Horace Rowan Gaither
Horace Rowan Gaither Jr. (1909 – April 7, 1961),
In 1958 and 1959, he served as the 1st Chairman of the
William H. Draper Jr., a retired Army general and Frederick L. Anderson
, a retired Air Force general.
He was hired by Henry Ford II to help set the priorities of the Ford Foundation in 1947, chairing the study committee that wrote the "Report of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program."[4] He was later president of the Ford Foundation. He is best remembered today as the author of the controversial 1957 Gaither Report on the vulnerability of American defense. He died in 1961 of lung cancer.[5]
References
- ^ Although many sources have erroneously listed Gaither's date of death as April 13, Gaither's passing was reported by the Associated Press on April 8th, the day after he died, e.g. "Rowan Gaither Jr., Author of Critical Report, Dead At 51", Lewiston (ID) Morning Tribune, April 8, 1961, p1
- ^ "History and Mission - RAND".
- ^ "RAND | About RAND | 1996 Annual Report | Trustees". Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
- ^ "Ford Foundation: Report of the Study for the Ford Foundation on Policy and Program - Table of Contents". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-02-25.
- ^ "Milestones: Apr. 14, 1961". 14 April 1961. Archived from the original on February 4, 2011 – via www.time.com.
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