Word: goldwin
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President Ford's in-house professor, Robert Goldwin, serves as liaison man with the Jewish community. "The more extreme view expressed," he says, "is that the world is turning against Jews and is willing to sacrifice them up. The more common view is that there is some loss of support for Israel that for a very long time Jews have relied upon." In December, Ford received a delegation of Jewish leaders and tried to reassure them of the U.S. commitment. The message has not yet filtered down. Says Goldwin: "There is a deep concern that support for Israel...
Ford's professor, in fact, professes no particular ideology, though he is a Republican, and chooses not to whisper his own views into the President's ear. "The cause I push is a kind of elevated common sense," he says. Goldwin prefers to act as distiller and conveyor of the ideas of others. He has good credentials for that role. A native New Yorker who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in World War II, Goldwin graduated in 1950 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He spent the next nine years editing reading materials and training...
Skilled Moderator. Along the way he met a Bell & Howell executive named Charles Percy, whom he tutored privately in political philosophy; Goldwin later served as a campaign consultant when Percy ran successfully for the Senate. Goldwin earned his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago and from 1960 to 1966 ran a series of wide-ranging political-science seminars at its Public Affairs Conference Center. Among the scholars, journalists, businessmen and politicians in sometime attendance were Congressmen Gerald Ford and Donald Rumsfeld. When Goldwin moved to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as an associate professor...
...Rumsfeld, then Ambassador to NATO, beckoned Goldwin to Brussels to lend a hand. There the professor contributed to drafting the Ottawa Declaration, which reaffirmed the Atlantic Alliance. When Rumsfeld joined Ford's White House as chief of staff, he persuaded Goldwin to turn down a faculty job at the University of Pennsylvania and follow...
...soft-spoken father of four and a man of modest taste-he has not bought a suit in five years-Goldwin is also self-effacing about his academic achievements. "Goldman and [Arthur] Schlesinger were academic stars. I'm not a scholar in that class. Most of the work I've done has been an attempt to build a bridge between scholars and people with heavy public responsibilities. But there's an art to that...