Ethics and Public Policy Center

1211 Connecticut Avenue NW. Washington, D.C. 20036 202 857-0595

STATEMENT BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

June 2, 1981

We the undersigned Directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, each in his own capacity, wish to affirm our full confidence in the academic and financial integrity of the Center and its President, Dr. Ernest W. Lefever. Some of us have known Dr. Lefever for thirty-five years, others for only one or two, but we all know him to be a man of high principle and integrity.

In the current controversy over Dr. Lefever's nomination, many false charges have been made suggesting that the Center staff or its outside authors have been for rent or sale. Such charges are wholly without foundation. We are convinced that no author, whether a staff member or an outsider, has ever misstated or concealed a fact, changed an adjective, or altered a conclusion to please a current or prospective donor to the Center. The Center affirms and protects the integrity and independence of its authors.

We are proud of the Center's courage in addressing controversial issues candidly and lucidly. To express alternative points of view, even though they may be unwelcome in certain places, is to make a contribution to informed debate.

Our confidence in the Center's academic and financial integrity is broadly shared by distinguished persons acquainted with its publications. The attached list of titles is evidence of the high quality and diversity of its work.

[Signed]

Leslie M. Burgess (Chairman)

Vice President, Fluor Corporation
Washington, D.C.

William H. Brady, Jr.

Chairman, W. H. Brady Company

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Shelby Cullom Davis

Former Ambassador

Chairman, Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation New York, New York

Kenneth R. Giddens

Former Director, Voice of America

President, WKRG-TV Inc.

Mobile, Alabama

Felix Gorrell (Treasurer)

Retired Controller, Brookings Institution

Arlington, Virginia

Edward Littlejohn

Vice President for Public Affairs, Pfizer Inc.

Paul H. Nitze

Former Member, U.S. SALT Delegation
Consultant, System Planning Corporation
Arlington, Virginia

Paul Ramsey

Professor of Religion, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Charls E. Walker

Chairman, Charls E. Walker Associates, Inc. Washington, D.C.

W. Allen Wallis

Rochester, New York

AMERICAN LEADERS WHO SUPPORT THE CONFIRMATION OF
DR. ERNEST W. LEFEVER AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY

OF STATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Of the thousands of Americans who have expressed their support to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, here are some of the better known leaders.

4. Charles E. Walker, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

Ronald Berman, Chairman, National Endowment for
the Humanities

Clare Boothe Luce, Ambassador

Shelby Cullom Davis, Ambassador

11. Max M. Kampelman, Ambassador

Leaders of Human Rights and Ethnic Organizations

1. Michael Novak, Resident Scholar, American Enter-
price Institute, Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N.
Human Rights Commission

2.

Richard Schifter, U.S. Delegate, U.N. Commission
on Human Rights

3. Mark K. Benenson, Chairman, Amnesty International of USA, 1968-1971, Director, 1966-1980

4.

5.

Ann Faltus, Vice President, Czechoslovak National
Council of America

Istvan B. Gereben, Executive Secretary, Coordinating
Committee of Hungarian Organizations in North America

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Maido Kari, Vice President, Estonian American
National Council

Prof. Dao thong Minh, President, United Community
of Boat People

Dr. Duong Phuc Hung, President, National Front for
the Restoration of Vietnam

I. L. Kenen, President, Jewish Human Rights Leader,
Near East Research

Dr. Z. Michael Szaz, Executive Vice President,
National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups

Dr. Helen Yakobson, Professor of Russian, George
Washington University, American Citizens Concerned
with Human Rights in the Soviet Union

Dr. David Sidorsky, Professor and Human Rights
Expert, Department of Philosphy, Columbia University

Franklin H. Littell, National Institute on the
Holocaust

Theologians and Other Religious Leaders

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5.

6.

7.

Arthur L. Beals, Executive Director, National
Protestant Leader, World Concern

The Rev. Owenn Bennett, OFM Conv., Roman Catholic
Professor of Philosophy, St. Hyacinth's Seminary

Edgar C. Bundy, Executive Secretary, Church League
of America

Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, Annunciation Rectory,
New Jersey

Gilbert E. Doan, Jr., University Religious Leader,
National Lutheran Campus Ministry

Robert P. Dugan, Jr., Director, Public Affairs
National Assocation of Evangelicals

Robert Lincoln Hancock, Director, International

Services, World Relief, National Evangelical Executive

D.

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9.

10.

11.

Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, Theologian and Scholar

Dr. Franklin H. Littell, Chairman, Institute for
American Democracy, Temple University, Professor and
Religious Leader

Prof. Paul Ramsey, Department of Religion, Princeton
University, Leading Protestant Theologian

Dr. Seymour Siegel, Professor of Ethics and Theology
Jewish Theological Seminary, American Jewish Forum

Philisophers and Educators

1. Prof. Irving Kristol, Social Thought, New York
University

2.

3.

4.

Prof. Adda B. Bozeman, Emeritus, International
Relations, Sarah Lawrence College

Robert A. Gessert, Professor, Theologian, and
Researcher

Prof. Sidney Hook, Political Philospher, Department of Philosophy, New York University

5. Prof. Whittle Johnston, Professor of International Politics, University of Virginia

6.

Prof. David C. Jordan, Professor of International
Politics, University of Virginia

7. Prof. Charles Burton Marshall, Emeritus, the
John Hopkins University

8. Malcolm C. McCormack, Former Vice-President of
Georgetown University

9. Prof. Howard Penniman, Department of Government,
Georgetown University

10.

11.

Prof. Quentin L. Quade, Executive Vice President,
Marquett University, University Executive and
Theologian

Prof. Frank N. Trager, Director, National Security
Program, New York University