General Correspondence - A

File — Box: 23, Folder: 19

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: The business correspondence for 1966 is useful in helping to better understand the many Bennett interests. Bennett Leasing had problems with both taxes and the Valley Music Hall. Bennett Ford is in the process of being transferred to Richard Warner. The Bennett Association invests in the Almaden Winery.

His legislative duties were sometimes frustrating. He wrote to Gweneth Gates in January that "I am usually on the losing side [but] to this time I am not ready to quit." Later in January he attended an International Balance of Payments Conference in England and in April a conference in New Zealand.

He noted the passing of an old friend, Charles Roh. "His passing leaves a real hole in the list of older men who helped me so much when I was getting started in the business." In July and August the Senator was hospitalized for his ulcer condition.

During the year he wrote to David Lawrence McKay urging him to have his father, LDS President David O. McKay, disassociate himself from an implied endorsent of the John Birch Society suggested by Ezra Taft Benson.

Dates

1966

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