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1972-1977 Memorandum 1 (1972-1977)

handle is hein.amenin/memaei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I 1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 March 30, 1972-Number One Program Priorities Group Headed by Bryce Harlow Bryce Harlow, former counsellor to President Nixon, has been appointed chairman of a new five-man advisory committee on program priorities, President William J. Baroody has an- nounced. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, former Senator John Williams, former South Carolina Governor Robert E. McNair, and Judge James F. Battin will serve with Mr. Harlow on the panel. The new committee will advise the Institute on identifying public policy issues for analysis, and on determining priorities among them. All five men have wide experience in government. Mr. Harlow was secretary to Congressman Wesley Disney of Oklahoma from 1938 until 1941. As a member of General George C. Marshall's staff during World War II he handled the Army's relations with Congress, and he later served as chief of staff of the House Armed Services Committee. During the Eisenhower Administration, Mr. Harlow was deputy as- sistant to the President for congressional relations. Mr. Harlow reentered the White House in January 1969 as assistant to the President for congressional relations. In November 1969 he was appointed counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank. On December 9, 1970, Mr. Harlow returned to Procter & Gamble as vice president for governmental relations. Mr. Fowler was counsel to the Tennessee Valley Au- thority from 1934 to 1939. During the 1940s he served as counsel on the subcommittee -of the Senate Education and Labor Committee, special counsel for the Federal Power Commission, assistant general counsel of the Office of Pro- duction Management and War Production Board, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission on Economic Affairs in London, and special assistant to the administrator of the Foreign Eco- nomic Administration. In 1952-53 Mr. Fowler was adminis- trator of the Defense Production Administration, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, and a member of the Na- Top row, left to right, tional Security Council. From 1961 to 1964, he served as Bryce Harlow, Henry Fowler. under secretary of the Treasury, and was Secretary of the Second row, left to right, Treasury from 1965 to 1968. Since 1969 Mr. Fowler has been John Williams, a general partner in the New York investment banking firm of Robert E. McNair. Goldman, Sachs & Co. right, James F. Battin. Senator Williams was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1946, and served through 1970. He was the first man in the history of the state to be elected to four consecutive Senate terms. He did not seek reelection. Senator Williams is an active partner in Sussex Realty Co., Millsboro, Delaware, and a director of Continental American Life Insurance Co. of Wilmington. Governor McNair began his government career as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Continued on next page Competition of ideas is the foundation of public policymaking in a free society

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