Charles S. Murphy

Secretary of Agriculture, from 1960 to 1965; and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1965 to 1968.^[1]

Senate War Investigating Committee, which would later be chaired by a senator from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, beginning their friendship and long association.^[1]

speech writer and adviser during his 1948 election campaign. He was named special counsel to the president in 1950.^[2] He was one of the entourage at Truman's October 1950 meeting with General MacArthur on Wake Island during the Korean War. The following April when the president finally relieved MacArthur of command he advised Truman on public relations tactics. During the Truman years he was among the small group of advisers and friends called the "little cabinet" that the president sat with in late-evening meetings to develop policy and legislative strategy. When Truman left office in 1953, Murphy entered private law practice in Washington with the firm of Morison, Murphy, Clapp & Abrams.^[1]

Nixon Administration.^[1]

Baker & Hostetler. He also served as general counsel to Frontier Airlines.^[1]

board of trustees and on a number of committees at the university and was a trustee emeritus. Following the Watergate scandal and Nixon's subsequent resignation, Murphy resigned his various positions with Duke in protest against a plan initiated by University President Terry Sanford and former President Nixon, a 1937 alumnus of the Duke law school, to build the Richard M. Nixon presidential library at the university.^[1] In 1981 Duke University's faculty council decided by one vote to reject the proposed Nixon presidential library.^[3]