Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University and former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will be this year's principal Commencement speaker...
...Hesburgh, an ordained priest who holds 17 honorary degrees from universities throughout the nation, has spent his life working on religious, educational and social problems...
Among the diverse organizations on which Hesburgh has served are the Carnegie Foundation Commission on Higher Education, the Vatican's Atomic Energy Agency, and the U.S. Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force...
Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
...pressure on Hesburgh raised broader questions about the ultimate purpose of Nixon's reorganization plans. Granting an exclusive interview to the Evening Star and Washington Daily News (see THE PRESS), Nixon recently declared: "Government in Washington is too big and is too expensive. Reform, using money more effectively, will be the mark of this Administration." The President objected to the idea that the nation needs "some new massive government program...What we need now, rather than more government is better government. Many times the better is not the fatter, but the leaner. What I am standing for is government...