FOOTNOTES

  1. Safety Standards, March 1971.
  2. U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on the Nomination of George Guenther, Washington, 1971, p.11.
  3. See discussion of "Watergate memo" below in text.
  4. National Journal (NatJ), Dec. 4, 1971.
  5. Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Dec. 1, 1971.
  6. Daily Labor Report (DLR), Sept. 23, 1971, Jan. 22, March 3, 1972.
  7. DLR, June 21, 1972.
  8. New York Times (NYT), June 29, Sept. 28, 1972.
  9. DLR, June 14, 21, 1972; NYT, Oct. 3, 1972; WSJ, June 32, 1972.
  10. NatJ, July 1, 1972; NYT, June 16, 28, 29, Oct. 8, 1972; DLR, June 23, Aug. 18, 23, 1972; Occupational Safety and Health Reporter (OSHR), Nov. 2, 1972.
  11. Job Safety and Health (JSH), March, April 1973.
  12. U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on the Nomination of John Stender, Washington, 1973.
  13. JSH, Aug. 1973.
  14. JSH, Feb. 1973.
  15. Dept. of Labor Press Release (DOL/PR), Oct. 1, 1973.
  16. NatJ, Dec. 7, 1974.
  17. NYT, July 16, 1974; Washington Post (WP), July 16, 1974.
  18. WSJ, Aug. 20, 1974; NatJ, Dec. 7, 1974; WP, July 31, 1974; John Stender to Secretary Dunlop, March 14, 1975, OSH-1, Record Group 174, National Archive and Records Administration (RG174).
  19. NYT, Sept. 12, 1974.
  20. U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Oversight Hearings on OSHA, Washington, 1974, pp. A/132-133.
  21. DLR, April 22, 1975; OSHR, April 24, 1975.
  22. Public Papers of the President (Papers), Richard Nixon, Washington, 1974, p. 611.
  23. NYT, Sept. 17, 20, 1974.
  24. Journal of Commerce, Aug. 13, 1974.
  25. William Kilberg and John Stender to Sec. Dunlop, April 16, OSH-1, RG174.
  26. NYT, June 19, 1975; JSH, Nov. 1975.
  27. Later published as Crisis in the Workplace, Cambridge, MA, 1976.
  28. NYT, June 24, Aug. 19, 1975, March 17, 1976.
  29. OSHR, Aug. 14, 1975; Bert Concklin to Sec. Dunlop, July 1, 1975, OSH-1, RG174; Sec. Dunlop to Pres. Ford, Dec. 31, 1975, Morton Corn files, RG174 (Corn RG174).
  30. Issue paper, "Impact of OSHA Programs," July 7, 1975, OSH-1, RG174.
  31. JSH, Jan. 1976.
  32. NatJ, Dec. 27, 1975; JSH, Dec. 1975.
  33. WSJ, Dec. 9, 1975.
  34. DLR, July 10, 1975.
  35. NatJ, Dec. 27, 1975; U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on the Nomination of Morton Corn, Washington, 1975, p. 8.
  36. JSH, March 1976.
  37. Ibid.
  38. NatJ, Dec. 27, 1975.
  39. Ibid.
  40. Personal conversation with Morton Corn, Nov. 9, 1975.
  41. NatJ, Dec. 27, 1975.
  42. JSH, March 1976.
  43. Ibid.
  44. Ibid.
  45. Ibid.
  46. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor, Oversight Hearings on the OSH Act, Washington, 1975, p. 603; NatJ, Dec. 27, 1975; JSH, March 1976.
  47. NYT, Jan. 16, 23, March 4, 1976.
  48. NatJ, July 10, 1976.
  49. WSJ, June 11, 1976.
  50. Ibid.; NatJ, July 10, 1976.
  51. JSH, Feb. 1977.
  52. WSJ, March 9, 1976; NYT, March 4, 5, 8, 12, 1976.
  53. JSH, April 1976; WSJ, July 27, 1976.
  54. WSJ, May 25, 1976; George Meany to Sec. Usery, June 10, 1976, OSH-2, RG174.
  55. Sec. Usery to George Meany, June 28, 1976, OSH-2, RG174.
  56. "Status Report on OSHA," by Morton Corn, Jan. 12, 1977, Dept. of Labor Historical Office (DOL/HO); NYT, Dec. 20, 1976.
  57. WSJ, Feb. 9, 1977.
  58. WP, Feb. 12, Sept. 12, 1977; Detroit News, June 24, 1978; Oral History Interview with Eula Bingham (EB/Int), Jan. 5, 1981, DOL/HO.
  59. EB/Int; WP, Sept. 12, 1977.
  60. EB/Int; DOL/PR, March 11, 1977.
  61. Briefing, Bert Concklin, Feb. 2, 1977, OSH-1, RG174.
  62. DOL/PR, March 11, 25, 1977.
  63. EB/Int; "The Shift to Common Sense Priorities," OSHA, 1977; DOL/PR, May 19, 1977.
  64. EB/Int.
  65. NatJ, July 2, 1977; WSJ, June 21, 1977; Washington Star (WStar), July 20, 1977; WP, May 26, 1977.
  66. NYT, Feb. 19, 1978; U.S. News and World Report, Jan. 16, 1978.
  67. WSJ, Jan. 4, 1977.
  68. Eula Bingham to Sec. Marshall, March 11, 1977, OSH-1, RG174.
  69. NYT, May 9, 1977.
  70. Sec. Marshall, Speech before Federal Bar Association, April 29, 1977, DOL/HO.
  71. Papers, Jimmy Carter, Nov. 21, 1977.
  72. Baltimore Sun, July 18, 1977.
  73. Douglas Fraser to Sec. Marshall, July 19, 1977, OSH-2, RG174.
  74. Papers, Jimmy Carter, Aug. 5, 1977.
  75. Albert Nichols and Richard Zeckhauser, "Government comes to the workplace: an assessment of OSHA," The Public Interest, Fall, 1977.
  76. Edward F. Denison, "Effects of selected changes in the institutional and human environment upon output per unit of input," Survey of Current Business, Dept. of Commerce, Jan. 1978.
  77. Murray Weidenbaum, "On estimating regulatory costs," Regulation, American Enterprise Institute, May 1978.
  78. NYT, Aug. 3, Sept. 21, 1978, Aug. 20, Dec. 26, 1979.
  79. DOL/PR, Dec. 26, 1979; WSJ, Dec. 20, 1979; Enterprise, Dec. 1979.
  80. WSJ, Dec. 20, 1979; NatJ, March 15, 1980.
  81. NatJ, March 15, 1980; Congressional Quarterly Weekly, April 26, 1980; NYT, March 17, June 3, July 31, Aug. 28, 1980.
  82. DOL/PR, June 17, Sept. 26, Nov. 17, 1980, Jan. 16, 1981.
  83. WP, Nov. 23, 1980.
  84. EB/Int.
  85. Historical Interviews with Thorne Auchter (TGA/Int), Jan. 24, 27, March 14, 1984, DOL/HO.
  86. TGA/Int; U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on the Nomination of Thorne G. Auchter, March 9, 1981 (TGA/Hrgs), Washington, 1981.
  87. TGA/Int.
  88. Roger Whyte to TGA, March 20, 1981, OSH-2, RG174.
  89. TGA/Int; Papers, Ronald Reagan, Feb. 18, 1981.
  90. Nation's Business (NatBus), Aug. 1981; TGA/Int; DOL/PR, March 19, May 22, 26, Aug. 18, 1981, Feb. 2, 1983.
  91. NatBus, Aug. 1981; NYT, March 29, 1981.
  92. TGA/Int; TGA/Hrgs.
  93. TGA/Int; President's Report on Occupational Safety and Health (PresRep), 1981.
  94. NatBus, Aug. 1981.
  95. TGA/Int.
  96. Ibid.; Raymond Donovan (RJD) to Thorne G. Auchter (TGA), Nov. 3, 1982, ADM-6-2-1, RG174.
  97. TGA/Int; NYT, Nov. 28, 1982.
  98. TGA to RJD, June 23, 1982, ADM-3, RG174.
  99. NYT, April 18, 1983; PresRep, 1981.
  100. TGA to RJD, June 5, 1981, OSHA/Memo, RG174; WP, Dec. 7, 1982; DOL/PR, May 26, 1981, April 28, 1982.
  101. DOL//PR, May 14, 1982, Feb. 18, 1983; Chemical Marketing Reporter, Feb. 21, 1983.
  102. WP, Sept. 21, 1983; AFL-CIO News, Sept. 24, 1983; Kansas City Times, Oct. 25, 1983; RJD to Cong. James Scheuer, Sept. 20, 1983, OSH-1, RG174.
  103. WP, July 15, 1981; WStar, July 17, 1981; Conversation with TGA (ConvTGA), May 31, 1984.
  104. WP, Aug. 29, 1983.
  105. DOL/PR, March 26, Sept. 2, 1982; Mark Cowan to Donald Rosenthal, March 31, 1982, OSHA/Memo, RG174.
  106. TGA/Int; RJD to Christopher DeMuth, Jan. 26, 1982, LLS-7-1-2, RJD to TGA et al., May 18, 1982, LLS-7-1, RJD to TGA, Dec. 2, 1982, LLS-5, RG174.
  107. Chemical Week, May 25, 1983; Business Week (BusWk), June 27, 1983; WSJ, July 6, 1983.
  108. TGA/Int.
  109. DOL/PR, Jan. 27, 1982, April 15, 1983; WSJ, Sept. 23, 1981; WP, Jan. 7, April 16, Oct. 11, 1983; NYT, March 16, 1983.
  110. John C. Dott, Dec. 17, 1981, OSH-2, RG174; DOL/PR, Dec. 16, 1981, Feb. 24, 1983; WSJ, Dec. 17, 1981.
  111. NYT, Sept. 30, 1983; WP, Oct. 3, 1983.
  112. WP, Nov. 4, 1981; DOL/PR, Feb. 2, 1983, Feb. 29, 1984.
  113. DOL/PR, Jan. 13, Dec. 2, 1983; TGA/Int.
  114. TGA to Mark Cowan, June 10, 1983, OSH-1, RG174; William D. Ruckelshaus to RJD, Sept. 21, 1983, RJD reply, Oct. 11, 1983, OSH-1-1, RG174.
  115. DOL/PR, March 1, 1983; WP, Oct. 25, Dec. 17, 1982; Business Insurance, Sept. 12, 1983; ConvTGA.
  116. WSJ, Aug., 24, 1983; WP, Aug. 1, Oct. 6, Dec. 22, 1983; DOL/PR, Jan. 5, 1984; ConvTGA.
  117. DOL/PR, April 1, 1982, June 30, 1983.
  118. DOL/PR, Dec. 27, 1983; Dallas Time-Herald, May 11, 1983; WP, Dec. 30, 1983.
  119. DOL/PR, Nov. 12, 1982.
  120. DOL/PR, April 11, 1983, Feb. 16, 1984.
  121. Kansas City Star, Aug. 18, 1981; Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Dec. 29, 1983; Jacksonville, FL, Times-Union, Dec. 29, 1981; Household and Personal Products Industry, Dec. 2, 1982; WSJ, Nov. 17, 1983; James D. Pitcock to RJD, July 13, 1981, OSH-3, RG174.
  122. WSJ, April 22, 1981.
  123. UAW Solidarity, Aug. 1981.
  124. ABC-TV, Aug. 24, 1981.
  125. AFL-CIO News, May 29, 1982; Engineering News Record, June 10, 1982.
  126. Allentown, PA, Morning Call, Sept. 26, 1983.
  127. TGA/Int.
  128. Trenton, NJ, Evening Times, Nov. 23, 1982.
  129. Raleigh, NC, News Observer, Oct. 31, 1982.
  130. WP, Nov. 9, 1982.
  131. WP, Sept. 5, 1983; TGA to Ralph Nader, Sept. 26, 1983, DOL/HO.
  132. TGA/Int.
  133. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd et al. to RJD, Jan. 26, 1983, Sen. Arlen Specter, July 28, 1982, OSH-2, RG174.
  134. PresRep, 1981, 1982; POL/PR, Nov. 18, 1981, Nov. 17, 1982, Nov. 4, 1983; San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 18, 1982; WP, Nov. 7, 23, 1983, Jan. 2, 1984.
  135. DOL/PR, March 6, 1984. Auchter accepted the position of president of the B.B. Andersen Companies, a construction and development group located in Kansas. Controversy developed when it turned out that in 1981 he had dropped a proposed $12,680 penalty against one of the Andersen companies for safety violations. Critics accused him of accepting the job as a "quid pro quo." Auchter maintained that he was following a national policy of dismissing fines assessed by over-zealous inspectors and denied that there was any connection between dropping the penalty and accepting employment with Andersen almost three years later.