The HistoryMakers video oral history with Edwin Dorn.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 3 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337138
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Edwin Dorn
Edwin Dorn
Other authors / contributors:Dorn, Edwin, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Austin, Texas 2013 February 2.
Recorded Austin, Texas 2014 May 9.
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Summary:Presidential appointee and professor Edwin Dorn was born on March 26, 1945, in Crockett, Texas. Dorn received his B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. degree from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. degree in political science from Yale University. From 1977 to 1981, Dorn was a political appointee in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He later served as a senior researcher at the Joint Center for Political Studies and as a senior staff member at the Brookings Institution. During the first term of President William J. Clinton, Dorn served in the Department of Defense as assistant secretary of defense for personnel and as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. From 1997 to 2005, he was dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches there as a professor of public policy.