Office of the Historian

119. Memorandum From Robert Pastor of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski)1

Washington, January 18, 1978

SUBJECT

  • North-South Scholarships: A Tribute to Senator Hubert Humphrey

In a memo to you in October,2 I sketched the idea for a North-South Scholarship, and you instructed me to staff it out and then write a memo from you to the President on it.

I have held a couple of meetings on the proposal with Tom Thornton, Guy Erb, Christian Chapman from State’s Cultural Affairs Bureau, John Richardson, former Assistant Secretary of State, and Phil Dussault from OMB. After reviewing suggestions, I revised the proposal, held another smaller meeting, re-wrote it again, and the product is attached at Tab A.3

CU is not as enthusiastic as they might be, but Tom tells me that is to be expected. But NSC Staff—Tom, Guy, Henry, and I—are all very enthusiastic, and we believe that the idea should be seized this week because it really is a Hubert Humphrey Memorial.4

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RECOMMENDATION

Therefore, we recommend that you forward the memo at Tab I5 and the proposal at Tab A to the President. Tom Thornton, Guy Erb, and Henry Richardson concur.6

  1. Source: Carter Library, White House Central Files, Subject File, Foreign Affairs, Information-Exchange Activities-Education, Executive, Box FO–35, FO 5–1 1/20/77–5/31/78. No classification marking. Sent for action. Pastor signed “Bob” next to his name in the “from” line. Inderfurth initialed the top right-hand corner of the memorandum.↩
  2. See Document 98.↩
  3. Not printed is an undated paper entitled “North-South Scholarships: A Proposal.”↩
  4. Humphrey died from cancer on January 13.↩
  5. Not printed is a January 24 memorandum from Brzezinski to the President, transmitting the undated paper on the scholarship proposal (see footnote 3, above).↩
  6. Bob Hunter concurs, and adds three suggestions: a) that, if the President approves, he call Muriel Humphrey at an appropriate point; b) that we consider using the new Humphrey Institute of Politics as the administering agency; and c) that we act quickly, before someone on the Hill introduces something like this. [Footnote is in the original. Thornton, Erb, and Richardson all initialed their concurrence. Next to the recommendation, Aaron wrote: “ZB—I think it is a great idea! DA.” An unknown hand also wrote below the recommendation: “ZB signed 1–24–78.]↩