DCI SCHEDULING ITEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T00644R000300810007-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 6, 1981
• Content Type: MISC

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DCI SCHEDULING ITEM
DATE RECEIVED: 6 Jan 81
DATE OF EVENT: None specified
1. INFORMATION REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT: SUSPENSE:
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Source:
Tel: Ltr Fm: Kenneth Thompson
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Type of event:.
Address by DCI
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Special occasion:
White Burkett Miller Center for Public Affairs, Univ. of VA
d.
Date/Time:
None specified
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Location:
' Charlottesville, VA
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Significant info:
2. SCHEDULE:
3. RECOMMENDATIONS:
a. SCHEDULE NO SEE ME
b. ADDITIONAL ATTENDEES
c. PASS TO: DDCI D/DCI/RM D/DCI/CT DDNFA....
5. AIDE FINAL ACTION:
Schedule Re r t
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White Burkett
Miller Center
For Public Affairs
At The University
Of Virginia
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Center of Public Vrairs was
established at the niversity of
Virginia on Septemher 1, 7975,
it has
a"unigue mission: to consider
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issues of presidentialism,
cons ti(u tionaiism and change
without focusi$g on a particular
president or a spy! is administra-
tion; to ponder the great problems of
American government as they are
reflected through the institution
of the American presidency; to
contribute to the advancement of
knowledge and the improvement of
the conduct of public affairs. No
other university research center in
America has set itself such a task.
In so doing, the Miller Center is
fulfilling the wishes of its principal
benefactor, the late Burkett Miller
of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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The Center is housed in an early
nineteenth century residence on
the northwest corner of the Univer-
sity grounds. Faulkner House is a
spacious ante bellum dwelling
named after one of the South's most
celebrated authors. The Center's
grounds include nineteen acres of' Virginia countryside surrounded
by boxwood and pine trees.
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 To attain a clearer and more comprehensive perception of the
presidency, the Center will bring together both well-recognized
scholars engaged in original research and a new generation of
younger scholars and students. Rather than the issues of the mo-
ment, so often trivial and transitory, the Center will concentrate on a
thoroughgoing examination of the questions of public policy that
underlie such issues. Rather than the stuff of headlines, the Center
will seek for the substance of history.
At the same time, however, the Center will strive to live up to the
last two words of its name; it will make public affairs its parish.
Specifically, it will seek to bridge the gap that can separate the
scholar and the policy-maker, the groves of academe and the cor-
ridors of power. The yawning chasm between men of thought and
men of action must be narrowed; the Miller Center has a mandate to
help close the gap.
In fulfilling this mandate, a dialogue has been instituted in
Charlottesville between practitioners and scholars, between men of
affairs in government and business, and university leaders. Burkett
Miller dreamed that a dialogue between the two was possible. The
Center's aim which pervades all its activities, is to bridge the gulf
between theory and practice. Scholars can bring greater clarity into
the collection and analysis of the facts, and joining with experienced
leaders can help to answer the questions raised at the close of one of
its Forums: "Is there some wisdom to be distilled which could be of
use to this administration or to future administrations?" Is there a
chance of drawing together accumulated knowledge that can help
new policy makers with current and emerging problems?
For these purposes-original scholarship and concern for the
public interest-the Center's Virginia home at the institution its
founder envisaged would become "a bulwark for the human mind in
the Western hemisphere" could not be more suitable. With its devo-
tion to a government of laws, with its motherhood of presidents, the
Old Dominion provides a strong haven for the traditions of con-
stitutionalism. And with its Jeffersonian heritage and its unswerving
determination to follow the truth wherever it may lead, the University
of Virginia provides an ideal place for an institute for independent
thought and inquiry. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison, James Monroe and John Marshall symbolize the values of
the State, the University, and the Miller Center.
Its proximity to the nation's capital, accessible in thirty-five
minutes by frequent plane service, gives the Center's staff easy
contact with governmental leaders in Washington, D.C. Removed
from the pace and the pressures of Washington and New York but
readily accessible to both, the Miller Center enjoys the best of two
worlds, a world of contemplation and a world of public controversy
directed toward the search for consensus.
The University's contributions to the Center include Faulkner
House, maintenance and services, partial salaries of staff members
and administrators and the management of its funds. University
President, Frank Hereford, is a member of the Council and oversees
Center activities and programs.
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 The White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs is governed by
a Council composed oi' distinguished lawyers, public figures,
educators, and businessmen of national prominence. Its membership
has included former Governors of Virginia and past and present
university Presidents. The Center's Council provides policy guidance
through formulating Center policies, approving the appointment of'
personnel, and reviewing the annual budget. The Center's Director is
Kenneth W. Thompson, White Burkett Miller Professor of Govern-
ment and Foreign Affairs, and the Director of its Presidency Program
is Professor James Sterling Young, Bancroft Prize-winning author of
I In' Wa.shirogtoll Conrnrurrit i/.
In an effort to maintain the highest scholastic standards, the
Director of the Miller Center solicits advice on the quality and major
directions of the C'enter's research activities from a Faculty Advisory
Committee composed of nationally renowned educators drawn from
across a broad spectrum of' faculties at the University. In keeping
with the Center's goal of the pursuit of human knowledge on gov-
ernment and politics, the makeup of this committee represents a
variety of academic disciplines to ensure the applicability of' the
('enter's work to the widest possible audience while maintaining
scholarly excellence.
To facilitate the Center's efforts to bridge the gap between theory
and practice, the ('enter's outreach activities are assisted by the
Miller Center Associates, a group of leading Americans from the state
and nation who believe in the ('enter's goals, give counsel from
widely diverse geographical and professional perspectives and assist
and facilitate Center ohjectives.
These three governing and advisory bodies offer informed and
broadly-based support and counsel to the Miller Center staff' on a
continuing basis. They assist in establishing linkages with govern-
ment and business leaders, other research and educational programs
and the citizenttic at large. Center scholars benefit from cooperative
relations with various scholarly journals including the Virginhr Qruu`
ter/i1 Rreiru'. The ('enter also profits from close association with
several university presses who have encouraged the publication of its
scholarly research.
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THE VIRGINIA PAPERS ON THE PRESIDENCY
AND THE MILLER CENTER FORUMS
In fulfilling its mandate to
bring together scholars and men of
affairs the Miller Center has insti-
tuted a Forum Series which is
complementary to the Presidency
Program. Patterned after more for-
mal lectureships such as the famed
Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh,
Scotland, American leaders such,
as Gerald Ford, Hugh Scott, Dean
Rusk, Clifford Hardin, George
Kerman, Paul Nitze, Ray Scherer
and Ellsworth Bunker are invited to
address a select group of journalists
and scholars, educators, public offi-
cials and industrial leaders and to
explore major points in seminars
devoted to the most urgent
contemporary issues. The
presentations and seminar discus-
sions are intended to illuminate
new directions of thought and in-
quiry in the area of public affairs.
The publication of Forum papers
and discussions will make possible
their dissemination beyond those
attending the seminars, increase
public understanding and assist
policymakers. By providing the
framework within which prac-
titioners' insights are joined with
scholars' research, Miller Center
Forums may help bring theory and
practice more closely together and
contribute to the emergence of
new perspectives on fundamental
issues of constitutionalism and
presidentialism.
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 The Center's foremost research objective is the development of
new perspectives on political leadership in a free society. The reason
for this emphasis is as clear as it is compelling: one of the critical
problems in American political life today is how to maintain a capacity
for effective central leadership while assuring the vitality of a con-
stitutional system founded on the principle of decentralized and
limited governmental power.
The last decade of American politics has witnessed a mounting
public concern over the dangers inherent in an interdependent world,
where people and nations everywhere find their own safety, freedom,
or well-being dependent on the actions of others over whom they
have little or no control. Demands that government do something to
reduce such dangers increasingly dictate the public policy agenda of
our time. These demands, and the public concerns that give rise to
them, are apparent whether the issue is arms control abroad or crime
control at home; assuring a safe environment or assuring an adequate
energy supply; saving the cities or serving the farmers; protecting
consumers or protecting privacy; preventing runaway inflation or
reducing the penalties of being born into a minority, being thrown out
of work or of getting old or ill. In an age of human interdepen-
dence-and also an age of nuclear proliferation, chronic resource
scarcity, spiraling costs of living, and hazardous technology-those
in power are called upon to reduce the exposure of those not in
power to the risks of collective calamity resulting from forces beyond
their control.
Yet as the need for leadership has grown, latitude for leadership
has diminished. Mobilizing the public consensus necessary for re-
sponding to public demands has become more difficult for those
elected to positions of public trust. Mustering sufficient political power
to ensure collective or personal security, freedom and well-being in
an interdependent world has become ever harder to reconcile with
the political values of a nation born in revolt against centralized
authority and with a system of government designed to prevent
one-man rule.
The framework for leadership that supported the growth of
unprecedented presidential power from the Great Depression to the
Cold War has crumbled. It has been the casualty of declining public
confidence in government following the Vietnam War and the
Watergate scandals, the weakening of political parties and the rise of
big government, the sheer technical complexities and the sharp
political cleavages that attend the making of public policy in the
post-industrial age. But no new political framework conducive to the
exercise of leadership by the nation's head of government has ap-
peared to take its place. Since Dwight D. Eisenhower's administra-
tion, Americans have experienced almost twenty years of discon-
tinuity and disillusionment in the presidency. The assassination of
one Chief Executive, the voluntary retirement of another, the res-
ignation of a third, and the defeat in office of yet a fourth have left
our most prestigious institution of leadership weakened in its capacity
to perform the feats of statecraft that continue to be expected of it.
But no other institution has emerged to take the presidency's place on
the podium of power.
In a time of growing disparity between public expectations and
governmental performance, a search for new forms and patterns of
leadership has become vital to the survival of the American constitu-
tional system, now almost two hundred years old.
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To encourage the sharing of knowledge, data, and ideas among
Executive Office.
Also being planned is a series of conferences on the changing
national and international environment of presidential leadership.
This series will focus on key political, social, and economic trends
affecting the kinds of problems that will confront Chief Executives in
the next decade and on their implications for the conduct, organiza-
tion, and staffing of the presidency. These conferences are being
planned jointly with the National Academy of Public Administration
and they will serve as background for the Academy's preparation of
recommendations for improving the structure and functioning of the
state, and local political setting.
To enlighten that search is the objective of the Miller Center's
Program on the Presidency. Through this Program, the Center pro-
vides opportunities for scholars and people in public life to think
through the problem of leadership in a free society, to explore
alternative ways it may be resolved in the foreseeable future, and to
gain better understanding of the role and function presidential
leadership serves in the American political system.
Scholars interested in pursuing inquiry on these subjects are
invited to join the Center for a period of research or writing and to
exchange ideas with colleagues and persons in public life. Such
scholars include Fred I. Greenstein, Henry Luce Professor of Politics,
Law and Society at Princeton University; Don K. Price, Professor of
Government and former Dean of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard, Frederick C. Mosher, Doherty Professor of
Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia and
Robert Scigliano, Professor of Political Science at Boston College.
Major research themes explored are the Eisenhower Presidency;
the presidential role in science and technology; the comparative
evolution from 1921 to the present of the two main staff agencies
supporting the exercise of leadership by elected officials over the
federal executive agencies, namely, the General Accounting Office of
the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget in the
Executive Office of the President; and presidential war powers.
In addition to supporting individual research and writing, the
Program on the Presidency will sponsor conferences and roundtable
discussions intended to stimulate new lines of inquiry and to bring
the perspectives of scholars in various disciplines as well as those of
political practitioners and observers to bear on a variety of subjects
important to the understanding of the presidency. One such round-
table, being planned in consultation with Dumas Malone, Biographer
in Residence at the University, will invite presidential historians and
political scientists to compare the problems and leadership strategies
of selected Chief Executives in the past. Another planned roundtable
will invite academicians and practitioners to consider the contempo-
rary role and problems of elected Chief Executives' in the national,
those engaged in presidential research,
the Center plans to provide
opportunities for scholars and
students to report to colleagues on
their research in progress and
works with the Presidency
Research Group, a recently
established national community
of scholars in search of new
knowledge about the presidency.
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 The Honorable Linwood Holton
Former Governor of Virginia and
Vice President of the American
Council of Life Insurance
Dr. Thomas A. Bartlett
Former President of Colgate
University and President of the
American Association of Universities
The Honorable Henry H. Fowler
Former Secretary of the Treasury and
General Partner, Goldman Sachs Company
Mr. Frank L. Hereford, Jr.
President of the University of Virginia
Donald R. Osborn, Esq.
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Frank W. Rogers, Sr., Esq.
Former Rector of the University
of Virginia and Partner, Woods,
Rogers, Muse, Walker & Thornton
Mr. Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
Former President of the University
of Virginia and Commonwealth Professor
of English
Mr. Sam I. Yarnell
Chairman, American National Bank & Trust Co.
Mr. William L. Zimmer, III
Rector of the University of Virginia and
Associate Partner, McGuire, Woods, and Battle
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White Burkett Miller liter For Public Affairs
Charlottesville,Virginia 22905
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