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Washington Office, 1983-1990
The Washington Office, 1983-1990 series consists of twenty-one linear feet of correspondence, memoranda, budget materials, reports, testimony before Congress, legislation, and topical files which document fairly the office's efforts to protect Michigan's interests in budgetary, economic, employment, environmental, and human services issues. The materials are arranged in five subseries according to the person who created or used the record: E. Douglas Frost (Director), Rosemary Freeman (Assistant Director), James Callow (Analyst), Maura Cullen (Analyst), and Peter Kyriacopolous (Analyst). Within these subseries, there are some materials generated by the legislative analysts who predated them: Jane Snowden who preceded Cullen, and Charlie Moses and Jo Ellen D'Arcy who worked before Kyriacopolous. In each of these subseries only those records generated, created, or acted upon by the staffer have been retained; for the most part reference and "for your information" files have been removed.
E. Douglas Frost (Director), 1983-1990
The E. Douglas Frost (Director) subseries consists of nine linear feet of materials of four general types: budgets, correspondence, materials related to the National Governors' Association, and topical. The budgets are first arranged chronologically by fiscal year and then from most finished product (published Executive Budgets) to least finished product (background materials and analyses). Other budget materials can be found in the Chief of Staff/ Executive Assistant series in the files of Steve Weiss and Carolyn Sparks. The chronological record of correspondence and the incoming log are the day-to-day records of the office and provide cursory insight into its activities. The National Governors' Association (NGA) materials document the involvement of Blanchard and the Washington Office in attempting to hammer out a workable compromise between Reagan's new federalism, the needs of the constituents of various states, and constrained states' revenues. The issues discussed at the annual meetings of the NGA permeated the body politic during the 1980s and apparently will dominate the political agenda of the 1990s and shape federal and state relations into the twenty-first century. The topical files provide the researcher with a quick fix on the range of issues dealt with by the Washington Office; for more detailed coverage, the researcher should consult the relevant materials in the legislative analysts' files. The strengths of Frost's topical files inhere in their coverage of Congress and the superconducting super collider.