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1978-1979 Memorandum 1 (1978-1979)

handle is hein.amenin/memaei0002 and id is 1 raw text is: I I I 1150 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Wintei/Sri'T197-1Number Twenty-Two William Baroody, Jr., Appointed New AEI President Herman J. Schmidt, chairman of the board of the American Enterprise In- stitute for Public Policy Research, has announced the appointment of William J. Baroody, Jr., as president of AEI effective July 1. 1978. He succeeds Wil- liam J. Baroody. Sr., who has com- pleted a quarter century of service as AEI's chief executive officer. Baroody, Sr.. will retain a full-time position with AEI as Counsellor to the Institute. In that post, his functions will include an active role in long- range planning and development, con- sultative services to AEI management, and an expansion of his public speak- ing activities on policy problems. The new president, William J. Baroody, Jr., served as Assistant to the President of the United States from September 6. 1974, until he joined AEI in January 1977. At the White House. Baroody organized and ran the new Office of Public Liaison. designed to insure effective communication be- tween the presidency and all elements of American society. Prior to that he served as Special Assistant and Special Consultant to the President from February 4, 1973. Baroody also served as deputy to the Counsellor to the President for Domes- tic Affairs from June 6, 1973 to Janu- ary 30. 1974. Before joining the White House staff, he served in the Department of De- fense from 1969 to 1973 as Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense. He served in a staff ca- pacity in the Congress from 1961 to 1969, first as legislative assistant and press secretary to then Congressman Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin and in 1968 as research director of the House Republican Conference. Since joining AEI, he has served as executive vice president and functioned as chief operating officer. He also serves as publisher of four periodical publica- tions initiated by AEI since 1977. Ford Address Highlights Regulatory Reform Conference Former President Gerald Ford gave his successor some advice about achieving regulatory reform during a luncheon address on December 19, and also expressed a feeling of frustration that such reform has not been proceeding at a faster pace. Ford's remarks were made to participants of a conference on Regulation and Regulatory Reform sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute. Ford, the Distinguished Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, said the success of regulatory reform efforts de- pends on four elements: the organization of an administra- tion task force of high-level appointees to tackle the issue on a systematic, continuing basis; the strong support of the President, who must take a consistent and visible stance on the matter; the mobilization of citizens' group and public interest organizations into a viable coalition to work for reform; and the presentation by the administration of a pack- age of regulatory reform measures to be addressed by the Congress as a unit. A year ago in Washington the climate was rapidly chang- ing in favor of greater regulatory reform, Ford said. We were on the threshold of several major breakthroughs. But today-only one year later-that marvelous opportunity may be slipping away from us. Its disappearance would be a grievous loss for the country. The former President added. however. that a lack of major. substantive breakthroughs to better regulatory performance in recent years does not mean there have not been any accom- plishments. As I see it. we have made very encouraging progress in at least one area-and it may be the most im- portant one-and that is in raising public consciousness about the seriousness of the regulatory problem, Ford said. What we need now is a successful strategy for achieving regulatory reform. Ford noted that poorly conceived and excessive govern- mental regulations affect the basic economic and social well- being of the United States. Losses in potential economic growth, in manhours required to fill out federal forms, of executive leadership in business because of the time needed to try to comply with government dictates and the loss in personal and economic freedom of Americans can be at- tributed to overregulation, according to the former Presi- dent. He said the government regulates-directly or indi- rectly-the prices or production of as much as thirty percent Continued on page nine Competition of ideas is the foundation of public policy making in a free society William J. Baroody, Jr.

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