November 1978

THE RECORD

No. 56

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR Marilyn Duncan

HARLAN CLEVELAND TO HOLD SLICK PROFESSORSHIP

UT News Service—J. Harlan Cleveland, a scholar who has a breadth of experience in diplomacy, public affairs, and education, has been appointed to hold the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace next spring at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

The appointment was approved in October by the UT System Board of Regents.

Mr. Cleveland currently is director of the program in international affairs with the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies at Princeton, N.J. A scholar of international relations who is particularly interested in peace issues, Mr. Cleveland has shaped his expertise through high-level government service and academic governance.

Under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he served in the State Department from 1961 to 1965 as Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs. That service was followed by a four-year term as U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1965-69.

A variety of earlier public service included being director of the China program for the Economic Cooperation Administration (which was part of the Marshall Plan), deputy chief of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Italian Mission, and assistant director of the Mutual Security Agency for Europe.

The former Rhodes Scholar also has been president of the University of Hawaii and dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In addition, he is a former executive editor and publisher of the Reporter magazine.

During his spring tenure in the LBJ School, he will teach a course dealing with institutional barriers to and opportunities for peace. He also will organize a symposium related to world peace which will focus on the international relationship of the Northern and Southern tiers of nations (those above and below the equator).

LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow says Mr. Cleveland's appointment will be ideal for the Slick Professorship, as he "fuses the scholar's approach with that of a practitioner in the international field."

Many of Mr. Cleveland's books reflect his interest in international affairs—The Transatlantic Bargain, The Third Try at World Order, The Overseas Americans (coauthor), The Promise of World Tensions (editor), and The Art of Overseasmanship (coauthor).

He is a former president of the American Society of Public Administration. Among his many honors and awards are the U.S. Army's Medal of Freedom, Italy's Order of the Crown, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award.

Mr. Cleveland is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton, where he received the B.A. degree in 1938 prior to winning a Rhodes Scholarship for study in 1938-39 at Oxford. He is the recipient of fifteen honorary degrees.

The Slick Professorship, endowed from the estate of the late Tom Slick, a San Antonio entrepreneur, promotes research, teaching, and public enlightenment on the subject of world peace.

Mr. Cleveland will be the third holder of the professorship. Others have been Professor Kenneth Boulding, an internationally known economics scholar, and Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, who was coholder of the professorship with his wife, Alva, sociologist-diplomat and onetime nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

SYMPOSIUM ON GOVERNMENT AND HUMANITIES TO BE HELD DECEMBER 3 - 5

The controversial area of government funding of the humanities will be the focus of a symposium to be held in the LBJ Auditorium December 3-5.

The symposium is being sponsored jointly by the LBJ Library and the LBJ School.

Scheduled to open the conference on December 3 is Joan Mondale, wife of Vice-President Walter Mondale and honorary chairman of the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The symposium participants will be looking at three broad areas related to the nature and extent of government involvement in cultural activities and the options for the future.

On the topic, "The Nature of the Humanities: Elitist-Populist Options," speakers and panelists will attempt to define the cultural fields and media toward which government policies and funds should be directed.

Keynote speaker for this session will be Charles Frankel, president of the new National Humanities Center in North Carolina and holder of the Old Dominion Professorship in Philosophy and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Among the other speakers scheduled for this session is author-critic Elizabeth Janeway.

Other sessions will be devoted to the topics, "Balance Sheet on Twelve Years of Government Support for the Humanities," and "Future Options." Assessing the achievements and failures of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be author-editor Roger Rosenblatt and Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island.

Other persons scheduled to participate in the symposium include black poetess Nikki Giovanni; Robert Lumiansky, president of the American Council on Learned Societies; Charles Blitzer, Smithsonian Institution administrator; historian/State Department adviser Robin Winks; Joseph Duffey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and Stanley Werbow, Dean of the UT College of Humanities.

'ON THE RECORD'

John Craddock, LBJ School second-year student, was one of two UT students appointed by the UT System Board of Regents to sit on the advisory committee for the selection of a new UT Austin president.

Craddock was chosen by Regents Chairman Allan Shivers from among four student finalists recommended by a UT Austin screening committee which reviewed over fifty student applications.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow attended the dedication of a new building for the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on October 21. Senator Edward Kennedy was the main speaker at the event.

On October 23-24 Dean Rostow attended the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) in Pittsburgh, where she participated in a panel on the Presidential Management Internship Program. Mary K. Stack, 1978 LBJ graduate and presently a presidential management intern, was a discussant on the panel.

Also attending the conference were Associate Dean Jared Hazleton and Professor Ken Tolo.

On October 25 the Dean attended a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations in Washington, D.C.

On October 27 she addressed the Air War College in Alabama on the topic, "National Security in an Open Society."

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Second-year class representatives, elected in October in a rerun election, are Cris Guzman and DeAnn Friedholm.

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Professor David Warner received an individual research fellowship for 1978-79 from the Ford Foundation to prepare a book on the subject of human services in the Post-Industrial Age. He will be working with Dr. David Porter, Research Fellow for the International Institute for Management in Berlin and Associate Professor of Public Administration at George Washington University. Porter will be a visiting professor at the LBJ School during the Spring 1979 semester.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow was recently named a trustee of the College Board, a national association of educational institutions which sets educational standards through the provision of guidance, testing, and financial aid evaluation services.

The Board of Trustees consists of twenty members, elected by the association for four-year terms. Dean Rostow's election was announced at the Board's 1978 National Forum in New York City.

JUST FOR THE RECORD

The October issue of The Record had the sad fate of being detained in the Post Office throughout the month of October for lack of funds in the School's postage account.

Delays are a way of life in publishing and government, and when the twain meet, it's best to take the consequences with a grain of salt and two of aspirin, as the Editor does.

OPEN HOUSES TO BE HELD FOR STUDENT RECRUITMENT

The LBJ School will be holding two open houses in November for the purpose of acquainting undergraduate students with the School's program.

An open house for junior and senior students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Division of General and Comparative Studies will be held Wednesday, November 8, in the faculty lounge from 3:00-5:00 p.m. The LBJ School is cosponsoring the event with the Social and Behavioral Sciences Student Council and the General and Comparative Studies Parliament.

On November 9 the School will hold an open house for University minority students in the faculty lounge from 2:00-5:00 p.m. LBJ School students in charge of the open house are Rodolfo Duarte, Rodney Rideau, and Edmund Sierra.

PRE-SESSION LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE SLATED FOR NOVEMBER

The Pre-Session Legislative Conference, sponsored biennially by the LBJ School and the Texas Legislature, will be held November 29 to December 1 in the Thompson Conference Center.

The conference, to be attended by members of the 66th Legislature and/or their designated surrogates, will include discussion of major issues confronting the Legislature, which will convene in January.

This will be the fifth such conference organized by the LBJ School and the Legislature prior to regular legislative sessions. The purpose of the meeting is to inform new members on matters of legislative organization and procedure and to provide all members with authoritative presentations and a forum for discussion of major topics of current importance.

Among the topics to be discussed are energy policy, tax relief and reform, products liability, and education.

KRUEGER SPEAKS AT LBJ SCHOOL

Congressman Bob Krueger, candidate for the U.S. Senate, spoke to LBJ School students, faculty, and staff at a brown bag lunch on October 16.

Krueger described his background, which included twelve years as a university professor and dean of humanities, and discussed some major policy issues.

He said he advocates less economic regulation and more capital investment to stimulate growth in the economic system; expressed concern about the current level of federal spending; and recommended cuts in the regulatory areas of every part of the federal budget.

In the question-answer period following his speech, Krueger was asked his opinions on a number of energy and environmental issues. He said he felt the pending energy legislation to be a "hastily constructed and lengthily revised document" that will probably be "a disaster." Results of its implementation, he said, would be immediate natural gas price increases at the local level; long-range damage to the Texas economy if natural gas is committed to other states through fifteen-year interstate contracts; and increased paperwork and legal fees.

Congressman Krueger remained at the School after the brown bag to speak to members of the Energy PRPs on energy issues.

An invitation to speak at the School has also been extended to Senator John Tower.

[correction]

To correct the September Record's description of Professor Victor Bach's present assignment with the Brookings Institution:

Dr. Bach has joined the Brookings Institution for 1978-79 as a Research Associate in the Governmental Studies Program, to direct the ongoing study of the Community Development Block Grant Program and to participate in several other urban policy monitoring studies. He is also coauthoring a projected Brookings book on the block grant program, now in the final stages of preparation.

ALUMNI FORUM

Coming Events

The Alumni Association is sponsoring an election night party to welcome formally all new LBJ students on Tuesday, November 7, at Madison Square Garden (on 6th Street in Austin). The party is open to all alumni, students, and faculty, with a limited amount of free beer available at 8:30 p.m., and reduced prices on subsequent pitchers. Come join us and watch the election returns!

The annual Alumni Association pot-luck dinner is scheduled for December 9 at Bob Campbell's home, 11200 Santa Cruz in Austin. Please call one of the Board members if you plan to attend. (Austin home phone numbers are: Bill Stotesbery, 477-4379; Malcolm MacDonald, 443-1799; Bob Campbell, 345-1128; Dennis Deegear, 453-1224; and Laura Doll, 451-0096.) This is a very informal social event, and a good opportunity to get together with old friends.

The Board will be happy to provide assistance in locating accommodations for any alumni travelling to Austin December 3-5 for the Government and the Humanities symposium. Call or write Malcolm MacDonald for information.

Alumni Survey

The majority of responses to the alumni questionnaire distributed last month rank the alumni directory and placement information high on the list of services which should be provided by the Alumni Association. Austin alumni indicated special interest in continuing education and social programs, while alumni outside Austin expressed a stronger desire for an alumni newsletter. The Board hopes to publish the first newsletter by December 1978; alumni who would like to share career or personal information in the newsletter should send details to the Board at P.O. Box 13241, Austin, TX 78701.

The questionnaire responses already have been useful in establishing a categorized phone network to inform alumni on short notice when there are LBJ School events in an area of expressed personal interest. The most frequently ranked interests of Austin alumni with regard to speaker topics included (in order): politics, economics, budgeting and planning, followed by municipal government, social services, health, and criminal justice. Given the broad range of issues of interest, nearly all alumni should be able to take advantage of a few of the scheduled speakers at the LBJ School this year.

BOULDING PEACE LECTURES PUBLISHED BY UT PRESS

Under sponsorship of the LBJ School, the University of Texas Press has published the lectures on peace given by Kenneth Boulding during his 1976-77 appointment at the School as Distinguished Tom Slick Professor of World Peace.

The volume, entitled Stable Peace, deals with the nature and dynamics of war-peace systems, the justice of peace, and the development of peace policy. Boulding proposes a number of achievable policies directed toward the goal of stable peace, in which the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of illusion and ill will that leads to war.

His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, and the development of research organizations in the area of conflict management.

Boulding is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Program of Research on General Social and Economic Dynamics, Institute of Behaviorial Science, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The book is available in both hardback and paperback through the University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, Texas 78712.

BARTLETT SPEAKS AT BROWN BAG

Charles L. Bartlett, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Washington, D.C., spoke at a brown-bag lunch at the School October 17.

Mr. Bartlett, who has been a Washington correspondent for the Chatanooga Times and a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, is coauthor of Facing the Brink, a 1967 study of U.S. Diplomacy.

Speaking to a large group of LBJ students, Bartlett outlined his idea for a Constitutional amendment which would extend the Presidential term to six years, with no consecutive terms allowed, and put a ceiling of either twelve or eighteen consecutive years for holding office in Congress.

The Foundation for the Study of Presidential and Congressional Terms, which has been set up to foster dialogue on this idea, is planning a series of conferences on this subject at major universities across the country. Mr. Bartlett's visit here was intended, in part, to determine whether there might be interest in holding such a conference at the University of Texas.

The question of Presidential accountability to the people in a six-year term with no reelection was raised by several LBJ students; from the discussion which ensued, it seemed that this could be the major concern raised at the conferences.

Mr. Bartlett had many interesting anecdotes about the leaders he knew in his thirty years in Washington; in particular, he regaled the women students with his description of political life-styles in Washington.

--Shelley Caldwell

Library "what's" line

(This is the second of two reports on printed data sources on Texas legislation. The section on legal sources appeared in the October Record.)

As previously discussed, a serious study of Texas legislation will include the use and analysis of three types of legal documents: (1) the original source documents, including the bill and its various amendments, the final version of the law as printed in the General and Special Laws of the State of Texas, the codified law in Vernon's Annotated Statutes, and the House and Senate Journals; (2) the interpretative or implementation documents, including court reports printed in the Southwestern Reporter, opinions of the Attorney General, and the administrative rules and regulations in the Texas Register; and (3) reference aids which permit access to these documents, including the Texas Digest, Texas Law Locator, and Shepard's Texas Citations. Secondary source materials, however, should not be overlooked as a means of either keeping current with Texas legislative activities or learning valuable background information relevant to legislative intent.

Secondary Sources

A number of secondary sources issued by official agencies attempt comprehensive surveys of Texas legislative activity and serve as excellent retrospective tools overviewing efforts and final results of the Legislature. Accomplishments of the...Legislature, prepared by the Texas Legislative Council, categorizes bills by subject, denotes salient features, and summarizes proceedings affecting their passage. Also included in the volume are listings of (1) legislation vetoed by the Governor along with the general reason for veto; (2) resolutions authorizing interim studies which detail the subject area, the duties and composition of the study group, and any assistance and financing to be provided; and (3) topical and numerical indexes to bills and resolutions. Somewhat similar in scope is The Senate; a Record of the Work of the...Legislature. Dealing primarily with Senate activities, the publication includes summary reports overviewing activities of the standing committees and analyzing major legislation considered during the session. Also included are lists of adopted constitutional amendments, newly created special districts, vetoed bills, and authorized interim committees. A related publication, issued by the Institute of Public Affairs of The University of Texas at Austin from 1953 through 1969, is The...Texas Legislature; a Review of Its Work. This Review summarizes major legislation, proposed constitutional amendments, and gubernatorial vetoes, and lists authorizations for interim studies and acts creating special districts. All three of these publications are useful to the researcher who is seeking a brief account of Texas legislative activity. Unfortunately, their very brevity of treatment delimits the application of the documents and restricts their utility to broad surveys of Texas legislation.

Weekly and daily updates on legislative issues are provided by the Action Legislative Reporting Service, published by the Executive Information Network (EIN) based in Austin. EIN, operative since 1970, currently offers a four-part program, including (1) Texas in Action, a weekly research journal containing brief analyses of major issues confronting state government officials and employees; (2) Action, a weekly digest of news and commentary on Texas Government; (3) a Campaign Supplement, providing weekly reviews of campaign activities and issues addressed by Texas political candidates; and (4) a Legislative Supplement, which, prior to the start of the session, provides a weekly analysis of impending legislative issues, including surveys of policy positions taken by key legislators; and after the beginning of the session, provides daily succinct analyses of legislative actions and related proceedings. EIN attempts compact, objective, comprehensive reportage on multifaceted issues facing state government. While success of these efforts is varied, the uniqueness of the program makes it indispensable to researchers requiring current data on Texas legislation.

Two privately published periodicals also provide coverage of state affairs. The Texas Observer, of liberal orientation, is published biweekly and devotes much of its attention to investigative and analytical studies of state government and politics. The Texas Monthly, a general interest magazine, occasionally includes articles related to state and local politics; its articles are also investigative in nature and usually reflect the authors' personal political philosophies. An interesing feature of TM is its evaluation of the "ten best" and "ten worst" legislators, an article appearing at the close of the biennial legislative sessions. While both of these journals may be useful enrichment sources for a study of key legislative issues, the Texas Observer, as a result of its frequency of publication, its concentration upon political matters, and its muckraking reporting and news coverage, is particularly valuable to serious background research on state political issues.

Interest Group Publications

Numerous professional associations and interest groups publish their own newsletters, many of which contain regular columns on pending legislation. Educational issues are well covered in private publications, such as the bimonthly TSTA Texas Schools, the monthly Texas Outlook, the quarterly Texas School Board Journal, and The Education Scene from Capitol Hill, published monthly by the Texas Association of School Boards when the Legislature is in session. This latter publication, devoted exclusively to the oversight of legislative issues, regularly covers activities of the education committees, summarizes bills, announces hearings, and analyzes significant school finance legislation.

Labor areas under consideration by the Texas Legislature are monitored in Labor News, the monthly official publication of the Texas AFL-CIO, and the Texas Public Employee, published eighteen times a year by the Texas Public Employees Association.

The TMA Legislative Bulletin, published by the Texas Medical Association, covers both federal and state health issues of concern to its membership.

Local government policy areas are surveyed in Texas Town and City, the monthly journal of the Texas Municipal League, County Progress, published monthly by the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas, and Legislative Report, issued weekly during legislative sessions by the East Texas Chamber of Commerce. This latter Report deals with a wide range of issues, briefly critiques sections of bills, and advocates "solutions" to problem areas more in keeping with the interests of chamber members.

Human service issues are reviewed in three newsletters prepared by Texas United Community Services—its Government Relations News, Legislative News, and TUCS Newsletter. Each of these publications synopsize bills, feature appropriation and financial matters relevant to human needs, list executive appointments, and follow legislative proceedings.

Common Cause/Texas, prepared locally, attempts to influence votes of state legislators through concerted citizen action. Publications are issued-oriented, analytical rather than summary, and recommendatory in outlook.

Newsletters issued by the legislators themselves are, of course, another means of keeping current with Texas legislation. Of these, The Speaker Reports, prepared by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is perhaps the chief news source and most nearly reflective of key issues pending before the Legislature.

In the absence of officially published legislative debates, committee reports, and transcripts of hearings, it is necessary to rely on secondary information sources when reviewing recent and proposed legislation. One should bear in mind, however, that these sources may represent a particular bias reflecting the author's political philosophy rather than an impartial analysis of the legislation.

Pre-session Studies

Since the beginning of the 62nd Legislature, the LBJ School of Public Affairs has a sponsored a pre-session conference designed to provide "a continuing educational forum in which members of the Texas legislature may be informed about and discuss significant problems" judged likely to dominate the coming session. Featuring state and national authorities in such subject areas as school finance, property taxation, and revenue sharing, conference proceedings are published by the School and widely disseminated to interested parties.

Interim studies authorized by the Legislature frequently form the basis for legislation considered during the convening session. These studies are generally published and accessible to researchers involved in tracing legislative activity.

LINE ITEMS

1. The Library has recently obtained 171 interim session reports from the Texas Legislative Reference Library. These reports, covering a wide range of topics from transportation to health care to public utilities, are being cataloged for general circulation.

2. Bindery shipments sent in June to the University Printing Division have been returned, and bound periodicals are being processed for return to the stacks.

3. We have begun laced-on binding of those periodicals not sent for buckram binding, and hope to have all of our back periodical issues in covers by the end of the month.

WELFARE REFORM VOLUMES PUBLISHED

Three volumes resulting from the 1977-78 Welfare Reform Policy Research Project have been released recently by the School's Office of Publications.

The project, directed by Professor Lodis Rhodes, was funded by the Texas Department of Human Resources for the purpose of designing and testing an independence-fostering approach to the delivery of social, employment, and job-related training services.

One volume, entitled Income Maintenance Policy: An Analysis of Historical and Legislative Precedents, analyzes the development of income maintenance policy since 1930. The Congressional legislative process provides the context for analyzing policy development in this area and for assessing the likelihood that Congress will pass President Carter's welfare reform proposals.

Another volume, Analyses of Contemporary Welfare Reform Issues, focuses on three broad issues: sexual inequities in the welfare system; the impact of regionalism on the development of an equitable welfare program; and the impact of undocumented aliens on the welfare system. Policy recommendations are made in each of these areas, with specific reference to changes in Carter's Program for Better Jobs and Income (PBJI).

The final volume in the series, The Family Independence Project: An Alternative Welfare Reform Approach, outlines the development of the Family Independence Project (FIP) and describes in detail the FIP concept. This volume also contains the project proposal and the evaluation design for the project demonstration.

The three volumes, number 28 in the School's PRP Report Series, are available from the Office of Publications for $3.00 each. A volume published last spring entitled Synopses of Selected Income Maintenance Programs, another product of the PRP, is also available.

WEDDINGTON RETURNS TO VISIT SCHOOL

Sarah Weddington, White House Special Assistant to President Carter, met informally with a group of LBJ School students, faculty, and staff October 23 in the Student Lounge.

Weddington, a former University area state representative and a graduate of the University Law School, in 1977 became the youngest person to serve as general counsel of a Cabinet-level department.

In 1973 she gained national prominence as the lawyer who won the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision liberalizing abortion laws. She was elected to the Texas House in 1972, 1974, and 1976, and served there until her appointment as general counsel for the Department of Agriculture in 1977.

Two months ago she became the new special assistant to the President, serving as senior advisor with chief responsibility for women's affairs and issues.

Weddington spoke briefly to the LBJ group on the nature of her position, including her approach, priorities, and early reactions.

She noted that she approached her responsibilities in a "focused" way, following the example of the Administration in recent months. By dealing with one issue or one area at a time, she said, the results are more measurable. The ERA extension was her primary focus in recent weeks, and now that the desired (intermediate) end has been achieved in that area, she said other issues will move to the forefront.

Weddington mentioned that she is often in contact with LBJ School alumni and consulting faculty in Washington, D.C. In the field of public affairs, she said, your upward mobility is in many ways determined by your network of acquaintances, and the School in many ways can establish a productive network.