CRIPPEN, DAN L.: Files, 1987-1988 – REAGAN
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CRIPPEN, DAN L.: Files, 1987-1988
Office
of the Chief of Staff: Deputy Assistant to the President, 1987-1988.
In May
1987, Dan Crippen (1952- ) joined the White House
staff to assist Chief of Staff Howard Baker with economic and budget policy,
trade policy, and related matters. Crippen had been
Baker’s chief counsel and economic policy adviser when Baker was Senate
Majority Leader during President Reagan’s first term (1981-1984). From 1985 to
1987 Crippen was Executive Director of the Merrill
Lynch International Advisory Council, a group of prominent people – including
Baker – that provided the brokerage house Merrill Lynch with advice and
support.
Crippen, a
Crippen left the White House staff
shortly after Baker resigned in July 1988. However, he returned to the White
House in September 1988, as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs,
and remained until the end of the Reagan Administration. (See the separate
finding aid for Crippen’s files from the Office of
Domestic Affairs.) Crippen later served as Director
of the Congressional Budget Office (1999-2003), and as chairman of a panel that
advised NASA in the wake of the 2003 space shuttle
The
records in this collection are concerned mostly with budget, tax, and trade
policies, including aspects of business or agriculture related to these
policies. A large portion pertains to the work of the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), and the
Department of the Treasury. There is a small amount of material dated before Crippen’s arrival which he utilized in the course of his
work.
SERIES I: SUBJECT FILE.
1987-1988. (5.0 l.ft., Boxes 1-13)
This
series consists of alphabetically arranged files pertaining to policies and
events, including the Federal budget and deficit, trade relations with Canada
and Japan, trade sanctions against South Africa, the 1987 and 1988 Economic
Summits, the Federal Reserve Board, tax policy, the stock market and other
financial markets, meetings of the Domestic Policy Council and Economic Policy
Council, the 1988 drought, housing policy, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act,
catastrophic health insurance, Medicare, Social Security, the 1988 State of the
Union Address, AIDS, airline legislation, overall legislative strategy, and
long-range policy planning. The series also includes Crippen’s
appointment books from his time in the Chief of Staff office.
Some
folder titles in this series contain dates, which for the most part appear to
be the dates that the folders were created. Where these dates differ
substantially from the dates covered by the folder contents, the Reagan Library
staff has added the date span of the folders’ contents to the folder titles.
SERIES II: WHITE HOUSE STAFFING
MEMORANDUMS. May 1987- July 1988. (1.4 l.ft., Boxes 13-17)
This
chronologically arranged series contains copies of materials routed to Crippen and others in the White House. A “White House
Staffing Memorandum” form is attached to most of the routed material. This form
was used to indicate the intended recipients, and to note whether each
recipient was receiving a copy in order to act on it, or for strictly informational
purposes.
Most
routed items pertain in some way to a topic covered in Crippen’s
Subject File (e.g., budget, tax,
trade, or agricultural policy), while a few pertain to other issues of the day.
Types of items include: White House memos discussing policy issues; drafts of
material intended for eventual public use or distribution, such as speeches,
reports, and bill signing and veto statements; background papers for Economic
Policy Council meetings (see WHORM Subject File category FG010-04); drafts of
Presidential talking points for meetings; periodic reports on the work of White House staff, that were included in the
President’s Weekly Update (see WHORM Subject File category FG001); routine
memos to the President recommending public statements on foreign trade, such as
proclamations of unfair trade practices by other countries; and some daily and
monthly Presidential schedules. Many of the Staffing Memorandums and
accompanying documents contain handwritten notations by Crippen
and others.
SERIES III: BUDGET FILES.
1987-1988. (1.1 l.ft , Boxes 17-19)
This
series is divided into two subseries pertaining to the preparation of the
Federal budget. Each budget covered one fiscal year (FY), which ran from
October 1 to the following September 30. Thus, the budget for FY 1988 covered
the period from October 1987 through September 1988, and the budget for FY 1989
covered October 1988 through September 1989.
The FY
1988 and FY 1989 budgets were the first to be affected by the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (aka the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings or
Gramm-Rudman Act). This law set yearly deficit targets that were to decline to
zero by 1991, required that the President submit budgets to Congress that were
consistent with these targets, and mandated automatic budget cuts if the
targets were not met. However, the Supreme Court struck down some key
provisions of the law, and efforts to meet the law’s deficit targets ultimately
failed.
Subseries A: Fiscal Year 1988
Budget. May 1987-August
1987. (0.8 ft., Boxes 17-18)
This
subseries contains alphabetically arranged folders pertaining to the Executive
Branch’s preparation of the FY 1988 federal budget, and related issues. It
documents: proposals and statistical information pertaining to Federal
spending, including plans to meet Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit targets;
proposals pertaining to the budget formulation and legislation process;
Congressional meetings and legislative budget strategy; the role of the ranking
Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, Pete Domenici (R-NM); Congressional
proposals to alter the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction goals; the
mid-Congressional session review of the budget that was mandated by
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings; and factual information prepared for President Reagan.
Subseries B: Fiscal Year 1988
Supplemental and Fiscal Year 1989 Budget.
March 1988 – July 1988. (0.3 l.ft.,
In
mid-1988, emergency supplemental budget laws were enacted that provided
additional funds to keep certain Federal programs functioning. At the same
time, planning was underway for the Federal budget for Fiscal Year 1989. This
subseries contains alphabetically arranged folders pertaining to both the
preparation of the FY 1989 budget, and the emergency supplemental items to the
FY 1988 budget. Documents pertain to the various budget bills involved, Reagan
Administration correspondence involving members of Congress, and materials on
Administration legislative strategy.
SERIES IV: OMB FILE. 1987-1988.
(0.5 l.ft.,
Boxes 19-20)
This
series consists of reports, issue analyses, and other materials produced by
OMB, including background reports used in periodic reviews of various issues.
Topics include planning and legislation pertaining to the FY 1988 and FY 1989
budgets, problems in the banking and savings and loan industries, catastrophic
health insurance legislation, and privatization. The material is arranged
alphabetically.
SERIES V: CRIPPEN CLASSIFIED
FILE. 1987-1988. (0.4 l.ft., Boxes 20-21)
Topics in this
series include the 1987 and 1988 G-7 economic summits, trade relations with
other countries, international economic policy, and other aspects of US foreign
relations. The material in this series was originally stored in a safe in the
White House, in an expansion (accordion) folder labeled “Crippen
– Classified.” The Reagan Library has retained the records’ original order.
SERIES
VI: SCHEDULE FILE. 1987-1988. (0.3 l.ft., Boxes 21-22)
This
series contains draft and final monthly schedules for President Reagan, daily
Presidential schedules, internal schedules from some White House units, and
schedules pertaining to the 1987 OMB Director’s Review of the Federal budget.
The material came to the Reagan Library in three sets, and the Library has
retained the original order of these sets.
CONTAINER LIST
SERIES
I: SUBJECT FILE. 1987-1988. 5.0 ft.
Agriculture
Policy –
AIDS
(1)(2)
Airline Legislation
Appropriations – Fiscal Year 1988
(1)-(4)
Asset Sales
Banking
Commission
Banking
Legislation (1)-(4)
Big
Rivers
Bond Market
Brady, et al. [Nicholas Brady/Treasury
Department and Groups/Commissions] (1)-(3)
Brady,
et al. [Nicholas Brady/Treasury Department and Groups/Commissions] (4)(5)
[Brady
Task Force on Market Mechanisms]
Budget
Law/Legal Opinions
CFTA
(Canada Free Trade Agreement) (1)-(5)
Catastrophic
Catastrophic
Child
Care
Civil
Service – Nondisclosure
Clean
Air
CR
(Continuing Resolution) Report Language (1)-(5)
Debt
Limit
Debt
Limit
Debt
Limit
Deficit
[Diskettes
– Blank]
DPC
(Domestic Policy Council) Minutes (1)-(4)
Drought
(1)(2)
Drought
(3)-(7)
Drug
Legislation (1)-(4)
Economic
Bill of Rights (1)-(8)
EPC
(Economic Policy Council) (1)(2)
[1987]
Economic
[1987]
Economic
[1988]
Economic
Energy
Security (1)(2)
[Ethanol]
[Exchange
Rate, Financial and Commodity Quotations (Selected) January 1988-February
1988]
[Exchange
Rate, Financial and Commodity Quotations (Selected) March 1988-May
1988]
[Exchange
Rate, Financial and Commodity Quotations (Selected) June 1988-August
1988]
Ex-Im Bank (Export-Import Bank)
FAA
(Federal Aviation Administration)
Fair
Housing
Farm
Credit (1)(2)
FDIC
(Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) – FSLIC Scoring
FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Agency – and Nuclear Power) (1)-(3)
(Federal
Reserve Board) FRB Nomination
Financial
Asset Sales
[Financial
Markets, Working Group on – Interim Report] (1)
[Financial Markets, Working Group on –
Interim Report] (2)(3)
Food
Stamps
FSLIC
(Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation) (1)(2)
FY 1989 Budget
Government of the Future [Working
Group] (1)(2)
Gramm-Rudman
G-R-H Impact on 050/150
[Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Bill Impact on
Defense/International Affairs
Budget] (1)(2)
Greenspan
Hatch Act
Hunger Relief
IEEPA (International Emergency
Economic Powers Act)
INF [Treaty Ratification]
International Capital Markets (1)(2)
Labor-Related
Legislation
Legislative Strategy
Legislative
Strategy
Legislative
Strategy Meeting
Line-Item Veto
Medicare
Minimum Wage (1)-(3)
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Administration)
New Production Reactor (1)-(3)
[
PBGG (Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation) (1)-(3)
Plant
Closings
Polygraph
(1)(2)
Pork
Package(s) (1)-(6)
[President’s
Weekly Update – For Discussion
[President’s
Weekly Update – For Discussion
[President’s
Weekly Update – For Discussion
[President’s
Weekly Update – For Discussion
[President’s Weekly Update – For
Discussion
Privatization (1)(2)
Refugees
Revenues
– Alcohol Equivalence
Revenues – Gasoline Tax
SEC [Securities and Exchange
Commission – Resumes]
Section 232 Oil Petition
Semi-Conductor
Sanctions (1)-(5)
Social
Security Earnings Test (1)-(3)
Social Security Trustees Report
Spending
Threats
[Spring Planning Review for Management
(June 1988)]
[Spring Planning Review for
Privatization (June 1988)] (1)-(3)
State and Local Governments
State of the Union –1988 (1)-(3)
State
of the Union –1988 (4)-(6)
Stratospheric
Ozone
Sugar
Super-Conductors (1)(2)
Supplemental
Supplemental
Appropriations
Takeover Legislation (1)-(4)
Takeover Legislation (5)
Tax
Policy – Capital Gains
Tax
(Technical Corrections)
Taxes
(1)(2)
Telecommunications
Trade Bill (1)-(3)
Trade Conference
(7)
Trade Statistics (1)(2)
Trade – Veto Message (1)(2)
Trade – Veto Message (3)-(8)
Truth-In-Spending
TVA
(
Verity [Nomination as Secretary of
Commerce]
Weekly Appointments Book 1987
Weekly Appointments Book 1988
Welfare Reform (1)-(4)
Welfare
Reform (5)-(9)
SERIES II: WHITE HOUSE STAFFING
MEMORANDUMS, May 1987-July 1988
Box 13, cont.
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/13/1987-05/18/1987]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 05/19/1987-06/24/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/25/1987-07/12/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos: 07/13/1987-07/28/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
07/29/1987-08/11/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
08/12/1987-08/31/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
09/01/1987-09/11/1987]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 09/12/1987-09/28/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
09/29/1987-09/30/1987]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 10/01/1987-10/06/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
10/08/1987-10/14/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
10/15/1987-10/20/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
10/21/1987-10/26/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
10/27/1987-11/02/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
11/03/1987-11/09/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
11/10/1987-11/19/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos: 11/20/1987-11/22/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
11/24/1987-11/30/1987]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 12/01/1987-12/09/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
12/10/1987-12/14/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
12/16/1987-12/17/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
12/18/1987-12/20/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
12/21/1987-12/31/1987]
[White House Staffing Memos:
01/01/1988-01/11/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos: 01/12/1988-01/18/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
01/19/1988-01/21/1988]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 01/22/1988-01/31/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/01/1988-02/02/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/03/1988-02/07/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/08/1988-02/11/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/12/1988-02/17/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/18/1988-02/22/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/23/1988-02/25/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
02/26/1988-03/13/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
03/14/1988-03/15/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
03/16/1988-03/17/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
03/18/1988-03/23/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
03/24/1988-03/29/1988]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 03/30/1988-03/31/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
04/01/1988-04/07/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
04/08/1988-04/10/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
04/12/1988-04/18/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos: 04/19/1988-04/24/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
04/25/1988-04/26/1988]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 04/27/1988-04/28/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
04/29/1988-05/04/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/05/1988-05/09/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/10/1988-05/12/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/14/1988-05/17/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/18/1988-05/22/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
05/23/1988-06/01/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/02/1988-06/08/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/09/1988-06/13/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/14/1988-06/15/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/16/1988-06/20/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/21/1988-06/22/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/24/1988-06/27/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
06/28/1988-06/29/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White
House Staffing Memos: 07/01/1988-07/10/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
07/11/1988-07/13/1988]
[White
House Staffing Memos: 07/14/1988-07/18/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
07/19/1988-07/20/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
07/21/1988-07/26/1988]
[White House Staffing Memos:
[White House Staffing Memos:
SERIES III. BUDGET FILES, 1987-1988
Subseries
A.: Fiscal Year 1988 Budget
Budget – Mid-Session [Review] (1)(2)
Budget Plans (1)(2)
Budget Strategy
FY 1988 Budget Conference (1)(2)
FY 1988 Budget – PVD Plan / SBC (Pete
V. Domenici / Senate Budget Committee)
(1)(2)
FY 1988 Budget Strategy (1)-(3)
Gramm-Rudman (1)-(3)
Gramm-Rudman (4)-(8)
Process Reform
Ronald Reagan Budget Materials (1)-(5)
Subseries
B. Fiscal Year 1988 Supplemental And Fiscal Year 1989
Budget
[FY 1988 and] FY 1989 Supplemental (1)(2)
FY 1989 Budget Estimates/Scoring (1)(2)
FY 1989 Budget Strategy (1)-(8)
SERIES
IV: OMB FILE, 1987-1988
Box 19, cont.
Budget Aggregates FY 1989 Budget
(White House) October 1987
Director’s Spring Review – Problem
Banks and Savings and Loans April 1987 (1)(2)
FY 1988 Appropriations (1)-(3)
FY 1988 Spring Review – Credit (1)
FY
1988 Spring Review – Credit (2)(3)
FY
1989 Spring Review – Army Force Structure and Modernization
OMB Routing – Petroleum Reserves
Privatization Spring Review June 1987
S.1127
Catastrophic Health
S.1127 Catastrophic Health
S.1127 Catastrophic Health
SBC (Senate Budget Committee)/OMB
Scoring – FY 1989 Appropriations (1)(2)
Spring Economic Overview 1988
[Spring Review Schedules and]
Distribution List
Wasteful Federal Spending [Report
SERIES
V: CRIPPEN CLASSIFIED FILE, 1987-1988
Box
20, cont.
[Note re Material]
[White House Summit Group]
[Energy Study]
[East Germany]
[Toronto Economic Summit
Preparations]
[Economic Outlook]
Box 21
[Joint Ventures]
[White House Summit Group
02/11/1988]
Crippen –
Classified
[Stoltenberg Meeting
02/11/1988]
[Stoltenberg Meeting Advance
Briefing 02/03/1988]
[Takeshita
Meeting 01/13/1988]
[Takeshita
Meeting 01/13/1988: Economic Summit Talks]
[Toronto] Economic Summit
Takeshita
Visit
[Economic Summit 1988]
[Material from Colin Powell
06/16/1987]
[Toronto Economic Summit]
Japan – Trade Policy
[Japan]
[Policy Review Group Meeting
03/25/1988]
Panama
Beef and Citrus Negotiations
Toronto [Economic Summit]
[Section 232 – Ball Bearings]
Moscow – Cables/Situation Room
Toronto Economic Summit
[Toronto Economic Summit Group]
[Toronto Economic] Summit Group
Meeting 06/07/1988
[Venice Economic Summit]
[International Economic Policy,
Retreat re]
Taiwan – Trade
[Israel]
[Canada Free Trade]
Philippines
SERIES VI: SCHEDULE FILE, 1987-1988
Box 21, cont.
[Schedules:
1. Miscellaneous Schedules (June 1988-August 1988)]
[Schedules: 2. President’s Long-Range
Schedule (September 1987-February 1988)]
[Schedules: 3. President’s Long-Range Schedule
(March 1988-June 1988)]
[Schedules: 4. Speechwriting
(09/14/1987-11/30/1987)]
Box
22
[Schedules: 5. Speechwriting
(12/01/1987-02/29/1988)]
[Schedules: 6. Speechwriting
(03/01/1988-03/31/1988)]
[Schedules: 7. Speechwriting
(04/01/1988-04/30/1988)]
[Schedules: 8. Speechwriting
(05/01/1988-05/18/1988)]
[Schedules: 9. Speechwriting
(05/19/1988-07/05/1988)]
[Schedules: 10. Cabinet Affairs]
[Schedules: 11. Public Liaison Weekly]
[Schedules: 12. Legislative Agenda]
[Schedules: 13. OMB Director’s Review]
[Schedules: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan, and Other Schedules (September
1987-October 1987)]
[Schedules: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan (October 1987-December 1987)]
[Schedules: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan (December 1987-January 1988)]
[Schedules: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan (January 1988-February 1988)]
[Schedules:
The Schedule of President Ronald Reagan (March 1988-April 1988)]
[Schedules: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan (May 1988-June 1988)]
[Schedules: The Summary
Schedule/Weekly Update for
[Scheduling: The Schedule of President
Ronald Reagan (07/01/1988-08/08/1988)]
[Scheduling: Various Schedules May
1987-September 1987] (1)-(4)