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Domestic Council

SARAH C. MASSENGALE

Assistant Director for Health, Social Security and Welfare:

Files, 1974-77

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Materials on her work as Domestic Council Assistant Director on such topics as abortion, problems of the aging and the handicapped, child welfare, health care, and medical research. Massengale also handled historic preservation, fine arts, and other cultural issues.

QUANTITY

14.8 linear feet (ca. 29,600 pages)

DONOR

Gerald R. Ford (accession number 77-33)

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Gerald R. Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.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 Paul Conway, October 1979

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INTRODUCTION

Sarah C. Massengale, a former management analyst for a Washington, D.C. consultant firm, joined the Domestic Council in June 1975 as assistant director for health, social security and welfare, replacing Pamela Needham. After April 1976, when assistant director for consumer and cultural affairs Kathleen A. Ryan resigned, Massengale also coordinated cultural affairs, which comprised the arts, humanities and historic preservation. She reported to associate director Arthur Quern until January 1976 and thereafter to associate director Spencer Johnson. Massengale was assisted by Rosemary Rogers and remained with the Domestic Council until the end of the Ford administration.

While Quern or Johnson as associate director coordinated policy development with other Domestic Council staff and acted as liaison with federal agencies within the subject area, Massengale handled routine matters, compiled and summarized information and circulated material within the Domestic Council. She answered correspondence and referrals, commented on legislation, personnel appointments and speeches, and drafted issues statements for use by the President, his staff or the press.

Massengale was responsible for coordinating several important matters, particularly abortion policy, legislation on the aging, medical insurance reforms, and planning for the White House Conference on the Handicapped. She also arranged meetings between the President and health and cultural groups or met with similar groups herself to discuss substantive health and welfare issues.

In addition to materials accumulated by Massengale, these papers include files on cultural affairs inherited from Kathleen Ryan and files on health, social security and welfare retained by Massengale after Pamela Needham's departure, some of which date from Needham's service on the Domestic Council during the Nixon administration. Much of the file consists of printed reports, circulars and copies of widely distributed papers received by Massengale, although drafts and finished copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers are included on some subjects. During processing certain materials on arthritis and hospitals, sent to White House Central Files oversize attachments by Massengale, were removed and placed in her health files.

Related Materials (October 1979):

Related information may be found in other Domestic Council collections, particularly in the chronological files of Pamela Needham and Kathleen Ryan. The files of Quern and his successor Johnson contain large files on subjects which Massengale handled, including social security financing, welfare reform, food stamps, swine flu immunization and physical fitness. Their subject files also include summaries of Domestic Council activity and information on problems in the area of health and welfare that they coordinated without Massengale's assistance.

Series Descriptions

1‑26 Health, Social Security and Welfare File, 1974-76. (10.6 linear feet)

Reports, testimony, bills, statements and printed materials received by Massengale or her predecessor Needham from federal agencies or businesses; and some correspondence, memoranda and notes exchanged between Massengale and Domestic Council staff or the public. The file contains information on federal government involvement with health and welfare programs, particularly abortion policy, problems of the aging and the handicapped, medicare, Olympic sports and health legislation and includes papers dating from Needham's service during the Nixon administration.

Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.

26‑30 Cultural Affairs File, 1975-76. (1.8 linear feet)

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, printed material and other papers principally exchanged between Kathleen Ryan and federal officials or cultural groups concerning personnel and budgetary matters or annual reporting procedures for the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities, but including information on historic preservation legislation and on cultural programs of other federal agencies. Massengale added similar materials after she succeeded Ryan in 1976.

Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically.

30‑35 Domestic Council Reference File, 1974-76. (2.0 linear feet)

Briefing papers, presidential statements, press releases, memoranda and other papers concerning Domestic Council administrative matters and Ford administration health and cultural activities, including background information on certain of President and Mrs. Ford's meetings, State of the Union addresses and HEW activities reports.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

35‑36 Chronological File, 1975-77. (0.8 linear feet)

Correspondence, memoranda, draft speeches and statements produced by Massengale in response to incoming public correspondence or at the request of Domestic Council staff members, concerning her responsibility for health and welfare issues and cultural matters. Included is material drafted by Massengale for transmittal to the President or other officials by Domestic Council director James Cannon.

Arranged by month and thereunder in reverse chronological order.

37 Duplicate Publications, 1975. (0.4 linear feet)

Removed from the health, social security and welfare file and similarly arranged.

Container List

Box 1 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Abortion

- General (1)-(4)

‑ Commission on Civil Rights

‑ Defense Department Policy

‑ President's Position (1)-(2)

Box 2 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Abortion

‑ President's Position (3)

‑ President's Position Form Responses

Absent Parents / Aid to Families with Dependent Children

Aging

‑ General (1)-(5)

Box 3 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Aging

‑ Federal Council on Aging (1)-(4)

‑ Older Americans Act Amendments of 1975 (1)-(2)

‑ Older Americans Month

Box 4 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Aging

‑ Special Committee on Aging

Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration

Allied Services Act

American Hospital Association

American Lung Association ‑ Meeting with the President and Vicki Carr

American Medical Association (1)-(3)

American Society of Oral Surgeons

Arthritis (1)-(2)

Box 5 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Biomedical Research Panel ‑ General

Biomedical Research Panel ‑ Report (1)-(4)

Black Lung Disease

Blood Pressure

Blue Shield

Budget ‑ Health

Cancer

‑ General

Box 6 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Cancer

‑ National Cancer Advisory Board

‑ National Cancer Institute

‑ National Cancer Program Plan (1)-(2)

‑ President's Cancer Panel

Catastrophe Health Insurance

Cerebral Palsy ‑ Visit of Poster Children with the President

Children

‑ Autistic Children

‑ Child Abuse

‑ Child and Family Services Act, 1975

‑ Child Care

‑ Child Health

‑ Child Vision

Box 7 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Children

‑ Crib Death

‑ Day Care Legislation (1)-(2)

‑ Underprivileged

Clinical Laboratory Regulation

Community Services Administration (1)-(3)

Cooley's Anemia

Cystic Fibrosis

Dental Care

Development Disabilities

Box 8 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Diabetes (1)-(2)

District of Columbia Medical and Dental Manpower Act of 1970

DNA Research Guidelines (1)-(4)

Box 9 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Drugs ‑ Opium

Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDI) Program

Emergency Medical Services (1)-(2)

Epilepsy

Family Planning

Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE) ‑ Subcommittee on Population Education

Fetal Research

Food and Drug Administration

Food Safety

Food Stamps ‑ General

Food Stamps ‑ Cost Estimates of Various Food Stamp Program Bills

Handicapped

‑ General

‑ Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

‑ Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Amendments (1)

Box 10 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Handicapped

‑ Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Amendments (2)

‑ White House Conference (1)-(7)

Box 11 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Handicapped

‑ White House Conference (8)-(11)

‑ White House Conference ‑ Personnel

Health ‑ General (1)-(3)

Box 12 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health Care ‑ Florida

Health Care ‑ Ohio

Health Care ‑ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Co., Inc. ‑ Rural Health Clinic

Health Costs (1)‑(2)

Health Education Legislation

Health, Education and Welfare

‑ Dr. David Mathews

‑ Major Initiative Reports

‑ Social Services

‑ Weekly Activity Reports

Health Grants

Health ‑ Home Health Care (1)-(3)

Box 13 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health ‑ Indian Health Care (1)-(3)

Health Insurance ‑ General (1)‑(3)

Health Insurance ‑ Review Group

Health Insurance ‑ Unemployed (1)-(2)

Health Legislation

‑ General (1)

Box 14 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health Legislation

‑ General (2)

‑ Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act, 1974

‑ Health Services Act

‑ National Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Act of 1972 ‑ Extension

‑ National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974

‑ National Service Corps Extension Act

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)

‑ General (1)-(2)

Box 15 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)

- General (3)-(5)

‑ Articles

‑ Printed Materials (1)-(4)

Box 16 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)

‑ Printed Materials (5)

‑ Miscellaneous (1)‑(3)

Health Manpower (1)-(3)

Health Planning

"Health Policy in America" ‑ White Paper

Box 17 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Health ‑ Rural Health Week

"Health United States 1975" (1)-(4)

Hospitals ‑ Patient Care Audit

Hospitals ‑ Public Health Service Hospital

Hospitals ‑ St. Elizabeth's

Immunization Action Week

Income Redistribution

Long Term Care (1)

Box 18 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Long Term Care (2)-(3)

Malpractice (1)-(4)

Maximum Allowable Cost ‑ General (1)-(2)

Box 19 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Maximum Allowable Cost ‑ General (3)-(7)

Maximum Allowable Cost ‑ Public Correspondence (1)-(2)

Box 20 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Medal of Freedom ‑ Jules Stein

Medicaid ‑ General

Medicaid ‑ North Carolina (1)-(2)

Medical Devices

Medical Service Program U.S. ‑ Japan Cooperative

Medicare

Medicare ‑ Talmadge Health Plan S. 3205

Mental Health

Mental Retardation (1)-(2)

Multiple Sclerosis

Box 21 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

National Advisory Council on Equal Educational Opportunity

National Association of Counties

National Ataxia Foundation

National Council of Health Care Services

National Institutes of Health

New Federalism

Nursing Homes ‑ Long Term Care (1)‑(2)

Nurse Training

Nutrition

‑ General (1)-(2)

- ABC Malnutrition Film (1)

Box 22 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Nutrition

‑ ABC Malnutrition Film (2)

‑ Child Nutrition Act of 1975 (1)-(2)

‑ School Lunch Program

‑ Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program

Olympics ‑ General

Olympics ‑ Reception Guest Lists

Olympics ‑ Reception Invitations

Box 23 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Physicians Bonus Regulations

Population

President's Committee on Mental Retardation (1)-(2)

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

Preventive Medicine National Conference (1)-(2)

Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSRO)

Red Cross

Refugees ‑ Indochina

Renal Disease

Reyes Syndrome

Saint Edward's Mercy Medical Center

Saxitoxin

Sickle Cell Anemia

Slipped Disk Treatment

Smoking and Health Report 1975 (1)

Box 24 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Smoking and Health Report 1975 (2)

Social Security ‑ General (1)-(7)

Social Security ‑ Completed Cases A ‑ Z (1)‑(2)

Box 25 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Spinal Cord Injury (1)-(2)

Swine Fever

Utilization Review Regulations

Venereal Diseases

Vocational Rehabilitation

Volunteers ‑ General

Volunteers ‑ ACTION (1)-(3)

Welfare ‑ General (1)-(2)

Box 26 Health, Social Security and Welfare File

Welfare Options Paper

Welfare Reform ‑ Michigan Legislators

Welfare Replacement Proposal

Women

World Health Day

Youth Camp Safety

Cultural Affairs File

Bicentennial

Commission of Fine Arts ‑ Member Selection (1)-(4)

Box 27 Cultural Affairs File

Commission of Fine Arts ‑ Policy on the Arts

Historic Preservation

‑ General (1)-(4)

‑ Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (1)-(3)

Box 28 Cultural Affairs File

Historic Preservation

‑ Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (4)-(5)

‑ Binder "ACHP 1975"

‑ Land and Water Conservation Act Amendments re Historic Preservation and ACHP (1)-(2)

‑ Legislation

‑ Printed Materials (1)-(3)

Box 29 Cultural Affairs File

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

‑ General (1)-(7)

‑ Printed Material (1)

Box 30 Cultural Affairs File

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

‑ Printed Material (2)-(3)

Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

Smithsonian Institution

Treasury Department ‑ Historical Development

Box 30 Domestic Council Reference File

Budget ‑ Impoundment Control Act

Budget ‑ Reduction Appeals

Domestic Council

‑ General Information

‑ Weekly Status Reports (1)-(2)

‑ Republican Legislative Agenda

‑ White House Public Forums on Domestic Policy

Memoranda for the President

Box 31 Domestic Council Reference File

Miscellaneous Meeting Correspondence

National Governors Conference

New York Fiscal Crisis

Presidential Addresses ‑ WIN Campaign

Presidential Issue Papers

Presidential Meetings ‑ Briefing Papers (1)-(2)

Presidential Proclamations

Presidential Personnel Office

President's Tax Proposal

President's Two Year Report

Press Conferences (1)-(2)

Box 32 Domestic Council Reference File

Press Releases (1)-(2)

Questions and Answers 1974 (1)-(4)

Questions and Answers 1975 (1)-(2)

Box 33 Domestic Council Reference File

Questions and Answers 1976 (1)-(3)

Referrals 1975 (1)-(3)

Referrals 1976 (1)-(2)

Resumes (1)-(2)

Scheduling ‑ Mrs. Ford 1974 ‑ 75

Box 34 Domestic Council Reference File

Scheduling ‑ Mrs. Ford 1975

Scheduling ‑ Mrs. Ford 1976 (1)-(3)

Scheduling ‑ President Ford 1975

Scheduling ‑ President Ford 1976 (1)-(2)

Scheduling Proposals

Speeches and Statements ‑ Miscellaneous

Box 35 Domestic Council Reference File

State of the Union 1975

State of Union 1976 (1)-(2)

Box 35 Chronological File

June-Dec. 1975

Box 36 Chronological File

Jan.-Aug. 1976