Legacy Committee

Louis Galambos Chair of the Legacy Committee and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, he previously taught at Rice University, Rutgers University, and Yale University. A former editor of The Journal of Economic History, he served as President of the Economic History Association. He has written and lectured extensively on American business history, business-government relations, the history of modern institutional development, and the process of innovation in the public, private, and nonprofit 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 16 (of the 21) volumes of The Presidential Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, he edits two Cambridge University Press Series, one on the United States in the twentieth century and one on international business.

Michael Beschloss Award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of eight 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 is the NBC News Presidential Historian. 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; The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945 (2002); and Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America, 1789-1989 (2007). Beschloss is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation. He also sits on the boards of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Michael J. Birkner Professor of History at Gettysburg College and Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts. He has taught at Gettysburg since 1989, chairing the department from 1993-2003.  Birkner is the author or editor of nine books and more than two hundred scholarly and popular articles on history. His interest in the Eisenhower presidency is reflected in numerous essays on Eisenhower, politics during the Eisenhower years, and on Ike’s Chief of Staff, Sherman Adams. One of his recent books is a biography of Eisenhower for young adults, published by Scholastic Press in 2005. Birkner directs an annual workshop for teachers on the Eisenhower years in cooperation with Carol Hegeman, Supervisory Historian of the Eisenhower National Historical Site.

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 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 highly regarded books about World War II, including a biography of George Patton and Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, 1890-1945 (2002), Carlo D’Este is one of the nation’s leading military historians. His books include World War II in the Mediterranean (1990), Decision in Normandy (1983), Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome (1991), Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July-August, 1943 (1988), Patton: A Genius for War (1995), and Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 (2008).

General Andrew J. Goodpaster* Served as 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 spanned 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 held an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and was 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.* Deceased

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. The author of the books Building German Airpower, 1909-1914 (1976), German Airpower in World War I (1982), Morrow's book, The Great War in the Air (1993), is the definitive study of airpower in the First World War. He edited the volume, A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (1996), and authored the chapter on the air war in the prestigious Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998). Professor Morrow’s latest book is The Great War: An Imperial History (2003). 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 A renowned expert in international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and political strategy.  She is director of Carnegie Mellon University’s International Relations and Politics Program. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and is an associate professor of international relations and political science at Carnegie Mellon. Skinner’s government service includes membership on the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board (2001-2007) as an advisor on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Executive Panel, and the National Security Education Board. She has co-chaired the CNO task forces on the Middle East and Africa. She also serves on the board of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City and is a former fellow of CFR’s Studies Department. Skinner is the co-author, along with political scientists Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza Rice, of The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Regan and Boris Yeltsin. Additionally, she authored Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, a landmark work in international history featuring a collection of essays by leading American and Russian statesmen and scholars. She holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science and international relations from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College. She is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Molloy College on Long Island. Dr. Skinner currently serves on the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy.

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. He also was a member of the Editorial Board of the Model Editions Partnership, under whose auspices appeared an on-line mini-edition of Eisenhower’s papers. 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). He co-authored Churchill and the Great Republic (2004).