THE RECORD

APRIL 6, 1976

NO. 21

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

REGENTS APPROVE RICHARDSON CHAIR

Establishment of the Sid Richardson Chair in Public Affairs at the LBJ School, effective September 1, 1976, was approved March 26 by the UT System Board of Regents.

The endowed faculty position has been made possible by the Sid Richardson Foundation of Fort Worth, which authorized a grant of $750,000 to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.

The Richardson Foundation already has forwarded to the Johnson Foundation an initial installment of $500,000; a second installment of $200,000 will be paid in September, with the remaining $50,000 expected to come in 1977.

Acting Dean Kenneth Tolo of the LBJ School said the endowment will permit the school to recruit a distinguished faculty member who has had significant experience in both academic and public service fields.

The new public affairs chair at UT Austin bears the name of the late Sid Richardson, a prominent Texas oil producer who died in 1959.

The building in which the School of Public Affairs is housed was named Sid Richardson Hall several years ago in appreciation of benefactions provided by the Richardson Foundation for the acquisition of history of science collections at UT Austin.

The Richardson Chair is the second chair to be established in the LBJ School. The first was the Dean Rusk Chair, established by a $500,000 endowment from the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation. The Rusk Chair was occupied earlier this year by Dr. Sidney Weintraub, a broadly experienced U.S. State Department official whose field is international finance and economics.

CATER TO SPEAK ON MEDIA AND POLICY

Douglass Cater, director of the Aspen Institute Program on Communications and Society, will speak on Public Policy and Public Communications: A Look at the Policy Making Process Affecting the Nation's Media at 4 p.m. Wednesday (April 7) in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

Cater, experienced both in journalism and government, is also senior advisor for academic educational development at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Palo Alto, California.

He served for four years as a special assistant to President Johnson, working primarily on health and education matters.

Prior to serving in the White House he spent 14 years as a correspondent and editor for the Reporter magazine.

Cater has written extensively, and two of his books on Washington, Power in Washington, an analysis of the major areas of power in the federal government, and The Fourth Branch of Government, dealing with the interaction between the press and the government, have been widely read. He has also written Ethics In A Business Society (with Marquis Childs); a novel, Dana: The Irrelevant Man; and numerous magazine articles.

Cater, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard, was Ferris Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton in 1959; Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Wesleyan University in 1963; Regent Professor at the University of California at San Francisco, 1971-72; and Visiting Professor at Stanford, 1972.

"On the Record"

. Dagmar Hamilton, assistant professor at the LBJ School, will speak Thursday April 8 in the Texas Union's Great Lecture Series. Her topic will be The Nixon Impeachment in Retrospect. The speech is scheduled at 8 p.m. in the Dobie Room on the fourth floor of the Academic Center.

. William M. Capron, associate dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, met with LBJ School students and faculty on March 31. Capron discussed his views on the role of a school of public affairs and also spoke on Congressional budgeting procedures. He is involved in a study of the impact of the new Congressional Budget Office and House and Senate Budget Committees. Capron has been at Harvard since 1969. Previously he served as assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget (1964-65) and was a member of the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers (1962-64). He was also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

. Dr. Beryl Radin of the LBJ School has been elected chairperson-elect of the Section on Human Resource Administration of the American Society for Public Administration. At the ASPA meetings in Washington later this month, Radin will chair a session on the subject, "Does Anybody Care? Human Resource Administration in a Time of Scarcity." She has been a member of the executive committee of the SHRA since its founding two years ago.

. Barry Lovelace, director of the Office of Research, will attend the Thirteenth Institute on Federal Funding for Colleges and Universities in Washington, April 13-15. The institute will feature information on new and available funds for research, demonstration, training, services, and operating projects and changes in regulations concerning federal assistance.

. Terry Grogan is the leader in the LBJ School presidential primary prediction contest. Grogan has accumulated 48 points for his predictions. Tied for second with 44 points each are Chris Delker and Hoyt Purvis. Also among the leaders are Jim Dear with 41 points, Joe Motter 40, Mark Hendrickson 35, and John Carlson and Steve Cobble, 34 apiece.

. The LBJ School has recently published a student independent project report on Municipal Land Acquisition by Robin Tillman. The report results from a year-long project undertaken in 1974-75 under the direction of Professor Allan S. Mandel of the LBJ School. The study focuses specifically on land-acquisition policies for the City of Austin, and is intended for the use of city officials and other interested parties. A limited number of copies, are available for sale in the Office of Publications at $3.50 per copy and copies have also been placed in the Public Affairs Library.

. After making a strong showing to gain the finals of their bracket in the men's intramural basketball tournament, the LBJ School Byrds bowed out of competition with a 36-31 loss. Prior to that defeat, the Byrds recorded four straight victories. Members of the team were Glenn Deck, Ken Leonczyk, Dan Friedhoff Joe Murphy, Steve Cobble, Bob Nicholson, Julius Whittier, and John Riddle, with Hoyt Purvis as the coach. Currently the intramural softball competition is underway, and the LBJ School has a 2-0 record.

. The LBJ Alumni Association is planning a fund-raising event in early May. Bruce Esterline of the Alumni Association said, "We are proposing a barbeque dinner with entertainment at a local establishment." Details will be announced in the next issue of the Record.

[news note]

A questionnaire on the LBJ School's educational program has been distributed to all students. The questionnaire is part of an assessment being conducted on the Educational Policies Committee, which is seeking to describe the attributes and features of the professional education and training required for the career generalist in the public policy/public affairs area.

Students are requested to return the completed questionnaires to Frank Jefferis or Barbara Dydek by Wednesday April 7.

Students are asked to assess the entire educational program at the School.

UDALL, FORD LEAD POLL

Results of the LBJ School Presidential Primary, which was open to all the School's faculty, staff, and students, showed President Gerald Ford and Representative Morris (Mo) Udall as the leaders.

A total of 78 votes were cast, with only 10 of them in the Republican primary, where Ford got six votes to two apiece for Ronald Reagan and Elliot Richardson.

In the Democatic column votes were scattered among a number of candidates, with Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Senator Hubert Humphrey making the strongest showing. Udall, with 15 votes, edged Carter and Humphrey who received 13 each.

Other Democrats drawing support included Fred Harris 7, Senator Edward Kennedy 5, Senator Frank Church 4, Senator Birch Bayh 3, Sargent Shriver 2, Governor Jerry Brown 2, Senator Lloyd Bentsen 2, Senator Henry Jackson 1, and Representative Barbara Jordan 1.

REDFORD NAMED TO NIH HEALTH GROUP

Dr. Emmette S. Redford, Ashbel Smith Professor, has been appointed to a National Institutes of Health Committee charged with devising proposals for guidelines for laboratory research which deals with the creation of new forms of life.

The guidelines which will evolve eventually from the work of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Advisory Committee of the NIH will apply only to research funded by the agency, notes Dr. Redford, but should have weight in influencing other scientific research.

Dr. Redford joined the committee of scientists as a lay member in October, 1975, after the group had been functioning for several months. He says "it is, except for me, a committee of experts."

His background of research and writing on government regulation of private sectors of society was probably a factor in NIH interest in him, he adds.

As preparation for the committee's work, the authority on public administration and government regulation was sent elementary texts in chemistry and genetics and also was given instruction to rectify his non-chemistry, non-genetics background.

The tentative guidelines of the committee were reviewed recently in open hearings by a second ad hoc committee which included two other representatives from The University of Texas System, Dr. Charles C. Sprague of the UT Health Science Center at Dallas and Dr. Margery Shaw of the UT Health Science Center at Houston. The guidelines now will be considered further by the guidelines committee.

"I have been impressed personally with the sense of social responsibility among the scientists as they seek on the one hand to preserve the rights of scientific research and on the other to try to insure that hazards to the public would be minimized," Redford says.

He stressed the openness of the NIH in the formulation of the guidelines, inviting representation at committee sessions from the press, government and other interested parties.

"They are proceeding with caution and full deliberation toward the development of safeguards," he reports.

Dr. Redford notes that NIH jurisdiction extends only to its grants and that maintenance of standards in other laboratories will be dependent on the adoption of the guidelines in other agencies and private companies.

His appointment is effective through 1978, which indicates, he says, that the committee's work will continue, probably in a capacity of reappraising the guidelines.

Dr. Redford withdrew from full-time service at the University in 1975 at the age of 70, but continues to teach in the School of Public Affairs. He was a key figure in developing the LBJ School and became a professor of public affairs in 1970. He also had a Government Department professorship until 1975.

He has served in several government agencies and as president of the American Political Science Association, has won teaching excellence awards at UT, and has written or edited 10 books, including Democracy in the Administrative State, a co-winner of the 1971 Louis Brownlow Book Prize given by the National Academy of Public Administration.

EVANS DISCUSSES ROLE OF LOBBYISTS

Environmental lobbyists try to balance the power of votes against the power of money in influencing legislation in Washington, according to Brock Evans, director of the Washington office of the Sierra Club.

Evans, speaking to a schoolwide seminar at the LBJ School on March 29, said there are "two kinds of power in Washington—money and votes."

He said that "the power of money is in operation at all times" and environmental and other "public citizen or public interest lobbies" cannot hope to compete with corporations and labor unions. He noted, for example, that industry and labor interests traditionally buy large numbers of tickets to fundraising events for Members of Congress.

"Buying these tickets may not buy a vote, but it will sure buy the member's ear. We can't compete on this level," Evans said.

However, Evans said that the environmental groups can make good use of constituent pressure—"the power of votes and mail." He said by using "phone networks" and telephoning voters within a member's district, successful mail campaigns can be organized and this will have an impact.

"The success ratio of environmental legislation has been good in recent years," Evans said, pointing to the creation of the wilderness system, wild rivers and scenic areas, and additions to the National Parks system and recreation areas.

Evans emphasized the importance of Congressional staff members in the legislative process. He said that the aides frequently are better informed about specific bills and Members of Congress rely heavily on their staffs. "The aides often have more time to go into a bill in depth than the members do," Evans said.

He noted that the two important functions of lobbyists are "to get information and give information." He said that both members and aides "want numbers, facts, and figures" and that is important to provide that kind of information.

Evans also noted the disparity in size of the environmental lobby as opposed to those of business and labor. He said the public interest groups lack the research capability of the bigger lobbies. He also said that whereas lobbying is viewed as a legitimate business expense for tax purposes, contributions to non-profit organizations are not tax deductible if the organizations engage in lobbying.

FINANCE INSTITUTE SCHEDULED APRIL 12-13

The 22nd Governmental Accounting and Finance Institute, sponsored by the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the College of Business Administration in cooperation with the Texas Chapter, Municipal Finance Officers Association, and the Texas Municipal League, will be held April 12-13 at the Thompson Center.

The Institute is a continuing education program organized by the School's Office of Conferences and Training, designed to enhance the professional development of municipal financial executives, city officials whose responsibilities include financial management, and others interested in or involved in governmental accounting and finance.

Speakers will include Jackson Phillips, executive vice president, Moody's Investors Service, New York; Hyman Grossman, vice president, Standard and Poor's, New York; Robert Doty, professor of law, Creighton University; W. E. Tinsley, executive director, Municipal Advisory Council of Texas; S. G. Fullerton, Jr., county auditor, Harris County; Dean Gorham, director, Texas Municipal Retirement System; and Lynn Moak, director, Division of Planning and Research in the State Comptroller's Office.

The final session on Tuesday morning April 13 will focus on the impact of Texas public disclosure laws on public financial management. Texas Attorney General John L. Hill has been invited to speak. A panel discussion on Effective Public Relations in an Era of Open Records and Public Disclosure will be moderated by Hoyt Purvis, director of publications at the LBJ School. Panelists will include Raymond Fuqua, director of finance, City of Odessa; Richard D. Brown, executive director, Texas Municipal League; Bo Byers, capitol bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle; and Mayor Emmie Craddock of San Marcos.

SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES

The Third Annual LBJ School Softball World Series will take place on Saturday April 17. Games will be played at East Bartholomew Field. (See map.)

Following past tradition, the best of the first year will play the best of the second year in Game One. Winner of Game One will meet the Alumni-Faculty-Staff team in Game Two. This will be followed by assorted pick-up games until everyone becomes too tired or otherwise incapable of playing.

First and second year teams should be ready to play at 1:00 p.m., with warm-ups beginning at 12:30. The field is reserved until dusk and everyone is welcome, and should bring their own refreshments.

Several members of last year's championship team from the graduating class of 1975 have joined the Alumni, so the classes of 1976 and 1977 are forewarned. According to William Wade, members of the Class of 1977 should remember that no 1st year team has ever beat a 2nd year team. Right, Murphy?

WOMEN'S PROJECT PLANS REGIONAL WORKSHOPS

Three regional workshops for Texas women are being organized by the LBJ School Policy Research Project on the Status of Women. The three workshops are a follow-up to the Conference on Women in Public Life, held here in November, 1975, under the sponsorship of the School of Public Affairs and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.

The scheduled workshops are:

April 10 — Dallas

April 24 — Corpus Christi

May 1 — Lubbock

The Dallas workshop is being co-sponsored by the Dallas Commission on the Status of Women, while the Corpus Christi and Lubbock meetings are being co-sponsored by interested women's groups in those cities.

The one-day workshops will deal with a wide range of subjects of importance to women including education, employment, assertiveness training, and health issues. The workshops will provide an opportunity to pursue at the local level issues raised at the Conference on Women in Public Life.

In preparation for the workshops, participants in the Policy Research Project have produced a series of pamphlets which will be distributed at the meetings. Subjects covered in the pamphlets are:

. Women and Education

. Political Skill Techniques

. Legal Services for Women

. Commission on the Status of Women

. Women and Employment

. The Equal Rights Amendment and Women in Texas

. How to Assert Yourself

. Women, Credit, and the Law

. Women's Health Needs

. Texas Family Law

. Minority Women and the Women's Movement

COLLOQUIA SCHEDULED

Two additional colloquia have been scheduled in the series of Wednesday afternoon sessions. On April 21, Colonel James F. Record, Air Force research associate at the LBJ School, will speak on "The Department of Defense Budget and Related National Defense Issues." On April 28, Dr. Jared Hazleton will speak on "The Economics of Gold Rush Economies: Some Cases from the Middle East." The meetings will be at 4 p.m. in Room 3.111.

On March 24 Professor Kingsley Haynes discussed work he is doing on "Diffusion of Public Policies," and on March 31 Professor David Warner discussed "A Theory of Resource Mobilization."

CONFERENCE CONSIDERS ENERGY AND FUTURE

Representatives of the LBJ School played an active role in the recent policy conference on Energy and the Future: The Cities of Texas, organized by the School's Office of Conferences and Training.

G. M. Williams, Jr., assistant professor, and Kent Talbot, director of policy reference service, participated in a panel on Mass Transportation and Energy Use, and Jared E. Hazleton, associate professor, took part in a discussion on Urban Governance and the Energy Future.

Kingsley Haynes and Marlan Blissett, associate professors of public affairs, presided at conference sessions, and Keith Arnold, associate dean, welcomed the participants.

Speakers at the conference included Richard Walker, assistant professor of geography, University of California at Berkeley; David W. MacKenna of the Institute of Urban Studies, the University of Texas at Arlington; Sandra Rosenbloom, assistant professor of architecture and planning, UT Austin; Michael Walton, assistant professor of civil engineering, UT Austin; Sherry Wagner, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory; and Andrew F. Euston, Jr., urban design program officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

ANDERSON MARKS 30 YEARS

On April 1 Lynn Anderson, associate professor of public affairs, and director of the Office of Conferences and Training at the LBJ School, marked his thirtieth year of service with the University of Texas at Austin.

Anderson recently returned from Alaska, where he conducted a workshop on program budgeting and financial disclosure for the Alaska Municipal Finance Officers Association and the Alaska Municipal League, which met March 18-19 in Sitka, Alaska. This was the second successive year in which Anderson was asked to conduct a workshop for the Alaska groups.

Earlier in the month Anderson spoke to the monthly dinner meeting of the Capital Chapter of the National Secretaries Association on the topic, "New Dimensions and Thrusts in Continuing Education."

MURPHY VISITS SCHOOL

Dr. Thomas Murphy met with LBJ School students and faculty on April 2 at the invitation of the Dean's Search Committee.

He discussed the role of the public lobbies in Washington, citing their growth in recent years. He noted that state, local, and county governments, as well as institutions of higher education, are heavily involved in lobbying and grantsmanship. He also noted the role of professional associations and public interest lobbies.

Dr. Murphy is professor of government and politics and executive director of the institute for urban studies at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 1971, he was director of the public administration graduate program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and was also assistant chancellor.

His government experience includes service as deputy assistant administrator for legislative affairs and special assistant to the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1961-66) and as an official of the Federal Aviation Agency. He was also acting county administrator of Jackson County, Missouri.

He holds the Ph.D. in political science from St. John's University.

SILVERT TO DELIVER HACKETT LECTURE

Dr. Kalman Silvert of New York University and the Ford Foundation will deliver the annual Hackett Memorial Lecture of the Institute of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas April 7.

Dr. Silvert, whom some consider to be the dean of Latin American Studies in the U.S., has been described as "one of the most deservedly respected scholars working in the inter-American field."

The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in the Thompson Center. The topic will be "Coming Home: The U.S. Through the Eyes of a Latin Americanist."

Dr. William Glade, institute director, explained that Dr. Silvert will discuss what he has learned about the U.S. from studying Latin America for many years.

Dr. Silvert is professor of government and director of the lbero-American Center at New York University. He also is social science and humanities program adviser on Latin America for the Ford Foundation.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULED ON PRESIDENCY AND THE PRESS

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs will jointly sponsor a symposium on The Presidency and the Press, involving leading White House correspondents and White House news secretaries from the last four Administrations.

The symposium will be held in the LBJ Auditorium on Friday, April 23, in conjunction with a regional convention of the society of professional journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.

Panelists scheduled to participate in the all-day discussions are:

For the press—Frank Cormier, Associated Press; James Deakin, St. Louis Post Dispatch; Marianne Means, Hearst; Dan Rather, CBS; Hugh Sidey, Time, and Helen Thomas, United Press International.

For the Presidency—Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, 1961-63, and to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963; George Christian, press secretary to President Johnson, 1966-69; Ron Ziegler, press secretary to President Richard M. Nixon, 1969-74, and Jerald terHorst, press secretary to President Gerald Ford, 1974. Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Ford, and Bill Moyers, press secretary to President Johnson, 1965-66, may also participate. Both have agreed to come, conditionally. Mr. Nessen's schedule is of course subject to Presidential scheduling. Mr. Moyers is trying to resolve a conflict in his production schedule.

William S. White, Pulitzer Prize-winning columinst whose coverage of Washington began in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration, will keynote the symposium. White is now an adjunct professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.

Assisting in the program also will be Tom Johnson, publisher of the Dallas Times Herald and former deputy press secretary and special assistant to President Johnson, and Liz Carpenter of Washington, D.C., former press secretary to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson.

Announcement of plans for the symposium was made by Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library, and Hoyt Purvis, director of publications at the LBJ School, representing Acting Dean Kenneth Tolo.

The symposium will include an examination of some of the most important issues confronting the American people in this election year. Panel discussions will explore such questions as

. governmental secrecy;

. the fairness of the press;

. threats to the free press;

. news coverage of the Presidential campaign;

. the degree to which both government and the press fulfill their respective responsibilities.

Middleton said, "I believe our symposium will be the first such gathering of so, many White House correspondents and press secretaries. Missing from the line-up of press secretaries, unfortunately, will be James Hagerty, President Eisenhower's press secretary, because of illness, and George Reedy, President Johnson's second press secretary, because of an unavoidable conflict with his academic duties at Marquette University.

The news representatives on the panel are either present or former White House correspondents, all of whom have covered three or more Presidential Administrations.

The panel discussion will be divided between two central themes: the responsibility of the President to inform the public and the responsibilities of the media in coverage of politics and government, especially the Presidency.

Purvis indicated that following the symposium the School of Public Affairs hopes to issue a publication on the subject.

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