1950 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
1951 Graduated Dartmouth College
1954 Graduated Yale Law School

Recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Government (1960)
Named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the U.S. by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (1962)
Professor of Law at Georgetown University (1963-65)
Consultant to Secretary of State Dean Rusk (1964-67)
Staff Director of the United States Commission of Civil Rights during Kennedy administration
Special Counsel and Director of the White House Conference under President Johnson (1966)
National Presidential Campaign Manager for Senator Edmund S. Muskie (1971-72)
General Counsel and a Director of the Washington Star (1978)
Trustee of the Federal City Counsel (1988-92)
Chairman of The Aspen Institute and Chairman of the Executive Committee (1991-94)
Current Chairman of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand
Current Director of Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc. and UNC Inc.
Served for ten years as a Trustee of Dartmouth College
Served as member of the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration as well as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences
Special counsel to the Trustees of Eastern Airlines and special counsel to the Chairman of Northwest Airlines