I have enough notoriety through the issues i am involved in that certain elements of society know me and know me well, but broadly speaking, it is a nice feeling to have that. That anonymity. Once you get elected president , it is over with. As i think about it, i think my life has been more fulfilling. I think my personal life, my wife and my family, has been much more fulfilling. Much more happy with my being in the senate than it ever would had been in the white house. Remember, those trying to get bill humphries to run for president in 1988. We were really working on bumpers to run. I got him to come out to iowa the three of us it was paul simon, berkeley bedell, and me. We try to get them to run. After going around, he said to me and said, you know, i think, i think i could run a good campaign. I think i could even win the nomination. By gosh, i think i could win the presidency. But you know what . I would never have another happy day in my life. The splendid misery from the time
In an interview with cspan, senator harkin reflects on his time in washington. This is 35 minutes. Senator tom harkin of iowa, we are sitting in a room you spent a lot of time in over the years. And done a lot of important pieces of legislation. I am wondering what prompted you to make the decision to retire this year. There is still a lot to do. I guess what prompted me were long discussions with my wife. And thinking about the past and where i am. I came to the decision that 40 years here is long enough for anyone to be here. And, you know this whole concept i haveg to power all these offices and a great committee, all that stuff. I think a lot of people stay around too long. So i just started thinking about it. I thought, i am still relatively young. Healthy. I feel and contrary to what my political opponents say, my mental faculties are still recent. Decent. I just love the senate. I love my work here. Giveandtake. I look to legislate. I love politics. O i will miss the senate it i
Of the baton. And the next 12 students have begun and theyre nearly all ready to start off into their fall experience, theyll do a spring and summer one as well. The discoveries of helping people start with intention, thinking about, dont declare a mission, im sorry, dont declare a major, but start by a mission. So for example, Debbie Paterson who is one of our new students interested in health care. So one of her experiences is side open idea, on their challenge forked straighting the challenge for the ebola virus and finding ways to create that. Ons for in a er to be secondly to take a risk and find things that push you out of a comfort zone. Not that classes are bad, but more so thinking about what do i need to learn that i dont know yet. To fulfilljust going a degree, but how will i learn new skills. Johnson, one of our students last year, was in a spot where he had an invitation work with agency to them for three month and hes like im really interested in orthodoxy and id really l
I look to legislate. I love politics. So i will miss the senate. It is a long time to be here. I do not think that is reason enough to stay around until they carry me out of here feet first. At some point it is time to let new people come in here with fresh ideas and enthusiasm. I said for me, it is time to move on. What are you planning to do next . At Drake University in des moines, a wellknown college because of the relation everything, Drake University a year and a half ago started the Harkin Institute of public policy. We have a nonpartisan board of directors. The former chair of the Iowa Republican party is on the board of the Harkin Institute. For that reason, he will probably never be reelected to the chair of the Republican Party. We have a former chief justice of the iowa Supreme Court. So i will be spending a lot of my time in iowa. We only live about 12 miles from Drake University. So i hope to be doing a lot of work that institute. One of the things you know, as a senator,
Obituary: JoAnn Clayton Townsend
FREEPORT - JoAnn Clayton Townsend, former director of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) at the National Academy of Sciences, .
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FREEPORT – JoAnn Clayton Townsend, former director of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) at the National Academy of Sciences, an American Institute of and Astronautics (AIAA) fellow, an abstract artist, a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on Dec. 21, 2020. She had just celebrated her 85th birthday.
JoAnn was preceded in death by her father, James William Woolley Cleveland and mother, Rachel Blanch Mary McLaughlin, and spouses John David Clayton and Dr. John William Townsend, Jr. She is succeeded by her cousin, Bernard Lynch, her daughter, Rachel Diana Clayton, son, David Edward Clayton, his wife, Martha, and her three grandchildren, Abigail, Margaret, Jack, and great-grandson, Sasha.