajet is a past president of
The Packaging Designers Council
and a co-author of a chapter in the
1986 edition of the Handbook of
Modern Marketing entitled, "Plan-
ning and Administering the Corpo-
rate Identification Program."
Born in London, Mr. Chajet earned
a B.A. in Economics from Columbia
University.
Schifter
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Council of the United Nations, with
the rank of Ambassador.
Upon graduation from law school,
Mr. Schifter joined the law firm now
known as Fried, Frank, Harris,
Schriver and Jacobson as an associate
in its Washington, D.C. office. He
became a partner in 1957 and con-
tinued in that capacity until entering
government service full-time.
In his home state of Maryland, he
has been very active in educational
affairs as a citizen member of various
boards and commissions. His service
encompassed twenty years of mem-
bership on the Maryland State Board
of Education, including eight years as
Vice President and four years as
President. He also served on the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Visitors of the Maryland School for
the Deaf, as Chairman of the Gover-
nor's Commission for the Funding of
the Education of Handicapped Chil-
dren and as Chairman of the Mary-
land Values Education Commission.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Mr.
Schifter came to the U.S. in 1938. He
graduated summa cum laude from the
College of the City of New York and
received his L.L.B. from Yale Law
School.
New Members
Robert Bone
President
Tallahassee Chamber of
Commerce
Jeb Bush
Secretary of Commerce
Florida Department of Commerce
Jim Heath
Controller
Tallahassee Housing Authority
Tom Pelham
Secretary
Florida Department of
Community Affairs
Legislative
Priorities
Excerpts from an address by
Governor Bob Martinez
April 3, 1987
In May of 1985 when I was here to
speak, the topic I spoke about was
fiscal conservation. We had just made
a preliminary budget presentation to
the Tampa city council and again were
able to show that we were reducing
taxes. But in that same speech we
spoke about being able to contain the
cost of governing, that all money that
comes in need not be spent and that
you must have a healthy source of
revenue. You should not necessarily
take it to its highest rate, but simply
make certain that everyone who fives
in the community also participates in
paying for some of the services of that
community. Two years later, we are
talking about having to expand the
revenue base of the State of Florida.
In a state like Florida, where either
we have become or we are about to
become the fourth largest state, it is
going to take an awful lot of effort by
all of us to make certain that we have a
quality of life that will assure everyone
of full fulfillment and opportunities,
whether young or old, whether em-
ployed or not. And that task is not
easy.
It is not easy for these reasons:
1) Growth in itself isn't quality. You
have to provide for it by protecting the
environment, by making certain that
our roads and highway systems work,
by making certain that there is public
safety for all, by making certain that
you just don't open up a classroom if
there is inadequate teaching taking
place in that facility; 2) It is com-
plicated thoroughly by the fact that
cities and counties and states all over
this nation have lost federal revenue
because the federal government has
retrenched and removed itself from
being a major player in the financing
of state and local government. So,
either you provide the services with
your own dollars or you do away with
services. The mission that lies ahead is
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not simply dealing with growth. It has
to do with maintaining quality of life.
It has to do with absorption of some
of the costs that are being incurred
now by local and state governments.
You, in business, create some
200,000 new jobs every year through-
out this great state. And, consistently,
the State of Florida has remained at
least one percent under the national
unemployment rate. That speaks well
for Florida's economy. Our economy
has grown, but it has grown away
from commodities to services. Today,
about 80% of all economic activity is
service and not commodity-based.
But, the people that are moving here
are not necessarily interested in
whether the economy is commodity
based or service based. They want
services. They do not want mora-
toriums; they do not want their chil-
dren to have to share textbooks; they
do not want a correction system that
has to release prisoners; they do not
want grid locks at intersections; and
they do not want a university system
that cannot compete for research and
development.
It is for that reason, we have re-
commended that we expand the sales
tax in terms of its base. As you know,
in 1986 a conscious decision was made
to sunset sales exemptions on services.
We have recommended that some
services ought to be exempt, such as
medical services, etc. We felt that with
a broader tax base not only would the
revenue base be improved but we
could better withstand any downturns
in the economy since the service side
does not seem to be hurt as badly as
the commodity side with downturns.
And because the tax on the service
side also is more reflective of the
growth of the State of Florida. We can
assure some of those things that I have
talked about that need to be main-
tained for the quality of life.
I know that sitting out in this
audience are those who for the first
time may be exposed to having their
services taxed in one way or another.
And no one likes taxes. But, I have
also found that Floridians want to do
what is right and not just what is
expedient. We can't have a short-term
solution by simply increasing the sales
tax with nothing else. My recom-
mendation has been not only to ex-
pand it but to roll back from 5 to 4~J%
(which is a savings of some $300
million in fiscal '87-'88) and provide
local government (cities and counties)
with the opportunity of a one-cent
local option sales tax so that they can
begin to deal with the issues of growth.
In 1985, great foresight was shown
when we adopted the state compre-
hensive plan, which is a document that
is supposed to be visionary in leading
to a better quality of life. But the
details on its implementation simply
weren't there, nor were the financial
resources for implementation there
and we have spent some two years
now developing the cost factors in the
Department of Community Affairs.
We have seen the Zwick report come
back saying that we need some $54
billion for infrastructure, of which
some $174 billion is for local needs.
And I don't know that you and I agree
with this $54 billion or not. I think we
would agree that well need a lot of
billions to get to the year 2000.
I have said often and I will continue
to say that we, as public officials, and
you, as community leaders, should
not insist on implementing a law
calling for a great vision of the future
if it is not to be implemented. We
should not play the role of fooling the
public. If we are not serious about
carrying out the growth management
plan, which calls for the expenditure
of money, then there will be a deter-
ioration in our quality of life and we
may have a different kind of growth
management.
Some say, what is it that you want
to achieve in your years in office? I
guess there is one thing that I would
like to achieve: to be able to say that I
was able to carry out my plan. You
can continue to define it and redefine
it all you want. But it is going to take
an awful lot of talent between the
private and public sector, better man-
agement and perhaps some new re-
sources, and between state govern-
ment and local government. Some-
times they are not easy to work out
and, yes, you have to eliminate waste
in the existing documents. In our first
effort, we have pinpointed $47 million
in the budget that we are not recom-
mending to continue. We took a bud-
get that we basically inherited - a
massive document that involves some
$16.5 billion and recommended some
changes that we are setting in motion
for the next session. For instance, this
thing called a continuation budget has
got to be dissected. It has a life of its
own, and it just rolls from one year to
the other. Then there is the level price
increase, some magic term that auto-
matically drives the continuation
budget. These, in my view, are not
good budgetary practices, and we will
work with our agencies to make cer-
tain that we understand what is in that
existing document and what needs to
be carried forward and what needs to
be eliminated.
The funny thing about government
is that it is always easy to give but it is
very hard to take back, even if what
you have given never should have
been given. There is always an audi-
ence of those who don't want to give it
up. It is the nature of things. So I don't
expect all that I have described to be
done without controversy. But having
served for over seven years as mayor I
have also become accustomed to that.
When I said that I believe in home
rule, I meant that I believe in home
rule. We will be very, very guarded
about legislation that mandates local
governments to do things without the
money to follow.
I'm looking for a broader base but
I'm not looking at exactly which
specific items or how many dollars
come from it. I'm looking for a
reasonable expenditure somewhere
between 54% and 6% and actual
expenditures of about half of what has
been running the last four years. I'm
looking for a good rainy day fund for
days like this to make sure that we do
not have a catastrophe in front of us
should we have an economic slow-
down. And we are looking for local
government to have a source of
revenue.
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SUSTAINING
MEMBERS
William H. Adana, m, Mahoney, Adams,
Milani, Surface R Grim icy
L C. Allen, Investor
Robert H. Bryson, President, Investors
Companies of Florida
B. P. Crosby, President, Barnett Bank
of Tallahassee
Brace Culpepper, Attorney
Jack P. Dodd, Senior Vice President,
Fust American Bank
Myrtle R. Grate, M.D.
Paul B. Greenwell, President, Shelby Land
Company
Lacy Ho, President, Lucy Ho', Inc.
John E. Hunt, Sr., Chairman, Hunt Insurance
Group
Richard M. Jade, President, Oil-Dri
Corporation of America, Chicago, IL
John Koeleslj, President, Orange State
Construction Company
John Kraft, Chief Operating Officer,
DeMilly Companies
E. Robert Langley, Farmer, Auto Dealer
L. W. "Luke" Larklu, President, L. W. "Luke"
Larkin and Associates
W. R. "Jerry" Lundqulst, President, Homes &
Land Publishing Corporation
Richard D. Melson, Hopping, Boyd. Green &
Sams, Attorneys and Counsellors
Payne Midyette, Jr., President, Midyette-Moor
Insurance Agency
John B. Mowell, President, Mowell Financial
Group; Chairman of the Board, Reflectone,
Inc., Tampa
M. T. Muetlan, President/CEO, Tallahassee
Memorial Regional Medical Center
Jan Nichols, President, Governors Square
Travel
John Olson, CLU, President, John Olson &
Associates
Tom Perrin, President, Watkins Engineers and
Constructors
C. Mark Robinton, Vice President
A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc,
Leo J. Selvey, Investor
Hilmar Skagfield, President, Skandia
Draperies Manufacturing Company
Ronald Spencer, Jr., Vice President, Public
Affairs, Sun Banks of Florida
G. Alec Steele, HMO Director, MetLife Healthcare
Network
Carlos Stone, Executive Director, Florida
Transportation Builders Association
Stanley L. Tait, President, Stan Tait &
Associates, Public Relations Counselors
Gary C. Using, President, Florida National Bank
Robert W. West, President, Capital Moving and
Storage Company
J. T. Williams, Jr., President, Killearn
Properties, Inc.
0. Burke Yung, Investor
While no speakers have been scheduled yet, we do intend to
present programs in the coming months. Well let you know who,
when and where as soon as we get something firmed up.
The Florida ]Economics Club
Telephone: [phone]
864 East Park Avenue ? Tallahassee, Florida 32301
OFFICERS
President ........................ Philip F. Ashler
President-Elect ..................... Ray Solomon
Executive Vice President ................. Stan Tait
Vice President ............... Stephen O'Connell, Sr.
Treasurer ....................... Carrol Dadisman
Secretary ..................... Mary L. Pankowski
Chairman of the Board ................ John Olson
Chairman Emeritus ............... John B. Mowell
DIRECTORS
John K. Aurell Wayne Mixson
Scottie Baker Carl Monson
W. Kenneth Boutwell, Jr. Taylor Moore
Paul C. Burkhart Carroll Webb
Herb Chandler Klein Wigginton
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