DUNLOP,
BECKY NORTON: Files, 1982-1983 REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
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reviewed by the Reagan Library staff and it is available for research. You may access this collection in our
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collection.
Office
of Presidential Personnel, 1981-1982; 1983 (See Separate Inventory)
Office
of Cabinet Affairs: Special Assistant to the President &
Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs, 1982-1983
See Also: Dunlop, Becky Norton: Papers,
1985-1989
Biography
Becky
Norton Dunlop was born in 1951 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At a young age, her
family moved to Columbus, Ohio where she grew up and went to school. She
graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1973.
After
college, Dunlop was associated with the American Conservative Union from
1973-1980, completing her service as assistant executive director and
consultant to the board. In 1977 she
founded Century Communications, Inc., which focused on strategic planning,
communications and managing for results.
Dunlop
was involved with the Reagan Presidential Campaigns in 1976 and 1980. Dunlop continued her Reagan association as a volunteer
and a Service by Agreement employee within the Office of Presidential
Personnel of the Reagan Administration in March 1981. A year later she was
given a permanent position at the White House as Special Assistant to the
President and Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs handling the day-to-day
coordination of Reagan Administration policy with Cabinet level appointees and managing
the staff of the office.
In
June 1983, Dunlop returned to the Office of Presidential Personnel as Deputy
Assistant to the President and remained in that position until early 1985. She served in the Department of Justice in
1985-1986 as Senior Special Assistant to the Attorney General managing Cabinet
level domestic policy issues including environment, family policy, federalism,
tort reform, privatization and welfare reform. During
1987-1989, she was Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Interior and Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.
President Reagan also appointed her to head the Interagency Committee for
Women's Business Ownership, a U.S. Commissioner to the Great Lakes Fishery
Commission, and as his Personal Representative to the Northern Marianas.
In the
1990s Dunlop served as the Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth
of Virginia in the Cabinet of Governor (later Senator) George Allen. Her
responsibilities included the Departments of Environmental Quality, Historic
Resources, Game and Inland Fisheries, Conservation and Recreation, the Marine
Resources Commission, the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department and the
Natural History Museum. She was the principal environmental policy advisory to
the Governor and held this post from 1994 to 1998. During her tenure, the
agencies were stream-lined, decentralized and down-sized. Governor Allen also
appointed Mrs. Dunlop to serve as co-chair of the Governor's Council on
Self-Determination and Federalism and Vice-Chair of his Commission on
Environmental Stewardship. Dunlop is one
of the few free-market environmentalists to have headed a government agency
and put ideas into action. Her book, Clearing the Air: How the People of Virginia
Improved the States Air and Water Despite the EPA,
(Tocqueville Institution, 2000) chronicles
her experience for this time.
Dunlop
also served in the administration of President George W. Bush. In 2002, Bush
appointed her to a part-time post as chairwoman of the Federal Services Impasse
Panel, which resolves disputes between agencies and labor unions.
Currently, Becky
Norton Dunlop serves on the senior management team of The Heritage Foundation
as Vice President for External Relations. Her responsibilities include the
departments engaged in strategic outreach and communication to conservative
public policy institutions and other leadership organizations, international,
state and local government officials, business leaders and conservative policy
activists. She represents Heritage and presents conservative policies and views
in national and international venues.
In addition, Dunlop is a frequent speaker
in the United States and internationally and writes and is a contributor to
electronic and print media. Dunlop serves on a multitude of boards and
foundations including the National Wilderness Institute, Defenders of Property
Rights, the Family Foundation of Virginia, the Virginia Institute of Public
Policy, the American Conservative Union, the Association of American Educators,
the Institute for 21st Century Agriculture and the Reagan Alumni Association,
the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the American Conservation Union and
the Phillips Foundation.
She is
on the Advisory Council for the Landmark Legal Foundation and Hunters for the
Hungry, a member of the Philanthropy Roundtable and a Fellow with the Atlas
Foundation. She recently served as an appointee of the Senate Majority Leader
on the Women's Progress Commemoration Commission. She is also a member of the
Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo,
in Santa Barbara, California.
Dunlop
resides in Arlington, Va., with her husband, George S. Dunlop. Mr. Dunlops
former employee, Senator Jesse Helms gave Mrs. Dunlop away at their wedding.
Scope & Content Note
Ms.
Dunlop joined the Office of Cabinet Affairs in March 1982 as Special Assistant
to the President and the Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs. She replaced T. Kenneth Cribb
who returned to work in the Office of the Counsellor
(Ed Meese) as the Deputy Counsellor.
Dunlops
function was managing the Cabinet Affairs staff, coordinating Cabinet meetings,
and coordinating and documenting the seven Cabinet Council meetings and
circulating the position and policy papers for these meetings. In addition,
Dunlop oversaw the day-to-day communication and coordination of Reagan
Administration policies with the Cabinet agencies.
Dunlop
started in the White House with Presidential Personnel and she returned to that
office in June 1983. She was continually
interested in placing personnel with specific conservative principles and
experience, and her Cabinet Affairs collection reflects this continued interest. Her collection arrived at the Library with a
significant amount of empty subject folder within the Cabinet Affairs material. Since Dunlop carried over various functions
from both her offices, please consult her collection for the Office of
Presidential Personnel and personal papers here at the Library to see a full
view of her work product.
The Dunlop Cabinet Affairs collection
consists of 10 series: SERIES I: Cabinet; SERIES II: Cabinet Council on
Commerce and Trade; SERIES III: Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs; SERIES IV:
Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture; SERIES V: Cabinet Council on Human
Resources; SERIES VI: Cabinet Council on Legal Policy; SERIES VII: Cabinet
Council on Management and Administration; SERIES VIII: Cabinet Council on
Natural Resources and the Environment; SERIES IX: Subject File; Series X:
Chronological File
Series
Descriptions
SERIES
I: CABINET FILES, 1982-1983 (0.2 l.ft.; Box 1)
This series contains material
relating to Cabinet meeting agendas, participant lists, and briefing papers and
decision memos on the following topics: US-USSR Grain Agreement, product
liability legislation, agricultural credit and marketing orders, distributing
excess commodities in food banks, reforming the Combined Federal Campaign,
reforming the personnel incentive system, abolishing the Federal Regional
Council system, federal procurement policy, reforming food stamp regulation,
status of immigration reform legislation, and
a group of womens issues including child support, insurance and IRA
spousal contributions. The material is
arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.
SERIES
II: CABINET COUNCIL ON COMMERCE AND TRADE, 1982-1983
(0.3 l.ft.; Box 1)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade meeting agendas, meeting
minutes, participant lists, and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: financing and exports, space commercialization, trade with Japan, Houidaille Petition, FCC syndication and financial interest
rule, trade reorganization, auto industry, minority businesses and the SBA,
enterprise zones, airline industry, patent and trademark infringement, DISC
(Domestic International Sales Corporation), intellectual property sugar quotas,
and government laboratories. The
material is arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.
SERIES
III: CABINET COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, 1982-1983 (0.7 l.ft.; Box 2-3)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs meeting agendas, meeting
minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: Hungarian application for IMF membership, financial markets, monetary
policy, exchange rates, African Development Bank, unemployment insurance
benefits, job training, international state debt problems, public employee
pensions, rural housing block grants, transportation user fees, federal credit
policy, unemployment, education saving, pensions, farm credit system, windfall
profit tax, crude oil decontrol, guarantees of tax exempt bonds, housing
policy, stockpile methodology, revenue sharing, health insurance for the
unemployed, railroad retirement benefits, tax benefits, Williamsburg Economic
Summit, and general review of the economy and the economic outlook The material is arranged in chronological
order by meeting dates.
SERIES
IV: CABINET COUNCIL ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, 1983 (5 folders; Box 3)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture meeting agendas,
meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: rural development strategy, rural electrification, agricultural
exports, and agricultural marketing production control orders. The material is
arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.
SERIES
V: CABINET COUNCIL ON HUMAN RESOURCES, 1982-1983 (0.1 l.ft.; Box 3)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Human Resources meeting agendas, meeting
minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: mandatory retirement ages, health care incentives, Medicare options,
drug abuse prevention, job sharing, child support, urban conditions and policy,
and the Depository Institution Holding Company Deregulation Act. The material is arranged in chronological
order by meeting dates.
SERIES
VI: CABINET COUNCIL ON LEGAL POLICY, 1982-1983 (0.2 l.ft.;Box 3-4)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy meeting agendas, meeting
minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers on the following
topics: civil rights policy, pension equity for women, antitrust issues, fair
housing, toxic torts, Intercircuit Tribunal proposal,
and fee cap legislation. The material is arranged in chronological order by
meeting dates.
SERIES
VII: CABINET COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION,
1982-1983
(0.1 l.ft.;
Box 4)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Management and Administration meeting
agendas, meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers
on the following topics: work space management, reports of Inspectors General
activities, real property reforms, federalism, capital formation, debt
collection, reduction-in-force reform, personnel incentive system reform,
procurement reform, and cash management.
The material is arranged in chronological order by meeting dates.
SERIES
VIII: CABINET COUNCIL ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT,
1982-1983
(0.2 l.ft.;
Box 4-5)
This series contains material
relating to the Cabinet Council on Management and Administration meeting
agendas, meeting minutes, participant lists and briefing and background papers
on the following topics: Synthetic Fuels Corporation, cost sharing for federal
water projects, Environmental Protection Agency legislation, environmental
speech, Clean Water Act reauthorization, nuclear licensing and regulatory
reform, the Clean Air Act, Outer Continental Shelf revenue sharing,
international population, international environmental issues, coal slurry
pipelines decision, and oil price declines. The material is arranged in
chronological order by meeting dates.
SERIES
IX: SUBJECT FILE, 1982-1983 (1.5 l.ft.; Box 5-8)
This series contains material
relating to the management, procedures, and structure of the Cabinet Council
system; a limited amount of monthly reports from agencies for 1983; yearly
accomplishments for agencies for 1982; a limited amount of planning matrixes
for Administration proposals; and the following topics: Freedom of Information Act amendments; Department
of Education reorganization; sunsetting the Civil
Aeronautics Board; status reports on computer support for White House offices;
issue alerts from the Environmental Protection Agency, acid rain; the Reagan
response to critics of the Administrations social policies (Fairness II
notebook); Federal labor-management relations; budget issues and budget
reviews; hazardous substances export policy; infanticide, problems for
independent oil producers; State dinner guests; the coal slurry pipeline, environmental
speech, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, food stamp regulatory reform; Outer
Continental Shelf revenue sharing; and merit system standards. The material is arranged alphabetically.
SERIES
X: CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, 1982 (l.ft., Box 9)
This series contains material
relating to chronological memos and letters with White House staff, her direct
supervisor, Craig Fuller, agency staff, Congress and the general public. There are two sets of chronological
correspondence. One is arranged by date
and the second is arranged by date and alphabetical. This series contains a
significant amount of material indicating Dunlop was continuing her work to
place conservatives within the Reagan administration while working in Cabinet
Affairs.
Container
List
Box 1
SERIES I: CABINET
Cabinet Meeting 07/15/1982
Cabinet Meeting 07/20/1982
Cabinet Meeting 01/13/1983
Cabinet Meeting 01/31/1983
Cabinet Meeting 02/02/1983
Cabinet Meeting 03/24/1983
Cabinet Meeting 04/21/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Time 01/31/1983
Cabinet Time 05/12/1983
Cabinet Time 05/18/1983
Cabinet Time 05/24/1983
Cabinet Time 01/31/1983
Cabinet Time 06/01/1983
Cabinet Time 06/06/1983
SERIES II: CABINET COUNCIL ON COMMERCE AND TRADE
Box
1, cont.
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 07/21/1982
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 08/11/1982
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 12/15/1982
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 12/17/1982
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 12/21/1982
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 02/02/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 02/16/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 02/22/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 03/10/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 03/23/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 03/30/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 04/06/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 04/13/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 04/20/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 05/04/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 06/01/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 06/30/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 07/12/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 05/04/1983
Cabinet Council on Commerce and
Trade 05/04/1983
Minutes for CCCT Meetings
11/08/1982, 11/09/1982 and 11/19/1982
Minutes for CCCT Meetings
02/22/1983 (Revised), 03/02/1983 and 04/06/1983
Box 2
SERIES III: CABINET COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 03/29/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 05/27/1982 Paper on Exchange Rates
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/01/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/03/1982 Paper on Unemployment Insurance
Benefits
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 07/13/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 07/27/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 07/29/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 08/06/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 08/10/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 08/12/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 11/02/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 11/10/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 11/17/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 11/18/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 11/23/1982
Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs
01/04/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 01/11/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 01/11/1983 [Cancelled]
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 01/12/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 01/21/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 02/04/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 02/08/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 02/09/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 02/10/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 02/22/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs
02/25/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 03/15/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 03/22/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 03/24/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 03/29/1983
Box 3
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 04/05/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 04/12/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 04/14/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 04/21/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 04/26/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 05/12/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/02/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/21/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/22/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/24/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 06/30/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 07/05/1983
Cabinet Council on Economic
Affairs 07/07/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
10/24/1982 and 11/09/1982
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
11/02/1982, 11/10/1982, 11/16/1982, 11/17/1982 and
11/18/1982
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
11/30/1982 and 12/07/1982
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
12/17/1982 and 12/21/1982
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
02/08/1983 and 02/09/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
03/22/1983, 03/24/1983 and 03/29/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
04/12/1983, 04/14/1983 and 04/21/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
05/24/1983 and 06/02/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
05/12/1983, 05/19/1983, 05/26/1983, 06/07/1983 and
06/09/1983
Minutes for CCEA Meetings
06/21/1983 and 06/22/1983
SERIES IV: CABINET COUNCIL ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Box
3, cont.
Cabinet Council on Food and
Agriculture 01/17/1983
Cabinet Council on Food and
Agriculture 02/23/1983
Cabinet Council on Food and
Agriculture 02/28/1983
Cabinet Council on Food and
Agriculture 04/08/1983
Minutes of CCFA Meetings
12/07/1982 and 12/08/1982
SERIES V: CABINET COUNCIL ON HUMAN RESOURCES
Box
3, cont.
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
03/30/1982
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
01/04/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
01/26/1983
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
04/26/1983
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
05/03/1983
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
05/11/1983
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
05/13/1983
Cabinet Council on Human Resources
07/07/1983
SERIES VI: CABINET COUNCIL ON LEGAL POLICY
Box
3, cont.
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
09/30/1982
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
10/18/1982
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
01/26/1983
Box 4
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
02/10/1983 (1)(3)
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
03/24/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
05/19/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Legal Policy
06/20/1983
SERIES VII: CABINET COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION
Box
4, cont.
Cabinet Council on Management
and Administration 12/01/1982
Cabinet Council on Management
and Administration 12/23/1982 (1)(4)
Cabinet Council on Management
and Administration 01/12/1983
Cabinet Council on Management
and Administration 01/21/1983 (1)-(3)
Cabinet Council on Management
and Administration 04/28/1983
Minutes of CCMA Meetings
01/12/1983 and 01/21/1983
SERIES VIII: CABINET COUNCIL ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND
ENVIRONMENT
Box
4, cont.
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - General
Minutes of CCNRE Meetings
12/03/1982 and 12/08/1982
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 01/18/1983
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 01/28/1983
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 02/09/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 03/01/1983
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 03/09/1983
Box 5
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 03/25/1983 (1)(2)
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 04/07/1983
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 05/05/1983
Cabinet Council on Natural Resources
and Environment - 05/12/1983
SERIES IX: SUBJECT FILE
Box
5, cont.
1983 Administration Freedom of
Information Act Amendment
Birch Bayh
(Empty)
[Briefing on the Cabinet
Council on Management and Administration, 01/11/1983
Attendance List]
[Cabinet Council Background
Information]
[Cabinet Council News
Clippings]
Cabinet Council Procedures
Cabinet Resumes (1)(2)
Calendar of Events
[Civil Aeronautics Board-Sunsetting]
Coal Slurry Pipelines (CM #121)
Computer Information (1)-(3)
Department of Education
Reorganization
Enterprise Zones (Empty Folder)
Environment Speech Proposals
Environmental Issues (Empty)
Box 6
[Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Acid Rain, Clean Air, Clean Water
Issues] (1)(2)
[Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Issue Alerts] (Notebook) (1)-(6)
[Environmental Protection
Agencys Proposed Ground Water Policy State
Department Comments]
[Fairness II Briefing Book] (1)-(7)
Federal Employees Health Benefits
(Empty)
[Federal Labor-Management
Relations Program]
FY1984 Spring Review - Bailout
Proposals (Binder) (1)
Box 7
FY1984 Spring Review - Bailout
Proposals (Binder) (2)(3)
FY 1984 Spring Review Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (Binder) (1)(2)
FY 1984 Spring Review - Major Litigation (Binder)
(1)-(4)
FY 1984 Spring Review - Management
Initiatives / Health (Binder) (1)-(3)
Food Stamp Regulatory Reform
[Handicapped Infants
Infanticide Issues] (1)(2)
Hazardous Substances Export
Policy (1)-(5)
Infanticide (1)(2)
Box 8
Immigration (Empty)
Independent Oil Producers
Intergovernmental Advisory Council
on Education (Empty)
Labor Negotiations (Empty)
[Monthly Accomplishments, May
1983, June 1983]
[National Commission for
Employment Policy]
[National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) Consultant Letter]
Outer Continental Shelf
Decision Memo May 1983
Overseas Private Investment
Corporation
[PAS Mailing List, 03/18/1983]
(1)(2)
Presidential Documents (Empty)
Presidential Messages (Empty)
Presidential Speaker (Empty)
[Press Releases, February 1983]
1981 Proposed Changes to
Freedom of Information Act (1)-(3)
Proposed Final Rules for Merit
System Standards [Cabinet Council on Human
Resources] November 1982
Senate Presidential Letter to
Senators John Heinz, Howard Baker, Jesse Helm, S. I.
(Sam) Hayakawa Regarding Abortion, 09/07/1982
[State Dinner Guests]
[State Dinner Invitees Name
List Service, 08/11/1982] (1)-(3)
[State Dinners Not Invited
Name List Service 12/20/1982]
Synfuels Corporation (empty)
[U.S. Trade Representative
Planning Matrix, 01/24/1983]
[Year End Reports, CY 1982] (1)-(4)
SERIES X: CHRONOLOGICAL FILES
Box 9
Chrons,
04/01/1982-05/17/1982
Chrons,
05/18/1982-06/15/1982
Chrons,
06/16/1982-09/13/1982
Alpha Chrons
July 1982-October 1982, A-F
Alpha Chrons
July 1982-October 1982, G-L
Alpha Chrons
July 1982-October 1982, Mc-Q
Alpha Chrons
July 1982-October 1982, R-Z