DCI - INTRODUCTION OF CONGRESSMAN STOKES 28 FEB 89

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DCI - Introduction
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JUDGE:
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22 February 1989
RE: Your introduction of
Congressman Stokes at the program
observing National Black History Month
28 February 1989 11:00 a.m.
Headquarters Auditorium
You are scheduled to introduce Congressman Stokes at the CIA program
observing National Black History Month. Your proposed remarks are attached.
I have also attached Congressman Stokes's official biography and a profile of
Stokes that appeared in Politics in America: The 100th Congress, which is
published by the Congressional Quarterly. Your remarks were drawn from these
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PROPOSED REMARKS
BY
WILLIAM H. WEBSTER
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AT THE CIA PROGRAM OBSERVING NATIONAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH
INTRODUCTION OF CONGRESSMAN LOUIS STOKES
FEBRUARY 28,1989
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GOOD MORNING. I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE A PART OF THIS
PROGRAM CELEBRATING NATIONAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH. LAST MONTH,
DR. PATRICIA RUSSELL-MCCLOUD AND THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
CHOIR JOINED US IN HONORING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WE
REMEMBER AND HONOR THIS PARTICULAR AMERICAN FOR MANY REASONS.
BUT PERHAPS MOST OF ALL, WE REMEMBER DR. KING FOR PIONEERING A
CHANGE -- A CHANGE IN LAWS, A CHANGE IN ATTITUDES, AND EVEN A
CHANGE IN THE VALUES OF OUR SOCIETY, WE HAVE SEEN THIS CHANGE
IN A SOCIETY THAT IS MOVING TOWARD ONE AMERICA -- A SOCIETY
THAT APPLAUDS DIVERSITY, EXTENDS OPPORTUNITY, AND WILL DEMAND
EQUALITY.
TODAY WE RECOGNIZE ALL BLACK AMERICANS WHO HAVE FOUGHT
AGAINST THE OLD LAWS, THE OLD ATTITUDES, AND THE OLD VALUES AND
WHO HAVE HELPED TO CHANGE THEM THROUGH THEIR EXAMPLE AND
THROUGH THEIR ACTIONS.
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AND THIS MORNING WE ARE HONORED TO WELCOME CONGRESSMAN
LOUIS STOKES -- AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED A GREAT DEAL
TO CREATING A MORE JUST AND A MORE GENEROUS SOCIETY.
CONGRESSMAN STOKES PRACTICED LAW FOR 14 YEARS BEFORE BEING
ELECTED TO CONGRESS, AND MUCH OF HIS PRACTICE CENTERED ON CIVIL
RIGHTS ISSUES. IN FACT, HIS FIRST ELECTORAL VICTORY WAS WON AS
MUCH IN THE COURTROOM AS IN THE POLLS. IN 1967, HE WAS THE
COUNSEL IN A SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST THE OHIO LEGISLATURE, WHICH
CONTENDED THAT THE STATE'S CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS HAD BEEN
DRAWN TO DIVIDE THE MINORITY VOTE IN ORDER TO PREVENT A BLACK
FROM BEING ELECTED. CONGRESSMAN STOKES WON AN APPEAL BEFORE
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, FORCING THE LINES TO BE
REDRAWN. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, HE WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS BY
OHIO'S NEW TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT AND BECAME THE
FIRST BLACK REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF OHIO. AND, SINCE
THAT TIME, HE HAS BEEN RETURNED TO CONGRESS WITH NEVER LESS
THAN 75 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
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CONGRESSMAN STOKES ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON THE YEAR THAT DR.
KING WAS ASSASSINATED. .IN A TROUBLED AND DIVISIVE TIME, HE
WORKED TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND THE RIGHTS OF ALL AMERICANS.
IN HIS SECOND TERM OF OFFICE, HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE HOUSE
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE -- AN ASSIGNMENT HE HAS USED WELL TO
WORK ON MINORITY ISSUES, EDUCATION, AND URBAN POLICY. HE HAS
BEEN A LONGTIME ADVOCATE OF AID TO BLACK COLLEGES, FEDERAL
FUNDS FOR HOUSING, AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE WORK PLACE.
LOUIS STOKES IS HIGHLY REGARDED FOR HIS COMMITMENT, HIS
CONSCIENCE, AND HIS CLARITY OF VISION. BECAUSE OF THESE
ATTRIBUTES, HIS CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES HAVE CALLED UPON HIM
IN SEVERAL CRITICAL TIMES. IN 1977 HE BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE
PANEL INVESTIGATING THE ASSASSINATIONS OF JOHN F. KENNEDY AND
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CONGRESSMAN STOKES LED A DISCIPLINED
INQUIRY AND COMPLETED THESE HISTORIC INVESTIGATIONS, FILING
WITH THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 27 VOLUMES OF HEARINGS, A
FINAL REPORT, AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION.
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IN 1980, HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE,
AND HE BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE THE FOLLOWING YEAR. HE
WON WIDE RESPECT FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN THIS DIFFICULT JOB,
INCLUDING A STANDING OVATION FOR HIS REMARKS BEFORE CONGRESS ON
TWO PARTICULARLY PAINFUL CASES.
MANY OF US KNOW CONGRESSMAN STOKES BEST FOR HIS SERVICE ON
THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE. HE
BECAME A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE IN 1983, AND HE SERVED AS
CHAIRMAN FROM 1987 THROUGH 1988. AS HEAD OF THE HOUSE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, HE ALSO SERVED ON THE SPECIAL PANEL
THAT INVESTIGATED THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR -- YET ANOTHER
DIFFICULT AND SENSITIVE ASSIGNMENT.
DURING HIS SIX YEARS ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE,
CONGRESSMAN STOKES WORKED TO SEE THAT INTELLIGENCE HAD THE
RESOURCES AND THE POLICY SUPPORT TO CONTRIBUTE IN THE MOST
EFFECTIVE WAY TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.
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CONGRESSMAN STOKES, WE ARE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU WITH US
AND LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
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Ohio - 21st District
21 Louis Stokes (D)
Of Warrensville Heights ? Elected 1968
Born: Feb. 23, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio.
Education: Attended Western Reserve U., 1946-48;
Cleveland Marshall Law School, J.D. 1953.
Military Career: Army, 1943-46.
Occupation: Lawyer.
Family: Wife, Jeanette Francis; four children.
Religion: African Methodist Episcopalian.
Political Career: No previous office.
Capitol Office: 2365 Rayburn Bldg. 20515; 225-7032.
In Washington: Stokes has spent much of
his career in the background, working quietly
on minority issues and urban policy as a mem-
ber of the Appropriations Committee. Over the
past decade, however, he has acquired a special
reputation as someone the House leadership
can depend on to handle particularly sensitive
issues when they erupt.
Stokes' image as a competent "trouble-
shooter" has brought him three prominent and
touchy assignments. In 1977 he became chair-
man of the bitterly divided panel that was
investigating the assassinations of John F. Ken-
nedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In the 97th and 98th Congresses, he chaired the
House ethics committee and presided over the
investigations of several House members. And
early in 1987, at the height of the Iran-contra
furor, Speaker Jim Wright named Stokes chair-
man of the Intelligence Committee.
Stokes was called in on the Assassinations
assignment in 1977, after the original chairman,
Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, got into a nasty
public fight with the committee counsel.
Stokes shifted the hearings behind closed
doors and out of the news. He led a disciplined
inquiry, highlighted by a dramatic cross-exami-
nation of King's killer, James Earl Ray. The
final report was accepted with some relief
though many doubted its conclusions ? that
there probably were conspiracies in both cases.
Stokes emerged with his reputation enhanced.
Four years later, Stokes took on the ethics
post at the direct request of then-Speaker
O'Neill. who considered the previous chairman
there. Charles E. Bennett of Florida, unnec-
essarily rigid in dealing with colleagues. Stokes,
who had often expressed concern for the ac-
cused in House ethics cases, was brought in to
supply what O'Neill felt was needed balance.
Stokes had no choice as chairman but to
take on a series of unpleasant ethics cases.
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In 1983, following a year of investigation
amid gossip and published rumor, the commit-
tee brought charges against two members,
Democrat Gerry E. Studds of Massachusetts
and Republican Daniel B. Crane of Illinois, for
engaging in sex with teenage congressional
pages. The committee recommended a repri-
mand in both cases: Stokes called that decision
a severe punishment, because, he said, "the
member must live with this condemnation for-
ever." But the House increased the penalty to
censure, in part to head off demands that
Studds and Crane be expelled.
Stokes performance won wide respect. Re-
publican leader Robert H. Michel called the
ethics chairmanship "the most distasteful job
in the House." and when Stokes finished his
final remarks on the Studds-Crane cases, he
received a standing ovation.
The only negative publicity Stokes re-
ceived in his years as ethics chairman involved
his own arrest on a drunken-driving charge.
Maryland police said he failed three sobriety
tests, while Stokes argued that he was tired
after working late. He pleaded not guilty and
requested a jury trial; he was convicted in
August 1983 on a lesser charge and fined $250.
Stokes' ascension to the Intelligence chair
placed him right back in the middle of contro-
versy; as chairman, he was automatically given
a seat on the 15-member special panel investi-
gating the Iran-contra affair. Stokes has been a
constant opponent of President Reagan's for-
eign policies in Central America and elsewhere.
His tenure on Intelligence has been marked by
his discretion; Stokes rarely speaks publicly on
intelligence matters or foreign policy issues.
Stokes came to Congress in an era of black
activism; he was first elected the year King was
assassinated. But he has never been strident or
divisive in his advocacy of minority causes. "I
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Louis Stokes, 0-Ohio
Ohio 21
One of the axioms of Ohio politics is
that to win statewide, a Democratic candi-
date must build a 100,000-vote edge in
Cuyahoga County. Most of that lead has to
be built in the 21st, which is anchored in
Cleveland's heavily black East Side.
The district includes poor inner-city
areas as well as middle-class territory far-
ther from the downtown area. Devastated
by the riots of the 1960s, inner-city neigh-
borhoods Hough and Glenville still bear the
scars of poverty but can claim some new
residential and commercial development.
Further east toward the lake are the mid-
dle-class white ethnic neighborhoods of
Collinwood. inhabited by Italians, and St.
Clare, dominated by Poles. Yugoslays and
other Eastern Europeans.
The 21st is 62 percent black and
heavily Democratic;During the last decade,
it has been the most Democratic district in
the state. In 11 East Side wards in 1980.
Jimmy Carter outpolled Ronald Reagan by
margins of at least 20-to-1. In 1984, 10 of
these wards gave Walter F. Mondale a 14-
to-1 margin over Reagan.
Cleveland ? East;
Cleveland Heights
The 21st's major suburbs are Cleveland
Heights, Shaker Heights and the western
half of University Heights. With a large
proportion of Jews and young professionals,
these are among the most liberal communi-
ties in Ohio. All of them voted for Carter in
1980 and for Mondale in 1984. North of
Shaker Heights is Cleveland Heights, many
of whose integrated neighborhoods are a
short walk from University Circle, home of
Case Western Reserve University and the
cultural hub of Cleveland.
From the circle area, commuters drive
along historic Euclid Avenue to their jobs
downtown. While the avenue now bears the
marks of poverty, it was known as "Million-
aires' Row" at the turn of the century. Few
of the old mansions are left today. The one
belonging to John D. Rockefeller, founder of
Standard Oil, was razed to make way for a
gas station.
Population: 514.169. White 186.814 (36%), Black
320,809 (62%), Other 3.314(1%). Spanish origin 5.059
(1%). 18 and over 372,949 (73%), 65 and over 63,051
(12%). Median age: 31.
think most blacks are still willing to work
within the system.- he said in 1985.
On the HUD and Labor-HHS subcommit-
tees at Appropriations. Stokes is a consistent
spokesman for minority concerns, supporting
funds for black colleges and housing programs
and backing affirmative action in the work
place. Stokes was the first black appointed to
the Appropriations Committee and still is the
only one on its HHS and HUD subcommittees.
He also served on the Budget Committee for
three terms, but did not play a major part in its
work.
In recent years, Stokes has pushed a vari-
ety of amendments in Appropriations that il-
lustrate his priorities. One added $140 million
for Pell Grants for college tuition, another
restored S100 million for grants to elementary
schools in poor communities under Title I of
the 1965 education law. A third added $25
million in operating subsidies for public hous-
ing programs.
At Home: The Stokes family has been the
dominant force in Cleveland's black politics
since Louis Stokes' younger brother. Carl, first
ran for mayor in the mid-1960s. Carl left poli-
tics for television after two terms in City Hall
(1967-71), but Louis has remained active. Po-
litically secure, he has been free to help friends
and quarrel with enemies over city issues.
Louis Stokes' first victory was won as
much in court as on Cleveland's East Side.
Representing a black Republican, he charged in
a 1967 suit that the Ohio Legislature had
gerrymandered the state's congressional dis-
tricts, dividing the minority vote and prevent-
ing the election of a black. Stokes won an
appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, forcing
the lines to be redrawn.
The new 21st District, represented by
white Democrat Charles A. Vanik, was about 60
percent black. Vanik decided to run elsewhere,
leaving the 21st vacant.
There were 14 candidates in the Demo-
cratic primary there in 1968, but little doubt
about the outcome. Stokes' ties to his brother
and reputation as a civil rights lawyer won him
41 percent of the vote in an easy victory. He
became the first black congressman from Ohio
that November by defeating the Republican he
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Louis Stokes, D-Ohio
had represented in court the previous year.
Over the last decade, Stokes has consoli-
dated his power through his organization, the
21st District Congressional Caucus. Some black
politicians have accused him of turning the
caucus into a personal political tool, but he is as
popular as he ever was among rank-and-file
voters.
Committees
Select Intelligence (Chairman)
Program and Budget Authorization (chairman); Legislation.
Appropriations (8th of 35 Democrats)
District of Columbia; MUD-Independent Agencies; Labor. Health
and Human Services. Education and Related Agencies.
Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions
with Iran (7th of 9 Democrats)
Elections
1986 General
Louis Stokes (D)
Franklin H. Roski (R)
1984 General
Louis Stokes (D)
Robert.L. Woodall (R)
99.878 (82%)
22.594 (18%)
165.247
29.500
Previous Winning Percentages: 1982 (86%) 1980
1978 (86%) 1976 (84%) 1974 (82%) 1972
1970 (78%) 1968 (75%)
District Vote For President
1984 1980 1976
D 159.536 (78%) D 154.021 (61%) 0 159.656
R 41,967 (21%) R 81.587 (32%) R 75.312
I 16.092 ( 6%)
1986
Stokes (D)
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Campaign Finance
Receipts
Receipts from PACs
(82%)
(15%)
(88%)
(81%)
(66%)
(31%)
Expend-
itures
S215.960 $103,440 (48%) S154.321
1984
Stokes (0)
5131.703 $60.518 (46%) 6114.094
Voting Studies
Presidential Party Conservative
Support Unity Coalition
Year S 0 6 0 S 0
1986 11 82 87 2 2 80
1985 15 83 93 1 5 93
1984 22 68 88 3 0 93
1983 11 80 86 3 6 85
1982 27 65 91 4 10 86
1981 29 66 93 4 5 91
S = Support 0 = Opposition
Key Votes
Produce MX missiles 11985)
Cut federal subsidy for water projects (1985) ?
Weaken gun control laws (1986)
Cut back public housing construction (1986)
Aid Nicaraguan contras11986)
Impose textile import limits over Reagan veto (1986)
Block chemical weapons production 11986)
Impose South African sanctions over Reagan veto (1986)
Interest Group Ratings
Year ADA ACU AFL-CIO CCUS
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
100
95
95
80
85 1
90
93
100
85
94
100
93
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
THE HONORABLE LOUIS STOKES
Washington Office:
2365 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
[phone]
District Offices:
New Federal Office Bldg.
1240 East 9th Street, Room 2947
Cleveland, Ohio 44199
[phone]
2140 Lee Rd.
Suite 211
Cleveland Hts., Ohio 44118
[phone]
On November 6, 1968, Louis Stokes was elected Congressman of the 21st Congressional District of Ohio
on his first try for public office. By virtue of his election, he became the first Black member of Congress
from the State of Ohio. He is currently serving his tenth term in Congress. During his first term in Congress,
he served as a member of the Education and Labor Committee and the House Un-American Activities
Committee, which was renamed the House Internal Sedurity Committee.
In his second term of office he was appointed the first Black member ever to sit on the Appropriations
Committee of the House. On February 8, 1972, Louis Stokes was elected as Chairman of the Congres-
sional Black Caucus. He served two consecutive terms in this office. In addition to his seat on the powerful
Appropriations Committee, on February 5, 1975, he was elected by the Democratic Caucus to serve on
the newly formed Budget Committee of the House. He was re-elected to the Budget Committee twice,
serving a total of six years. He is also Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust.
On September 21, 1976, Congressman Stokes was appointed by Speaker Carl Albert to serve on the Select
Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Circumstances Surrounding the death of President
John F. Kennedy and the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On March 8, 1977, Speaker Thomas P.
"Tip" O'Neill appointed Congressman Stokes Chairman of this Committee. On December 31, 1978,
Congressman Stokes completed these historic investigations and filed with the House of Representatives
27 volumes of Hearings, a Final Report and Recommendations for Administrative and Legislative Reform.
In February, 1980, Congressman Stokes was appointed by Speaker O'Neill to the House Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee). In the 97th and 98th Congresses, he was elected
Chairman of this Committee.
In January, 1981, Congressman Stokes became Senior Democratic Representative from Ohio and he serves
as the Dean of the eleven member Ohio Democratic Congressional Delegation.
In February, 1983, Congressman Louis Stokes was appointed by Speaker O'Neill to the House Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Committee has legislative, authorization and oversight
jurisdiction over the intelligence agencies and intelligence related activities of federal agencies. In the 99th
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Congress, Representative Stokes was elected Chairman of the Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization for the Intelligence Committee.
In January, 1987, the 100th Congress, Speaker Jim Wright appointed Congressman Stokes Chairman
of the Intelligence Committee. He also appointed him to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate
Covert Arms Transactions with Iran.
Since being in Congress, Congressman Stokes has been named by Ebony Magazine as one of the 100 most
influential Black Americans each year since 1971. In 1979, he was nominated by Ebony Magazine in three
categories for the Second Annual American Black Achievement Awards. His nomination was based upon
his becoming the first Black to head a major congressional investigation and to preside over nationally
televised hearings which revealed new facts on the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and
President Kennedy.
In presenting him the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, Ebony Magazine said,
"In recognition of your significant and enduring achievements in government; for your dedication to the ideals
that characterized the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and for your inspiring commitment to excellence
that has contributed greatly to the advancement of your fellow Black Americans and thereby enhanced the
cause of brotherhood in our nation and throughout the world, the editors of Ebony Magazine have selected
you to receive this award for the year 1979."
On September 27, 1980 at the Congressional Black Caucus Weekend Awards Program, Congressman Stokes
was awarded the William L. Dawson Award by his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. This
coveted and prestigious award was made to him in recognition of his "unique leadership in the develop-
ment of legislation."
The Congressman is also the recipient of sixteen honorary doctorate degrees.
His brother, Municipal Court Judge Carl B. Stokes, made history in Cleveland in 1967 by becoming the
first Black Major of a major American city. Louis, prior to his election, had practiced law for 14 years
in Cleveland, Ohio and was chief trial counsel for the law firm of Stokes, Character, Perry, Whitehead,
Young and Davidson. As a practicing lawyer, he participated in several cases in the United States Supreme
Court. In 1968 he personally argued the landmark "stop and frisk" case of Terry vs. Ohio in that court.
Both Louis and Carl are native Clevelanders and former law partners. Both their father Charles and their
mother Louise Stokes are deceased. Prior to her death Mrs. Stokes was the recipient of numerous awards,
including Cleveland's Woman of the Year Award in 1968 and Ohio's Mother of the Year Award in 1969.
BIRTHDATE:
February 23, 1925
WIFE:
Jeanette (Jay) Stokes
CHILDREN:
Shelly, Louis C., Angela and Lorene
GRANDCHILDREN:
Brett and Eric Hammond
MILITARY
U.S. Army, 1943 to 1946 ? Honorable Discharge
EDUCATION:
Cleveland Public Schools
(Giddings and Central High School)
Western Reserve University
Cleveland Marshall Law School
(The Cleveland State University)
(Doctor of Jurisprudence)
HONORARY DEGREES:
Wilberforce University
(Doctor of Laws)
Shaw University
(Doctor of Laws)
Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine
(Doctor of Laws)
Livingstone College
(Doctor of Laws)
Oberlin College
(Doctor of Humanities)
Morehouse College
(Doctor of Laws)
Meharry Medical College
(Doctor of Laws)
Atlanta University
(Doctor of Laws)
Howard University
(Doctor of Laws)
Atlanta University
(Doctor of Laws)
Howard University
(Doctor of Laws)
Morehouse School of Medicine
(Doctor of Laws)
Central State University
(Doctor of Laws)
Xavier University of Louisiana
(Doctor of Laws)
Tuskegee Institute
(Doctor of Laws)
Defense Intelligence College
(Doctor of Strategic Intelligence)
Bethune-Cookman College
(Doctor of Laws)
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
(Doctor of Laws)
REFERENCES:
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in American Politics
Who's Who in the Midwest
Who's Who in Health Care
Who's Who Among Black Americans, Community Leaders and
Noteworthy Americans
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PUBLICATIONS:
"Criminal Law"? Published by Cuyahoga County Bar
Association Law and Fact, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 1966
"Who and What Killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?"
? Ebony, April, 1981
GUEST LECTURER:
Formerly lectured at numerous colleges, law schools and
bar association meetings on constitutional and criminal
law.
PAST ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFICES HELD:
President: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
(1979 - 1986)
Vice President: Cleveland Branch, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (1965 - 1966)
District Chairman: Center City District Boy Scouts of
America (1965)
Chairman: Legal Redress Committee, Cleveland Branch
NAACP (1960 - 1965)
Board of Managers: Cedar Branch, Y.M..C.A.
Board of Managers: Rainey Institute
Section Chairman: United Appeal (1959 - 61)
District Chairman: Cedar Branch, Y.M.C.A. Member-
ship Drive (1968)
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29 November 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: Royal E. Elmendorf
Director of Personnel
SUBJECT: Black History Month
1. This memorandum requests your participation in Agency activities
being planned as part of our Black History Month Program in February 1989.
2. Congressman Louis Stokes has informally agreed to be the keynote
speaker for our annual Black History Month observance. The theme for the
1989 observance will be "The Role of Afro-American Churches in Economic,
Political, and Social Development at Home and Abroad." The Office of Equal
Employment Opportunity has scheduled the formal program in the Headquarters
Auditorium to begin at 1100 hours on 15 February, and anticipates it will
last approximately one hour. Congressman Stokes' address will be followed
by a luncheon in the Executive Dining Room for selected Agency managers and
employees. These activities will conclude at 1300 hours. Attached for your
signature is a letter formally inviting Congressman Stokes to join us
(TAB A).
3. If your schedule permits, we would be honored to have you or the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence introduce Congressman Stokes and
serve as host during the luncheon. Congressman Stokes will arrive at
approximately 1030 hours and can be escorted to your office for a brief
visit before the program starts.
4. Your continuing support for our Equal Employment Opportunity
programs is greatly appreciated.
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The Honorable Louis Stokes
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United States Hou?e of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
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The Central Intelligence Agency will join other Federal agencies and the
Black community at large next February in the celebration of Black History
Month. It is a time when we pay special tribute to the significant
contributions the Black community has made to our culture and economy and a
time also to reassess our efforts to assure the continued progress by Black
Americans in areas such as employment and education.
With this in mind, it gives me great pleasure to formally invite you to
provide the keynote address at our program on 15 February 1989, at 11:00 a.m.
in the Agency Headquarters Auditorium. This presentation will be followed by
a one-hour luncheon with selected Agency managers and employees. Such a
meeting will provide a better opportunity for us to evaluate our progress and
explore ways to increase the effectiveness of our affirmative employment
program.
The specifics of your address would naturally be that of your choice.
However, you may wish to direct some of your comments toward the 1989 National
Black History Month Theme, "The Role of Afro-American Churches in Economic,
Political, and Social Development at Home and Abroad." Arrangements are being
handled through Office of Congressional Affairs. He can be
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We hope you will join us in our celebration of Black History Month 1989.
Sincerely yours,
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William H. Wester
Director of Central Intelligence
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