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Digitized from Box 34 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Tape: 7/18/76 Air: 7/19/76 #258-76 'l'ape: 7/18/76 Air: 7/19/76 #258-76 RONA: NEWS: 1 RONA: NEWS: 2
Good Morning David and~ Good Morning and .. Mrs. Ford ••• and the Chanee llor America. and Mrs. Schmidt ••• you retreat to a tent on the White House grounds tor Whatever your politics ••• or the d11Uler ••• a multi-course ••• wine-tilled politics of' the man in the mansion ••• a.f'.f'air which ottered ample when an explanations as to why Henry Ki.ssinger engraved • · invitation arrivea at wages such an unsuccessful battle of' YOUR house ••• .f'rom the WHITE HOUSE ••• the bulge ••• as well as why alcholism you go ••• especially when the event is such a problem with you're asked to attend is the most Washingtonians ot all political elegant of' all official .f'etes- persuas1ons ••• Among the more than the State Dillller ••• honoring a 200 persons present ••• my dinner visiting foreign dignitary ••• Last · companions ••.• .. . -e-~Qrwt husMNh~/: · · Thursday night ••• it was my hon<>ri Secretary ot the.Interior Thomas to attend such a State Dinner ••• ror Kleppe ••• legendary jazz c1*ar1net1st'""" . ...._ West German Chancellor Helmut Schnd.dt Benny Goodman •• ~and the number one ••• and except tor a brief' delay 1n the woman 1n the German Bundes Party ••• dillller's start •••due to some Marie Schle1 ••• the one person. you have • Presidential interest 1n the· to.get to ••• 1n order to get 1n to see acceptance speech of' Jimmy Carter at Herr· Schm1.dt. the Democratic convention ••• UntortlUlately ••• despite the sublime it was an evening ·'of' eye-popping pomp Supreme ot Sole Veron1que ••• the and apolitical circumstance ••• tantastic t1let ot bee~ with tmdeterred by the Demo doings 1n New Bernaise sauce ••• and the devlishly York City ••• A.f'ter your arrival's delicious dessert ot Strawerry announced to those already inside.~. Vacherin with Rasl?!,berry"""' Sauee ••• toppec. and you've made your way down the by the u.s. Army Band's singing reception line ••• past the President Sa:i_-gents ••• and a.f'ter dinner Tape:7/18/76 A~r:7/19/76 #258-76 Tape: 7/18/76 Air: 7/19/76 #258-76 RONA: NEWS: 4 RONA: NEWS: 3 personal experience with the paper. entertainment,,.. by opera singer P~llis Curtin ••• until next time, keep thinking those I was still left with a bitter good thoughts ••• This is Rona Barrett . taste in my · mouth ••• thanks in HollyWood. A-N'J> i:""-A-Nt4 '-jo o to the Washington Post ••• whose \' rz._ C.S..S l D 6tv't" f="-o
11J I ... Toasts at the White House .. To German-American Friendship
By Jean iU. Whit.e ereuce to the "shadows" of the recent " . past fading away 1 Schmidt promised and Jannette Smyth that Germany "never more will gam As the Democrats bounced a red, ble away freedom and democracy," white and blue ball around the Madi- after making some "unspeaka-ble er • son Square Garden Convention Hall rors" in the past. He termed as "good" the chance for success in moves to ~a~t night while awaiting the accept ward relaxing tensions in Eu_.ope. ance speech of their 1976 presidential Earlier in the day, Schmidt missed candidate, President and Mrs. Ford no opportunity to hail German con were at the Republican White House tributions to this country from as far ~laying hosts at a black-tie dinner back as Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm von for Bicentennial visitors from the Fed· Steuben, who served as inspector gen eral in Washington's army. In a three era! Republic of Germany. minute ceremony, Schmidt placed a ::· President Ford and West German wreath at the von Steuben statue in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt began Lafayette Park. And later. in a visit ;·, their belated excpange of toasts - to the Smithsonian's ' new Air and Space Museum, and specifically its delayed by a late start and a relaxed "Spacearium," he presented the West receiving line-only a few minutes German government's Bicentennial after Democratic candidate Jimmy gift of the planetarium instrument it Cartet· began his acceptance speech. self and funds for a control system ,_ Last night's White House dinner that makes the planetarium fully ,~ once again was held in the Rose Gat automated. nrden under the white canopy first used Arranged under the white canopy .. last week for the dinner in honor of in the Rose Garden, the rectangular Queen Elizabeth. head table and the 16 round tables The tent was drenched by yester- featured wood-carved American birds day's late afternoon downpour, but amid the table decorations. With a • that did not interfere with the pro special attention to detail, the garden , ceedings. Whlte House personnel were birds were coordinated with garden .. sent out to hold d-0wn the canopy's flowers. and the field birds with cac see-through plastic sides during the tus or greenery. · storm and the inside stayed relatively For the after dinner entertainment, dry and useable. Phyllis Curtin, a soprano with both . In,welcoming Schmidt and his West the Metropolitan Opera and the Vi German delegation to the United enna State Opera, made her first States, President Ford celebrated the White House appearance in the East bonds of German-American friend Room. ~bip rooted in the early revolutionary Among those on the guest list last •days. He singled out for particular night was Hans von Stackelberg, cap .attention recent economic talks, citing tain of the German Tall Ship, the ·· the benefits of relations with develop Gorch Fock, which President Ford ihg countries and the necessity of will visit tonight when Chancellor cooperatfou between the independent Schmidt plays host at a ship-side re· democracies of Europe, Asia, and ception in Baltimore harbor. North America. Schmidt, recalling that his visit Aftet· dinner, guests milled about ;marks the third time in the last two in the Blue Room and Green Room _years that he has come to the United as the President and Chancellor States for talks '"ilh Ford and that Schmidt were sequestered in t 1e Red .. ~ lhe American President had returned Room behind a phalanx of Secrel a visit to West Germany last July, Service agents and \\.hite H
Commentary By J. Kirkpatrick Flack well as sham in the nabobs' manner of By a Washington Star Stall Writer in the traditional toast following a dinner - Against the background of economic entertaining. Frank G. Carpenter It was se~en down, and nobody could for 170 guests ~at recent summit meet Barry Goldwater (during ABC's coverage of depression which descended over the ("Carp"), correspondent for the Cleve- · say with authority how tnany more to go ings between him and Schmidt were, ;nocratic Convention) : " Both part~es have lost land in 1873 - while Charles Eliot Norton land Leader, and later a member of the in the parade of Bicentennial state visits " concrete evidence" of their "determi ~· Indep~ndent far o.utm.~mber either party. -I continued to mourn the passing of ideal- Cosmos Club, reported that "the dinners by foreign dignitaries to the White nation to regain prosperity and sustained mk the important thmg is t? found two new 1 ism and intellectual vitality which h.e felt of Washington could·not be more expen House. · economic expansion." Schmidt, an . I would hope tha~ .0th parties would adhere . , . was a prelude to degeneracy, Francis sive if th~r · j)epper and salt were grains There were the trumpet fanfares. the economist who · exudes competence as 1osely to the foundmg <:oncep~s of our country • Amasa Walker resumed the statistical of gold dust." Yet he detected a good stately staircase descent into the White well as confidence, expressed similar at would Abr~ar:n Lmcol~ s c~anc;es be of , analyses which seemed to confirm his deal of counterfeit. . · House Lobby, the seemingly endless re sentiments earlier yesterday by praising the GOP nommat1on today· He d hav~ some worst fears about America's future and "It is well known that Washington hos ceiving lines and the canopied rose gar the Ford initiative in setting up the re but I think he'd get it." (On the sub1ect of , ' · tesses hire the china for their large balls den dinners by candelight, the receiving cent talks on world economic problems in lats) "If it "!eren't for them, I'd still ;be selling '.· ~ . This excerpt, a look at social life· in and receptions. Almost every china store lines and obligatory East Room enter- Puerto Rico. .•: . (followmg Rep. Barba~a Jordan s keynote_ ' . former days, is reprinted with permis- in this town has stocks of plain white . tainment. The mutual back-scratching was i If somebody feels ther_e s a c~ance, or th,e ~ sion from "Desideratum in Washington: dishes which go out and come back many For ,Helmut Schmidt, West Germany's never blatant, however, and the White 1run a black person for VICE'. president, I cant · The Intellectual Community in the Capi· times during the social ·season. I asked handsome and sometimes embarrassing House soiree last night was given over to ' a b~tter one to run than this wo~an. not only ta/ City 1870-1900." Scbenkman Publish- one of these merchants why the dishes ly candid fourth Chancellor, it was his a celebration of enduring German . she s a woman ~r bl~ck - she s both - but ing Company Cambridge Ma·ss. used for this purpose were so plain. 'It is third meeting with Gerald Ford in Wash American friendship. 1she's very, very mtelltgent. I would hate to be ' • . • not because people like them,' -he ex ington in the brief two years since he was " At no time have relations between us ' a keynote speech at my own convention fol- - Henry Adams proceeded with the excur plained, 'but because their guests cannot named to the Federal Republic of been closer," Schmidt told Ford in his :his one." sions in scientific history which led him so easily tell that this is the same china Germany's top political post. ' return toast, " never more trustful and . to conclude that the world was being they are from the day before at another · It was certainly an occasion to cere direct than today." ·'elevision Listings, Page B-5 · drawn inexorably and with ·increasing house.' " monially hon9r America by the leader of WITH SEVERAL references to rapidity toward annihilation - President It was rumored too that the fine ladies a people with strong ethnic ties tQ the Germany's disastrous embracing of Na Grant began his second term in office of Washington rented their jewelry. United States, despite two gigantic and zism, Schmidt (who served in the Ger and the grotesque ·spectacle of the Gilded Some observers denied that Washing bloody battlefield confrontations in this man Army during Wo.rld War' II) spoke Age lumbered on. ton had any elegance whatsoever, and century. (Germany contributed more reassuringly of "shadows of that recent· Many of the characteristics of this upbraided life at the Capital as an exist immigrants to the United States in the . epoch fading away." Inside Portfolio t ence of "veneered furniture, plated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ America could be dis~erned in Washing- last 150 years than any other single ·na- From the perspective of 200 years, . ton. Indeed; the city presented a mirror ·spoons," and a place where "vulgar peo tion.) ' those shadows were indeed fainter. After \.RIUM: Germany unveils its Bicentennial image of national cultyre: fortunes were ple who amass fortunes by successfully all, there were Germans in Jamestown gambling in stocks, pork or grain can at ;gifl Page F-2. ' quickly gained and the status of different BUT IT WAS ALSO an opportunity for and Philadelphia long before the Revolu . , :1 social groups rapidly changed. The ef- tain a great deal of newspaper notoriety two leaders fbcing similar political prob-. tion. There was Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm· GEOUS COMIC: Shecky Greene is talking ·fects of these transformations were as for their social expenditures . . . " lems to compare notes if they had chosen von Steuben in George Washington's gain. Page F-4. ' visible in the Capital at in the nation at" Jane W. Gemmill, writing for the to do so. Revolutionary Army . and a host of large. "Wealth is omnipresent," wrote benefit of those who · could not visit the Schmidt, like Ford, is seeking this fall German-American patriots 'in the R'.evo REVIEW: ..Bing o Long" hits a grand slam. newspaperman Don Piatt, "and the hu-. Capital and view conditions for them to retain an office thrust upon him by the lutionary era. There were 'millions of Page F-5. manities drive about in, gorgeous car selves, noted that "society, as at present resignation of his predecessor in the industrious and skilled· German immi riages and live among stunning uphol existing in Washington, is very peculiar midst of a scandal. Both have be~n hurt grants and descendants who contributed An out-of-this-wor d premiere at the Space stery." Parvenus competed with ly made up, and at its best very. hollow by the world economic recession, and are mightily to America's industrial, intel 1Museum. Page F-5. establisfted families. Coarse showiness and unsatisfactory." This critism was claiming credit for pursuing policies in lect1;13l and cultural growth: John Jacob mild compared with~ari' account that tandem, they .jay, that have resulted in Astor, Olrl Schurz, John Peter Zenger, ' was manifest everywhere 4~ . " · There were elements , , ,. I. • CUNC~AL ~U~~.l!.~l~u wKUNGDOING.n -0- WASHINGTON • • THE NEWS AMERICAN Sunday, July 25, 1976 7B ; WASHINGTON DATEBOOK Sbh~;tdt Lauds u:s.:G~rman · > f fierid~~ip .~ · >, ... ,. " :-' •.,. • • I • '; • ,/ '"' By· Baroness Stacke1herg -.. ?'' •• .• ·'i·".·; ' . I ·~· -·-Helmut Schmidt, chancellor o{ the Federal Republic of.": Germany, speaks .English more fluently than our secre- . tary of state, a member of the state department comment- · r~-·- •_,,N, •• ed at the r .....Associa By John Sherwood the Baltimore-Washington Parkway slippery gangplank where they were Washington Star Sta!! Wrilcr because the foul weather grounded piped aboard. Nearly 80 cadets in full BALTIMORE - It rained on the the helicopter that was to have flown dress stood at attention along the Ford-Schmidt-Gorch Fock parade him to his visit to the West German yardarms and doffed their caps three . last night, but all hands dressed up ship Gorch Fock, where he met West times and shouted a salute . the rigging anyway. If storms cannot German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. IF ANYTHING impressed Ford, it stop the ship at sea, they certainly Sharing an umbrella with Schmidt) was the daring of the nimble cadeis cannot stop a presidential cocktail and followed by Mrs. Schmidt, who aloft in the high rigging. party i1'l port. shared an umbrella with Mrs. Ford, . "I felt sorry for those poor young President Ford was forced to take th_e two leasiers made their way up qi sailors up in the rigging." Ford saici more than once. "H was-above and beyond the call of duty." . . The President, weari.'lg a blue suit MEETING ·THE captain of the .with a ·vest, made his way, very care- ' SCHMID! MADE a brief address Gorch Fock, Baron Hans von Stack- fully down the tricky ship's .iadders ~ ~; ma1~ deck in which Re said \ elberg, Ford shook hands. The skip to inspect the quarters below while I 250 guests mingled on. the quarter i that Americans and Germans are in per snapped to attention, flicking his I the sa.l?e boa ~ tonight. .. - He also heels together smartly and tossing a deck, feeding on lobster; roast suck ' F re'; m n~ut1ca l allusions about salute that would have knocked off ling pig, fish, shrimp and lamb. "ord s staying at the helm when someone's hat if he were standing The- a(t quarters of · the deck strong crosswinds are blowing' .. next to the captain. resembled a sultan's tent, covered G Ford again congratulated. the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with a canvas tarpaulin and closed in I by colorful flags. i Touch S~f?Ck skippe~ on winning the showed up late with his wife Nancy, · Ba 1ps abortive race from who loomed over him the way the Ford, strolling the deck with er~uda to Newport. The ca tain masts loomed over them. She brush Schmidt, engaged in light· chit-chz.t andgam s~pped to, clicking his heels ed dandruff from his shoulder, but as someone thrus a gin and tonic in a sa 1 utmg. not once did either one of them look his hand. 'Ford, aware that Gorch Fock up into the rigging or give any indi He seemed impressed by the 2~3- foot squarerigger's tall masts, whici 1 8 cation of an interest in the ship they le ave~ a;, ~ ·1'.1· today, wished the loom 148 feet above the water. ~!~_t:;.m fair winds and a following were aboard. When Ford· met Maryland Gov. Even the President was taH:ing about the startling weather. There_ were only a few hundred Marvin Mandel, their conversation people m the Inne Harbor ba . was interrupted by Mandel's inces "When we le!t Washington.'' he said, "it was .1ust lik.d Tnursaay when . Ford arrived, but police a~~ sant lighting of his pipe. Ford prais ed the Baltimore port, saying 'Tm night. I've never seen such sta thn;., security people swarmed ov th lightning as that night." "' area · Wh en F ord Ieft the souarerier g-e very impressed with your harbor." ger .about 8: 15 p.m. he firs( made a At thal _point Baltimore Ma vo motion as if to walk toward th William Schaeffer strolled up· and cro_wd, b~t wa ved instead and dim~ presented Ford with a replica of but ed his w~iting car. tons that George Washington wore at IIl)° his inauguration. ----· -~,---- The conversation among Ford, Schmidt, Mandel, and Schaeffer re volved around the port of Baltimore and the writing of the National An ...... them at nearby Fort McHenry. UP-09 7 ( SCHMIDT) '•'ASHINGTO N UP-006 R B THE PRES I DE NT 'S AP PO I NT ME NT S : 8:00 STAFF MEETINGS. 10:30 ARRIVAL CEREl'IONY F'OR WEST GERMAN CllANCELLOR HELMUT SCHMIDT. t 1 :00 CONFERS WITH SCHMIDT. 2 :00 VICE PRESIDENT ROCKEFELLER. 8:00 ROSE GARDEN 0 INNER I{() M'.JRI NG CHANCELLOR AND l'IRS. SCHMIDT. UPI 07-15 08:24 AEO - r.·- WASHI NGTON UP-015 CfORD) UP-042 ~.!!§' - ni·*T?'sttmmzr·rwzg'"?"'nm T/7est Ger . man Clzancellor Helmut S()zniir!t and --- President F, _, ora on board the G t . erman tall slu1J "G · r orc/i f 'oc 1 ,, • B t£ m altimore 11 b . .i ar or. United Pr ' ess I11ternat1ona1