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Next stop, Hollywood: Dan Glickman, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), was named the next chair of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) yesterday, ending a months-long search to replace 82-year-old Jack Valenti as the film industry’s chief lobbyist...
...decades before arriving at the IOP in August 2002, Glickman served as Secretary of Agriculture for the better part of the Clinton Administration following an 18-year career representing Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. This fall, he will turn his attention to the silver screen—but the veteran politician says his new job fits in with his years in Washington...
...Every job I’ve had has kind of built [on] the previous job,” Glickman said yesterday. “Politics is in everything. The fact of the matter is, a lot of the agenda of the motion picture industry has to be done through the Congress and through the government...
...When Glickman replaces Valenti in September, he said he plans to use Beltway connections and know-how accumulated over a life of public service to “push a bipartisan legislative agenda through...
...picked and chosen his issues wisely—by and large he has enhanced his reputation at Harvard nationally and internationally,” Glickman says. “He has recognized that you have to be a good politician to be a good president...