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The original documents are located in Box 43, folder "1975/03/18 - John T. Dunlop
Swearing In" of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 43 of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SWEARING IN OF
JOHN T. DUNLOP AS SECRETARY OF LABOR
TUESDAY-MARCH 18, 1975
2:00 P.M. - The East Room
From:
Terry O' DonnelloD
BACKGROUND:
John T. Dunlop was nominated as Secretary of Labor on February 8
and confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on March 6, 1975. He will
serve as the fourteenth Secretary of the Department of Labor. A
biographical sketch of the Secretary-designate is attached at TAB A.
You will greet the Secretary-designate and Mrs. Dunlop in the Red Room
and then proceed to the East Room where you will deliver remarks
before approximately 300 guests, including Members of the Cabinet,
Members of Congress, Administration officials, and relatives, friends
and associates of the Dunlops. Following your statement, Judge Charles
Fahy, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals of
the District of Columbia Circuit, will administer the oath, Secretary
Dunlop will deliver remarks, and you will invite the guests to proceed
to the State Dining Room for coffee and pastries.
There will be full press coverage of the East Room ceremony and no
press coverage of the informal reception. A list of platform guests is
attached at TAB B. A list of special guests seated in the front rows
is included at TAB C. Suggested remarks will be forwarded separately.
2.
SEQUENCE:
2:00 p.m.
You depart Oval Office and proceed to the
Red Room to greet Secretary-designate
and Mrs. Dunlop.
NOTE:
The platform guests (TAB B)
with the exception of Secretary-
designate and Mrs. Dunlop,
will have departed the Red
Room to take their standing
positions on the platform just
prior to your arrival at the
Red Room.
2:05 p.m.
Accompanied by Secretary-designate and
Mrs. Dunlop, you proceed to the East Room
center doors, pause for announcements, then
move to the platform near the East Wall.
You proceed directly to the podium.
To your left several feet from the podium will
be Secretary-designate Dunlop, then Mrs.
Dunlop, then Judge Fahy.
2:07 p.m.
YOU DELIVER YOUR REMARKS.
FULL PRESS COVERAGE
ATTENDANCE: 300
At the conclusion of your remarks, you ask
Judge Fahy to administer the oath, then move
to the Secretary's right as the oath is recited.
2:14 p.m.
Secretary Dunlop delivers remarks. At the
conclusion of his remarks, you join him at
the podium and invite the guests for coffee
and pastries in the State Dining Room.
NOTE:
The Marine Orchestra will
play as the guests move to the
State Dining Room.
3.
2:15 p.m.
You and Secretary and Mrs. Dunlop proceed
to the State Dining Room followed by the platform
guests and the seated guests. En route to the
State Dining Room, you may wish to greet
Congressional guests and other family members
seated in the front row.
INFORMAL RECEPTION
NO PRESS COVERAGE
NO RECEPTION LINE
2:30 p.m.
You depart the reception and return to the
Oval Office.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 8, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate John T. Dunlop,
of Belmont, Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Labor. He will succeed
Peter J. Brennan who
has
resigned.
Dr. Dunlop will continue as Coordinator of the President's Labor-Manage-
ment Committee and will serve as a member of the Economic Policy
Board.
Dr. Dunlop has taught economics at Harvard University since 1938 and
was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1973 and is
currently a Lamont University Professor. He was Chairman of the
Construction Industry Stabilization Committee from 1971 to 1973 and has
served as a member of the National Commission on Productivity since
1970.
For the last 25 years Dr. Dunlop has served on numerous Presidential
boards, panels, committees and commissions studying labor disputes and
has had a long association with the Labor Department dating back to
1938. During World War II, he worked with the National War Labor
Board, and was a consultant to the Office of Economic Stabilization and
the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. Since that time he
has served as a member or consultant to a number of State and
Federal organizations on matters relating to labor relations and economics.
Dr. Dunlop is the author and editor of a number of books and has made
contributions to other books as well as professional journals.
He was born in Placerville, California on July 5, 1914. He is married
to the former Dorothy Webb. They have three children and reside in
Belmont, Massachusetts.
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PLATFORM
President Ford
Vice President Rockefeller
Dr. John T. Dunlop
Mrs. Dorothy Dunlop (wife)
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Donahue (daughter & husband)
Judge Charles Fahy (to administer Oath)
Congressional Members:
a. (to be determined Monday by
Max Friedersdorf)
b. Dr. Dunlop's State & District:
Senator Edward W. Brooke
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Representative Thomas P. O'Neill
VIP (PREFERENTIAL SEATING)
- NOT ON THE PLATFORM
Family:
Mr. and Mrs. David Dunlop
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Dunlop
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Dunlop
Captain and Mrs. Roy Dunlop
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Dunlop
Mrs. Margaret Freeman
Lt. and Mrs. Gordon Haynes
Ms. Margaret Ann Porter
Mrs. Jeanie E. Porter
Ms. Linda Jeanie Porter
Mr. Charles Ovid Porter
Mrs. Charles Fahy
Cabinet Members:
Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Honorable William E. Simon
Secretary of Treasury
Honorable James R. Schlesinger
Secretary of Defense
Honorable Edward H. Levi
Attorney General
Honorable Rogers C. B. Morton
Secretary of the Interior
Honorable Earl L. Butz
Secretary of Agriculture
Honorable Casper W. Weinberger
Secretary of HEW
Honorable Carla A. Hills
Secretary of HUD
Honorable William T. Coleman
Secretary of Transportation
Honorable Philip W. Buchen
Honorable Robert T. Hartmann
Honorable John 0. Marsh, Jr.
Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
VIP (PREFERENTIAL SEATING)
Page 2
Former Secretarys of Labor:
Mr. Peter J. Brennan
Mr. George P. Shultz
Mr. W. Willard Wirtz
Mr. David A. Morse
Congressional:
Appropriate members to be determined on Monday
by Max Friedersdorf.
Labor Management Committee:
(Presidential Appointees)
Mr. I. W. Abel
President, United States Steelworkers
Mr. Murray H. Finley
President, Amalgamated Clothing
Mr. Frank E. Fitzsimmons
President, International Brotherhood
Mr. Paul Hall
President, Seafarers International
Mr. and Mrs. Lane Kirkland
Secretary/Treasurer - AFL-CIO
Mr. and Mrs. George Meany
President, AFL-CIO
Mr. Arnold Miller
President, United Mine Workers
Mr. Leonard Woodcock
President, International Union of
United Automobile, Aerospace and
Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Mr. Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.
Chairman, Bechtel Group of Companies
Mr. Richard C. Gerstenberg
Chairman, General Motors Corporation
Mr. John D. Harper
Chairman, Aluminum Company of America
Mr. Reginald H. Jones
Chairman, General Electric Company
Mr. R. Heath Larry
Vice President of the Board
Mr. Rawleigh Warner, Jr.
Chairman, Mobile Oil Corporation
Page 3
Mr. Arthur M. Wood
Chairman, Sears, Roebuck
Mr. Walter B. Wriston
Chairman, First National City Bank
Benjamin F. Bailor
Postmaster General