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  • Bio: Cecil William Stoughton (b. Jan. 18, 1920, Oskaloosa, Iowa-d. Nov. 3, 2008, Merritt Island, Fla.), American photographer who served with the White House Army Signal Agency during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
  • , Kennedy and Johnson administrations. She authored a biography of Lady Bird Johnson, as well as books on the first families and White House entertaining.
  • Bio: Janet Graeme Travell (1901-1997) was the physician to John F. Kennedy from 1955 to 1963, and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1965.
  • Bio: Kathryn Gladys Heath (b. May 8, 1910, Cincinnati, Ohio-d. April 15, 1989, Alexandria, Virginia) was Assistant for Special Studies, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, serving under both the Kennedy and Johnson
  • Bio: Research scientist, Sloane-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research 1962-1985; wife of Arthur Krim (President of United Artists Corporation of Hollywood, 1951-1969; and Chairman of the President's Club for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
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  • Bio: David Mann served on President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Committee on Government Contracts, and was the Director of Review and Surveys for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B
  • Bio: Louis Emanuel Martin was born on November 18, 1912 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1934. He worked on the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, and was a close advisor of Presidents Kennedy
  • 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
  • LBJ Connection: Lawyer; Campaign adviser to President Kennedy; Deputy Special Counsel to the President, 1961-1964, Special Counsel 1966-1968; chairman of executive committeeof Special Olympics
  • of the Kennedy administration. President Kennedy appointed him Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration. In 1962 Jones returned to the Bureau of the Budget where he served as special assistant to the Director, as Assistant Director, and as a consultant
  • 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
  • . From 1958 to 1961, he was an Administrative Assistant to Senator John S. Cooper, and from 1961 to 1963, he was Assistant Special Counsel to President Kennedy. From 1963 to 1965, he was Associate Special Counsel to President Johnson, and from 1965
  • LBJ Connection: Administrative Assistant to Senator John Sherman Cooper; Assistant Special Counsel to President Kennedy, 1961-1963; Associate Counsel to President Johnson, 1963-1965; Special Counsel to the President, 1965-1966; Adviser on civil
  • as the physician to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, and to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1969.
  • 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: Jerry Rodgers Holleman (December 26, 1919, Childress County, Texas-d. October 10, 1979, San Antonio, Texas), Assistant Secretary of Labor during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. In 1950 he was named assistant to the executive
  • Bio: Sanford L. Fox (1919-1996) was Chief of the Social Entertainments Office for the White House from 1961 to 1964. He was in charge of one of the four departments under Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary; first Letitia Baldridge and later Nancy
  • in 1958 and Commander of the U.S. Navy's destroyer division 152 from 1955 to 1956. Harllee was also a campaign worker for John F. Kennedy.
  • Kennedy, 1961; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1961-1964; Undersecretary of the Navy, 1965; Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, 1969-1971; Undersecretary of the Army, 1971-1973
  • Bio: Bernard Louis Boutin (b. 1923), businessman, New Hampshire political figure, and government official was mayor of Laconia, New Hampshire, from 1955 to 1959, and a John F. Kennedy campaign worker in 1960. He was Deputy Administrator
  • and 1950s. From 1961 to 1963, he served as a military aide to President Kennedy and then President Johnson, 1963-1965.
  • Bio: Joseph Leopold Block (1902-1992) was an executive with the Inland Steel Company. He was a consultant to the War Production Board from 1941 to 1945. Block also served Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
  • 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
  • governor in 1952 and then became governor when Governor William B. Umstead died, winning his own four-year term in 1956. In 1960 he endorsed John F. Kennedy, a candidate Hodges believed would commit himself to economic development and moderation on racial
  • Bio: McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996) was the national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1949 Bundy became a lecturer of government on the Harvard University faculty. He quickly rose to become the dean of the College
  • Bio: David W. Angevine, of Park Forest, Illinois, American consumer advocate, was a member of President John F. Kennedy's Consumer Advisory Council. Angevine attended the University of Kansas, and did his graduate work at the University of Kansas
  • LBJ Connection: Friend and Special Consultant to the President, 1968-1969; Chairman, President's Club, for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
  • LBJ Connection: Ombudsman, Washington Post; Assistant Press Secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
  • Bio: awrence E. Levinson, also known as Larry Levinson, (b. 1930), graduated from Syracuse in 1952 and Harvard Law School in 1955. Levinson served in the Kennedy Administration as counsel in the offices of the Secretary of the Air Force and Defense
  • Bio: Leonard Harold Marks (b. March 5, 1916 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-d. August 11, 2006 Washington, D.C.) was a communications lawyer and government official. In October 1962, he was one of thirteen individuals named by President Kennedy
  • Bio: Gordon Lincoln (b. September 10, 1913, New York, New York-d. December 19, 2009, Mitchellville, Maryland), educator, economist, diplomat, and government official, was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Immediate Latin American Problems
  • Development, as Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and as a consultant to the Department of State and Department of Defense. He is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at the Harvard Kennedy School.
  • ) and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1965 to 1975. Neustadt is the author of Presidential Power (1960). He was a consultant to the President from 1961 to 1966; to the Bureau of the Budget from 1961 to 1970; and to the Atomic
  • service on the Hill, he was a senior government relations counsel to the American Bankers Association. Holton attended a ceremony at the White House on September 26, 1962, during which President John F. Kennedy signed Senate Joint Resolution 133, Public
  • of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, he reorganized and modernized the Secret Service, improved training procedures, and updated the use of electronic surveillance.
  • for Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy disregarded party lines and asked Dillon to serve as Secretary of the Treasury in 1961. While Secretary of the Treasury, Dillon worked closely with the Bureau of the Budget and the Council
  • as a negotiator and chief legal advisor in the merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and CIO in 1955. He played a key role in AFL-CIO policies aimed at ending corrupt union practices among affiliates. President Kennedy appointed Goldberg Secretary
  • politics and became president of the Rockefeller Foundation. When Kennedy was elected president, Rusk reentered public life as Secretary of State, a position he held throughout the entire Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Following Nixon's inauguration
  • to the Mutual Security Administration. He was a member of Adlai Stevenson''s campaign staff in 1952 and 1956. In 1960, he worked as a speechwriter in John F. Kennedy''s presidential campaign. He was appointed Special Assistant to the President by President John
  • , 1953 to 1955; U.S. Congress, representative from South Dakota, 1956 to 1960; director of Food for Peace Program and special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, 1961 to 1962; U.S. Senator from South Dakota, 1963 to 1981; chairman for the Senate
  • as Special Counsel to President Truman. From 1950 to 1968 he worked as an attorney at the Clifford & Miller firm in Washington, D.C., and was an unofficial adviser to Presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. From 1968 to 1969 he served as the Secretary
  • in 1956. In 1960, Wilson was the North Carolina Chairman for Kennedy campaign, and from 1961 to 1967, he was the Administrative Assistant to the President. He served as the President and CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade from 1967 to 1973. In 1973, he made