Dan Glickman | |
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| Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of theMotion Picture Association of America | |
| In office 2004–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Jack Valenti |
| Succeeded by | Chris Dodd |
| 26thUnited States Secretary of Agriculture | |
| In office March 30, 1995 – January 20, 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Deputy | Richard Rominger |
| Preceded by | Mike Espy |
| Succeeded by | Ann Veneman |
| Chair of theHouse Intelligence Committee | |
| In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Dave McCurdy |
| Succeeded by | Larry Combest |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromKansas's4th district | |
| In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Garner E. Shriver |
| Succeeded by | Todd Tiahrt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Daniel Robert Glickman (1944-11-24)November 24, 1944 (age 80) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, includingJonathan |
| Education | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Daniel Robert Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and nonprofit leader. He served as theUnited States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001 in theBill Clinton administration. He previously representedKansas's 4th congressional district as aDemocrat in theU.S. House of Representatives for 18 years.[1]
Following his departure from public office, Glickman ledHarvard University's School of Government and Institute of Politics.[1]
He was chairman and CEO of theMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) from 2004 to 2010.[2]
He serves as a Senior Fellow at theBipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues. He also co-chairs BPC's Democracy Project[3] and co-leads the center's Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative.
He also serves on the board of directors of theChicago Mercantile Exchange,[4]MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger,[5] the board ofFriends of the World Food Program[6] and is a member of the ReFormers Caucus ofIssue One.[7] He also serves on the Council on American Politics at theGeorge Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.[8]
Glickman was born inWichita, Kansas, on November 24, 1944,[1] the son of Gladys A. (née Kopelman) and Milton Glickman.[9] His family was Jewish. The Glickman family operated Glickman Inc., a full-service scrap metal operation, since 1915 and Kansas Metal, an automobile and appliance shredder, since 1994. Glickman Inc. was founded by Jacob Glickman and later continued and expanded by Milton and Bill Glickman. With the death of Milton Glickman, Dan's father, in December 1999, Dan and his siblings Norman and Sharon Glickman carried on the family business until it was sold in 2002.
Glickman graduated from WichitaSoutheast High School in 1962.[1] He graduated fromUniversity of Michigan with a B.A. in history in 1966,[1] where he was a classmate with one ofAl Gore's chiefs of staff,Charles Burson,[10][9] and received hisJ.D. fromThe George Washington University Law School in 1969.[1][9] He is married to Rhoda Joyce Yura, with whom he has two children:Jonathan Glickman and Amy Glickman.[9][11]
In 1969 and 1970, Glickman worked as a trial attorney for theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, then was a partner in a law firm, Sargent, Klenda and Glickman.[12][11]
Glickman's first foray into public office was as a publicly elected member of the Wichita School Board, which oversees theWichita Public Schools (USD-259), one of the nation's largest school districts. Between 1973 and 1976 he served as President of the Wichita School Board.[1][12][11]
Glickman was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to representKansas's 4th congressional district in 1976, serving from January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1995, through eight successive re-elections.[1]
In 1976, in his first congressional race, Glickman was elected to theHouse of Representatives as aDemocrat fromKansas's 4th congressional district,[1] defeating eight-term Republican incumbentGarner Shriver. Glickman held the office for nine consecutive terms.[1][11][13]
Glickman was active ingeneral aviation policy, and co-wrote theGeneral Aviation Revitalization Act (GARA) – controversial landmark legislation providing product liability protection for small airplane manufacturers (his district has produced most of America's light aircraft).[13][11][14][15][16]
During his congressional tenure, Glickman was also active inagriculture issues (his district's other major industry), and served on theHouse Agriculture Committee, including six years as chair of the subcommittee overseeing federal farm policy. He served as principal author of the1990 Farm Bill and other legislation. While there, he lobbied for the position of Secretary of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton, losing initially, but winning the post after his tenth-race election ouster from Congress.[9][13][11][17]
In 1986, Glickman was one of theHouse impeachment managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1986 to prosecute the case in theimpeachment trial ofHarry E. Claiborne, judge of the United States District Court for Nevada. Claiborne was found guilty by theUnited States Senate and removed from his federal judgeship.[1][18]
In 1993, he was appointed chair of the HousePermanent Select Committee on Intelligence of theOne Hundred Third Congress, serving one term before his 1994 defeat.[1]
In October 1993, Glickman, representing a district whose second-largest industry was agriculture (particularly wheat production), voted for protectionism over free trade, restricting the importation of Canadian wheat.[19]
On "media freedom" versus "family values" one analyst reported that Glickman, in June 1993, voted to require that television shows have explicit viewer advisories.[19] Glickman would later lead theMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which develops such ratings for motion pictures.
In his final term, Glickman was Chairman of theHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He held open hearings to bring the intelligence community's post–Cold War activities to light and began a committee investigation into theAldrich Ames espionage case. Colleagues from both parties lauded his quiet, non-grandstanding, "careful and considered" leadership of the committee.[13][9][11]
On abortion, Glickman straddled the fence, generally accommodating abortion, but voting for theHyde Amendment that restricted federal funding of abortion.[13] In 1993, while on theHouse Judiciary Committee, he was absent from a key vote on removing most state abortion restrictions, and said later that he was unsure how he would have voted.[20]
In the Republican-landslide1994 congressional elections, known as theRepublican Revolution, Glickman—in his bid for re-election to a 10th term—was unexpectedly defeated byGoddard RepublicanTodd Tiahrt.[9][21][13][22][23]
Glickman later blamed his surprise defeat largely on his ownpro-choice positions, which he said opponents used as an "organizing tool" to rally opposition against him from voters who were otherwise politically inactive.[21][13][22] In a detailed review of Tiahrt's victory, theChicago Tribune reported that Glickman's unexpected defeat was largely the product of Tiahrt's recruitment of 1,800 volunteers from churches and anti-abortion groups in their congressional district (which had become the center of the national anti-abortion movement[24][25][26][27][28][29]), and from gun-rights organizations.[13]
Another casualty of the 1994 Republican congressional sweep was Glickman's wife, Rhoda, who, for 13 years, had led theCongressional Arts Caucus—one of 28 caucuses soon to be defunded by the incoming Republican Congress.[9]
As of 2021[update], no other Democrat has won election to the congressional seat lost by Glickman.[23][30]
The court-orderedredistricting in 2012 shifted the Fourth District sharply westward, reaching into more conservative[31] Western Kansas.[32][33]
Following his congressional defeat, Glickman was appointed byPresidentBill Clinton to be theSecretary of Agriculture, where he served from 1995 to 2001.[1][12]
Glickman had sought the post previously but initially lost his bid toMississippi CongressmanMike Espy. Glickman's 1994 appointment to the post followed Espy's departure under ethics concerns.[9] Glickman's Senate confirmation was supported by a powerful Republican, Senate Minority LeaderBob Dole, from Glickman's home state of Kansas.
During Glickman's tenure, he participated in implementation of the Department's controversialHACCP Program to control food safety at U.S. food-processing facilities, some of which was subsequently overturned in the federal courtSupreme Beef case.[34]
During President Clinton's February 4, 1997State of the Union address to Congress, Glickman was the "Designated Survivor".[35][36]
When Clinton's term ended, Glickman's career in government ended, but was followed by numerous leadership roles in related institutions and organizations.[13]
Following his departure from public office, Glickman held a variety of roles in civic-oriented nonprofits.[11] He is a common media interviewee.[37][38][39][34]
After Clinton's term ended, Glickman became the head ofHarvard University'sJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, and later director of Harvard'sInstitute of Politics.[1][17][13][21]
Glickman became executive director of theAspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan discussion fellowship for public leaders.[11]
Glickman is a Senior Fellow at theBipartisan Policy Center and theCouncil on American Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management atGeorge Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he teaches.[11]
Glickman is a senior fellow of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at theUSC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.[11]
Glickman is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations, America's pre-eminent foreign policythink tank, led by several former U.S. Secretaries of State and other top former national security leaders.[11]
During PresidentBarack Obama's administration, Glickman served on the External Advisory Board toCIA DirectorLeon Panetta.[11] (Glickman, while in Congress, had chaired the HousePermanent Select Committee on Intelligence.)[1]
Glickman is Chair of theU.S. Global Leadership Coalition, at theCenter for U.S. Global Engagement.[11]
Glickman left the Motion Picture Association of America in 2010 to serve as president ofRefugees International. He occupied the post for less than three months.[40]
Glickman's political experience in agriculture led to several post-political roles, including:[11]
In October 2022, Glickman joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched byIssue One to address the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts ofsocial media in the United States co-chaired by formerHouse Democratic Caucus LeaderDick Gephardt and formerMassachusetts Lieutenant GovernorKerry Healey.[41][42]
In 2004, theMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that Glickman would replaceJack Valenti as its chieflobbyist.[44] Glickman served as chairman and CEO of the MPAA from 2004 to 2012.[11][45]
When Glickman was named to the MPAA post, his sonJonathan Glickman was serving as president of Spyglass EntertainmentSpyglass Media Group and produced such films asWhile You Were Sleeping andRush Hour.[46]
A hallmark of Glickman's MPAA tenure was his "war on movie piracy", or the illegal copying and distribution of motion pictures.[17]
In an MPAA press release, May 31, 2006, entitled "Swedish Authorities Sink Pirate Bay", Dan Glickman stated
The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbours for Internet copyright thieves[47]
In the 2007 documentaryGood Copy Bad Copy, Glickman was interviewed in connection with the 2006 raid onThe Pirate Bay by theSwedish police, conceding that piracy will never be stopped, but stating that they will try to make it as difficult and tedious as possible.[48]
On January 22, 2010, Glickman announced he would step down as head of the MPAA on April 1, 2010.[49]
Glickman remains, however, a member of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which dispenses the Motion PictureAcademy Awards (Oscars),[11] and theAmerican Film Institute.[17]
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| Preceded by | Chair of theHouse Intelligence Committee 1993–1995 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | United States Secretary of Agriculture 1995–2001 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of theMotion Picture Association of America 2004–2010 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded byas Former U.S. Cabinet Member | Order of precedence of the United States as Former U.S. Cabinet Member | Succeeded byas Former U.S. Cabinet Member |
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