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U.S. AD HOC ADVISORY GROUP ON
Records, 1973-75
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
These
are Federal records, part of National Archives Record Group 220, Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards. The records contain the charter, meeting
minutes, position papers, and drafts and finished version of the final report
submitted on
QUANTITY
3.2
linear feet (ca. 6400 pages)
DONOR
Federal
records accessioned by the National Archives on
ACCESS
Open.
COPYRIGHT
Works
prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in
the public domain. The copyrights to
materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain
with them.
Prepared by Stacy M.
Davis, May 2005
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Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Puerto Rico - Records.doc]
AD HOC ADVISORY GROUP ON
Members Appointed
by the President of the
Marlow W. Cook,
Co-Chairman
James L. Buckley,
Senator,
Don H. Clausen,
Rep.,
Thomas S. Foley,
Rep., Washington (resigned
Paul N. Howell,
Chairman and C.E.O., Howell Corporation,
J. Bennett Johnston,
Senator,
Richard B. Ogilvie,
Members Appointed
by the Governor of
Luis Muñoz Marín, Co-Chairman
Jaime Benítez,
Resident Commissioner from the
Juan Cancel Ríos, President of the Senate of the
Justo A. Méndez,
Legislature of the
Víctor M. Pons, Jr.,
Luis Ernesto Ramos Yordán, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
Angel M. Rivera,
President Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño
STAFF OF THE ADVISORY GROUP
Staff Appointed by
the President of the
Peter J. Gallagher,
Executive Director
Patricia M. McNabb,
Administrative Assistant
William J. Oxley,
Administrative Officer
Staff Appointed by
the Governor of
Hiram R. Cancio, Executive Director until
Delia Castillo de
Colorado, Legal Advisor and Administrative Officer
José Trías Monge,
Executive Director beginning
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PRESIDENT
(Required by Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 1972)
Richard M. Fairbanks
Norman E. Ross, Jr.
James H. Falk
INTRODUCTION
The Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
The Nixon Administration Domestic Council played an
active role in the establishment of the second Ad Hoc Group, and the
President's representative on the Group was a Domestic Council staff
member. Richard Fairbanks, the first
representative, served during the Nixon administration. In April 1974 Norm Ross succeeded him; he in
turn passed responsibility to James Falk in June 1975. Falk served until the Ad Hoc Group's work was
completed. Domestic Council staffers Richard Parsons and Dean Overman continued
review of Puerto Rican issues within the White House until the end of the Ford
administration.
The
Ad Hoc Group terminated upon submission of a bilingual final report on
The
Ad Hoc Group Records:
This collection contains the records
accumulated by the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
The collection contains a record set of documents,
including the Group’s charter, meeting minutes, proposals, position
papers, public notices, and drafts and a finished version of the final
report. It includes transcripts from
public hearings held in
Related
Materials (2005):
A number of Domestic
Council staff members had responsibility for Puerto Rican issues during the
Ford administration. The files of Samuel
Halper consist primarily of Norman Ross's and
James Falk's material from their work for the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
The
files of Dean Overman contain material related to Puerto Rico that he inherited
from Domestic Council staffer Richard Parsons near the end of the Ford
Administration. The files contain
a copy of the report, memoranda from the agencies and departments commenting on
the report and subsequent congressional bill, drafts of Parsons' Presidential
decision memorandum of October 1976, and drafts of the Ford administration's
statehood bill in January 1977.
White House Central Files category FG 367, Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Commonwealth Status
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Series Descriptions
1-3 Public Record of Deliberations, September
1973 – October 1975. (1.2 linear feet)
Minutes,
correspondence, memoranda, transcripts, reports, statements, studies, press
releases, clippings, and other records that document the work of the U.S. Ad
Hoc Advisory Group on Puerto Rico.
Included in this series is the Ad Hoc Group's charter, meeting minutes
and transcripts, proposals by the Puerto Rican delegation, questions posed by
the U.S. delegation, drafts of a compact of permanent union between Puerto Rico
and the United States, comments from various federal agencies regarding Puerto
Rico, the final report (the compact) of the Group, and written statements of
independent views of Group members. Also
included are notices of public meetings and hearings held in the
Arranged by public
record volume number.
4-5 Transcripts of Public Hearings and Public
Meetings, December 1973 – August 1975.
(0.8 linear feet)
Transcripts of public hearings held by the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
Arranged
chronologically by date of hearing or meeting.
6-7 General Correspondence File, October 1973 – October
1975. (0.8 linear feet)
Correspondence,
memoranda, clippings, resumes, notes, testimony, invoices, and reports
accumulated by the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
Arranged chronologically by month and year of the correspondence.
8 Subject Correspondence File,
1973–1975. (0.4 linear feet)
Correspondence,
memoranda, clippings, affidavits, and press releases accumulated by the
Arranged alphabetically by subject or the person’s name.
Container List
1 Public Record of
Deliberations
Volume
1 (1)-(3)
Volume
2 (1)-(3)
2 Public Record of Deliberations
Volume
3 (1)-(3)
Volume
4
3 Public Record of Deliberations
Volume
5
Volume
6
4 Transcripts of Public Hearings and Public Meetings
December,
1973
February,
1974
5 Transcripts of Public Hearings and Public Meetings
July
10, 11, 12, 1975
July
31,
6 General
Correspondence File
General
- October, 1973
General
- November, 1973
December,
1973
January,
1974
February,
1974
March,
1974
April,
1974
May,
1974
June,
1974
July,
1974
August,
1974
September,
1974
October,
1974
November,
1974
December,
1974
January,
1975
February,
1975
March,
1975
April,
1975
7 General
Correspondence File
May,
1975
June,
1975
July,
1975
August,
1975
September,
1975
October,
1975
8 Subject
Correspondence File
Benítez, Hon. Jaime
Bilingual
Courts Act
Buckley,
Sen. James L.
Cancel
Ríos, Juan
Clausen,
Rep. Don H.
Comite Correspondence, No. 2
Cook,
Sen. Marlow K.
Foley,
Rep. Thomas C.
Howell,
Paul N.
Johnston,
Sen. J. Bennett Jr.
Legal
Documents
Méndez, Sen. Justo
Muñoz Marín, Luis
Ogilvie, Richard B.
Pons, Víctor M. Jr.
Ramos
Yordán, Luis Ernesto
Reports
Rivera,
Angel
Ross,
State
Department Dinner
Trías Monge, José (Pepe)