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Administration Review, Goals & Priorities-First Draft of December
1977 Memo: Constituents Plan Memo; 1978 - Charts
Folder Citation: Collection: Office of the Chief of Staff Files; Series:
Hamilton Jordan's Confidential Files; Folder: Administration Review,
Goals & Priorities-First Draft of December 1977 Memo: Constituents
Plan Memo; 1978 - Charts; Container 33
To See Complete Finding Aid:
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/Chief_of St
aff.pdf
Constituent Plan for 1978
Primary
Total
Democratic
State
Business
Environ-
Activity
Activity
Blacks
Labor
Hispanics
Jews
Leaders
Southerners
Friends
Leaders
Women
Consumers
mentalists
Hours
Major
Speech or
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
Address
Convention
White House
2
2
1
1
6
Dinner
White House
Informal Social
1
1
4
6
Event
Picnic/Reception
Meeting
4
6
2
3
2
6
2
2
2
With the
19.5
President
(4 X 4)
(6 X 7 4.2)
(2 .5 1)
(3x 7 2.1)
(2x.5 1)
(6 X .7 4.2)
(2 .5 1)
(2 .5 1)
(2x.5=) 1)
Special
Constituent
2
1
2
5
Press Briefing
Total
Cumulative
Group
9
7.2
3
5.1
4.0
1.0
4.0
5.2
2.0
1.0
1.0
Total
Hours
42.5
personnel committee
management committee
SUSAN
improved coordination
1. Jordan, Powell, Eizenstat and Moore should meet for
15 minutes on Tuesday and Thursdays. (Other meetings
could be added as necessary.)
A deputies group would function to complement the
meeting of the "principals," consisting of Frances,
Hutcheson, Rubenstein, Carp and Wurfel.
One member of the deputies group would sit in on
the principals meeting, and report to the deputies
what occured, and what follow-up is appropriate.
The deputies would also prepare a brief agenda for
the principals, pointing out issues or problems
which they should consider.
2. Jordan should chair the 8:30 AM Monday meetings of
the full Senior Staff. Hutcheson will prepare an
agenda.
3. For every Administration issue which rises to the
"presidential" level, a task force will be created.
The Panama group exists, and has more or less completed
its work.
The energy group is presently in abeyance; everyone
is waiting for the conferees to move.
Les Frances has put together a civil service reform
task force, whieh/appropriate press, policy, agency,
and legislative components. This is presently on
track.
The economic package task force is just getting
underway. Representatives of CEA, Treasury, DPS,
congressional liaison have been attending. Jody
or his representative should begin to attend.
Hamilton should continue to call all meetings, and
either he or Landon should attend.
(For various reasons, Gene Godley would like this
to be his show, to the exclusion of other interests.
Only continued interest/participation from Hamilton
will force his & Treasury's continuing participation
the the task force.)
For the time being, this group needs to meet only
once or twice a week. As things heat up, daily
meetings will become necessary (as with energy,
meetings at the end of each day keep all the players
informed on fast-breaking developments, and make it
difficult for the agency to preempt other actors in
the process.)
The task force approach should be on-going for all
major Administration initiatives. The participation
of Jordan, Eizenstat, Moore and Powell, either directly
or via representatives, is essential in the case of
those 2-3 peak issues on which the President's personal
prestige hangs-- otherwise the White House loses
control.
4. Hutcheson will draft for Jordan a once-a-week status
report for the President on on-going efforts and
problems.
improving communication
1. "Senior Staff Meetings" will be continued, at least
once a week, for policy updates from Eizenstat and
Moore (or their repesentatives).
I will try to encourage a larger number of persons
to attend, and to bring their deputies, so that a
larger number of persons can be relatively well
briefed on Administration activity, and well-informed.
Occasionally, special topics or briefings will be
put on the agenda. We will start, a week from
tommorrow, with a briefing on the economic stimulus
package.
2. Initiate bimonthly briefings on current domestic
and foreign policy issues, which would be open to
anyone in the White House/EOB complex. I would
anticipate a 15-20 talk, followed by Q&A. Perhaps
once a year, the President and Vice President could
at
other
be featured, along with other Administrationofficials
foreign policy memos
Brzezinski and a few others sometimes take national
security material of an urgent and confidential nature
directly in to the President (in person or through Susan
Clough). As you point out, there is no way to stop this.
I would suggest that in these cases, Susan be
instructed to return the material via me, rather
than directly to Brzezinski. This gives Brzezinski
his direct access, but also gives me the opportunity
to look at it, and see if it should be brought to
your attention, either in full or in summary form.
Handling paper in this way means thatno additional
copies need to be made - you can look at the same
copy the President saw. (My office sends all national
security memos back to NSC for storage in the Sit Room.
We keep a record of the material, but not a copy)
Of course, national security material which is not
super-urgent should be handled routinely -- given to
me on the front end.