Bryce Harlow
| Bryce Harlow | |
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| Counselor to the President | |
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In office November 5, 1969 – December 9, 1970 Served with Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
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| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Arthur F. Burns |
| Succeeded by | Donald Rumsfeld |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 11, 1916 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | February 17, 1987 (aged 70) Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (Before 1950) Republican (1950–1987) |
| Education |
University of Oklahoma (BA) University of Texas, Austin |
Bryce Nathaniel Harlow (August 11, 1916 – February 18, 1987) was a congressional staff member, army officer, advisor to U.S. presidents, and corporate lobbyist.
He was born in 1916 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Victor E. Harlow, who had served as a college professor, college president, and publisher of Harlow's Weekly, which focused on Oklahoma political, social and economic issues. Bryce graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1936 at age 19, followed by two years of graduate work in government at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma. He then went to Washington, D.C., where he served on Capitol Hill as assistant librarian of the U.S. House of Representatives and then as an aide to Congressman Wesley Disney.
In 1940, he joined the army reserve, and in July 1941, he was placed on active duty as an officer in the public information office of Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall. He then served as the army's congressional liaison under Wilton B. Persons. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After the war, Harlow returned to Oklahoma City twice to serve as vice president of Harlow Publishing Company in 1946-47 and 1951–52, but both times, he was recruited back to positions in Washington. In 1947, he joined the staff of the House Armed Services Committee, and in 1948, he became the head of the staff. In 1950, he became disenchanted with the Democratic Party and switched his registration to Republican.
In 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower established a congressional liaison office in the White House and appointed Wilton B. Persons as its head. Persons suggested Bryce Harlow join the staff, and Eisenhower was enthusiastic. Harlow resisted at first, wanting to stay in Oklahoma, but after a personal call from the President, he decided to accept. He was soon writing speeches for the President and went on to hold a variety of titles in the White House through Eisenhower's two terms.
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