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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Knauer, Virginia H.: Files
(Consumer Affairs, Office of)
Folder Title: CATO Institute
Box: 26
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Millie for Pal me to luneges
9/27
CATO
Calender or 4.00 free
(Rob on Train)
September 12, 1988
NO
SANDRA HARTON MCCLUSKEY
maybetogo
Director of Public Affairs
and
Ms. Virginia H. Knauer
Chairwoman - Consumer Affairs Council
Department of HHS
1725 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC 20201
Dear Ms. Knauer:
NO Thanksped Per
You are cordially invited to attend a Policy Forum at the
Cato Institute on Wednesday, September 28 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Our featured speaker will be Joel Kotkin, coauthor (with Yoriko
Kishimoto) of The Third Century: America's Resurgence in the Asian
Era (Crown Books: 1988).
In his book, Joel Kotkin challenges the growing belief that
American economic power is declining. He contends that successful
competition with Japan and other Asian nations is indeed possible.
And he argues that it will not require the centralized planning
and government-business alliances that have failed so obviously
in Europe. Instead, Kotkin views the full exploitation of our
entrepreneurial, free-market system as necessary to ensure
continued U.S. economic strength.
Mr. Kotkin is the West Coast editor of Inc. magazine. He
has written for such publications as the Los Angeles Times,
Esquire, California, Newsweek Japan, and the Washington Post.
It promises to be an interesting and provocative discussion,
and I hope you will be able to attend. Please mark your calendar:
"America's Economic Resurgence in the Asian Era"
Wednesday, September 28, 1988
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (reception following)
Cato Institute, 224 Second Street, SE
If you or a interested colleague would like to attend, please
contact Dana Edwards at 546-0200.
Sincerely,
Sandra H. McCluskey
SHM/ptf
Cato Institute 224 Second Street SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 546-0200
CATO
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January 15, 1988
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SANDRA HARTON MCCLUSKEY
Director of Public Affairs
Ms. Virginia H. Knauer
have
Chairwoman
Consumer Affairs Council
you
1725 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC 20201
(Port fee)
Dear Ms. Knauer:
You are cordially invited to attend a Policy Forum at the
Cato Institute on Thursday, January 28, at 4:00 p.m., on the
topic "Tort Law: The Enemy of Innovation?" Our featured
speaker will be Peter Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan
Institute who is writing a book on tort reform. He received a
doctorate in engineering from MIT and a law degree from
Harvard.
Dr. Huber will discuss what he considers to be the anti-
innovation biases of the tort liability system. Contrary to
the conventional thinking on the subject, Dr. Huber believes,
liability law deters change and innovation and makes life more
dangerous instead of safer. In his opinion, the tort system
discriminates against potentially valuable new products, such
as vaccines, while shielding other hazards, such as cigarettes,
from the same scrutiny.
Presenting a perspective different from Dr. Huber will be
Gene Kimmelman, legislative director of the Consumer Federation
of America. Mr. Kimmelman is an attorney specializing in
liability issues and previously worked for Public Citizen.
It promises to be an interesting discussion, and I hope
you'l be able to attend. Please mark your calendar:
"Tort Law: The Enemy of Innovation?"
Thursday, January 28, 1988
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
If you or an interested colleaque would like to attend,
please call Linda Raeder at 546-0200.
Sincerely,
A.
Sandra H. McCluskey
SHM/ptf
Cato
Institute
224 Second Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-0200
Balid
CATO
November 9, 1987
SANDRA HARTON MCCLUSKEY
Director of Public Affairs
Ms. Virginia H. Knauer
Chairwoman
Consumer Affairs Council
1725 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC 20201
Dear Ms. Knauer:
You are cordially invited to attend a luncheon Policy
Forum at the Cato Institute on Wednesday, November 18, on the
topic "The Agenda of the Left After Reagan." Our featured
speaker will be Robert Hessen, a senior research fellow at the
Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business. His writings include In Defense
of the Corporation and "Socialism: Reports of Its Death Are
Greatly Exaggerated."
In order to recapture the White House in 1988, the
Democrats will need to offer a vision that can compete with
Ronald Reagan's "get government off our backs." Mr. Hessen
believes that a likely candidate is the concept of government
as partner, ally, and helping hand. Applying that concept to
business issues would mean promoting "economic democracy" and
such measures as strengthening the antitrust laws, restricting
mergers, encouraging employee stock ownership plans, and
requiring independent directors on corporate boards. In his
talk, Mr. Hessen will discuss why that approach is likely to be
taken, to whom it would appeal, and what steps would be needed
to counter it.
It should be an interesting discussion, and I hope you'll
be able to join us. Please mark your calendar:
"The Agenda of the Left After Reagan"
Wednesday, November 18, 1987
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (lunch to follow)
If you or an interested colleague plan to attend, R.S.V.P.
to Linda Raeder at 546-0200.
Sincerely,
Sandra
Sandra
SHM/dse
Cato Institute 224 Second Street SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 546-0200
CATO
VE/Bod free
The Cato Institute
cordially invites you to a reception
honoring the publication of
Buy
BLOOD IN THE STREETS: INVESTMENT PROFITS IN A WORLD GONE MAD
by
James Dale Davidson,
Chairman, National Taxpayers Union
and
Sir William Rees-Mogg
Former editor, The Times of London
Thursday, July 16, 1987
Author's remarks 5:00 p.m.
Reception 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.
224 Second Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
R.S.V.P.
Acceptances Only
(202) 546-0200
Cato Institute . 224 Second Street SE Washington, DC 20003 . (202) 546-0200
Office of Special Adviser to the President
for Consumer Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20201
May 17, 1985
Mr. William A Niskanen
Chairman
Cato Institute
224 Second Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Bill:
I want to send my heartiest congratulations
on your "new career" as Chairman of the
Cato Institute.
You bring to this important position an
excellent background and I know you' 11
be a success. Certainly you have my
support and best wishes.
Sincerely,
Virginia
Special Adviser to the President
for Consumer Affairs
the
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3
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the
PEOPLE
Washington's Movers and Shakers
Ravenel (no relation to Charles D.
tee, has been named national finance chair-
(Pug) Ravenel, a former Democratic
woman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
gubernatorial candidate) has an-
Committee, a new position.
nounced that he he will run for
Hartnett's House seat. Former Demo-
MEDIA PEOPLE
cratic Rep. Mendel Davis is also con-
sidering a bid for the seat.
Dan Balz, political and congressional reporter at
The Washington Post, has been named national
ON CAPITOL HILL
editor. He succeeds Peter Milius, who became
an editorial writer.
Scott Cohen, who left his post as staff
director of the Senate Foreign Rela-
Three additions to the staff at National Jour-
tions Committee in March, has
nal: health reporter Julie Kosterlitz, who was
formed a Washington consulting firm,
staff writer for Common Cause Magazine; asso-
Balz
Scott Cohen & Associates. Cohen is
ciate editor John Kotler, who was senior editor
replaced on the committee by
at Education Funding News; and regulatory
Jeffrey Bergner, who was spe-
affairs reporter Burt Solomon, who was editor of
cial assistant to Sen. Richard
The Energy Daily.
G. Lugar, R-Ind., the new
chairman of the committee.
AT THE BAR
Mary Lahr, city editor of the
Howard J. Symons, who was senior counsel on
St. Cloud (Minn.) Daily
the House Energy and Commerce Subcommit-
Times, is the new press secre-
tee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protec-
tary for Sen. Rudy Boschwitz,
tion and Finance, has left to join the Washing-
R-Minn., replacing Thomas L.
ton office of the Boston law firm of Mintz,
Mason, who has become pub-
Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C. No
lic affairs vice president for
replacement has been named.
Dorn Communications, a
Minneapolis public relations
Former EPA administrator William D. Ruckel-
firm.
shaus has joined the Seattle law firm of Perkins,
Cole, Stone, Olsen & Williams.
POLITICAL STRIPES
Murray
John L. Crawford has left his position as assis-
Donald R. Sweitzer, special assistant in charge
tant to the director of the Internal Revenue
of liaison with statewide elected officials for
Service's corporation tax division to join the
Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, has
national affairs office of the Washington office
been chosen as director of fund raising at the
of the New York law firm of Deloitte, Haskins
Democratic National Committee, replacing
& Sells. No replacement has been named.
Deborah Miller, who resigned without announc-
ing future job plans. No replacement has been
IN THE TANKS
named for Sweitzer on the Hill.
William A. Niskanen, former senior member of
Joe Trippi, a former staffer on the 1984 Mon-
the President's Council of Economic Advisers,
dale presidential campaign who is a staffer in
has been named to the new position of chairman
the political division of the Kamber Group, a
of the Cato Institute, a Washington-based pub-
Sweitzer
Washington consulting firm, has become a con-
lic policy research organization.
sultant at the Fund for a Democratic
Majority, a political action committee
Also at the Cato Institute, Charles Murray,
formed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
author of Losing Ground: American Social Pol-
D-Mass. Trippi is examining 1986
icy, 1950-1980 (Basic Books Inc., 1984), has
Senate races for the PAC.
become a member of the board of directors.
Also at the Kennedy PAC, deputy
Bruce Bartlett, author of The Supply-Side So
director Steve McMahon, has left to
lution (Chatham House, 1983) and Reaganom-
go to the University of lowa Law
ics: Supply-Side Economics in Action (Crown,
School. His replacement has not been
1981), has joined the Heritage Foundation as a
named.
senior fellow. He was formerly vice president of
cc: BIV
Polyconomics, a Morristown (N.J.) economic
Nancy Pelosi, who was defeated by
consulting firm. While on the staff of Rep. Jack
Paul G. Kirk Jr. for the chairmanship
F. Kemp, R-N.Y., he helped draft the 1981
Cohen
of the Democratic National Commit-
Kemp-Roth tax bill.-Eileen V. Quigley
986 NATIONAL JOURNAL 5/4/85
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TO: Dec. FROM: BOB 3, CHUCK STEEVES 1985
Schedule
SUBJECT:
CATO
FORUM
WITH
WIEDENBAUM:
THURSDAY,
DEC.
5,
4-5pm
It's confirmed
You 're welcome to attend the CATO Policy
Here's the details.
Forum
.....
just show up.
CATO Institute
224 - 2nd Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
Tel: 546_0200
(The site is a townhouse across the street
from the Madison Building)
Wiedenbaum to speak on "Dispelling the Myth About Imports"