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12/14/79 Folder Citation: Collection: Office of Staff Secretary; Series: Presidential Files; Folder: 12/14/79; Container 142 To See Complete Finding Aid: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/Staff_Secretary.pdf THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. President: Sol Linowitz is due to ar rive at And rews tonight at 6 pm and wondered if you wanted a report to i -::} morrow on his trip. v/yes no Phil /p/1 ef / /- ,. 1 ,. NI/ V" � ( J ,, - ' ' �J- "'• '1 > sd$ £tectrcsta�tlc Copy M ion PurpG� fewp1 8aervmt ' ' " f <>? ' ·' MEMORANDUM PERSONAL AND C-etU''IDEN'fiAL THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON December 14, 1979 ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL TO: FRANK MOORE �-- FROM JIM � :....- : COPELAND Msde BOB MAHER r EDectrostatOc Copy Pu!l'pol'!es for PreservatSoB'i SUBJECT: CHRYSLER STATUS REPORT We have "followed" this legislation since mid-November, picking it up during the final stage of consideration by the Senate Banking Committee. Throughout we have deferred to the wishes of the United Auto Workers, i.e. we have resisted all temptation to affect their decisions on what would be an acceptable level of employee contribution. Even when we knew Lugar had 9 votes out of 15 in the Committee, we did not pressure the UAW. Even though we are certain that the $400 million employee contribution is not enough for those who want to see the UAW members agree to make a painful sacrifice, even though we feel the end product is likely to be something like a $600 million employee contribution, we have kept our counsel to ourselves_. Instead we've met often with Howard Paster, Tommy Boggs, Jim O'Hara and Bill Hathaway hoping against hope that reality might break through. Thus far it has not. To date CL has a. Monitored the Senate hearings. b. Called about 40 House Members requesting their general support of Chrysler legis lation -- when asked about possible compro mises, we've been non-committal. c. Attended Blanchard's House Task Force meetings. d. Monitored Rules committee action (as you know Moorhead pulled a surprise on Paster and Blanchard) . e. Designed a floor strategy (Cable with Jim O'Hara). -- ·· ·. -· 'i-Ci� f;'if..;'1l':.li:� �.:c�.,�:i�.'�g,�,':t�;��.iif ·,� ... ..:...:. - 2 - Problems Our outside interest allies allege that there have been three Administration errors: o The timing and content of Fred Kahn's statements about the UAW contract. o They also believe that Roger Altman has _hinted at the acceptability of a larger employee contribution ($600 million??) in meetings with Senator Lugar. o They accuse Treasury of not doing enough to help sell the proposal. In response we feel that Carswell and Altman have been relatively active. Secretary Miller has made calls as have Gene Godley and Sandy Kress. (Miller placed at least ·two calls to Reuss prior to Rules Committee action, Reuss ducked him. Treasury h�s apparently been concerned throughout abo�t raising the Administration's profile in a ·situation where we have minimal control over events and policy changes. They hav� acted as though the Administration's primary responsibility was to design the proposal -- that· its �elling should be done by the beneficiaries. Summary Throughout we have been extremely deferential to the UAW and Chrysler -- in fact so much so that it can be truthfully said that we've influenced nothing. Ours has been an effort along with Stu, Bert and Ralph Schlosstein to support whatever the UAW and Chrysler have come up with as a. plausible compromise or approach to a problem. Thus far they've been consistently wrong and we've been absolutely helpless to do anything about it. Their problem is that they honestly feel there is a limit to wpat the.UAW membership will accept. Our problem is that if we push them toward what it. will take to satisfy the Congressional desire for UAW sacrifice, we become the villian. cc: Bill Cable : ·Bob Thomson i' 2 ;e . r:: I !.· THE WHITE HOUSE r: 7/, '· l., v WASHINGTON December 14, 1979 MEMORANDUM FOR FRANK MOORE FROM: Dan Tate The vote on cloture was 56-39. Our votes for cloture who were missing were Talmadge, Church and Kennedy. Bentsen voted for cloture. ·: . 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