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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 14, 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THE VICE PRESIDENT
FROM:
LAURA TYSON
ALEXIS HERMAN
GENE SPERLING
KATE CARR
SUBJECT:
Update on Planning for Corporate Citizenship Conference
This memo briefly outlines the current plans for the White House Corporate Citizenship
Conference you are scheduled to host along with the Vice President on Thursday. A memo on
Section 127 is being forwarded to you separate from these background materials. A complete
briefing notebook including a "discussion guide" for the panels will be sent to you Wednesday
evening.
You should know that media interest in the conference thus far has been quite high and
coverage to date has been extremely positive. As you may have seen, Time magazine, Business
Week, and the USA Today have run positive stories on the conference this week. [See
Attachment 1 for copies of these articles]
I. OVERVIEW.
Thursday's Corporate Citizenship Conference is a key component in your effort to shape the
debate on the relationship between companies and their workers. This conference builds upon
your State of the Union Challenge for employers and employees to join together in putting long
term prosperity in front of short term gain and upon your Xavier University speech, where you
outlined five Corporate Citizenship challenges.
While some have called for a regulatory approach to addressing widespread worker anxiety and
others have focused on "corporate killers," you forged a more positive path, outlining criteria
that could define a good corporate citizen. In your speech to Xavier University on March 23 of
this year, you called for this conference so you could convene business leaders whose
companies meet one of the following five corporate citizenship challenges:
1. FAMILY-FRIENDLY WORKPLACES: Creating workplaces that allow workers to
be both productive workers and caring and responsible family members.
2.
HEALTH AND RETIREMENT SECURITY: Providing the security that a living
wage. health care, and pension benefits can give.