ABOUT THE LEGACY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Louis Galambos Chair of the Legacy Committee, and a faculty member at Rice University, Rutgers University, and Yale University before going to Johns Hopkins. A former editor of The Journal of Economic History, he served as President of the Economic History Association. He has written extensively on American business history, business-government relations, the history of modern institutional development, and the process of innovation in the public and private sectors. His numerous publications include “The U.S. Corporate Economy in the Twentieth Century” (in Volume Three of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, 2000); Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995, co-authored with Jane Eliot Sewell (1998); and Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World (2002), co-authored with Eric John Abrahamson. In addition to editing 17 volumes of the Eisenhower Papers, he has edited the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Economic History and Policy: The United States in the Twentieth Century.

Michael Beschloss Award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of seven books. Newsweek has called him “the nation’s leading Presidential historian.” He is a regular commentator on PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and a contributor to ABC News. An alumnus of Eaglebrook School, Andover, Williams College, and Harvard University, Beschloss is the celebrated author of Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986); The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991); Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (1997); Reaching for Glory (2001), the second volume on the Johnson tapes, covering 1964 and 1965; and The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945 (2002). Beschloss is a member of the American Historical Association and a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and sits on boards of the White House Historical Association, the National Archives Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (Monticello) and the Urban Institute. He is currently working on a history of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Michael J. Birkner Chair of the History Department at Gettysburg College, a biographer of Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams, and a scholar of 19th and 20th-century American politics, Prof. Birkner teaches a senior on “Dwight D. Eisenhower and His Times.” A graduate of Gettysburg College, Birkner received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His most recent books are McCormick of Rutgers: Scholar, Teacher, Public Historian (2001), and James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s (1996).

Robert R. Bowie Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, Harvard University and Director of Policy Planning under President Eisenhower, Prof. Bowie is former Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard. He served as the State Department member of the National Security Council Planning Board during the Eisenhower administration (1953-1957). In addition to his service to President Eisenhower, Prof. Bowie also served in the Truman, Johnson, and Carter administrations. His books include (with Richard H. Immerman) Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (1998) and Suez 1956 (1985).

Carlo D’Este A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and author of several highly regarded books about World War II, including a biography of George Patton and the recently published Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life (2002), Carlo D’Este is one of the nation’s leading military historians. His books about World War II include Decision in Normandy (1991), Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome (1991), Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July-August, 1943 (1991), and Patton: A Genius for War (1995).

General Andrew J. Goodpaster Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute and Staff Secretary and Defense Liaison Officer to President Eisenhower from 1954 until 1961, General Goodpaster’s public service spans seven decades. After graduating from West Point, he commanded the 48th Engineer Combat Battalion during World War II in North Africa and Italy. He later commanded the 8th Infantry Division in Europe (1961-1962), served as Commandant of the National War College, Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (1968-1969), and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces (1969-1974). He also advised Presidents Nixon and Carter. Re-called to active duty, he served as Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1977-1981). General Goodpaster holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and has been awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medals (Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force), the Silver Star and the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.

John H. Morrow, Jr. Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia and a noted military historian, Prof. Morrow was awarded his Ph.D. in modern European History from the University of Pennsylvania. He became the first African-American faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1971 and served as Chair of the University’s History Department from 1983 to 1988. Since then, he has taught at the University of Georgia, serving as Chair of the History Department from 1991 to 1993 and as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1993 to 1995. He is the author of three works on early air power. Prof. Morrow’s book The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (1993), is widely regarded as the definitive study of air power in the first World War. He authored the chapter on air war in the Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998). Prof. Morrow is a frequent lecturer at the National War College, the Air War College, the National Air and Space Museum, and the U.S. Naval Academy. He has chaired the History Advisory Committee to the Secretary of the Air Force, served on the History Advisory Committee to the Department of the Army, and consulted with the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Kiron K. Skinner Scholar of American public policy, foreign policy, and history, Professor Skinner is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an Assistant Professor of history, political science, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is Co-Editor of Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal his Revolutionary Vision for America (2001) and of Reagan: A Life in Letters (2003). She is a member of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board.

Richard Norton Smith Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, Mr. Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency and a familiar face to viewers of C-Span, as well as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where he appears regularly as part of the show’s round table of historians. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government. His first major book, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (1984), The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation (1986) and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (1993). In June 1997, Houghton Mifflin published Mr. Smith’s The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, which received the prestigious Goldsmith Prize awarded by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School, and has been described by Hilton Kramer as “the best book ever written about the press.” He has served as director of four presidential libraries, among them the Eisenhower Presidential Library, where he organized the Eisenhower Centennial on behalf of the National Archives. Best-known as a historian and biographer, Smith is currently at work on a life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, to be published in 2006.

Daun van Ee Historian with the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Daun van Ee received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. Serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, he won the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Bronze Star. He was Assistant Editor of the The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower from 1974 to 1977, Executive Editor from 1977 to 1995, and Editor from 1995 to 2001. His publications include David Dudley Field and the Reconstruction of the Law (Garland, 1986), and “From the New Look to the Flexible Response,” in Against All Enemies: Interpretations of American Military History (Greenwood, 1986).