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For the American baseball pitcher, see <a href="/wiki/Harry_MacPherson" title="Harry MacPherson">Harry MacPherson</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Harry McPherson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:McPherson_DLA_Piper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/McPherson_DLA_Piper.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="168" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="168" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/White_House_Director_of_Speechwriting" title="White House Director of Speechwriting">White House Director of Speechwriting</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />October 26, 1967 – January 20, 1969</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harmelin" title="Stephen Harmelin">Stephen Harmelin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Keogh_(speechwriter)" title="James Keogh (speechwriter)">Jim Keogh</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel">White House Counsel</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />February 11, 1966 – October 26, 1967</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lee_C._White" title="Lee C. White">Lee White</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Larry_E._Temple" title="Larry E. Temple">Larry Temple</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">3rd <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_Educational_and_Cultural_Affairs" title="Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs">Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />August 23, 1964 – August 14, 1965</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lucius_D._Battle" title="Lucius D. Battle">Lucius Battle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Frankel" title="Charles Frankel">Charles Frankel</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1929-08-22</span>)</span>August 22, 1929<br /><a href="/wiki/Tyler,_Texas" title="Tyler, Texas">Tyler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">February 16, 2012<span style="display:none">(2012-02-16)</span> (aged 82)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University" title="Southern Methodist University">Southern Methodist University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sewanee:_The_University_of_the_South" title="Sewanee: The University of the South">University of the South</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)</span><br /><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas, Austin</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">LLB</a>)</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Harry Cummings McPherson Jr.</b> (August 22, 1929 – February 16, 2012) served as counsel and special counsel to President of the United States <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> from 1965 to 1969 and was Johnson's chief speechwriter from 1966 to 1969. McPherson's <i>A Political Education</i>, 1972, is a classic insider's view of Washington and an essential source for Johnson's presidency. A prominent Washington lawyer and lobbyist since 1969, McPherson was awarded American Lawyer magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He died February 16, 2012, in Bethesda, Maryland.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_education,_military_service"><span id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_military_service"></span>Early life, education, military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_McPherson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, education, military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McPherson was born and raised in Tyler, Texas. He attended <a href="/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University" title="Southern Methodist University">Southern Methodist University</a> and received his B.A. in 1949 from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_the_South" class="mw-redirect" title="University of the South">University of the South</a>. Intending to be a poet and a writer, he enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> for a master's degree in English literature.<sup id="cite_ref-dcbar.org_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcbar.org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the Korean War broke out in 1950, however, he enlisted in the Air Force. McPherson served in Germany as an intelligence officer, studying Russian troop deployments and plotting targets.<sup id="cite_ref-dcbar.org_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcbar.org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As soon as the Korean War ended, McPherson enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_School_of_Law" title="University of Texas School of Law">University of Texas School of Law</a>. </p> <blockquote><p>This was the era when McCarthyism was at its peak. I was very upset about Joe McCarthy and decided that I wanted to be a lawyer to defend people against the likes of McCarthy. I was worried that he was going to usher a period of totalitarianism in the United States. I wanted to fight that.<sup id="cite_ref-dcbar.org_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcbar.org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>He received his LL.B. in 1956. Shortly afterwards, he was invited to Washington by a cousin who worked for Lyndon Baines Johnson. Johnson, who was at the time the Senate majority leader, was seeking a young lawyer from Texas to work for the Democratic Policy Committee, which Johnson chaired. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_public_service_in_Washington">Early public service in Washington</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_McPherson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early public service in Washington"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McPherson served as assistant general counsel (1956–1959), associate counsel (1959–1961) and general counsel (1961–1963) to the Democratic Policy Committee, the Democratic Party's key legislative policy organ on the Senate side. His duties included summarizing bills coming before the Senate for members of the Calendar Committee. An outspoken advocate for civil rights, he helped draft legislation that became the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957" title="Civil Rights Act of 1957">Civil Rights Act of 1957</a>, whose goal was to ensure that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. After Kennedy was elected with Johnson as his vice president, McPherson continued to serve as counsel to the Democratic Policy Committee under Senator <a href="/wiki/Mike_Mansfield" title="Mike Mansfield">Mike Mansfield</a>. </p><p>From 1963 to 1964, McPherson served as deputy under secretary of the Army for international affairs and special assistant to the secretary for civil functions. His responsibilities included settling civilian disputes in the Panama Canal Zone and Okinawa, and overseeing the Army Corps of Engineers. </p><p>The following year (August 1964-August 1965) he served as assistant secretary of state in the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Educational_and_Cultural_Affairs" title="Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs">Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs</a>, which arranged for thousands of foreigners to study at American universities, for foreign officials and cultural groups to visit the United States, and for American orchestras and dance companies to travel abroad. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Counsel_to_President_Lyndon_B._Johnson">Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_McPherson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:McPherson_LBJ.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/McPherson_LBJ.jpg/220px-McPherson_LBJ.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/McPherson_LBJ.jpg/330px-McPherson_LBJ.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/McPherson_LBJ.jpg/440px-McPherson_LBJ.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5595" data-file-height="3708" /></a><figcaption>McPherson with President Johnson. Photo courtesy Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.</figcaption></figure> <p>In August 1965, McPherson became special assistant and counsel to the president, and then special counsel to the president (1966–1969). McPherson was one of Johnson's most trusted advisers, influencing his support for equal employment and Medicare legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-law.com_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Flawed Giant</i>, his massive biography of Johnson, Robert Dallek notes: </p> <blockquote><p>Though he worked as the President's personal lawyer for the next two years, he principally served as Johnson's top speech writer. An evocative writer with a keen feel for Johnson's style of speaking and desire for terse, spare prose that included "a little poetry" and some alliteration, McPherson crafted all the President's major addresses beginning in the summer of 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1966, McPherson and his colleague Berl Bernhard organized the <a href="/wiki/White_House_Conference_on_Civil_Rights" title="White House Conference on Civil Rights">White House Conference on Civil Rights</a>, whose 2,400 participants included Dr. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall" title="Thurgood Marshall">Thurgood Marshall</a>, and representatives of almost every major civil rights group. According to Kevin L. Yuill, "This conference, promised in Johnson's famous Howard University speech in 1965, was to be the high point of Johnson's already considerable efforts on civil rights."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McPherson came to believe the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> was unwinnable, and along with Secretary of Defense <a href="/wiki/Clark_Clifford" title="Clark Clifford">Clark Clifford</a> helped persuade Johnson to scale back the bombing of North Vietnam.<sup id="cite_ref-law.com_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McPherson drafted Johnson's landmark televised address of March 31, 1968, announcing the policy turnaround in Vietnam as well as the fact that he would not seek reelection.<sup id="cite_ref-law.com_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McPherson's <i>A Political Education</i>, covering the years 1956 to 1969, concludes as follows: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Perhaps the most serious question of all was whether we could learn from our experience and shorten the lag between events and our response to them. Nearly twenty years passed from the time black Americans began leaving the South, until the national government began to respond to their unique problems in the Northern and Western cities. Our apprehension of the danger to us in the unification of Vietnam under Hanoi's rule was the same in 1963 as it had been in 1954. Our political leaders, like the rest of us, dealt with new phenomena on the basis of prevailing assumptions. Usually the assumptions were changed only by bitter experience, not by analysis and foresight. The public's reluctance to think new thoughts had much to do with that; so did their faith, which their leaders shared, that as a nation we were immune to history. We believed we could afford the lag, with our cushion of power, wealth, and resourcefulness. Detroit and Tet told us otherwise. It was Lyndon Johnson's fate to be President at a time when the cost of the lag came home. On the whole, he paid it bravely. ... He finished the old agenda, and by painful example taught us something about the new.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In a 1981 interview, McPherson called Johnson "a vehement, dominant, brilliant man – not intellectually brilliant in the sense of having a vast store of reading and knowledge about world history, certainly not the historian that Harry Truman was. But brilliant in sheer wit, in sheer intellectual mental horsepower. The smartest man I ever saw."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reiterated this admiration in 1999: "To this day, Johnson is still the smartest man I've ever met, although maybe not the wisest."<sup id="cite_ref-dcbar.org_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dcbar.org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Private_law_practice_in_Washington,_D.C."><span id="Private_law_practice_in_Washington.2C_D.C."></span>Private law practice in Washington, D.C.</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_McPherson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Private law practice in Washington, D.C."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Soon after Johnson left office, McPherson joined the Washington-based law firm Verner, Liipfert, and Bernhard, which he helped turn into one of the capital's best-known lobbying firms. (In 2002 the firm merged with <a href="/wiki/DLA_Piper" title="DLA Piper">DLA Piper</a>.) McPherson counseled businesses, nonprofit organizations, foreign governments, and individuals on a range of matters involving Congress, the executive branch, and regulatory agencies. Notable cases included: </p> <ul><li>Represented a major television network in the successful struggle to repeal the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Interest_and_Syndication_Rules" title="Financial Interest and Syndication Rules">Financial Interest and Syndication Rules</a> (the "fin-syn" rule), imposed by the FCC in 1970 and abolished in 1993, which prevented major television networks from owning any of the programming aired in primetime.<sup id="cite_ref-ufoclawyers.com_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ufoclawyers.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brokered the <a href="/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement" title="Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement">Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement</a> in 1998 between Big Tobacco and 46 states, which gave tobacco companies some immunity from class action suits in exchange for limiting nicotine levels and paying antismoking groups about $250 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-law.com_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Represented more than 2,500 Czech-Americans in obtaining compensation for assets seized by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.<sup id="cite_ref-ufoclawyers.com_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ufoclawyers.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>McPherson served on several presidential commissions. President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> appointed him to the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (1979). President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> appointed him vice chairman of the United States Cultural and Trade Center Commission, which planned a 600,000-square-foot (56,000 m<sup>2</sup>) facility in the Federal Triangle. Presidents <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> appointed him a member of the 1993 U.S. <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Base Realignment and Closure Commission">Base Realignment and Closure Commission</a>. </p><p>He was active in cultural, civic, and political organizations. From 1969 to 1974 he was a member of the board of trustees of the <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars" title="Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars</a>, Smithsonian Institution. He was on the board of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a> from 1974 to 1977, and was chairman of the Democratic Advisory Council of Elected Officials Task Force on Democratic Policy (1974–76). After serving as vice-chairman of the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts">John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts</a>, he served from 1976 to 1991 as its general counsel.<sup id="cite_ref-ufoclawyers.com_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ufoclawyers.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1983 to 1988 he was president of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_City_Council" title="Federal City Council">Federal City Council</a>, a civic organization of business, professional and cultural leaders in Washington.<sup id="cite_ref-ufoclawyers.com_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ufoclawyers.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1992 to 1999, he served as president of the <a href="/wiki/The_Economic_Club_of_Washington,_D.C." title="The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.">Economic Club of Washington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ufoclawyers.com_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ufoclawyers.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McPherson helped the board of DLA Piper's international pro bono division institute a program that sends Northwestern University Law School professors to teach at Ethiopia's underfunded Addis Ababa University School of Law.<sup id="cite_ref-law.com_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-law.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McPherson married Clayton Reid in 1952; the couple had two children, Coco and Peter. He was divorced in 1981 and married in 1981 to Mary Patricia DeGroot,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with whom he had a son, Samuel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications_and_awards">Publications and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_McPherson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publications and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>A Political Education</i> (originally published 1972) is McPherson's insider view of the nation's capital from 1956 to 1969. Anatole Broyard of <i>The New York Times</i> described the book as "fascinating to read" and McPherson as "refreshingly candid in both his praises and his criticisms."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>A Political Education</i> has become a political classic and is considered essential reading for understanding of LBJ and the Johnson administration.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is frequently cited in two definitive biographies of Johnson, Caro's <i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Senate" title="Master of the Senate">Master of the Senate</a></i> and Dallek's <i>Flawed Giant</i>. </p><p>McPherson was the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and political issues published in <i>The New York Times</i>, the <i>Washington Post</i>, and elsewhere. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and the Publications Committee of <i>The Public Interest</i>. </p><p>In 1994, McPherson was recipient of the Judge Learned Hand Human Relations Award. 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DeGroot Wed to a Lawyer"</a>. <i>New York Times</i>. October 18, 1981.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Mary+P.+DeGroot+Wed+to+a+Lawyer&rft.date=1981-10-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1981%2F10%2F18%2Fstyle%2Fmary-p-degroot-wed-to-a-lawyer.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHarry+McPherson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anatole Broyard, "Of Heroes and Horse Traders," The New York Times, June 5, 1972. 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Jr. <i>A Political Education</i>. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1972. Reissued 1988 and 1995.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100611123402/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/mcpherson/mcpherhp.asp">Transcripts of 10 interviews with Harry C. McPherson, Jr.</a> Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caro,_Robert_A." class="mw-redirect" title="Caro, Robert A.">Caro, Robert A.</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson:_Master_of_the_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate">The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate</a></i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Includes a dozen references to <i>A Political Education</i> and oral history interviews with McPherson.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallek,_Robert" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallek, Robert">Dallek, Robert</a>. <i>Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973</i>. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Includes over 2 dozen references to <i>A Political Education</i> and oral history interviews with McPherson.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Lucius_D._Battle" title="Lucius D. 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