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- after the Communist takeover. He was director of the State Department's Office of Western European Affairs in Washington from 1953 to 1957. In 1958 he was appointed Ambassador to Libya, and he served as Ambassador to Peru from 1963 to 1969.
Donnelley, Dixon
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- and agriculture specialist to Senator George McGovern, 1975-1980; Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980-1989
- LBJ Connection: Journalist; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-1966, 1969-1970; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1966-1969
- Bio: Harry W. Frantz (1891-1982) was the Press Director of the Office of Inter-American Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1941 to 1944, and Information Officer to the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republics from 1944 to 1945
Packer, Leo S., 1920-
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- Bio: Leo S. Packer (b. 1920) was an engineering executive, diplomat and consultant. He served as Assistant Postmaster General for Research and Engineering at the U.S. Postal Service from 1966 to 1969; director of technology policy and space affairs
- , and a member of the faculty of the Research Institute in Communist Affairs, 1960 to 1962. He was promoted to full professor in 1962, and became director of the Research Institute in Communist Affairs (later the Research Institute on International Change
- LBJ Connection: Professor and author; member, Policy Planning Council, State Department, 1966-1968
- the inauguration, he was appointed to the Treasury Department as Special Assistant to the Secretary, then Assistant to the Secretary (1961-1963), and finally Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Affairs (1963-1969). In these roles, he coordinated
- LBJ Connection: Assistant to Senator Paul H. Douglas; Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Banking and Urban Affairs; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
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- service, Rusk first entered the political sphere as the chief of the U.S. State Department's Division of International Security Affairs. Between 1946 and 1952 he held the following appointive positions: Special Assistant to the Secretary of War from 1946
- Bio: William Kahn Leonhart (1919-1997), diplomat and government official, was a graduate of the University of West Virginia and Princeton University. As a Foreign Service Officer, Leonhart worked at the State Department from 1944 to 1965 and from
- , and was Executive Secretary of the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1962. He served as National Security Affairs Adviser at the Department of the Treasury from 1962 to 1966, Executive Director of the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service from 1966 to 1967
- for Germany, Civil Administrative Division, in Berlin, Germany, as chief of elections and political parties branch, from 1946 to 1948; with the Department of State as chief of division of research for Western Europe, from 1948 to 1955. He was director
- LBJ Connection: Director, Election Research Center, Governmental Affairs Institute; Director, Bureau of the Census, Commerce Department, 1955-1961
- Office of the U.S. Department of Treasury from 1933 to 1935. As a government official, he also served in the Lend Lease Administration, which later became the Foreign Economic Administration, from 1942 to 1944). From 1944 to 1945, he was Director
Shelton, Isabelle, 1916-1993
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- later moved to the city desk, where she covered transportation issues that included development of the Metrorail system. She left the Star in 1980 to work for a year at the new U.S. Department of Education as a special assistant to Liz Carpenter
- . In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Dillon ambassador to France, a position he held until 1957. Upon his return to the United States, Dillon served in the State Department as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs from 1958 to 1959
- for the U.S. State Department during the mid-1920's and served as Director of Information for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1928 until 1942, when he was named director of the War Relocation Authority. In that capacity Eisenhower oversaw the forced
- LBJ Connection: President, Johns Hopkins University, 1956-1967, 1971-1972; member, President’s Commission on Government Organization, 1953-1960; Special Ambassador, Latin American Affairs, 1953, 1957-1960; Chairman, National Commission on the Causes
- at the difficult Paris Embassy for President John F. Kennedy and one year as deputy under secretary of state for political affairs, concluding over 40 years of service with the State Department.
- LBJ Connection: Career diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to U.S.S.R., 1953-1957; to the Philippines, 1957-1959; to France, 1962-1967; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1968-1969
- was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1953 and was assigned to the Psychological Warfare Center at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Maguire also served in Europe, and remained there after his release from the Army to work for the Department of State on the U.S
- LBJ Connection: Staff Assistant to the President. Worked on speech preparation, Cabinet affairs.
- Bio: Robert Clifton Weaver was born on December 29, 1907, in Washington, D.C. Weaver received his B.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Throughout the New Deal era, Weaver served as an advisor on minority affairs in a number
Goulding, Phil G.
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1947-1965; Deputy Assisant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965-1967; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1967-1969
- Bio: William Putnam Bundy (1917-2000) served on the Central Intelligence Agency's National Board of Estimates from 1951 to 1961, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs from 1961 to 1963, and was Assistant
- LBJ Connection: CIA, 1951-1961; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1963-1964; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, 1964-1969
Zorthian, Barry, 1920-2010
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- LBJ Connection: Program Manager, Voice of America, 1958-1961; Deputy Public Affairs Officer, India, USIS, 1961-1964; Public Affairs Officer, South Vietnam, 1964-1965; Director, Joint United States Public Affairs Office, Saigon, 1965-1969
- Bio: Robert Frederick Allnutt (b. 1935) worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1960 to 1970 and 1978 to 1983. He was Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs from 1967 to 1970, Associate Deputy Administrator
- LBJ Connection: NASA Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs, 1960 to 1970
Kramer, Herbert J.
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- LBJ Connection: Director of Public Affairs, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1968
Louchheim, Katie
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- LBJ Connection: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1966-1969; Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Frankel, Charles
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- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1965-1967
Furness, Betty, 1916-
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- LBJ Connection: Actress; Model; Television spokesperson for Westinghouse; Consumer Affairs expert for Today Show for 16 years
- LBJ Connection: Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, 1965-1969
Chartener, William H.
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- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs; President, National Association of Business Economists, 1967-1968
Weaver, George L.P.
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- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, 1963-1969
Davis, Nathaniel
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- LBJ Connection: Assistant to Walt W. Rostow, Special Assistant to National Security Affairs
Chapman, Ray, 1899-1964
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- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
Verkler, Jerry T.
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- LBJ Connection: Staff Director, Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, 1963-1974
Blaustein, Arthur I., 1933-
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- Bio: Arthur I. Blaustein (b. 1933) served on the staff of Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1964. He was the director of the Legislative and Public Affairs and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, Northeast Region
- LBJ Connection: Legislative and Public Affairs and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, Northeast Region, 1965-1966; Director of Inter-Agency Coordination and Inter-governmental Affairs for the Northeast Region, 1966
- Bio: William Samuel Livingston was an educator from Ohio who served as the chairman of the planning committee for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and held a number of leadership positions at the University of Texas.
- LBJ Connection: Member, planning committee for the LBJ School of Public Affairs
Fried, Edward R.
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- LBJ Connection: National Security Council Adviser for International Monetary Affairs and Western European Affairs, 1967-1969. He worked primarily with Western Europe, NATO, balance of payments, and international trade, including East-West trade.
Palmer, Joseph, II
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- Bio: (1914-1994) Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Nairobi, 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1960-1964; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1966-1969; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, 1969
- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1966-1969
- as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from 1963 to 1964, and was a member of the National Security Council staff from 1964 to 1966.
- LBJ Connection: Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State, 1961; Special Assistant to the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs, 1961-1963; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1963-1965
Busby, Horace W.
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- LBJ Connection: Special Assistant to President Johnson on Appointments; Cabinet Secretary and Speechwriter, 1963-1965; National Security Affairs and Preparedness, 1964.
- LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961-1965; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1965-1969
Sweeney, John L.
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- LBJ Connection: Federal Co-Chairman, Appalachian Regional Commission, 1965-1967; Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Public Affairs