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Gerald R. Ford Library1000 Beal Avenue,
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Domestic Council
DAWN
BENNETT-ALEXANDER
Assistant
to the General Counsel; Assistant Director for
Justice,
Civil Rights, Drugs, Consumer Affairs:
Files, 1974-77
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
Extensive
files on consumer protection issues and proposals. Fragmentary
files on illegal aliens, privacy and other criminal and civil law issues.
QUANTITY
4 linear feet
(ca. 8,000 pages)
DONOR
Gerald R. Ford
(accession number 77-107)
ACCESS
Open. Some items may be temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).
COPYRIGHT
Gerald Ford has
donated to the
Prepared by Leesa
Tobin, April 1980
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INTRODUCTION
Dawn D. Bennett‑Alexander
began working on the Domestic Council as Staff Assistant to Associate Director
and Counsel Richard Parsons in March 1976 and continued in that post until the
end of the Ford Administration.
Appointed as an assistant in the general areas of justice, civil rights,
and drugs, Bennett‑Alexander's duties were greatly augmented with
Kathleen Ryan's resignation in April 1976 and her subsequent assumption of
Ryan's duties in the area of consumer affairs.
Consumer related materials constitute more than half of Bennett‑Alexander's
files and include those she created as well a those
she inherited from Ryan.
While Parsons as
associate director coordinated policy development with other Domestic Council
staff and acted as liaison with federal agencies within the subject area,
Bennett‑Alexander handled more routine matters. She answered correspondence and referrals,
monitored legislation, and drafted issues statements in a variety of subject
areas, such as justice, crime, civil rights, minority affairs, drugs, customs,
busing, delinquency, gun control, illegal aliens, and privacy as well as
consumer issues.
Materials
include memoranda presenting alternatives and making recommendations with
regard to proposed legislation or presidential actions; internal memoranda on
Domestic Council matters; press releases and news items; bills, printed
testimony and House reports; and correspondence. While most of these materials are copies or
printed matter, there is considerable substantive material relating to the
Consumer Protection Act of 1975 and President Ford's consumer representation
plans. The latter provides a very
complete record of the plans from their inception through the stages of their
final drafts, including extensive testimony and agency correspondence. The materials in the General Subject File are
of a more routine nature with the exception of those concerning privacy and illegal
aliens, areas where Bennett‑Alexander appears to have had more direct
involvement.
Related
Materials (April 1980):
Related
information may be found in other Domestic Council collections, particularly
those of Richard Parson, Kathleen Ryan and Pamela Needham. Another source for consumer materials are the
files of Virginia Knauer, Special Assistant for
Consumer Affairs.
Series
Descriptions
1‑6 Consumer Files, 1974-76. (2.4 linear feet)
Correspondence, memoranda,
news items, reports, testimony, bills, statements, and printed materials
received by Bennett‑Alexander or her predecessor Kathleen Ryan, from
federal agencies and the general public.
The file contains information on the Consumer Advisory Council, Consumer
Product Safety Commission, Office of Consumer Affairs, Consumer Protection Act
of 1975, President Ford's Consumer Representation Plans and regulatory reform.
Arranged
alphabetically by subject.
7‑10 General Subject File,
1975-76. (1.6 linear feet)
Reports, press
releases, booklets, newspaper clippings, bills, statements, printed testimony,
House reports, and other processed materials in addition to occasional
memoranda, correspondence, draft messages, schedule proposals, talking points
and other miscellaneous items relating to general subject areas. Most items are copies and printed matter,
which reflect their apparent reference use.
Substantive subjects include illegal aliens, privacy,
Arranged
alphabetically by subject.
Container List
Administrative
Position Papers
Agency
Correspondence, A‑Z (1)‑(5)
Budget
Allocations
Consumer
Advisory Council (1)‑(2)
Consumer Correspondence/Referral
(1)‑(3)
Consumer Product
Safety Commission
Consumer Product
Safety Commission Act of 1976 (1)‑(2)
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Agency Input (1)‑(2)
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Analyses (1)‑(3)
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Analyses (4)
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Legislative Action (1)‑(2)
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Presidential Veto
Consumer
Protection Act of 1975 ‑ Public Opinion
Consumer
Representation Plans ‑ Development of (1)‑(4)
Consumer
Representation Plans ‑ Development of (5)
Consumer
Representation Plans ‑ White House Conference
Consumer
Representation Plans (Drafts), A‑Ho
Consumer
Representation Plans (Drafts), Hp‑Z
Correspondence ‑
General
Legislation (1)‑(2)
Memoranda (1)‑(4)
News Items (1)‑(2)
Office of
Consumer Affairs (1)‑(3)
Press Releases
(1)‑(2)
Publications (1)‑(2)
Regulatory
Reform (1)‑(2)
Society of Consumer
Affairs Professionals
State and Local
Programs
Administrative
Position Papers
Administrative
Procedure Act
Alcohol
Bankruptcy Act
Amendments
Civil Rights (1)‑(2)
Crime
Criminal Code
Amendments (1)‑(2)
Drugs
Equal Employment
Equal Employment
Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act
Format Samples
Gun Control
Illegal Aliens
(1)‑(6)
Immigration
Indian Affairs
Justice ‑
Department of
Memoranda
Navigable Water
Oversight and
Investigations Subcommittee
Privacy (1)‑(4)
Privacy ‑
Banking (1)‑(3)
Puerto Rico
Compact (1)‑(2)
Securities
Protection
Staff Meetings
Treasury ‑
Department of
Women
Young American
Medals
