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Tully, Grace, 1900-1984
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- Bio: Grace Tully was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on August 9, 1900. She went to work for the Democratic National Committee in 1928, and her first assignment was to assist Eleanor Roosevelt in organizing support for presidential candidate Al Smith
- Bio: John Edward Robson was born on June 21, 1930 in New York City, New York. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1952 and an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1955. He had a varied professional career in law practice, management, academia
Johnson, W. Thomas, 1941-
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- , and publisher there from 1980 to 1989, and then chief executive officer and vice chairman of the Times Mirror Company, from 1989 to 1990. From 1990 to 1998, he was president of the Cable News Network (CNN), then served as CNN's chairman and chief executive
- . He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant during World War II, from 1942 to 1946, and was thereafter again in private practice in Dallas until 1966. On June 28, 1966, Goldberg was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a new seat on the United
- Bio: Roger W. Jones (1908-1993) was born in New Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Cornell University and received a master's degree from Columbia University. In 1933 he moved to Washington, DC, and went to work for the Bureau of the Budget
- Bio: William John Jorden (b. 1923) was a reporter, writer, and a diplomat. He was a foreign correspondent with the New York Times from 1952 to 1961. He joined the State Department in 1961, as a member of the Policy Planning Council, 1961 to 1965. He
- LBJ Connection: Donor of clipping about New Deal and related letter from J.J. Pickle
Roche, Charles D., 1927-1993
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- Bio: Charles D. Roche (b. October 27, 1927, Woburn, Massachusetts-d. February 12, 1993, Margate, New Jersey) received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1945 and served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1947. In 1950, He became a management trainee
- Bio: Cyril Coniston Clemens (1902-1999), son of James Ross and Katherine Boland Clemens and cousin of Mark Twain, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After attending Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, he continued his education at St. Louis
- Bio: Dean W. Coston was born in New York in 1923. He received an A.B. and M.A. from the University of Michigan. He served as Chief Engineer of the radio station WUOM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1948 to 1961. In 1961 he joined the Department
- Bio: Charles Waldo Bailey, II (b. April 28, 1929, Boston, Massachusetts-d. January 3, 2012, Englewood, New Jersey), journalist, newspaper editor, novelist. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1946 and Harvard University in 1950, where he
Berler, Beatrice
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- Bio: Beatrice Adele "Beady" Berler was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Max and Clary (Bichman) Goldenblank on May10,1915. She moved to Texas as a young woman and married Albert Berler on May 15,1945. She later attended Trinity University
Edwards, India, 1895-1990
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- resigned as Vice-chairman of the DNC to become the campaign director in Averell Harriman's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. From 1957 to 1959 she was the Director of the Washington office of the New York State Department of Commerce. During
- University, Richmond, Virginia in 1955, and his B.D. from Yale University Divinity School in 1958. He has served as the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church since 1959. He is the founder of the Model Inner City Community Organization in 1966, and served
Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985
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- LBJ Connection: (1927-1972) Editor, Snyder Daily News, 1952-1954; President, San Antonio Standard, 1956-1962; Vice President, Express Publishing Company, 1962-1966, President, 1966-1972; Chairman of the Board, Harte-Hanks Newspapers, 1971-1972
- Bio: Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1928-1998) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Aloysius Higginbotham, a factory worker, and Emma Lee Douglass Higginbotham, a maid. Young Higginbotham attended Ewing Park, a black segregated public elementary
- "the most fraudulent election in Arkansas history," he lost a special election to Congress and in financial desperation accepted a job in 1934 with the New Deal Arkansas National Recovery Administration. He remained a political appointee for the next decade
Hilsman, Roger, 1919-2014
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- Bio: Roger Hilsman (b. November 23, 1919, Waco, Texas-d. February 23, 2014, Ithaca, New York), foreign policy adviser, government official. He received his B.S. at the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, and served in the U.S. Army. In 1950, Hilsman
Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996
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- . The next decade he spent teaching history at New York University. During this time Bundy published his Pulitzer-prize-winning book Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb and the First Fifty Years, in which he chronicled decisions made about nuclear
- . Macomber spent the 1980s as the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author of "The Angels' Game: A Handbook of Modern Diplomacy"¿ Macomber was also a founding member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Eckler, A. Ross, 1901-1991
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- Bio: A. Ross Eckler was born May 22, 1901 in Van Hornesville, New York, to Albert Henry and Mary Jane (Young) Eckler. He married Jennie Howe on August 7, 1924. He received an AB from Hamilton College in 1922; an AM from Harvard University in 1928
Peterson, Esther, 1906-1997
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- of her night students were garment workers, and she organized a strike for them. Her tactics succeeded when the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union helped secure higher wages for the women. In 1939, she moved to New York and accepted a position
- Bio: Herbert Yale Schandler (b. January 2, 1928, Asheville, North Carolina-d. July 16, 2015, McLean, Virginia), soldier and scholar. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1952, and in the 1950s worked
- Bio: Dean Hamilton Towner (b. May 20, 1919, Saranac Lake, New York-d. November 5, 2013, Austin, Texas), educator. He attended Cornell University from 1936 to 1941, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and earned a B.A. and a M.A. in Classical
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
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- in 1973, after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion, President Nixon was empowered by the 25th Amendment to appoint a new vice president. Nixon chose Gerald R. Ford, and he was confirmed and sworn in as Vice President of the United States
- at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Along with acting as a contributor to Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, Goodwin has published numerous books, articles and plays. Goodwin is married to Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Fitzgeralds
- in Boston and New York in the 1920s, and launched a political career in 1932. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1932, was reelected in 1934, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1936. He resigned from the U.S. Senate in February 1944
- school, the New York School of Design, and graduated from Northwestern University. He began working in Washington, D.C. in 1955 as an administrative assistant to Representative Homer Thornberry, and later worked for Representative J.J. Pickle. He
- living in New York City, a friend offered her a ride in an airplane. Soon after, she made her first solo flight after only a few hours instruction. She later bought her own plane and flew it around the country while developing her cosmetics business
- Bio: Charles "Chip" Eustis Bohlen (b. August 30, 1904-d. January 1, 1973), diplomat and Russian specialist, was born in Clayton, New York. After Bohlen took his B.A. at Harvard in 1927, he went on a world tour on a tramp ship. Although he had
- landscapes. She donated 60 acres of land and a sum of money to establish the Center which serves as a clearing house of information for people all over the country. She realized her long-held dream in 1995 when the Center moved into its new and larger