    RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL  (TRP NOTES MAIL)

    CREATOR: Elaine C. Kamarck ( CN=Elaine C. Kamarck/O=OVP [ OVP ] )

    CREATION DATE/TIME:24-FEB-1997 19:00:40.00

    SUBJECT:  POTUS lunch memo

    TO: Debbie B Bengtson ( CN=Debbie B Bengtson/O=OVP @ OVP [ OVP ] )
    READ:UNKNOWN

    TEXT:
    1) Some time ago the President gave you a memo from Paul London suggesting

    that NPR get involved in reinventing how we collect the economic data that

    goes into the CPI. What he means by that is using more business data,

    getting it electronically and privatizing some of the data collection.  I

    fear that our involvement along these lines would look like the political

    interference in statistical collection (nearly as sensitive as the IRS)

    and that it would never pass the smell test.  This would be much more

    trouble than its worth.

    2) Attached is a summary of what federal government employees are doing

    to promote literacy.  Have a look at the administrative leave policy.

    Most agencies seem to have adopted a school.  Given that the federal

    agencies are the District's "business sector" they could probably do much

    more.