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The original documents are located in Box 11, folder "Indochina Refugees - President's
Advisory Committee: Announcement" of the Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 11 of the Theodore Velma C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
FORD LIBRARY
DATE: May 12, 1975
FROM: Ted Marrs
THRU: Bill Baroody
VIA:
Warren Rustand
MEETING:
Address a group of 150 distinguished Americans,
Announce the Advisory Committee on Refugees,
and Reception.
DATE:
May 16, 1975
May 19, 1975
May 21, 1975
PURPOSE:
Encourage private sector support for the refugee
resettlement programs; announce, with signing
ceremony, the establishment of an Advisory
Committee on Refugees.
FORMAT:
Location-The East Room. (15 minutes)
Participants-20 member Advisory Committee,
130 citizens representing a cross section
of the country. (To be provided by Ted Marrs.)
CABINET
PARTICIPATION:
Secretary Kissinger
SPEECH
MATERIAL:
To be prepared by Paul Theis.
PRESS COVERAGE:
Full press coverage.
STAFF:
Ted Marrs
RECOMMEND:
Mr. Buchen
Mr. Marsh
Mr. Baroody
NSC
Mr. Cavanaugh
BACKGROUND:
The Interagency Task Force on Refugees is meeting
its operational role in regard to movement and
care of refugees. To complement its role, the
President has decided to establish an Advisory
Committee on Refugees.
Recognizing that a broad spectrum of this
country's interests will best attract private
sector support and encourage a positive,
national mental attitude, the 20 member
Committee will be announced in the presence
of 150 distinguished Americans representing
all walks of life.
This large group will receive briefings on
welcoming refugees and the current situation
by Ambassador Brown and the Commanding
Officer, Camp Pendleton. The President
will address the group, announce the
Advisory Committee, sign the Executive
Order, recognize the Co-Chairpersons, and
a reception will follow.
This event is intended to be a major
catalyst to get the refugees out of the
camps and into society.
APPROVE
DISAPPROVE
SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
DATE: May 12, 1975
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
FROM: Ted Marrs
THRU: Bill Baroody
VIA: Warren Rustand
MEETING:
Address a group of 150 distinguished Americans.
Announce the Advisory Committee on Refugees,
and Reception.
DATE:
May 16, 1975
May 19, 1975
May 21, 1975
PURPOSE:
Encourage private sector support for the refugee
resettlement programs; announce, with signing
ceremony, the establishment of an Advisory
Committee on Refugees.
FORMAT:
Location-The East Room. (15 minutes)
Participants-20 member Advisory Committee,
130 citizens representing a cross section
of the country. (To be provided by Ted Marrs.)
CABINET
PARTICIPATION: Secretary Kissinger
SPEECH
MATERIAL:
To be prepared by Paul Theis.
PRESS COVERAGE:
Full press coverage.
STAFF:
Ted Marrs
RECOMMEND:
Mr. Buchen
Mr. Marsh
Mr. Baroody
NSC
Mr. Cavanaugh
BACKGROUND:
The Interagency Task Force on Refugees is meeting
its operational role in regard to movement and
care of refugees. To complement its role, the P
President has decided to establish an Advisery
Committee on Refugees.
Recognizing that a broad spectrum of this
country's interests will best attract private
sector support and encourage a positive,
national mental attitude, the 20 member
Committee will be announced in the presence
of 150 destinguished Americans representing
all walks 6f life.
This large group will receive briefings on
welcoming refugees and the current situation
by Ambassador Brown and the Commanding
Officer, Camp Pendleton. The President
will address the group, announce the
Advisory Committee, sign the Executive
Order, recognize the Co-Chairpersons, and
a reception will follow.
This event is intended to be a major
catalyst to get the refugees out of the
camps and into society.
APPROVE
DISAPPROVE
JBorling: jks
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 14, 1975
FORD & LIBRARY 07V830
MRS. NANCY RUWE
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MR. WILLIAM J. BAROODY, JR.
MR. REX SCOUTEN
FROM:
WARREN RUSTAND
WSR
SUBJECT:
Approved Presidential Activity
Please take the necessary steps to implement the following and confirm
with Mrs. Nell Yates, ext. 2699. The appropriate briefing paper should
be submitted to Dr. David Hoopes by 4:00 p.m. of the preceding day.
Meeting:
Address 150 distinguished Americans, announce the Advisory
Committee on Refugees and Reception
Date: Monday, May 19, Time: 12:00 Noon Duration: 15 Minutes
1975
Location:
The East Room
Press Coverage:
Press Photo
Purpose:
FORMAT: President would address the group, announce
The Committee, and sign Executive Order,
establishing the Committee. Reception would follow.
REMARKS TO BE PREPARED BY PAUL THEIS IN
CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR OFFICE AND NSC IF
NECESSARY. PLEASE WORK WITH MR. O'DONNELL
ON ARRANGEMENTS, ETC.
CC: Mr. Hartmann
Mr. Marsh
Mr. Cheney
Dr. Connor
Dr. Hoopes
Mr. Jones
Mr. Marrs
Mr. O'Donnell
Mrs. Yates
Dr. Cavanaugh
General Scowcroft
Mrs. Davis
I
namey pu me commensation
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
From the House - Rodino
Fish
Eilberg
Cohen
Burgener
From the Senate -
Case
Javitts
Pell
Kennedy
Fong
Velma
Meeting to begin at 12:00 OP sharp MONDAY, 19 MAY
EAST Room, Presiential remarks, Signing ceremony
(STILL unanounced)
Advisory Committee in Refreger, Ambassalm Dean Brown
brief redugee situation, Reception
Please invik the Above, Advise on
protocol.
John perling
X 7004
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
FORD (IBRAD)
May 17, 1975
BRIEFING AND RECEPTION
TO ANNOUNCE
THE PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES
Monday, May 19, 1975
12:00 - 12:15 p.m. (15 minutes)
>
Briefings in the East Room
Reception on the State Floor
From: William J. Baroody, Jr.
Theodore C. Marrs
I.
PURPOSE
To address a select group of distinguished Americans, to announce
the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees, and to encourage
private sector support for refugee resettlement programs.
II.
BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS AND PRESS PLAN
A. Background:
1.
The Interagency Task Force is meeting its operational role
in regard to initial movement and care of refugees. To date
over 100, 000 refugees have been received on Guam and over
55,000 have been airlifted out to Camp Pendleton (26, 000),
Fort Chaffee (25,000), and Eglin Air Force Base. Over
10,000 have departed those locations for new homes through-
out the country.
2.
You have decided to form an Advisory Committee on
Refugees to complement the work of the Task Force,
advise on the orientation and resettlement of refugees
and enlist the support of the private sector to assist in
the resettlement effort.
- 2 -
3.
The Advisory Committee will establish lines of
communication with governmental agencies, voluntary
agencies, the Vietnamese-American community and the
American public at large. Relating to resettlement,
it will advise on health and environmental factors, inter-
relationship of government and volunteer roles, and
educational and cultural adjustment. It will seek to
facilitate the process of obtaining private resources for
resettlement efforts.
4. John Eisenhower is the Chairman of this bipartisan,
17 member committee which includes George Meany,
Governor Evans (will not be present), Mayor Alioto,
Mayor Ferre, Dr. Malcomb Todd, President of the
American Medical Association, and Bill Kuhfuss,
President of the American Farm Bureau. (Full
Advisory Committee) TAB A.
5. Congressional representatives will be present at the
event, TAB B. The audience will consist of 150 to
200 people representing a cross section of America -
business, labor, education, voluntary organizations,
veterans and military associations, church groups, etc.,
TAB C.
6. The Advisory Committee and Congressional representatives
will await the President's arrival in the Blue Room. At
noon the President will individually greet this group.
They will be escorted to the stage in the East Room and
stand behind the podium as the President delivers remarks
and signs the Executive Order.
(NOTE: As the group departs the Blue Room, the President
will move to the Green Room where he will return a flag
to Mr. Edward E. Meek of St. Claire Shores, Michigan.
When the clemency board was announced, Mr. Meek, in
protest, sent the flag that had covered the coffin of his
son, USMC Lance Corporal Charles Meek, killed-in-
action November 12, 1966. Ted Marrs received a number
of flags from distressed parents and wives. After much
effort he has returned all but one. After the Mayaquez
incident, Mr. Meek called and asked if he could come to
- 3 -
get his flag, as he was so proud of his country. The
President will give him the flag - "We have been keeping
this honored flag for you and I am honored to return it. ")
B. Participants:
TAB A - The President's Advisory Committee on Refugees
TAB B - Congressional Representatives
TAB C - Invitees (to be submitted Monday morning).
C. Press Plan: Full press coverage.
III. TALKING POINTS - To be provided by Paul Theis.
Attachments
THE PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES
Meeting, May 19, 1975
CHAIRMAN
Trop
Ambassador John Eisenhower
Will attend
Joseph Alioto
Will attend
Mayor, San Francisco
Trip
Archbishop Joseph Bernardin
Will be represented by
President
Monsignor George Higgins
U. S. Catholic Conference
Archbishop of Cincinnati
National Ashby Boyle Youth Chairman Trip
Will attend
March of Dimes
Dr. W. Sterling Cary
Will be represented by Tryp
President
Dr. Eugene L. Stockwell
National Council of Churches
Associate General Secretary for
Overseas
John Denver
when
Cannot attend
Popular Singer
No representative designated
Mrs. Gaetana Enders
Will attend
Wife of Assistant Secretary of State
Dan Evans
Will be represented by
Governor
Mr. Ralph Munro and
State of Washington
Mr. Thomas Pryor
Maurice Ferre
Ter
Will attend
Mayor of Miami, Florida
Minor George
TMP
Will attend
m-Horitage Leader
Edgar Kaiser
Will be represented by
President
Mr. Carl R. Pagter
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Director, Governmental Affairs
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Mn. Ray Du Bon
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Greene
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Philip Klutznick
Will attend
Past President
B'nai Brith
William J. Kuhfuss
Will attend Things
President of the American Farm Bureau
George Meany
Will attend
AFL-CIO
Clarke Reed
Will attend
National Chairman,
Mississippi
Dr. Malcolm Todd
President
American Medical Association
Lawy Will Borton attend Larry Broton
Elder A. Theodore Tuttle
Will attend
Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter Day Saints
Tmp
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION
Senators -
Hiram L. Fong (Hawaii)
Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)
John Sparkman (Alabama)
Representatives -
Clair W. Burgener (California)
William S. Cohen (Maine)
Hamilton Fish, Jr. (New York)
Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (New Jersey)
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May 17, 1975
FORD & GERALD LIBRARY
TALKING POINTS: ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES, MONDAY,
MAY 19, 1975
1. Welcome to the White House. I appreciate your coming to
Washington on such short notice to participate in this ceremony.
2. I have asked you to come because your involvement is important
to the success of the project we are about to begin. Some of the Nation's
first
most outstanding citizens have agreed to serve as members of this new
Advisory Committee on Refugees. And I am most grateful for your involve-
ment and your help.
3. I want to recognize at this time the chairman of the committee --
John Eisenhower -- and to say a special word of thanks to him. I know
John will do an outstanding job, as he always does, and want to say how
deeply I appreciate his taking on this assignment.
4. I Extremely am pleased to see George Meany here, whose eloquent plea
statements
concerning
east Asian
were
for aid to the South /ietnamese refugees was timely and in the finest
Insert 1
And
American tradition. /I want to add a personal word of praise for Dean Brown
Interagency
2-
and his associates on the Interdepartmental Task Force who have worked
these
with such diligence and skill in the initial relocation of the Vietnamese
refugees. The efforts of dedicated public servants like these who serve
Denia
on this task force should be applauded by all Americans.
I envision the
Advison Committee complement mg the fine work done by the Force.
5. The task that lies before us now is even more demanding:
We must now bring these new arrivals into the mainstream of American
life. This is an endeavor that requires more than the government alone
can do. Accordingly, I have created this Advisory Committee, composed interling
outstanding men and women from the private sector, to help us.
6. Ladies and gentlemen, your mission is to open lines of
communication for these refugees within the private sector locate or
and of meet the unique
create employment opportunities, to work on the special educationa needs
of the many thousands of children who make up the largest portion of the
refugees.
-3-
7. Your job is to give our new friends guidance in the ways of
American life and to call communities to action in preparing for these new
arrivals. Through your churches, unions, businesses, professions,
and institutions -- and your compassion -- I know you will make these
newcomers welcome in America.
southerst
8. The integration of our Victnamese friends into American society
poses special, but certainly not insurmountable, problems. Their cultural
background is different than that of most Americans. Integration will not
be easy. But it can and will be done. We should all remember that the
American culture is unique only because it represents the blending of so
many cultures.
9. We are a Nation of immigrants. Our heritage is rich with
the contributions of many lands and many peoples. Our greatest strength
is diversity. Our new countrymen will add to that strength and make
their own contributions to American society.
-4-
10. There could be no more appropriate time than this year, as
we begin our Bicentennial celebration, to renew our old and valued tradition
of welcoming strangers to our shores and offering them the same
opportunities our immigrant forebears came here to claim.
11. America is great because its people are great. I know Americans
will demonstrate again the compassion and the generosity which have
characterized the people of this land for two hundred years. All these
new citizens want is a hand up -- not a hand out. I am sure my fellow
citizens will join us in reaching out to these new arrivals in our midst.
12. We are a big country. The refugees are only a few. If there
is room in the American heart for compassion -- and I know there is --
there is room enough in this great Nation for immigrants for a few more.
And I wish the members of the committee much success. And
I thank you all very much for what you are about to achieve.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 17, 1975
LIBRATY GERALD GERALDR. FORD
BRIEFING AND RECEPTION
TO ANNOUNCE
THE PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES
Monday, May 19, 1975
12:00 - 12:15 p.m. (15 minutes)
Briefings in the East Room
Reception on the State Floor
From: William J. Baroody, Jr.
Theodore C. Marrs
I.
PURPOSE
To address a select group of distinguished Americans, to announce
the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees, and to encourage
private sector support for refugee resettlement programs.
II.
BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS AND PRESS PLAN
A. Background:
1.
The Interagency Task Force is meeting its operational role
in regard to initial movement and care of refugees. To date
over 100, 000 refugees have been received on Guam and over
55, 000 have been airlifted out to Camp Pendleton (26, 000),
Fort Chaffee (25, 000), and Eglin Air Force Base. Over
10, 000 have departed those locations for new homes through-
out the country.
2. You have decided to form an Advisory Committee on
Refugees to complement the work of the Task Force,
advise on the orientation and resettlement of refugees
and enlist the support of the private sector to assist in
the resettlement effort.
- 2 -
3. The Advisory Committee will establish lines of
communication with governmental agencies, voluntary
agencies, the Vietnamese-American community and the
American public at large. Relating to resettlement,
it will advise on health and environmental factors, inter-
relationship of government and volunteer roles, and
educational and cultural adjustment. It will seek to
facilitate the process of obtaining private resources for
resettlement efforts.
4. John Eisenhower is the Chairman of this bipartisan,
17 member committee which includes George Meany,
Governor Evans (will not be present), Mayor Alioto,
Mayor Ferre, Dr. Malcomb Todd, President of the
American Medical Association, and Bill Kuhfuss,
President of the American Farm Bureau. (Full
Advisory Committee) TAB A.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
5. Congressional representatives will be present at the
event, TAB B. The audience will consist of 150 to
200 people representing a cross section of America -
business, labor, education, voluntary organizations,
veterans and military associations, church groups, etc.,
TAB C.
6. The Advisory Committee and Congressional representatives
will await the President's arrival in the Blue Room. At
noon the President will individually greet this group.
They will be escorted to the stage in the East Room and
stand behind the podium as the President delivers remarks
and signs the Executive Order.
(NOTE: As the group departs the Blue Room, the President
will move to the Green Room where he will return a flag
to Mr. Edward E. Meek of St. Claire Shores, Michigan.
When the clemency board was announced, Mr. Meek, in
protest, sent the flag that had covered the coffin of his
son, USMC Lance Corporal Charles Meek, killed-in-
action November 12, 1966. Ted Marrs received a number
of flags from distressed parents and wives. After much
effort he has returned all but one. After the Mayaquez
incident, Mr. Meek called and asked if he could come to
- 3 -
get his flag, as he was so proud of his country. The
President will give him the flag - "We have been keeping
this honored flag for you and I am honored to return it. '')
B. Participants:
TAB A - The President's Advisory Committee on Refugees
TAB B - Congressional Representatives
TAB C - Invitees (to be submitted Monday morning).
C. Press Plan: Full press coverage.
III. TALKING POINTS - To be provided by Paul Theis.
Attachments
OF R. FORD LIES
THE PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REFUGEES
Meeting, May 19, 1975
CHAIRMAN
Ambassador John Eisenhower
Will attend
Joseph Alioto
Will attend
Mayor, San Francisco
GERALD R. FORD
Archbishop Joseph Bernardin
Will be represented by
President
Monsignor George Higgins
U. S. Catholic Conference
Archbishop of Cincinnati
Ashby Boyle
Will attend
National Youth Chairman
March of Dimes
Dr. W. Sterling Cary
Will be represented by
President
Dr. Eugene L. Stockwell
National Council of Churches
Associate General Secretary for
Overseas
John Denver
Cannot attend
Popular Singer
No representative designated
Mrs. Gaetana Enders
Will attend
Wife of Assistant Secretary of State
Dan Evans
Will be represented by
Governor
Mr. Ralph Munro and
State of Washington
Mr. Thomas Pryor
Maurice Ferre
Will attend
Mayor of Miami, Florida
Minor George
Will attend
Republican Heritage Leader
Edgar Kaiser
Will be represented by
President
Mr. Carl R. Pagter
Kaiser Industries
Director, Governmental Affairs
- 2 -
Philip Klutznick
Will attend
Past President
B'nai Brith
William J. Kuhfuss
Will attend
President of the American Farm Bureau
George Meany
Will attend
AFL-CIO
Clarke Reed
Will attend
Republican National Chairman,
Mississippi
Dr. Malcolm Todd
Will attend
FORD is LIBRARY G7V830
President
American Medical Association
Elder A. Theodore Tuttle
Will attend
Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter Day Saints
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION
Senators -
Hiram L. Fong (Hawaii)
Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)
John Sparkman (Alabama)
Representatives -
Clair W. Burgener (California)
William S. Cohen (Maine)
Hamilton Fish, Jr. (New York)
Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (New Jersey)
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