90. Memorandum From Paul Henze of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski)1

SUBJECT

  • Evening Report—28 September 1977

Daily Activities:

[Omitted here is information unrelated to public diplomacy.]

Spent an hour with John Reinhardt at his request this morning so that he could bring me up to date on where reorganization planning stands. USIA and State have worked out a series of documents with OMB which are now nearing final form. The basic plan should be ready for presentation to Congress next month and will be accompanied by a carefully worked out Presidential message.2 There are a couple of issues yet to be resolved. I will discuss these with OMB and provide you with a report in a few days.3

Also took advantage of meeting with Reinhardt to brief him on aspects of my recent visit to the Horn which are relevant to USIA and its mission.4 Will also give you some notes on this subject in the next few days, because the magnitude of pro-American sentiment and orientation which exists in “socialist” Ethiopia today is a tribute to 30 years of USIA work there and to various other aspects of U.S. public and private cultural exchange efforts. We get enormous mileage out of this sort of thing over time—and should therefore be giving it more emphasis—i.e. more money—than present programs provide for.

[Omitted here is information unrelated to public diplomacy.]

  1. Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, Horn/Special (Henze), Box 5, Evening Reports File: 7–10/77. Secret.
  2. See Document 93.
  3. See footnote 3, Document 91.
  4. Documentation on Henze’s September trip to the Horn of Africa is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1977–1980, vol. XVII, Africa.