Harry J. Middleton
Harry J. Middleton, Jr. is an American journalist, author, and library director who served as Lyndon B. Johnsons Presidential speech writer and staff assistant from 1967 to 1969.
Harry Middleton was born in Centerville, Iowa on October 24, 1921. Following two years of study at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas from 19411943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in World War II and later as an officer in the Korean war. He completed his education at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, earning a BA in Journalism. In his career as a professional writer, Middleton worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and a news editor for Architectural Forum and published articles and stories in Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated, Colliers, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Life Magazine. It was in 1966, while Middleton was working on a report for the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service, that President Lyndon B. Johnson met Middleton and hired him as a speechwriter. From January 1967 until January 20, 1969, he served as Staff Assistant to President Johnson in the White House, writing speeches for the President and drafting messages to Congress delineatin
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