The President today announced his intention to nominate C. Douglas Dillon to be a member of the National Council on the Arts, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring September 3, 1988. He would succeed Franklin J. Schaffner.
Mr. Dillon presently serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is chairman of the United States and Foreign Securities Corp. and a Director of Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. He served as Secretary of the Treasury in 1961-1965; as Under Secretary of State in 1959-1961; Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in 1957-1959; and Ambassador to France in 1953-1957. He has served as vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, president of the board of overseers of Harvard University, and chairman of the Brookings Institution.
He graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1931). He has two children and resides in Far Hills, N.J. He was born August 21, 1909.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of C. Douglas Dillon To Be a Member of the National Council on the Arts Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245463