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Program 662: The Human Factor in Government-Press Relations

A panel discussion that examines the quality of the people chosen to execute our foreign policy and their relationship with media reporters as critical variables in the workings of our government. Featuring Alfred Balk, Thomas E. Cronin, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Halberstam, Richard Holbrooke, Peter Irvin Lisagor, George E. Reedy, and James C. Thomson, Jr. The program ends with Robert M. Hutchins' statement closing the convocation. Pacem in Terris III: 28. Oct. 11, 1973. [CSDI program number 662; UCSB tape numbers A8316/R7, A8317/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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