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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 9, folder \"Indochina Refugees - Clippings and\nPress Releases\" of the Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nSome items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted\nmaterials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials.\nThe Washington Post\nJUNE 15, 1975\ncover story:\nparade\nVignettes of\nVietnamese Refugees\nby Lloyd Shearer\nDigitized from Box 9 of the Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n7\nThe Washington Post\nPotomac\nSunday, June 8, 1975\nThe Tattoo Artist\nTry It!\nLast Exit From Saigon: A Tale of Rescue\nContents/Page 6\nChildren Celebrate\nTHE COLUMBUS, GA., LEDGER,\nFRIDAY, MAY 2, 1975\nArrival of 'Ba'\nBy LISA BATTLE\nyoungsters as they chomped\neverywhere.\"\nwere among the spectators\nvigorously.\nLedger Staff Writer\nNow the children were\nenjoying the children's per-\n\"I don't like,\" said Mme.\nsinging again. 'They talk\nformance. The two arrived\nThey pulled out the stops\nNgai, making a face.\nabout home and country,\nWednesday night with the\nShe said the children's first\nfor Madame Ngai.\ntheir homeland 'We love it\ndirector and Mrs. Tisdale.\nIn the grassy yard of Fort\nquestion after greeting her\nforever',\" said Mrs. Kinard.\n\" 'When we can come back\nBenning's Wilbur School\nMiss Vu Thi Chinh Thuc\nNguyen Van Tin spoke\nThursday, An Lac Orphanage\nto Saigon?\"\nand Nguyen Tan Tin, An Lac\nwarmly of the welcome he\nchildren. denced sang\n\"I say, 'You no happy\nassistants who fled as\nand the others have found in\n-THE SUNDAY LEDGER - ENQUIRER, APRIL 20, 1975\nTisdale, an An Lac board chair-\nBetty Had To Make\nman, treated the children at\nthe home in his free time when\nhe commanded the 1st Infantry\nDivision's medical battalion.\nHe backed his wife's mission\nEvacuation Attempt\nand flew to Los Angeles to join\nin caring for the children en\nroute here, but emphasizes it\nBy LISA BATTLE\nIn a white pantsuit, looking\nwas \"her show.\"\nentertaining children with\nLedger Staff Writer\nlike she was headed for a holi-\ndiarrhea, upset stomach and\n\"I'm quite proud of her. I\nday in Miami, Mrs. Tisdale\nother ailments. The ABC-TV\nlike what she does,\" he says.\nBetty Tisdale admits she\nflew from Columbus April 6,\ncrew worked right along with\nOne day last week a\ndidn't know she could bring a\nabout a week after starting her\nAir Force nurses and escorts\nreporter drove up to the pine\nSaigon, orphanage to Colum\ntn\ndi\nshaded Tisdale home and\nAn Lac Orphans'\n\"Mothers Day\"\n\"Whenever my spirits were unusually low, I\nwould get into my jeep after sundown and drive\nto the An Lac Orphanage where there was always\nlaughter.\"\n- Dr. Tom Dooley\nMadame Ngai Receives Kisses from\nAn Lac Orphans at Ft. Benning, Ga.\nFor 16 years, Mrs. Betty Tisdale has\nbeen loving and mothering the children\nof An Lac by long distance. Now she's\nbringing them home.\nLeft orphans by the decades of war in\nVietnam, the children have been living\nin the orphanage founded by the late\nDr. Tom Dooley and Madam Vu Thi\nNgai in 1954.\nHer love affair with An Lac began in\n1959 when she contacted the 34-year-old\nDooley at a New York hospital to volun-\nteer as a secretary.\nAfter his tragic death from cancer in\n1961, she decided to vacation in the lands\nDooley loved and served. She repeated\nthese visits annually in 1966 she stopped\nat An Lac, which means \"Happy Place.\"\nIt was to the children here that Mrs.\nTisdale became known as Coy My -\nMiss America - and Co Ngoan - Miss\nSweet. She did not forget the children\nand upon her return to America founded\nthe An Lac Orphanage Inc.\nLedger-Enquirer\nBetty and An Lac's Children\n\"An Lac\" Orphanage, Inc., 116 Nguyen Dinh Chieù, Saigon\n/ shall pass through\nRoute 1, Box 804\nWhitesville Road\nColumbus, Georgia 31904\nthis world but once.\nIf therefore,\nTelephone: 404-323-1616\n404-323-7771\nthere be any kindness\n/ can show,\nor any good thing\n/ can do,\nlet me do it now;\nlet me not defer it\nMOTHER'S DAY 1975\nor neglect it,\nfor / shall not pass\nthis way again.\nDear wonderful friend of An Lac\nBOARD OF DIRECTORS\nHonorary Chairman\nAs I try to write to you on this particular day, I am filled with mixed emotions of\nNorman Cousins\njoy, tears, happiness and sorrow. Perhaps you will understand these emotions as I relate\na bit of what has happened to An Lac\nto\nthe\nchildren\nChairman\nto\nMme.\nNgai\nand\nto\nme!\nPatrick D. Tisdale, M.D.\nExactly one month ago, I arrived at Fort Benning, Georgia with 219 children from\nVice Chairman\nAn Lac - that was the happiness part - but I had to leave 150 children - and Mme. Ngai\nMrs. Natahli Paine\nbehind, then. Perhaps I had better start at the beginning. Through your help in the past\nPresident\nyears or even just recently - we, all of us - had been able to be a part of helping the\nMrs. Betty Moul Tisdale\nchildren of An Lac have a better life. We were able to accomplish much in the years\nVice President\nsince Dr. Tom Dooley died. The children had better food, medical care and even showers,\nMiss Ina Balin\ntoilets and kitchens and dispensaries - but most of all, they had US they knew we loved\nMrs. David Brockman\nthem even though they were \"half a world away.\"\nMiss Norine Casey\nJohn Kopp\nOn April 1st, as I was sitting at my desk trying to answer your letters and send out the\nWayne McKinney, M.D.\nreceipts, the news and the television account of what was happening to Vietnam became\nJohn J. O'Leary\nominous. Suddenly, I knew that I could not sit by and not even try to save our children. I\nH. Stephen Spahn\nMrs. Frances Thompson\ndidn't know how I could do it - or whether it was even possible, but I knew I had to try.\nPhilip Woerner, M.D.\nMy first thought was to charter a plane - and the staggering cost of one - $257,000\nTreasurer\ndidn't deter me at all. Tom Dooley would find a way. But the news became more bleak and\nWilliam A. Lyman\nthe time became NOW, and I found that if I could be allied in a way with one of the seven\nSecretary\nrecognized agencies I could use the government airlift and fly the children back on govern-\nMrs. Lorna Stevens\nment planes so the closest agency was the Pearl S. Buck agency and I asked them if I\ncould use their name to help our children - and they said I could. Nothing signed no strings\nBOARD OF ADVISORS\nJohn McL. Adams, M.D.\nattached and I was on my way! I took with me a very dear friend of An Lac and Tom\nMrs. Melanie Barber\nDooley, Dr. Wayne McKinny, and an Army Captain, Ed Bensman. Ed spoke Vietnamese and\nMiss Eileen Beck\nwas one of the First Infantry Division - Big Red One - who had adopted An Lac many\nDavid Brockman\nAmbassador Ellsworth Bunker\nyears ago. Ina Balin, our Vice President, flew out from the Coast and arrived one day\nSenator Quentin N. Burdick\nearlier. My own dear family of ten children and husband, Dr. Pat, remained at home to\nMrs. Maureen Burke\nhandle the calls and details of \"what if the children do arrive\". In answer to that, we called\nMiss Melinda Burton\nMr. & Mrs. Donald Calaman\nour dear friends of the First Infantry - General Orwin Talbott and General DePuy - and\nMrs. Rosalie Carper\nthrough them, Secretary of the Army Bo Calloway gave me permission to bring the children\nMrs. Onolee Coffey\nto Fort Benning if I could get them out!\nBob Considine\nMrs. Norman Cousins\nBut\ncould I??? Not being one of the \"seven recognized agencies\" for adoption,\nMr. & Mrs. Richard Darragh\nMalcolm Dooley\nit did not seem likely, but that would not keep me from trying.\nMiss Teresa Gallagher\nMrs. Kathleen Gassaway\nI got as far as the Philippines when they bombed the palace in Saigon and we were held\nSenator & Mrs. J. K. Javits\nup there for 14 hours - making my arrival in Saigon that much later. But, I did arrive\nMiss Sharon Jenkins\nwith Wayne and Ed and there was Miss Thuc and Mme. Ngai waiting for me - had been\nMrs. Vern Jones\nMr. & Mrs. Robert Kaufman\nwaiting for 14 hours. We rushed to An Lac and amid cries of \"Co Betty\" \"Co Betty\" from\nMr. & Mrs. Mortimer Levitt\nthe children - with hugs and kisses and lots of baby cuddling I almost felt that there\nAmb. & Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge\nreally wasn't a war and I was there again \"just to be with them.\" But I soon realized that\nJohn O. Marsh\nBen Navarro\nmy time was short - the North Vietnamese were just 25 miles from Saigon and we were in\nWinfield Niblo, PhD.\ndanger. Mme. Ngai had already had Miss Thuc make up the list of ALL the children, plus\nFred F. Petmecky, M.D.\nthe domestic help and herself. Knowing Mme. Ngai, if she put herself on the list I knew\nCongressman Ogden R. Reid\nMiss Elizabeth Rutledge\nthat we had little time - and that she was in danger. Early the next morning, Ina and I\nMiss Margaret Rutledge\nrushed to Dr. Pham Quang Dan's office he was the Minister of Social Welfare. He re-\nMr. & Mrs. James Skrine\nmembered me from my February visit and quickly insisted that I tell him of my plans. I\nMr. & Mrs. Edward A. Stevens\nMrs. Richard Thibaut, Jr.\nshowed him the list and he sadly shook his head. \"No\" - and my heart fell. But it was \"No\"\nSenator Milton R. Young\nto all those over ten years old - and \"No\" to Mme. Ngai. We sat there stunned. We\npleaded with him, but at that time - April 8 and 9 there was still hope that America would\nhelp that perhaps South Vietnam would survive. His reasoning for Mme. Ngai was that\nshe was very important and to have her leave with the children would panic the other orphanages and there would\nbe no control. As a special favor to me - knowing I wasn't an agency he still consented for the children under ten,\nand did not insist that prior adoption papers be filed. This was the first and only time he gave this permission. He knew\nof our work - he knew that we you and I - were primarily interested in helping the children of Vietnam to become\nbetter citizens of the future of Vietnam. We were not and never ever were in the \"adoption\" or exporting of their nation's\nfuture. For this, he was extremely grateful.\nWe rushed back to An Lac and Miss Thuc and Mr. Tin revised the list over 200 children. All night long, Ina and\nI\nmade\nidentification\ntags\nand\nbracelets and the next morning took the new list to Dr. Dan - within minutes, he stamp-\ned it and we were off to the USAID office. Mr. Ruoff helped us make plans for the airlift. I asked him if we could go\non Saturday (this was Thursday) and he said we would have to leave the next morning at 11 A.M. We would have two\nC-141 planes and we had to provide escorts. We agreed to everything and anything and rushed to the Embassy to sign\nmore papers and work throughout the night tagging all the children. The next morning - with little or no sleep - the\nchildren bathed - and the INK RAN ON THE I.D. Bracelets. Frantically we had to redo them with radio, TV and\nnewsmen on our backs. I can't tell you the nervous state we were in - and all through it, Mme. Ngai sat - tears stream-\ning down her cheeks still looking as regal and beautiful as ever - but knowing that she was doomed to die under\nCommunism. I didn't know then that she had bought poison to take.\nIn the maddest rush you have ever seen, four bus loads of children left to take the first plane. Ed Bensman went with\nthem. They were most of all the toddlers and five, six and seven year olds. Then, two hours later, we took the babies -\n67 of them and the older children. Just as I was to get on the plane Ambassador Martin called the airport - to wish me\nwell, to thank me and to make one last plea for help. To me, he was a great man - one with a heart - with love for the\nchildren and the people of Vietnam. He thanked Senator Javits for helping me, and the other Senators and Congressmen\n- Nunn, Brinkley, Morgan and the hosts of others - for they all did. And then, the babies - in boxes - were strapped\nto the floor of this huge cargo plane and we were off. Ina, Wayne, Ed and myself - we did it - we evacuated An Lac\nof every child under ten. (I must admit, some of the ten year olds \"looked\" a little older - but I won't tell, will you ???)\nFrom Clark Air Force Base where the children were bathed and clean clothes arranged - we flew to Los Angeles.\nI do want to say that the Air Force - from Saigon to Clark in the Philippines - helped more than you can ever imagine.\nTo see a big Air Force sergeant feeding not one, but two babies at one time, is a sight to behold - and then the Navy\ntook over in Los Angeles. Pat was there with the United Airlines plane he had to charter for $21,000. And we whisked the\nchildren and babies over to it for the last part of our journey - to Fort Benning. Unfortunately, about 38 of our babies\nwere kept in 8 different hospitals in Los Angeles. I say unfortunately, because we had doctors aboard the World Airways\nplane from Clark to Los Angeles and it was not all necessary, but the local doctors did not listen to the doctors that were\nwith the children across the Pacific and hence the reason for so many of the babies being kept out there.\nI suppose I should keep this short, but to all of you who have helped An Lac for so many years - I would want to\ntalk to you all in person - in fact, I would want to write each and every one of you a personal, personal letter, but at\nthe moment, I feel I owe you this type letter first.\nTo say that my arrival - with Ina Balin - at Fort Benning - Saturday night, April 12 was the most gratifying mo-\nment of my life - 219 children - within two and one half days - the children of our beloved An Lac, is of course, an\nunderstatement. I wish all of you could have been with me at that moment. I think all of Columbus, Georgia was there\n- including my own sweet ten children and I knew then, as I have always known, that Tom Dooley was my guiding\nspirit, my link with God - that we were in America - the land of the free! My beloved country.\nStaff Photo Lawrence Smith\nActress Ina Balin (L), Mrs. Tisdale Hold Babies on Arrival at Ft. Benning\nThe children were taken to Wilbur School and each given a volunteer to help them, to love them. The school was\nchanged over to another An Lac. The Army was there, and all was well with the world. Only one flaw and that was the\nPearl Buck Foundation who had harrassed me across the Pacific and even now at Fort Benning, knowing that I had had\nno sleep for four days, insisted on \"taking custody\" of the children. Since Mme. Ngai had released them to me, I would\ncertainly not give them to any organization - especially after their tactics and background. So, in the next four days after\narrival I had to legally fight them off and the U.S. Government sent a lawyer and representative and it was legally agreed\nthat the Pearl S. Buck Foundation would be absolved of all custody of the children. I then invited the Tressler Lutheran\nAdoption Agency of York, Pennsylvania to help in the placement of the children.\nIn the meantime - my heart and thoughts were with Mme. Ngai - how could I get her out PPPI got a call through\nto Ambassador Martin. His secretary listened and said she would see that Mme. Ngai, Miss Thuc and Mr. Tin (orphans\nwho had been with her in North Vietnam and were still at An Lac, helping) would be on the evacuation list. Would I\nContiuned on Back Page\nsend\nher\na cable I did, and also sent one to Mme. Ngai. And then, nothing I made plans then to fly to Saigon to\nget Mme. Ngai - but I called again. Don't come - this from the Embassy - and I became frantic - for if I flew over,\nshe might be on her way out. So another day passed, then on April 27 at 5 A.M. I received a call - from Guam - it was\nMr. Tin - Mme. Ngai was there safe could I come to get them PPPI was on a plane at 1:45 P.M. that day and\narrived in Guam at 3 A.M. on Tuesday - - Guam time.\nGuam was quiet that early Tuesday morning - and I finally found Mme. Ngai with the help of a lovely Navy wife,\nPeggy Dockins. She had located Mme. Ngai for me and drove me to the refugee camp. Dawn was streaking through\nwhen\nI\narrived the camp was awakening - I climbed the steps of an old warehouse building - and there on the\nsecond floor - on an Army cot - sat beautiful Mme. Ngai - holding out her arms to me. I could not believe that I had\nfound her - that we - you and I would see her again. A hole had been cut out of the side of the building for air.\nBreakfast was baked beans, hot dogs and rice. But not one person complained - it was a beautiful sight. I immediately\nstarted my talks with the Immigration people. No - they were not \"blood relatives\" - which meant that I had to wait\nfor them because that put them at the bottom of the lists - so I just said I would go over his head and that I did! Within\n18 hours we were at the airport - with a couple of hundred other refugees - on our way HOME.\nGuam - Hawaii - Camp Pendleton - Long Beach Naval Station - Los Angeles - Atlanta - and Columbus, Georgia.\nMme. Ngai was in her new home. She is now here, living with us - same address. She says we have given her her second\nlife. A long time ago, in 1954 - Dr. Tom Dooley saved her and helped her get from Haiphong, North Vietnam to Saigon,\nSouth Vietnam - and now - here she is - half a world away - in our country.\nIt is a beautiful story - perhaps it is not ended yet. One hundred and fifty children were left behind. A list of those\nchildren was given to another orphanage. An orphanage who had a possibility of getting on a ship. All the ships have\nnot arrived - will yet another miracle take place - perhaps we shall see the rest of the children of An Lac - it is up to\nGod - our prayers may again be answered.\nWe want to have Mme. Ngai, Thuc and Tin live with us - but be independent. That is why we want to buy her her\nown little place and put it right here in our front yard. An Lac - in Saigon - is no more. I will not be raising funds\nanymore. I am closing my files after 14 years. I will not need your help. I can only say that without you, nothing would\nhave been possible. Tom Dooley used to say that he was the hands - YOU were the heart, and that was how it always\nwas. To say thank you to friends is awfully hard to do - for thank you just doesn't seem like enough. Know only that\nyou are beautiful, loyal and true - and that we love you very, very much. Don't completely forget us - and if you can, you\nmight want to write to Mme. Ngai on special occasions. She has no income at all and if you want to help her now and\nthen, please do. Our home is open for visits from you. All I can say now is - the circle is complete, from Tom Dooley,\nto Mme. Ngai, to me to you. God love you forever.\nBetty\nP.S. Your most recent contribution of $\nwas received. Would you accept this as your receipt? And\nwe can still use green stamps to help furnish Mme. Ngai's house.\nYour Contributions Are Deductible For Income Tax Purposes\nDr. Pat Tisdale at End of Airlift at Ft. Benning\nThe Happy Ending\nThe Cleveland Press, Tuesday, May 20, 1975\nPAGE B9\nFord calls on Minor George\nto help resettle refugees\nClevelander Minor H. much help aiding the refu-\nFormer Ambassador John\nGeorge set foot in his first gees, his wife said today.\nEisenhower, son of the late\nPresident Dwight D. Eisen-\nTHE PLAIN DEALER, TUESDAY, MAY 20. 1975-\nFord selects\nGeorge for\nrefugee help\nMinor H. George. vice\nchairman of the Cuyahoga\nCounty Republican party,\nhas been named to a presi-\ndential advisory committee\nto hate refusces\n38 'Air Force Times JUNE 11, 1975\n'Record for Putting Up Tents'\nRefugee\nReport\nLogistician Likens Project\nMarines seemed to accept the\nTo Mobilizing a Division\nlong hours and hard work with a\nminimum of grumbling.\nSome dependents, however, re-\nBy LEE EWING\nEach refugee is given two or\nsented the demands placed on\nTimes Staff Writer\nthree blankets and a Marine\ntheir spouses.\nfield jacket, and many wear\nSome wives don't like their\nCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -\nseveral layers of donated cloth-\nmen working around Viet-\nAmid the rolling hills of scrub\ning to keep warm. The Salvation\nnamese women, a Marine said.\nbrush not much different from\nArmy and other agencies pro-\nSexual competition as well as\nIm\nTUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1975\nThe New York Times\nVietnam Refugees Here Find Main Task Is Getting Jobs\nBy ARI L. GOLDMAN\nAn elderly Vietnamese\nman, thinking in piasters,\ngave a vender a $10 bill\nfor a soda and asked if that\nwas enough. A Vietnamese\nwoman out on a walk around\nDATE\nSTATE - A.I.D. - USIA\nROUTING SLIP\n7/29/75\nTO:\nOrgan.\nInitials\nDate\nName or Title\nSymbol\nRoom No. Bldg.\n1.\nDr. Theodore Marrs\n2.\n3.\n4.\n5.\nApproval\nXX\nFor Your Information\nNote and Return\nAs Requested\nInitial for Clearance\nPer Conversation\nComment\nInvestigate\nPrepare Reply\nFile\nJustify\nSee Me\nFor Correction\nNecessary Action\nSignature\nREMARKS OR ADDITIONAL ROUTING\nFROM: (Name and Org. Symbol)\nROOM NO. & BLDG.\nPHONE NO.\nFrank Daniel\nPresident's Advisory Committee on Refugees\nFORM JF-29 (Formerly Forms DS-10, AID-5-50 & IA-68)\n3 - 68\nHouston Post\nThurs. July 24,\nReference\nRefugees reject offers\nto leave camp security\nWASHINGTON (AP) - Increasing\nAnother witness before the committee\nnumbers of Vietnamese and Cambodian\nwas Julia Vadala Taft, director of the\nrefugees are rejecting offers of sponsorship\nInter-Agency Task Force on Refugees, the\nand refusing to leave the security of reset-\nagency actually carrying out the move-\ntlement camps, the President's Advisory\nment of 130,000 refugees into American\nCommittee on Refugees was told Wednes-\nlife.\nday.\nShe reported that of the 130,000, some\n69.000 remain in camps in the United\n181 rois lofered refre J licouse a 7eak\nB-2.\nThe Washington Star\nSunday, May 18, 1975\nof the Prs's Cal al\nis\nFORD, ROLIERARY B. oliol 4/2\nBETTY BEALE\nit\nGERALD\nAngel of Mercy to Refugees\n2,000 or more Cambodian\nthe countryside, supplying\nShe was twice decorate\nSometime tomorrow\nrefugees will try to em-\nthem with the material to\nby the Khmer Republic fo\nmorning Camp Pendleton,\nbrace her. Most of them\nbuild their own huts and\nher courage.\nCalif. will be invaded by a\nwant to find a new life in\ngrow their own food.\nShe went back tw\n5-foot-21/2 dynamo of effi-\nor around Washington just\nAID contributed money\nmonths ago to take $3,50\nciency cloaked in feminine\nto be near her. And it's not\nand a lot came from the\nand some medicines fo\ncharm and Italian pul-\nsurprising when you learn\nGerman and Italian gov-\n100 who had been hit b\nchritude. Her name is\nwhat this captivating bun-\nernments, the Catholic\nrockets. but after flyin\nGaetana M. Enders\n3328 Reservoir Road\nWashington, D.C. 20007\nJune 3, 1975\nDr. Theodore C. Marrs\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nfor Human Resources\nThe White House\nDear Ted,\nAs we discussed this morning, I would like to give\nyou an outline of the activities I plan in the next few\nweeks to assist individual refugee families in resettle-\nment efforts. These, I feel, will not conflict with my\nrole as a member of the President's Advisory Committee\nbut, to the extent they may be complimentary to that role\nI would appreciate your advice and an occasional assist\nwhere it would not prove burdensome.\nI appreciated your very frank discussion of the\nCommittee's functions as you see them. While I per-\nsonally think -- as you know --- that the Committee's\nmandate could and should be expanded, I can under-\nstand your concerns, and agree that efforts to assist\nindividuals and families, worthy though these may be,\nshould not be allowed to detract from the Committee's\nbroader function of advising the President as to new\noverall policies and programs which could raise the\neffectiveness of the refugee resettlement program as a\nwhole.\nAt the same time I must be equally frank in telling\nyou that, in my opinion, it is only through active in-\nvolvement in individual resettlement programs that mem-\nbers of the Committee can maintain the background neces-\nsary to advise the President properly on the progress\nof this important endeavor. While the Committee may\nbe primarily advisory, the members must, I feel, con-\ntinue to pursue an operational role not connected with\ntheir status as members of the Committee. In addition\nto its advisory role, the Committee should also serve\nas an active catalyst, bringing together the experience\nof its members and using this to encourage and facilitate\nthe work being done by the various relief organizations.\n- 2 -\nOur interest, presumably coincident with that expressed\nby the President, should be to help existing organizations\nin solving the refugee \"problem\" as rapidly, humanely\nand effectively as possible.\nIn addition to my work on behalf of individual\nrefugees I have, as you know, also addressed the broader\nissues. In the Committee I have offered suggestions\nsuch as the proposal to look at the possibility of on-\nsite pretraining programs tailored to fit the job needs\nof individual geographic areas of our country, which we\ndiscussed this morning. In addition I have sought, as\na member of the Committee, to publicize through television\ninterviews, newspaper articles and the like, the whole\nscope of the refugee problem and what the Administration,\nand private organizations, are doing about it. I think\nthis is particularly valuable, both to let the public\nknow that the Administration is doing something, and to\nencourage sponsorship, as well as to generate more public\nsupport for other ways of reaching the President's stated\ngoal of welcoming these people into our society.\nAs you know, I am somewhat hampered in these efforts\nby having no organizational \"home base\" to provide\nneeded administrative backstopping. I agree that it\nwould be inappropriate for the Committee or its staff\nto get involved in my own personal efforts to aid indivi-\ndual refugees, and hope to find support for this among\nthe various refugee organizations with which I deal. At\nthe same time, however, in some cases it might be diffi-\ncult for these organizations to justify devoting even\na small part of their scant resources to broader tasks,\nwhich they might see as being of no direct application\nto their specific effort. In this latter area, as I\nalso mentioned this morning, I would hope you, Roger\nSemerad and his staff might be able occasionally to help\nme in accomplishing some of these \"Committee-connected\"\ntasks.\nI will be very grateful for any comments or sugges-\ntions you may have, either on the above ideas or on the\nprogram I attach; I hope I can count on you as we dis-\ncussed for occasional, minor facilitative services, which\nI would clear with Roger on each occasion, in connection\nwith my work as a member of the President's Advisory\nCommittee.\nSincerely,\netavia\nGaetana M. Enders\nC.C. Roger Semerad\nGaetana M. Enders\n3328 Reservoir Road\nWashington, D. C. 20007\nJune 3, 1975\nMr. Roger Semerad\nExecutive Director of the\nPresident's Advisory Committee\non Refugees\nThe White House\nDear Roger,\nAfter my talks with you, and with Ted Marrs this\nmorning, I have written to him to clarify what I hope\nto do as a member of the Committee (copy attached).\nHere is my program of work for the weeks to come.\n--- Apart from the trip to Camp Pendleton and San\nFrancisco, I will try to arrange appearances on tele-\nvision shows and in particular on Barbara Walters'\nprogram. Enclosed is the draft of a letter I would\npropose to send to her, unless you object and would be\nvery grateful if you could have it typed. (This is the\nsort of letter I think might be appropriate for me to\nwrite in my role as a Committee member: hence my thought\nthat it should be done on White House stationery).\n--- Also to contact the following women who I\nthink might respond to our need for sponsors and for\nother forms of support for the Refugee resettlement;\nLady Bird Johnson, Margaret Hecler: House of Represen-\ntatives, Massachusetts, Lois Smith: Pickwick, Public\nRelations Firm, Margaret Mead: National Museum of\nHistory, Lindy Boggs: House of Representatives (New\nOrleans), Barbara Jordan: House of Representatives\n(Texas), Clair Booth Luce: (Hawaii), Mrs. David\nEisenhower, Helen Thomas: White House Correspondent,\nAPI, Gloria Steinheim: Ms. Magazine, Marietta Tree,\nNancy Kissinger, Mary McGrory: Washington Star: Pulit-\nzer prize: compassionate reporter, Millicent Fenwick:\nHouse of Representatives, Ellen Straus: New York, (Mrs.\nPeter R. Straus Riverdale, New York), (national women's\nvolunteers in U.C. \"Call of Action).\n- 2 -\nI would appreciate very much if someone could help me\nin getting telephone numbers and addresses.\n--- Using some of my husband's contacts, I plan\nto get in touch with George Shultz in San Francisco\n(Bechtel and the possibilities of training a group of\nrefugees in the area, Fred Dent (textiles) and Chuck\nPercy (Bell and Howell). I have already contacted\nMcBundy in New York and he has been responsive pro-\nvided we feed him with an accurate percentage of pos-\nsible candidates for grants.\nOn the Committee I plan to work as hard as possi-\nble, not only in the Public Relations area, but also\nin trying to get more training and educational facili-\nties for the refugees (for example --- contact the group\nof Deans of Women's Colleges and other intellectual\ngroups).\nI hope all this is within the limits of my man-\ndate.\nI think today's meeting was very encouraging as\nmembers of the Committee seemed very committed and\nresponsive.\nVery sincerely,\nGaetana M. Enders\nOfficer Fi\nartment of\nLos Angeles Times\n31\nWed., May 7, 1975-Parti -\nng forward\nie,\" he said.\nCar-Hits at--\nStates.\n\"He had been in Saigon six or seven\nyears. I understand he was not mar\nant adminis-\nried and had no close relatives\" the\nThought Pipst, said that\nspokesman said.\nembers had\nToward Him gon. One of\nNghiep said Baughman simply de->\ncided that he belonged at the hospi-\nvas left in\ntal, regardless of the government in\nJames Thompson, 2\npower.\npolice officer assigne about 29, a\n\"He felt very strongly that he must\ndivision, was not Loma Linda\nremain. He was very interested in\nsmall foreign car } not known\nhelping out the homeless street boys\nnight. him as he drove tc n the United\nin Saigon,\" Nghiep said.\nHe said its drive\nblinked headlights I\nwent up Sepulveda E\nSegundo.\nit corners with\nWAITING- Saigon Adventist Hospital employes and, relatives on cots of Loma Linda University gym:\nWhen he stopped\nTimes photo by Joe Kennedy\nBlvd. for a signal, sai\nthought he heard a sh\nIS COUPONS\nSaigon Hospital Staff Nowin Loma Linda\ncar swerved around\nman in the passenger\nry living purpose!\nhim with what looked\nAdventists Bring Out Aides, Families, Including 388 Refugees\nCOUPON COX\nThompson, who h\nBY ED MEAGHER\nbeen put up in the domed university\nCircus style tents were donated and\nforce four years, dre\nOLYMPIC CAMERA\nTimes Staff Writer\ngymnasium, bedded on cots.\npitched next to the gym for use as\nrevolver and begar\nIt was in operation only a little\ntwo\nthe\ndining areas. A kitchen was set. up,\nshots went into his\nMinolta 16-QT Pocket-Size Camera.\nBut the future appears a bit bright-\nmore\nthan\nyears\nbut\nSaigon\nMini\nRefugee file\nTHE CHRISTIAN S\nCSM 7/24/75\n\"First the blade, then the ear,\nThe Monitor's view\nWhy the lag on-refugees?\nThe thousands of Southeast Asian refugees\nity of military bases. As winter approaches,\nwho fled their homelands in the face of\nthose used to the tropical climate will be even\ncommunist take-over have slipped from public\nless inclined to leave camps in California and\nview. And while some of the bureaucratic\nthe South for Northern communities.\nhang-ups which attended initial efforts to\nThe government has relied too much on\nresettle the refugee families in the United\nvolunteer. agencies. It should more actively\nStates have abated, more than half the 131,000\nencourage Americans to participate and de-\nVietnamese and Cambodians in the refugee\nvelop its own mechanism for matching quali-\n\"pipeline\" remain in U.S. military camps.\nfied sponsors to refugees. Visible leadership\nThe federal government is pushing to empty\nof the kind President Ford initially expressed,\nR fill\n5 NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1975\nRefugees Panel, After Vague Start, Seeking to Speed Resettlement\nBy LINDA CHARLTON\nstates. Maine has indicated ia\nJune 8. The Massachusetts\nprocessed for repatriation here\nfacility, and the remaining 265\nsimilar willingness to stand as\nDemocrat had accused the task\nby United Nations representa-\nare scattered in refugee centers\nSpecial to The New York Times\nWASHINGTON, June 18-A\na sponsor for refugees.\nforce of exposing numbers of\ntives, a senior. State Depart-\nelsewhere in the United States,\nThere are other plans, he\nrefugees to the dangers of ty-\nment official has said.\nNick Thorne, head of the Inter-\nmonth àgo, with a plea for\nphoons on Guam.\nThe refugees seeking repatri-\nagency Task Force here, said\nspeed, President Ford set up\nsaid. A number of what Mr.\nyesterday.\na citizens' advisory commission\nSemerad would describe only\nCAMP PENDLETON, Calif.,\nation are all South Vietnamese\nto help with the resettlement\nas \"important national figures\"\nJune 18 (AP)-A total of 355\nexcept for one Cambodian.\nGIVE FUN TO A CHILD\nIndochinese refugees will be\nNinety are at this Marine\nGIVE FRESH AIR FUND\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 1, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\n&\nFORD\nSTATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\nI am saddened and disappointed by the action of the House of Representatives\ntoday in rejecting assistance to the refugees from South Vietnam.\nThis action does not reflect the values we cherish as a nation of\nimmigrants. It is not worthy of a people which has lived by the philosophy\nsymbolized in the Statue of Liberty. It reflects fear and misunderstanding,\nrather than charity and compassion.\nDespite the House vote, I believe that in this tragic situation the\nAmerican people want their country to be guided by the inscription on the\nStatue of Liberty:\n\"Give me your tired, your poor\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore,\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door.\"\nAfter World War II, the United States offered a new life to 1,400,000\ndisplaced persons. The generosity of the American people showed again\nfollowing the Hungarian uprising of 1956 when more than 50,000 Hungarian\nrefugees fled here for sanctuary. And we welcomed more than a half million\nCubans fleeing tyranny in their country.\nNow, other refugees have fled from the Communist take-over in Vietnam. These\nrefugees chose freedom. They do not ask that we be their keepers but only,\nfor a time, that we be their helpers.\nSome members of the House of Representatives apparently voted against the\nlegislation to assist the refugees because of a section relating to evacuation\nfrom South Vietnam. The evacuation is complete.\nI urge the members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate to\napprove quickly new legislation providing humanitarian assistance to the\nSouth Vietnamese refugees. To do otherwise would be a repudiation of the\nfinest principles and traditions of America.\n#\n#\n#\nSusan Jacoby\nThe New Immigrants\nIf the hostile reaction to the arrival\ndiately in his or her native land. This\nof Vietnamese refugees in the United\ndefinition would have excluded many\nStates proves anything, it is the diffi-\nof the East European and Russian\nculty Americans have in learning from\nJews who arrived here between 1880\ntheir own history.\nand 1924, most of the displaced per-\nA Martian reading the newspapers\nsons after World War II, a. large ma-\nor watching television would find it\njority of the Cubans as well as Jews\ndifficult to believe that this country who have recently emigrated from the\nhas had any experience with immi-\nSoviet Union. By custom and by Amer-\ngrants or political refugees. It may be\nican law, a refugee is anyone who\nasking too much to expect Americans\nmight be persecuted because of race,\nto remember how many of their fore-\nreligion or political beliefs. After mis-\nbears arrived just one jump ahead of\njudging the situation in Vietnam for 30\nhostile European rulers or mobs in the\nyears, it is the height of arrogance and\nhypocrisy for Americans to pass judg-\nment on the question of who should\nSusan Jacoby is writing a book on\nhave stayed in Saigon.\nrecent immigrants to the United\nAmerican history not only offers a\nStates\nproper definition of a political refugee\nbut it suggests guidelines for helping\nthe refugees after they arrive. The\nfirst 300,000 Cubans arrived between\n19th century abut there are more re\nJan. 1, 1959, when Fidel Castro took\nRefugees: News\n13\nNEWS\nRefugees Could End Up in Indian-Type Reservations\nThe civilian coordinator of the largest U.S. refugee\ncamp for Vietnamese says that one of three options being\nconsidered by the federal government for handling the\nrefugee situation could lead to \"Indian reservations\" for\nlower class, unskilled Vietnamese. Donald MacDonald said\none of the options under consideration, which he called\nthe \"least desirable, \" was to send unskilled refugees to\na single encampment.\nMacDonald made his observations in a memorandum\ncirculated among officials at Ft. Chaffee and Washington.\nHe said non-government volunteer agencies should be\nresponsible for relocating Vietnamese refugees. A State\nDepartment official denied that the government was considering\nputting refugees in \"Indian-type reservations. \"--UPI (5/25/75)\nas\non\nbarrel.\nnational assembly in Hanoi,\nstressed that the study\nshale and developing gas\nThe lower figu\nPham Van Dong spoke of\nwould not create a further\nand oil from coal.\neach barrel of n\nwould cost if pri\nwere removed 0\nGearing Up for Refugees\nconsumer advoc\nNader. The $445\noffered by Sen.\nJackson, D-Wa\nBy Calvin.Zon\nSponsorship, said Van\nactive local agency in find-\ntestified before 1 8\nWashington Star Staff Writer\nWagoner involves a moral,\ning such sponsors, recently\nCommerce sube\nLocal governments and\nas opposed to a legal, obli-\nbegan encouraging its par-\non consumers,\nsocial service agencies are\ngation to provide food, shel-\nish churches to become\nseeking to deter\njust beginning to come to\nter, medical care and pock-\nsponsors.\nFord's plan to bo\ngrips with the need to pre-\net money and to assist in\nRepresentatives of more\nprices would as\npare for the influx of an\nfinding a job, He said spon-\nthan a score of private and\nsumers.\nestimated 20,000 Viet-\nsorship might last for \"a\npublic social service agen-\nJackson repe\nnamese refugees expected\ncouple of weeks to a year,\"\ncies in Fairfax County\nestimate that t.\nto settle in the Washington\nlargely depending on how\ngathered at the County Of-\ndent's program W\narea over the next several\nlong it takes to obtain em-\nfice Building yesterday to\nenergy costs by $2\nmonths.\nployment. So far about 25\ndiscuss ways to assimilate\nyear, but would b\nHousing, employment,\nVietnamese families are\nthe refugees.\nonly 50 million 1\nand special language in-\nbeing placed in area homes\nMost heads of refugee\nnew domestic oil\nstruction are among the\nthrough his organization,\nfamilies have professional\nafter two years.\nsaid\nVan\nwhich\nRefugees: News\nN-11\nNEWS\nL. Dean Brown Resigns as Refugee Director\nFormer State Department official L. Dean Brown resigned\nThursday night as head of the federal inter-agency task force\ncoordinating refugee resettlement. Brown had said he did not\nwant to remain in the position any longer than necessary,\nBarry Serafin (CBS) reported.\nDeputy Assistant HEW Secretary Julia Taft, who has already\nset up an independent HEW task force to consider long-range\nrefugee problems, will now head the inter-agency group. --CBS\n(5/23/75)\n107 Refugees at Fort Chaffee Want to Return to Vietnam\nA spokesman for a group of 107 Vietnamese refugees at\nFt. Chaffee, Ark. said Friday the group would hold a protest\ndemonstration unless they are returned to South Vietnam, as\narranged, by next Thursday. The spokesman said he and the\nothers appreciate the help given by the U.S., but they just\nwant to go home. --AP; ABC; NBC (5/23/75)\n500 Indochinese Were Stuck in U.S. While Their Governments Fell\nAbout 300 Cambodians and 200 Vietnamese were receiving\ntraining at 50 U.S. military bases when their countries fell to\nthe Communists. Many of them have found jobs here. \"So far,\ngovernment planning has resulted in the decision that it is\nless disruptive to leave the Cambodian and Vietnamese soldiers\nwhere they are and made a statement that the problem is under active\nconsideration,\" David Snell (ABC) said. --ABC (5/23/75)\nEisenhower: Some Refugees Will Spend Their Lives\nIn Camps\nMany Vietnamese refugees may never find homes in America\nbut may live out their lives in U.S. sponsored refugee camps,\nJohn Eisenhower, chairman of the President's advisory committee\non Refugees said Friday. Security or illiteracy problems will\nkeep these refugees from being relocated.\nSome 15,000, or 35 per cent, of the refugees on Guam are\nilliterate farmers and fishermen. --CBS (5/23/75)\napr\n16 \"Sharchem\nPage 12\nQUESTION: Mr. President, there have been some.\nLighter GERAUD ? THE\nconflicting news stories out of Vietnam about the possi-\nble,\nif it is necessary, evacuation of not only\nAmericans but of South Vietnamese nationals from\nSaigon. Is there any plan or policy about such evacuation?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I have ordered the evacuation\nof all nonessential U.S. personnel in South Vietnam and\nwe are phasing down on a daily basis such U.S. personnel\nwho have no responsibilities, either for the Government\nor for whatever other purpose they are there.\nThe present plan is to keep those there who\nhave a position of responsibility, a meaningful job.\nI am not in the position to speculate as to how many\nthat will be, or when there might be a change in the\nsituation.\nI think it is too fluid at this moment to\nmake anv categorical comment.\nQUESTION: That is speaking about Americans,\nand I think we understand that. But is there any policy\nabout the potential evacuation of South Vietnamese?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. In my speech last\nThursday, I indicated there are a number of South Vietnamese\nwho, over a period of almost two decades, have stood with\nus in various official capacities -- long-time employees\nof the Federal Government, our Government, who have been\ndedicated to the cause that not I, but a number of\nPresidents, have pursued.\nI think we have an obligation to them. To the\nextent that I can, under the law, or hopefully if the law\nis clarified, I think we have a responsibility to them.\nBut I don't think I ought to talk about an evacuation. I\nhope we are in a position where we can clarify or stabilize\nthe situation and get a negotiated settlement that wouldn't\nput their lives in jeopardy.\nQUESTION: Mr. President, you have talked a great\ndeal about the moral obligation of this country to provide\nmore military arms for South Vietnam. But what about\nthe moral obligation to the suffering people of that\ncountry, the moral obligation to end that war?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Mr. Reston, the agreement which\nwas signed, I think, by 12 nations in January of 1973 in\nParis -- and I was there, I saw the signing -- was\naccomplished with the expectation that that war would\nend.\nIf the agreement had been lived up to, the war\nwould not now be going on.\nMORE\nPage 13\nWe have continued in various ways to try and achieve\na cease-fire and I can assure you that we intend to continue\nthose efforts.\nBut it is tragic, in my judgment, that what\neverybody thought was good in January of 1973 has\nLIBRATT GERALD ₹ FORD\nbeen violated and now we are faced with a terrible\ncatastrophy at the present time.\nQUESTION: But would we not then a year from\nnow, or five years from now, still have the same moral\nobligation you speak of?\nTHE PRESIDENT: It is my best judgment, based on\nexperts within the Administration, both economic and\nmilitary, that if we had made available for the next\nthree years reasonable sums of military aid and economic\nassistance that South Vietnam would have been viable, that\nit could have met any of its economic problems, could have\nmet any military challenges.\nThis is another of the tragedies. For just a\nrelatively small additional commitment in economic and\nmilitary aid, relatively small compared to the $150 billion\nthat we spent, that at the last minute of the last quarter\nwe don't make that special effort and now we are faced with\nthis human tragedy. It just makes me sick every day I\nhear about it, read about it and see it.\nQUESTION: Mr. President, a political question:\nYou have some interest, I believe, in 1976, and there is\nsome doubt about the wisdom of some of the primary laws that\nhave been enacted.\nI wonder, do you place your confidence in the\nprimary laws or do you like the convention system\nbetter?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Mr. Kirkpatrick, I have always\nenjoyed a good election contest. I certainly would not\nlift my hand to try and get any State to do away with a\nPresidential primary election law.\nI think a good contest is helpful for the public,\nfor the candidate, and I would not, under any circumstances,\ntry to undermine the decision. of any State to continue\nits Presidential primary legislation.\nTHE PRESS: Thank you, Mr. President.\nEND\n(AT 2:05 P.M. EDT)\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nEXECUTIVE ORDER\nESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S\nADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES\nSince the arrival of the first settlers on our eastern\nseaboard nearly 400 years ago, America has been a refuge\nfor victims of persecution, intolerance and privation from\naround the world. Tide after tide of immigrants has settled\nhere and each group has enriched our heritage and added to\nour well-being as a nation.\nFor many residents of Southeast Asia who stood by\nAmerica as an ally and who have lost their homeland in the\ntragic developments of the past few weeks, America offers a\nlast, best hope upon which they can build new lives. We are\na big country and their numbers are proportionately small.\nWe must open our doors and our hearts.\nThe arrival of thousands of refugees, mostly children,\nwill require many adjustments on their part and considerable\nassistance on ours. But it is in our best interest as well\nas theirs to make this transition as gracious and efficient\nas humanly possible.\nI have determined that it would be in the public interest\nto establish an advisory committee to the President on the\nresettlement in the United States of refugees from Indochina.\nNOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me\nby the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and\nas President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:\nSection 1. Establishment of a Presidential Advisory\nCommittee. There is hereby established the President's\nAdvisory Committee on Refugees, hereinafter referred to as\nthe Committee. The Committee shall be composed of such\ncitizens from private life as the President may, from time\nto time, appoint. The President shall designate one member\nof the Committee to serve as chairman.\nSec. 2. Functions of the Advisory Committee. The\nCommittee shall advise the President and the heads of appro-\npriate Federal agencies concerning the expeditious and\ncoordinated resettlement of refugees from Southeast Asia.\nThe Committee shall include in its advice, consideration of\nthe following areas:\n(a) Health and environmental matters related to\nresettlement;\n(b) the interrelationship of the governmental and\nvolunteer roles in the resettlement,\n(c) educational and cultural adjustments required by\nthese efforts;\nmore\n2\n(d) the general well-being of resettled refugees\nand their families in their new American communities; and\n(e) such other related concerns as the President may,\nfrom time to time, specify.\nThe Committee shall also seek to facilitate the location,\nsolicitation, and channeling of private resources for these\nresettlement efforts, and to establish lines of communication\nwith all concerned governmental agencies, relevant voluntary\nagencies, the Vietnamese-American community and the American\npublic at large. The Committee shall conclude its work\nwithin one year.\nSec. 3. Assistance, Cooperation, and Expenses.\n(a) All executive departments and agencies of the Federal\ngovernment, to the extent permitted by law, are directed to\ncooperate with the Committee and to furnish such information,\nfacilities, funds, and assistance as the Committee may require.\n(b) No member of the Committee shall receive compensation\nfrom the United States by reason of service on the Committee,\nbut may, to the extent permitted by law, be allowed travel\nexpenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as\nauthorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703).\nSec. 4. Federal Advisory Committee Act. Notwithstanding\nthe provisions of any other Executive order, the functions\nof the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act\n(5 U.S.C. App. 1), except that of reporting annually to\nCongress, which are applicable to the advisory committee\nestablished by this Order, shall be performed by the\nSecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.\nGERALD R. FORD\nTHE WHITE HOUSE,\nMay 19, 1975.\n#####\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nJamil odT dstU to smoboadT ,A\nFORD LIBRARY\n-Tetts to tstudO THE WHITE HOUSE silt to\nVsb\nThe President today announced the appointment of seventeen persons\nas members of the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees.\nThey are:\nto absed edd bns insbiser9 ods satvbe Hiw settimmed\ninerms Joseph L. Alioto, of San Francisco, California, Mayor, City\nof San Francisco.\nResedive\nlo\nArchbishop Joseph Bernardin, of the District of Columbia,\nPresident, United States Catholic Conference.\nAshby Boyle, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Student, University of Utah;\nNational Youth Chairman, March of Dimes.\nDr. W. Sterling Cary, of Hinsdale, Illinois, President, National\nCouncil of Churches.\nJohn Denver, of Aspen, Colorado, Professional Singer.\nAmbassador John Eisenhower, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,\nformer Ambassador to Belgium.\nMrs. Gaetana Enders, of the District of Columbia, wife of\nAssistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders.\nGovernor Daniel Evans, of Olympia, Washington, Governor\nof the State of Washington.\nfaurice Ferre,\nof Miami, Florida, Mayor of the city\nof Miami.\nMinor George, of Parma, Ohio, businessman.\nEdgar F. Kaiser, of Oakland, California, corporation executive\nof Kaiser Industries.\nPhilip M. Klutznick, of Chicago, Illinois, former member of\nUnited States delegation to the United Nations.\nWilliam J. Kuhfuss, of Mackinaw, Illinois, President, American\nFarm Bureau.\nGeorge Meany, of Bethesda, Maryland, President of American\nFederation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.\nClarke Reed, of Greenville, Mississippi, businessman and\nRepublican National Committeeman.\nDr. Malcolm Todd, of Long Beach, California, physician and\nPresident of American Medical Association.\n(MORE)\n(OVER)\nares ,Pl YAM\n3TAICEMMI LOR\n- 2 -\nVisionsed seer9 saucH slidW edit 10 soitto\nElder A. 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EDT\nMembers of the Congress, members of the Advisory\nCommittee, members of the Federal establishment, members\nwho are here just to participate:\nIt is a great privilege and pleasure for me to\nwelcome you to the White House on this occasion. I\ndefinitely am grateful for your coming to Washington on\nthis occasion on such short notice, but time is of the\nessence.\nIf I might, I would like to now sign the Executive\nOrder and make a few comments at a later point.\nWe have a big job to do, and we have asked some\noutstanding people from all segments of our society to\nparticipate. I am delighted, of course, to have John\nEisenhower act as Chairman. His experience in Government,\nhis leadership, will be invaluable as we try to meet this\ncritical problem as quickly and as successfully as\npossible.\nWe got a great deal of support from many segments\nof our society. I was extremely pleased when we received\na telegram from George Meany of the AFL-CIO. I am sorry\nGeorge could not be here, but he is well represented.\nWe received a number of other communications\nfrom individuals and groups -- business, agriculture,\nprofessions, labor, of course, many church organizations,\nGovernment, State as well as municipal -- and the response\nhas really been most heartwarming and very encouraging\nto those of us who felt that our country had an opportunity\nto again reassert the open door policy that we have had\nfor so long on behalf of people who wanted to come to\nthis great land.\nIt seems to me that as we look back over our\nNation's history most, if not all of us, are the\nbeneficiaries of the opportunities that come from a\ncountry that has an open door.\nMORE\n(OVER)\nPage 2\nIn one way or another, all of us are immigrants,\nand the strength of America over the years has been our\ndiversity; diversity of all kinds of variations --\nreligion, ethnic and otherwise.\nI recall very vividly a statement that seems\napropos at this time, that the beauty of Joseph's coat\nis its many colors. The strength of America is its\ndiversity.\nThe people that we are welcoming today, the\nindividuals who are on Guam or in Camp Pendleton or\nEglin Air Force Base, are individuals who can contribute\nsignificantly to our society in the future. They are\npeople of talent, they are industrious, they are\nindividuals who want freedom, and I believe they will\nmake a contribution now and in the future to a better\nAmerica.\nWe do have some difficulties in trying to\nassimilate as quickly as possible some 100,000 plus, but\nthe Congress has responded, organizations are partici-\npating, administrative people are working literally night\nand day, and the net result is we are making headway and\nprogress.\nI don't mean to discount the problems, but all\nof you, and those that you represent, can help tremendously\nin the days ahead.\nI can assure you that we will give maximum\nattention, we will make every conceivable effort, to see\nto it that your job is made easier so that our new friends\ncan start a new life in this great country. We are a\nbig country.\nSome 35,000 heads of family are joining us.\nSixty-five percent of those who are coming are children.\nThey deserve a better chance. They deserve the warmth and\nthe friendship which is typical of America.\nI just thank all of you for what you have done\nand what you will do in making this job easier and better\nfor people that we want as good Americans.\nThank\nyou\nvery,\nvery\nmuch.\nEND\n(AT 12:13 P.M. EDT)\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nREMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT\nTO THE\nADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES\nTHE EAST ROOM\n12:07 P.M. EDT\nMembers of the Congress, members of the Advisory\nCommittee, members of the Federal establishment, members\nwho are here just to participate:\nIt is a great privilege and pleasure for me to\nwelcome you to the White House on this occasion. I\ndefinitely am grateful for your coming to Washington on\nthis occasion on such short notice, but time is of the\nessence.\nIf I might, I would like to now sign the Executive\nOrder and make a few comments at a later point.\nWe have a big job to do, and we have asked some\noutstanding people from all segments of our society to\nparticipate. I am delighted, of course, to have John\nEisenhower act as Chairman. His experience in Government,\nhis leadership, will be invaluable as we try to meet this\ncritical problem as quickly and as successfully as\npossible.\nWe got a great deal of support from many segments\nof our society. I was extremely pleased when we received\na telegram from George Meany of the AFL-CIO. I am sorry\nGeorge could not be here, but he is well represented.\nWe received a number of other communications\nfrom individuals and groups -- business, agriculture,\nprofessions, labor, of course, many church organizations,\nGovernment, State as well as municipal -- and the response\nhas really been most heartwarming and very encouraging\nto those of us who felt that our country had an opportunity\nto again reassert the open door policy that we have had\nfor so long on behalf of people who wanted to come to\nthis great land.\nIt seems to me that as we look back over our\nNation's history most, if not all of us, are the\nbeneficiaries of the opportunities that come from a\ncountry that has an open door.\nMORE\nPage 2\nIn one way or another, all of us are immigrants,\nand the strength of America over the years has been our\ndiversity; diversity of all kinds of variations --\nreligion, ethnic and otherwise.\nI recall very vividly a statement :hat seems\napropos at this time, that the beauty of Jos ph's coat\nis its many colors. The strength of America is its\ndiversity.\nThe people that we are welcoming today, the\nindividuals who are on Guam or in Camp Pendleton or\nEglin Air Force Base, are individuals who can contribute\nsignificantly to our society in the future. They are\npeople of talent, they are industrious, they are\nindividuals who want freedom, and I believe they will\nmake a contribution now and in the future to a better\nAmerica.\nWe do have some difficulties in trying to\nassimilate as quickly as possible some 100,000 plus, but\nthe Congress has responded, organizations are partici-\npating, administrative people are working literally night\nand day, and the net result is we are making headway and\nprogress.\nI don't mean to discount the problems, but all\nof you, and those that you represent, can help tremendously\nin the days ahead.\nI can assure you that we will give maximum\nattention, we will make every conceivable effort, to see\nto it that your job is made easier so that our new friends\ncan start a new life in this great country. We are a\nbig country.\nSome 35,000 heads of family are joining us.\nSixty-five percent of those who are coming are children.\nThey deserve a better chance. They deserve the warmth and\nthe friendship which is typical of America.\nI just thank all of you for what you have done\nand what you will do in making this job easier and better\nfor people that we want as good Americans.\nThank you very, very much.\nEND\n(AT 12:13 P.M. EDT)\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nEXECUTIVE ORDER\nESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S\nADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES\nSince the arrival of the first settlers on our eastern\nseaboard nearly 400 years ago, America has been a refuge\nfor victims of persecution, intolerance and privation from\naround the world. Tide after tide of immigrants has settled\nhere and each group has enriched our heritage and added to\nour well-being as a nation.\nFor many residents of Southeast Asia who stood by\nAmerica as an ally and who have lost their homeland in the\ntragic developments of the past few weeks, America offers a\nlast, best hope upon which they can build new lives. We are\na big country and their numbers are proportionately small.\nWe must open our doors and our hearts.\nThe arrival of thousands of refugees, mostly children,\nwill require many adjustments on their part and considerable\nassistance on ours. But it is in our best interest as well\nas theirs to make this transition as gracious and efficient\nas humanly possible.\nI have determined that it would be in the public interest\nto establish an advisory committee to the President on the\nresettlement in the United States of refugees from Indochina.\nNOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me\nby the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and\nas President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:\nSection 1. Establishment of a Presidential Advisory\nCommittee. There is hereby established the President's\nAdvisory Committee on Refugees, hereinafter referred to as\nthe Committee. The Committee shall be composed of such\ncitizens from private life as the President may, from time\nto time, appoint. The President shall designate one member\nof the Committee to serve as chairman.\nSec. 2. Functions of the Advisory Committee. The\nCommittee shall advise the President and the heads of appro-\npriate Federal agencies concerning the expeditious and\ncoordinated resettlement of refugees from Southeast Asia.\nThe Committee shall include in its advice, consideration of\nthe following areas:\n(a) Health and environmental matters related to\nresettlement;\n(b) the interrelationship of the governmental and\nvolunteer roles in the resettlement,\n(c) educational and cultural adjustments required by\nthese efforts;\nmore\n2\n(d) the general well-being of resettled refugees\nand their families in their new American communities; and\n(e) such other related concerns as the President may,\nfrom time to time, specify.\nThe Committee shall also seek to facilitate the location,\nsolicitation, and channeling of private resources for these\nresettlement efforts, and to establish lines of communication\nwith all concerned governmental agencies, relevant voluntary\nagencies, the Vietnamese-American community and the American\npublic at large. The Committee shall conclude its work\nwithin one year.\nSec. 3. Assistance, Cooperation, and Expenses.\n(a) All executive departments and agencies of the Federal\ngovernment, to the extent permitted by law, are directed to\ncooperate with the Committee and to furnish such information,\nfacilities, funds, and assistance as the Committee may require.\n(b) No member of the Committee shall receive compensation\nfrom the United States by reason of service on the Committee,\nbut may, to the extent permitted by law, be allowed travel\nexpenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as\nauthorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703).\nSec. 4. Federal Advisory Committee Act. Notwithstanding\nthe provisions of any other Executive order, the functions\nof the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act\n(5 U.S.C. App. 1), except that of reporting annually to\nCongress, which are applicable to the advisory committee\nestablished by this Order, shall be performed by the\nSecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.\nGERALD R. FORD\nTHE WHITE HOUSE,\nMay 19, 1975.\n#####\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nREMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT\nTO THE\nADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES\nTHE EAST ROOM\n12:07\nP.M.\nEDT\nMembers of the Congress, members of the Advisory\nCommittee, members of the Federal establishment, members\nwho are here just to participate:\nIt is a great privilege and pleasure for me to\nwelcome you to the White House on this occasion. I\ndefinitely am grateful for your coming to Washington on\nthis occasion on such short notice, but time is of the\nessence.\nIf I might, I would like to now sign the Executive\nOrder and make a few comments at a later point.\nWe have a big job to do, and we have asked some\noutstanding people from all segments of our society to\nparticipate. I am delighted, of course, to have John\nEisenhower act as Chairman. His experience in Government,\nhis leadership, will be invaluable as we try to meet this\ncritical problem as quickly and as successfully as\npossible.\nWe got a great deal of support from many segments\nof our society. I was extremely pleased when we received\na telegram from George Meany of the AFL-CIO. I am sorry\nGeorge could not be here, but he is well represented.\nWe received a number of other communications\nfrom individuals and groups -- business, agriculture,\nprofessions, labor, of course, many church organizations,\nGovernment, State as well as municipal -- and the response\nhas really been most heartwarming and very encouraging\nto those of us who felt that our country had an opportunity\nto again reassert the open door policy that we have had\nfor so long on behalf of people who wanted to come to\nthis great land.\nIt seems to me that as we look back over our\nNation's history most, if not all of us, are the\nbeneficiaries of the opportunities that come from a\ncountry that has an open door.\nMORE\n(OVER)\nPage 2\nIn one way or another, all of us are immigrants,\nand the strength of America over the years has been our\ndiversity; diversity of all kinds of variations --\nreligion, ethnic and otherwise.\nI recall very vividly a statement that seems\napropos at this time, that the beauty of Joseph's coat\nis its many colors. The strength of America is its\ndiversity.\nThe people that we are welcoming today, the\nindividuals who are on Guam or in Camp Pendleton or\nEglin Air Force Base, are individuals who can contribute\nsignificantly to our society in the future. They are\npeople of talent, they are industrious, they are\nindividuals who want freedom, and I believe they will\nmake a contribution now and in the future to a better\nAmerica.\nWe do have some difficulties in trying to\nassimilate as quickly as possible some 100,000 plus, but\nthe Congress has responded, organizations are partici-\npating, administrative people are working literally night\nand day, and the net result is we are making headway and\nprogress.\nI don't mean to discount the problems, but all\nof you, and those that you represent, can help tremendously\nin the days ahead.\nI can assure you that we will give maximum\nattention, we will make every conceivable effort, to see\nto it that your job is made easier so that our new friends\ncan start a new life in this great country. We are a\nbig country.\nSome 35,000 heads of family are joining us.\nSixty-five percent of those who are coming are children.\nThey deserve a better chance. They deserve the warmth and\nthe friendship which is typical of America.\nI just thank all of you for what you have done\nand what you will do in making this job easier and better\nfor people that we want as good Americans.\nThank you very, very much.\nEND\n(AT 12:13 P.M. EDT)\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nMAY 19, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nlettl edT ,dsjU CITY, 925J 11s8 to ,effict stoboshi A\nto adT vineve8 odt to Common\nFORD LIBRARY\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nvsh\nxobseasdmA betsagieeb oals vsbot inabiest9 edT\nThe President today announced the appointment of seventeen persons do\nas members of the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees.\nThey are;\nto absed srit bas and eatvbs Hiw settimmo edT\nhas auoitibeqxe edt asioness Israbel\nJoseph L. Alioto, of San Francisco, California, Mayor, City to\nof San Francisco.\nArchbishop Joseph Bernardin, of the District of Columbia,\nPresident, United States Catholic Conference.\nAshby Boyle, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Student, University of Utah;\nNational Youth Chairman, March of Dimes.\nDr. W. Sterling Cary, of Hinsdale, Illinois, President, National\nCouncil of Churches.\nJohn Denver, of Aspen, Colorado, Professional Singer,\nAmbassador John Eisenhower, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,\nformer Ambassador to Belgium.\nMrs. Gaetana Enders, of the District of Columbia, wife of\nAssistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders.\nGovernor Daniel Evans, of Olympia, Washington, Governor\nof the State of Washington.\n1 aurice Ferre,\nof Miami, Florida, Mayor of the city\nof Miami.\nMinor George, of Parma, Ohio, businessman.\nEdgar F. Kaiser, of Oakland, California, corporation executive\nof Kaiser Industries.\nPhilip M. Klutznick, of Chicago, Illinois, former member of\nUnited States delegation to the United Nations.\nWilliam J. Kuhfuss, of Mackinaw, Illinois, President, American\nFarm Bureau.\nGeorge Meany, of Bethesda, Maryland, President of American\nFederation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.\nClarke Reed, of Greenville, Mississippi, businessman and\nRepublican National Committeeman.\nDr. Malcolm Todd, of Long Beach, California, physician and\nPresident of American Medical Association.\n(MORE)\n(OVER)\n2501 ,el YAM\n3TAIC3MMI LOB\n- 2 -\nvisisted 88979 esucH ettdW edit 10 soillO\nElder A. 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Alioto, of San Francisco, California, Mayor, City\nof San Francisco.\nArchbishop Joseph Bernardin, of the District of Columbia,\nPresident, United States Catholic Conference.\nAshby Boyle, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Student, University of Utah;\nNational Youth Chairman, March of Dimes.\nDr. W. Sterling Cary, of Hinsdale, Illinois, President, National\nCouncil of Churches.\nJohn Denver, of Aspen, Colorado, Professional Singer.\nAmbassador John Eisenhower, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,\nformer Ambassador to Belgium.\nMrs. Gaetana Enders, of the District of Columbia, wife of\nAssistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders.\nGovernor Daniel Evans, of Olympia, Washington, Governor\nof the State of Washington.\nMaurice Ferre,\nof Miami, Florida, Mayor of the city\nof Miami.\nMinor George, of Parma, Ohio, businessman.\nEdgar F. Kaiser, of Oakland, California, corporation executive\nof Kaiser Industries.\nPhilip M. Klutznick, of Chicago, Illinois, former member of\nUnited States delegation to the United Nations.\nWilliam J. Kuhfuss, of Mackinaw, Illinois, President, American\nFarm Bureau.\nGeorge Meany, of Bethesda, Maryland, President of American\nFederation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.\nClarke Reed, of Greenville, Mississippi, businessman and\nRepublican National Committeeman.\nDr. Malcolm Todd, of Long Beach, California, physician and\nPresident of American Medical Association.\n(MORE)\n- 2 -\nElder A. Theodore Tuttle, of Salt Lake City, Utah, The First\nCouncil of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-\nday Saints.\nThe President today also designated Ambassador Eisenhower as\nChairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Refugee 8.\nThe Committee will advise the President and the heads of appropriate\nfederal agencies concerning the expeditious and coordinated resettlement\nof refugees from Southeast Asia,\n###"
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