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Policy Initiatives Follow-Up The President's Policy Program for 1983 and '84 Mid-Term Planning Process Identified 35 Presidential Policy Initiatives (new and continuing) Involving 45 pieces of presidential level legislation Relating to: -Reinforcing the Economic Recovery Program -Making Essential Programmatic Reforms Social Security Health Care Costs and -The Continuing Agenda Implementing the President's Program Requires: Coordinated Effort -Within the White House Presidential Activities: Speeches, Messages & Events Legislative Strategy and Follow-up Outreach activites Press relations Substantive Support -With the Departments and Agencies First Steps -Confirm policy priorities -Agree to a general schedule of messages/speeches -Set up implementation team(s). Work Products Delivered Today 1. List of Policy Initiatives 2. First Cut of Calendar of speeches, messages and events. 3. List of Legislation required. 4. Rough draft/implementation plans for each initiative including: Initiative Theme Plan Draft Legislation & message Identify administration speakers Develop talking points for speakers Brief interested opinion leaders Press briefing Presidential announcement Interviews with key journalists Articles for key journals and papers Media events Major columnists Speakers for key groups Nationwide informative program Message summary Events 5. List of topics to be included in each message or speech. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY TABLE OF CONTENTS TAB A Calendar of Proposed Presidential Policy Messages, Speeches, and Events TAB B Presidential-Level Legislative Proposals TAB C Implementation Plans/Talking Points/Events CCCT Tab 1 Trade Strategy 2 Research and Development 3 Commerce Reorganization 4 Small Business Package CCEA Tab 5 Productivity 6 Structural Unemployment CCLP Tab 7 Antitrust Barriers 8 Working Women 9 Civil Rights 10 Crime 11 Regulation Reform 12 Bankruptcy 13 School Prayer 14 Abortion 15 Immigration CCNRE Tab 16 Energy Availability (Natural Gas Dereg.) 17 Department of Energy Reorganization 18 Environmental Policy Statement 19 Wetlands 20 Clean Air Act CCHR Tab 21 Social Security 22 Health Care Costs 23 Federalism 24 Education Initiatives 25 Private Sector Initiatives 1 Workfare 2 Tuition Tax Credits 3 Enterprise Zones CCMA Tab 4 Regulatory Reform/Paper Work Reduction 5 Fraud and Waste 6 Private Sector Survey/Cost Control 7 Budget Reform 8 Procurement Reform 9 Civil Service Retirement 10 Property Asset Management The President's Policy Program (Current* and New Initiatives) Proposed 1983 Presidential Policy Messages, Speeches and Events Message: Written submission and press briefings without the President Speech: Presidential speech Event: President attends the event and makes brief remarks February March April May June July Unemployment Trade strategy Workfare mes- Williamsburg Fraud and waste Omnibus Cost message and message and sage and speech Economic Summit PCIE report Control Act speech speech: Event event message and CBI Private sector speech** Health care DISC survey on cost Energy Reorg. cost message Exim App. control message message Crime speech GSP Enterprise New Nego- Small business Women: child zone message tiating report event support, daycare Authority event Crime package Antitrust Small business message Foreign Cor- legislative rupt Prac- message (ten- Clean Air tices Act tative) Act*** message and speech Education mes- Environmental sage and speech: speech Bankruptcy Tuition Tax reform message Credits Budget reform (no legisla- Voucherizing message and tion) Title I speech IEA Natural gas Adopt-A-School message Adult Literacy Science and Regulatory math teaching * Current initiatives not proposed for reform message Presidential-level message for 83-84 Commerce Reorg. (e.g. immigration) Fraud and message (trade/ waste event: technology) ** Option is to start putting out sections DOD appoints -- once each month starting in May I.G. Social Security speech *** Clean Air Act assumes we will propose School prayer legislation amendment Procurement message reform message Victims' Property Review rights report Board message event Regulatory Organized reform speech crime event Women: Expand- Federalism ing roles message and speech in speech Dallas Women: Civil rights initiatives message and event speech Fair housing Women: pension Energy speech: message Gas bill Interdenpen- dence Falling prices Presidential-Level Legislative Proposals CCCT CBI DISC Alternative GSP Reauthorization New Negotiating Authority Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Eximbank Appropriation Antitrust (see CCLP) Energy Reorganization/Research and Development USTR/Commerce Reorganization Small Business Package CCEA Omnibus Unemployment Bill CCLP Antitrust Crime Immigration Bankruptcy Women's Equity Civil Rights/Fair Housing Tuition Tax Credits Abortion - legislation by others School Prayer Regulation Reform CCNRE Clean Air Act Natural Gas Energy Reorganization Wetlands CCHR Social Security Health Care Costs Federalism Education Tuition Tax Credits (see CCLP) Individual Education Account Vouchers for Title I Math and Science Teaching Education Reorganization Enterprise Zones Workfare -2- CCMA Omnibus Regulatory Reform (see CCLP) Omnibus Cost Control Budget Reform Line Item Veto Procurement Reform Civil Service Retirement Reform (see Social Security) Property Review Board National Debt Burton - Santini Forest Service Land Sale Authorization Trade Strategy Initiative The President has approved a trade strategy designed to provide more effective support for U.S. trade interests and to strengthen the international trading system. Key elements of the strategy should be included in the State of the Union message and have a high priority in the Administration's legislative agenda for 1983. Theme The communications effort should center on the theme that the President is prepared to take steps necessary to defend U.S. economic interests, including its interest in a free and open trading system. This takes place in the context of a world economy where other major countries systematically pursue their own economic goals through subsidies and other forms of direct government intervention. The communications effort should underscore that it is in the economic interest of the United States to continue its leadership in support of the liberalization of world trade. The President should emphasize that the U.S. has supported an open trading system because it served the economic interests of the U.S, and that a reversal of the post-war movement toward freer trade would have serious adverse consequences for the U.S. economy. In sum, the theme should be twofold, first, to provide more effective support for U.S. trade interests, and second, to strengthen the international trading system. Plan The President should announce the Administration's trade strategy in the State of the Union message. Trade issues have been and will continue to be extremely visible on Capitol Hill and in the media. The State of the Union message provides an opportunity to seize the initiative from an increasingly protectionist Congress. This should be followed by a legislative program which would implement many of the initiatives contained in the trade strategy. Media contact by the President and key Administration officials in February, March and April will be necessary to ensure passage of the legislative portions of the trade strategy and head off protectionist alternatives. Elements 1. Formulation of the Trade Strategy Package The specific trade initiatives approved by the President in December 1982 along with the trade policy objectives identified in the trade strategy portion of the mid-term plan will need to be packaged in a format which can be submitted to the Congress and released to the media. Action: USTR OPD -2- 2. Draft Legislation and Message Specific initiatives requiring legislative action must be incorporated into a specific legislative package with the appropriate message. Action: USTR White House Legislative Affairs 3. State of the Union Message Portions relating to trade strategy must be drafted. Action: USTR Speech Writers OPD 4. Identify Administration Speakers A list of Administration spokesmen, who will provide the specifics of the trade strategy initiative, should be developed. Talking points for spokesmen should be prepared. Action: USTR OPD 5. Announcement of Legislative Package The President should meet with Congressional sponsors of the legislative portion of the trade strategy, with media coverage of the announcement of the initiative. Action: White House Legislative Affairs USTR (Ambassador Brock) 6. Full Press Briefing Ambassador Brock should hold a detailed press briefing on the proposal, with a press kit. Action: USTR (Ambassador Brock) 7. Additional Media Contacts Interviews with journalists and appearances on morning news and talk shows by Administration spokesmen should be scheduled throughout February, March and April. SUMMARY OF MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON U.S. TRADE STRATEGY & INITIATIVES DISC Alternative The DISC program is important to U.S. exporters because it has placed them on an equal footing with the exporters of our trading partners. Because of a finding by a GATT panel, the Administration has agreed to modify the DISC program to ensure its GATT conformity. o The proposed legislation conforms the taxation of export income to the GATT, but maintains the same level of tax benefits for U.S. exporters. New Negotiating Authority Authority currently exists under Section 102 of the Trade Act of 1979, to negotiate reductions in non-tariff barriers and "other restrictions." o However, this authority is not sufficient to provide for the negotiation of tariff reductions or new agreements governing services, investment and high technology trade. The proposed legislation would provide this authority, and thus enable the Administration to negotiate the reduction of barriers to U.S. trade and investment. GSP Renewal The GSP program was implemented in 1976 to encourage economic development through trade with lesser developed countries (LDCs). The proposed renewal program contains provisions which condition GSP eligibility on improved access for U.S. exports in beneficiary developing countries. Renewal of GSP full fills the U.S. Government's commitment at Cancun to work with LDCs to make trade an effective force for economic development in the third world. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act O In December 1977, the Congress enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law intended to prohibit corporate bribery of foreign government officials. Since its inception, - 2 - the FCPA has resulted in lost overseas opportunities for U.S. business. Congress clearly meant for some of these losses to occur, i.e., those related to payments intended to influence officials. O However, the FCPA has also cost this country foreign business because of the law's statutory ambiguity and the unclear enforcement priorities of its administering agencies. The vagueness, coupled with the FCPA's severe sanctions, has caused businessmen to be excessively cautious to the point of avoiding situations Congress never intended to reach. These unnecessary and unintended losses signal the need for clarification and revision of the FCPA. The proposed legislation will remove unnecessary restraints and barriers contained in the act without compromising the laws original intent. Increase in Eximbank Guarantee Authority O The Administration is determined that the lack of availability of export financing will not be a major barrier to U.S. exports and related U.S. jobs. o This increased guarantee authority responds to current commercial circumstances in which access to export financing, as opposed to cost, is likely to be the predominant problem. Caribbean Basin Initiative The CBI is a multi-dimensional program integrating aid and trade and tax incentive measures, which are designed to be reinforcing. The program will foster selfreliance by the countries of the Caribbean Basin rather than dependency. The nations of the Basin are concerned about access to the U.S. market. The CBI will address this concern by providing duty-free access for most Caribbean Basin imports for a period of 12 years. In addition, the initiative provides tax incentives for certain U.S. business activities in these countries. O This proposal in combination with the aid for the Basin approved by the last Congress will provide a more amenable climate for commercial activity. Antitrust o The proposed legislation is designed to enhance the competitiveness of large U.S. firms in world markets by permitting such firms to conduct cooperative R&D on a scale comparable to foreign firms and to achieve the related economics of scale. - 3 - o This legislation responds to the concern of large U.S. firms that cooperative R&D activity may result in antitrust violations. o The legislation also revises the method by which market share is defined in antitrust cases. Under the legislation the ability of U.S. firms to respond to mounting interntional pressure will be enhanced because the criteria the Justice Department applies to prospective mergers and aquisitions will now take into account the growth of international trade and business and their effects on competitive conduct within the U.S. TRADE STRATEGY (Suggested Events) Event Time Place Hearings by Senate Finance Committee on GATT January 25 Capitol Hill Hearings by Joint Economic Committee on U.S. Trade Policy for the 1980's February 3 Capitol Hill International Herald Tribune Conference on International Trade February 8 Singapore Major TV Speech March White House Major Radio Speech March White House Announcement of Initiatives at Steel Plant April Pittsburgh International Trade Week May 5-12 Major Industrial (Series of Speeches and Cities and Farm Announcements) Communities Announcement of Initiatives in Midwest Farm Community June Iowa Establishment Commission on May White House-Rose Trade Policy Garden Visit to Silicon Valley July California *DISC Alternative, New Negotiating Authority, GSP, Eximbank Authority, Caribbean Basin Trade Initiative U.S. COMPETITIVENESS* (Presidential Events) EVENT TIME PLACE State of Union Jan. 1983 Capitol Establishment of Presidential Feb. 1983 White House Commission on Competitiveness Major Address on Trade March 1983 Capitol R&D Speech Spring Silicon Valley Visit to Bell Labs Spring Bell Labs Signing Ceremonies Various White House Presentation of National Fall 1983 Rose Garden Technology Medal *Antitrust, R&D, FCPA, Commission on Competitiveness Research and Development Initiative The President has ordered a priority review of governmental barriers to the competitiveness of U.S. business in international markets. This will include a review of antitrust barriers to joint R&D efforts, a review of U.S. tax policy for R&D and the proper role of government in basic research. In addition, he has established by Executive Order a Council on Industrial Competitiveness to define the problems and needs of industry and to assess the degree to which federal R&D policies address those problems and needs. Theme The President is making it a national priority to ensure that U.S. research and development, both federal and industrial, is adequate in quality, quantity and direction to response to high technology challenges from abroad. Plan These initiatives should be included in the trade section of the State of the Union Message (with the possible exception of the tax policy study which may be premature). The appointment of the members of the President's Council should be a media event including the President and key Administration officials. In addition, talking points will be prepared for key Administration officials on each of the President's R&D initiatives as they develop during the year. Commerce Reorganization This issue will be briefed orally. Small Business Package The package is still being developed. The package will be presented to the CCCT in March. Productivity Initiative The President signed legislation on October 25, 1982, requir- ing that he conduct a White House Conference on Productivity within one year to develop recommendations for stimulating productivity growth. In signing the legislation he stipulated that it would be held under the auspices of his National Pro- ductivity Advisory Committee (NPAC) chaired by William Simon. Theme Our communications plan should focus on the principal theme of the Conference: to focus public attention on the productivity challenge of the 1980s, highlighting the measures the Administra- tion has already undertaken. The Conference will also identify actions business, labor, and private groups can take to enhance productivity growth. It can also help facilitate public discus- sion of fundamental issues relating to productivity, such as comprehensive tax reform. Plan At the conclusion of the December 14 NPAC meeting, William Simon announced the broad outlines for the Conference which are described in the attached paper. The Conference will be held in Washington, D.C. in late September or early October 1983. It will be preceded by a select number of preliminary confer- ences at various locations around the country to develop recom- mendations for the Conference's consideration. Elements 1. Announcement of the Conference and Conference Director -- The White House Press Office should formally announce the date of the Conference, its basic organization, and the Conference Director. ACTION: Presidential Personnel DEADLINE: February 1, 1983 Roger Porter 2. First Meeting of the Steering Committee -- The Steering Com- mittee including Advisory Committee members, Congressional sponsors, and Administration representatives should meet to establish the schedule for preliminary conferences and the broad topics they will cover, and where they will be held. ACTION: Steering Committee DEADLINE: February 20, 1983 Roger Porter -2- 3. Presidential Speeches on the Economy -- During the coming months the relationship between the President's Economic Recovery Program and enhanced productivity growth should be made more explicitly in his speeches and statements. His speeches shoul emphasize theneed for productivity growth and that the measures the Administration is pursuing to stimulate greater saving and investment, reduce regulatory burdens, enhance research, development and technological innovation, and improve the skills of our labor force are all designed to produce such growth. 4. Talking Points for Administration Officials -- Administra- tion officials likewise should be encouraged to emphasize the relationship between enhanced productivity and the Economic Recovery Program in their public speeches. A set of talking points emphasizing these themes should be developed and distributed. 5. Preliminary Conferences -- Key Administration officials should participate in the preliminary conferences to demon- strate the Administration's interest in and commitment to enhancing productivity growth. Materials on the Conference should be provided to the local and regional press to encourage their coverage of these preliminary conferences. 6. White House Conference on Productivity -- The President and key Administration officials might attend portions of the final White House Conference in Washington which will likely extend over two days. 7. Administration Speakers at Other Productivity Conferences -- The subject of productivity and the widespread interest in it has spawned a large number of productivity related con- ferences around the country. Administration officials should be encouraged to accept invitations to address such conferences and to emphasize the President's commitment to productivity growth and the measures that the Administration is taking to improve our nation's productivity performance. Organization of the Conference The NPAC will retain overall responsibility for overseeing the White House Conference on Productivity. A steering committee, chaired by William Simon, will provide guidance and review Conference planning and activities. The Steering Committee would include the chairmen of the six subcommittees identified below; Senator William V. Roth and Congressman John LaFalce, the Congressional sponsors of the Conference legislation; and representatives of the Departments of Treasury, Commerce and Labor. Six subcommittees, drawn from but not limited to the current members of the NPAC, will be responsible for the eleven issue areas identified in the legislation. These subcommittees will review the suggestions offered by government and public individuals and organizations and develop specific recommendations for consideration by the Conference. 1. Capital Investment L. William Seidman Revising tax laws to improve productivity. 2. Human Resources John T. Dunlop Improving training and skill level of labor. 3. Research, Development and Lewis M. Branscomb Technological Innovation Sharing government research with industry. Awards for business and industries for productivity improvement. Reviewing our patent laws. 4. Role of Government Paul W. MacAvoy in the Economy Reviewing the effect of antitrust laws on productivity. 5. Government Organization Paul H. O'Neill and Operations Reorganizing the Federal Government to promote productivity improvement. Informing American business about foreign technology. Improving productivity measures. Revising Federal civil service laws. 6. Private Sector Initiatives C. Jackson Grayson Promoting the benefits which result from implementing productivity improvement techniques. While the legislation calling for a White House Conference on Productivity does not require them, the NPAC believes that holding a select number of preparatory conferences will enhance the opportunities for achieving the Conference objectives. Preparatory conferences seem most appropriate for the subcommittees on Capital Investment, Human Resources and Private Sector Initiatives. The final White House Conference on Productivity will be held in Washington, D. C. in September or October 1983. The Conference must be held by October 25, 1983 which is the anniversary of the signing of the legislation calling for it. It will be a two day conference and will consist of presentations by the subcommittees on the recommendations they developed in their own deliberations or through their preparatory conferences. Representatives of the Congress, the Administration, state and local governments, business and employee organizations, academic institutions and other organizations with relevant experience in productivity will be invited to participate in the White House Conference. Members of the public and other interested individuals will be invited to submit suggestions and recommendations in advance of the preparatory conference and the subcommittee meetings for consideration. PRODUCTIVITY 1. State of the Union Message Jan 25 Washington to mention importance of productivity growth in attaining economic objectives 2. White House Conference on Sept Washington Productivity to address Oct opening or closing session of the Conference to emphasize his involvement and commitment 3. National Association of Mar Washington Manufactures to discuss role of productivity growth in industrial revitalization 4. Chamber of Commerce to Apr Washington emphasize responsibility of business for productivity growth and need to share successes with one another 5. National Productivity Advisory Feb Washington Committee to thank Committee for assistance and highlight the recommendations and status of those pursued 6. National Association of Broad- Feb Washington casters to tape one or two productivity awareness sports for use by the NAB productivity campaign 7. Saturday Radio Message to Mar Washington devote one of his addresses to the productivity challenge, what he is doing to meet it and what others can do 8. President's Meeting with Media Open Open Editors to focus attention on the productivity factor in growth and productivity growth to employment growth 9. Private Sector Health Coalition Early Washington Leaders to use meeting with Feb health care leaders to emphasize the importance of productivity in efforts to control health care cost while maintaining care quality and level Support Real Job Creation While Reducing Structural and Youth Unemployment Initiative The President will propose to the Congress a package of six measures designed to reduce structural and youth unemploy- ment. This will be a major focus of his State of the Union Message, of the 1984 Budget, and of the Administration's legisla- tive agenda for 1983. Theme As pointed out in the Economic Report of the President, unemployment is the most serious economic problem now facing the United States. It is important that the President's program be perceived as an effective means of reducing unemployment and that his proposals for dealing with structural unemployment are an effective supplement to his overall economic recovery program which should reduce cyclical unemployment. Plan Cyclical unemployment will come down only gradually as the economy recovers. Real progress can be made in the near-term, however, by attacking structural and youth unemployment. This new package supplements the overall macroeconomic policies the President is pursuing and the major 1982 training initiative which was enacted in the Jobs Training Partnership Act (JTPA) The new six part program includes: Extending the Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC) Program with tighter eligibility requirements to assist those who are unemployed through no fault of their own; Providing these FSC recipients with an option to help them once again secure employment - a wage subsidy voucher to make it more attractive for employers to hire them. Permitting the states to use the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to provide unemployed workers with retraining and relocation assistance; Increasing substantially the funds for displaced workers under Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) ; Establishing a youth differential minimum wage for summer employment to help remove a significant barrier to employ- ment for many of our nation's youth; and Encouraging uniform state standards to support part-time work by unemployment insurance beneficiaries. -2- The President should announce this plan in the State of the Union Message. This will be followed shortly by the Budget, and a Message on Unemployment. Subsequent weeks will include con- gressional testimony - this is certain to be an early agenda item in the Congress - and the need to mobilize groups in sup- port of the specific proposals. Overall, there is a need to consistently communicate that the Administration has a program for dealing with unemployment and is not simply waiting hoping the problem will correct itself. Elements 1. Draft Legislation -- The Departments of Labor and the Treasury are drafting the legislation. One piece of legislation incor- porating five of the six elements in the package will be an Omnibus Unemployment Bill. The youth differential minimum wage will be an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. ACTION: Department of Labor DEADLINE: January 26, 1983 Department of the Treasury Roger Porter 2. State of the Union Message -- This should be an important element of the Message and should outline the general thrust of our approach to dealing with structural unemploy- ment. ACTION: Speechwriters DEADLINE: January 15, 1983 Ed Harper 3. Draft Message -- The subject of unemployment is important enough to merit a separate Presidential Message outlining our approach and the specific proposals we are advancing. This message would be sent to the Congress with the appro- priate legislation. ACTION: CCEA Working Group DEADLINE: January 28, 1983 Roger Porter 4. Talking Points for Administration Officials -- A standard set of talking points for use by Administration officials in their public speeches and appearances should help to ensure that a consistent line is used by speakers in advocating these proposals. ACTION: CCEA Working Group DEADLINE: January 28, 1983 Roger Porter 5. Fact Sheet -- A fact sheet should accompany the Presidential Message. -3- ACTION: CCEA Working Group DEADLINE: January 28, 1983 Roger Porter 6. Identify Administration Speakers -- A group of knowledgeable and articulate Administration officials should be identified to draw from in filling speaking and media requests. ACTION: CCEA Working Group DEADLINE: January 28, 1983 Roger Porter 7. White House Press Corps Briefing -- At the time the Presi- dent's Message on Unemployment is sent to the Congress key Administration officials, most likely Secretary Donovan and Martin Feldstein, should brief the White House Press Corps. ACTION: Secretary Donovan DEADLINE: Early or Mid Febru- Martin Feldstein ary, 1983. 8. Meeting with Key Business Organization Leaders -- It is important to have early and strong business support for the entire package, especially the youth differential minimum wage. A Roosevelt Room briefing by senior Administration officials, including a Presidential drop-by, can help in clarifying the specific elements of the program and in building support from key business organizations including the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Alliance of Business, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and United Business Associates. ACTION: Public Liaison DEADLINE: Early or Mid Febru- OPD ary, 1983 9. Briefing of Labor Leaders -- Secretary Donovan has met with several major labor leaders in recent weeks and reviewed with them the unemployment situation. He should meet with them collectively again to brief them on the elements of the program and seek their support. ACTION: Secretary Donovan DEADLINE: Early or Mid Febru- ary, 1983 10. Interviews with Key Labor Journalists -- At the time of the Presidential Message, key Administration spokesmen should meet with the most influential labor journalists to explain the specifics of the program and its rationale. These interviews should include, but not necessarily be limited to: -4- Robert Pear -- New York Times JoAnn Lublin -- Wall Street Journal Robert Greenberger -- Wall Street Journal John Berry -- Washington Post Carol Atkinson -- Washington Post Merrill Hartson -- Associated Press Bob Jackson -- Los Angeles Times Stuart Jackson -- Business Week Jerry King -- New York Times 11. Major Media Events -- During the week after the legislation is sent to the Congress, key administration spokesmen should be scheduled for: MacNeil-Lehrer ABC Nightline Good Morning America The Today Show CBS Morning News 12. Speakers at Meetings of Key Organizations -- A number of groups important to this proposal will have spring meetings. The President should deliver at least one of these. Other top administration officials should address the others. Business Council -- February 8-9, 1983 in Washington, D.C. National Association of High School Principals -- March 3-6, 1983 in Williamsburg, Virginia. National Association of Manufacturers -- March 9-11, 1983 in Washington, D.C. Association of General Contractors -- March 10-15, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- April 30 - May 3, 1983 in Washington, D.C. January 14, 1983 Message on Unemployment No one predicted that the current recession would be as deep or last as long as it has. The unemployment rate which has not recovered from the 1980 recession has risen to histori- cally high levels. The high unemployment we are currently experiencing must be reduced in a way that will keep it down. We must find permanent, stable jobs for all Americans who want to work. Our economy is also undergoing a fundamental change as some industries decline and others expand. The effects of this restructuring have been magnified by the recession, making unemployment worse and delaying the recovery. This Administration has followed a two part approach to reducing unemployment. First, we have put in place policies designed to reduce the high inflation and high interest rates that have stifled economic growth. In the past, reductions in inflation have invariably been followed by reductions in unemployment. Second, the Administration has proposed and the Congress has enacted a major new piece of legislation to provide training for those most in need of acquiring skills to enable them to find productive employment. The multi-billion dollar Jobs Training Partnership Act brings government and business together in providing training for over one million Americans annually. To supplement this basic approach to economic recovery and training, we are advancing an additional set of programs designed to reduce structural unemployment, that unemployment which results, not from cyclical fluctuations in economic activity, but from a mismatch of skills between what employers are looking for and what workers have to offer or from bar- riers erected that make it difficult for some in the labor force to secure employment. This six-point program includes: - Extending the Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC) Program with tighter eligibility requirements to assist those who are unemployed through no fault of their own; - Providing these FSC recipients with an option to help them once again secure employment - a wage subsidy voucher to make it more attractive for employers to hire them. This will help get the unemployed back to work in productive and permanent jobs; - Permitting the states to use the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to provide unemployed workers with retraining and relocation assistance; -2- - Increasing substantially the funds for displaced workers under Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) ; - Establishing a youth differential minimum wage for summer employment to help remove a significant barrier to employ- ment for many of our nation's youth; and - Encouraging uniform state standards to support part-time work by unemployment insurance beneficiaries. These new measures combined with the recently enacted Job Training Partnership Act provide a foundation for dealing with our structural unemployment challenge as our economic policies provide the basis for a sound and sustained recovery. STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT 1. State of the Union Message Jan 25 Washington 2. Presidential Message to Early Washington accompany employment leg- Feb islation 3. Saturday Radio Address Early Washington Feb 4. Meet at the White House Mid Washington with key business leaders Feb to explain the rationale of the jobs package 5. Meeting at the White House Mid Washington with major news editors Feb to explain the rationale of the President's jobs package 6. Address to the National Mar Williamsburg Association of High 3-6 School Principals to urge the summer youth differential wage proposal 7. Address to a graduating May or Outside the class concerning the June Washington area issue of jobs for the future 8. Address to the Business Feb Washington Council 8-9 9. Meeting at the White House Late Washington with group of religious Mar leaders to seek support for the summer youth differential wage pro- posal 10. Visit to a Private Industry Late Open Council in a high unemploy- Mar area to demonstrate public- private partnership under the new Job Training Partner- ship Act Antitrust Background Certain antitrust theories (more fashionable with Congress and the courts than with recent heads of the Antitrust Division) have had a deleterious impact on business practices beneficial to industrial competiveness and, ultimately, the consumer. Despite abundant economic evidence to the contrary, the Populist rhetoric inextricably associated with antitrust enforcement makes needed legislative reform difficult to achieve. Moreover, substantial reforms, whatever their demonstrable theoretical truth, can be characterized as catering to the interest of big business. Nevertheless, some reform is possible if properly packaged. Emphasis should be placed on the relationship of antitrust to (a) increasing U.S. employment, productivity, and growth, and (b) maintaining U.S. technological leadership and competitiveness abroad. DOJ is in the final stages of preparing a comprehensive legislative package. Not all elements of the proposal will see the light of day, and it is probably the case that any antitrust legislation presented in its own right will be savaged on the Hill. An early opportunity to achieve some of our goals -- which will be discussed at a CCLP meeting in February -- is presented by the various trade-related activities now being planned for February. Initiative Serious consideration should be given to including antitrust reform language as part of the trade legislative/presidential message in February. ACTION: Attorney General coordinating through Uhlmann DEADLINE: ASAP, to coincide with trade-related matters Note: Because of strong Populist sentiment in this area, presidential association with the issue should be carefully assessed until a clear tie-in to U.S. competitiveness can be articulated. WORKING WOMEN Initiative Build a good record on issues of concern to women (e.g., economic and legal equity, child support and care, social security) and effectively communicate this record to women. Theme The Administration has genuine empathy for women's concerns and supports initiatives that will promote legal and economic equity. Plan Increase the number of Administration representatives speaking on women's issues and the frequency with which they address these issues. Develop a coordinated communications program, stressing a regional and grassroots network. Elements Intensive use of regional and local press on a regular basis. Use of a speaking team to communicate Administration's record. Concentration on selected women's groups. Use of Cabinet Secretaries to speak to select audiences. Close coordination with RNC. Presidential events, including statements in the State of the Union; meetings with elected Republican women, women's groups, child welfare groups; attending National Convention of Republican Women. Women's Speech--March Theme: Changing and expanding role of women in American society and Administration's response to those changes. Accomplishments-- Appointments Pension Reform Child Care Education Equal Pay for Equal Work Child Support Enforcement Federal Equity Project 50 States Project Challenge to government and business to move forward to respond to the expanding role of women in society. Part of the American dream is based on the concept of the dignity of work. As long as society questions whether women should participate as equally as men in the pursuit of the financial and personal rewards of work, that dream is unfulfilled. The dignity of work that is done by women in the work force and at home must be recognized before we can truly say that that American dream is possible for everyone. Review of statistics reflecting influx of women into the work force, number of working women with children under the age of six, explosion of single heads of households both working and dependent on welfare, pay gap and causes, women in politics. Recommend March 17, Dallas, Business Leadership Conference. Theme of conference: Business in the Changing World, Challenges to the American Dream. Request is in Sadlier's and Gergen's shop. Audience is 2000 executives from companies that support Junior Achievement. The luncheon is to honor the volunteers who have worked with Junior Achievement. Pension Legislation--Message If we introduce an alternative to the Economic Equity Act and the Fair Insurance Practice Act, Administration supported legislation the following points should be included: The insurance industry, representatives of women's groups, state and local pension providers, and the Hill have been wrestling with the difficult problem of proposing legislation that would provide fair and equitable pensions and insurance for men and women without creating a cost situation that would penalize all or some of the parties involved. After careful, bipartisan consideration and consultation with all involved, we feel we have come up with a solution to a problem that has plagued us for years. We are happy to have played a role in reaching a compromise that is fair to all. WOMEN'S INITIATIVE Event Time Place State of the Union 1/25/83 Capitol Hill Set the agenda for women's strategy. Action: OPD Speechwriters Meeting with individuals and 2/open/83 White House organizations concerned with economic equity for women. Discuss strategy initiatives. Action: OPL OPD Sat. radio speech re changing role 2/open/83 White-House of women, building on initiatives themes. Action: OPD OPI Speechwriters Speech: Changing and expanding role 3/17/83 of women in American society. Dallas, Texas Action: OPD OPL Speechwriters Meeting with elected Republican 4/open/83 White House women to encourage recruitment of candidates for 1984. Action: OPL WH Legislative Office WH Political Office Meeting with Governor's reps to the 6/open/83 50 States Project to review progress White House and future priorities. Action: OPL WH Intergovernmental Affairs Meeting with individuals and Spring 1983 White House organizations concerned with child care and child support enforcement. Action: OPL OPD WH Intergovernmental Affairs WOMEN'S INITIATIVE continued Event Time Place Attend National Convention 10/6-9/83 Kentucky of Republican Women and give speech. Action: OPD WH Political Office OPL Speechwriters Meeting with Republican women 7/open/84 White House candidates to support their candidacy for elective office and highlight accomplishments of the Administration. Action: OPL WH Political Office Speechwriters Throughout 1983 and 1984 visit child care facilities identified by the 50 States Project and the Women's Bureau. Fold into existing Presidential schedule. Discuss success of child support enforcement when visiting states that have a good to excellent record in this area. States to be identified by the 50 States Project. CHILD CARE EVENT TIME PLACE 1) In a Presidential Open Open speech addressing Federalism, the President urges state and local governments to: (a) relax unnecessary barriers to private child care provision, and (b) encourage workfare programs and work-study programs whereby welfare recipients and college students provide child care 2) President speaks at Open Open Conference sponsored by Private Sector Initiatives Office to encourage state and local governments to relax unnecessary barriers to private child care provision. 3) President visits the After 6/1/83 Providence, Rhode Island on-site child care center associated with Opportunities Industrial Center, Providence, Rhode Island, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Women's Bureau. 4) President visits the After 2/1/83 San Jose, California on-site Head Start and Montessori centers at the Center for Employment Training, San Jose, California, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Women's Bureau EVENT TIME PLACE 5) President visits Open Boston, Massachusetts Stride Rite Children's Center serving company employees and the neighboring community. 6) President visits Open Dallas, Texas Zales' on-site employer-provided child care center. 7) President visits Mrs. Open Endora, Kansas Barbara Hanna's home day care center. Mrs. Hanna, an advocate of reduced, unnecessary child care regulations, is coauthor of Teaching Preschoolers at Home. 8) President visits a Open Open Church-sponsored child care center. Contact Reverend Eileen Lindner, Director of the Child Advocacy Project of the National Council of Churches. 9) President visits Open Albany, California Wheezles and Sneezles Day Care Center where mildly ill children of employees and students of the UC Berkeley receive special day care. 10) President visits a Open Open parent owned-and operated child care center. For example, that run by employees of the Multnomah County government in Portland, Oregon. Civil Rights Background For reasons all too keenly etched in everyone's memory, we have allowed ourselves to become sitting ducks for every traditional civil rights organization in the country. No matter what we do on particular cases, this will continue for three reasons: (a) virtually every media-styled "civil rights" group in the country is dominated by a philosophy essentially opposed to that of the President; (b) virtually all well known leaders of these organizations are Democrats; and (c) we have allowed the agenda of civil rights to be defined in terms established by the President's ideological and political enemies. The hard truth of the matter is that unless we are prepared to embrace significant parts of a civil rights agenda fundamentally opposed to what the President has over many years articulated, these attacks will continue. As 1984 draws near, they will increase in velocity and ferocity. The best defense here is a good offense. We are on the verge of making some truly outstanding appointments to the Civil Rights Commission, which can and should become a major vehicle for changing the terms of public debate on this subject. Ultimately, however, the Presidet, and only the President can turn things around. Thus far, his major involvements have been limited to deeply-felt statements which the media is all-too-quick to portray as a defensive, "he-says-he's not-a-racist-but" posture. What is badly needed is a major presidential address on the subject. Initiative Late this Winter, the President should address the nation, in a televised speech, on the subject of civil rights. It should be high-toned, principled, moving, even Lincolnian. Theme: Officially sanctioned discrimination based on race has no place in American society. (The speech should be limited to race, saving sex-related issues for a speech on the status of women in American society.) Not very long ago there was fundamental agreement on the proposition that special burdens should not be accorded because of the color of one's skin. That is the promise of the Declaration of Independence, the meaning of the Civil War, the purpose of the 14th Amendment, and the understanding which underlay Brown V. Board and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In short: a color-blind society. We have, however, drifted away from that fundamental agreement. Without quite intending to do so, we have over the past 10-15 years begun to implement policies based on racial preferment. Affirmative action programs, originally designed to redress the lingering effects of past discrimination, have become the vehicle by which discrimination is newly inflicted upon "non-favored" classes of citizens. Such a policy is not just; it will undermine that moral consensus underlying a just and human civil rights policy, without which laws in this area come to be seen as mere coercion. If perpetuated, will produce the opposite of what was intended: race consciousness. ACTION: Uhlmann will prepare draft speech for closely held circulation DEADLINE: March 1 CIVIL RIGHTS Event Time Place Meeting with Clarence Either White House Pendleton and soon- (a) upon to-be appointed nomination members of Civil (probably Rights Commission February) or (b) upon confirmation (March/April) Meeting with Contingent White House Congressional upon con- leaders on Fair gressional Housing legislation schedule - but probably late Winter Major speech on April White House civil rights (national TV) Meeting with To coincide White House educators from with March inner-city education schools (60% speech (which black school age will propose population is in vouchers for 5 cities) Title I) Meeting with Just before White House Ruth Love, black or after major superintendant of civil rights schools in Chicago speech -- to get update on alternatives to busing Crime Initiative The President, both in administrative acts and legislative proposals during the past two years, has established a sizable agenda on crime. The issue remains a sure "winner" with little downside for the next two years. Strong sentiments will be expressed in the SOTU, to be followed in short order by a presidential message on crime. Theme The first duty of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens against those who would unlawfully interfere with either. Crime continues in epidemic proportions. The cases of crime are as complex as society itself, but we cannot endlessly debate the issue. Whatever its cases, the simple facts remain that far too many criminals go unapprehended and that far too few of those apprehended are punished sufficiently. While the federal government has no direct contol over the great bulk of criminal enforcement, its attitude and actions set the tone for the nation and exercise indirectly a pervasive influence over the entire law enforcement system. The administrative actions and legislative proposals of the President, although limited to the federal sphere, can have a measurable impact on crime. Key elements: ADMINISTRATIVE: establishment of law enforcement coordinating committees in each federal district expansion of federal training facilities for state and local officers South Florida task force nationwide drug/organized crime effort, modeled "on Florida experience creation of Victims' Task Force judicial appointments LEGISLATIVE: habeas corpus exclusionary rule insanity defense bail reform sentencing reform increased penalties for drug trafficking criminal foreiture reform In short, we have much to sell and should not be shy about selling it. Plan 1. As soon as feasible, the elements of a comprehensive crime package should be assembled, to be accompanied by a presidential message. If we put all our baubles in one package, according to DOJ, it would be a 42-section bill bearing a striking resemblance to a phone book. There are multiple advantages to putting it together in one place, even in the sure knowledge that it will be broken into parts once on the Hill. ACTION: Attorney General coordinating through Uhlmann/Fielding DEADLINE: February 1 2. Background press briefings/kits to be prepared, outlining both our accomplishments to date, as well as our legislative package. Schedule for briefings to be established (a) for press (b) for law enforcement interest groups. To coincide with transmittal to Hill. ACTION: Attorney General substantive coordination through Uhlmann/Fielding scheduling through OPL and press office DEADLINE: February 1 3. Throughout the late Winter and Spring, Administration spokesmen should undertake a coordinated foray into the heartland, calling attention to accomplishments and proposals for change. Local press should be briefed. We want to fix firmly in the public mind that this Administration is way out front on crime. ACTION: Attorney General coordinating through OPL and press office DEADLINE: Rough schedule to be submitted by February 15 4. The steps in 3 could perhaps be coordinated with the establishment of the regional task forces dealing with drugs/organized crime. The establishment of each regional group should be bally-hooed in the relevant media centers within that region. ACTION: Attorney General coordinating through press office DEADLINE: Same as 3, with phasing as required thereafter 5. In addition to the foregoing, there are two related phenomena which can receive more or less separate billing: (a) the establishment of the commission on organized crime and (b) the report of the victims' task force. (a) Crime Commission Two options here: (1) submit legislation asking for its creation as part of omnibus crime bill (downside: Congress will dilly-dally, steal the President's thunder with dog-and-pony show hearings; size and function of commission may be substantially altered away from what we want); or (2) create the Commission by Exec. Order (being sure to name Thurmond and Rodino as members), confront Congress with a "done deal", seek needed appropriations and subpeona power by special legislation, thereby maintaining maximum control over membership, size, and function of commission (downside: will offend segments of Congress; subpoena power or appropriations legislation could become Christmas tree). In either event, a whole series of media events, some involving the President, could be planned around the establishment of the Commission, its first meeting to be held with the President, etc. (b) Victims' Task Force Originally due to report in November, then December, but in any event soon. Once the report is in good shape, it could be presented to the President, who should take the occasion to express sympathy with victims of crime, etc. Depending on what the report recommends, this gives us a new opportunity to recommend yet further legislation int the Spring, accompanied by another presidential message. ACTION: Attorney General coordinating on substance through Uhlmann/Fielding scheduling with OPL and press office 6. Maximum effort should be made to get as much as we can through the Senate. The sooner the Senate acts, the sooner can a coordinated legislative/media strategy be set for attacking the anticipated recalcitrance of the House. We should not let the opportunity slip as we did last year to focus on the inability of the House to get its act together on crime. If sufficient satisfactory action is not taken by the Fall, the President can and should escalate. Contingent, of course, on other events not now foreseeable, major television address on crime should be considered. ACTION: Attorney General DEADLINE: Contingent CRIME Event Time Place Meeting of CCLP to announce Mid-February White House Administration's new omnibus crime bill Visit to one of the newly Optional Optional established offices of a regional drugs/organized crime task force Meeting with members of February, or White House soon-to-be established whenever Organized Crime Commission details are made final Ceremony honoring Summer White House (a) heroic police officers, generally (b) federal officers who have made noteworthy contributions to the war on drugs and/or (c) families of slain police officers Meeting with victims of Upon White House crime/families completion and review of Victims' Task Force Report-- Feb. or March Major speech on crime Summer/Fall (a) White House (national TV) (contingent or locale with upon degree major crime of con- problem gressional inaction) Meeting with business Immediately White House leaders to urge their following support speech on crime REGULATORY REFORM Initiative The Administration will complete administrative efforts at deregulation. The President will introduce major regulatory reform legislation in April 1983. There is little support for the old regulatory reform bill proposed last Congress. We will develop new proposals for the 98th Congress over the next two months. There will probably be two legislative items -- one involving the review and reform of the various organic acts, the other involving reform of the administrative process and judicial review. Theme Our deregulation efforts to date are already benefitting the public. We have gone about as far as we can administratively. Fundamental legislation is essential to ensure that in the future the peoples elected representatives keep close control over the regulatory process. Plan and Elements In February and early March, the President should make 2 or 3 short trips around the nation to: Visit sites where deregulation has had a positive impact; Review the Administration's accomplishments in reducing regulatory and paperwork burdens on business and the public; and Announce and promote support for Administration policies and legislative proposals in the regulatory area. After these trips, the President should deliver a major, televised address in mid-March in which he: Cites the benefits of deregulation that he observed during his trips; Demonstrates the benefits of deregulation to the business community, academia, state and local government, private associations, and the public; Indicates that he and his appointees have gone about as far as they can administratively to reduce the regulatory and paperwork burden. -2- Points out that Congress now has the initiative, and the Administration is introducing or backing legislative proposals that would reform relevant organic acts and the administrative process. Legislation would be introduced early in April 1983. REGULATORY REFORM Event Time Place Make videotape providing February - To be determined illustration of real life April situations where removing federal regulatory impedi- ments and relying on local voluntarism have improved a problem (e.g., revision of Social Security Act provisions to allow local groups to provide free heating to the elderly and poor.) The videotape would be made available to local chambers of commerce, etc., either through SBA or some other group (RNC). Invite Congressional February White House regulatory reform leaders in for discussions in White House, including members of the Congressional Task Force on Regulatory Reform that recently issued a report on possible Congressional actions on regulatory reform. Invite small business February White House leaders into White House for discussion on regulatory reform. This should be timed SO that the President can announce a favorable resolution of an IRS issue -- Rule 385 -- that is of tremendous concern to small businessmen and venture capitalists. Have White House spokesman Late February District of emphasize regulatory Columbia reform to governors at the NGA conference in Washington. -2- In releasing the "State March White House of Small Business Report", the President should point to the Administration's accomplishments in regulatory reform benefiting small business. President should make a March To be determined speech to a local chamber of commerce, again drawing the connection between regulatory reform and small business. President could announce the imple- mentation of the commitment he made last year to review every existing rule with a significant impact on small business within 5 years. President could also announce Administration policy to exempt small business from regulation to the maximum extent permitted by law. President should make a April National radio radio speech on regulatory reform. This would con- centrate on regulatory reform as it benefits small businesses, state and local governments, and voluntary local efforts. Transmittal message to April White House Congress introducing legislation on regulatory reform. President should make Summer White House remarks upon issuing final report from the Task Force on Regulatory Relief describing overall Administration accomplish- ments. Emphasize that enduring improvements have to be made through legislation. Press for enactment of Administration regulatory reform legis- lation. Bankruptcy Court Reform Initiative The 97th Congress failed to enact legislation in response to the Supreme Court's ruling last year in the Northern Pipeline case, and its failure to do so adds a considerable element of disarray to an already overburdened bankruptcy court system. There are any number of proposals to "fix" the problem, but the factional interests behind each effectively negate one another. That is likely to remain the case until the President takes the lead. Plan 1. The President should begin to assert leadership by referring to the need for legislation in the SOTU. Appropriate language has been drafted and submitted for approval. 2. This should be followed, in the final week of January or as early in February as possible, by a message which draws attention to the gravity of the problem, indicates the willingess of the Administration to work out a principled solution, and places the onus squarely on Congress. The essential elements for a compromise are already present among the diverse bills pending late in the 97th Congress. Because a specific proposal on our part may actually reduce the chances of compromise, without being able to succeed in its own right, no formal bill should be submitted at this time. Instead, we should seek to forge a quiet alliance with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts -- the theory being that a united Executive-Judicial branch front will put maximum pressure on Congress. ACTION: Attorney General coordinated through Uhlmann/Fielding DEADLINE: At or about February 1. 3. Coincidental with the drafting of the message, Justice should consult with Senate leaders, and after taking into account the likely response of Democrats in both Houses, propose a legislative strategy for the achievement of Administration goals. Anticipating that whatever comes out of the House will in some significant respect be unsatisfactory, the strategy should make every effort to ensure that a Senate-passed bill includes all or most of the elements that we would like to have in an enrolled bill. Every effort should be made to ensure early Senate action. ACTION: Attorney General plan coordinated through White House DEADLINE: February 15 4. The next logical occasion for presidential action is contingent upon Senate action. Once the Senate acts, the President should express his congratulations (press statement, perhaps reinforcing sentiments in the next available press conference), and follow that up with a letter to the Speaker urging prompt action by the House. ACTION: Attorney General draft coordinated through White House DEADLINE: Contingent upon Senate events 5. Should the House fail to act in a timely fashion, the same process as in 4. can be repeated. Theme: while the bankruptcy court system is in disarray, the Democrats are playing politics. Strength of rhetoric to be dictated by the circumstances. 6. No media events or presidential meetings with interest groups needed. BANKRUPTCY COURT REFORM Event Time Place Reference to the need Late January Congress for legislation in the SOTU. Message to the Hill Late January White House stressing gravity of problem and willingness to work out solution. Press release or public Contingent White House statement praising (after Senate Senate for passing passage) bankruptcy legislation and calling upon the Speaker of the House to achieve passage. No further Presidential events are appropriate. No media events or meetings with interest groups are needed. If House fails to act in a Contingent White House timely fashion, the Presi- (if House fails dent should escalate the to act promptly) pressure. The President should make an opening statement at a news conference stating that, while the court system is in disarray, the Democrats are playing politics. Strength of rhetoric to be dictated by circumstances. SCHOOL PRAYER Initiative The President will re-propose a Constitutional Amendment to permit voluntary prayer in school. The President will mention school prayer in the State of the Union. Achieving Senate and House votes on this Amendment will be a high priority for our legislative agenda for 1983. Theme We care not only about the economic and military strength of America but also about its moral strength. The Constitution was never intended to prohibit voluntary school prayer. The President's proposal reaffirms the basic intent of the framers of the Constitution. Plan The President should mention school prayer in the State of the Union. The President should transmit the Constitutional Amendment to Congress within days of the State of the Union. Our goal should be to achieve a vote in the Senate at the earliest possible date. There will be a number of legislative proposals introduced that would prohibit schools from discriminating against student religious clubs (i.e., Bible study groups must have same rights as chess club). These measures enjoy broader support than the Amendment. We should be prepared to back these measures as they arise. Elements 1. State of the Union -- The Constitutional Amendment should be highlighted in the State of the Union address. ACTION: Speechwriters DEADLINE: Jan. 20, 1983 Ed Harper -2- 2. Transmittal of Legislation and Message -- The legislative package should be the same as the one proposed in the 97th Congress and should be transmitted soon after the State of the Union message. ACTION: Ken Duberstein DEADLINE: Jan. 26, 1983 Ed Harper 3. Major Media Events, Speeches, and Meetings with Major Constituency Groups -- Throughout the Spring, as we press for a Senate vote, events should be scheduled to keep attention focused on the issue. ACTION: Office of Public Liaison Ken Duberstein Ed Harper -2- After the Supreme Court Contingent White House decision in the Lubbock case is announced, President should be prepared to react. SCHOOL PRAYER Event Time Place President will address Late January To be deter- National Religious Broad- mined casters where he will tout school prayer. President should First week in White House transmit the proposed February amendment to Congress at a White House ceremony for supporters. President should Early February White House announce through press release or at address to National Religious Broad- casters that he will start off Cabinet meetings with prayer, as President Eisenhower did. President should hold a Early March White House news-covered meeting with Howard Baker and Congres- sional supporters of school prayer stressing his strong desire for a Senate vote ASAP. President should give a Early April White House radio address on the subject of moral values in America in which he discusses school prayer. President should address Spring To be deter- Southern Baptists and mined mention school prayer in his speech. President should sponsor Early Summer White House a White House conference on prayer in schools. If the Senate passes Contingent To be deter- School Prayer Amendment, (after Senate mined President should give a passage) major speech calling upon the House to follow suit. ABORTION Initiative The President will not be proposing his own legislation on abortion. However, the President will move away from the posture that he adopted early last Congress -- namely, that he would act only when our supporters developed a proposal they could all agree on. The President will take the position he recently took in his videotaped message to the right-to-life groups and in his letters to Congress on the Helms Anti-Abortion Amendment -- namely, that the time for Congress to act is now and that he will actively support any appropriate anti-abortion measure that comes up for a vote. We will use quiet behind-the-scenes leadership to coordinate right-to-life initiatives with Hill supporters. We will aim to encourage, initially, small-scale initiatives that will garner majority support and give us a victory, such as cutoffs of remaining federal funding and bans on fetal experimentation. In the House we should be supportive of Cong. Hyde's efforts, and in the Senate we should encourage additional legislative leaders to assist Senator Helms by taking the point on some of these right-to-life measures. ABORTION Event Time Place President will address Late January To be deter- National Religious Broad- mined casters where he will condemn abortion and call for swift Congressional action. President will react to Contingent White House Supreme Court's decision in the five pending abortion cases. Escorted by pro-life March California doctors' group, President visits California site where 17,000 aborted babies are stored. President makes strong extemporaneous statements at the site. President addresses the April District of Catholic Educational Columbia Association convention where he condemms abortion and calls for swift Congressional action. President holds a May White House reception for the Catholic Hospital Association at the White House where he praises their accomplish- ments and their stand against abortion. President addresses the Summer To be deter- Knights of Columbus mined where he condemns abortion. President addresses Summer To be deter- Daughters of Isabella or mined Catholic Daughters of America. President hosts a Summer White House reception honoring Mother Theresa where the theme will be the sanctity of human life.