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American Enterprise Institute" of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford
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Digitized from Box 45 of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
5:30 PM - - Presidential Meeting
American Enterprise
Institute (20 minutes)
Did not attend
Wednesday, May 7, 1975
(JML would like to
must w/ group at
another time .)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1975
FORD
LIBRARY
in
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEETING WITH BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
Wednesday, May 7, 1975
5:30 p.m. (30 minutes)
The Cabinet Room
From: William J. Baroody, Jr.
B
I.
PURPOSE
To discuss public policy issues generally and to compliment
Board on AEI contributions through its policy research efforts.
II.
BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS AND PRESS PLAN
A. Background: Your knowledge of and relationship to AEI
goes back many years. Bill Baroody, Sr., is its president;
Mel Laird is Chairman of AEI's National Energy Project; Bryce
Harlow is Chairman of its bipartisan Program Priorities Committee;
Paul McCracken is Chairman of its Advisory Board and Coordinator
of its academic affairs; and, though non-endowed as yet, its
impact and influence throughout academia, government, and the press
are increasingly being acknowledged. (A recent New York Times
story is attached.)
B. Participants: Officers and trustees, Chairmen of Advisory
Board, National Energy Project, Program Priorities Committee,
and Senior AEI staff members. (Lists attached)
C. Press Plan: David Hume Kennerly photo only.
III.
TALKING POINTS
1. I am particularly pleased to welcome you because my
association with AEI dates back to the early days. I can recall the
breakfast meetings when AEI would bring in a Murray Weidenbaum,
a Milton Friedman, a Paul McCracken, and other academic experts
to discuss particular policy problems and it was refreshing
to know that we weren't being lobbied. The intent was to help
and it was indeed helpful.
2. I like and have always liked the basic concept of the
American Enterprise Institute the effective competition of ideas.
Without it, as Paul McCracken and Bill Baroody keep insisting,
we cannot maintain a free society. And, in these days, there is
nothing more important facing us than to do just that keep a
free society here in the United States. Unless we do, freedom
cannot exist on this planet. That's what's at stake.
3. I find the work AEI is doing across the entire spectrum
of issues international and domestic of vital importance if we
are to have effective competition in the idea arena of policy making
in this country. The strides you have made in identifying and
mobilizing scholars who have the courage to think innovatively in
addressing the problems of today's and tomorrow's society are
impressive. We must find ways of intensifying, expanding and
accelerating the work of AEI because the non-doctrinaire, non-
ideological approach to problem solving is the only sure way to
achieve the better America we all seek.
4. I applaud the way you have been handling the National
Energy Project and, believe me, its studies like Ed Mitchell's
and Paul MacAvoy's for example, have been badly needed to get
some sanity into national thinking on our energy problem and
your related studies on the Middle East problem itself such as
Bob Pranger's work are extremely important if we are to achieve
a just peace in that area and assure the protection of our national
interest.
5. I am personally excited about your plans to form an AEI
Center on the Study of Government Regulation, which will provide a
concerted and sustained longer-range effort to cope with this vital
problem. You know where I stand on the need to unshackle the
productive energies of the private sector and I sincerely hope that
you can establish and adequately fund this proposed AEI Center.
6. Finally, let me come back to the basic AEI concept of
effective competition of ideas. Whether you are aware of it or not.
we have endorsed that idea in this Administration through the program
of the Public Liaison Office which a younger Bill Baroody heads up.
That program in which I am sure several of you have directly partici-
pated tries to insure that we have the direct benefit of varying points
of view on the many, many issues that confront us today.
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mr. Jack Steele Parker
Mr. J. F. Burditt
Vice Chairman of the Board
Chairman of the Board
General Electric Company
ACF Industries, Inc.
Mr. Richard J. Farrell
Mr. Edmund W. Pugh, Jr.
Vice President Law and Public Affairs
Vice President
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
Avon Products, Inc.
Mr. Charles T. Fisher III
Mr. Herman J. Schmidt
Vice Chairman of the Board
President
National Bank of Detroit
Mobil Oil Corporation
Mr. Richard D. Wood
Mr. Dean Fite
Vice President, Group Executive
Chairman
The Procter & Gamble Company
Eli Lilly and Company
Mr. Lewis E. Lehrman
TRUSTEES EMERITI
President
Rite Aid Corporation
Mr. Henry T. Bodman
Chairman of the Board (Ret.)
Mr. Raymond S. Livingstone
National Bank of Detroit
Visiting Professor
Florida Atlantic University
Mr. Carl N. Jacobs
Mr. William G. McClintock
Chairman (Ret.)
Senior Vice President
Hardware Mutuals
National Bank of Detroit
Mr. Robert W. Murphy
Mr. Richard Madden
Schiff, Hardin and Waite
President
Potlatch Corporation
Mr. Paul A. Miller
Chairman
Pacific Lighting Corporation
Mr. James E. O'Brien
Director and Vice-President
Standard Oil Company of California
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
Dr. W. Glenn Campbell
(AEI Program Adviser)
Director
Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace
Stanford University
Mr. Henry Fowler
(Member, AEI Program Priorities
Committee)
Goldman, Sachs & Company
Mr. Bryce Harlow
(Chairman, AEI Program Priorities
Committee)
Mr. Melvin R. Laird
(Chairman, AEI National Energy
Project)
Dr. Paul W. McCracken
(Chairman, AEI Advisory Board)
Senior Staff
Mr. William J. Baroody
President
Mr. Joseph G. Butts
Director of Legislative Analysis
Dr. William Fellner
Resident Scholar
Dr. Thomas F. Johnson
Director of Research
Mr. Gary Jones
Assistant to the President
for Administration
Dr. Edward J. Mitchell
Director of National Energy Project
Dr. Robert J. Pranger
Director of Foreign and
Defense Policy Studies
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1975
A Think Tank for Conservatives
By STIVEN RATTNER
The institute's 52 full-time
Institute staffers were
staff members coordinate the
particularly proud on receiv-
pointed out. Even Mr. Baroo-
efforts of 27 adjunct scholary
ing in 1972 a $300,000 grant
dy, who continually stresses
WASHINGTON-"There is
-mostly college professors
from the Ford Foundation,
A.E.J.'s position as an open
is
clear national need for
who work part-time for the
long a Brookings supporter.
forum, acknowledged that
Republican conservative
institute-who produce sev-
They took it as a demon-
people "find themselves more
stration that A.E.I. had been
comfortable in one place or
counterpart to Brookings,"
eral dozen policy studies a
accepted as belonging in the
another."
wrote former Presidential
year.
policy mainstream and being
One who is more comfort-
The Institute also runs a
able at A.E.I. is resident
speechwriter Pat Buchanan
'relevant and credible,' as
half-dozen major conferences
Robert J. Pranger, director of
scholar Gottfried Haberler,
to Richard M. Nixon in
each year, generally quite
broad in scope, such as the
foreign and defense studies,
who came to Washington aft-
March, 1970, "which can gen-
said.
er 35 years on the econom-
erate the ideas Republicans
Conference on World Oil
The policy studies appear
ics faculty at Harvard.
can use, [and] which can
problems on 1974; puts out.
unadorned five-by-eight-
Mr. Haberter, who calls
serve as a repository of con-
Public Policy Forums, tele-
inch pamphlets ranging from
himself a "conservative; in
vised by 370 stations, and
a scholarly way" urges fiscal
servative and Republican in-
offers a miscellany of lec-
and monetary restraint in
tellectuals."
tures, seminars and sympo-
10 to 200 pages in length.
the current recession in order