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MAY 20, 1997 WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND FAMILY MAGAZINES DATE: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 LOCATION: Blue Room/Grand Foyer TIME: 3:55 p.m. Arrival 4 p.m. First Lady Briefing for the Magazines 4:30 p.m. Reception in Grand Foyer FROM: MARIA ECHAVESTE 1. PURPOSE You will conclude a day of briefings by top women in the Administration, Mrs. Gore and the Vice President for 32 editors and writers for women, children and family magazines. Following your briefing, you will host a reception for the magazine representatives and Administration women. The suggested topics for your focus are early childhood, child care and children's health. The day is designed to: (1) amplify the Administration's great accomplishments for women and families; and (2) showcase the star line-up of women serving in the Administration. The circulation of the magazines represented in the room will be more than 52 million. II. BACKGROUND The day for the magazine representatives will begin at 9 a.m. and most of the briefings will be either in the Indian Treaty Room or in Room 472. Each briefer will take Q's & A's, except the Vice President. The Vice President will be announcing in Room 450 that the U.S. Postal Service will be distributing more than 200 million postage stamp booklets with the National Domestic Violence Hotline number (1-800-799-SAFE) printed on the covers. Mrs. Gore will brief on sudden infant death syndrome. Other briefers for the day will be: Maria Echaveste, on the President's Apparel Industry Partnership; Madeleine Albright, an update on follow-up to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women; Donna Shalala, the Administration's initiatives to fight breast cancer and Girl Power; Carol Browner, environmental health threats to children and families; Janet Reno, the President's youth violence initiative; Alexis Herman, the Administration's initiatives to balance work and family. Judith Winston, Title IX; Carol Rasco, America Reads; Aida Alvarez, creating opportunities for women in business and SBA's role in Welfare to Work.