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Nomination of Walter Berns To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

May 05, 1982

The President today announced his intention to nominate Dr. Walter Berns to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Foundation for the Humanities, for a term expiring January 26, 1988. He would succeed Joe Bob Rushing.

He is currently serving as resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He was a member of the faculty at Cornell University in 1959-1969 and was an assistant professor of political science at Yale University in 1956-1959.

Dr. Berns graduated from the University of Iowa (B.S., 1941) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1953). In addition, he did postgraduate work at Reed College (1948-1949) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (1949-1950). He is married, has three children, and resides in Bethesda, Md. He was born May 3, 1919.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Walter Berns 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/245536

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