MASENG,
MARI: Files, 1988 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
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MASENG, MARI: Files, 1988
Office of Speechwriting, Speechwriter, 1981-1983
Office of Public Liaison, 1986-1987 (see separate inventory)
Office of Communications, July 1988-November 1988
Biography
Mari Maseng was born in Chicago on March 15,
1954. She attended the University of
South Carolina, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975.
After university graduation, Maseng became a
reporter for the Charleston Evening Post. Shortly after leaving college, Maseng began her long association with Republican
politicians. In 1979, she began work as
a press aide to Representative Phil Crane (R-IL) and also served as a Staff
Director for Senator Bob Dole’s presidential primary campaign in 1979. After Dole dropped out of the race, she
supported the Reagan-Bush team.
Maseng served throughout the 1980 Reagan campaign and on four separate
occasions within the Reagan Administration. Maseng
began work as a media strategist for the Reagan-Bush campaign and then as a
press aide to Mrs. Reagan during the transition period. In 1981 Maseng
served in the White House as a member of the President’s speechwriting staff
leaving in November 1983. In November
1983, she started to work for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole as
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.
Ms. Maseng left government service in November
1985 to become Director of Corporate Relations at the Beatrice Companies in
Chicago, and was named a Corporate Officer by the Board of Directors.
Maseng was brought back to the White House in May 1986 to be the Director of
the Office of Public Liaison. She
remained at the White House until July 1987.
At this time she became Press Secretary of the Senator Robert Dole for
President Campaign. After Senator Dole suspended his campaign in early 1988,
she was, again, recruited for a White House position. She returned to the White House in July 1988
replacing Tom Griscom as Director of the Office of
Communications and Planning and as Assistant to the President.
After leaving the White House at the end of the Reagan administration, Maseng founded her own political and communications
consulting firm. However, for the third time Maseng
was communications director of a Robert Dole campaign in 1996. She remained with the campaign until Dole
received the nomination and then returned to her private company.
In 1991 Maseng
married George Will, columnist for the Washington
Post and a regular contributor to ABC News They have one son.
Scope & Content Note
Mari Maseng returned to the White House in July
1988 as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of
Communications. She replaced Tom Griscom who left the White House when his mentor and fellow
Tennessean, Howard Baker, left in June 1988. The collection reflects this short
time period but also reflects Maseng’s
responsibilities as the ultimate head of speechwriting, public affairs and
media relations. The communications arm of the White House was heavily involved
in molding “Reagan legacy” pieces and assisting with the election of then Vice
President George H.W. Bush.
The Library does not appear to have a Maseng
collection for her time in the Office of Speechwriting as a speechwriter. Please refer to the Office of Speechwriting:
Speech Drafts and Research Office to find material associated with Ms. Maseng as a speechwriter.
The collection consists of two series: SERIES I: Subject File, and SERIES
II: Trip File.
SERIES I: Subject File, 1988 (4.2 l.ft.; Box 1-11)
This series consists of material relating to interaction with special
interest groups; editing and approving speeches and statements on the Defense
Authorization veto, the plant layoff bill veto, the Iranian Airline shoot down,
and the President’s farewell address; creating communication “action plans” to
assist White House agendas such as the FY 1990 budget, and Reagan “Legacy”
issues; and speeches, themes, and planning focused on the election of
Vice-President George H.W. Bush and the President’s role in assisting the
Vice-President. This series also contains material relating to administrative
matters for the Office of Communication including staff meeting agendas and
notes, weekly issues reports to the President, parking, salary and hiring
issues. Administrative files within this collection often contain material from
previous Directors of Communication, Thomas Griscom
and Patrick Buchanan. The material in
this series is arranged alphabetically.
SERIES II: Trip File (.4 l.ft, Box 11-12)
This series consists of material relating to trips taken by the President
in support of the Vice-President’s 1988 campaign for the Presidency. Files
consist of trip schedules, notes on planning the trip, speech drafts, speech
finals, and local press coverage. Often
several events or even additional stops are included within the folders. The
material in this series is arranged chronologically.
CONTAINER LIST
SERIES I: SUBJECT FILE
Box 1
AIDS (1)(2)
Administration
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American
Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA)
Armed
Forces Voters Week
Articles on Administration Officials
Attacks
on Reagan at the Democratic National Convention
Attorney
General Thornburgh
Baker, James – Resignation
Bevacqua, Anita
Beyond
War Broadcast
Bios
Boca
Raton Letter
Boland,
Matthew
Brinkley,
David
Brokaw,
Tom
Budget (1)-(4)
Businessweek
Interview Joe Wright/OMB
California
Fundraisers
Campaign
1988
Campaign
Watch Summary
Box 2
Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
Captive
Nations Day Statement - 07/13/1988 (P)
Cavazos, Lauro
Child
Abduction
Child
Care
CNN
Interview 09/09/1988
CNN
Interview 01/12/1989
Columnists
Combined
Federal Campaign
Communications, Office of
Communications
Staff Meetings (1)(2)
Communications
Wrap-Up of Election Coverage
Counsel re: Speeches (empty)
Contras
Demuth, Chris (AEI) (1)-(3)
Department
of Defense Authorization (1)-(4)
Devine, Donald [Citizens for America]
Dolan Geneva Trip
Domenici
Domestic Policy
Speech (1)-(3)
Donattelli Meeting
Dresses
Box 3
Drought
Drug Bill
Drugs
(1)-(3)
Duberstein
Duberstein Personal Press Plan
Economic
Bulletin
Economic
Policy Council (1)(2)
Education
and Bennett
Statement
on Employment
ESPN
Interview / POTUS
Ethics Bill
(1)(2)
Ethics in
Government
Falling
from Grace
Family Magazine
Farewell Address - POTUS
Farewell Back-Up
Fetal
Research
First
Lady Talking Points
Fisher,
Audrey, Interview
Foreign
Policy
Foreign Policy
[Speech] University of Virginia: Charlottesville 12/16/1988
Forest
Fires
French
Journalists, MM/FD (Maseng/Donatelli)
Meeting - 11/08/1988 (1)
Box 4
French
Journalists, MM/FD (Maseng/Donatelli)
Meeting - 11/08/1988 (2)
Glassner, Mike
Gorbachev
Government
Waste
Grace
Commission
Greenville
Professional Women's Forum
Gribben, Bill
Hayes,
Stephen
Highway
Users Foundation
Hispanic
Briefing
Hispanic
Media
Hispanics
Homeless
Horatio
Alger Association
[Housing
– Possible Arkansas Event]
Human
Events
Interviews – White House
Interviews Following Events
Issues Update – 07/08./1988
Issues Update – 07/22/1988
Issues Update – 07/29/1988
Issues Lunch – 09/12/1988 (empty)
Issues Paper - 09/18/1988 (empty)
Issues Lunch 10/03/1988
Issues Lunch 10/17/1988 (empty)
Issues Lunch: 10/24/1988 (empty)
Issue Paper: 11/04/1988
Issues Lunch: 11/10/1988 (empty)
Issues Lunch: 11/14/1988
Issues Paper: 12/05/1988 (empty)
Issues Paper: 12/09/1988
Issues Paper: 12/16/1988 (empty)
Issues
Updates – Communications Section
Issues Updates
– Weekly Report to the President (1)-(5)
Japanese
Internment Legislation - Signing Ceremony
Jobs
Judicial
Nominees
Box 5
Key
Political Reporters
Klugmann, Mark
Koppel:
News from Earth
Kudlow, Lawrence
Labor, Department of - Secretary McLaughlin (1)(2)
LaFarge Corporation
Last 100 Days
Last Six Months
Legacy
Legacy Booklets [“Reagan Record” & “Promises Made,
Promises Kept”]
Legal Services
Library Court Coalition/Meetings/Eric Licht (1)-(3)
Marlin [Fitzwater]
Maseng Biography
McKay
Report
McLaughlin
Interview
Meal Acceptance Guidelines
Media and Broadcast Relations
Media
Bashing
Media/Communications
Media Events
Media
Executives Briefing 08/03/1988
Media
Fall Plan (1)-(3)
Box 6
Media: Fall Plan / Local - E. Board (1)-(3)
Media
Fall Plan / Op-eds M. Blakey
Media
Plan for Surrogates
Media
Requests
“Meet the
Press”
Minimum
Wage Supporters
NASA/Also
See Space
National
Federation of Business and Professional Women – Vice President’s Speech,
07/24/1988
National
Governor's Association (POTUS) 08/08/1988
Nedelman, Jeffrey (1)(2)
Negative
Campaigning
Nevada
Newspaper Column - POTUS
Nicaragua
Nobel
Peace Prize
Nominations
Noriega
U.S. vs.
North
October
Planning (1)-(3)
Oglesby
Memos
[Ohio
Press Reaction to Frank Lavin Visit]
O'Neill,
George 09/08/1988
One Liners
Op-ed Info. (Blakey) (1)(2)
People - Garry Clifford
Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) Statement
Parental
Leave
Parking, Communications Office
Box 7
Personnel - Media & Broadcast Relations (1)(2)
Personnel - Public Affairs
Personnel - Research
Personnel – Speechwriting (1)-(6)
Planning
Planning
I – July 1988 (1)(2)
Planning
I – August 1988
Planning
I – September 1988
Planning
I – October 1988
Planning
I – November 1988
Planning
II – April 1988
Planning
II – May 1988
Planning
II – June 1988
Planning
II – July 1988 (1)-(4)
Box 8
Plant
Closings
Political
Planning File (1)(2)
Polyconomics
Post Election Events - Marion Blakey
Poverty
and Employment August 1988
POTUS
Address to Junior High Students 11/14/1988 (1)(2)
POTUS
Address to the United Nations 09/26/1988 (1)-(4)
Presidential
Remarks – Resignation of James Baker III 08/05/1988
President's
Committee on the Arts & Humanities
Press at
Republican Convention
Press
Conference, Final
Press Coverage – 1988 (1)-(6)
Press
Items, Possible
Privatization
- Presidential Decision
Public Affairs
Box 9
Quad Commission
Quayle, Dan
Radio
Address Memos
Radio
Speech
Rahn, Richard
Range /
Hooley
Reagan
Record / Blakey
Republican
Convention (1)-(4)
Research
(empty)
Retrospective
- Requests for Interviews
Ronald Reagan
(RR) Farewell
Rowney, Ambassador Edward
Sanchez,
Rudy
Satellite
Addresses
Schedule,
Pending Information / Recommendations (1)-(3)
Science
and Mathematics Award
September
Highlights
September
1988 Planning (1)-(5)
Smith,
Congressman Dennis
Smith, Hedrick
- Interview
Social
Security
South
Carolina
Space
Box 10
Speech
Themes
Speeches,
Timeliness of Comments
Speechwriters
Read
Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI)
Surrogates,
Bush / Quayle
Target
Groups
Television
Addresses - Presidential
Teller,
Edward
Themes
[1988]
Themes
[Campaign 1988]
Themes
[Democratic Opinion re: Reagan]
Themes
Drug Issues - July 1988]
Themes
[Economic Recovery] (1)-(3)
Themes
[Events – Fall 1988]
Themes
[Last Seven Months – July 1988]
Themes
[Last Six Months – July 1988]
Themes [Legislative
Issues – July 1988]
Themes
[Speech – July 1988]
Themes
[Trips – July 1988]
Themes
[White House Activities – July 1988]
Tickler
(1)(2)
Trade
Bill
Transition
U.N.
Security Council - Vice President's Remarks
USA Today Television
University
of Virginia
Van Dongen, Dirk
Victory
1988
Waldron /
Events
Wallace,
Mike Interview
Washington
Campus
Washington
Industrial Roundtable
Box 11
Washington
Institute for Near East Policy
Weyrich
Whalen,
Richard
Whales
Whittacker Chamber Farms
Wick,
Charles / USIA
Williamson,
Rich
Wilson,
James Q
Wirthlin (1)-(3)
Women
Issues
Women
Appointees / Rebuttal
World
Press Institute
Wright,
Joe
The Year
of the Young Reader
Youth
2000
SERIES II: TRIPS
Box 11,
cont.
Presidential Trip to Iowa and Illinois, Drought- 07/14/1988 (1)-(3)
Presidential Trip to Cincinnati 08/08/1988 (1)(2)
Presidential Trip to Missouri – 09/14/1988
Presidential Trip to Houston, TX - 09/22/1988
Presidential
Trip to Chicago, IL - 09/30/1988 (1)(2)
Presidential
Trip to Detroit, Michigan - 10/07/1988 (1)-(3)
Box 12
Presidential
Trip to Philadelphia, PA, & West Orange, NJ – 10/12/1988 (1)(2)
Presidential
Trip to Ohio 10/19/1988
Presidential
Trip to Raleigh, NC & Bowling Green, KY- 10/21/1988
Presidential
Trip to California, Nevada, Wisconsin, Ohio, 11/01/1988-11/02/1988
Presidential
Trip to Warren, MI & Mesquite, TX, 11/05/1988
Presidential
Trip to California 11/07/1988