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WITHDRAWAL SHEET
Ronald Reagan Library
Collection Name PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF THE: PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING
Withdrawer
PAPERS
RBW 12/20/2007
File Folder
01/03/1983 (CASEFILE 117203)
FOIA
S07-0077/01
Box Number
139
DOC Doc Type
Document Description
No of Doc Date Restrictions
NO
Pages
1
LIST
RE. MTG. ATTENDEES
1
1/3/1983
B6
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
B-1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
B-2 Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift.
If
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Referral Note:
THE SCHEDULE OF
REVISED
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
Monday, January 3, 1983
9:00 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Baker, Meese, Deaver)
9:30 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Clark)
9:45 am
Senior Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(90 min)
12:00 m
Issues Briefing Lunch
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
1; I 5
Insurance
2:00 pm
Budget Group Meeting
Roosevelt Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
3:00 pm
Congressional Meeting
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Duberstein)
(TAB A)
4:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office/
(60 min)
Bill signing off.
Residence
7:30 pm
Dinner for Bipartisan Congressional
Residence
Leadership (Stag)
(Duberstein)
(TAB B) (draft remarks attached)
UNP 12/30/82
2:00 pm
ALTIOLD
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
Def
Monday, January 3, 1983
9:00 am
Staff Time 9:04- -
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Baker, Meese, Deaver)
9:30 am
National Sécurity Briefing 9:25-9:40
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Clark), BUSH, am, MRD, ME KARLAND
system State Time
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(90 min)
*
12:00 m
Issues Briefing Lunch 12:05 - 1:10
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
1:15
MY Commission 1:20-1:31
CABINET Room
2:00 pm
Budget Group Meeting 2:03-3:45
Roosevelt Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
UP
3:00 pm
Congressional Meeting 4:22-5:25
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Duberstein)
5:35 - RESIDENCE
4:00 pm
Personal Staff Time Bill SIGNING- -- HANDICAPPED Oval Office/
(60 min)
TELE COMMUNICATIONS for DISABLED ACT -$ 2355
Residence
7:30 pm
Dinner for Bipartisan Congressional
Residence
Leadership (Stag)
(Duberstein)
LUNCH
- Em, CLARK, DARMAN FULLER
GERGEN, HARPER, DUBERSTEIN,
SPEAKES
State
UNP 12/30/82
2:00 pm
N
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
BRIEFING MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Monday, January 3, 1983
2:00 p.m. (60 minutes)
The Roosevelt Room
FROM:
RICHARD G. DARMAN
CRAIG L. FULLER
I. PURPOSE
This meeting is to review the following with you:
the latest economic forecast;
the net savings that have resulted from budget
decisions and appeals to date; and
alternative general budget strategies.
II. AGENDA
Marty Feldstein will lead off with the economic forecast (10
min.). Dave Stockman will then present the budget status
and strategic options. Discussion will follow.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
The Vice President
George P. Shultz
-
Malcolm Baldrige
Donald T. Regan
Caspar W. Weinberger
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David A. Stockman
Edwin Meese III
Michael K. Deaver
)
William P. Clark
1
Richard G. Darman
(
Kenneth M. Duberstein
-
Martin S. Feldstein
-
Craig L. Fuller
-
David R. Gergen
-
Edwin L. Harper
Richard S. Williamson
LARAY SPEAKES
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 4, 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR DAVE FISCHER
FROM:
M. B. OGLESBY, JR.
no
SUBJECT:
Attendance at Presidential Meeting
The following Members of the House of Representatives
attended yesterday's meeting in the Cabinet Room with
the President at 4:10 p.m. to discuss the budget:
Congressman Bob Michel
Congressman Trent Lott
Congressman Dick Cheney
Congressman Jack Kemp
Congressman John Hiler
Congressman Vin Weber
Congressman Hal Daub
Congressman Henson Moore
Congressman Bob Walker
Congressman Newt Gingrich
Congressman Tommy Hartnett
Congressman Bill Dannemeyer
Congressman Judd Gregg
Administration Representatives and Staff
The Vice President, Secretary Regan, Secretary Weinberger,
OMB Director Stockman, CEA Chairman Feldstein, Ed Meese,
Bill Clark, Dick Darman, Ken Duberstein, M. B. Oglesby, Jr.,
J.L. Cullen, Nancy Risque, Craig Fuller, Bob Helm (NSC),
Rich Williamson, Dave Gergen, Larry Speakes
REVISED
Monday, January 3, 1983
9:00 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Baker, Meese, Deaver)
9:30 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Clark) Peter Ass.
9:45 am
Senior Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(90 min)
12:00 m
Issues Briefing Lunch
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
1:15
MX
1
Pillion
2:00 pm
Budget Group Meeting
Roosevelt Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
3:00 pm
Congressional Meeting
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Duberstein)
(TAB A)
Segnary photo P-
4:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office/
(60 min)
Residence
4:10 p.m
7:30 pm
Dinner for Bipartisan Congressional
Residence
Leadership (Stag)
(Duberstein)
(TAB B) (draft remarks attached)
UNP 12/30/82
2:00 pm
Def
REVISED
Monday, January 3, 1983
9:00 am
Staff Time
Oval Office
(30 min)
(Baker, Meese, Deaver)
9:30 am
National Security Briefing
Oval Office
(15 min)
(Clark), DETE Sommir
9:45 am
Senior Staff Time
Oval Office
(15 min)
10:00 am
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(90 min)
11:45
MX Commission PHOTO opp.
12:00 m
Issues Briefing Lunch
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
1:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office
(60 min)
2:00 pm
Budget Group Meeting
Roosevelt Room
(60 min)
(Darman/Fuller)
(distributed separately)
3:00 pm
Congressional Meeting
Cabinet Room
(60 min)
(Duberstein)
(TAB A)
4:00 pm
Personal Staff Time
Oval Office/
(60 min)
Residence
7:30 pm
Dinner for Bipartisan Congressional
Residence
Leadership (Stag)
(Duberstein)
(TAB B) (draft remarks attached)
UNP 12/30/82
2:00 pm
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1 1/3/1983 B6
RE. MTG. ATTENDEES
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B-1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
B-2 Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift.
A
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEETING WITH SELECTED REPUBLICAN MEMBERS
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DATE:
Monday, January 3, 1983
PLACE:
The Cabinet Room
TIME:
3:00 P.M. (60 Minutes)
FROM:
Kenneth M. Duberstein Ker D.
I. PURPOSE
To discuss with selected House Republicans their thoughts
concerning the legislative and political strategy for the
upcoming budget. This meeting will provide an opportunity
for certain Republicans to discuss their "freeze concept.
II. BACKGROUND
House Republicans are very edgy about the presentation
of the next budget in January. While most House Republicans
believe that they share the same goals as the Administration
they are concerned about the budget strategy used to attain
those goals. Election results and the lack of ready answers
to budgetary and economic problems has created an uneasy
political climate with congressional Republicans.
Several Members have resurfaced the "freeze concept" as a
plausible budget strategy. Congressman Newt Gingrich (R-
Georgia) authored a draft letter (copy attached) advocating
a freeze of government spending at Fiscal Year 1983 levels
until we achieve a balanced budget. This idea has again
generated substantial interest.
This meeting will provide a cross-section group of House
Republicans with an opportunity to discuss their views
with the President prior to any final decisions on the
budget.
III. PARTICIPANTS
See Attachment
IV. PRESS PLAN
White House Photographer only
2
V. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
No specific agenda
Attachments:
List of Participants
Talking Points
Copy of Congressman Newt Gingrich's Draft Letter
PARTICIPANTS
The President
The Vice President
Secretary of the Treasury Regan
OMB Director Stockman
CEA Chairman Feldstein
Congressman Robert H. Michel (R-Illinois)
Congressman Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)
Congressman Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming)
Congressman Jack Kemp (R-New York)
Congressman John Hiler (R-Indiana)
Congressman Dan Coats (R-Indiana)
Congressman Vin Weber (R-Minnesota)
Congressman Hal Daub (R-Nebraska)
Congressman Bill Dickinson (R-Alabama)
Congressman Jim Broyhill (R-North Carolina)
Congressman Mickey Edwards (R-Oklahoma)
Congressman Henson Moore (R-Louisiana)
Congressman Bob Walker (R-Pennsylvania)
Congressman Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia)
Staff
Ed Meese
Jim Baker
Mike Deaver
Bill Clark
Dick Darman
Ken Duberstein
M. B. Oglesby, Jr.
J. L. Cullen
Nancy Risque
TALKING POINTS
Welcome back. Wish some of your colleagues had decided
to stay away longer.
Appreciate your strong, consistent support during the
past two years. We've been a great team and I know full
well how often the House Republicans towed the mark for
our programs.
As we focus on the agenda for the new Congress, I want you
to know that economic recovery remains #1.
I share the concern I've heard you have been expressing
on the size of the projected deficits.
I have been spending a great deal of time working on the
FY84 budget and understand you, too, have been developing
some ideas. I'd like to have the benefit of your thoughts.
Newt, do you want to lead off?
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December 17, 1982
22 EAST BROAD STREET
NEWNAR, GEORGIA 20263
(404) 253-8353
Hon. Ronald W. Reagan
President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. President,
We are writing you because we are very concerned that the
wrong budget strategy this winter will make it impossible to
form an alliance with the American people to achieve the dreams
we all believe in.
If a budget is offered which protects only defense while
crippling virtually all the discretionary programs, we will not
have reassured any of those groups frightened by our policies,
and we will have alienated virtually every group that now
supports us. Thus a narrowly pro-defense-budget will actually
cripple the very coalition that is for defense.
Any budget strategy proposing unpassable domestic spending
cuts and unrealistic defense increases will simply create a
vacuum for the Democratic party to step into. The Democrats will
then be able to claim to all interest groups that they are
"saving them from the threat of the Reagan Republicans' cuts."
Since in a free society the support of the voters is
essential to the enactment of any government program, it is vital
that we avoid the dangers that a policy of massive cuts entails.
Afterall, if we lose the support of the American people because
they fear our cuts and don't understand our priorities, we will
fail in the long run to defend the country or make real our
dreams.
Therefore, as fellow office holders with recent experience
in explaining our policies to the American people and talking
with them about their hopes and dreams, we urge you to consider a
budget based on freezing government spending at Fiscal Year 1983
levels until we achieve a balanced budget. This is preferable to
a budget, based on massive increases in one area and severe cuts
in another, that offers no hope of balance and no hope of
passage and that further more will cripple your allies in
Congress.
We advocate a freeze because the concept of freezing the
budget automatically seizes the moral high ground from
inflationary, welfare-state liberalism. When we propose a
freeze, it is impossible for our opponents to distort and smear
our proposal as "cuts" because, by definition, our freeze cuts
nothing.
By proposing a freeze, we turn the debate away from
protecting people from cuts and toward protecting people from
inflationary, deficit-expanding increases. We force the liberals
to propose increasing the deficit, and prevent them from
posturing themselves as guardians of the average man against
Republican cuts. Since our freeze program will have no cuts,
there's nothing to defend against. The burden of proof shifts to
the liberals.
Secondly, we propose a freeze because it is simple, clear,
and just. The American people are patriots. They will accept
sacrifice if they believe it is necessary, fair and offers a hope
of being productive. An across-the-board freeze demonstrates
that we take the crisis seriously, proves we seek fairness, and
shows that we will administer it in a way that every group
sacrifices in a measurable way.
Finally, we favor a freeze because the scale of the crisis
that shakes the Western world demands decisive change and,
courageous reforms. When underdeveloped countries face
bankruptcy which would threaten our entire banking system; when
our allies are faced with grave crisises; when one out of every
ten Americans in the labor force is looking for work; we are in
fact in a crisis. Crisises demand decisive leadership. A freeze
is more decisive and a more understandable step than any other
proposal we're aware of.
We do not necessarily endorse all the details of the
attached plan, but we do suggest that the proposed freeze, more
than any other program we have seen, is more likely to return
America to full employment; develop a safety net that protects
needy Americans; maintain the progress you've made against
inflation; and sustain and allow increases in the commitments
you've already made to our national defense.
We urge you to meet with us before committing your
administration to any recommendations which put us in a collision
course with the vast majority of the American people.
Our case is simple: any proposed budget that allows our
opponents to destroy our ties to the American people in the long
run dooms the very principles that you hold dear, and for which
both you and we have long fought as allies.
Your friends in the House,
Trent Lott
Newt Gingrich
B
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Bipartisan Congressional Leadership
Dinner
January 3, 1983
FROM:
Muffie Brandon Muffie Brandm
7:15 p.m.
Guests begin to arrive the SouthWest Gate,
Diplomatic Reception Room. They are held in
the Lower Cross Hall until THE PRESIDENT has
arrived on the State Floor.
7:30 p.m.
THE PRESIDENT arrives the State Floor via the
elevator and proceeds to the Red Room to await
his guests.
The guests are led up the Grand Staircase to
the Red Room to greet THE PRESIDENT and have
refreshments.
8:00 p.m.
All guests proceed from the Red Room into
the Cross Hall, then into the Blue Room where
they are seated for dinner.
Dinner is served.
9:15 p.m.
Mr. Eddy Albert enters the Blue Room from the
Cross Hall and stands just inside the door.
He begins his performance.
9:35 p.m.
Mr. Albert concludes his performance.
9:45 p.m.
All guests leave via the Grand Staircase.
THE PRESIDENT proceeds to the Residence via the
elevator.
(Parvin/AB)
December 30, 1982
4:00 p.m.
PRESIDENTIAL TOAST: BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL DINNER
MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1983
-- Welcome to the White House and welcome back to
Washington. It's been reported recently that I watch the House
sessions on C-Span, and that's true. But there's a great line in
the play "Harvey" that I think of whenever I watch those House
sessions. Dr. Chumley says to Elwood P. Dowd, "God, man, haven't
you any righteous indignation?" Well, there's plenty of that in
the House, and the Senate, and yes, I suppose at the White House
too.
-- But I do expect to work very closely and cooperatively
with the new Congress and you, its leadership. Now I know I'm
often accused of being an optimist, and I must say there are
worse things to be accused of. Someone once defined an optimist
as a person, who when told his tire is flat says, "Yes, but only
on the bottom." Oscar Wilde defined a pessimist as a person who,
when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. I know some
economists like that. Yes, our Nation faces serious problems.
But I believe if we in this room can work through our
differences, there's good reason for optimism in
America's future. So would you join me in a toast -- Gentlemen,
to our democracy, may we serve it as well as it serves us.
[Introduce Eddie Albert, who is to perform a selection of
American poems and songs. ]