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Gerald R. Ford Library1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2114www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov |
Domestic Council
JAMES
H. FALK
Associate
Director for Intergovernmental Affairs:
Files,
1974-75 (1976)
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
Falk
handled White House liaison with U.S. territorial, state and local government
officials and their organizations and lobbies.
Renewal of the general revenue sharing program and the economic impact
of military base closings are typical and prominent concerns.
QUANTITY
14 linear feet
(ca. 28,000 pages)
DONOR
Gerald R. Ford
(accession number 77-107)
ACCESS
Open. Some items are 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 United States of America his copyrights in all of his
unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other
individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees
as part of their official duties are in the public domain.
Prepared by Leesa
Erickson Tobin, April 1982
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
James H. Falk
1938 Born in
Tucson, Arizona
1960 Received B.S.
degree from the University of Arizona
1965 Received LL.B
degree from the University of Arizona
1961‑62 Credit reporter,
Dun & Bradstreet, Tucson, Arizona
1965‑66 Attorney, El Paso
Natural Gas Co., El Paso, Texas
1966‑67 Assistant City
Attorney, Tucson, Arizona
1967‑68 Attorney, Anaconda
Co., Sahuarita, Arizona
1968‑69 Attorney, Johnson,
Darrow, Hayes and Marales,
Tucson, Arizona
1969‑71 Attorney,
Waterfall, Economidis, Falk and Caldwell, Tucson,
Arizona
1971‑73 Staff assistant,
Domestic Council
1973‑75 Associate
director, Domestic Council
1976‑78 Member, Touche Ross & Co.,
INTRODUCTION
James H. Falk joined the Domestic
Council staff in March 1971 as a staff assistant to Edward Morgan, Deputy
Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. Falk was promoted to Associate Director in
1973 and assumed responsibility for activities associated with
intergovernmental affairs, reporting directly to the director of the Domestic
Council. He remained in this position
until leaving the White House staff in December 1975 to accept a job with Touche Ross & Co., an accounting firm in Washington,
D.C.
Falk's primary
responsibilities included maintaining White House liaison with governors,
mayors, state legislators, officials of counties and other local governments;
and with organizations of state, local and intergovernmental officials. These organizations included the Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Council of State Governments,
International City Management Association, National Association of Counties,
National Association of Regional Councils, National Governors Conference,
National League of Cities, National Legislative Conference, Republican
Governors Association, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
As
intergovernmental liaison, Falk had a busy schedule of meetings, often seeing
people that the President could not accommodate in his schedule. He handled much of the President's
correspondence with state and local officials, often drafting letters for the
President's signature. He also proposed
presidential meetings with these individuals or groups, often participating in
them himself. Falk also accompanied the
President when he was invited to speak to groups of local government officials
and helped to organize a series of working dinners with governors' groups
across the country.
An important
aspect of Falk's position was acting as the President's spokesman with state
and local leaders and in turn, relaying their concerns to the appropriate White
House officials. He also analyzed proposed
legislation in terms of how it would affect state and local governments and
worked with the New Coalition, a group of governors, mayors, state legislators
and county officials, on the 1976 budget.
As
intergovernmental liaison, Falk was a working member of several groups
concerned with examining particular issues.
He was appointed by Ford in August 1974 to a study group evaluating
the general revenue sharing program and
recommending whether or not the legislation for that program should be extended
before its 1976 expiration.
Falk's files
contain extensive material on this subject including correspondence from state
and local leaders concerning renewal of the legislation; materials on
alternative funding methods and adjustments to payment procedures; legislative
strategy on general revenue sharing legislation extension and nondiscrimination
provisions in the legislation.
Falk was also an
active member of the Economic Adjustment Committee. Established by the President in 1968, this
committee was responsible for coordinating and integrating appropriate federal
programs into community recovery plans in areas where military bases were being
closed or drastically reduced.
The Ad Hoc
Advisory Group on Puerto Rico was another group in which Falk participated. The study group was created by President
Nixon in 1973 to examine ways of granting Puerto Rico more self‑
government under its commonwealth status.
When Falk left the Domestic Council he turned his Puerto Rico files over
to Samuel Halper, a Domestic Council consultant on
Puerto Rico. They are now included in Halper's Domestic Council Collection.
James Falk's
files document his activities from the beginning of the Ford administration
until December 1975, with a very small amount of earlier and later material. Falk's files from the Nixon administration
are part of the Nixon presidential materials.
Related
Materials (April 1982):
Related material
may be found in other Domestic Council collections, particularly the files of
Stephen G. McConahey, who replaced Falk as Associate
Director for Intergovernmental Affairs; and Rayburn Hanzlik,
McConahey's assistant. Patrick Delaney was Falk's assistant, and his
materials often appear in Falk's files.
There are also related materials scattered throughout the White House
Central Files Subject Files.
Series
Descriptions
1‑14 General Subject File,
1974-75. (5.6 linear feet)
Correspondence,
memoranda, press releases, working papers, reports and printed materials
received or created by Falk. This file
concerns the federal government's relationship with organizations of state,
local and intergovernmental officials; the budget; economic policy as it
affected the localities; general revenue sharing renewal; and various
legislative initiatives.
Arranged
alphabetically by subject.
15‑25 State File, 1974-75. (4.2 linear feet)
Correspondence,
memoranda, briefing papers, press releases, disaster declaration
recommendations, meeting notes, presidential meeting and phone call proposals
and printed materials received or created by Falk. Falk routinely received copies of much of the
material created in the White House and the Domestic Council concerning local
and state affairs. Subjects include
general revenue sharing, disaster relief, administration legislative or policy
initiatives, and the federal budget.
Much of the correspondence is addressed to Patrick Delaney, Falk's
assistant. Also included is briefing
material on various state and local officials drafted by Falk for the
President's use.
Arranged
alphabetically by state and thereunder
chronologically.
25‑31 Meeting File, 1974-75. (2.6 linear feet)
Included are
memoranda, correspondence, draft speeches, scenarios, briefing materials and
printed items relating to meetings attended by Falk and sometimes by the
President. These include meetings Falk
attended with organizations of state, local, and intergovernmental officials;
meetings of those same groups where the President gave an address and Falk had
acted as liaison in planning the appearance; and White House meetings Falk
attended concerning intergovernmental affairs.
Many of the meeting files contain Falk's handwritten notes taken during
the meeting.
Arranged
chronologically.
31‑34 Administrative File, 1974-75. (1.2 linear feet)
Internal
memoranda, invitations, news clippings, resumes, questions and answers for the
President's Briefing Book, employee information for the White House staff,
schedule proposals and other papers concerning Domestic Council administrative
matters and the Ford administration's intergovernmental activities.
Arranged
alphabetically.
34‑35 Chronological File, 1975. (0.5 linear feet)
Carbons and
photocopies of letters, memoranda, questions and answers for the President's
Briefing Book, schedule proposals, and background material prepared by Falk
during 1975. There are no materials in
this file from 1974.
Arranged
chronologically.
Container List
Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (1)-(7)
Advisory Commission
on Intergovernmental Relations ‑ Publications
Budget ‑
General
Budget ‑
FY 1976
Budget ‑
FY 1977
Budget ‑
Undersecretaries Group (1)-(4)
Commission on
the Future of the South
Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act (CETA)
Congressional
Black Caucus
Consumer Reform
Council of State
Governments
Countercyclical
Legislation
Crime
District of
Columbia ‑ Budget
District of
Columbia ‑ Organization Handbook (1)-(3)
Earth Resources Technology
Satellite (ERTS)
Economic
Adjustment Committee (1)-(4)
Economic
Adjustment Committee ‑ Franklin Arsenal, Pennsylvania
Economic
Adjustment Committee ‑ Program (1)-(3)
Economic
Adjustment Committee ‑ Report
Economic
Adjustment Committee ‑ State Programs (1)-(6)
Economic Policy
Economic Policy ‑
President's Program
Economic Policy ‑
Press Releases
Economic Policy ‑
Publications
Education
Energy (1)-(3)
Energy ‑
President's Energy Program (1)-(2)
Energy ‑
President's Energy Program (3)
Energy ‑
Project Independence
Energy ‑
Project Independence ‑ Publications
Fair Labor
Standards
General Revenue
Sharing (1)-(4)
General Revenue
Sharing (5)-(6)
General Revenue
Sharing ‑ Chicago
General Revenue
Sharing ‑ Non‑Discrimination Provisions (1)‑(2)
General Revenue
Sharing ‑ Publications (1)-(2)
General Revenue
Sharing ‑ Publications (3)
General Revenue
Sharing Renewal (1)-(4)
General Revenue
Sharing Renewal ‑ Draft Bills (1)-(2)
General Revenue
Sharing Renewal ‑ President's Message (1)
General Revenue
Sharing Renewal ‑ Presidential Message (2)‑(3)
General Revenue
Sharing Renewal ‑ Status Reports
Housing and
Urban Development
Human Habitat
International
City Management Association
Legacy of Parks
Program
Legislation
Medical
Malpractice
National
Association of Counties
National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
‑ Consumer
Credit Code
‑ Limited
Partnerships Act (1)-(2)
‑ Uniform
Probate Code
National
Conference of Republican Mayors and Municipal Officials
National
Conference of State Legislative Leaders (1)-(2)
National
Governors' Conference (1)-(2)
National
Governors' Conference ‑ Russian Meeting
National League
of Cities ‑ U.S. Conference of Mayors (1)
National League
of Cities ‑
National League
of Cities ‑ U.S. Conference of Mayors ‑ Newsletter
National
Municipal Policy on Effective Government (1)-(2)
National
Intergovernmental Personnel Act
New Coalition
(1)-(4)
New Coalition
(5)-(6)
Presidential
Letter to Governors ‑ Tax and Spending Cuts, 10/10/75
Presidential
Papers
Public Works
Republican
Governors Association
State and Local
Regulatory Task Force
State of the
Union
Safe Drinking Water
Legislation
Strip Mining
Tax Reduction
Town Meetings
Unemployment
Vice President
WIN Committee
Youth Camp
Safety Act
Vietnamese
Refugees
State File
Alabama (1)-(3)
Alaska (1)-(2)
Arizona (1)-(2)
Arkansas
California
(1)-(3)
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida (1)-(3)
Georgia (1)-(2)
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana (1)-(2)
Iowa (1)-(2)
Kansas (1)-(2)
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine (1)-(3)
Maryland
Massachusetts
(1)-(3)
Michigan (1)
Michigan (2)-(4)
Michigan ‑
Detroit (1)-(4)
Michigan ‑
Detroit: Publications
Minnesota
(1)-(3)
Mississippi
Missouri (1)-(2)
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
(1)-(3)
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York (1)-(4)
New York City
(1)-(4)
North Carolina
(1)-(2)
North Dakota
Ohio (1)-(2)
Oklahoma (1)-(3)
Oregon (1)-(2)
Pennsylvania
(1)-(3)
Pennsylvania:
Federal ‑ State Affairs (1)-(3)
Pennsylvania:
Federal ‑ State Affairs (4)
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
(1)-(2)
Texas (1)-(3)
Utah (1)-(2)
Vermont
Virginia (1)-(2)
Washington
(1)-(3)
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
American Samoa
Guam
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Meeting File
Midwestern
Governor's Conference, Minneapolis, 7/28‑31/74
Western
Governors' Conference, Albuquerque, 9/29/74
National
Legislative Conference, Albuquerque, 8/12‑16/74 (1)-(2)
President's
Meeting with Governors, 8/14/74
National
Association of Counties Executive Committee Meeting, Washington, DC,
8/15/74
President's
Meeting with State Legislative Leaders, 8/29/74
Conference on
Inflation, 9/74
Southern
Governors' Conference, Austin, 9/8‑11/74
National
Governors' Conference Executive Committee Meeting with President,
9/14/74
State and Local
Governments Conference on Inflation, 9/23/74
Revenue Sharing
Meeting with President, 11/30/74
Coastal
Governors' Meeting with President, 11/13/74
National Governors'
Conference, Snowbird, 11/14‑16/74
White House
Conference, Minneapolis, 11/26/74
President's
Meeting with Mayor Rizzo, 11/29/74
Republican
Governors' Association Conference, St. Louis, 12/1‑3/74
Post State of
the Union Briefing for State and Local Leaders, 1/16/75
Legislative
Award Ceremony, 1/17/75
Northeastern
Governors' Meeting with President, 1/23/75
President's
meeting with Southeast Governors, Atlanta, 2/3/75
White House
Conference, Atlanta, 2/3/75 (1)-(2)
President's Visit
to Houston, 2/10/75
President's
Visit to Topeka, 2/10‑11/75
National
Governors' Conference ‑ Winter Meeting, 2/18‑20/75
State Dinner for
Governors, 2/20/75
National
Conference on American Federalism in Action, 2/21‑22/75
White House
Conference, Miami, 2/25‑26/75 (1)-(2)
National
Association of Counties Legislative Conferences, 2/25‑27/75
National
Conference of State Legislatures, 2/28/75
President's
Meeting with Miss America, 3/10/75
President's Trip
to South Bend, 3/17/75
President's
Meeting with Sister Cities Representatives, 3/25/75
President's Trip
to Western Governors, San Francisco, Tucson, 4/3‑8/75
President's
Meeting with Governor Thomson, 4/16/75
President's Trip
to New Hampshire, 4/18/75
State Legislative
Leaders Conference, 4/24‑25/75
Republican
Mayors Task Force, 5/21/75
National
Governors' Conference Annual Meeting, 6/8‑11/75 (1)-(2)
U.S. Conferences
of Mayors, Boston, 7/6‑9/75
Briefing on
General Revenue Sharing, 7/10/75
Midwestern
Governors' Conference, Cincinnati, 7/20‑23/75
National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 8/2‑8/75
President's
Meeting with Governors, 8/28/75
Southern
Governors' Conference, Orlando, 9/14-17/75
Western Governors'
Conference, Sun Valley, 9/21‑24/75
Meeting with
Executive Committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 9/24/75
President's
Meeting with Mayors of Small Cities, 10/1/75
President's
Meeting with Appalachian Governors, Knoxville, 10/7/75
National Conference
of State Legislators, Philadelphia, 10/7‑10/75
Meeting with
Governor Hammond, 10/20/75
Meeting with
Terry Chambers, 10/21/75
Japanese
Governors' Meeting, 10/23/75
Speech at
Harvard Business School, 11/7/75
President's Meeting
with New England Governors, 11/7/75
Republican
Governors' Conference, 11/20‑22/75 (1)-(2)
Congress of
Cities Meeting, 11/30/75 ‑ 12/4/75
State of the
States Meeting with Governors, 12/18/75
Meeting with
Governors on Rice Surplus, 1/8/76
Administrative
File
Bicentennial
Theme
Cannon/Falk
Memoranda (1)-(3)
Cannon/Falk
Memoranda (4)
Cole/Falk
Memoranda (see WHCF OA 4160)
Daily Schedules
Domestic Council
Domestic Policy
Papers
Domestic Policy
Review
Federal
Executive Boards
Federal ‑
State Liaison Program
Forms
Intergovernmental
Relations ‑ General
Internal
Memoranda (1)-(2)
Invitations
News Media
Personnel ‑
News Clippings
Personnel ‑
Presidential Appointments
Personnel ‑
Presidential Appointment ‑ Resumes
Personnel ‑
Resumes (1)
Personnel ‑
Resumes (2)-(4)
Photos Sent Out
President's
Briefing Book ‑ Background on States (1)-(2)
President's
Briefing Book ‑ Q's and A's (1)-(3)
President ‑
First 100 Days
President ‑
Invitations
President ‑
Meetings
President ‑
Memberships and Endorsements
President ‑
Schedule Proposals
Presidential
Spokesman Schedule
Public Forums
Vice President ‑
Weekly Briefing Paper
Telephone Calls
White House
Office Handbook
White House
Operations
White House
Staff
Weekly Review
Report
Chronological File
Jan.-Apr. 1975
May-Dec. 1975
