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Nomination of Robert Laxalt To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

May 17, 1984

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Laxalt to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, for a term expiring January 26, 1990. He would succeed Sister Joel Read.

Mr. Laxalt is an author. His works include "Sweet Promised Land," "A Man in the Wheatfield," and "Nevada: A Bicentennial History." He is also the author of over 200 magazine articles, including a series for the National Geographic Society. He joined the University of Nevada system in 1954, serving first as director of news and publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was also writer-in-residence for the University system. Upon his retirement in 1983, he was designated director emeritus of the University Press.

In 1978 he received the Decade Award by the Nevada State Council on the Arts and was cited by the Governor of Nevada for exemplary service to the State. He is a member of the Author's League of America and the Western Writers of America.

He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is married, has three children, and resides in Reno, NV. He was born September 24, 1923, in Alturas, CA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert Laxalt To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261283

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