145. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Aaron) to the Director of the International Communication Agency (Reinhardt)1
SUBJECT
- Humphrey Scholarships
As the attached indicates, the President has approved the proposal for a Hubert Humphrey North-South Scholarship program.2 Please [Page 411] provide a brief report to the NSC on the implementation of this program, and specifically include the following:
1. Brief talking points for the President to use in the announcement of the program.
2. A plan for relating to the U.S. universities which will be involved in this program and include a list of those universities.
3. A draft set of instructions to our embassies and/or binational commissions on the method of selection of the scholars.
4. A suggested plan for relating to the Institute of International Education on the placement and supervision of these scholars.
5. A more detailed proposal for the summer workshop on North-South issues.
Please coordinate with the National Security Council and provide this report by August 10, 1978.3
- Source: Carter Library, White House Central Files, Subject File, Foreign Affairs, Information-Exchange Activities-Educational, Executive, Box FO–35, FO 5–1 6/1/78–1/31/79. No classification marking.↩
- Not printed is a July 31 memorandum from the President to Reinhardt indicating that Carter had approved the Humphrey Scholarship Program and directing Reinhardt to implement the program under the authority of the Fulbright–Hays Act.↩
- In an August 10 memorandum to Aaron, Reinhardt responded to Aaron’s request. (Ibid.)↩