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McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-
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- Relations Committee, 1965; unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, 1968; senior editor at Simon and Schuster, New York City 1973; author
- Bio: John William Gardner (1912-2002) was vice president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1949 to 1955, and president of the Carnegie Corporation from 1955 to 1965. He was a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Education in 1960
- Bio: (1891-1986) Chairman of the Board, Union Pacific Railroad, 1932-1942; Chairman, business advisory council, Deparment of Commerce, 1937-1939; Governor, New York, 1954-1958; Ambassador at Large, 1965-1968; Under Secretary of State for Political
- Bio: Theodore Martin Hesburgh, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, (b. May 25, 1917, Syracuse, New York-d. February 26, 2015, Notre Dame, Indiana) was president of the University of Notre Dame for thirty-five years. He served as Chairman
Kennedy, Vann
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- Bio: (1905- ) Bureau manager for the International News Service at Austin; newspaper correspondent; Secretary of the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee, 1930s and 1940s; President and General Manager of Corpus Christi television station
Cowles, Fleur, 1910-2009
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- Bio: Fleur Fenton Cowles (b. February 13, 1910, New York-d. June 5, 2009, Sussex, England) wrote more than ten books, including an authorized biography of Salvador Dali (The Case of Salvador Dali, 1959), and won international fame as a surrealist
- Bio: Michael V. DiSalle was born January 6, 1908, in New York City. He was a democratic politician best remembered as mayor of Toledo, Ohio, from 1948 to 1950, director of the Office of Price Stabilization under President Harry S. Truman from 1950
- of Mutual Savings Banks, New York, 1957
- Bio: Marguerite Pate Sadler, also known as Mrs. Wade Sadler (b. April 22, 1915, Moody, Texas-d. July 22, 1991, Gatesville, Texas), collected news clippings of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1948 Senate campaign. She married Wade Sadler and was a resident
Shannon, James A.
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- Bio: Physiological Laboratories, New York University 1935-1941; director of medical research, Goldwater Hospital 1942-1945; Squibb Institute for Medical Research, 1946; Associate Director, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health 1949
- Bio: Charles R. Turchin (b. July 4, 1911, New York-d. April 18, 1983, Palm Beach, Florida), podiatrist. He was the podiatrist to President Lyndon B. Johnson and his family, and was president of the American Podiatry Association. Turchin served
- LBJ Connection: Collector of news clippings
- Bio: Hattie Belle Hoffman (b. Hattie Belle Calisch, March 2, 1924, Tucumcari, New Mexico-d. March 1, 1972, Dallas, Texas), civic and political organizer for the Democratic Party. She is the daughter of Stanley G. Calisch and Erna Freudenberg. She
- Bio: Spurgeon Milton Keeny, Jr., (b. October 24, 1924, New York City-d. August 10, 2012, Washington, D.C.) was a part-time, senior member of the National Security Council from 1963 to 1969. He divided his time between the National Security Council
- publications: Waco Times-Herald, Austin American, Austin Statesman, and Port Arthur News, 1916 to 1946.
- Bio: Sidney Alfred Saperstein was an attorney originally from New York City. He served as Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and helped to draft several key pieces of legislation including the Medicare Act
- Bio: Stewart Lee Udall (b. January 31, 1920, St. Johns, Arizona-d. March 20, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico) served three terms as a congressman from Arizona, then as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under presidents John F. Kennedy
- Bio: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (b. October, 15, 1917, Columbus, Ohio-d. February 28, 2007, New York, New York), historian and writer. He received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1938, was a postgraduate Henry Fellow at Cambridge
Mangan, James W.
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- joining the AP in 1952. He served as Assistant Bureau Chief in Dallas from 1963 to 1965, then Bureau Chief in New Orleans from 1965 to 1967, and in Dallas from 1969 to 1977. He was Bureau Chief in Germany for two years, and then returned to the U.S
- , the University of Kansas City, and Northwestern University. A former editor of Cooperative News Service and Cooperative Consumer in Kansas City, Angevine also served as administrator of the Farmers Cooperative Service. He was head of the Cooperative League
Anton, James, 1914-
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- Bio: James Anton (b. 1914) was a New Hampshire State Representative from 1946 to 1947, assistant clerk in the U.S. Senate from 1947 to 1953, and Special Counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee from 1952 to 1956. He also served
Laitin, Joseph
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- Bio: Joseph Laitin was a journalist and government official. He began at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the Standard News Association. During World War II he was head of the United Press staff in Washington, D.C., and later became a war correspondent
Levinson, Larry, 1930
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- at the Pentagon. Early in his career, he served as a U.S. Army judge advocate at the White Sands Missile Test Center in New Mexico. Levinson was appointed deputy special counsel to President Johnson and served from 1965 to 1969. At the White House, he helped
- for the State of New Jersey in 1967, a position he held until 1976.
- Bio: Leader, National Youth Movement of the New Deal Era; President, National Council of Negro Women, 1957-present; Director, Center for Racial Justice under YWCA, 1965-1977; founder, Black Family Reunion Celebration; JFK Memorial Award from
Jacobsen, Jake
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- Bio: Jake Jacobsen was a lawyer originally from Atlantic City, New Jersey. He served in the Army Air Corps and Air Force as an officer and pilot, as well as Congressional Liaison Officer out of Air Force Headquarters. After receiving his law degree
Carpenter, Liz, 1920-
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- Bio: Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter (b. 1920) operated the Carpenter News Bureau with her husband, Leslie Carpenter, representing national newspapers from 1945 to 1961. She was an executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961
- Connally from 1934 to 1938. From 1938 to 1973 he was a staff writer and editor for various news agencies, including the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press (1938-1941), the Corpus Christi Times (1941-1945), and the Caller-Times (1945-1973).
Janeway, Eliot, 1913-1993
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- Bio: Eliot Janeway (b. Eliot Jacobstein, January 1, 1913, New York City-d. February 8, 1993) was the son of Jewish parents Meyer Joseph Jacobstein and the former Fanny Siff. Janeway was an American economist, journalist and author whose career
Karnow, Stanley, 1925-
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- Correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1965, and Far East Correspondent and Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post from 1962 to 1972. Karnow also served as Associate Editor of the New Republic in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1975.
- Bio: Chester Lawrence Cooper was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1917. He earned degrees from New York University and American University. He served as Assistant Deputy Director at Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 to 1962
Wilson, Cynthia E., 1940-
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- , as a correspondence aide and later as a staff member of the First Lady's White House Beautification Project. After leaving the White House, she worked with Stewart Udall and Governor Castro of New Mexico, and she worked for the National Audubon Society in the mid
Oberdorfer, Don, 1931-
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- to a New Era”, 1991. After leaving the Washington Post in 1993, he served as a journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
- Bio: Charles Wesley Roberts (1916-1992) was a graduate of University of Minnesota. He worked for the City News Bureau in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun, and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1951, he joined Newsweek and became the White House
- school and of the University of Texas School of Communication. His research has led to the development of more than thirty operating programs for tools such as readability indexes, automatic news indexes and stylistic advice to authors. He also served
- and Comptroller, 1966 to 1970. He left the government in 1970 and was executive vice president of administrative affairs at Georgetown University, 1970 to 1973; executive vice chancellor at SUNY (State University of New York), 1973 to 1981; and acting chancellor
Brown, Harold, 1927-
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- Bio: Harold Brown was born on September 10, 1927 in New York, New York. He received an A.B. (1945), an A.M. (1946) and a Ph.D. (1949) from Columbia University. He was a research scientist at Columbia University from 1945 to 1950 and lecturer
- Bio: Charles Martin Maguire (b. February 14, 1930, Manhasset, New York-d. April 25, 2009, Washington, D.C.), business and public policy consultant, assistant to Lyndon Johnson. In 1939 his family moved to Dublin, Ireland. Maguire graduated from
- in Springfield, Massachusetts and New York City from 1924 to 1929. In 1929 he co-founded the New York City advertising firm Benton & Bowles, Inc., and was chairman of the board from 1936 to 1941. Bowles worked as the Connecticut State rationing administrator
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988
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- Bio: Ernest Cuneo (1906-1988), lawyer, newspaperman, author, and intelligence liaison, was born in East Rutherford, New Jersey. After he graduated from law school, Cuneo became law secretary to Fiorello LaGuardia, then a congressman from New York