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Magnuson, Warren Grant, 1905-1989 (Item)
  • in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944
Feldman, Myer, 1914-2007 (Item)
  • Bio: Myer Feldman, also Mike Feldman, (b. Jun 22, 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. March 1, 2007, Bethesda, Maryland) held the post of Deputy Special Counsel to the President throughout the Kennedy administration. He served with Assistant Special
Gammon, Samuel Rhea, III, 1924 (Item)
  • joined the Foreign Service in 1954 and was posted in Palermo and Milan and at the State Department. In 1962 and 1963, he was officer in charge of Italian affairs. From 1963 to 1967, he was principal officer, then consul general, in Asmara. From 1967
Rosenblatt, Peter Ronald, 1933 (Item)
  • was assistant to Special Assistant to the President Robert W. Komer. In 1968 and 1969, he was Judicial Officer and Chairman of the Board of Contract Appeals at the U.S. Post Office Department. From 1969 to 1971, he was corporate vice president and director
Sparks, William Russell, 1924-1987 (Item)
  • and wrote extensively for magazines, including Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post and The Atlantic Monthly.
Roche, Charles D., 1927-1993 (Item)
  • for the Napier Company in Meriden, Connecticut. In 1950, he took a job as a reporter editor for the Post Publishing Company in Boston, and left in 1956 to become a reporter editor for the Herald Traveler Corporation in Boston. He joined President Kennedy's
Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903-1996 (Item)
  • district judge in Austin, serving for five years in that post. From 1943 to 1946, Yarborough served in the Army ground forces in Europe and Japan, rising to lieutenant colonel. He was elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 1957, serving until 1971. Senator
Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985 (Item)
  • placement of Japanese-Americans into internment camps, a policy decision he later termed as an "inhuman mistake"; he served in that post for only three months. During the 1950's and 1960's he was U.S. ambassador to Latin America. During his career he also
Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990 (Item)
  • by President Johnson to resign his seat on the court to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In that post, he clashed with Johnson over the course of the Vietnam War. He resigned from the ambassadorship in 1968.
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988 (Item)
  • Newspaper Alliance and was later editor-at-large of the Saturday Evening Post. For a number of years he wrote a syndicated column, "Take It or Leave It," which appeared three times a week.
Taylor, Hobart, Jr., 1920-1981 (Item)
  • , Plans for Progress, which promoted equal employment opportunities for people of color among 300 firms. In 1965 President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed him director of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (1965-1968). In this post he helped
Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981 (Item)
  • Affairs Committee, where he spent much of his energy in the post-World War II and cold war eras. Foreign affairs, like his New Deal legal work, satisfied a need in him for "ministry." It was a political form of missionary work. Hays was a deeply