9 Appointed to Presidential Library Panel
The grandson of one President and the daughter of another were named today to a new advisory committee on presidential libraries established by the archivist of the United States, Don W. Wilson.
The nine-member group will form a closer alliance with the National Archives on joint public programs and work toward increasing private support for the presidential library system.
David Eisenhower, who recently wrote “Eisenhower at War” about his grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is one member. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of John F. Kennedy, is another.
The National Archives operates and maintains eight libraries housing the papers of Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Other members of the committee are Martin Allen Jr., chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation; George Elsey, president emeritus of the American Red Cross; William Vanden Heuvel, head of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Tom Johnson, publisher and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Times; Robert Lipshutz, counsel to Carter; Jeremiah Milbank, president of the J. M. Foundation, and Frederick Ryan Jr., assistant to President Reagan.
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