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Meeting" of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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STAFF MEETING
Wednesday, January 14, 1976
5:30 p.m.
Situation Room
Tod- -
Can I mention
your change?
yes
FORD & LIBRARY 071839
Nar Hullun
pm J mongres
AGENDA
Staff Meeting
January 14, 1976
1. A. State of the Union, 9
.m. Monday
B. Budget, 10 a.m. Wednesday
C. Ryan: Issues Book. Summaries with quotes
quickly of SOTU and Budget.
2. A. Cavanaugh: Deputy Assistant to the President.
B. Art Fletcher: Deputy Assistant
(1) Assistant Secretary, Labor Management
Consultant, Salesman, Teacher
(2) To sell President's program and the President.
(3) Cavanaugh to arrange for each of you to meet
and brief Art next week.
C. Art Quern: To take over Program and Policy areas.
D. Steve McConahey: Intergovernmental
E. Judy Hope: Associate Director for Transportation
,
TOR Aullin -
F. Warren Hendriks: To White House Staff to assist
Jerry Jones and Bill Nicholson in arranging
Cabinet appearances in behalf of the President
and his programs.
G. Judy Johnston: To take over much of what Warren
has been doing.
H. Spencer Johnson: Associate Director for Health,
Social Security and Public Assistance.
Art to give brief background on Spencer.
3. Daily News article (attached).
FORD is LIBRARY QERALD
WEDNESDAY,
Ford Mapping
Health-Control
Shift to States
D NATIONS BUILDING
OSED TO VISITORS
By JUDITH RANDAL
Washington, Jan. 13 (News Bureau)-Under
TO-DAY
a proposal that President Ford is expccted to
announce in his State of the Union message next
Monday, medicaid and about a dozen other federally
funded health programs would be turned over
4.6.45ST
entirely to the states, it was learned today.
The plan, which has not yet been worked out to the
last detail, would give the states about $10 billion in federal
block grants in the next fiscal year to spend as the states
see fit for almost all health programs that provide direct
services to people.
These include medicaid, com-
Does President Ford's proposal
munity mental health programs,
to shift federal programs to the
child immunization, family plan-
state represent a plan for na
ning, emergency care and pro-
tional action or is it aimed all,
Security was increased and visitors were
grams that deal with venereal
cutting Ronald Reagan down to
disease.
size? See Capitol Stuff, Page 4.
In time, the states could expect
to get more than the $10 billion
that is proposed for the next fis-
quire no approval from the
cal year, which begins Oct. 1, and
federal government, however.
Egyptian Amba
only in the field of drug abuse,
In particular, according to
excluding alcoholism, would the
these sources, Ford must have
federal government retain even a
modicum of control over how the
something with which to counter
Reagan's advocacy of a $90 bil-
money was spent.
lion cut in the federal budget
Israel's Boycot
The block-grant proposal is
through the elimination of social
seen by most informed sources
programs at tht federal level.
as evidence of President Ford's
The block-grant pronosal has
By RUSS BRA
been designed by the Office of
Staff Correspondents of TI
Management end Budget meet
United Nations, Jan. 13 Egyptian Amb
Proposed
this need.
the second day of the United Nations Security
Approval Termed Unlikely
with a denunciation of what he called Israel's "
Changes
"It doesn't matter if Congress
With the UN closed to the
will ever approve theplan, and
public because of bombs found
ganization's spokesman
undoubtedly it won't," one veter-
near the UN building and in
Khaddoumi, was acco
Washington, Jan. 18 (News
an official of the Department of
front of the Iragi mission,
treatment of a meml
Bureau)-Here is a provision-
Health, Education and Welfare
Meguid warned that Israeli's
al list of the health programs
said. "Whether it's feasible or
boycott of the debate would
again today, being seat
that would be turned over en-
not doesn't bother the adminis-
drive the Jewish state further
Security Council table,
tirely to the states if Congress
tration a bit. They just want to
into isolation. He also declared
UN member nations, tl
enacted President Ford' pro-
have something down on paper
that Israeli's "display of con-
Arab Emirates and Qa
posals:
to counter Reagan, and this is
tempt" for the Security Council
Medicaid
it."
would further erode Israeli's
seated to one side b
Lead-based-paint control
Nonetheless, the proposal is in
support in the world community.
President Salim Ahmed
Rat-control
the mainstream of the thinking
But he sounded a note of mod-
Tanzania.
Venereal disease control
that characterised the Nixon
eration by noting that "major
A Palestinian St
Alcoholism treatment and
administration and has also
Israeli politicians are criticizing
The PLO was seate
control
characterized Ford's.
Israeli's going into isolation.
council yesterday with
Immunization
Basic to this thinking is the
He recalled at statement by former
privileges of a UN me
Maternal and child health
belief that the flow of health
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
cept the right to vote. I
services
dollars from Washington has
Eban that 1975 has proved that
cotted the debate, refus
Family planning and birth
grown so large that, as one
time was not on Israeli's side
down with members of
control services
Nixon appointee who iis still in
and that 1976 would be even
ri lalgroup. The Unit
Neighborhood health centers
worse for Israel.
was the only council n
Community mental health
(Continued on page 76, col. 1)
The Palestine Liberation Or-
oppose PLO participati
centers
Migrant-health services
Emergency services
Treatment and rehabilitation
of those with mental and phys-
ical birth defects
More Tinkering in Angola Se
Comprehensive health facili-
ties planning
Support for routine public
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 13 (AP)-Wider American and Soviet invo
health services
in war-torn Angola was predicted by African diplomats today following the 0
-Judith Randal
tion of African Unity's failure to agree on a peace plan for the divided cour
In Washington, meanwhile, the
determination to beat Ronald
White House said that President
military airport of Toto, about
In reporting Ford's
Reagan for the Republican presi-
Ford will ask Congress next
100 miles northwest of Luanda,
seek Congressional app
capturing arms and 12 planes
Angolan aid, White Ho
dential nomination, rather than
week to lift a ban on American
with Zaire markings.
Secretary Ron Nessen
as a workable strategy for
assistance to two pro-Western
President still feels
health care.
The Organization of African
guerrilla groups in the West
Unity ended its emergency ses-
solution is a series of
Officials of the Department f
African nation which gained
sion here deeply split over
previously set.
Health, Education and Welfare
independence from Portugal last
whether to recognize the Popular
"These are ceasefire,
who were interviewed were
November.
Movement as the legitimate
somewhat sketchy as to exactly
all foreign intervention,
Officials of those two groups,
Angolan government or to com-
how the plan would work. But
drawal of all foreign f
they emphasized that states
the National Front and the Na-
mit itself to a three-sided coali-
a government of nation
would not be able immediately to
tional Union, and of the Soviet.
tion as requested by the two
in Angola," Nessén said
backed Popular Movement vowed
pro-Western groups.
drop federally funded programs
He added that Ford
already in place. Any elimination
to continue their civil war at the
Ford's Feeling
tinue to work through d
of such programs, they said,
conclusion of the three-day sum-
Diplomats conceded that the
channels to give a
would occur only after a transi-
mit of African leaders here.
failure was a humiliation for the
amount of assistance
tion period of several years.
In a dispatch from the Ango-
group, the first time in 12 years
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