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Digitized from Box 2 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Dat~ Is:;ued 10/1/,//.;. I By ~--~o:,y-?:- :i ! Revise~/~! i

FACT SHEET :rvlrs. Ford's Office

Event Dinner ho~·::::-::::2 and Mrs. Haig Group -~~~-~------~----~------~------~ DATE/TIME Octobe= Z3. 1974 8:00 p. m. Contact Pat Howard Phone· 292 7 . - Number of guests: Total 38 Women x J\ren x Children ------~------Place State Floor r ~ Principals involved Presid:::nt and Mrs. Ford Participation by Principal Yes (Rcccivingline) no R cm Jrks required Yes ------~------~-~------~-~ Ba1.:kground ---~------

REQIJIREMENTS Social: Yes Programs ----no Menus------Refreshments Dinner Menu ------,-----~------~--~------~----- Entertain me:it ves ( l _;_.=,-==-=------'------~------~---~-~-- Decorations/ fl o "'fe rs Yes ----~--~---:-~--~------~---~--- .Music Yes Social Aides Yes ~~=------~---~-----~~--~------~ Dre~s Blac::C Tie Coat check Yes Other ---~------~------~---~~----- Pres<>: R c porters TO BE RESOLVED Photographers ------~--~------~--;;;~------~ TV Crews ---~------~~------'------~--~Yes White Honse f'hat~ sl:'_i~ild b:~ attac::.:d !f t~chnical support is heavy.

' Red Gerbera Daisies, Anemones, Roses and Gloxinia, Rover Pompon Chrysanthemums, Cranberry, Pyracantha, Coffee foliage and Baker fern.

7 hurricane lamps with blue candles Blue Gypsophilal and Cornfl..owers, Yellow Pompon Chrysanthemums and Miniature White Carnationso

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Supreme of Shrimp Chateaubriand Bernaise Timbales of Spinach Belgian Carrots Garden Salad - Brie Cheese Amandine Chocolate and Vanilla Ice Cream Bombe Demitasse ...

Wines:

L ; ~ M. Cabernet Sauvignon Schramsberg Blanc de Noire

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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

DINNER HONORING GENERAL AND MRS. HAIG

Wednesday, October 23, 1974 8: 00 p. m.

Dress: Black Tie ... long dresses for the ladies

Arrival:

7:45 p. m. General and Mrs. Haig will be escorted to the Yellow Oval Room ... you and Mrs. Ford will join them ... cocktails will be served.

7:55 p. m. Your guests will arrive through the Diplomatic Reception Room and will be escorted to the Green Room where cocktails will be served.

8:00 p. m. You and Mrs. Ford will escort General and Mrs. Haig via elevator to the Green Room where you will mingle with your guests.

Dinner: Round tables

You,. Mrs. Ford, General and Mrs. Haig will precede your guests through the Grand Hall into the and be seated for dinner.

NOTE: There will be a photo taken by the White House photographer only.

As the dinner draws to a close, you will rise and propose a toast.

After Dinner:

9:30 p. m. You, Mrs. Ford, General and Mrs. ·:-raig will precede your guests into the Blue Room ... dern.it:tsse, liqueurs and cigars will be served.

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9:40 p. m. x ou, Mrs. Ford, General and Mrs. Haig and your guests will be seated at the small round tables in the Blue Room.

You will stand and introduce the entertainment ... "The Headliners" a quartet from the West Point Glee Club.

"The Headliners" will perform for approximately 10 minutes.

At the conclusion of the performance, you and Mrs. Ford will thank the group.

NOTE: There will be a photo taken by the White House photographer of your thanking the group.

The Marine Dance Combo will be positioned in the Blue Room \ and will provide music for dancing in the Blue Room.

Departure:

You and Mrs. Ford will escort General and Mrs. Haig to the Grand Hall.

You and Mrs. Ford may wish to return to the Blue Room or you may return to the Family Quarters.

There will be champagne, mixed drinks and dancing for the guests who remain.

NOTES:

Suggested toast is attached (Tab A)

Suggested remarks for entertainment (Tab B)

Guest list is attached (Tab C)

Military Social Aides. will be present.

There will be no press coverage; toast will be recorded for Presidential Archives 0'1ly.

J\a:;.cy Lamrr..erding

' DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE Wednesday, October 23, 1974 at eight o'clock

The President & Mrs. Ford General & Mrs. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Simon The Secretary of Defense & Mrs. Schlesinger Hon. & Mrs. Roy L. Ash Director, OMB Hon. Anne L. Armstrong Counsellor to the President Hon. & Mrs. Philip W. Buchen Counsel to the President Hon. & Mrs. Dean Burch Counsellor to the President Hon. & Mrs. John O. Marsh, Jr. Counsellor to the President Hon. & Mrs. Assistant to the President Hon. & Mrs. Howard H. Callaway Secretary of the Army Hon. & Mrs. William E. Colby Director of Central InJelligence Hon. & Mrs. William E. Timmons Assistant to the President Lt. Gen. , USAF Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Hon. & Mrs. Kenneth Rush U.S. Ambassador to France Lt. Gen. Alonzo P. Fox (Ret.) Mrs. Haig' s father; Washington, D. C. Hon. Nelson A. Rockefeller Vice President-designate Lt. Col. & Mrs. Eugene A. Fox Mrs. Haig' s brother; Arlington, Virginia Mrs. Alexander M. Haig, Sr. Gen. Haig' s mother; Pennington, New Jersey Mr. Alexander P. Haig Ge:12.. Haig' s son; Arlington, Virginia Miss Barbara Haig Gen. Haig' s daughter; Fairfield, Connecticut Cadet Brian F. Haig Gen. Haig' s son; West Point, New York The Reverend Frank Haig Gen. Haig' s brother; , Lt. Col. & Mrs. George A. Joulwan Washington, D. C. Mr. & Mrs. Edward Meredith Gen. Haig' s sistez:; Pennington, New Jersey

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Betty Ford re~ed ,h~ ew York. On his arrival in role as White House hos.tess . Tel. Aviv from , Mr. last night when she and Bernstein, who will be guest President Ford gave a fare- conductor for nine perform­ well dinner party for Brig. ances in a 21h-week tour of Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., Israel, said, "Israel has one who,· after serving two · of the four best audiences in Presidents as chief of staff, the world, including Japan, , has returned to active Anny Vienna, and Russia." duty to become commander • of .allied forces in Europe on Thomas Harris, the Cali- Nov. l. , . , . " ., . fornia psychiatrist who wrote It was Mrs. Ford's first the best seller "I'm OK­ social event· since undergo- You're OK," has paid $50,000 ing breast cancer·surgery on in a suit in which a woman Sept. .28. Invitee! to the black- charged he kept her as a mis­ ·tie · dinner honoring General tress under the influence of Ha,ig and his wife were 41 liquor and other drugs. guests, including ~elson ~· Patricia Ann Crocco, who Rockefeller, the Vrce Prest- accepted the out-of-court dent-designate; .- WiJliim E. settlement ·of her original Simon, Secr\!t:ilry of the Trea- $1.2-million damage suit in suty; James .,A:. Scltfesing8r ·Sacramento, charged Dr. Har­ the SecretarY. of. Defeh5e and ris with malpractice, breach ·1 · ... ' of contract and inten- ,Wllli. am E. Co by,'heau 9~ ·the " ·tional infliction of ·emotional Ce!ltral Intelligence Agency. distress. . ~ - · '" · She said that after becom- th!n s:V~~th1!'.:n~ , of~~~ ing Dr. Harris's patient in •., · 1965, she d!vorced her hus­ Rooney filed for ·clivo)'Ce. . band on the doctor's advice Carolyn Rooney, a 31-year- and went to work for Dr. old former press agent who Harris. Mrs. Crocco said that married the actor in 1969, she had lived with the doctor 1 filed under Florida's no-fault and that he had kept her un­ divorce law, saying only that der the influence of various her marriage· was broken ir- drugs until "discarding" her retrievably. She asked for in 1972. Dr. Harris's lawyer custody of the couple's two said that the psychiatrist had children and support pay- filed an answer to Mrs. ments for them, alimony, at- Cuocco's suit, denying "99 tomey's fees and a court ,, per cent of her charges." • determination of how to di- • vide property. A page 1 announcement In . • yesterday's Washington Star- Hlroo Onoda, a World War News, the capital's only af­ II Japanese army lieutenant ternoon newspaper, said that who spent 29 years hiding in effective at once, Joe L. All· a Philippine jungle, waiting britton would be publisher. for a command to return a title no one has held for home, is disappointed in his several years. That put the homeland and says he in- 49-year-old banker from Hou­ tends to move to Brazil. "The ston in "active direction of Japanese people have become the business and news oper­ incapable of understanding ations," the announcement that a man can spend half of said. Mr. Allbritton will con­ his life in the jungle, only to tinue as chairman and chief carry ~t an order," he told executive, posts he assumed newspapers in SAo Paulo. last month when he bought "They think l'm lying. That's a $25-million controlling in­ why I intend to move to terest in The Star-News com­ Brazil." The 52-year-old Mr. pany from members of the Onoda was expected to settle three families that have op­ in Slo Paulo, which has a erated it since its founding Japanese population of in 1852. 700,000. • Yale's well-known• consti- Remember Annette Fun!- tutional scholar, Charles L. cello? She was one of the Black Jr., is recovering from original "Mousketeers" on surgery on Tuesday for an the "Mickey Mouse Club" undisclosed ailment, but his cnildren's TV show back .n popular course in constitu- 1 tional law for Yale under­ the nineteen-fifties. Miss Fu- graduates won't be affected nicello 'is 31 years old now, by his indisposition. Mr. and has just given birth to Black was taken ill last Fri­ her third child, a son. in Los day in Austin, Tex., where Angeles. Miss Funicello, who he was visiting his ailing appeared in a series of mother, and flown to New "beach party" movies after Haven on Saturday. she left the Mickey Mouse / Over the weekend he tape­ series, retired seven years recorded eight let tures for ago. She is married to a ta!- the 200 students in his un- ent agent, Jack Gllardl. ~ dergraduate class. As for Mr. . • . Black's seminar in Yale In r!isting the pla~ where · . Law , School where he he finds tlie-mbst apprecili· · serves as Henri Luce Profes­ tive audienct:S for concert sor of Jurisprudence, he'll music, Leonard Bernstein did · hold that from his bedside. not i nc!1:_1~e . his home b~_!~, ALBIN KREBS