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RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
1
Memo
W. Richard Howard to Alex Butterfield re:
3/31/1971
B
Laotian Operation, 9 pp. with attachment
2
Memo
Henry A. Kissinger to White House Staff
8/6/1971
B
re: Contacts with Diplomatic and Official
Representatives of the USSR and Soviet
Bloc Governments. 1 D.
3
Report
Metropolitan Police Department,
3/23/1961
D
Statement of Facts re: Committing an
indecent and obscene act, 1 p.
4
Schedule
Detailed Staff Schedule, President's Visit
9/2/1971
D
to Wright Patterson Air Force Base, pp.
4-5
5
Memo
Alfred Wong to Alexander P. Butterfield
9/14/1971
A & B
re: Construction Proposals for Protective
Purposes, 2 pp.
6
List
United States Intelligence Board
10/1971
A & B
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
Committee, 11 pp.
7
Memo
To Richard Helms re: Membership in the
n.d.
B
Technical Surveillance Countermeasure
Committee, 1 p.
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHCF: SMOF: Alexander Butterfield
7
FOLDER TITLE
1971 Inbound to APB Part 1: Jan.-Dec. 1971
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
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E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and returned private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
DEED OF GIFT RESTRICTION CODES:
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 18, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CABINET AND WHITE HOUSE STAFF
With the economy a central issue of discussion in and out of
government, I think you will be interested in the attached
fact sheet which points up some of the reasons behind the
growing optimism and confidence in the nation.
As the President said during his recent network conversation,
he believes 1971 will be a "good year" and 1972 will be a
"very good year. =
One of the most interesting indications of growing public
confidence is found in a Harris Poll taken last week for
ABC.
In December, 1970, Harris found that 48% of the public felt
there would be a recession in 1971 and 25% felt there would
be no recession. The poll broadcast last week showed a dramatic
reversal. It found 40% of the public believes there will be no
recession and 37% is still doubtful.
To me this indicates growing confidence in the President and
his program backed by solid facts noted individually by more
and more Americans.
I hope this fact sheet will be helpful to you and your associates
in your public and private discussions.
Herbert Klein
Herbert G. Klein
Director of Communications
for the Executive Branch
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January 15, 1971
FACT SHEET - THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
There are growing indications substantiating President
Nixon's statements that America can look forward to an ex-
panding economy and the creation of more jobs and price
stability. Factors pointing to this include the following
accomplishments:
-- Interest rates have come down; the prime rate has
dropped 2 1/4 points from 8 1/2% to 6 1/4%.
-- In the short period of the last two months, the
Federal Reserve Board has approved the lowering of the
discount rate from 6% to 5 1/4%.
-- We are seeing the beginning of substantial declines
in consumer lending rates.
-- Housing starts have surged from an annual rate of
1.2 million in the first quarter of 1970 to 1.7 million in
November and headed upward.
-- In the last two months the FHA mortgage rates have
dropped from 8 1/2% to 7 1/2%, an action which will continue
to encourage home purchases. Conventional mortgage rates
continue to drop as well.
-- The President's policies have helped cut in half the
rise in wholesale prices (from 4.8% in 1969 to 2.3% in 1970).
-- The dangerous runaway trend in inflation has been
turned around. The gathering momentum of the consumer
price index sent it from a 4. 7% rise in 1968 to 6. 1% in 1969.
But in the last six months of 1970, it was turned to about a
4.5% increase. The direction is downward.
-- In 1969 food prices were rising at an annual rate of
8.2%; in the last half of 1970, food prices were rising less
than 1% a year. This one attainment is an enormous accomplish-
ment in holding down the cost of living for everyone and especially
for the poor.
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-- Personal savings rates of 7.5% of disposable income
point to expansionary days ahead as the money is released for
consumer purchases, especially in a time when the auto out-
look is favorable.
-- Industrial production advanced 1. 4% in December, the
greatest rise in three years, showing that the economy is
beginning to snap back.
-- Excluding automobiles from the picture, retail sales
as estimated in December of 1970 were 8% up from December
of 1969 and 0.8% (10% annual rate) up from November.
-- The third quarter of 1970 saw a gratifying increase
in the annual rate of productivity in the private nonfarm
economy -- up from 3.9 in the 2nd quarter of 1970 to 4. 8 in
the third quarter.
Other factors pointing to better days ahead include:
-- State-insured unemployment claims are going down.
-- State and local spending is heavy.
-- The President's decision to liberalize depreciation
schedules will stimulate expansion of plant and equipm ent
in 1971.
- - There are heavy inflows of savings into the mortgage
markets.
-- There has been strong performance in the bond markets
and the stock market has risen dramatically from its low of
1970.
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
3.1
January 23, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
LARRY HIGBY
Will you please check out the attached matter from Herb
Kalmbach with the Secret Service. Is this something the
Secret Service would consider to be a security item that
we would want to have them cover or are the items here of
a personal nature and therefore should Dmv be paid out of the
President's private fund.
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 28, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR :
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM :
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT :
Memoranda for the President's File
Material
Bob would like the request for memoranda for the President's
file to start going out the same day as the meeting and to try
and speed up the procedure of getting these memoranda in.
Obviously much of the flavor and content of the meeting is lost
even if one has extensive notes as time goes by. Therefore,
getting them in the next day is important.
Dane
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
WONFIDENTIAL
February 2, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
The President is interested in pursuing the possibility of
a State Dinner for Prince Ramier and Grace.
He wants to do this only if the Kennedy's didn't have a
dinner in their honor. I can't remember whether they
did or not SO the first thing is to check the record on
that. If indeed such a dinner has not yet been held, we
should develop a plan for having one.
Washing cc: Mr. Chapin
1961
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has JFK
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Attached is a speech which I think you
would want to read in that it draws on
both Administration initiatives and
personal anecdotes in an interesting way.
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AN ADDRESS BY THE
HONORABLE JOHN D. EHRLICHMAN
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1971
BEFORE THE LINCOLN CLUB OF LOS ANGELES
AT THE CALIFORNIA CLUB
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of this Lincoln Club and
fellow-guests. I am most honored by your invitation to be here.
I would have been very content had it been only an invitation to come,
to visit with old friends and to dine.
But your invitation to speak tonight I take less as a franchise than as
a stewardship, since this is a gathering of serious and commendable
purpose.
I propose to talk some about Presidents.
The moon is much in our minds today. That planet presents its face
to us day and night and never turns its other side for our inspection.
Only the astronauts in orbit around the moon have seen its full
dimensions.
An analogy to Kings, Presidents and other national leaders is obvious.
Man quests to understand the unknown. It seems we are never
comfortable knowing that there is a public person whose every aspect
is not totally catalogued.
The President of the United States makes decisions every day which
touch all our lives. Well informed Americans should know and under-
stand the Presidents of their times -- as people. The bonds of
confidence between citizens of the Nation and their President are
essential to his ability to do his job.
We have seen in recent past years how directly the President's ability
to govern rests on the day to-day confidence of a majority of the
American people. I believe such confidence is made up of subjective
judgments, by millions of people, resting on hundreds of scattered
impressions of the President - of his decisions, yes, but also of his
life-style, his apparent standards of conduct, what he says and how he
says it, the relationship between his promises and performance. I
know, from the mail, that the ladies watch how he treats his wife and
daughters, and other ladies.
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Although television has made some of these factors more accessible
for scrutiny, I would think public confidence in our Presidents has
always had such a broad, non-specific base.
It's a good thing to do, I think, to also try and understand better a
President of another century, and particularly a very good one. I
haven't studied as much Presidential history as I would like; but since
accepting your kind invitation I have dipped into seven or eight books
on Lincoln recommended by the Library of Congress, in an effort
to be in tune with those of you who have been participating in these
dinner observances for many years.
I'm struck by the difficulty the historian has in giving his reader the
true essence of his President-subject.
The author who has not been a John Hay, or secretary to some other
President, must patch together a history which is a mosaic of other
people's recollections and impressions. Even a confidential secretary
or aide, sometimes, cannot know a President's thoughts or motives
in making a decision or taking some action.
Contemporary chronicles are, in my view, often less reliable than
the retrospective accounts by real students of the Presidency. If I had
a dollar for every misstatement of fact that has run in newspaper
columns during this past two years, I would have a handsome fortune
by now. Rumor, hunch, gossip and malicious second-hand misstate-
ment all find their way into print, comingled with all or parts of the
truth. When I read of what I am supposed to have said or done --
well knowing that I didn't I wonder whether other readers of these
columns regard them with the suspicion they deserve.
My Lincoln readings have made me want to know a great deal more
about the man and his times, and I'm grateful to you, for kindling
this interest. It has sharpened my awareness of the surroundings
in which I work, and of the difficulty involved in gaining a true sense
of a President, as a man.
The Oval Office, the President's "official office' is in what is called
the West Wing. Two office buildings are joined to the Residence by
low buildings. These offices are called the East and West Wings.
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When he writes, or wants to read quietly, or seeks a more informal
conversation, President Nixon often leaves the West Wing. He goes
west, across a narrow private lane to a five-storied, gray Victorian,
gingerbread building now called the Executive Office Building. Here
most of his staff have their officeș, and the mail room, the secret
service detail, the President's doctor, Science Advisor, Council of
Economic Advisors, and the famous "Indian Treaty Room" are located.
The Vice President has one of his offices here, too.
Having offices with high ceilings, fireplaces and huge doors and windows,
the staff, officing here, have a true historical sense of where they are.
As a comment on the burgeoning of the Federal bureaucracy, it should
be remembered that in the 19th century this one elaborate building
housed, at the same time, all of the departments of War, State and
Treasury. Their departmental seals are still found on the door hard-
ware. Now each of those departments occupy huge complexes of their
own in other parts of Washington.
As to my new awareness, the other day I was called over to the
President's hide-away in the EOB and as I walked over from the White
House I recalled having just read that Lincoln would, nearly every
morning make that walk to an "office" he kept at the War Department.
There he read, escaped the routine of the White House and held informal
meetings. In fact, this is part of what I read:
"He would have breakfast about 9, then walk over to the War
Department building a few steps from the White House
His
visits to the War Office were for a variety of purposes:
holding informal conferences, escaping White House crowds,
and seeking a retreat to avoid interruption while composing an
important State paper.
"The vivid account by David Homer Bates indicates that Lincoln
found enjoyment in these War Department intervals.
"His tall, homely form, wrote Bates, could be seen crossing
the well-shaded lawn between the White House and the War
Department day after day with unvaried regularity
He
seldom failed to come over late in the evening before retiring,
and sometimes would stay all night
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4
Knowing something of the thinking that went into President Nixon's
request that an office be set aside for him over there, when the staff
was first working out the space assignments, I think I get a little
feel for one aspect of Lincoln the man as President, and how he liked
to work.
I thought it might be of some interest to you to know a little more
about the present President, as I have seen him in daily activity.
Many of you know him well, as a friend, a former colleague or as a
guest of this club. But perhaps I can add a little to your knowledge
and understanding of him, in view of your once-a-year roles tonight,
as historians.
His life-style is an interesting mixture of the officially opulent and
personally spartan. His personal pleasures are centered around
reading, (biog-history), music, family and a little exercise, usually
bowling, sometimes golf, sometimes a movie. He eats frugally - -
at least by my standards. He appreciates the difference between
a good California wine and one (from elsewhere, of course) not so good.
But he's not one given to rhapsodies over a Sauce Bernaise.
Some unknowing Newsweek writer said a couple of weeks ago that the
President enjoys the trappings of his office -- the helicopters, formal
dinners and military aides.
If that reporter knows that to be true, he knows something I don't know.
As a matter of fact, Richard Nixon does enjoy being President, but the
thing that makesit zestful, for him, I think, is the feeling that he is in a
situation to get some things done that need doing. Yesterday, for
example, in a meeting with his new Commissioner of Education, the
President pounded away for early changes in our methods of education
and change in our ways of financing education.
This drive to get things accomplished explains how it is that he has
advanced the first major proposal for reorganization of the Federal
Government in 20 years. He believes it's time for a change. During
those 2 decades, while the government has done business in the same
old way:
9 Cabinet Depts became 12
27 Independent Agencies - 41
Fed. Employees - add 600, 000
$42B Fed. Budget to $220 Billion
140 Domestic Programs to 1400
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The President's revenue sharing proposal, of course, is also a
profoundly radical proposal for change:
Since the time of the New Deal, all of the trends have been away
from local government and toward more and more Federal responsi-
bility.
Revenue sharing proposes to return $10 billion (1/3) of Federal
programs to state and city control. This opening proposal involves
about 1/3 of all of the Federal programs on the books involving aid
to states and localities.
-- Local Decision
-- No Fed. Applications
- - No Matching Requirements
-- No Loss of Money
The President gets great personal satisfaction from accomplishment.
He puts a high premium on results, and he has an eye for detail.
One Sunday, as we were flying back to the White House from Camp
David, the helicopter passed low over the Mall between the Washington
Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. The President spotted a long row
of old temporary buildings there. The Navy and Munitions buildings.
They had been built during the war -- the First World War -- on the Mall
because, as he later said, the then Assistant Secretary of The Navy,
Franklin Roosevelt, figured that no one would allow them to remain
there, in that beautiful place, once the war ended.
And so they remained for 55 years, patched, repaired, with plaster
facades. Lt. (j.g.) Richard Nixon was stationed there briefly during
World War II.
When he saw them from the air that Sunday, the President asked me
why they were still there, being new to Washington, and naive, I
replied: "Probably because no President has ordered them taken down. 11
(You see, I had not yet learned how Presidential desires can be frustrated
by the career bureaucracy).
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And so I wrote a short memorandum to the friendly proprietors of
the Navy and Munitions building and told them that the Commander-
in-Chief would like that they should please get their buildings off the
public's grass.
It wasn't long before I began hearing from Assistant Secretaries and
Captains. As I persevered, I began hearing from Under-Secretaries
and Admirals. One Admiral talked to me all the way to Philadelphia,
for I had rather thoughtlessly accepted a ride to the Army-Navy game
on the Navy's special train.
But the President, to his credit, hung very tough, gave us full backing,
and insisted on a firm timetable.
To make a very long story short, the buildings are all down at last
and the great area of the Mall thus reclaimed will be seeded to lawn
this spring.
And now, as he rides by the site of those old buildings and looks across
at the Lincoln Memorial, you can hear the President mutter, "Well,
at least that's one thing we've gotten done around here. 11
The State of the Union Address this year was, of course, all about
change and accomplishment. The central theme was: MaKe Govern-
ment Work Better For People. You might be interested in how the
President came to decide on the content of these new proposals.
The ideas basically stemmed from studies begun in response to requests
made by the President months and, in some cases, years ago. As a
result of his experience in the Congress and as Vice President, he has
some very well defined ideas about government, and how it should work.
At night and on weekends the President uses a dictating machine to
question and prod and request. At about 10 the next morning some of
the White House Staff will get piles of memoranda on stiff bond paper.
Although they are usually unsigned, there is no doubt who they came from.
On Monday morning for example, this week I got memoranda asking:
(1) For a report on what was being done this week to insure
rehiring of the unemployed professionals laid off in the Aerospace
Industry;
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(2) About a judicial vacancy that has gone unfilled in spite
of congested court calendars;
(3) For a report on airlines from staff economists;
(4) And one having to do with the upcoming Health Legislation.
The State of the Union Reforms had their origins in inquiries of that
kind months ago over the last 18 to 24 months our staff, with working
groups made up of people from inside and outside government, have
worked on policy questions like revenue sharing. And the President
has talked to experts, Mayors, County Executives, citizen representatives,
Congressmen.
In late June of last year the President was here, at San Clemente.
We spent three days with the President in the conference room of
the Western White House there. The first day was devoted to a review
of the economy and the budget issues to be faced in Fiscal 1972, the
second day reviewed a broad range of domestic problems, and the
third day was spent on national security issues.
In presenting a proposed attack on a domestic problem we tried to
define the problem, propose a policy basis for solution, present
programs consistent with the policy and give accurate cost estimates.
The President, Bob Finch, Don Rumsfeld (and those of us responsible
for the staff work) discussed the proposed decisions, solutions to
problems, budget issues and their inter-related aspects. The President
cross-examined the departmental people and staff who made the
presentations. He made occasional notes on a pad as proposals were
projected on the vu-graph screens.
The President made no decisions then, but within a few days we began
to get instructions from him.
San Clementé's less intense daily routine gives the President (and the
rest of us) a freedom to read and reflect which is very valuable.
Because he SO strongly believes in government being responsive to
the electorate, the President decided to move strongly for more
government reform this year. Revenue sharing, as the President
has proposed it, must really be thought of as reform.
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Last Saturday afternoon, with his feet on the desk, he was explaining
to four of us why he made the decisions he did. Saturdays, when the
pressure is off a bit, we occasionally get a chance for reflective
conversation. He told us about the Federal government he found when
he first came to Washington as a Congressman right after the war, and
he traced the changes in Administrations since 1947. The people voted
for change in 1952, and President Eisenhower was elected. And about
1, 000 Presidential appointees came to town to replace Democrats.
But beneath that level, very little happened to change the Executive
branch of the Federal government.
In 1960 John Kennedy came in, but the bureaucracy went right on.
And the same in 1968.
The President believes that local government responds better, more
directly, when the voters express their will. He knows how hard it
is for the will of the people to have any effect in Washington, and this
is not true of the Executive branch alone.
When a Congressman loses, what happens to his legislative assistant
and other aides? They are the sergeants, in this army of public
servants, the ones on whom a legislator depends and therefore
they are very influential in the Congress.
When a Congressman or Senator loses or leaves his position, most of
his staff find jobs quickly either with a Congressional committee or
another member. The flowers in the Congressional garden may bloom
and then fade, but these bumblebees go on forever, spreading their
ideologies and their pet programs as they move about.
These careerists never, ever need a voter's approval for anything they
believe in or do. In fact a great many have a healthy contempt for
"majority views". And yet they go on and on.
One way to break this sameness-in-change is to move some of the functions
of government away from this unresponsive Federal bureaucracy and
into the hands of governments more accessible to the voter.
This is the essence of special revenue sharing. And it is one of the
important by-products of the reorganization proposals.
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Reduction in Federal overhead also will result -- Fewer employees.
In reaching a decision the President absorbs information in enormous
quantities, reaching out for more and more, through the staff and
Cabinet, on the phone, assembling. experts for question sessions and
by voluminous reading.
He prefers to learn by reading. But he has a technique in meetings
that I think of as "counter-point", to draw people out.
He 'll often leave the subject theme of a meeting to attack on the flank
of the concept, raising questions involving what turn out to be the more
essential issues.
At the risk of sounding a little like Jack Valenti, I must say I have
developed an enormous respect for his mental processes and retentive
capacity.
That's a little about the President. A few pieces for the mosaic. I
wish it could be more.
I'm afraid that, from the nature of this club and its membership I was
pre-destined to take from this experience tonight more than I've
contributed to it.
And so there only remains for me to thank you, most sincerely for
this memorable evening, which, now, I do.
****
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February 15, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
Is Mrs. Nixon now receiving copies of all the wire stories
on her activities as well as the newspaper stories?
You were going to have Connie Stuart set up a program to
select and distribute these stories to Mrs. Nixon. What
is the status of this project.
HREH:BK:kh
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February 16, 1971
CONFIDENTIAL -- EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JOHN BROWN
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
L. HIGBY
Bob asked that you track down the memorandum that exists
somewhere that provides the basis that the claim the desk
the President uses is the Woodrow Wilson desk. Apparently
it is a letter from a fellow from the Senate who had a letter
from Wilson's former Aid who wrote the President after he
became President, verifying the desk. The President
remembers seeing this letter but asked Rose for it later and
she was unable to find it. Somehow we have to track it down.
When we do find it please forward it immediately to Haldeman.
forwald fund
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
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WASHINGTON
February 19, 1971
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
FROM:
H. R. HALDEMAN
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One minor problem last night was that when Anna Maria
Alberghetti came down the receiving line, the aide
introduced her as Mrs. Guzman. This, of course, is
her correct name, but the President had no idea who
she was and this created a rather awkward situation.
The aide should be sure, when introducing the star of
the evening or any other celebrity who goes by a
different name than the popularly known name, that
he identifies the person carefully for the President.
As a matter of fact, to the extent possible, all celebrities
and notable people should be identified as well as intro-
duced by name. It also helps if they could be introduced
as Mrs. "so and so" or Mr. "so and so" from Cincinnati
or whatever, so that the President can get them fixed
quickly.
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The White House and the Department of State
prescribe the protocol to be used only for
ceremonies of state. The protocol differs
somewhat for each ceremony and the rules used
are not binding at private functions. For this
reason it is the policy of the White House not
to make the rules public, or to give out the
order of precedence of government officials.
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(DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRECEDENCE LIST)
1. The President
2. The Vice President
(Governor of a State in his own State)
3. The Speaker
The Chief Justice
Ex-Presidents of the United States
4. The Secretary of State
5. Secretary General of the United Nations
Pres., UN General Assembly (when assembly is in session, outranks
President of the United Nations Security Council
Secy. Gen. of the UN)
President of the International Court of Justice (According to UN
precedence)
Ambassadors Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Foreign Powers
accredited to the U.S. (in order of the presentation of their
Letter of Credence)
6.
Widows of Ex-Presidents
7. Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of
Foreign Powers accredited to the U.S. (in order of
the presentation of the Letter of Credence)
8. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, according to
the date of their commission. Retired Associate
Justices rank with but after active Associate Justices.
9. The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General
The Postmaster General
The Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Commerce
Ambassador at large - Kennedy
The Secretary of Labor
Dir., Off. Mgt. & Budget - Shultz
Counsellors to the Pres- Finch
The Secretary of H. E. W.
Rumsfeld
The Secretary of H. U.D.
U.S. Rep. to the UN - Bush
The Secretary of Transportation
10. Senators, according to the length of continuous service
(President pro-tempore of the Senate ranks with,
but before his colleagues)
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10. (cont.)
Governors of States, when not in their own State,
according to the date of admission of the State to the Union
Acting heads of Executive Departments
Ex-Vice Presidents
11. Members of the House of Representatives, according to
the length of continuous service. Delegates rank with,
but after the representatives.
District of Columbia Commissioner
12. Charge d'Affaires en titre of Foreign Powers
Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Foreign Powers
Ex-Secretaries of State
13. The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of the Treasury
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Attorney General
The Deputy Postmaster General
The Under Secretary of the Interior
The Under Secretary of Agriculture
The Under Secretary of Commerce
The Under Secretary of Labor
The Under Secretary of H. E. W.
The Under Secretary of H. U.D.
The Under Secretary of Transportation
Solicitor General
Administrator of the Agency for International Development
Director of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Ambassadors at large
The Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality
14. Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Chief of Staff of the Army
Chief of Naval Operations
Chief of Staff of the Air Force
(in order of seniority)
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14. (cont.)
Commandante of the Marine Corps
Five-star Generals and Admirals in order of Seniority
The Secretary General of the OAS
(Pan American Union) (ranks after the Representatives
when the OAS sits as a body)
Representatives to the OAS
Persons with Ambassadorial rank (foreign non-accredited)
Heads of international organizations such as NATO, CENTO,
SEATO, etc., and other international intergovernmental
organizations, i.e., Managing Dir., International Monetary
Fund, President, International Bank for Reconstruction &
Development, etc.
15. Director of Central Intelligence
General Services Administrator
Director of the U.S. Information Agency
Adm. of Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Administration
Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Dir. of Defense Research & Engineering
Dir. of Office of Emergency Planning
Dir. of Peace Corps
Dir. of Office of Science & Technology
Dir. of Office of Economic Opportunity
Dir. Office of Telecommunications Pol.
Adm., Environmental Protection Agency
16. American Ambassadors on State and Official visits (see #20 also)
(rank with the Chief of Protocol except that, outside of
Washington, they shall be preceded by the Chief of Protocol)
The Chief of Protocol
(when at the White House, accompanying the President, and
on State and Official visits)
Ambassadors of Career rank on duty in the U.S.
Spec. Rep. for Trade Negotiations
US Rep to the INTELSTAT Conference (Rank of Ambassador)
17.
White House Officials - refer to chart of WH Staff
18. The Chief Judge and Circuit Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals
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19. Chief Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals, according to the
length of service.
20. All Deputy Under Secretaries of the Executive Departments
Dep. Dir U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
Commandant of the Coast Guard
All Assistant Secretaries of the Executive Departments,
including the Legal Adviser and the Counselor of the
Department of State.
U.N. Under Secretaries
Dep. US Rep. to the OAS
Dep. Dir., CIA
The Chief of Protocol (see #16)
Dep. Dir., Office of Management & Budget
Dep. Dir., Office of Economic Opportunity
Dep. Dir. Office of Emergency Preparedness
Dep. Dir., Peace Corps
21. Dep. Assts. to the Pres & other WH Staff - See Chart
Asst. Admin., AID
Comptroller General of the U.S.
Court of Military Appeals
Members of the Council of Economic Advisers (rank alphabetically)
22.
American Ambassadors and Ministers, either Designate
or in the U.S. under normal orders or on leave
(Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions)
Archbishops (Catholic)
23. Governors of Territories: Puerto Rico
Guam
American Samoa
Virgin Islands
Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia
24. Under Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force
Ministers of Career rank of the U.S.
Acting Assistant Secretaries of Exec. Departments
25. Four-star Generals and Admirals, in order of seniority
(Air Chief Marshals)
26. Assistant Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force
Dir., Selective Service System
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27. Lieut. Generals and Vice Admirals (Air Marshals)
28. Chairman of the American Red Cross
29. Bishops of Washington
30. Ex-American Ambassadors and Ministers
(Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions)
31. Special Assistants to the Pres. - See Chart
Heads of certain independent establishments, according
to date of establishment
Treasurer of the U.S.
Chairmen, Bureaus, Boards and Commissions,
Librarian of Congress, etc.
Vice Chairman and members of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
Dep. Spec. Rep. for Trade Negotiations
Secretary of Smithsonian Institute
32. Non-accredited Ministers of Foreign Powers assigned to
foreign Diplomatic Missions in Washington
Deputy Mayor, District of Columbia
Assistant to the Commissioner
Chmn., D. C. Council
33. Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State
Deputy Chiefs of Protocol
Chiefs of Bureaus of Executive Departments
Directors of Offices of Executive Departments
Exec. Secy., Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Council
Exec. Secy., Nat'l Security Council
Asst. Dir., USIA (Dir., Voice of America)
34. Counselors of Embassies or Legations of Foreign Powers
Counsul General of Foreign Powers
35. Major Generals & Rear Admirals-upper half (Air Vice Marshals)
(retired officers rank with but after active officers)
Dir., National Security Agency
Officers of Army, Navy and Air Force of equal rank are given
precedence according to date of commission
Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service
36. The Chief Judge and Associate Judges of the U.S. Court of Claims
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37. The Chief Judge and Associate Judges of the Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals
The Chief Judge and Judges of the U.S. Customs Court
38. The Chief Judge and Judges of the Tax Court of the U.S.
39. The Chief Judge and Judges of the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia
40. Brigadier Generals and Rear Admirals - Lower half and
Commodores (Air Commodores)
41. Senior Secretaries of Embassies of Legations of Foreign
Powers when there is no Counselor
Assistant Chiets of Protocol
Secretary of the Senate
42. Members of Bureaus, Boards, Commissions, etc.
43. Subordinate Government Officials
NOTE: Husbands and wives have equal rank regardless of which holds
the official position.
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Find 3/19/71
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
Counsellor to the President -- Robert H. Finch
Counsellor to the President -- Donald Rumsfeld
Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs -- John D. Ehrlichman
Assistant to the President -- Peter M. Flanigan
Assistant to the President -- H. R. Haldeman
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs -- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Counsel to the President for Congressional Relations -- Clark MacGregor
Assistant to the President
for International Economic Affairs -- Peter G. Peterson
Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations -- William E. Timmons
Science Advisor to the President -- Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
Special Consultant to the President -- Leonard Garment
Advisor to the President
on Manpower Mobilization -- Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, USA
Director of Communications for the Executive Branch -- Herbert G. Klein
Special Assistant to the President -- Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Press Secretary to the President -- Ronald L. Ziegler
Military Assistant to the President -- Brig. Gen. James D. Hughes, USAF
Deputy Assistant to the President -- Alexander P. Butterfield
Deputy Assistant to the President -- Dwight L. Chapin
Special Counsel to the President -- Charles W. Colson
Counsel to the President -- John Wesley Dean III
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Special Counsel to the President -- Harry S. Dent
Special Assistant to the President -- Frederic V. Malek
Deputy Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs -- Brig. Gen. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
Deputy Assistant to the President -- John C. Whitaker
Deputy Assistant to the President -- Henry C. Cashen II
Deputy Press Secretary -- Gerald L. Warren
Personal Secretary to the President -- Miss Rose Mary Woods
Special Assistant to the President -- George T. Bell
Special Assistant to the President -- Patrick J. Buchanan
Special Assistant to the President -- Richard K. Cook
Special Assistant to the President -- Eugene S. Cowen
Special Assistant to the President -- John S. Davies
Special Assistant to the President -- William L. Gifford
Special Assistant to the President -- Mark I. Goode
Special Assistant to the President -- Jon M. Huntsman
Special Assistant to the President -- Roger E. Johnson
Special Assistant to the President -- Daniel T. Kingsley
Special Assistant to the President
for Consumer Affairs -- Mrs. Virginia H. Knauer
Deputy Director of Communications -- Jeb S. Magruder
Special Assistant to the President -- William L. Safire
Special Assistant to the President
for Liaison with Former Presidents -- Robert L. Schulz
(MOR E)
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Staff Director for Mrs. Nixon -- Mrs. Constance Stuart
Social Secretary -- Mrs. Lucy Alexander Winchester
Physician to the President -- Brig. Gen. Walter R. Tkach, USAF, MC
Executive Assistant -- William J. Hopkins
Chief Usher -- Rex W. Scouten
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MARCH 28-71
ALEX-
As you will NOTE I'M
SENDING ALL Presidential
INfoRMATION /CORRES PONDENCE
TO you - THoughT it SAfer
FOR you TO HANDLE THAN
SEND TO MILITARY AiDE'S OFFICE,
etc. PLEASE Let Me know
if THis is INCORRECT ProceDure
WHEN you ARE AWAY with
THE President -
THANK you- 80ml
P.S. YOU'RE A Good MAN A.- -
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 29, 1971
Dear Mr. Butterfield:
As I informed Mr. Brown, and subsequently indicated to Mr. Huntsman,
I have found it necessary to give thought to retirement from Government
service. Having been a Federal employee since 1929, with nearly 40
years in the White House Office, I have now concluded that, for personal
reasons, this is the prudent course to follow. Accordingly I am making
application for retirement, effective the last week in May 1971, and seek
acquiescence in this decision.
Over the years it has been my steadfast purpose, and that of the other
civil servants with whom I have worked, to serve the President and
members of his Staff, irrespective of Party, loyally and to the best of our
ability. That is a spirit inherent in the guidance we received from our
predecessors and represents a tradition which I trust will long continue.
Service in the White House Office during the Administration of seven
Presidents of the United States, and the opportunity to work with and
for their Staffs, has for the most part given me great personal satis-
faction, and I am truly appreciative. Such an experience cannot help
but instill in one the greatest respect for the Office of the Chief Executive
and for the man chosen by all the people of this great Nation to be their
President.
I am deeply grateful to the President and to everyone on his Staff for
their kindness and consideration. My heartfelt best wishes go with the
President as he strives to fulfill his aspirations for the American people
and for just and lasting peace in the world.
Sincerely,
William J. Hopkins
Honorable Alexander P. Butterfield
Deputy Assistant to the President
The White House
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 1, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR THE STAFF
SUBJECT: Office Communications Equipment
As you are aware, the White House Communications Agency (WHCA)
provides communications support for the White House. This includes
the President, Vice President, White House staff and Secret Service
in their protective role.
The most expensive single items which WHCA provides are television
sets, IBM dictating and transcribing units, and AM/FM radios. Con-
sequently, it has become necessary to establish guidelines in order
to control their purchase and issue. In this connection, the following
criteria will apply when requesting these items:
A. TV sets, IBM equipment and AM/FM radios will be
authorized only for commissioned staff members.
B. Routinely, only one of each item will be issued to an
individual or office except in the case of IBM equipment.
Additional units must be justified.
C. All requests for this equipment must be submitted by
the respective department head to the Commander, WHCA,
and will be forwarded to the Staff Secretary for final
consideration.
Except for commissioned staff members, all requests for equipment
which have not been honored will be resubmitted in accordance with the
provisions of this memorandum.
We solicit your understanding of the expense involved and the need to control
the allocation of this equipment in the interest of effectiveness and economy.
Thank you
JON M. HUNTSMAN
BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES D. HUGHES
Special Assistant to the President
Military Assistant Jull to the President
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-- Out-Box materials - Steve will gather up the out-box materials
and hand-deliver them to Jon Huntsman.
-- Morning inspection of the President's office - Steve Bull will
do this.
-- 2:00 meetings - Jon Huntsman will chair these meetings.
They will continue to be held in my office. (Chapin's attendance
will serve as a tremendous assist.)
-- Action on Social Scenarios - I think that you are the only one
who can handle these inquiries from the East Wing. What you
cannot determine at a glance, you can discuss with the President.
Larry or Dwight can relay decisions to Lucy Winchester or
Debby Sloan.
-- Cabinet Meeting tentatively scheduled for April 13th - It is
my understanding that if this meeting is held as tentatively
planned, the agenda will concern the President's Domestic
programs and John Ehrlichman will prepare the briefing
paper. Jana has alerted John and Ken Cole to the fact that
I will be out of town, and that Toni Sidley stands ready to
assist in any way that she can. I have already notified the
Cabinet Members of the probability of a 1-hour meeting on
that date.
-- Memoranda for the President's File and Color Reports:-
These items will be held for my review
prior to being filed.
-- Other duties for which I am responsible :-
Security matters - Trudy Brown will work with John
Dean.
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Staff Secretarial matters - Jon Huntsman will come
to you.
- Presidential Papers matters John Nesbitt will work
with Jon Huntsman
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-- Liaisons for which I am responsible:
- Aides Office - Don Hughes will come to you.
- Social Office - Lucy Winchester and Debby Sloan
will come to you through Larry.
- Visitors Office - John Davies will work with
Jon Huntsman.
- Business with Curator - Clem Conger will work with
Jon Huntsman.
- Ushers Office - Rex Scouten will work with Jon Huntsman.
- Internal Security - Al Wong will work with Jon Huntsman
and John Dean.
- S.S. Protective Division - Bob Taylor will work with
Dwight Chapin and John Dean.
- E.P.S. - Chief Quimby and Secret Service Agent Vince
Mroz will work with John Dean.
CC: Dwight L. Chapin
Stephen B. Bull
Jon M. Huntsman
John W. Dean, III
Lawrence M. Higby
Bruce Kehrli
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