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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

April 8, 1975

MR. PRESIDENT:

On the March 10 Congressional Mail summary, you questioned a letter from Gong. Vander Jagt which indicated that the State Bar of was opposed to the nominees to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation. Attached is Max Friedersdorf' s response •

Digitized from Box C17 of The Presidential Handwriting File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

• THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

March 20, 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR: JERRY H. JONES

THRU: MAX L. FRIEDERSDORF VERN LOENVL

FROM: DOUGLAS P. BENNETT

SUBJECT: Rep.

With respect to your memorandum to Max Friedersdorf of March ll (copy attached), I talked with Guy Vander Jagt today and gave him a list of the most recent pas sible slate of candidates for the Board of Directors of the Legal Ser­ vices Corporation and suggested this may be different from that which had been objected to by the Michigan State Bar. He anticipates a different response from the Bar on these new candidates and will let me know.

Attachment

• THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

March 10, 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT

FROM: MAX L. FRIEDERSDORF

SUBJECT: Congressional Mail

For your information, I am attaching the log of Congressional mail received on March 7.

This mail is being handled routinely by my office.

cc: Don Rumsfeld

• President's mail- March 7, 1975

Senate

Howard Baker Encloses letter from the Mayor of the City of Pekin, Illinois, inviting the President to the dedication of the Dirksen Center in Pekin in August. Senator hopes the President's schedule will permit him to accept the invitation.

Richard Stone Recommends that John Hersey be appointed to the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works.

Barry Goldwater Recommends that Bruce Gimbel be appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Robert Taft Recommends that David E. Maas be appointed as Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

Jim Allen Recommends that Bobbie L. Walden be appointed to the National Advisory Council On Adult Education.

Bob Dole Recommends that William A. Taggart be appointed as Special Trade Representative.

Henry Jackson Recommends that Maryan E. Reynolds be appointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Robert Taft Recommends that Walter B. Connolly, Jr. be appointed to the position of Under Secretary of Labor.

Paul Fannin Conveys the views of Merton Jones who is opposed to strip mining .

• President's mail- March 7, 1975

House

Morris Udall Suggests that George Jessel receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Guy Vander Jagt Writes in support of the opposition raised by the Q State Bar of Michigan to the preliminary list of • proposed nominees to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.

Thomas O'Neill Recommends that Richard G. Lee be appointed to the Commission on Federal Paperwork.

M. Caldwell Butler Recommends that Thomas L. Longshore be appointed to the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

John Murtha Highly commends Bob Wolthius who accompanied the Congressional delegation on a tour of South Vietnam and Cambodia; says "He is certainly a fine example of a public servant and I appreciate his dedication to duty. 11

Thad Cochran Recommends that Ralph J. Marlatt be appointed to be Federal Insurance Administrator.

J. Kenneth Robinson Supports invitation to the President to visit the experimental solar heating installation at the Fauquier County High School of Warrenton, Virginia.

James O'Hara Supports invitation to the President to participate in the Tri-Community American Revolution Bicentennial Commission's parade on July 4, 1976.

Edward Boland On behalf of 24 members of the New England Congres­ Silvio 0. Conte sional Caucus, urge the President to restore the product entitlement program which was dropped on Feb 1, at least until the President and the Congress can develop a more permanent and equitable approach to our national energy problems; restoring the product entitlement will hold down the prices of residual and heating oil and facilitate the "tilt" toward gasoline •

• President's mail- March 7, 1975

House - page 2

Yvonne B. Burke Is deeply pleased that the President has consented to act as Honorary Chairman of the U.S. Sister City Program.

Bill Goodling Requests an autographed photograph for his office.

Bud Shuster Conveys Roy Berrier's suggestion that the President tape video cassettes regarding his energy program and send them to all the Governors; fuel would be saved and the energy program promoted at the same time.

Martin Russo Recommend the appointment of two "public interest" members to the Board of Directors of the Federal National Mortgage Association .

Dale Milford Recommends that David A. Witts be appointed to the Federal Commission on Paperwork.

Charles Diggs Again urges that the President withdraw the nomina­ tion of Nat Davis as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs .

• THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

March 11, 1975

.ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL

MEMORANDUM FOR: MAX FRIEDERSDORF FROM: JERRYH.~ SUBJECT: Congressional Mail (March 7, 1975)

. Your memorandum of March 10 to the President on the above subject has been reviewed and the following notation was made:

House, page 1; Guy Vander Jagt ? was the notation

Please follow-up with the appropriate action.

Thank you.

cc: Don R umsfeld

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