Roy Ash
Roy Ash | |
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| 21st Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
| In office February 2, 1973 – February 3, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Caspar Weinberger |
| Succeeded by | James Lynn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Roy Lawrence Ash October 20, 1918 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 2011 (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse | Lila Hornbek (1943–2011) |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | Harvard University (MBA) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Army |
| Rank |  Captain |
| Unit | United States Army Air Corps |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Roy Lawrence Ash (October 20, 1918 – December 14, 2011) was the co-founder and president of the American company
Early life and education
Roy Lawrence Ash was born October 20, 1918, in
Ash married Lila Marie Hornbek on November 13, 1943 and had three sons and two daughters, (Charles, James, Robert, Loretta and Marilyn). Ash has been reported to have had a great smile and a great laugh.
In 1953, Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. By the time Ash became president of the company in 1961, Litton had completed 25 mergers and operated 48 plants in nine countries in an aggressive acquisition plan, with sales of $245 million. By 1965, the company had over $900 million in sales and produced 5,000 different items.
Political life
After his election as president in 1968,
In November 1969, the President's Domestic Council instructed Ash to study whether all federal environmental activities should be unified in one agency. According to a report by the U.S. EPA, during meetings in spring 1970, Ash at first expressed a preference for a single department to oversee both environmental and natural resource management, but by April he had changed his mind. In a memorandum to the President he advocated a separate regulatory agency devoted solely to anti-pollution programs.[2] The report of the Commission lead to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Following Nixon's re-election in 1972, Ash was named the director of the OMB. In the fall of 1973, amidst national panic that followed imposition of the Arab oil embargo, Ash cautioned Nixon to move deliberately, predicting that "in a few months, I suspect, we will look back on the energy crisis somewhat like we now view beef prices -- a continuing and routine governmental problem -- but not a Presidential crisis."[3]
After leaving OMB he joined Addressograph-Multigraph (later AM International) in an attempt to rescue the foundering duplicator company at a time when the duplication industry was shifting to photocopiers from Xerox. He resigned from AM in 1981.
Later life
In 2003, he and his wife donated $15,000,000 to Harvard to endow the Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.
He served as a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
In January 2007, he sold one of his two massive Virginia "hunt country" properties for $22 million. It was the highest price ever recorded for a property in Loudoun County. Known as "
Ash died from Parkinson's disease on December 14, 2011, at the age of 93.[4][5]
References
- ^ Goldsmith, Stephen (January 18, 2012), The Man Who Put the 'M' in OMB, Governing.com
- ^ http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/guardian-origins-epa; U.S. EPA, The Guardian: Origins of the EPA. U.S. EPA, 1992.
- ISBN 0-671-79932-0.
- ^ "Roy Ash". Nixon.archives.gov. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ Mclellan, Dennis (2012-01-11). "Roy L. Ash, former Litton president, OMB director, dies at 93 - Obituaries". MiamiHerald.com. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
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