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...year-old Shattuck leaves his position as National Legislative Director and head of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to fill the post of Vice President of Government and Community Affairs left vacant by Robin Schmidt's resignation last spring. The office's responsibilities include much of Harvard's relations with Massachusetts, Cambridge, and the nation, as well as the University's lobby-efforts on such issues as financial aid and academic research...
Shattuck's move to Harvard marks the departure from Washington of one of the capital's most visibly successful lobbyists. Civil liberties activists credit Harvard's new vice president with transforming the ACLU into one of the most effective lobbies in the country. "Shattuck has succeeded in establishing the ACLU as a major force in Congress," says ACLU President Norman Dorsen, a professor at New York University Law School...
...thwarting of Helms's attack on the courts is hardly the only feather in Shattuck's hat In 1974, four years out of Yale Law School and working as a litigator for the ACLU. Shattuck represented Morton H. Halperin in his suit against the government at the height of the Watergate scandal. Halperin, an assistant to Henry A. Kissinger '50 when the latter was National Security advisor, was a victim of wiretapping illegally authorized by then-President Richard M. Nixon and Kissinger in the early days of Nixon's presidency. During the case, Shattuck obtained depositions from Nixon, Kissinger...
...There is an educational crisis in America today," Shattuck says, adding, "Issues of education and public policy facing Harvard and universities will be just as, if not more challenging than much of my ACLU work...
...will and gift-giving, localities with substantial non-Christian membership should consider foregoing a Nativity scene in a publicly funded display. There is certainly no shortage of alternative private sites for creches. The avoidance of a bitter community division must play the guiding principle. This is a lesson the ACLU surely needs to learn: Christmas this year in Pawtucket will miss much of the holiday spirit. The Grinch must be green with envy...