Date |
Event |
| 1927, Mar. 16 |
Born, Tulsa, Okla. |
| 1944-1947 |
Active duty with the United States Navy |
| 1948 |
B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass. |
| 1949 |
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. |
| 1949-1950 |
Assistant in government, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. |
| 1950-1951 |
Student, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England |
| 1951-1953 |
Budget assistant, United States Air Force base, Ruislip, England |
| 1954 |
Director of public relations, International Rescue Committee |
| 1955 |
Married Elizabeth T. Brennan |
| 1955-1958 |
Assistant to W. Averell Harriman, governor of New York |
| 1957-1958 |
Lecturer, Russell Sage College, Troy, N.Y. |
| 1958-1960 |
Secretary, Public Affairs Committee of the New York State Democratic Party |
| 1959 |
Lecturer, New York State School of Industrial Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| 1959-1961 |
Director, government research project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., |
| 1960 |
Member, New York state delegation to the Democratic National Convention |
| Wrote position papers on urban problems for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign |
| 1960-1961 |
Member, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1960-1961 |
Assistant professor of political science, Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. |
| 1961 |
Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. |
| 1961-1962 |
Special assistant to secretary of labor |
| 1962 |
Member, President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue |
| 1962-1963 |
Executive assistant to secretary of labor |
| 1963 |
Published with Nathan Glazer Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press |
| 1963-1965 |
Assistant secretary of labor for policy planning and research |
| 1965-1974 |
Vice-chairman, President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue |
| 1965 |
Unsuccessful candidate for city council president, New York, N.Y. |
| 1965-1966 |
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. |
| 1966-1968 |
Chairman, Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, Department of Health, Education and Welfare |
| 1966-1973 |
Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| Professor of education and urban politics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1969 |
Published Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty. New York: Free Press |
| 1969-1970 |
Assistant for urban affairs, counselor, and cabinet member, President Richard M. Nixon administration |
| 1970 |
Published Toward a National Urban Policy. New York: Basic Books |
| 1971 |
Member, United States delegation to the twenty-sixth General Assembly of the United Nations |
| 1971-1973 |
Consultant to President Richard M. Nixon
Member, President's Science Advisory Committee |
| 1971-1976 |
Vice-chairman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. |
| 1972 |
Published with Frederick Mosteller On Equality of Educational Opportunity. New York: Random House |
| 1973 |
Published The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan. New York: Vintage Books |
| Published Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government. New York: Random House |
| 1973-1975 |
Ambassador to India |
| 1973-1977 |
Professor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1975 |
Published with Nathan Glazer Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press |
| 1975-1976 |
Permanent representative for the United States to the United Nations |
| 1976 |
Member, New York state delegation to the Democratic National Convention |
| 1977-2000 |
United States senator from New York |
| 1978 |
Published with Suzanne Weaver A Dangerous Place. Boston: Little, Brown |
| 1980 |
Published Counting Our Blessings: Reflections on the Future of America. Boston: Little, Brown |
| 1984 |
Published Loyalties. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1986 |
Published Family and Nation. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1988 |
Published Came the Revolution: Argument in the Reagan Era. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1990 |
Published On the Law of Nations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press |
| 1993 |
Published Pandemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press |
| 1996 |
Published Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press |
| 1998 |
Published Secrecy: The American Experience. New Haven: Yale University Press |
| 2000 |
Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 2001-2003 |
Senior policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
|
| Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. |
| 2003, Mar. 23 |
Died, Washington, D.C. |
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