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...good for the man, and it's not good for the Government." This is not an opinion shared by Presidents, but last week, after 4½ years in Government-as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Ambassador to Finland, and USIA director-Carl Rowan took his own advice and went back to journalism...
...first Negro to attain so many high public offices, Rowan, 39, will now become the top Negro syndicated columnist. While such civil rights leaders as Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young Jr. write columns largely on racial topics, Rowan will comment on the news in general for the Chicago Daily News. "This is going to be journalism," he said last week. "What I bring to this column is knowledge of what is going on inside this Government and other governments. This is what I'm offering editors, not the color of my face...
...Leonard Marks, 49, a Washington communications lawyer, and a close Johnson family friend who has represented the family's Austin radio-television station since 1952, to become director of the U.S. Information Agency, replacing Carl Rowan, who has resigned. Marks, who has served as assistant to the general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, has represented the U.S. at international conferences on broadcasting and communications, is presently a board member of the Communications Satellite Corp., the Government-regulated organization that owns the Early Bird satellite. Known as a first-rate administrator, his appointment to the $30,000-a-year...
...Information Agency Director Carl T. Rowan, 39, one of the highest ranking Negroes in the Federal Government, stepped out. A John Kennedy protégé, Rowan has been increasingly restive under Johnson. No replacement was named...
...member of the audience asked Rowan how the USIA is portraying the Presidential campaign, in light of hostility abroad towards Sen. Goldwater. "The goal is to make both candidates look as good as the facts and their own statements will permit," answered Rowan. He was appointed by President Johnson in January...