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Press Secretary Briefings, 12/18/74 Digitized from Box 4 of the Ron Nessen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library This Copy For N E W S C 0 N F E R E N C E #104 AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH RON NESSEN AT 12:10 P.M. EST DECEMBER 18, 1974 WEDNESDAY MR. NESSEN: I am sorry to be late, but there ls a lot of sr11ff today. I still don't have it all in hand, but we'll pass it out as we get it. That is why I delayed, but then I thought we had better go ahead. Don Rumsfeld will brief at 2:30 this afternoon on the White House organization. There will be quite a bundle of announcements, and other written material, which will be put out at 2:00 to give yourself a half-hour to read it, but no filing on the organization until the briefing is completed. Don's briefing will be available for filming and taping, if anybody cares to do it. At 11:00 the President had meetings with several Congressmen and Senators, including Senator Sparkman, Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr., Representative Paul Cronin, Representative George Goodling, Senator Norris Cotton, and Representative Robert Steele. These are very brief meetings that the Members requested to discuss various subjects. The President is going to have lunch at 12:45 with executives of the three television networks in the residence. The President has had contacts with newsmen over the years in various settings, and this is part of that. Q Who are they? Can you name them? MR. NESSEN: Do we have a posting? We will have a posting. Basically, that is the Board Chairman and President of each of the networks, the President of the news division of each network, and the executive producer of the nightly news program for each network. MORE #104 - 2 - #104-12/18 Q Do you consider them newsmen, Ron? MR. NESSEN: Well, they are in the news business. At 12:15 this afternoon, the President will have another meeting with Roy Ash and his staff to discuss the budget decisions for 1976. Mrs. Meir is coming in at 3:30 for a visit with the President. At 3:45, the President will meet with George Shultz. George Shultz is coming here for a 4:00 meeting of the Labor-Management Committee, and the President decided to see him for a few minutes earlier to get his views on the economy privately before meeting with the full committee. Did you post the meeting of the Apostolic Delegate? It is, but it is not going to take place because of a schedule conflict. Q What kind of schedule would keep the Apostolic Delegate from seeing the President? MR. NESSEN: I am not sure whose schedule is in conflict, the Apostolic Delegate's or the President's, but if you are interested, you can check with the Press Office after the meeting and they could look into it for you. Q What were they going to discuss? MR. NESSEN: It is the Apostolic Delegate's schedule which does not permit him to -- Q Has it been rescheduled? MR. NESSEN: It will be, but we don't have a date. Q What was the purpose of this meeting? MR. NESSEN: I am told there is an annual visit just before Christmas each year by the Apostolic Delegate. MORE #104 - 4 - 1104-12/18 Q Do you know why he wanted to do it? MR. NESSEN: I think you will have to ask the Secretary; I don't know. Q So, you were aware he was going to resign? MR. NESSEN: Yes. The President, today, announced the appointment of Richard B. Cheney as Deputy Assistant to the President and the appointment of Ken Lazarus as Associate Counsel to the President. Q What is Cheney's title? MR. NESSEN: Cheney's title is Deputy Assistant t~ the President. Q In what field? MR. NESSEN: He is Don Rumsfeld's Deputy. We are also going to have an announcement on Pat Lindh. Q Is she leaving? MR. NESSEN: No. She is getting a new position. You will also have an announcement on Pat Lindh. She has been working for Anne Armstrong and will continue working here with a new title. Q Haven't these people been serving in these capacities, actually? MR. NESSEN: Under the White House plan of operation, they officially serve as consultants until they are cleared and announced. Q Will you give us salaries on these as we go along? MR. NESSEN: Pat Lindh will be here in a moment. Meanwhile, the President has accepted with deep regret the decision of Tom Korologos and Eugene Ainsworth to leave government service and enter the private sector. Both of these men have worked with Bill Timmons in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs and have served with distinction. MORE #104 - 5 - #104-12/18 Q Are we going to get an announcement on that? MR. NESSEN: I am reading it to you now. Q Who is Gene Ainsworth? MR. NESSEN: I said they both work in the Bill Timmons' Legislative Affairs Office. There will be an exchange of letters posted after the briefing. As I said, they have served with distinction in a very difficult assignment, and they have worked closely with the President when he was Minority Leader and also when he was Vice-President. He knows both of them and knows firsthand the valuable contributions they have made, and he feels that they will be solely missed at the White House after their departure. Q When do they leave? MR. NESSEN: They will be staying until this session of Congress is completed. Although this is not a Presidential appointment, we are also announcing that Stan Ebner, the General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, is resigning, and the President acknowledges with appreciation his outstanding service at the OMB. As I say, it is not a Presidential appointment, and he submitted his resignation to Roy Ash. Does that do it on the personnel? You are missing a Pat Lindh announcement and so forth. It will be up here in a moment, Steve. Q Ron, can you tell us where, in the private sector, Mr. Korologos and Mr. Ainsworth are going to go? MR. NESSEN: I cannot tell you where they are going, but I would think they would be available to tell you themselves. I just don't know, Don. Q May I ask a question about your reshuffling here? Is this in any way an attempt to accomplish, by the first of the year, what we had heard speculated on that the President would replace all the Nixon people he inherited with his own people? MR. NESSEN: Well, I suggest that, Walt, that question might more properly be raised after you have seen the organization chart and so forth this afternoon, and MORE #104 - 6 - #104-12/18 I think Don can talk to you about that with more background information to go with it after you have seen what he has got this afternoon. Do you want me to give you the salaries now? Q Yes. MR. NESSEN: Dick Cheney will eatnin the range of $39,000 to $41,000 a year. Pat Lindh, who is being appointed today by the President as Special Assistant to the President for Women's Affairs -- her salary will be in the range of $22,000 to $24,000. And Ken Lazarus will be in the range of $35,000 to $37,000. Should we go on to Vail? Do you have enough thoughts on personnel? Q One question; is this a new title for Lindh? Is that a new name, Special Assistant for Women's Affairs? MR. NESSEN: Have we had anybody by that title before? Larry will look it up for us. Well, the President made his own announcement of Vail yesterday, as you probably noticed. MORE #104 - 7 - #104-12/18 Q What was that? MR. NESSEN: You did not hear. The President will be leaving for Vail at about 8:00 Sunday morning. That is the good news. The bad news is that the press plane will leave Andrews at 6:00 a.m. Q Why is he going that early? MR. NESSEN: The answer to that is -- and it is a serious question -- that due to the flying time and where he will be landing, and the need to get from where he will be landing, which is Grand Junction, Colorado, and then by helicopter to Vail, he has got to do that flight in daylight, and this is the starting time you need to start off with in order to get to Vail by dark. Q Did the Sunday football schedule have anything to do with his travel? MR. NESSEN: No, it did not. Q What time does he arrive in Grand Junction? MR. NESSEN: Why don't we go through it in an orderly way? Do we need to talk about the baggage thing here? Baggage for the Vail trip may be deposited outside of the Transportation Office on Saturday up until 2:00. Q 2:00 p.m.? MR. NESSEN: 2:00p.m., yes. The baggage check-in at Andrews is 5:00a.m., Suriday. If you have no baggage to check that means if you left it on Saturday -- you can get to Andrews as late as 5:30. The flight to Grand Junction is 3 hours and 50 minutes. MORE #104 - 8 .. ##10,.-12/18 Q Would it be fair to ask, Ron, why the press plane has to leave two hours ahead? MR.
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