9 MARCH 1977 CEREMONIES

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DDA 77-1309
8 March 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: DCI-Designate
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy to the DCI for the Intelligence
Community
FROM ?
? John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT ?
? 9 March 1977 Ceremonies
1. This memorandum contains the facts as they are
known at 1500 hours on Tuesday, 8 March 1977, concerning
the ceremonies planned in connection with Admiral Turner's
swearing-in on Wednesday, 9 March. It is written in a
time-sequential fashion.
2. The sequence of events are as follows:
a. Admiral Turner's luncheon commences
at 1230 hours. A corsage will be left with
lof Admiral Turner's Office for
mrs. lurner.
b. Presidential Party departs White
House at 1300 hours.
c. I 1DCI Protective
Staff, will come to the Executive Dining
Room to get Admiral Turner in time for him
to go to the front entrance to meet the
President.
d. Mr. Jack Watson and Mr. Dan Lee,
White House Advance Party, will enter the
building with the President.
e. We have been asked to give no
advanced information to employees that the
President is arriving at approximately 1320
hours.
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e. The President will enter the
south main entrance door. He will walk
through a cordoned area against the south
wall up to the main first floor, turn
left, and walk along a cordoned area
against the east wall to the south elevator
bank. The Presidential Party will take the
elevator to the seventh floor and proceed
directly to the Director's Conference Room.
There will be a total of 42 people in the
Director's Conference Room. This will
include the President; 18 Community
representatives to include Admirals Turner and
Murphy and Mr. Knoche; 8 Agency representatives
(the four Deputy Directors, Inspector General,
General Counsel, Legislative Counsel and
the Assistant to the Director); 12 National
Intelligence Officers; and Messrs. Jack Watson,
Dan Lee and
f. At such time as the Presidential
briefing gets underway, Admiral Turner's aides
and security personnel will start to have the
luncheon guests move to the Auditorium. They
will use the north elevator bank and enter the
Auditorium through the "tunnel".
g. It is suggested that Admiral Turner
try to bring the briefing to a close no later
than 1410 hours. At this time, Admiral Turner
and the President should adjourn to his Office.
The rest of the party in the Director's
Conference Room will then go to the north
elevator bank and enter the Auditg.cium through
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Turner and the Pres dent when they should leave
his Office. They will go down the seventh floor
corridor to the south elevator bank and take the
elevator to the first floor. The President and
Admiral Turner will then walk the entire length
of the first floor corridor in a cordoned area
against the east wall. It is possible that the
President may stop opposite the main foyer to
say a few words. In any event, the President
and Admiral Turner will go to the north end of
the first floor corridor and turn right. They
will then go through the tunnel to the Auditorium.
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i. Upon entering the Auditorium, they
will take the first aisle to their right to
approach the stage.
j. At such time as the President and
Admiral Turner are seated, Mr. Knoche will
approach the rostrum, acknowledge the presence
of the President and Associate Justice Byron
White, and ask the swearing-in party to move
forward. Their places will have been marked
on the stage by the White House Advance Party.
k. Immediately upon taking the oath,
Admiral Turner will move to the rostrum and
speak briefly.
1. Admiral Turner will then introduce
the President who will then make his remarks.
m. Upon the conclusion of the President's
remarks, the President will depart from the same
side he entered the stage, turn immediately hard
right, cross the front row and shake hands with
members of Admiral Turner's family.
n. The Presidential Party will then
depart by that aisle at the opposite end from
which they departed the stage.
o. The President will enter his limousine
upon departing the Auditorium and leave the
compound.
3. After the distinguished guests are seated on the
stage and before the President and Admiral Turner have
arrived, an announcement will be made that the invited guests
of Admiral Turner to the reception should depart by the stairs
in the lobby of the Auditorium. There will be signs directing
them to the Rendezvous Room.
4. For Mr. Knoche: Fred Janney, Director of Personnel,
is a personal friend of Justice and Mrs. White. He will
greet them, as well as Mrs. Knoche, as they depart the Execu-
tive Dining Room at approximately 1330 hours. He will then
take them to the Operations Center, the Library, the Signal
Center, and the Directors' Portrait Gallery. Following that
he will escort them to the Auditorium.
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5. One other thing for Mr. Knoche. It is understood
that you and Mrs. Knoche will greet Justice and Mrs. White
at the main entrance of the building at approximately 1230
hours.
John F. Blake
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DDA 77-1258
Executive Registry
7 March 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
FROM
? ? John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
Hank:
1. This memorandum is designed to bring you up to
speed on matters pertaining to Wednesday's swearing-in
ceremony.
2. Attached is a memorandum I sent to Admiral Turner
on 2 March concerning the sequence of events. I have
annotated it along the side to bring it up to date.
3. There is also attached for your information a
copy of the stage seating chart.
4. I would suggest for your consideration that you
meet in the lobby and escort to the stage Justice Byron
White.
5. I have listened to the tape of the Ford/Bush
ceremony. General Walters did not speak but Mr. Colby
did go to the rostrum immediately upon the President
being seated and said the following words:
"Mr. President, I present to you an
intelligence agency and community of dedicated
professionals. Despite the turmoil and the
tumult of this past year, they have continued
to produce the best intelligence in the world.
I am sure they will give Mr. Bush the same
loyal support that they have given me over
these years. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Presi-
dent of the United States."
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Perhaps you would like to say something along the following:
"Mr. President, the leadership and person-
nel of all Intelligence Community agencies are
here present today to observe you witness the
Oath of Office being administered to Admiral
Stansfield Turner. Community personnel are
among the most dedicated in the Federal Service
and you should be assured that they will give
the same loyal support to Admiral Turner as they
have to all previous Directors. Ladies and
Gentlemen, the President of the United States."
6. I queried Dan Lee, the senior White House Advance man,
if it would not be appropriate for all those on the stage to
follow the ?President through the tunnel ?and into the building.
He states they prefer not to do this. He claims it makes a
handling problem for both the Advance Party and the U.S. Secret
Service. Their standard practice is to have only the agency
head accompany the President. In this connection I would
suggest that when all are seated on the stage, and prior to
the arrival of the President, you mention that the President
and Admiral Turner will use the tunnel and you will lead all
other guests out the front door over to and into the main
entrance of the building.
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John F. Blake
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IExecutive ilzgiatry
2 March 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Admiral Stansfield Turner
FROM
SUBJECT
? ? John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
Sir:
Swearing-In Ceremony
1. This memorandum is designed to make you aware
of the essential points concerning matters on 9 March
bearing on your swearing-in ceremony. I have arranged
the material sequentially. Refinement of the planning
continues on a day-by-day basis and, in certain cases,
we will need decisions from you.
2. In a sequential sense the matters involved are
as follows:
a. There will be approximately 56
people at the luncheon in the Executive
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Dining Room. has issued
them invitations in your name. All accep-
tances have not been received as yet.
Your cable of 26 February 1977 suggested
"8-10 personal staff".
and myself interpreted this to mean
Mr. E. H. Knochel
b. The Presidential Party is due to
leave the White House at 2:00 p.m.
c. On both the printed invitations and
the admittance tickets we have stated the
ceremony commences at 2:15 p.m. and have
asked people to be seated by 1:45 p.m. Our
experience, because of our somewhat isolated
location, is that more than the average number
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informed by the U.S. Secret Service
that the President shows tendencies
to arrive early.
d. The Presidential Party is
to arrive between 2:20 and 2:25 p.m.
e. It is your preference as to
who greets and escorts the President to
the stage. On a similar occasion, Mr.
Bush alone met President Ford and
escorted him. Other individuals had
already taken their seats on the stage.
f. Upon you and the President
being seated, Mr. Knoche will take the
rostrum, identify the nature of the
ceremony, and request the swearing-in
party to move forward.
g
Your remarks will then follow.
h. The President's remarks will
follow.
i. The Presidential Party will
then depart the Auditorium and head to
the entry foyer of the Headquarters
Building. It is the current thinking of
the White House Staff that the President
will walk through a centrally-roped area
and shake hands on both sides of the
aisle. They do not envision the President
saying any words to the employees in the
lobby who will have already heard the
Auditorium ceremonies piped in by live
audio.
Admiral Turner,
alone, will escort
the President.
Advance Party wants
President to travel
from Auditorium to
Building through
tunnel.
j. The White House Staff expects
the Presidential Party to depart the area
at 3:00 p.m.
k. The invited guests for the
reception will proceed to the Rendezvous
Room. I will comment on this below.
1. The reception is concluded.
3. The Rendezvous Room is located on the south side
of the first floor of the Headquarters Building. It is
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used as a sit-down restaurant at lunch time. It is
attractive in decor and quite spacious. The number of
people attending the reception, currently estimated
somewhere near 100, cannot be accommodated with any
degree of comfort in the Executive Dining Room. The
Rendezvous Room can easily accommodate up to 200 people.
4. There remains to be decided your desire to
have all heads of the Intelligence Community agencies
seated on the stage during the ceremonies in the
Auditorium. I am having prepared some sets of graphics
to acquaint you with the strict constraints of space
on the stage. We will endeavor to get these to you by
Friday, 4 March, to acquaint you in more detail with
the problem.
5. The ceremony will be recorded by both film and Foreign
video coverage. The issue of admittance of foreign Press
press has not yet been decided by the White House. There is
will be a corsage for Mrs. Turner. coming.
6. The proration of seats in the Auditorium, at
this time, will be as follows. The figures will be
altered slightly as we obtain additional information as
to who is coming from the White House and as we receive
notification of acceptances:
Intelligence Community 210 These figures
Central Intelligence Agency 140 have changed
Press 58 slightly.
Family and Personal Guests 42
Congress 22
We are counting against a total of 499 and have, at this
time, left ourselves a little slack. If no other demands
come for that slack, we will evenly distribute it between
the Intelligence Community and the Agency.
F. Lake
John F. Blake
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REMARKS FOR SWEARING-IN CEREMONY
Mr. President, Mr. Justice White, Distinguished Guests,
Members of the Intelligence Community of the United States.
Mr. President, I want to thank you for your confidence
in entrusting me with the responsibility of guiding the
Intelligence Community of our nation. I pledge to you my
every effort in so doing. From my years of association with
our Intelligence Community as a user of the products of
intelligence, I feel confident that I can also pledge you
the every effort of these professional men and women of our
Intelligence Community in attempting to provide you that
objective intelligence which you require to guide the course
of our country.
Men and Women of the Intelligence Community: I ask
your full loyalty and support. I pledge to you my full
loyalty and my every effort to provide you the opportunity
to exercise your professional skills to the best advantage
of our country. It is now my great honor to introduce to
you the President of the United States, The Honorable
Jimmy Carter.
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