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...Chapman is apparently as-tonished that the pre-luncheon briefing left me underwhelmed with all that the administration is doing on behalf of families...
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...Chapman finds me mistaken in my identification of one guest at the president's luncheon and amplifies the credentials of two others, I don't think he addresses the point I made, namely that if this had been intended as a serious discussion occupying the valu- able time of the nation's president and his closest advisers, "you might have as-sembled a more signficant group of child and family experts than the curious col- lection you invited to the White House...
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...Winn: Your "open letter" on the recent luncheon you attended with the president was wrong in three ways...
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...Ernest Green of the NAACP, for another example, was in- vited not because he is a partner in a Washington consulting firm, but because he is helping to organize a forthcoming Black Family Summit...
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...I am, however, happy to belatedly learn that the luncheon was officially desig- nated "offthe record...
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...To the Editors: I hope you will consider publishing this "Open Response" to the "Open Letter" written by Marie Winn [March 9] on the White House luncheon with President Reagan to discuss families...
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