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The original documents are located in Box 7, folder "Calhoun, John - Press Release on
1973 Appointment" of the Stanley S. Scott Papers, (1969) 1971-1977 at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.
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[1973]
Foreien Service Officer
John Calhoun Joins
White House Stoff
Whom
GERALD R. LIBRARY FORD
Digitized from Box 7 of the Stanley S. Scott Papers, (1969) 1971-1977 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FIRST DRAFT
WASHINGTON.D.C.-
John Calhoun, a Black former Foreign Service Officer,
a top post ON
has been appointed staff assistant M the White House
Staff. Calhoun, 36,
Wheaton
will serve as
assistant to Stanley S. Scott, Special Assistant to the
President and the top ranking Black on the White House
staff.
Calhoun brings a wide variety of experience to the
White House post, including numerous assignments in Publi
Affairs, Community Relations, studies in general and
RAED OF R. FORD VIBRART
international law.
He established a communications and advertising program
for the Peace Corps to relate to ethenics and minorities in
1971 while serving as the Director of Minority Communications
for the agency. He was named Special Assistant for Minority
Communications upon the formation of ACTION, which merged the
Peace Corps, VISTA and five other federal agencies.
The new White House aide was Director of Public Affairs for
National Farmers Union and its Program Green Thumb during the
year of 1970. He served concurrently as Director of Community
Relations for the Denver, Colorado, based Farm organization.
Calhoun was Chief of Community Relations for the Military
District of Washington during 1969, and was responsible for
helping to coordinate press coverage of special ceremonies at
the White House, the State Department, and Arlington National
Cemetery. He played a key role in arranging the international
press coverage of the Funeral activities for the late
President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He also edited the 1969
Inaugural Parade Scenario.
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white House
The new aide was the Press Liaison
representative in Tokyo, Japan, from mid 1967 through 1968
for the United Nations Command. He served concurrently as
the Public Affairs Representative for U.S. Forces in Korea.
IN this pest,
A HIGH
Che earned one the Korean Government
IAND OFFICIAL COMMENDATION
awards for assistance rendered 14/1/16 in facilitating press
coverage of the seizure of the USS Pueblo and the attempted
assasination of President Chung Hee Park.
While in Japan, Calhoun was an evening student at
Sophia
University and completed the requirements for a
RALD OF R. FORD UBRARA
masters degree in Asian Studies.
Before going to Japan he supervised advertising and
Recruiting Service
public relations activities for the U.S. Army in the states
of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He AIBLY also wrote
a weekly newspaper column for 12 New England newspapers,
including the Penobscot Times, Eastern Gazette, and Houlton Pioneer
Times. Calhoun pursued the study of law
and radio and television at the University of Maine during
1964-67.
Calhoun was news editor of Radio VUNC,
a 24-hour per day all-news station which broadcast in Chinese
Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean throughout Asia under the
U.S. State Department and Defense Department.
amy
AN
veteran, Calhoun was a newspaper editor,
intelligence analyst and news correspondent during his military
service. His byline stories appeared regularly in the Stars and
Stripes, Army Times, and other publications in Germany.
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Born in Fort Oglethrope, Ga., Calhoun spent his
years AND MUCH of HIS LIFE
early in Elyria, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.;
and parts of Maine.
the Cloveland, Oni
Ho-Toft job in the Kitchen
and dish washer
He left a job as a cooks helper in the Kitchen at the
Cleveland, Ohio Ford Motor Plant and joined the Army at the
age of 17. He applied for and was granted admission to the
prestigious Army Information School
on David Island,
off the Long Island Sounds 13/mmm IN New Rochelle, N.Y., where
1956.
he picked up a diploma in Journalism and radio and television
Through the United States Armed Forces Institute and the
University of Heidelberg, Calhoun worked his waythrough
the requirements for a BA BECKET degree. He
IN ENGLISH IN 1959.
earned an LLB degree in Law from Blackstone School of Law
in Chicago in 1970. He has completed additional studies in
Law and on China at Catholic University, Washington, D.C.;
and the University of Wisconsin.
He is a member of the predominately Black Capital
Press Club and serves as Parliamentarian.
Calhoun resides in Wheaton, Md. a suburb of Washington, D.E.
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