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...departures come one month after the announcement that former Pennsylvania Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh will take over as director of the IOP in June, but Institute officials said the staffing changes are not connected...
Neustadt crafted a memorandum for the committeeurging it to look for a successful politician torun the Institute and be a lightening rod for thestudents considering elective office. Thornburgh"symbolizes in his person the things that ought tobe encouraged," Neustadt said...
Neustadt compared Thornburgh to MassachusettsGovernor and current Iowa tourist Michael S.Dukakis who, in between stints as the state'schief executive, worked for the IOP in itsprograms for state and city officials...
...Thornburgh, however, comes from the Republicanparty, and Dukakis is a Democrat. Critics havesaid that by picking a Republican during theReagan era, the IOP evidenced the politicalconsciousness that allows the graduate school toget jobs for their graduates...
...There isn't any other set of legislativebodies [in the world] that exercise more power.The people who do this are damn important, I don'tfeel I should apologize for treating them as so,"Neustadt said.One of Richard Thornburgh's new duties willbe to preside over the IOP Forum (picturedabove...