"Secretary of Education" William Bennett Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA

Description

Up for auction the
"Secretary of Education" William Bennett Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Letter of Authenticity.
ES-5834E
William
John Bennett
(born July 31, 1943)
is an American
conservative
politician
and
political commentator
who
served as
secretary of
education
from 1985 to 1988 under President
Ronald Reagan
. He also held the post of
director of the
Office of National Drug Control Policy
under
George H. W. Bush
. Bennett was born July 31, 1943
to a Catholic family in
Brooklyn
, the son of Nancy (
née
Walsh), a medical secretary, and F. Robert
Bennett, a banker. His family moved to
Washington, D.C.
, where he attended
Gonzaga College High School
.
He graduated from
Williams College
in
1965, where he was a member of the
Kappa Alpha Society
, and
received a
Ph.D.
from the
University of Texas at Austin
in
political philosophy in 1970. He also has a
J.D.
from
Harvard Law School
,
graduating in 1971. Bennett was an associate dean of the College of Liberal
Arts at
Boston University
from
1971 to 1972, and then became an assistant professor of philosophy and an
assistant to
John Silber
, the president of the college,
from 1972 to 1976. In May 1979, Bennett became the director of the
National Humanities Center
,
a private research facility in
North Carolina
, after the death of its founder
Charles Frankel
. In 1981 President Reagan appointed Bennett
to
chair
the
National
Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH), where he served until
Reagan appointed him secretary of education in 1985. Reagan originally
nominated
Mel Bradford
to the position, but due
to Bradford's pro-Confederate views Bennett was appointed in his place. This
event was later marked as the watershed in the divergence between
paleoconservatives
, who backed Bradford, and
neoconservatives
, led by
Irving Kristol
, who supported Bennett. While at NEH, Bennett
published
"To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in
Higher Education"
, a 63-page report. It was based on an assessment of
the teaching and learning of the humanities at the baccalaureate level,
conducted by a blue-ribbon study group of 31 nationally prominent authorities
on higher education convened by NEH.
In
May 1986, Bennett switched from the
Democratic
to
the
Republican Party
. In September 1988, Bennett resigned as
secretary of education, to join the Washington law firm of Dunnels, Duvall,
Bennett, and Porter. In March 1989 he returned to the federal government,
becoming the first Director of the
Office of
National Drug Control Policy
, appointed by President
George H. W. Bush
. He was confirmed by the
Senate
in a 97–2
vote. He left that position in December 1990.