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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
001. letter
To Melanne from Phil re: candidates (partial) (1 page)
07/13/1994
b(6)
002. letter
To Melanne Verveer from Ervin S. Duggan re: candidate (2 pages)
07/08/1994
b(6)
003. memo
To Melanne from Anne re: Update on Things While You Were Gone
07/12
b(6)
(pp. 2-4) (3 pages)
004. list
Suggestions from NEA (2 pages)
07/12/1994
b(6)
005. letter
To Melanne Verveer from Jamil S. Zainaldin re: candidate (1 page)
03/01/1994
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 20019
FOLDER TITLE:
Archives [2]
2013-0534-S
ry1543
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
CENTER ON BUDGET
would have to be cut would
AND POLICY PRIORITIES
directly affect health care
PHOTOCOPY
melanne-
programs.
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w/out W. Herese help!
777 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 705, Washington, DC 20002
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Thanks- Call Bob or me of you
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DOCUMENT NO.
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DATE
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001. letter
To Melanne from Phil re: candidates (partial) (1 page)
07/13/1994
b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Melanne Verveer
OA/Box Number: 20019
FOLDER TITLE:
Archives [2]
2013-0534-S
ry1543
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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INITIALS: Ry DATE: 4/22/2014 GEORGE D. LANGDON, JR.
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Candidate for
George D. Langdon, Jr. currently works for the United Nations.¹
According to the June 29, 1993 NEW YORK TIMES, several trustees of the
American Museum of Natural History stated anonymously that the board and Dr.
Langdon had mutually decided to let his contract as President and Chief Executive
Officer run out. The trustees said that the agreement was made in order to allow the
museum to seek someone who "would move more quickly to modernize the
exhibitions and improve its educational efforts." They denied that it was the result of
a derisive article in a New York magazine which talked about the expensive
condominium and car and driver Dr. Langdon received as part of his contract.
An article in the April 8, 1993 NEWSDAY referred to Dr. Langdon as the
"controversial former director of the American Museum of Natural History," but did
not elaborate on what made him controversial.
While Dr. Langdon was president of the American Museum of Natural
History, there was a controversy over the correctness of the posture of a Barosaurus
on display in the museum, according to the December 3, 1991 ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Dr. Langdon claimed the controversy was deliberate and designed to show science as
a continuing debate. However, on November 29, 1991, NEWSDAY reported that Dr.
Langdon had forbidden staff to discuss the new Barosaurus exhibit.
The NEW YORK TIMES reported on October 26, 1982 that Dr. Langdon, then
1
At the time of this public record vet, a resume was not available for Dr.
Langdon. However, our research revealed that he graduated from Harvard College in
1954 and received a masters degree from Amherst and a Ph.D. from Yale.
Dr. Langdon served for two years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He
taught history at Vassar, California Technical Institute and Yale. From 1966 to 1968,
Dr. Langdon served as Special Assistant to the Vassar President and Assistant to the
director of a study which concluded that Vassar and Yale should not merge. At Yale,
Dr. Langdon also served as deputy provost from 1972 to 1978. Dr. Langdon was
President and Trustee at Colgate University from 1978 until 1988. He continued to
serve as an Adjunct Professor of History at Colgate while he served as President and
Chief Executive Officer of the American Museum of Natural History from 1988 to
1993. Dr. Langdon was also named a Member of the Board of Directors of Custodial
Trust Company in 1991.
Privileged and Confidential
President of Colgate University, notified the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) that Colgate would not participate in the Division I-AA play-offs because the
schedule conflicted with exams and "flies in the face of the academic priority of
N.C.A.A. member institutions." On October 28, 1982, the UNITED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL reported that Dr. Langdon had "looked controversy straight in the
eye and changed his mind." Dr. Langdon had received pressure from the Colgate
Athletic Director and football coach as well as from players who threatened to
transfer to other schools that would allow them to participate in play-offs. According
to the October 30, 1982 NEW YORK TIMES, the decision to reverse the earlier
decision did not represent a change in philosophy. The decision to allow Colgate to
play in the play-offs was made because the coaches had promised the players that
opportunity in order to encourage them to stay once Colgate was switched from
Division I-A to I-AA.
On July 9, 1986, the PR NEWSWIRE reported that Dr. Langdon, as President
of Colgate University, was one of 95 college or university presidents who signed a
letter to Congress urging them to impose strong sanctions against the government of
South Africa to end apartheid.
Aside from the above, a limited review of the available public record revealed
no information that might bear negatively on Dr. Langdon's candidacy, generate
controversy, or disqualify him from serving as
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July 7, 1994
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INITIALS: By DATE: 4/22/2014
July 13, 1994
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CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM FOR FILE: George Langdon -
Candidate for Archivist
(Reference Comments)
FROM:
Phil Lader
George, early in his career, served in various
administrative posts at Yale University. The following
individuals whom I know personally offered these comments:
Judge Jose Cabranes (Yale Counsel when George was Deputy
Provost there; was Trustee of
Colgate and of Museum of Natural
History when George was at those
places) (203-773-2147) :
"He's a real management type; Kingman Brewster used to say
he was 'the best Buildings & Grounds man in the business."
"A historian at heart; he knows about and cares deeply about
scholars, wants to make sure they're working in optimum
conditions."
"I can't imagine anyone who could run the Archives better."
"He can get along with a very broad range of people;
accustomed to public speaking; great at nitty-gritty of
management."
"I was on his Board at Colgate for 9 years; he excelled at
giving credit to people who did a good job, held a tough line
with others; he left with people throwing roses at his feet."
"The Museum Board included some people of the kind that some
could consider loathesome to work for; they were preoccupied with
the social aspect of their trusteeship; some felt he didn't have
enough 'zip' in his parties."
"Sam Butler can give you the accurate story of why he left;
it was appropriate that his departure was, publicly, totally in a
good light; he turned the Museum around, which is what he was
hired to do."
"The UN job was just a holding pattern for him; both he and
his Board always were tentative about it."
Joel Fleishman (President, Atlantic Philanthropic; Former
Sr. VP, Duke University; Yale colleague of
George's; close friend of POTUS' and
mine):
"I have no specific reason to continue to feel this way; but
for 30 years, I just have not felt comfortable with him."
Langdon References
July 13, 1994 Page Two
Jonathan Fanton (President, New School for Social Research;
contemporaneously held corresponding jobs
with Kingman Brewster that George had
with Yale Provost; one of those who
proposed George)
"He would be superb; collection of professional experiences
suit him well for Archives."
"I know there was some problem at the Museum, but it was all
handled very professionally, and I suspect any problem was not
entirely of his doing."
George served more than a decade as Colgate University's
President ($50 million budget; fully executed $85 million capital
campaign, largest in college's history; Headhunter John Kuhnle
reports that George was very highly regarded, departure greatly
disappointed his Trustees, could have stayed there for rest of
his life, hands-on executive. After he left, his wife chose to
continue to live there and he commuted; but some in the college
community felt they had too much of a lingering presence and they
elected, with some pressure, to move to New York City, while
retaining a home at Colgate for retirement.
Gloria Borger (Assistant Managing Editor, US News & World
Report; Colgate University Trustee after he
left) (202-202-955-2180)
"By all reports, he was a superb President there, really
rebuilt the school, still highly regarded."
Brian Little (Partner, Forstmann-Little corporate
acquisition firm; Colgate trustee)
(212-355-5656)
"He was a splended president at Colgate, truly brought the
institution to another dimension, handled all the competing
constituencies brilliantly, left only because he felt it was time
to take on another challenge."
"I can't say enough fine things about him."
"He got a raw deal at the Museum; he tried to
professionalize the management of the place, but I think some of
the Board just weren't ready for it. I have no idea of what he
did at the UN.'
Gary Ross (Assistant to Colgate President, then and now)
(315-824-7445)
:
"Demanding, but always recognized hard work and jobs well
done. "
"Worked long hours, travelled to out-of-way places to raise
money, poured himself into the College."
"Handled all the College's constituencies with skill; could
have stayed here as long as he wanted."
"Very details-oriented; thorough, but delegates if he has
confidence in the person."
Langdon References
July 13, 1994 Page Three
He served as President of the Museum of Natural History in
New York; but his contract was not renewed. Sam Butler, with
whom I have had a long, casual acquaintance, (Managing Partner,
Cravath Law Firm; former Harvard University Overseers Chm.;
former Museum of Natural History Trustee) resigned from the Board
over the non-renewal of George's contract and offered this
explanation of the events.
"George worked very hard at the job, but never was part of
the New York social scene that some thought was important to his
work."
"As the first full-time CEO of the institution, he worked in
the shadow of a Trustee who still wanted to run things. One of
the Trustees starting 'gunning' for George to replace him with
someone else favored by a group of them.
"He saw through the projects he was working on; but for a
few years, he did not have a fully supportive Board. It was
worked out quietly; he got a good, carefully documented
settlement; there was some publicity about the condominium and
driver he had, but nothing very negative."
"He had responsibility for natural history/scientific
projects about which he was not expert; but he ran a good,
balanced operation.
"There's nothing in his record there which should remove him
from consideration for a position in the Administration."
He resigned from the UN Assn. of USA last week, having been
there less than one year. Harry McPherson had advised me that
George has been "looking around" for several months. BUT George
never told me, even in our meeting last week, that his departure
was imminent or that he definitely would be leaving. The
following Directors of the Assn. whom I know personally informed
me as follows:
Jack Sheinkman (President, Amalgamated Clothing & Textile
Workers Union) (212-242-0700) :
"He was brought in on a temporary basis to help straighten
out our management, and I think he did that."
"The fellow who heads the organization sets policy; George
is a manager; and it was understood that he would help with the
management, but not get involved directly in policy."
Rita Hauser (Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan;
President, Hauser Foundation; Professional
Director; spouse of Gus Hauser) (212-956-3645)
"Mutual decision with Board because he never could
consolidate authority to run the place. When he was hired, he
was told to act as CEO, though someone else retained the title
and resisted George's taking over much authority. George tried
to force the issue; and neither the individual nor the Board was
willing to move."
Langdon References
July 13, 1994 Page Four
(Hauser, continued)
"Pure gentleman, very refined and gracious, excellent mind."
"Did not demonstrate to the Board that he was sufficiently
aggressive to move in and take over; but perhaps he was not given
the chance."
"Would strongly recommend for other situation if it did not
require major overhaul like UN Assn. This is a tough Board, and
the situation never was fully clear with him."
William Rouhana (Chairman, WinStar Communications; UN Assn.
Trustee) (212-687-7577)
"He had the responsibility, but not the authority."
"Excellent at bringing together constitencies which
generally agree, such as an alumni group, but not inclined to
swim in muddy water; not very oriented toward details."
"Would not hire him for a 'hands-on' job in any company
which required a turnaround."
"Thoroughly pleasant person, high integrity."
Ruth Hinerfeld (Former President, League of Women Voters;
Professional Director) (914-834-7799)
"He probably never had a chance here. The job was vaguely
defined, and he had competing interests from the start. It just
wasn't a good fit."
"Highly professional, did a good job at what he was able to
do, would be good at similar position with less complicated
internal politics."
"Nothing happened here which should discourage the
Administration from considering him for a position of significant
responsibility."
JUL-12-94 TUE 14:43
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
FAX NO. 315 824 7798
P.03
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Hamilton, New York
July 1994
NAME
BUSINESS ADDRESS
HOME ADDRESS
(spouse's name in parentheses)
ACKERMAN, Peter Dr. '68
Managing Director
48 Phillimore Gardens
(Joanne Leedom-Ackerman)
Rockport Financial Limited
London W8 7QG
Secretary:
Suite 2, Cumberland House
UNITED KINGDOM
Sue Wilson
Kensington Road
Ph: 011-4471-937-2274
London W8 5NX
UNITED KINGDOM
Ph: 011-4471-938-3111
Fax: 011-4471-938-1459
APPLEGATE, Patricia K. '74
CPA, International Taxation
75 Rock Road
(Brion)
(currently inactive)
Kentfield, CA 94904
Ph: (415) 461-7163
Fax: (415) 464-4601
(Please send mail to
this address.)
BAIN, Richard C. Jr. 167
Managing Director
78 Wilson Avenue
(Antoinette "Betsy")
Lehman Brothers
Rowayton, CT 06853
Secretary:
American Express Tower
Ph: (203) 838-1109
Florence Bush
20th Floor
(Please send mail to
New York, NY 10285
this address.)
Ph: (212) 526-2709
Fax: (212) 619-7165
BATZA, Michael J. Jr. '63
Partner, Meridian Group
520 East Seminary Ave.
(Patricia)
Pres. & CEO, Heritage Prop.
Towson, MD 21204
Secretary:
515 Fairmount Ave., Suite 800
Ph: (410) 337-0527
Mary Lou Farrell
Towson, MD 21204
Ph: (410) 494-8955
Fax: (410) 828-7244
BORGER, Gloria A. '74
Assistant Managing Editor
2813 35th Street N. W.
(Lance Morgan)
U.S. News and World Report
Washington, DC 20007
2400 N Street N.W.
Ph: (202) 965-4186
Washington, DC 20037
(Please send mail to
Ph: (202) 955-2180
this address.)
Fax: (202) 955-2049
BURRELL, Colin A. '87
Associate
230 East 7th Street
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Secretary:
767 Fifth Avenue
Ph: (718) 853-3137
Richard Nochimson
New York, NY 10153
(Please send mail to
Ph: (212) 310-8585
this address.)
Fax: (212) 310-8007
CALVERT, Bruce W. '68
V. Chmn. & Chief Inv. of.
231 Brushy Ridge Road
(Marjie)
Alliance Capital Management L.P.
New Canaan, CT 06840
Secretary:
1345 Avenue of the Americas
Ph: (203) 966-5083
Kathryn Gluckin
38th Floor
(Please send mail to:
New York, NY 10105
15 West 67 Street
Ph: (212) 969-1070
Apartment 2-ME
Fax: (212) 969-1119
New York, NY 10023)
CAMPBELL, Douglas G. '50
Chairman
91 Five Mile River Rd.
(Sandra)
Ring's End, Inc.
Darien, CT 06820
Secretary:
181 West Avenue
Ph: (203) 655-4649
Connie Palermo
P. O. Box 1066
(Please send mail to
Darien, CT 06820
this address.)
Ph: (203) 656-7511
Fax: (203) 656-7572
Jon Cabranes:
JUL-12-94 TUE 14:43
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
FAX NO. 315 824 7798
P.04
-2-
CICCONE, Diane '74
Diane Ciccone, Esq.
(Daryl McMillan)
6 Hart Court
29 John Street #905
Secretary:
East Windsor, NJ 08520
New York, NY 10038
Ph: (609) 443-1833
Santos Mangual
Ph: (212) 227-1489
(Please send mail to
Fax: (212) 227-1698
this address.)
DIETZEL, Herbert A., M. D. '52
Physician-Gynecologist
395 Franklin Road
(Eileen)
854 Livingston Avenue
N. Brunswick, NJ 08902
Secretary:
North Brunswick, NJ 08902
Ph: (908) 297-1047
Priscilla Moran
Ph: (908) 545-8585
Fax: (908) 545-7733
GILLICK, John E. Jr. '67
Winthrop, Stimson Et Al
4604 North 37th St.
(Patricia)
1133 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Arlington, VA 22207
Secretary:
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: (703) 241-2372
Carolyn Gaunt
Ph: (202) 775-9870
(Please send mail to
Fax: (202) 833-8491
this address.)
GRABOIS, Neil R.
President
Watson House
(Miriam)
Colgate University
Colgate University
Administrative Assistant:
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
Claudia Caraher
Hamilton, NY 13346
Ph: (315) 824-1122
Ph: (315) 824-7444
Fax: (315) 824-7798
HAGGARTY, George A. '63
Managing Partner
372 Provencal Road
(Alice)
Oxford Building Company
Grosse Pointe Farms,
Secretary:
20630 Harper Avenue
MI 48236
Madeline Chabot
Suite 112
Ph: (313) 882-9537
Harper Woods, MI 48225
Ph: (313) 886-3490
Fax: (313) 886-0560
HILLENBRAND, M. Lisa '92
Special Needs Educator
121 Charles Street
Sudbury, MA, School System
Apartment 6
Boston, MA 02114
Ph: (617) 367-0620
JANEWAY, Richard, M.D. '54
Exec. V. P. for Health
2710 old Town Club Rd.
(Katherine)
Affairs and Executive Dean
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Administrative Assistant:
The Bowman Gray School of
Ph: (910) 727-7537
Nancy Cox
Medicine of Wake Forest Univ.
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1003
Ph: (910) 716-4424
Fax: (910) 716-3368
LITTLE, Wm. Brian '64
Special Limited Partner
3 East 84th Street
(Judy)
Forstmann Little & Co.
New York, NY 10028
Secretary:
767 Fifth Avenue
Ph: (212) 988-7543
Cathee
New York, NY 10153
Ph: (212) 355-5656
Fax: (212) 759-9059
JUL-12-94 TUE 14:44
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FAX NO. 315 824 7798
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-3-
MANZI, Jim P. '73
President, CEO, & Chmn.
(Glenda)
150 Yarmouth Road
Lotus Development Corp.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
Secretary:
55 Cambridge Parkway
Ph: (617) 232-9050
Sue Hamilton
Cambridge, MA 02142
Ph: (617) 693-8400
Fax: (617) 693-1007
MARIANI, Harry F. '59
President
25 Watchway
(Anne)
Banfi Vintners
Huntington, NY 11743
Secretary:
1111 Cedar Swamp Road
Ph: (516) 549-6841
Ada Zambanini
Old Brookville, NY 11545
Ph: (516) 626-9200
Fax: (516) 626-9218
MEENDSEN, Fred C. '54
Vice President of
24472 Tricefield Court
(Nancy Lou)
Corporate Affairs
St. Michaels, MD 21663
Secretary:
CPC International Inc.
Ph: (410) 745-2816
Muriel Saunders
International Plaza
(Please send mail to
P. O. Box 8000
this address.)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Ph: (201) 894-2443
Fax: (201) 894-2192
POND, Stephen K. '69
President
900 Rockford Road
(Kathleen)
Hill Brook Limited
High Point, NC 27262
Secretary:
600 Green Valley Road
Ph: (910) 889-5788
Amy
P. O. Box 10499
Fax: (910) 887-9097
Greensboro, NC 27404-0499
(Please send mail to
Ph: (910) 292-0849
this address.)
QUILL, Gerald D. '60
Senior Vice President
605 Pleasant Avenue
(Marcia)
CoreStates Private Banking
Wyndmoor, PA 19118
Secretary:
P. O. Box 7558
Ph: (215) 233-3817
Diane Holman
FC 1-3-10-74
(Please send mail to
Philadelphia, PA 19101-7558
this address.)
Ph: (215) 973-6378
Fax: (215) 973-1793
QUINN, Jeanne Follansbee '78
Teaching Fellow
38 Barnstable Road
(Charles)
Boston University
Norfolk, MA 02056
Ph: (508) 528-8922
RAAB, G. Kirk '59
President and CEO
2250 Redington Road
(Mollie)
Genentech, Inc.
Hillsborough, CA 94010
Secretary:
460 Pt. San Bruno Blvd.
Ph: (415) 347-7744
Mary
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
Ph: (415) 225-1209
Fax: (415) 225-2929
REMEY, Donald P. 154
Managing Director
20 Ox Bow Lane
(Nancy)
Bridge Capital Advisors, Inc.
Summit, NJ 07901
Secretary:
Glenpointe Center West
Ph: (908) 273-0373
Nancy
Teaneck, NJ 07666-6883
(Please send mail
Ph: (201) 836-3900
to this address.)
Fax: (201) 836-6368
SAPERSTEIN, Michael '62
Senior Managing Director
200 Harbor Road
(Jill)
Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.
Sands Point, NY 11050
Secretary:
245 Park Avenue
Ph: (516) 944-3926
Jean Napolitano
New York, NY 10167
Ph: (212) 272-6571
Fax: (212) 272-5916
JUL-12-94 TUE 14:44
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
FAX NO. 315 824 7798
P.06
-4-
SLUTSKY, Lorie A. '75
President
155 East 76th Street
New York Community Trust
Secretary:
Apartment 3-A
2 Park Avenue, 24th Floor
Elba Linares
New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10016
Ph: (212) 737-4745
Ph: (212) 686-0010, Ext. 257
Fax: (212) 532-8528
SMITH, Van P. '50
Chairman
805 Briar Road
(Chairman)
Ontario Corporation
Muncie, IN 47304
123 East Adams Street
Ph: (317) 282-6509
(Margaret)
Muncie, IN 47305
Administrative Assistant:
Ph: (317) 747-9001
Patricia Heath
Fax: (317) 747-1009
THREATTE, Gregory A., M. D. '69
Assoc. Prof. of Pathology
7652 Farmington Road
(Stephanie)
SUNY Health Science Center
Manlius, NY 13104
Secretary:
College of Medicine
Ph: (315) 682-6179
Connie Shaffer
750 East Adams Street
(Please send mail to
Syracuse, NY 13210
this address.)
Ph: (315) 464-4461
Fax: (315) 464-6817
TIMMONS, Jeffry A. '64
MBA Class of 1954 Prof.
16 West Bare Hill Road
(Sara)
of New Ventures
Harvard, MA 01451
Secretary:
Harvard Business School
Ph: (508) 456-8338
Lisa Lameaureaux
432 Baker Library
Fax: (508) 456-8663
Boston, MA 02163
(Please send mail to
Ph: (617) 495-6353
this address.)
Fax: (617) 495-9319
WOLK, Michael J., M. D. '60
Physician
876 Park Avenue
(Abby)
The New York Hospital-
Apartment 12-N
Secretary:
Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY 10021
Andrea
520 East 72nd Street
Ph: (212) 879-0866
New York, NY 10021
(Please send mail to
Ph: (212) 988-2881
this address.)
Fax: (212) 988-2449
TRUSTEES EMERITI
APPLEY, Lawrence A.
West Hill Road
(Katherine)
P. O. Box 354
Hamilton, NY 13346
Ph: (315) 824-2814
BEWKES, E. Garrett Jr. '48
Consultant
P. O. Box 8063
(Marjorie)
PaineWebber Group Inc.
Vero Beach, FL 32963
Secretary:
1285 Avenue of the Americas
Mary Ann McGinnis
14th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Ph: (212) 713-4583
Fax: (212) 713-1380
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FAX NO. 315 824 7798
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CUNNIFF, Richard T. '45
President
14 East Gate Road
(Marilyn)
Ruane, Cunniff & Co., Inc.
Huntington, NY 11743
Secretary:
767 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4701
Ph: (516) 692-7119
Marie Scianable
New York, NY 10153-4798
Ph: (212) 832-5280
Fax: (212) 832-5298
DORF, Charles B. '52
Consultant
25 old Snake Hill Rd.
(Marilou)
Kuehne & Nagel Inc.
Pound Ridge, NY 10576
Administrative Assistant:
Dorf International Division
Ph: (914) 764-5998
Frances Cudler
10 Exchange Place, 19th F1.
or
Jersey City, NJ 07302
525 East 86th Street
Ph: (201) 413-5700
New York, NY 10028
Fax: (201) 413-5711
Ph: (212) 988-2009
(Please send mail to
this address.)
DRAKE, Harrington '41
1980 West Wickenburg Way
Summer Address:
Wickenburg, AZ 85390
571 Sand Point Road
Secretary:
Ph: (602) 684-2848
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Paula Brill
Fax: (602) 684-3454
Ph: (805) 684-3309
Fax: (805) 684-2534
Winter Address:
P. O. Box DD
Wickenburg, AZ 85358
Ph: (602) 684-3309
Fax: (602) 684-3223
DURYEA, (The Honorable)
Chairman
old Montauk Highway
Perry B. Jr. '42
Long Island Commercial Bank
Montauk, NY 11954
(Marie-Therese)
P. O. Box 910, Tuthill Road
Ph: (516) 668-3948
Secretary:
Montauk, NY 11954
Ellen
Ph: (516) 668-2484
Fax: (516) 668-2121
GEYER, William H. '42
Retired President
39 Afterglow Way
(Helen)
SGA Scientific, Inc.
Montelair, NJ 07042
Secretary:
735 Broad Street
Ph: (201) 744-2887
Alice Cole
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
(Please send mail
Ph: (201) 748-6600
to this address.)
GREENE, Alan I. '51
Managing Partner
96 Merrivale Road
(Helen)
David J. Greene & Company
Great Neck, NY 11020
Secretary:
599 Lexington Avenue
Ph: (516) 482-6338
Barbara McBride
New York, NY 10022
Ph: (212) 371-4200
Fax: (212) 371-5099
KESSLER, Richard M. '52
President
Khakum Wood
(Deborah)
Richard Kessler Enterprises
Greenwich, CT 06830
Secretary:
35 Mason Street
Ph: (203) 661-0304
Ann Eisinger
Second Floor
or
Greenwich, CT 06830
300 East 74th Street
Ph: (203) 862-9490
Apartment 36-G
Fax: (203) 862-9794
New York, NY 10021
Ph: (212) 628-9104
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KNOWLES, William I. '57
(Vice Chairman)
RR 1, Box 471
Orrs Island, ME 04066
(Betty)
Ph: (207) 833-7893
PERSSON, Alf T. Jr. '42
(Helen)
Summer Address:
Box 2013
Oyster Harbors
Osterville, MA 02655
Ph: (508) 428-4722
Winter Address:
11460 Lost Tree Way
N. Palm Beach, FL 33408
Ph: (407) 622-7587
RUNNETTE, John K. '54
Chief Executive Officer
Mount Moro Road
(Ann)
Chestnut Group Inc.
Villanova, PA 19085
Secretary:
115 Bloomingdale Avenue
Ph: (215) 525-7340
Darcy
Wayne, PA 19087
Ph: (215) 688-3348
Fax: (215) 687-2553
RYDER, Bertram S. '42
R. D. 2, Box 34
(Janet)
East Lake Road
Hamilton, NY 13346
Ph: (315) 824-3172
SEMPLE, Cecil S. '39
25 Cartright Street
Apartment 6-G
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Ph: (203) 579-9236
WILEY, Deborah E.
Vice Chairman
1125 Park Avenue
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Apartment 3-B
Administrative Assistant:
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Denise Giglio
New York, NY 10158
Ph: (212) 722-5817
Ph: (212) 850-6582
Fax: (212) 983-0529
WILEY, W. Bradford '32
Chairman Emeritus
57 Prospect Hill Ave.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Summit, NJ 07901
Secretary:
605 Third Avenue
Ph: (908) 273-0439
Josephine Bacchi
New York, NY 10158
Ph: (212) 850-6101
Fax: (212) 983-0529
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EISMEIER, Elizabeth A. S.
Financial Vice President
62 Broad Street
(Treasurer of the Board)
and Treasurer
Hamilton, NY 13346
Colgate University
Ph: (315) 824-3385
(Theodore)
13 Oak Drive
Administrative Assistant:
Hamilton, NY 13346
Brenda Dutcher
Ph: (315) 824-7422
Fax: (315) 824-7798
ROSS, Gary L. '77
Asst. to the President
P. O. Box 364
(Secretary of the Board)
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
13 Oak Drive
Ph: (315) 824-2098
Hamilton, NY 13346
Administrative Assistant:
Ph: (315) 824-7445
Cynthia Slentz
Fax: (315) 824-7798
JUL 12 '94 01:26PM UNA USA 212 972 35853 3585
P.2
Board of Governors of the
United Nations Association of the USA
Mr. Christopher Brody
Mr. August Heckscher
E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co.
New York, NY
New York, NY
212-517-4830
212-878-0600
Mr. William L. Hensley
Ms. Anne L. Bryant
NANA
American Association of University Women
Anchorage, AK
Washington, DC
907-265-4149
202-785-7788
Mrs. Ruth J. Hinerfeld
Ms. Margery S. Cohen
Larchmont, NY
South Orange, NJ
914-834-7799
201-762-0499
Ms. Estelle Linzer
Prof. Rodolfo de la Garza
New York, NY
University of Texas, Department of
212-988-7338
Government
Austin, TX
Mr. Edward C. Luck
512-471-5121
President, UNA-USA
New York, NY
Edison W. Dick Esq.
212-697-3232
Washington, DC
202-393-7122
Mr. John A. Luke Jr.
Westvaco Corporation
Mr. Patrick A. Gerschel
New York, NY
Gerschel & Company
212-688-5000
New York, NY
212-399-4280
Ambassador Donald F. McHenry
Georgetown Univ School of Foreign Service
Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg
Washington, DC
American International Group, Inc.
202-687-6083
New York, NY
212-770-7711
Mr. William A. Miller
Frankfort, KY
Ms. Mary A. Grefe
502-564-8100
Iows Peace Institute
Des Moines, IA
Mr. James A. R. Nafziger
515-278-9779
Wilmette University College of Law
Salem, OR
Ms. Rita Hauser
503-370-6408
The Hauser Foundation
New York, NY
212-956-3645
JUL 12 '94 01:26PM UNA USA 212 972 35853 3585
P.3
Leo Nevas Esq.
Mr. Paul Tierney
Nevas, Nevas, Capasse, Rubin & Sarezky
Gollust, Tierney & Oliver
Westport, CT
New York, NY
203-226-1211
212-758-7220
Mr. William S. Norman
Hon. William J. vanden Heuvel
National Railroad Passenger Corp.
Allen & Company
Washington, DC
New York, NY
202-906-2002
212-339-2347
Mr. Louis Perlmutter
Mr. Edwin J. Wesely
Lazard Freres & Company
Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts
New York, NY
New York, NY
212-632-6000
212-858-1712
Mrs. Shirley Quisenberry
Hon. John C. Whitehead
Asheville, NC
AEA Investors, Inc.
704-298-0303
New York, NY
212-755-3131
Mr. Arthur Ross
Central National-Cottesman, Inc.
Hon. Richard S. Williamson
Purchase, NY
Mayer, Brown & Platt
914-696-9096
Chicago, IL
312-701-7119
Mr. William J. Rouhana Jr.
WinStar Communications, Inc.
Hon. Milton A. Wolf
New York, NY
Beachwood, OH
212-687-7577
216-752-6200
Mrs. Betty Sandford
Monrovia, CA
818-358-0619
Mr. Jack Sheinkman
Amalgamated Clothing
& Textile Workers Union
New York, NY
212-242-0700
Mr. Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
Emmes & Company
New York, NY
212-867-5050 x316
JUL 12 '94 09:26AM AMNH
P.2
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
July, 1994
BARKER, Robert R.
DOYLE, L. F. Boker
-Secretary
Barker, Lee & Co.
Fiduciary Trust Company, Ind.
717 Fifth Avenue, Room 2300
Two World Trade Center, 94th Floor
New York, NY 10022
New York, NY 10048
(212) 371-6777
(212) 466-4100
(Ms. Maureen Hopkins)
(Ms. Ann Lawler)
Fax: (212) 371-2924
Fax: (212) 839-6591
Vice Chairman
BERNARD, Lewis W.
FESSENDEN, Mrs. Nancy
Advisory Director
1158 Fifth Avenue
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
New York, NY 10029
1251 Avenue of the Americas
(212) 534-5912
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10020
FIERCE, Hughlyn F.
(212) 703-8097
Senior Vice President
(Ms. Nancy Novarro)
Regional Banking and Government
Fax: (212) 703-4790
Marketing
Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
BLINKEN, Mrs. Melinda
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 20th Floor
Residence/Embassy Brussels
New York, NY 10081
PSC-82, Box 002
(212) 552-4939
APO AE 09724
(Ms. Marilyn O'Keefe)
Embassy: 011 32 2 513 3830
FAX: (212) 552-4743
Embassy FAX: 011 32 2 511 4242
FRICK, Dr. Henry Clay, II
BRODSKY, Daniel
Closter Dock Road
The Brodsky Organization
P. O. Box 178
425 West 59th Street
Alpine, NJ 07620
New York, NY 10019
(201) 784-1823
(212) 315-5555
(Mrs. Mildred Terkovich)
(Ms. Cydney Gens)
Fax: (212) 315-5963
FUTTER, Ms. ELLEN V. - President
President
CLARK, Howard L.
The American Museum of
712 Fifth Avenue
Natural History
New York, New York 10019
Central Park West @ 79th Street
(212) 753-2755
New York, NY 10024-5192
(Ms. Kathleen McIntosh)
(212) 769-5997
Fax: (212) 753-2758
(Ms. Lorraine Belgrave)
FAX: (212) 769-5018
CLIFFORD, Donald K., Jr.
Threshold Management
11 Ivy Hill Road
Chappaqua, NY 10514
(914) 241-4974
(Ms. Karie Cates)
Fax: (914) 241-7904
JUL 12 '94 09:27AM AMNH
P.3
American Museum of Natural History
Board of Trustees 1993 1994 Page 2
GILDER, Richard
IRWIN, John N., II
Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Company
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler
1775 Broadway, 26th Floor
30 Rockefeller Plaza, Room 3500
New York, New York 10019
New York, NY 10112
(212) 765-2500
(212) 698-2880
(Ms. Maria Doyle/Ms. Mary Jo Claugus)
(Ms. Kathy S. Jamieson)
Fax: (212) 582-1196
Fax: (212) 956-3153
Chairman
-
GOELET, Robert G.
JALKUT, Richard A.
Emerius
Goelet Corporation
President & Chief Executive Officer
22 East 67th Street
New York Telephone
New York, NY 10021
1095 Avenue of the Americas
(212) 737-7500
40th Floor
(Ms. Pearlie Tillman)
New York, NY 10036
Fax: (212) 517-5837, 956-3153
(212) 395-5301
(Ms. Maxine Wilson)
Chairman
- GOLDEN, William T.
(212) 395-2424
Emeritus
40 Wall Street, Room 4201
Fax: (212) 302-9452
New York, NY 10005
(212) 425-0333
JARECKI, Dr. Henry G.
(Ms. Christie Van Kehrberg
The Falconwood Corporation
& Ms. Ellen Rosenblart)
Four World Trade Center, 5th Floor
Fax: (212) 344-7897
New York, NY 10048
(212) 504-7511
GOTTESMAN, David S.
(Ms. Julie Bowles)
First Manhattan Company
Fax: (212) 504-7518
437 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
KAPLAN, Mrs. Helene L. - Vice Chairman
(212) 756-3335
Of Counsel
(Mrs. Bjorg Mayring)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
FAX: (212) 832-4730
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
GRAVES, Earl G.
(212) 735-2340
Earl G. Graves Publishing Co.
(Ms. Beverly Jaeger - 735-2341)
130 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor
Fax: (212) 735-2000; 2001
New York, NY 10011
(212) 242-8000
KESSLER, Mrs. Deborah C.
(Ms. Toni Mathewson)
Khakum Wood
Fax: (212) 886-9615
Greenwich, CT 06831
(203) 661-0304
HAMBURG, David A., M.D.
Fax: (203) 862-9794
President
Carnegie Corporation of NY
KLINGENSTEIN, Frederick A. Vice
437 Madison Avenue
Klingenstein, Fields & Co., L.P.
Chairman
New York, NY 10022
Equitable Center
(212) 371-3200
787 Seventh Avenue
(Ms. Susan Smith)
New York, NY 10019-6016
Fax: (212) 753-0395
(212) 492-6171
(Ms. Karen Maher)
Fax: (212) 492-7007
JUL 12 '94 09:27AM AMNH
P.4
American Museum of Natural History
Board of Trustees 1993 - 1994 Page 3
KOCH, David H.
MALOZEMOFF, Plato
Executive Vice President
230 Park Avenue, Suite 1154
Koch Industries, Inc.
New York, NY 10169
161 East 42nd Street, 31st Floor
(212) 986-7570
New York, NY 10017
(Ms. Ann Dessylas)
(212) 682-5755
Fax: (212) 986-7574
(Ms. Margo Berger)
Fax: (212) 661-4265
MATTHEWS, NORMAN S.
650 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor
LAMONT, Lansing
New York, New York 10022
Senior Associate
(212) 308-5605
The Americas Society
(Ms. Susan Thomas)
680 Park Avenue
Fax: (212) 308-5608
New York, NY 10021
(212) 249-8950, Ext. 379
MAY, William F.
(Ms. Danielle Carofalo)
Chairman & C.E.O.
Fax: (212) 517-6247
Statue of Liberty - -
Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
LARKIN, Frank Y.
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
Edward John Noble Foundation
New York, NY 10017-3808
32 East 57th Street
(212) 883-1986
New York, NY 10022
(Ms. Sharon McKenna)
(212) 759-4212
Fax: (212) 883-1069
(Ms. Shirley Crowell)
Fax: (212) 888-4531
MC GRATH, Eugene R.
Chairman of the Board,
LAUDER, Mrs. Karen
President & CEO
730 Park Avenue
Consolidated Edison Company
New York, New York 10021
of NY, Inc.
(212) 535-0678
4 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
LYON, Frank G.
(212) 460-6344
42 Dublin Hill Road
(Ms. Melba Hernandez)
Greenwich, CT 06830
Fax: (212) 529-7147
(203) 869-8480
METZ, Frank A., Jr.
MACOMBER, Mrs. Caroline
P.O. Box 26
2806 N Street, NW
Pierson Lakes
Washington, DC 20007
Sloatsburg, NY 10974-0026
(202) 338-3677
Fax: (202) 338-3706
FEDEX: 1 Sterlington Road
(914) 753-6648
MALCOM, Dr. Shirley M.
Head, Directorate for Education &
MEYER, Edward H.
Human Resource Programs
Chairman, President & C.E.O.
American Association for the
Grey Advertising, Inc.
Advancement of Science
777 Third Avenue
1333 H Street, NW
New York, NY 10017
Washington, DC 20005
(212) 546-2000
(202) 326-6680
(Ms. Gerry Barbezat)
(Ms. Jennifer Hadden)
Fax: (212) 546-1495
JUL 12 '94 09:28AM AMNH
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American Museum of Natural History
Board of Trustees 1993- 1994 Page 4
Vice Chairman
MORGENS, Edwin H.
ROSE, Frederick P.
Morgens, Waterfall,
Chairman
Vintiadis & Co., Inc.
Rose Associates, Inc.
610 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor
380 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10020
New York, New York 10017
(212) 765-3895
(212) 210-6600
(Ms. Stephanie Ernst)
(Ms. Sandy Driesen)
Fax: (212) 765-1270
Fax: (212) 210-6766
Treasurer
- MOTT, Charles H.
ROSS, Arthur
President
Vice Chairman
John W. Bristol & Co., Inc.
Central National-Gortesman
233 Broadway, 41st Floor
Three Manhattanville Road
New York, NY 10279
Purchase, NY 10577-2110
(212) 267-9000
(914) 696-9000
(Ms. Diane Lewis)
(Marjorie Oliver)
Fax: (212) 267-4311
Fax: (914) 696-1066
(Linda Mandel (212) 737-7311)
MURRAY, R. William
Vice Chairman
SANDERS, Dr. Charles A.
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer
120 Park Avenue
Glaxo Inc.
New York, NY 10017
Five Moore Drive, P.O. Box 13408
(212) 878-2960
Research Triangle Park
(Ms. Elizabeth Escalara)
NC 27709
Fax: (212) 687-1438
(919) 248-2242
(Ms. Janet Herzberg)
PIEL, Gerard
Fax: (919) 549-8687
Scientific American, Inc.
415 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor
SEITZ, Dr. Frederick
New York, NY 10017
The Rockefeller University
(212) 754-1444, 754-0554
1230 York Avenue
(Ms. Helen Wallack)
New York, NY 10021
[(212) 754-1444]
(212) 327-8423
Fax: (212) 355-6245
(Ms. Florence Arwade)
Fax: (212) 327-7559
REED, John S.
Chairman & C.E.O.
SIDAMON-ERISTOFF, Mrs. Anne - Chairman
Citicorp, N.A.
120 East End Avenue
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10028
New York, NY 10043
(212) 988-2261
(212) 559-2733
Fax: (212) 734-2659
(Ms. Terry Pomianowska)
Fax: (212) 559-5138
SOLOMON, Peter J.
Chairman
Peter J. Solomon Company
350 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 935-3335
(Ms. Kathryn Besarany)
Fax: (212) 935-9770
JUL 12 '94 09:28AM AMNH
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Board of Trustees 1993 - 1994 Page 5
SPAHN, Mrs. Constance
465 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 755-5000
Fax: (212) 223-6379
STERN, Alfred R.
430 Park Avenue, Room 600
New York, NY 10022
(212) 308-6994
(Ms. Patricia Sullivan)
Fax: (212) 832-0483
WAINWRIGHT, Carroll L., Jr., Esq.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, 46th Fl.
New York, NY 10005
(212) 530-5332
(Ms. Debra Schmidt)
Fax: (212) 530-5219
WALTER, Henry G., Jr.
509 Madison Avenue, Suite 1216
New York, NY 10022
(212) 308-6648
(Ms. Evelyn Nader)
[(212) 308-6649]
Fax: (212) 753-2267
WILSON, Dr. Edward O.
Department of Entomology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2315
(Ms. Kathleen Horton)
Fax: (617) 495-5667
JUL 12 '94 09:28AM AMNH
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American Museum of Natural History
Board of Trustees 1993 - 1994 Page 6
HONORARY TRUSTEES
ANSCHUTZ, Philip F.
GRAY, Arthur, Jr.
Anschutz Corporation
Managing Director
2400 Anaconda Tower
Cowen Asset Management
555 Seventh Street
712 Fifth Avenue, Suite B, 20th Floor
Denver, CO 80202
New York, NY 10019
(303) 298-1000
(212) 957-7540
(Ms. Sandra Althaus)
(Ms. Marie Rubinate)
Fax: (303) 298-8881
Fax: (212) 957-7559
BEINECKE, William S.
HASKINS, Dr. Caryl P.
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 3020
1545 18th Street, NW
New York, NY 10170
Washington, DC 20036
(212) 370-1144
(202) 232-8700
(Ms. Linda Wool)
Fax: (212) 599-6282
ROCKEFELLER, James S.
1 Indian Spring Road
BELMONT, August
Greenwich, CT 06831
Court Road Farm
(203) 869-4330
27047 Presqu'le Road
Easton, MD 21601
RUDIN, Jack
(301) 822-3028
Chairman
Rudin Management Co., Inc.
BLUM, Robert E.
345 Park Avenue
87 Canaan Road, 4A
New York, NY 10154
Salisbury, CT 06068
(212) 407-2416
(203) 435-2043
(Ms. Jane Curley)
Fax: (203) 435-4895
FAX: (212) 407-2450
CULLMAN, Joseph F., 3rd
STRAUS, Oscar S., II
Philip Morris, Inc.
Daniel & Florence
100 Park Avenue
Guggenheim Foundation
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Date
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MEMO FROM: MAGGIE WILLIAMS
TO:
Milli Alston
Neel Lattimore
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Pam Barnett
Evelyn Lieberman
Anne Bartley
Diane Limo
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Liz Bowyer
Capricia Marshall
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Sarah Ryan
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Ann Stock
Carolyn Huber
Melanne Verveer
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The attached is for your.
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are must accelerate the process of
Toping strategies to deal with them.
Bub Burkett offered LDF the opportunity to raise these
a in Los Angeles with a small number (fewer
of prominent forward-thinking individuals who have
success and visibility in business and public affairs.
perspective, it would be extraordinarily useful to
with you and a group of this kind a number of initiatives
is considering for the future. One is an issue that I
mentioned to you, 1. e., the need for progressive voices and
of view to be heard in the mass media.
It part icularly concerns me that today denunciations of
and human rights issues are widely broadcast and go
muchallenged. Th se distortions have become so pervasive that we
longer have a neutral audience when trying to communicate our
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Friday or Saturday after the November elections would be a good
time. While the retreat would last approximately a day and a
half, your presence would be limited to half a day.
The idea is for you to meet with the group on Friday
afternoon for a few hours of discussion which would continue
during dinner. The alternative for your time would be a meeting
Saturday morning, continuing through lunch; or beginning with
lunch on Saturday and continuing the dialogue for a few hours
during the afternoon.
LDF would prepare and distribute a brief concept paper on
the issues to you and the other participants beforehand to
facilitate the discussion.
I make this request knowing how overwhelmingly generous you
have already been with your time on behalf of LDF and myself. It
is the gravity of these issues that gives me the courage to ask
once again for your help.
With deepest appreciation for your consideration,
Sincerely,
Elame Dones
Elaine R. Jones
Director-Counsel
Embassy of the United States of America
June 16, 1994
Ms. Melanne Verveer
Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the First Lady
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Melanne:
I hope you enjoyed the remainder of your trip to Europe. From
our perspective, it was truly a success. The French were
delighted with the President and Mrs. Clinton. They definitely
gave a boost to French-American relations.
I am enclosing the receipt for the D-Day scarf. I hope the
first lady enjoys wearing it. (The scarf cost $128.21, please
ignore the other items on the receipt).
Once again, it was a pleasure meeting you. I hope our paths
cross again.
Sincerely,
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July 12
FROM: Anne
RE: Update on things While You Were Gone
I hope you had a good trip and you are not toooo tired ! I am
glad that you are back. I hope you are, although all the paper
and messages greeting you may be difficult to feel happy about
being back.
THE ARTS
1.
Attached is the latest list from Sandy for the 8 vacancies
on the Council in September. The disciplines that are needed
are:
* a novelist * a well-known or celebrity performer
* a composer * a jazz musician * a documentary film-maker
There is at least one of each category on the list except the
documentary film-maker category. Jane is coming up with one.
2.
Sandy got the lists of the past Medal of Arts and Frankel
winners and the former NEA Council members to Ann Stock. He is
also finishing The 100 Luminaries in the Arts list and will get
us a copy when he sends to Ann, perhaps on the 13th.
3.
I talked with Kathy Whelan re: vetting of the Medal of Arts
winners. Sandy and I agreed on a plan so that when the NEA gets
the information for the vetting, we can stay on top of it here.
Kathy says once we get the name it should take 2-3 weeks.
4.
Sandy met with Kathy Southern, Ann Murphy, and Ed Lynch re:
invitation lists from the arts and humanities groups for the WH
events. They will send him their prioritized lists. He is also
getting Jane, Sheldon, and Diane's lists for the WH events which
should be excellent given their travels and outreach across the
country. It seems that we will need 1,000 seats. Do you think
that would seem too big ? It is such an important event and a
good one to invite people to.
5.
Rosemary Cribbin called and still wants to use the tent for
the October 4 dinner to get more people invited to it. She said
that in her view it would be difficult to invite some of the past
NEA Council members, such as Van Cliburn, but not all.
6.
Sandy wanted to know the possibility of the President in his
October 1 Radio Talk mentioning that October 1 is the Open House
day for all participating cultural institutions and that it
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Festival in Brussels in May and an now following up on carlier discussions
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unforgettable three days in Brussels, we would like to propose a mini-
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version of the Festival to be held at the White House as a culmination of our
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event would be a visible demonstration of their commitment and support of
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performance at the White House built around the presentation of a lifetime
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achievement award to Ray Charles in honor of Very Special Arts Founder
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Jean Kennedy Smith. It is our hope that we will secure corporate
Executive seu.
sponsorship to produce a Very Special Arts 20th Anniversary television
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special using video footage of this evening plus segments taped in Brussels
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and at other successful Very Special Arts programs.
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Very Special Arts is enthusiastic about pursuing these plans with you,
William K. smith
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aiming for a date in late September or October. However, we will be as
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CELEBRATING
TWENTY YEARS
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Celebrate the Abilities of All People
A White House Celebration in honor of
the 20th Anniversary of Very Special Arts
Overview
A day and evening of celebration at the White House is being proposed to mark the 20th
Anniversary of Very Special Arts. Since 1974, Very Special Arts has provided
opportunities in the arts to people with disabilities as a way for them to integrate into
mainstream settings, to tap their personal creative abilities and to access society's cultural
resources.
President and Mrs. Clinton have long been champions of causes related to the integration
and equal treatment of people with disabilities in this country. It is our hope that they
would bc integrally involved in this Anniversary program.
Theme
In keeping with the spirit of the occasion, the theme for the program will be Celebrate the
Abilities of All People.
Participants
Very Special Arts will enlist the participation of prominent VSA supporters - government
leaders, artists and other celebrities. Joining this distinguished company will be
representatives from Very Special Arts programs across the country, including children,
youth and adults with disabilities.
Events at the White House
A Very Special Arts Festival
The daytimc cvent will bc an arts fcstival on the White House grounds fcaturing
performances, demonstrations. participatory arts activities and exhibits that draw on
participants' creativity in the visual arts, theatre, dance and music. Performances by
Very Special Ans program participants will include children's original works such as
the musical drama The Wind That Blew, written and produced by Dade County,
Florida students in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, and Valentine Fairy Tales, an
anthology UL favorite stories adapted for the stage and performed by members of the
Loudoun County. Virginia Festival Players who use the technique of shadowing 10
assist cast members who have mental disabilides.
Festival attendees will also be treated to concerts by promising young musicians such
as ten-year-old vocalist Matthew Volbrecht, who received a music scholarship as one of
the 1994 Very Special Arts National Young Soloists, and Benita Gold, a saxophonist
from Gaithersburg. Maryland and two-time Maryland State Very Special . ArtsYoung
Soloist award recipient.
Visual ans demonstrations will teanure professional anists discussing and
demonstrating their art forms. Noted sculptor Michael Naranjo, a Native American
who was blinded in the Vietnam War, and painter Brom Wikstrom, an avid Very
Special Arts supporter and active member of the Association of Mouth and Foot
Painting Artists, are among those expected to participate.
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Celebrants of all ages and abilities will be able to choose from a wide range of
participatory activities that we refer to as "Art Stops." Examples include making
rhythm instruments from everyday items like paper plates and macaroni; using these
newly made instruments to improvise accompaniment and sound effects for story
telling and creative dramatics; decorating clay sculptures with fragrant herbs, rough
sandpaper or intricate fossils to produce artwork that appeals to all of our senses; and
creating collages of the world around us through texture rubbings.
A retrospective exhibition of artwork will be on display throughout the festival to
spotlight the artistic achievements of both professional and non-professional visual
artists involved in Very Special Arts over the last two decades.
The Evening Performance
A special "Evening at the White House" for invited guests would center On the
presentation of a lifetime achievement award in honor of Very Special Arts Founder
Jean Kennedy Smith. Ray Charles has been chosen to receive the award and has
agreed 10 participate in an evening performance where be will be juined by fellow
entertainment luminaries and Very Special Arts performers with and without
disabilities. President and Mrs. Clinton could play an important part in this event,
demonstrating their commiunent, concern and support for people with disabilities.
Video footage of the evening award presentation and performance would form the
centerpiece for a TV special celebraing Very Special Arts' 20th anniversary. Corporate
sponsor ITT has committed to underwriting the show's production costs and
independent producer Gary Smith of Smith-Hemion, who produced our Emmy Award
winning NBC Television Special, "From the Heart," has agreed to work with us again.
in addition to the White House taping, we plan to incorporate footage and profiles
captured at our International Festival in Brussels this past May and highlights of other
successful Very Special Arts programs.
Conclusion
An is a bridge that connects all cultures and helps us understand each other's point of vicw.
For people with disabilities, building bridges through the arts is a powerful step toward full
inclusion in American society. Participants in Very Special Ans programs have been living
by this philosophy for twenty years. We hope that President and Mrs. Clinton will join us
in celebrating our achievements and rededicating ourselves to this path.
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WASHINGTON
July 12, 1994
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Melanne Verveer
Veronica Biggins
Alexis Herman
Doris Matsui
FROM:
Anne Bartley
RE:
Presidential Correspondence on CEDAW/UN Conference on
Women
Attached is a memo from Deborah Pearlstein in Presidential
Correspondence. Please look it over. I will contact you for
your comments as Deborah has requested.
July 11, 1994
MEMORANDUM
TO:
ANNE BARTLEY
OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY
FROM:
DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN
PRESIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE
RE:
CEDAW/UN CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
As we discussed in last Friday's meeting, I've attached a summary
of the primary issues surrounding the Administration's
preparations for the Beijing Conference. For each topic, I've
suggested a Presidential response (often based on State
Department language), and I've noted questions that remain to be
resolved. Also attached is a proposed form letter on CEDAW that
would serve to answer thousands of letters from the general
public. I look forward to receiving everyone's comments,
changes, etc.
Second, at the request of the State Department, I've compiled a
sample of the President's mail on these subjects, including:
several "kitchen table" letters from the general public, a letter
from NA'AMAT USA, correspondence from Bella Abzug w/POTUS
response, and from Harriet Woods w/proposed response. Meanwhile,
we have some letters pending that need more immediate replies.
It would be most helpful to identify one person, either here at
the White House or at State, who could clear off on Presidential
replies to VIP mail.
Finally, I hope you'll send any additional information available
on Beijing or related issues, particularly after the results of
the July 18 meeting become known. As preparations go into full
swing, our responses will need to be updated regularly. Thanks
for your help in this!
Memorandum
July 11, 1994
Page Two
I.
Beijing Preparations
My Administration is looking forward to the 1995 UN World
Conference on Women in Beijing, and we are actively engaged in
preparations. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Tim
Wirth has established a new secretariat charged with coordinating
U.S. planning for the Beijing Conference. I hope that you will
contact Director of the Conference Secretariat Theresa Loar at
the State Department for further details.
I am determined to incorporate a diverse range of views
throughout the planning process, drawing on the knowledge and
expertise of both national and grassroots associations. Your
involvement is an integral part of this effort. With the
combined strengths of governmental and non-governmental
organizations like yours, I am confident that the United States
will be most effective in championing the cause of women's rights
in this nation and around the world.
To be more responsive to NGO concerns, the following issues
remain to be resolved:
*
How can/should the U.S. government help NGOs to
receive funding?
What is the nature of the First Lady's involvement?
*
How many NGO representatives will participate in the
preparatory meetings and at the Beijing
conference, and how will they be selected? Who
should they contact to obtain more information?
II. A Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
My Administration is currently exploring ways to expand
women's involvement in assessing the status of American women and
in preparing for international conferences.
No decision has yet been made, but the meeting concurred that the
President should avoid sounding encouraging about the
establishment of a new commission.
Memorandum
July 11, 1994
Page Three
III. U.S. Seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Let me assure you that the loss of the U.S. seat on the UN
Commission on the Status of Women will not prevent our energetic
participation in the UN preparations for the Beijing conference.
The United States will vigorously campaign for re-election to the
Commission in the spring of 1995 -- the earliest available
opportunity. We're counting on your vocal support for this
important effort.
The meeting also addressed the need to:
* Clarify Arvonne Fraser's role and reassert the President's
confidence in her leadership
* Identify specific strategies for NGOs in advancing the
U.S. campaign
IV. The National Report on U.S. Implementation of the Nairobi
Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women
The State Department is now completing the National Report
on U.S. Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies
for the Advancement of Women. We look welcome the comments of
interested organizations like yours when the draft report becomes
available in August. Based on these suggestions, appropriate
revisions will be made in anticipation of the 1995 World
Conference on Women in Beijing.
Following the July 18 meeting, the President should be able to
specify how interested NGOs can review the U.S. report.
V.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women
Proposed Presidential response attached
To be more responsive, the President could:
* Identify a time frame or specific process for moving
toward ratification
* State more explicitly the Administration's position
on NGO lobbying/involvement
UN/CEDAW Support
POTUS Response
July 11, 1994
Thank you for your letter regarding the United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW). I share your deep commitment to advancing
the rights of women around the world, and I am working hard to
meet that crucial challenge.
My Administration strongly supports the goals of CEDAW -- to
promote women's equality and to eliminate gender-based
discrimination. In completing our detailed legal analysis of the
treaty's provisions as they relate to U.S. law, we are consulting
closely with concerned non-governmental organizations like yours.
I welcome your insights, and I hope that you will contact (-----
---) with your suggestions. We continue to work toward
ratification with interested Senate offices, and I am convinced
that our step-by-step approach will best ensure its ultimate
passage.
I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this vital issue. As
we move forward in our efforts, I'm grateful for your support.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 5, 1994
Ms. Bella Abzug
Co-Chair
Women's Environment and
Development Organization
15th Floor
845 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Dear Bella:
Thank you for your suggestions on behalf
of the Women's Environment & Development
Organization. I share your deep commitment
to advancing the rights of women, and my
Administration is working hard to meet this
crucial challenge.
As Melinda Kimble, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Organization
Affairs, has detailed, the State Department
is actively engaged in preparations for the
Fourth World Conference on Women. With the
continued participation of government and non-
governmental organizations across the country,
I am confident that the United States will be
most effective in promoting women's rights in
this nation and around the world.
I appreciate your insights and involvement
as we work to promote human rights for all
people.
Sincerely,
P.S
President Bill Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
6445 Greene St. #B202
Phila., PA 19119
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing regarding the Women's Convention of December 18,
1979. This document, adopted by the United Nations, provides the
world community with an international framework of standards for
the protection of women's human rights.
The United States should welcome the opportunity to work with other
countries in implementing measures to alleviate discriminatory
practices that violate the human rights of women. However, while
the US was active in drafting the Women's Convention, it is not
among the 132 countries which have ratified the Convention.
I urge you to send the Women's Convention to the US Senate for
ratification as soon as possible. This action will help restore
the credibility of the US as an advocate for the protection of
women's human rights.
Sincerely,
Elen R. hh
Ellen Rose Lehrman
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President Bill Clinton
June 21. 1994
The White House
Washington. D.C. 20500
Dear President Clinton.
Please allow a few momenis of your valuable time to express
my concerns about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women (The Women's Convention). This
Convention was adopted by the United Nations on December 18,
1979. The Convention provides the world community with an
international framework of standards for the protection of
women's human rights.
The U.S. should welcome the opportunity to work with other
countries in implementing measures to alleviate discriminatory
practices that violate the human rights of women. However, while
the U.S. was active in drafting the Women's Convention, it is not
among the 132 countries which have ratified the Convention to
date. In June 1993. at the U.N. World Conference on Human
Rights, Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced that the
Administration would take action on the Women's Convention and
other human rights treaties. The U.S. compromises its
credibility as an advocate for the protection of women's human
rights as ìong as it does not ratify this human rights treaty.
I respectfully request that you send the Women's Convention
to the Senate for ratification as soon as possible.
Sincerely yours.
Mrs. Kathy Holland
10338 Lindley Ave. #107
Northridge, Ca. 91326
(818) 360-0425
Kath Halla
President Bill Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC
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Mr. President:
I would like to bring to your attention an issue of great importance to me. On
December 18, 1979 the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women (The Women's Convention). It saddens me to know
that in 1994 the United States has not ratified the Convention. In June 1993, Secretary
of the State Warren Christopher attended the UN World Conference on Human Rights and
announced that the Administration would take action on the Women's Convention and other
human rights treaties. However, without ratification of the Convention, the United
States compromises its credibility as an advocate of human rights and as a world leader
(132 other countries have ratified already). Therefore, I urge you to send the Women's
Convention to the U.S. Senate for ratification immediately. Thank you for your time and
any efforts you may take to alleviate this situation.
Sincerely,
Sharon Frudrichsen
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Dear President Clinton,
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Throughout the United States and around the world, women in large
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numbers are joining in activities related to the United Nations Fourth
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1995. As you know, this major event is expected to provide an historic
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of the world, the Women's Environment and Development Organization
(WEDO) has becn deeply involved in the UN planning process for this
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urgently needed international conference affecting half the world's
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population. We have a unique role in organizing NGO women's caucuses
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at preparatory and regional meetings to assure that women have
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We have been greatly impressed by your Administration's excellent preparatory work and
participation in the UN population and human rights conferences. The State Department and
its delegations displayed leadership, expertise and total commitment to progressive outcomes
in terms of policies and implementation, and we are confident that the U.S. delegation will
again do us proud at the ICPD conference in Cairo this September.
Regrettably, we cannot say the same for your Administration's preparatory work for the
women's conference. We have been both puzzled and disappointed by the lack of priority,
staffing, funding and commitment given to the planning for Beijing. This situation has been
compounded by the U.S.'s unexpected loss of its seat on the key UN Commission on the
Status of Women (CSW), a seat held by our country since 1947. This loss means that the
U.S. will be reduced to observe: status throughout 1995, the crucial period during which the
CSW will be preparing its final draft Platform for Action to be presented at the conference in
Beijing.
American women are proud of what we have achieved in the past few decades to expand and
strengthen our rights and opportunities for advancement. The crucial margin of electoral
support that we provided in 1992 demonstrated our confidence that your Administration
would also champion the aspirations of women, and we congratulate you on much of what
you have accomplished.
We respectfully propose that the U.S. resume its leadership role in advancing issues of
concern to women by making a major commitment to the success of the women's conference
and implementation of its recommendations.
We urge your Administration and the State Department to take the following supportive
actions:
1. Provide the necessary resources, staff and funding to assure major U.S. participation
throughout the UN women's conference process, comparable to the impressive ICPD effort.
This would include completion of the overdue U.S. national report, with opportunities for
NGO input, for submission to the UN conference secretariat, widespread distribution and
comment.
2. Assert an active U.S role in the October 1994 ECE/North American Regional Preparatory
Meeting in Vienna, with a strong U.S. delegation, including significant numbers of NGO
women. All U.S. delegations to the preparatory and regional meetings and the World
Conference itself should reflect the diversity and expertise of NGO women's leadership from
the national to the grassroots level.
3. Prepare decisively to egain a U.S. seat on the CSW at the earliest opportunity, well in
advance of the next eler tions for this important commission.
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4. Give priority to securing Senate ratification of CEDAW (the UN Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women), which was signed by President Carter in
1980. CEDAW has been ratified by 132 nations, and the U.S. is the only major power that
has not yet completed the ratification process. If the U.S. goes to Beijing without have
ratified this basic assertion of women's rights, its position there will be seriously
compromised. Major women's organizations are prepared to join you in vigorously
campaigning for CEDAW ratification. Setting a target date for tification would be a
positive first step.
5. Reconstitute a representative, racially and culturally diverse National Advisory
Commission on the Status of Women, which as you know was initiated by President
Kennedy, with Eleanor Roosevelt as its first presiding officer, and was continued in various
forms under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter. The Forward-Looking Strategies and every
major UN document dealing with the advancement of women's rights recommends and
stresses the need for such a mechanism within governments to act as women's advocates,
gather information and monitor programs, advise the President on all issues specifically
affecting women and to assure that women have an equal share in policy-making.
We offer these action proposals in behalf of WEDO and the many other NGO women in the
UN community who have voiced their disappointment over the loss of the CSW seat and
what they sce as inadequate participation in the preparatory work for Beijing. We know that
you share our commitment to the conference goals and we stand ready to assist in whatever
way we can.
I would add the personal comment that my experience in working with Tim Wirth on the UN
population conference, both as a member of the delegation and as chair of the NGO women's
caucus, has been totally positive and rewarding.
With sincere best wishes,
Bellagatzing Bella Abzug
Co-Chair, WEDO
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United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
June 13, 1994
Dear Ms. Abzug:
Thank you for the suggestions provided in your letters to
Doug Bennet and me concerning U.S. preparations for the Fourth
World Conference on Women.
We share your views on the importance of this Conference
and will do all we can to ensure full and active U.S.
participation in the Conference and its prepcoms. As an
initial step, the Department has formed a secretariat in the
Bureau of International Organization Affairs under the
direction of Under Secretary for Global Affairs, Tim Wirth, and
we are working closely with the Bureau of Population, Refugees,
and Migration to strengthen our outreach for the conference.
The Secretariat and its personnel staffing should help us
respond to the growing interest and workload involved in
preparing for Beijing.
We are in the process of completing the National Report on
U.S. implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies
for the Advancement of Women. The U.S. report will contain
information on programs for women initiated by Federal and
State governments as well as by non-governmental
organizations. We plan to make the draft report available for
additional NGO comment and input before we send it to the
United Nations in early August. Although our report is behind
our own projected deadline, it is a much more comprehensive
document than we have previously produced for UN Conferences
and offers a foundation for additional input from both
government agencies and NGOs as we prepare for Beijing. We
expect that US NGOs will be preparing complementary reports for
the Fourth World Conference on Women.
Ms. Bella Abzug,
Co-Chair, Women's Environment and
Development Organization,
845 Third Avenue, 15th Floor,
New York, NY, 10022.
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With respect to treaty ratification, the Administration has
given first priority to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and I am pleased to report
that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its approval
last month. We are hopeful the full Senate will provide advice
and consent to ratification as early as this month. We are now
focused on ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. We are working with
other Federal agencies and the Senate to prepare a package of
reservations and understandings on the Convention, which may be
ready for submission as early as July. We believe this
step-by-step approach toward human rights treaty
ratification--developed in consultation with interested Senate
offices--will best ensure broad and bipartisan support for the
human rights treaty ratification process.
Regarding your suggestion that the White House re-establish
the National Women's Commission, we are currently exploring the
range of options for maximizing the participation of women in
assessing the status of women in this country and in preparing
for international conferences. We hope to be able to make some
decisions reasonably soon. We also plan to include more NGO
representatives on future prepcom delegations for the Women's
Conference.
While I fully share your concern over the loss of the U.S.
seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, I must reassure
you that it will in not imperil our active participation in the
UN preparations for Beijing. The United States will stand for
re-election to the CSW at the first available opportunity --
the spring of 1995. We plan a strong campaign to regain our
membership.
Thank you for taking the time to share your suggestions.
Sincerely,
Melinda L. Kimble
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
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Dear Harriett:
Thank you for your suggestions on behalf of the National Women's
Political Caucus. I share your deep commitment to advancing the
rights of women, and my Administration is working hard to meet this
crucial challenge.
My Administration is actively engaged in preparations for the Fourth
World Conference on Women, and I hope that you will continue to play a
significant role in our efforts. With the combined strengths of
governmental and non-governmental organizations like yours, I am
confident that the United States will be most effective in championing
the cause of women's rights in this nation and around the world.
Let me assure you that the loss of the U.S. seat on the UN Commission
on the Status of Women will not prevent our energetic participation in
the UN preparations for the Beijing conference. The United States
will vigorously campaign for re-election to the Commission in the
spring of 1995 -- the earliest available opportunity. Additionally,
my Administration is exploring ways to expand women's involvement in
assessing the status of American women and in preparing for
international conferences.
As you know, I strongly support the goals of the United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) -- to promote women's equality and to eliminate gender-
based discrimination. At the 1993 Conference on Human Rights,
Secretary of State Christopher announced our intention to ask the
Senate to first take up the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination. As the Senate completes action on the Race
Convention, we are moving toward ratification of CEDAW. I believe
that this step-by-step approach, developed in consultation with
interested Senate offices, will best ensure broad and bipartisan
support for the human rights treaty ratification process.
As we press forward in our efforts, I'm grateful for your insights and
for your continued support.
Sincerely,
BC
President
Harriett Woods
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Linda Tangren
Jeanne Fox
Muriel Inabnet
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Lynda Van Scoyoc
Advisory Board
May 26, 1994
Sharon Rodine, Chair
Bella Abzug
Erla Alexander
President William J. Clinton
Owanah Anderson
The White House
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Patricia Bailey
Washington, DC 20500
Polly Baca
Lia Belli
Marjorie Benton
Dear President Clinton:
Polly Bergen
Rita Mae Brown
Charlotte Bunch
I had not written you until now about the preparations for the
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Ellen Burstyn
United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing because I
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hoped that the Administration's commitment to women's progress
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Shirley Chisholm
would be reflected automatically in appropriate action. It now
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appears, regrettably, that there is reason for concern.
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Charles Curry
Lynn Cutler
The real wake-up call was the U.S. loss of its seat on the UN
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Commission on the Status of Women. This is an embarrassment to
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our country as well as a definite handicap denying the United
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Ronnie Feit
States an important vote on the actions that may occur at the
Barbara Feldon
Beijing conference.
Sharon Flynn
Mary Harwood Futrell
Tracy D. Gary
The Beijing conference will have international attention with
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Lena Guerrero
thousands of women participating. It is critically important
Elinor Guggenheimer
Christie Hefner
to establish the input of Non-Governmental Organizations
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(NGOs), in planning and in appointments to our delegations.
Elizabeth Holtzman
Koryne Horbal
The NGOs are one of this country's great strengths.
Mildred Jeffrey
Coretta Scott King
Odessa Komer
Decisive action now is needed. The United States cannot
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Norman Lear
abdicate responsibility to its majority. There needs to be
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commitment of resources, and of leadership with authority to
Leon Lynch
Doris Meissner
act and the ability to get things done. There are significant
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players in the women's community now working on the UN
Joyce Miller
Midge Miller
planning process who can be helpful.
Tris Mitgang
Irene Natividad
Kathleen Nolan
As you know, I truly appreciate what you have done to increase
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Jean O'Leary
the diversity in senior policy positions in the
Esther Peterson
Administration. We are just as committed to advancing women's
Jane Pierson
Betty Blumberg Polley
-leadership in other nations, at a time when most look to the
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Sharon Percy Rockefeller
women of this country for partnership.
Marge Roukema
Audrey Rowe
Carrie Rozelle
Please know that I will be happy to help or provide any
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information we have available.
Claudine Schneider
Patricia Schroeder
Felice Schwartz
Donna Shalala
Sana F. Shtasel
Cathryn Simmons
Sincerely,
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Stanley
Gloria Steinem
Marlo Thomas
Joan Tobin
C. DeLores Tucker
Lucia Valeska
Harriett Janesthane Woods
Carmen Delgado Votaw
Julia Montgomery Walsh
Maxine Waters
Kathy Wilson
William Winpisinger
Executive Director
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath, KG MBE MP
(former Prime Minister of Great Briton)
House of Commons
London SW1
United Kingdom
Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone
(former Prime Minister of Japan)
Sabo Kaikan Building
2-7-5 Hirakawacho
Chiyoda-ku 102
Tokyo, Japan
(In Mr. Nakasone's letter, include his daughter.
Ms. Mieko Atsumi)
Mr. Shigeaki Hazama
(Chairman, The Praemium Imperiale Executive Committee)
Mailing Address:
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Tokyo 100-77
Japan
Mr. Henri Dutilleux
(1994 Praemium Imperiale winner in Music)
12, Rue St-Louis-En-L'isle
75004 Paris
France
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Correa
(1994 Praemium Imperiale winner in Architecture)
9 Mathew Road
Bombay 400 004
India
Mr. Tokuzo Arai
The Japan Art Association
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Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 162, Japan
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Mr. Kazunori Tsujikawa
The Japan Art Association
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Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 162, Japan
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The Honorable Steny Hoyer
5. Greenstal
M. Jerveer
Committee on Government Operations
U. S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Hoyer:
I am disturbed by the attack on Acting Archivist Trudy Peterson that has been
launched by the Washington Times in a February 16 article and today's
editorial. My 21-year career at the National Archives, and especially as
Acting Archivist for 33 months between 1985 and 1988, only heighten my
awareness of the situation confronting that institution today, especially as
reported in the Times. Before those items were published I made my thoughts
about "acting" status known through the Letters to the Editor page of the
Washington Post early in January. I think that the current situation at the
Archives is a direct result of not having a presidentially confirmed Archivist
who can act with the full authority of the office.
I also believe that much of the impression given by the items in the Times is
wrong. I do not know if Trudy Peterson has launched a "campaign to be
nominated archivist of the United States," but because of my "elder statesman"
status almost every other candidate has asked for my support, yet I have never
been approached by her. Nor do I think that she would launch a campaign by
alienating powerful forces that could be supportive, as the article suggests
has been done. It is also a fact that at least one of the staff who was given
an unsatisfactory performance rating was one of the people implicated last
April by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which recommended
that the new Archivist consider initiating strict disciplinary proceedings
against her. This is the first performance rating period to occur since that
report.
One of the other "unsatisfactory" officials has also been the least qualified
person to hold the office of Assistant Archivist for the Presidential Libraries
since the inception of that office, and has been in and out of the news for
questionable policy decisions since his appointment.
Where I do agree with the Times article is in the statements of Page Putnam
Miller, who holds a prestigious non-government position as director of the
National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. Her support of
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Trudy Peterson is fully justified, since Dr. Peterson has been a working
archivist, an aide to various officials in the Archives hierarchy, including in
the Office of Presidential Libraries and the Office of the National Archives,
which she later administered as Assistant Archivist for nine years. She has
the degree, research and publications, professional, and administrative
credentials for the position. The fact that I have known her for about 25
years and do not have an inkling about her political affiliation is testimony
to her discretion as a public official.
Please do not take this as the beginning of my campaign to have her named
Archivist, although I could easily support such a move. I believe that the
traditional forces involved in such decisions should play out, and I am sure
they will. I am also not hinting that my support or lack of it would make any
difference or affect the process. What I am suggesting is that the palace
politics of the National Archives should be looked at more closely before any
charges are laid on Dr. Peterson for the administrative actions she has felt it
necessary to take. I also feel, as I did early in January, that the
institution will continue to suffer the longer the White House delays an
appointment. I urge you to make further investigation of the situation at the
National Archives in order to evaluate the performance of Dr. Peterson, and not
to uncritically accept the cries of her detractors. I look upon the Times
efforts to undermine her already tenuous position as a political attack not
related to the competencies of the people involved.
Perhaps our paths will cross again at some ceremonial function, such as the
dedication of Archives II (by rights, it should be the "Steny Hoyer Archives
Building!"). I only hope that the National Archives situation will be resolved
by then, and that the agency can get back to its business of serving the
agencies and the research community without the distractions now haunting it.
Sincerely,
Frank Frank G. Burke
Professor
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February 28, 1994
The Honorable John Glenn
Committee on Government Affairs
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Glenn:
For 33 months, between 1985 and 1988, I was Acting Archivist of the United
States, while the President and the Senate tried to find common ground on the
appointment of a new Archivist. My 21-year career at the National Archives,
and especially as Acting Archivist for those long 33 months, only heighten my
awareness of the situation confronting that institution today, especially as
reported in the Washington Times on February 16 and today, February 28. Before
those items were published I made my thoughts about "acting" status known
through the Letters to the Editor page of the Washington Post early in
January. I think that the current situation at the Archives is a direct result
of not having a presidentially confirmed Archivist who can act with the full
authority of the office.
I also believe that much of the impression given by the Times items is wrong.
I do not know if Trudy Peterson has launched a "campaign to be nominated
archivist of the United States," but because of my "elder statesman" status
almost every other candidate has asked for my support, yet I have never been
approached by her. Nor do I think that she would launch a campaign by
alienating powerful forces that could be supportive, as the article suggests
has been done. It is also a fact that at least one of the staff who was given
an unsatisfactory performance rating was one of the people implicated last
April by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, which recommended
that the new Archivist consider initiating strict disciplinary proceedings
against her. This is the first performance rating period to occur since that
report.
One of the other "unsatisfactory" officials has also been the least qualified
person to hold the office of Assistant Archivist for the Presidential Libraries
since the inception of that office, and has been in and out of the news for
questionable policy decisions since his appointment.
Where I do agree with the Times article is in the statements of Page Putnam
Miller, who holds a prestigious non-government position as director of the
National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. Her support of
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Trudy Peterson is fully justified, since Dr. Peterson has been a working
archivist, an aide to various officials in the Archives hierarchy, including in
the Office of Presidential Libraries and the Office of the National Archives,
which she later administered as Assistant Archivist for nine years. She has
the degree, research and publications, professional, and administrative
credentials for the position. The fact that I have known her for about 25
years and do not have an inkling about her political affiliation is testimony
to her discretion as a public official.
Please do not take this as the beginning of my campaign to have her named
Archivist, although I could easily support such an appointment. I believe that
the traditional forces involved in such decisions should play out, and I am
sure they will. I am also not hinting that my support or lack of it would make
any difference or affect the process. What I am suggesting is that the palace
politics of the National Archives should be looked at more closely before any
charges are laid on Dr. Peterson for the administrative actions she has felt it
necessary to take. I also feel, as I did early in January, that the
institution will continue to suffer the longer the White House delays an
appointment. I do, however, urge you to make further investigation of the
situation at the National Archives in order to evaluate the performance of Dr.
Peterson, and not to uncritically accept the cries of her detractors. I look
upon the Times efforts to undermine her already tenuous position as a political
attack not related to the competencies of the people involved.
Sincerely,
Jambs Banke Frank G. Burke
Professor
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RICHARD A. JACOBS
404 BEAUMONT ROAD
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
February 16, 1994
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Senator Mark Hatfield
United States Senate
U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Hatfield:
I write in response to an article that appeared in today's Washington Times
concerning management problems at the National Archives. Mentioned in the
article was an inquiry that you made to the inspector general of that agency, and i
certainly appreciate your continued interest in the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
You and I met on many occasions while you served as a member of the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission and I was its executive
director. Before that time I had assisted Archivist Bob Warner in several staff
positions and played a key role with you and your staff in winning independent
agency status for NARA. And before 1981, I had served for 12 years in
administering the Presidential Libraries system, mainly as its deputy director.
In general, I am terribly saddened by what has happened among my
colleagues at NARA since I retired in 1991. You should understand that I left in
part because I did not like the trend of activities in the agency and I found that my
effectiveness in influencing its direction was diminishing. I would not have
imagined, however, the awful consequences that we have now witnessed.
You will surely recall the report issued by the Senate Government Affairs
Committee in October/November 1992, accusing the agency of nefarious handling
in its appointment of an inspector general and several cases of questionable
procurement practices. That report, together with publicity concerning departure
agreements made with President Bush, led to Archivist Don Wilson's departure in
disgrace in March 1993. Virtually all of the actions analyzed in the Senate report
had their source in the actions and attitudes of deputy archivist Claudine Weiher,
and I can attest that her attitudes also led to failures in labor relations,
Congressional relations, press relations, all in addition to severe problems in
procurement, financial and personnel management. And just to bring it full circle,
the present regretable plight of poor Gary Brooks as General Counsel is to be laid
squarely at her door. From winning independence in 1984 until about 1989, I
steadfastly opposed naming Brooks to that senior legal position on grounds of his
inadequate preparation in broad policy and legal matters, although not so much as
to condemn him as a decent staff attorney. But in a final and decisive argument
before the Archivist, Claudine's response to the case that I had made was, "I don't
want a bright lawyer, I want one who will do what we tell him to do!" Gary was
given the appointment.
RICHARD A. JACOBS
404 BEAUMONT ROAD
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
February 16, 1994
Ms. Melanne Verveer,
Deputy Assistant to the President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Sir:
I am transmitting for your information the enclosed copy of a letter to Senator
Mark Hatfield concerning administration of the National Archives.
Sincerely
Rind
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Thus, when Don Wilson left last March, it was deemed important by the
Administration to put Claudine aside and name someone else deputy archivist who
would, in accord with the statute, serve in full authority as acting Archivist until one
was duly nominated and confirmed. Dr. Trudy Peterson was selected and given
the mantle of authority to direct the agency until the appointment process was
completed. I know from experience that it is tough serving in an acting capacity,
especially at high and solitary levels. If there is any dissatisfaction among staff,
incidents of rebellion and insubordination do occur, and the person bearing the
authority is compelled to assert that authority and maintain command.
I have had occasional conversations with Dr. Peterson during this difficult
period, and I am aware that her leadership has been challenged and undermined
almost continuously since last March, when all of these people should have been
supporting her efforts to lead. While I do not have sufficient command of details
to lay blame or make accusations, it seems to me that the pattern is obvious and
has already been proven by earlier studies. Addressing one issue only, I can say
with confidence that Trudy Peterson's policies with respect to the archival holdings
and well-being of Presidential Libraries would pose no threat whatsover to those
institutions. The people who are asserting such a claim are covering misbehavior
and trying to garner support for their rebellion.
I have known Trudy Peterson during her entire professional career, and I
know her to be an earnest, knowledgeable, and competent archivist of great
integrity and sound judgment. She deserves the support of the Administration
and members of the Congress until the appointment process can be completed.
Sincerely,
/s/ RAJ
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Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Chairman, Gov't Operations
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Since we last spoke about the Charters of Freedom, I've discussed your concerns
at some length with the First Lady, Frank Raines, and some of the President's
other senior advisors.
From those discussions came final decisions that I believe provide a strong
proposal that we can all support.
On the Restoration and Re-encasement of the Charters of Freedom
First, the Budget will include $4 million for restoration and re-encasement of the
Charters - more than ample funding to complete this critical work.
In addition, we will help you seek private sector funding to allow the Archives to
begin this important project during the current fiscal year.
On Display of the Charters
We also have thought further about where the Charters would be displayed after
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they have been re-encased.
Like you, we recognize the serious problems of accessibility and security that arise
from the current display at the Rotunda.
All of us continue to believe that the optimal solution would be to display the
Charters at a special sanctuary within the Smithsonian's National Museum of
American History.
In light of the concerns that you have raised in various discussions, however, we
have decided to study the issue further.
We intend to establish a Commission whose members will include distinguished
members of the archival and historical communities, academia, and government.
We will ask the Commission to evaluate a number of options for displaying the
Charters of Freedom. The Commission will be asked to consider the security
provided for the Charters, the public accessibility of the Charters, and the cost of
each option.
After the Commission has completed its work, we will make final decisions about
where and how the Charters should be displayed.
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On Restoration of Main Archives
Finally, I'm pleased that the budget will request $71 million to renovate the Main
Archives building, and bring the building into full compliance with various ADA,
environmental and life-safety codes.
I want to emphasize, however, that none of these funds may be used to renovate
the rotunda exhibit or the Charter display. We will consider proposals to renovate
these areas only after we have had an opportunity to review the findings and
recommendations of the Charter Commission.
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THE CHARTERS OF FREEDOM
Summary of the Need for their Retention by the National Archives
Within the Administration there is a proposal to create a commission to consider removing from
the National Archives the original Charters of Freedom-the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of the U.S., and the Bill of Rights-for exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution. This package
explains why that proposal is legally objectionable, historically contradictory, and politically unwise.
Under current law the Archivist of the U.S. must protect the Charters. The
Charters came to the National Archives under the Federal Records Act, which makes the
Archivist responsible for their care. Even if a commission were to recommend removal,
the law would have to be changed before they could be removed without his consent.
The Archivist could not consent to removal of the documents to the Smithsonian.
Unless the law were changed, the Archivist would feel unable to approve transfer of the
most important records of the federal government to a quasi-governmental agency,
which has its own governing board.
The National Archives was created specifically for safekeeping such documents.
The Congress directed that the Charters be preserved on display there, which was
advocated by Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman. They and the architect of the
Archives intended its rotunda to be a shrine, a special setting for the Charters' display.
Members of the Congress would fight the move. In addition to putting the Charters
in the National Archives to begin with, the Congress also has been insistent that the
Archivist exercise judgment about safekeeping such documents independent of politics,
and even setting up a commission to contemplate a change would seem an abrogation of
the Archivist's authority in the interest of some political rather than protective objective.
Removal of the Charters from the National Archives and its rotunda would
provoke public outrage. It would take a huge public relations effort to try to sell
veterans' organizations, patriotic associations, and the public generally that the Charters
should be transferred from their shrine in the archives, particularly to a museum
organization with a recent track record for exhibiting American history controversially
(in the Enola Gay exhibit among others). Professional organizations of historians,
political scientists, and archivists would also protest this as a threat to the independence
of the Archivist in making judgments about other federal records.
Archives treat documents such as the Charters as vital evidence, not just as
educational objects. The Charters verify the original words, and they document the
original signatures of the founders. To treat them simply as museum objects, stuck in
among others, would trivialize them as well as remove them from documents to which
they are related, such as the Constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights.
A fight over the Charters will hurt the Administration. The controversy will spoil
the credit that the President will otherwise receive for being the first chief executive
since Lyndon Johnson to push for truly adequate funding for the Archives, and could
tarnish the good will he will generate in his millennial celebration.
Documents in this package explain why the Charters should remain at the Archives, discuss
potential consequences of moving them, and analyze legal issues raised by the proposal to move them.
AMERICA'S CHARTERS OF FREEDOM
Why They Cannot Be Moved From The National Archives
"There could be no better place for this discussion than the National Archives,
for within these walls are America's bedrocks of our common ground, the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. No paper is as
lasting as the words these documents contain, so we put them in these special
cases to protect the parchment from the elements. No building is as solid as the
principles these documents embody, but we sure tried to build one with these
metal doors 11 inches thick to keep them safe, for these documents are America's
only crown jewels.
-President William J. Clinton, Remarks on Affirmative
Action, at the National Archives, July 19, 1995
The basic American Charters of Freedom-the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights-are entrusted by Federal law to the
National Archives and Records Administration alone, which has no greater responsibility than to
preserve and provide public access to them. They are at the heart of NARA's mission.
The Federal Records Act requires that NARA preserve the most important,
permanently valuable records of the Federal Government. None is more
important than the documents that created that government, defined its right to
exist, and established the liberties of its people.
The Charters cannot simply be taken out of the Archives. They are part of the
Archives of the United States, governed by the Federal Records Act and
permanently accessioned by a legal process. The Charters came to the National
Archives under the Federal Records Act of 1950 (now 44 U.S.C. § 2107), which
authorized the Archivist to "accept for deposit with the National Archives of the
United States the records of any Federal agency or of the Congress of the United
States that are determined by the Archivist to have sufficient historical or other
value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government." And by statute
[44 U.S.C. § 2108(a)], the Archivist "shall be responsible for the custody, use and
withdrawal of records transferred to him."
The Congress created the National Archives as a place of safekeeping for the
Archives of the United States, including permanently valuable records that
previously had been scattered, transported here and there at great risk, endangered
by fire, flood, and vandalism, and damaged by exposure in unprotected space. (A
century ago the Declaration, for example, was fading so badly in the old State-
War-Navy building that it had to be removed from display there.) Having created
the National Archives specifically for safekeeping such documents, why then take
the nation's most precious records out of it?
Moreover, the Charters are the cornerstone of American government. Their
accessibility to all in the National Archives underscores the fundamental ideas
that our democratic republic rests on more than the whims of individuals, that the
people have a right to inspect for themselves the documents by which they are
governed, and that enabling the citizenry to view and use federal documents is the
contribution that NARA makes to the continuation of open, accessible,
democratic institutions.
The Charters in the National Archives provide a gateway to public
understanding that NARA ensures access to the records of all that the national
government is and does. To separate the Charters from the Archives of the United
States is to separate the Bill of Rights, containing the first ten amendments to the
Constitution, from all the other subsequent amendments in the Archives' care, and
to separate the Charters from other seminal documents, such as the Louisiana
Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Marshall
Plan. To separate the Charters from the Archives is to separate the Archives from
the clearest manifestation of its mission.
The National Archives Building was constructed to house the Charters of Freedom.
Without them, the public will find in its magnificent rotunda an empty tomb.
The famed architect who designed the National Archives, John Russell Pope,
designed the rotunda to provide a monumental setting for the nation's great
documents, and selected artist Barry Faulkner to do huge murals on each side of
the rotunda's interior depicting the Founding Fathers presenting the Declaration
and the Constitution. In the words of a historian of the building, when the
Charters came into its rotunda, "the architect's vision of the building was realized
at last."
In laying the cornerstone, President Hoover declared that "there will be
aggregated here the most sacred documents of our history-the originals of the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." In fact,
Hoover made the Charters literally the cornerstone of the National Archives by
putting copies of the Declaration and the Constitution into its physical
cornerstone.
In appointing the first Archivist of the United States, President Roosevelt
reiterated that the Declaration and the Constitution should be entrusted to the
National Archives.
In the ceremony in which, after World War Two, both documents joined the
Bill of Rights on permanent display in the Archives rotunda, President Truman
declared, "The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of
Rights are now assembled in one place for display and safekeeping
We are
engaged here today in a symbolic act. We are enshrining these documents for
future ages
This magnificent hall has been constructed to exhibit them
our generation can take just pride in it."
In 1994, the architectural critic of the Washington Post wrote of the National
Archives and its rotunda: "There is perhaps no more moving piece of
architectural theater in the capital than the baroque rotunda Pope devised for the
democracy's most valued documents-the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights."
This hall has become a hallowed place for all Americans, a secular cathedral
separating these documents from ordinary exhibits in order to encourage
Americans to take them to heart and contemplate their meaning. Visits to the
Charters in this setting are unique experiences for Americans, including thousands
of school children on class trips to Washington every year. The dignity of this
rotunda makes the Charters stand out all the more in the hearts and minds of
people, as evidenced by the number of citizens and foreign visitors who quietly
file by them year after year.
The Charters of Freedom are not mere curiosities; they are the ultimate proof of the truth
of what is in our history and civics books about the nation's creation. They verify the original
words, and they document the original signatories. Their value as evidence of our rights and
freedoms transcends their value as museum objects. They are living, working Federal documents
and belong with the rest of the government documents that constitute the "Archives of the United
States." To treat them simply as museum artifacts, stuck in somewhere among others, would be
to trivialize them and take them out of context. Keeping them as part of the Archives in the
home created for them emphasizes that they are not relics of history but are living Charters, the
continuing foundation for our lives as participants in a nation.
AMERICA'S CHARTERS OF FREEDOM
Potential Consequences of Their Removal from the Archives of the United States
I. Members of the Congress would fight the move.
The Congress appropriated funds for creation of the rotunda as a documentary
shrine at the center of the original National Archives building. A joint committee
of the Congress formally "ordered the transfer of the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution to the National Archives." Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt,
and Truman said the Charters should be in the National Archives. After all this,
the Congress will be unpleasantly surprised to learn, especially without prior
Congressional consultation, that President Clinton is proposing to move the
Charters somewhere else. The many members of the Congress who, at dinners and
receptions in the rotunda, have expressed gratitude for such a splendid setting for
the Charters of Freedom, may be particularly distressed.
Moreover, because the National Archives is custodian of the records of the
Congress, moving the Charters may also seem to the Congress a disparagement of
the importance of the building that contains its own records. The Congress could
be additionally concerned if it appeared that the Archivist, as custodian of the
records of Congress, could be told what to do with records by the White House.
The move could additionally offend those members of the Senate who made a
point in confirmation hearings on the current Archivist of the need for
independent archival judgment by the Archivist, free of political pressure. By
statute [under 44 U.S.C. § 2108(a)], the Archivist "shall be responsible for the
custody, use and withdrawal of records transferred to him."
Republican members of the Congress could accuse the Clinton Administration
of playing politics with the Charters by relocating them only for a millennium
"photo op" in an election year. Someone wants to move the Charters; whoever it
is, the perception will be that it is the President. That makes it appear politically
motivated.
Democrats in the Congress also will-wonder why the President's political
capital should be spent on defense of a move that will seem unnecessary even to
the President's friends, risking much controversy for little political gain. Is the
relative small amount of money that it would take to keep the reincased Charters
in their current home really worth quibbling over?
II. Powerful public groups would surely question and probably oppose the move.
An enormous public-relations effort would be needed even to try to sell such a
move to veterans' organizations, patriotic organizations, and professional
associations of historians, political scientists, archivists, and others.
There would be legal challenges to the alienation of the federal government's
most important records from the federal government if the Charters go even
temporarily into the care of a quasi-official agency such as the Smithsonian
Institution, which has its own governing board.
Moreover, the proposal to move the Charters to the Smithsonian ignores the
fundamental difference between museums, which are educational institutions, and
public archives, which exist to protect the rights and freedoms of the citizenry by
protecting documents that substantiate those rights and freedoms. Archives treat
documents as vital evidence, not only as educational objects.
Public outcry against moving the Charters could be intensified by public
memory of how the Smithsonian interpreted American history in such recent
exhibits as the Enola Gay exhibit on the atomic bomb and the exhibit
"deconstructing" artistic depictions of the grandeur of the American West. As a
reviewer wrote in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1994, comparing documentary
exhibits in NARA's rotunda with the Smithsonian's Enola Gay exhibit, "Like the
National Archives, it [the Smithsonian] should show us the artifacts and spare us
the artifice."
The public outcry could be further intensified if the Smithsonian's display of
the Charters relied on private money to the point of making the Declaration and
Constitution seem "the IBM Charters" or "the Quaker Oats Charters" rather than
the American People's Charters.
III. Just the possibility of such a move puts the Archivist in a precarious position.
In fact, to move the Charters, the President would either have to get the law
changed or dismiss the current Archivist, who would refuse if directed. The
Archivist's dismissal would have to be explained to Congress in light of the
statutory authority for independent judgment by the Archivist [44 U.S.C. §§
2103(a), 2108(a)]. NARA administrators currently in the line of succession in the
event of loss of the Archivist also would refuse to surrender the Charters.
The 3,000-member staff of NARA itself would be incensed and demoralized by
loss of the Charters as the central records of NARA's collection. In addition to
considering care of the Charters central to NARA's purpose, the staff would be
insulted by the move, feeling that staff professionalism in the care of archival
materials was undermined. They also would feel betrayed by their support for an
Archivist whom they believed to have personal support from President Clinton.
To those who attacked President Clinton for appointing as Archivist an
"inexperienced dairy farmer from Kansas," the President's decision to move the
Charters would appear to be based on the assumption that the President's
"political pal" would acquiesce by helping the President achieve political
objectives at the expense of the Charters and of professional archival principles.
President Clinton would have a hard time finding a competent successor to
nominate as Archivist after seeming to require conformity on political rather than
professional handling of the Charters.
IV. Adoption of the proposal that has been made to appoint a commission on the matter not only
would undercut the statutory authority of the Archivist to exercise independent judgment but
would also carry the risk of opening up to reconsideration everything about NARA, its mission,
its holdings, its Presidential library system, and the location of all NARA records.
A commission of historians, archivists, and others outside the government,
along with members of the Congress, who were enabled to work for up to a year
with staff support, as has been proposed, could not be compelled to limit their
inquiry to whether the Charters should move from NARA to the Smithsonian
Institution. There could be no end of tangents that would seem relevant to them.
If such a commission decided that the Charters, which are NARA's most
important documents, should be removed, what would prevent raids on anything
and everything else in the National Archives by institutions or groups focused on
particular subjects or interests for which records in NARA's holdings are
pertinent? Should records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for example, be moved
to the prospective new Smithsonian Native American museum on the mall?
Should all the Presidential artifacts in NARA's Presidential library system go to
the Smithsonian?
Members of the Congress would be involved, either on the commission or in
response to public outcry about the Charters, which means the Administration
could not control or limit the legislative or political results. And without
abrogating his statutory responsibilities, the Archivist could not commit in
advance to accepting the recommendations of such a commission.
Conclusion: The fallout from all this would contravene all the good will that the President has a
chance to garner through his program to celebrate American achievement in the millennium.
Why subject him to harmful controversy and risk the impact of his millennium effort just to save
a relatively small number of dollars? Additionally why let a fight over the Charters spoil the
credit that President Clinton will otherwise get for being the first chief executive since Lyndon
Johnson to push for truly adequate funding for the National Archives? We in the NARA staff
want to put our energy not into a battle over the Charters, but into meeting the challenges of
electronic records and making the other accomplishments that the President's budget support
now could enable us to do.
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Date
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January 9, 1998
Reply to
Attn of
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Miriam Nisbet
Special Counsel for Information Policy
Subject
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Charters of Freedom
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File
This addresses the legal issues raised in connection with a recent proposal by the Office of
Management and Budget regarding the possible transfer of the Charters of Freedom from the
National Archives Building to the Smithsonian and the establishment of a commission to consider
the proposal.
Background
In 1952 the Library of Congress transferred to the National Archives the original copies of the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which had been at the Library since 1921 (and
principally at the Department of State prior to that). The transfer was the culmination of a
lengthy effort to ensure the preservation of these most precious documents at the National
Archives--the governmental entity recognized by the President, the Library of Congress and the
Congress itself as having the legal authority over these and other permanently valuable federal
documents under the Federal Records Act (FRA) and as the appropriate repository of the
Charters. Milton Gustafson's excellent article (The American Archivist, July 1976) sets out the
history of the 1952 transfer and summarizes the legal and policy arguments considered, and
presumably settled, at the time.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were, along with many other
papers of the Continental Congress, delivered in the summer of 1789 into the custody of President
Washington, who directed that they should go to the Department of Foreign Affairs (soon to be
the State Department); the new Congress subsequently affirmed this decision at the time it
provided for the establishment of the State Department in September 1789. (Other of the papers
pertaining to the Treasury Department or War Department were to be transferred to those
agencies as directed by the President.) The Declaration and Constitution appear to have actually
been placed in the legal custody of the State Department by President Washington in 1796, where
they remained until 1921 (interrupted at various times by moves to other locations). In 1921, the
documents were transferred to the Library of Congress by Executive Order of President Harding,
pursuant to the authority of a 1903 law which had provided that any Executive Branch
department or bureau or governmental commission could transfer to the Librarian of Congress
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"books, maps or other materials" no longer needed for conducting business. The move appears
to have been motivated chiefly by a concern for the safety of the documents, which were
determined to be in physical danger in the building then housing the State Department, and by the
fact that the Department lacked adequate facilities for exhibiting the documents. At the time, of
course, there was no National Archives, much less a National Archives building.
When the comerstone was laid for the new Archives building in 1933, however, President
Hoover expressed his expectation that the Declaration and Constitution would reside there and
the building was constructed in accordance with just such a plan. Through the intervening years
the momentum built for transferring the documents to the National Archives. The issue caused
considerable debate, but the Librarian of Congress in 1952 agreed that the Declaration and the
Constitution are federal records subject to the Federal Records Act of 1950. [see attachments
1-3, detailed analyses by NARA employees of the relevant history and legal authorities which
remain sound on these issues ] The Joint Committee on the Library of the U.S. Congress also
agreed and directed the Librarian to offer the documents to the National Archives. [see
attachments 4 & 5] Under the authority of a provision of the FRA of 1950 (now codified in 44
U.S.C. § 2107, with slight changes), the Archivist could "accept for deposit with the National
Archives of the United States the records of any Federal agency or of the Congress of the United
States that are determined by the Archivist to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant
their continued preservation by the Government." This the Archivist did in 1952, effecting the
transfer of the Declaration and Constitution to the National Archives, to be joined with the official
record copy of the Bill of Rights already held by the Archives and displayed as the Charters of
Freedom.
Whether the Declaration and Constitution were considered federal records which the
Library of Congress (as a federal agency under the FRA, see 44 U.S.C. § 2901(14)) could offer
to the Archivist or, as some argued in 1952, congressional records which the Congress could
offer to the Archivist, the FRA clearly provided the legal authority for the acceptance by the
Archivist of these documents once tendered to him by the Librarian of Congress at the direction
of Congress.
Issue: What is the Archivist's authority and continuing responsibility under the Federal
Records Act with regard to the Charters?
Under 44 U.S.C. § 2108(a), the Archivist "shall be responsible for the custody, use and
withdrawal of records transferred to him." The FRA also provides that "records of the United
States Government may not be alienated [transferred to another organization or person] or
destroyed" except under the provisions of chapter 33 of Title 44, which are the "exclusive"
procedures for such actions. 44 U.S.C. § 3314. These procedures require the approval of the
Archivist, 44 U.S.C. § 3303a, who "plays a key role in the FRA's enforcement scheme."
Armstrong V. EOP, 1 F.3d 1274, 1278-79 (D.C. Cir. 1993). Indeed, Congress was so concerned
about the protection of federal records that the FRA requires the Archivist to work with the
Attorney General if the Archivist even becomes aware of any actual, impending or threatened
unlawful removal or destruction of records. 44 U.S.C. § 2905(a); Kissinger V. Reporters Comm.
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for Freedom of the Press, 445 U.S. 136, 148 (1980). The Archivist is also charged with working
with agencies to ensure that they have in place safeguards for maintaining and preserving federal
records, particularly those of continuing value to the government. See, e.g., 44 U.S.C. §§ 2904,
2905, 3102, 3105, 3106.
These provisions taken together demonstrate the unique responsibility of the Archivist to
protect and preserve the historically valuable records of our government and to promote the
archival and cultural heritage of our country. When the National Archives was given its
independence as an agency in 1984, its organic statute provided that the Archivist is to be
appointed "without regard to political affiliations and solely on the basis of the professional
qualifications required to perform the duties and responsibilities of the office." 44 U.S.C.
§ 2103(a). The law does not provide for a specific term of office; Congress was of the view that
because of the "non-political nature" of the position, "the office ought not to change hands
automatically with the election of a new President." H.R. Report No. 1124, 98th Cong., 2d Sess.
20 (1984). In crafting the law thus, Congress made it clear that this provision was intended to
insulate the Archivist from the political pressure of a particular administration:
The Archivist has responsibilities that range across the Federal Government. Insulation
from political pressure is necessary to insure confidence and cooperation from all
agencies. Public confidence in the Archivist's role will also be enhanced if the office is
permitted to pursue objectively and independently the archival responsibilities necessary
to insure preservation of the Nation's historically valuable records.
Id. (emphasis added). Congress fully expected that the Archivist alone would make the decisions
regarding the security of what are surely the Nation's most valuable records, the Declaration and
the Constitution.
Issue: Under what circumstances can records be "deaccessioned" or ownership transferred
to another organization or person?
(a) There is statutory authority for disposing of accessioned records found to lack
preservation value. 44 U.S.C. § 3303a(a), (e); 36 C.F.R. §§ 1228.136(e), 1228.200. Under
NARA's own procedures (found in our regulations and in "Appraisal 1821," 1987 NARA
issuance), Internal Disposition requires a finding that the material no longer has preservation
value, concurrence of the originating agency and publication in the Federal Register of NARA's
intent to dispose of the material. A recent example of Internal Disposition, resulting not in the
actual destruction of records but rather in their donation, involves certain films made in the Ryuku
Islands, Japan. After NARA determined the records no longer warrant permanent retention here,
they were deeded to a Japanese governmental archive (the donation is pending a decision in the
case of Green V. NARA, a suit brought to block the disposal). The situation involving the
Charters is most certainly not a case in which such disposition (even through donation to another
entity) could be considered, if for no other reason than that a finding that the records no longer
warrant permanent retention would be an impossibility.
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(b) NARA internal procedures also allow records to be "permanently withdrawn" and
returned to the requesting agency, but such requests are "normally denied." NAR P 1848.1A
(July 1, 1981), Ch. 2 Disposition of Federal Records, Part 4 "Permanent Withdrawal." NAR P
1848. 1A does not discuss appropriate grounds for approving such a request, except to say that
the agency must insist that certified copies of the records will not suffice, and that the unit of
physical custody considers withdrawal appropriate. If the request is granted, copies of the
records are made and retained by NARA. It appears that 1848. 1A has been used to return
material not properly accessioned into NARA in the first place (such as a family bible) or to return
material to an agency when those records have become "current" again. Because the request is
"normally denied," this option has rarely been used and memories in NARA differ about how and
why it ever has been used. This disfavored route, as with Internal Disposition above, is simply
not a viable option, particularly where the agency from which the records came (either State or
the Library of Congress) has not requested the records returned nor is it the entity being
considered as a repository for the records.
Issue: Could the records be transferred to another entity and if so, under what conditions?
The FRA, 44 U.S.C. § 2107(3), allows the Archivist to:
direct and effect, with the approval of the head of the originating agency, or if the
existence of the agency hasibeen terminated, then with the approval of his successor in
function, if any, the transfer of records deposited or approved for deposit with the
National Archives of the United States to public or educational institutions or
associations; title to the records to remain vested in the United States unless authorized
by Congress.
This provision is the basis for allowing NARA to establish what are called "affiliated archives,"
a term which refers to non-NARA institutions that hold, by formal written agreement with
NARA, records that are accessioned into the Archives of the United States. The affiliated
archive can be a federal agency or a non-federal public or educational institution or association,
or a public or private college or university. As for the circumstances in which an affiliated archive
can be established, a 1994 NARA task force on this matter concluded that "only the most com-
pelling circumstances should lead NARA to entrust Federal records to an affiliated repository."
NARA leadership is currently considering a recommendation for a formal policy on affiliated
archives, but no final action on the recommendation has been made at this point.
Although a transfer such as has been proposed might be permissible under Section
2107(3), we would recommend against the Archivist's exercise of his legal authority to effect the
transfer of these precious historical documents, especially in view of the lack of a formal policy
in this regard. Moreover, because an affiliated archives has only physical custody of the records
and NARA retains the legal custody with responsibility for ensuring that preservation of and
access to the records is consistent with policies applicable to all other accessioned records, there
would be serious preservation and access issues which the Archivist would have to address.
Certainly, the continued protection of the Charters must be of paramount concern.
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Issue: One aspect of the proposal for a transfer involves referral of the issue to a commission.
Could such a decision legally be delegated to a commission? Would this be an abrogation of the
Archivist's authority under the FRA?
The Archivist may, of course, delegate any of the functions of the Archivist to other
NARA officers and employees and may authorize successive redelegations of such functions as
the Archivist may deem to be necessary or appropriate. 44 U.S.C. § 2104(b); 5 U.S.C. § 302(b).
The law is clear, however, that a delegation of functions by the Archivist does not relieve the
Archivist of responsibility for the administration of those functions. Id. What about the use of
outside entities? The-Archivist may establish advisory committees "to provide advice with respect
to any function of the Archivist," id. at § 2104(f), and he may "advise and consult with interested
Federal agencies with a view to obtaining their advice and assistance" in carrying out his duties,
id. at § 2104(g). Implicit in these schemes, however, is that the Archivist is still making the final
decision on matters within his areas of responsibility. Indeed, if the Archivist were to allow
another entity to make a decision of this magnitude, it is likely that he would be found to have
improperly exercised his authority under the FRA. See American Friends Serv. Comm. V.
Webster, 720 F.2d 29, 60-62 (D.C. Cir. 1983).
Congress or the President could also, under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, set up
an advisory committee or commission to look at this issue, but the purpose of such groups
(whether denoted committee, commission, panel, task force or similar term) is to provide advice
and recommendations:
Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute or Presidential directive, advisory
committees shall be utilized solely for advisory functions. Determinations of action to
be taken and policy to be expressed with respect to matters upon which an advisory
committee reports or makes recommendations shall be made solely by the President or
an officer of the Federal Government.
5 U.S.C. app. § 9(b) (emphasis added). Thus, even if an advisory commission is set up to look
at this issue and to make recommendations to the Archivist, the ultimate decision must remain
with the Archivist who will exercise his "objective and independent" judgment regarding the
preservation of the Charters.
Attachments
National Archives and Records Administration
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
1999 BUDGET - CROSSWALK FROM 1998 ENACTED TO 1999 REQUEST TO OMB PASSBACK
($ in thousands)
ACTIVITY -
INCREMENTAL
1998 ENACTED
1999 OMB
Operating Expenses
INCREASE
LEVEL $205,167
PASSBACK
1998 Pay Raise
2,001
207,168
1999 3% Pay Raise
2,080
209,248
Rec. Ctr. Reimb. Program
1,226
210,474
Personnel & Payroll Systems
350
210,824
Replacement
Storage Needs
1,750
212,574
NARA Facility Rate Changes
1,353
213,927
GSA Rent Rate Changes
2,086
216,013
Front-end Records Mgmt.
2,356
218,369
Electronic Records
2,345
220,714
Electronic Access
5,634
226,348
Storage and Preservation
3,677
230,025
Redemption of Debt
-5151
224,874
224,874
Subtotal O&E
19,707
$224,874
224,874
ACTIVITY - National
Historical Publications and
$5,500
Records Administration
Grants Program
500
230,874
Subtotal - O&E + NHPRC
500
$230,874
230,874
ACTIVITY - Repairs and
Restoration
$14,650
Base Program
-10,200
235,324
Subtotal O&E + NHPRC+
4,450
$235,324
235,324
R&R
ACTIVITY - Capital Asset
$0
Archives I renovation/Archives II
209,950
445,274
75,000
expansion/ Reencase Charters of
Freedom
TOTAL
234,607
$445,274
310,374
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National Archives and Records Administration
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FY 1999 Budget Passback
Talking Points
Operating Expenses and Core Programs
Our passback will fully fund the Archives' request of $235 million for operating expenses and
core program activities in FY99.
-- We have fully funded your core, priority programs, including:
-- development of an automated front-end records management system;
-- processing the increased in electronic records;
-- making electronic records accessible to users regardless of format;
- taking immediate steps to preserve and protect important documents from decay
and deterioration
-- In addition, passback fully funds the programs that will allow the Archives to play a key
role in the President's millennium agenda - - through its preservation activities and
through the projects of the National Historical and Publications Commission
-- If asked: Passback shows the Archives appropriated budget at only $227 million in each
of the outyears; passback assumes that Archives will plan and implement a
reimbursable records center program to generate fees needed for future program and
records storage expansion.
Capital Improvement Plan
We have also included a plan to renovate Main Archives starting next year.
Our plan will meet each of the five goals that you outlined for your own plan. Our plan will:
-- protect and preserve the Charters of Freedom;
- provide museum-quality security for these important documents;
-- make the Charters more accessible to the public, especially the elderly and the
handicapped;
-- make the Main Archives building compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act
and with all safety and environmental codes for both records and occupants; and,
- increase and improve the storage capacity of the Archives.
Our alternative to your plan will meet all of these goals and will do so in half the time and at
less cost.
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The plan has three major elements:
-- First, funding will be provided to preserve and re-encase the Charters of Freedom, and
then move the Charters for display in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History.
-- As you may know, The Museum of American History provides security second-
to-none and is easily accessible by the elderly and the handicapped.
- The Museum also receives six million visitors each year, which will increase by
sixfold the number of visitors that enjoy these historic documents.
- Second, the plan provides $71 million for a complete renovation of the Main Archives
building. The renovation will:
-- replace all major mechanical and electrical systems;
-- bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and
with all current fire and life safety codes; and
-- protect and preserve the historic murals in the Rotunda.
- Since the Charters will be displayed at the Smithsonian, we will not need to relocate
many documents from Main Archives. The expansion of Archives II therefore will not
be needed until 2010.
-- Third, we will propose legislation to enable Archives to begin a reimbursable records
center program. We will seek authorization for Archives to retain all of the receipts
from that program to pay for an expansion of its programs in the future.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION (NARA)
AN AMERICAN HISTORY BUDGET SUBMISSION
FOR THE MILLENNIUM CELEBRATION
In August, in the rotunda of the National Archives, President and Mrs. Clinton initiated a national
turn-of-the-millennium celebration "to honor the past and to imagine the future." This would include, they
announced, projects at NARA to ensure that America's Charters of Freedom and other records of our history
survive into the new century and beyond.
Accordingly NARA has submitted to OMB a budget package of interconnected initiatives beginning
in FY'99 to ensure the preservation of American history for all posterity.-At relatively small cost, the package
gives the Clinton Administration an opportunity to have a dramatic impact on something that history will
remember-saving the documents on which the memory of American achievement depends. It is that
memory of what we have been able to achieve, working together, that ties America's multi-ethnic and multi-
cultural people together as a nation, and builds the spirit to strive for even greater achievement.
The nation depends on NARA to protect, preserve, and help citizens gain access to the records that
document their rights, the actions of their government, and the historical experience of their nation. The
budget request will enable NARA to work aggressively with agencies to put in place programs that will
guarantee that the important story of this country is recorded and kept safe for use now and in the future. The
budget request will preserve records in NARA's custody which are at risk unless we take action now; it will
begin the effort to get them into safe quarters; and it will expand access to them nationwide. But the impact
of these integrated budget initiatives will be seriously diminished if they are split up or partially funded.
Revolutionizing the agencies' management of their records is of limited use if NARA cannot preserve those
records it identifies as essential for long term use by American citizens. Salvaging deteriorating records is
useless if NARA cannot ensure their continued preservation by housing them in safe quarters. And housing
them safely is pointless if in the long run NARA cannot provide ready public access to these records. This is
as true of President Clinton's papers, of State Department e-mail messages, and of records currently used to
trace "Nazi gold" as it is of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the U.S., and the Bill of
Rights.
The proposed budget request is based on principles spelled out in NARA's Strategic Plan. Already
NARA is implementing those elements of the plan that are possible within current resources by redirecting
resources to critical initiatives and by streamlining and eliminating duplicative programs. We are redesigning
the way we work in significant areas so we can work smarter and achieve more. And NARA has begun
reducing the number of facilities in which it stores records by consolidating holdings in better space that will
protect the records for the future. This does not mean NARA will need less records storage space overall.
NARA is being hard pressed to provide sufficient records storage for agency records. But it does mean
consolidating NARA's records holdings into fewer, larger more efficiently administered facilities across the
country.
However, none of these efforts can provide the resources necessary to enable NARA to carry out the
work needed to ensure that an essential part of the American historical portrait is saved through the 21st
century. There are two inescapable reasons.
First, NARA's base budget contains almost no discretionary funding. Nearly 90 per cent of
NARA's current funding is committed just to personnel, rent, and the operation and maintenance of
buildings. Over the years NARA has responded to Administration and Congressional mandates to assume
new responsibilities without new funding. That has left NARA with little ability to respond as it should to
the new challenges presented by technological explosions affecting records creation, use, and preservation
throughout all government agencies. Nor can NARA keep up with increasing demands to process growing
quantities of classified records so they can be used by the public.
Second, unlike most Federal agencies, NARA continuously must cope with an inevitable and
inexorable increase in its business. Even a downsizing government goes on producing records, adding
annually to the volume of documents that are NARA's statutory responsibility to preserve in records centers
and archival facilities across the country. In fact, records of eliminated agencies and programs come to
NARA sooner than if those programs had stayed in operation. Additionally, every four to eight years NARA
assumes the responsibility for operating a new Presidential library. In NARA's budget presentation, OMB
will find statistical specificity about the volume of records NARA knows to be coming and the unprocessed
backlogs that already exist-records of the kind requested by hundreds of thousands of users annually. The
growth of records and the public's demand to use those records increases every year. NARA's base budget
must expand to meet these demands.
Therefore, in budget submissions for the next three years, NARA will request increases of
approximately 10 per cent each year in addition to increases for rent, building operations, and cost-of-living
pay adjustments. With these relatively small increases, NARA can reach by the end of the three years the
level of funding necessary for successful implementation of NARA's package of millennium-celebration
initiatives-the things NARA must do to be sure that the nation's history survives safely and accessibly into
the new era. The following is a summary of what is in the package NARA requests above base budget for
Fiscal Year 1999.
Front-End Records Management
The key to records preservation is to identify up front which records must be maintained, and track
them from the time they are created or received in the agencies until the essential records end up in NARA's
care. Valuable records are currently at risk throughout the Government because NARA does not now have
resources to work with the agencies to make sure the records are maintained in a manner that will guarantee
that they are preserved and usable by the public and the agencies in the future. NARA requests funds with
which to identify and help agencies with the most valuable records at risk, while also developing an improved
system to enable the Government to track and manage Federal records more effectively overall. This
investment will move NARA towards creation of an automated life-cycle information system which will track
the records while they are in the agencies' custody through their transfer to NARA.
Electronic Records
The requested funds also will finance next steps in our effort to deal with the particularly difficult
problems of managing, preserving, and providing access to electronic records. The past two decades have
seen a massive explosion both in quantities and types of electronic records generated in the Federal
Government. Impressive developments in technology for creating records have not been matched by
technological developments for managing them and ensuring the long-term availability of the information in
these electronic records. If the Government does not address realistically a future in which most of its
recordkeeping will be electronic, such records embodying information critical for the history of our own time
will be forever lost. The budget package will enable NARA to launch efforts to make major improvements in
the infrastructure for managing electronic records throughout the Federal Government, expand NARA's
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capacity for preserving electronic records of long-term value, and increase the accessibility of electronic
records to our customers across the country.
Expanded Access
Through the Internet NARA can take its documentary treasures to every library, classroom, and
home with a computer connection. Already NARA is developing an electronically searchable catalogue of
holdings and putting high-interest documents on line. In addition, we have created an expanding on-line
exhibit hall for those who can't visit Washington, the Presidential Libraries, or our regional archives to see
the real documents on exhibit. And, NARA's digital classroom is bringing the historical wealth of this
country's archival records to school children throughout the country in a manner calculated to engage their
interest and their imagination. But further advances require funds to upgrade NARANET, the network
infrastructure that supports NARA's efforts to spread the history of this country electronically across the
land. The FY'99 budget package requests such funds for critical upkeep and expansion of the backbone of
NARA's electronic communication system. Additionally, the package contains funds for other access
essentials-replacing aging equipment used by researchers in NARA reference rooms, responding to ever
growing numbers of FOIA requests, and helping Federal agencies meet the declassification goals mandated
by Presidential Order. The package also requests funds for hiring and training staff who will process Clinton
Administration papers for access to the public in the Clinton Presidential Library.
Storage and Preservation
Funds requested in the budget package for Fiscal Year 1999 are essential for preserving two
particularly important bodies of records. Literally thousands of NARA's audio-visual records are in jeopardy
because they were recorded on unstable, acetate media. Thousands of others are accessible only on
equipment that has become obsolete. The sight and sound of history in these records will be lost unless
NARA receives funds for cold storage, which arrests acetate deterioration, and the making of usable
preservation copies. Also, over 53 million military service records in NARA's St. Louis facility, which are
used by veterans to document entitlements, are deteriorating because of poor paper quality, frequent
handling, and poor storage conditions. NARA could never squeeze enough out of current funding to save
such vast quantities of records in need of immediate attention. Additionally, by 1999, NARA will run out of
space in its entire records-center system nationwide. Funds in the package for FY 1999 will enable NARA to
deal with the short-term need by adding storage bays, and to deal with the long-term problem by planning
with government agencies a reimbursable program for covering NARA's costs of storing and servicing their
records.
Repairs and Restorations
One of the most valuable funding changes for NARA occurred in FY 1996 with the creation of the
Repair and Restoration account. This fund, which is available until expended, enables NARA to complete
routine repairs and alterations in the Presidential Libraries, the National Archives Building, and Archives II
at College Park. With this fund NARA is able to repair roofs, plumbing, HVAC, security systems-typical
buildings maintenance activities which keep the buildings functioning day-in and day-out to protect valuable
records and serve the public. NARA's FY 1999 request for the Repair and Restoration fund includes
increases to cover the expansion of NARA's space inventory as well as funds to support NARA's efforts to
consolidate facilities.
NARA's budget also specifically requests funds for two of our oldest Presidential libraries-the
Harry S. Truman Library and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library. These aging facilities need
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renovatation to enable them to comply with contemporary requirements for public safety, records
preservation, and handicapped access, and to enable them to accommodate public visitation that has grown
enormously since their original construction. President Clinton signed legislation appropriating funds to get
this work started in FY 1997, and additional funds are pending in appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 1998.
Funds in the budget package for FY 1999 will enable NARA to complete the work at the Truman and
Roosevelt facilities, ensuring that the stories of those two great Presidents will remain fully accessible to the
American public.
Archives I Renovation and Archives II Expansion
NARA is privileged to be entrusted with the care and preservation of this country's founding
documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, collectively named the
Charters of Freedom. The Charters are displayed to the public in the National Archives Building. Both the
building in which they are located and the cases in which the Charters are displayed urgently need renovation.
The original cases of the Charters are deteriorating, and the rotunda in which they are displayed was not
designed for access by disabled visitors. In fact, accessibility issues must be addressed throughout the public
areas of the building. Moreover, after more than sixty years of use, the grand old building has significant
deficiencies in its electrical distribution systems, restrooms and plumbing, elevators, and heating, ventilation,
and air conditioning components. Action must be taken to repair or replace basic building operating systems
to extend the useful life of this historically important building. To make renovation of the National Archives
Building possible, almost 300,000 cubic feet of valuable historical records must be permanently relocated
from the old building into a new addition to Archives II in College Park, Maryland. This expansion of
Archives II is also critical to provide appropriate archival storage for a huge body of permanently valuable
records, created over the past 20 to 30 years, now coming to the National Archives. The expansion will
provide for new records accessions through 2017. But it must precede renovation of Archives I, which
NARA can put off no longer. The FY 1999 budget package provides for both.
NHPRC Grants
Finally, the time has come for ending the inflationary erosion of a program that at relatively little cost enables
NARA to provide leadership to the nation's documentary effort as a whole. Administered within NARA is its
grant-making affiliate, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. NHPRC grants help
archives across the country save non-Federal records that Americans need along with NARA's to understand
our nation's history. NHPRC helps NARA, too, by making grants to universities and other institutions for
electronic records R&D projects that NARA itself cannot undertake alone. For this purpose as well as for the
NHPRC's other two priorities-financing published editions of the papers of the Founding Fathers, and
jointly financing a collaborative program with the states to document American history-the budget package
includes a relatively small increase for 1999 in the NHPRC's base budget, which is no larger now than the
NHPRC's appropriation was more than fifteen years ago.
Thus NARA has produced a strategic plan and a budget package to stem the losses already
occurring in our nation's recorded history, prepare to document the 21st century more fully and efficiently,
and expand opportunities for the public nationwide to use our rich resources. Beginning with the budget for
Fiscal Year 1999, President Clinton has the opportunity to put forward a package of actions to ensure the
protections of records on which Americans rely for documenting their rights, evaluating their government,
and understanding their history. Through this initiative, the President can not only protect the nation's
historical heritage but also provide something Americans never before have had-access to that heritage
wherever the growing information highway may reach. This would be a truly great bequest to our country in
the new millennium.
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National Archives and Records Administration
Archivist's Approval List
1999 Budget Increases
OPERATING EXPENSES (OE)
$ in Thousands
FTE
Operational Increases:
Annualization of 1998 Pay Raise
$689
1999 3% Pay Raise
$2,080
Records Center Reimbursable Planning
$1,226
10
Personnel and Payroll Systems Replacement
$350
Storage Needs for Increasing Records
$1,750
Facility Rate Changes (NARA Facilities)
$1,353
Rent Rate Changes (GSA Facilities)
$2,086
Subtotal:
$9,534
10
1999 Program Increases:
PROMOTE FRONT-END RECORDS MANAGEMENT
$2,356
18
ELECTRONIC RECORDS
$2,345
7
EXPAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACCESS
$5,634
15
STORAGE AND PRESERVATION
$3,677
8
Total Increases - Operating Expenses (OE)
$14,012
48
Total OE Increases including Operational Increases
$23,546
58
Separate Appropriations:
REPAIRS AND RESTORATION FUND
Operational Increases:
Archives II
$1,600
Bush Presidential Library
$100
Other Increases:
Project Management Contracting
$500
Continuation of Regional Records Services Consolidations
$1,700
Renovation of Truman Presidential Library
$5,000
Renovation of Roosevelt Presidential Library
$5,000
Archives 1 Renovation/Archives 11 Expansion
$207.750
Total Repairs & Restoration Increases including Operational Increases
$221,650
NHPRC GRANTS
$2,000
Total Requested Increases - NARA
$247,196
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Passback provided $71 million to renovate main Archives.
- Renovation costs were held down by moving the Charters of Freedom display
from Archives (which gets less than 1 million visitors per year) to the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (which has 6 million
visitors per year).
Appeal: Archives seeks an additional $57-64 million (the appeal is ambiguous) to
include in Main Archives a more secure display area for the Charters. Archives limits the
immediate outlay effect of their appeal by spreading the total project costs over two years.
Recommendation: OMB recommends passback levels, which include $15 million to
complete a new secure display area for the Charters within the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History.