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John Roche

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BornMay 7, 1923
Brooklyn
Died6 May 1994 (Age 70)
NationalityUS
Alma materHofstra University, Cornell
Member ofAmericans for Democratic Action, Committee on the Present Danger
A "liberal Social Democrat and fervent anti-communist" US political scientist who attended the 1983 Bilderberg conference.

John Pearson Roche was an American political scientist.[1] A "liberal Social Democrat and fervent anti-communist", he attended the 1983 Bilderberg conference.

Education

Roche was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was with the Air Forces during World War II. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hofstra College, he received a master's degree and a doctorate in political science from Cornell University.[2]

Career

In the 1950's he was active in the civil rights movement, and was a founder and national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action from 1962 to 1965. After that, he wrote a syndicated column, "A World Edgewise," for 14 years. [2]

He was on the faculty of Haverford College from 1949 to 1956 and taught at Brandeis University from 1956 to 1970. At Brandeis, he helped establish the government department, he was dean of the arts and sciences faculty from 1958 to 1961.[2]

He was a consultant to John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was a Senator and later when he was President. Beginning in the early 1960s, Roche wrote speeches for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and worked for Humphrey for a time after he became vice president in 1965. From 1966 to 1969, Roche was an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson.[2]

He was an adviser to the Nixon administration, [3] where he sat on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament.[4]

He taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts from 1973 until the end of his life.[4]

Roche was a prolific author of books and articles, and once described his politics as "Social Democrat." He was also contributor to TV Guide's "Newswatch" column.

He had been a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. In the 1970s, he sat on the Presidential Commission on International Broadcasting and the U.S. Board for International Broadcasting,[2] created in 1973 taking over the financing and operation of Radio Free Europe from the CIA.

He was a Fellow of the Hudson Institute, a member of the National Council on the Humanities, a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a trustee of the Dubinsky Foundation and a director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute.[4]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/198313 May 198315 May 1983Canada
Quebec
Château Montebello
The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada
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