THE MAUREEN AND MIKE MANSFIELD CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
THE 1988 MANSFIELD CONFERENCE MAY 23 & 24, 1988 Funded by a generous gift from the Burlington N orthern Foundation. THOMAS E. CRONIN Professor Cronin is the nation's leading academic authority on leadership and
the presidency. He studied at Holy Cross College and earned his Ph.D. from Stan­
ford University. Common Cause, Leadership in America, and the American
Leadership Forum all have benefited from his service on their boards of direc­
tors. Cronin gained practical experience in politics by serving on the staff of the
U.S. Senate and the White House and by running for Congress in 1982. He is
a regular contributor to the New York Times, Christian Sdence Monitor, and Newsday,
and a commentator on Nightline, C-SPAN, CNN, and the Today Show. His
many books include Direct Democracy, Rethinking the Presidency, State and Local Politics, Government by
the People, The State of the Presidency, and The Presidency Reappraised. Cronin presently holds the posi·
tion of the McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership.
RAYMOND G. HUNTHAUSEN
Archbishop Hunthausen is a native of Anaconda, Montana. He studied at Car­
roll C0llege, St. Edward's Seminary, and the University of Notre Dame. Hun­
thausen served as a professor, athletic director, and president of Carroll College.
Ordained as a priest in 1946, he was later appointed Domestic Prelate, Sixth Bishop
of Helena, and Archbishop of Seattle in 1975. Outspoken views on the relation­
ship between moral values, public life, and politics brought him criticism and even­
tual discipline from the Vatican which launched a two-year investigation into
his conduct in office and temporarily reduced his authority. He has been a major
critic of the arms race, refusing to pay taxes on half of his income to protest military spending, and
has drawn criticism for his liberal positions on the role of women in the Catholic church and sanctuary
for Central American refugees. Hunthausen received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship of Recon­
ciliation Award in 1987. He currently serves as the Archbishop of the Diocese of Seattle.
DANIEL INOUYE
Descended ftom Japanese immigrants who first came to Hawaii to work on sugar
plantations, Daniel Inouye graduated from the University of Hawaii and George
Washington University Law School. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 at
the age of eighteen, and went on to receive the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze
Star, and Purple Heart with cluster. Inouye became the first U.S. Congressman
from the state of Hawaii in 1959 and entered the U.S. Senate in 1962. National
exposure was gained when he delivered the keynote address at the 1968 Democratic
National Convention appealing for racial understanding and progressive change
through democratic institutions. He served as a member of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973-74,
the first chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Democratic Central America
Study Group, and the co-chairman of the Select Committee to investigate secret military arms sales
to Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras. He is presently one of the leading contenders for the position
of U.S. Senate Majority Leader.
ELLIOT RICHARDSON
Mr. Richardson has been in public service nearly all of his life. After graduating
ftom Harvard University and Harvard Law School, he served as a clerk to Supreme
Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and then went on to several positions for the
state of Massachusetts. His many national positions include Under Secretary of
State; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Secretary of Defense; Am­
bassador to the Court of St. James; Secretary of Commerce; and Ambassador-at­
Large and Special Representative to the President of the Law of the Sea Con­
ference. In 1973 he resigned as U.S. Attorney General rather than follow Presi­
dent Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson is the author of
The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century and numerous
articles on government, law, and foreign policy. He currently is a senior resident law partner in
Washington, D.C. and a board member of the National Commission on the Public Service.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN
Professor Sullivan is one of the leading political philosophers in the country.
He was educated at La Salle University and Fordham University, and currently
teaches at La Salle. Sullivan has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Fellow
of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His articles have appeared in
Philosophy Today, Polity, International Philosophical Quarterly, and a forthcoming
entry in The Clio Anthology is entitled "Educating Toward the Public Good: Recon­
necting the Humanities and the Social Sciences in a New Civic Paideia". He is
the author of the influencial book, Reconstructing Public Philosophy, and the co­
author of Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Social Science as Moral Inquiry, and Interpretive
Social Science. Sullivan is perhaps best known for his collaborative study with Robert Bellah and others
of Habits of the Heart, a book described in these words: "Beautifully written; profoundly meditated,
and morally informed, this work becomes the contemporary benchmark from which to look back and
to look forward, in fhe continuing inquiry about American character."
LEADERSHIP, CHARACTER, AND CIVIC VIRTUE Public Lectures
Monday, May 23
• HTHE NATURE OF LEADERSHIP"
Professor Thomas Cronin
10:00 am
• "PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AND
PERSONAL CHARACTER"
The Honorable Daniel Inouye
1:30pm
• HMORAL ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE"
The Most Reverend Raymond Hunthausen
7:30pm
Tuesday, May 24
• HCIVIC VIRTUE AND LEADERSHIP"
Professor William Sullivan 2:00pm • HDEVELOPING LEADERSHIP AND
CHARACTER"
The Honorable Elliot Richardson
7:30pm
All lectures are free, open to the public, and will be presented in
the Montana Theatre of the Performing Arts/Radio Television
Center, University of Montana.
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center
at the University of Montana
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana
is designed to recognize and honor the Mansfields' four decades of public
service. The inspiration for the Center derives from Mike Mansfield's
distinguished career and the two subjects with which he long has been iden­
tified: a staunch commitment to high ethical standards in public affairs and
insightful contributions to the nation's Asia policies. The Mansfield Center's
two principal programs, thus, are Ethics and Public Affairs and Modern Asian
Affairs.
Mike Mansfield's outstanding reputation as a public official is based upon
his numerous achievements and personal qualities. Both he and his wife,
Maureen, whom he credits as being responsible for many of his successes,
are graduates of the University of Montana. He served as a faculty member
in the Department of History, and then represented Montana for ten years
in the House of Representatives, and for twenty-four in the Senate. He serv­
ed as Senate Majority Leader longer than anyone else in American history.
President Jimmy Carter appointed Mike Mansfield U.S. Ambassador to Japan
in 1977, and President Ronald Reagan subsequently renewed the appoint­
ment. He has now served in this ambassadorial position longer than any other
individual.
His retirement from the Senate in 1976 was the occasion for one of the
greatest outpourings of esteem ever given a departing senator by his colleagues,
who commented about his "special expertise in the area of foreign policy,"
"grasp of international issues," "immense knowledge of East Asia," and, above
all, his "character and integrity." Mike Mansfield served as "the conscience"
of the Senate, they said, setting "an inspiring example of the very highest
standards of principled public service" and exercising "a moral leadership
which reflects the ideals and finest traditions in our country." As one senator
felt compelled to say: "Honor, decency, fairness, tolerance-these have been
his hallmarks; and those qualities, much more than our words in praise of
him, will remain his most eloquent tributes."
The University of Montana is a fitting site for the Mansfield Center. As
part of a respected public university with abiding ties to the ambassador and
his wife, the Mansfield Center is assured the permanence and quality that
befits Maureen and Mike Mansfield.
The Mansfield Center is funded by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foun­
dation.
Members of the Mansfield Center Advisory Committee:
LeRoy Anderson
Albert Borgmann
Jim Flightner
Thomas Huff
Paul Gordon Lauren
James Lopach
Leo Moser
John 0. Mudd
Daniel Smith
Additional appreciation is expressed to:
Max Baucus
Randy Bolton
Bill Brown
Margery Brown
Virginia Braun
Mary Ann Campbell
Bill Chaloupka
Gus Chambers
Janice Downey
Joyce Decker
Ann Mary Dussault
Irene Finley
Jim Hogan
Jyl Hoyt
Claudia Johnson
Dan Kemmis
Jim & Donna Koch
Al Madison
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Lee Meloche
Bill Knowles
Patrick Shaughnessy
Howard Skaggs
Brian Spellman
Neal Wiegert
Dave Wilson
Carol Woodruff