Martian's Daughter: A Memoir (43 page)

23
. Ibid.

24
.
Life
, February 25, 1972.

25
. Michael C. Jensen, “Mrs. Whitman; Council Appointee Sees Self as Solver of Problems,”
New York Times
, February 6, 1972.

26
. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs,
Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
, United States Senate, 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972, 7–17.

27
. Joint Economic Committee,
Review of Phase II of the New Economic Program: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on April 14, 1972
, 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972, 4.

28
. “Two Top Economists Optimistic for 1972: Dr. Whitman and Dr. Heller Predict a Vigorous Recovery,”
New York Times
, May 18, 1972.

29
.
Economic Report of the President
, 1972, 154.

30
. Marina v.N. Whitman, “Some Reflections on International Monetary Reform,” Remarks Before the International Fiscal Association, New York, October 27, 1972.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Joint Economic Committee,
The 1973 Economic Report of the President: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on February 6, 1973
, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., 1973, 8–9.

33
. Ibid., 89.

34
. William Chapman, “Women: Putting Bread on the Table,”
Washington Post
, February 3, 1973.

35
.
Time
, October 23, 1972.

36
.
Business Week
, July 8, 1972.

37
. Nicholas von Hoffman, “Washington's Rats on the Move,”
Washington Post
, October 25, 1972.

38
.
Parade
, December 31, 1972.

39
. Laura Whitman, interview by Greta Walker,
Good Housekeeping
, August 1972.

40
. Marion Bell Wilhelm, “Economist Whitman Goes to Washington,”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 20, 1972.

41
.
Life
, February 25, 1972.

42
.
Time
, February 12, 1973.

43
.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
, May 21, 1973.

44
. Herbert Stein, “The Nixon I Knew,”
Slate
, January 2, 1998.

45
.
Wall Street Journal
, August 6, 1973.

46
.
Money
, May 1973.

47
. Herbert Stein, “Memorandum for the President, Observations on Japan,” March 31, 1973. Marina v.N. Whitman Personal Collection.

CHAPTER 7

1
. Marina Whitman to the President's Files, memorandum, March 27, 1973, Marina v.N. Whitman Personal Collection.

2
.
Washington Post
, June 3, 1973.

3
. Marina Whitman to President Nixon, June 14, 1973, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

4
. President Richard Nixon to Marina Whitman, June 27, 1973, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

5
. Statement of Representative Henry Reuss, Joint Economic Committee,
The 1973 Midyear Review of the Economy: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on August 1, 1973
, 93
^rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1973, 146.

6
. Statement of Senator Jacob Javits, Joint Economic Committee,
The 1973 Midyear Review of the Economy: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on August 1,1973
, 93
^rd
Cong., 1st sess., 1973, 146.

7
. Statement of Senator Sparkman of Alabama, Joint Economic Committee,
The 1973 Midyear Review of the Economy: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on August 1, 1973
, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., 1973, 146.

8
. Statement of Senator Proxmire, Joint Economic Committee,
The 1973 Midyear Review of the Economy: Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee on August 1,1973
, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., 1973, 147.

9
. Both these ideas had been suggested by John Maynard Keynes, who represented Great Britain at the Bretton Woods negotiations in 1944 but had been overridden by the objections of the US representative to the conference, Harry Dexter White.

10
.
American Survey, The Economist
, October 6, 1973.

11
. Bob Arnold, “Marina Whitman's Back in Town,”
Renaissance Pittsburgh
, vol. 5, no. 2 (February 1974): 26.

12
. Marylin Bender, “Women Take Transfers Companies, Pressured, Offer,”
New York Times
, July 23, 1974.

13
.
Pittsburgh Press
, December 5, 1976.

14
. Leonard Silk, “Peers Give Nixon's Advisers Bad Reviews,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1973.

15
.
University Times
(Pittsburgh), October 4, 1973, 8.

16
. Marina Whitman, “The ‘Dismal Science’ Comes of Age: Economics in America's Third Century,”
Sloan Management Review (SMR Forum)
, vol. 17, no. 3 (spring 1976), 89.

17
. Office of the White House Press Secretary, “Remarks of the President at the Opening of the Conference on Inflation,” September 5, 1974, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

18
. Arthur Okun, “Summary of September 5 Economists' Conference on Inflation,” meeting, Washington, DC, September 5, 1974, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

19
. “Summary of September 23, 1974, Meeting of Economists,” meeting, New York City, September 23, 1974, Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

20
. Soma Golden, “Self-Interest Stymies Inflation Fight,”
New York Times
, September 22, 1974.

21
. Edwin L. Dale Jr, “Carter Sees Permanency in Floating Money Rates,”
New York Times
, August 19, 1976; Edwin L. Dale Jr, “Carter's Foreign Economic Plan,”
New York Times
, August 24, 1976.

22
. Dale, “Carter's Foreign Economic Plan.”

23
. The one exception was the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, which was passed close to the end of President Ford's term and implemented under President Carter.

CHAPTER 8

1
. Pam Proctor, “New Voices in Business: Ladies of the Boardroom,”
Parade
, July 28, 1974.

2
.
The Economist
, September 22, 2007, 86.

3
. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, “Something New under the Sun: A Special Report,”
The Economist
, October 13–19, 2007, 12.

4
. CDA-Collaborative Learning Projects, “Yadana Gas Transportation Project, Fourth Field Visit Report,” April 17-May 6, 2005,
http://cdainc.com/publications/cep/fieldvisits/cepVisit16MyanmarBurma4.pdf
.

5
. “Agreement between the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the President of Radcliffe,” Cambridge, MA, 1977,
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2573641?n=700&s=4&print
.

6
.
Governance of the University
, The Harvard Guide,
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/guide/underst/index.html
.

7
. “Governance Review Culminates in Changes to Harvard Corporation,”
Harvard Gazette
, December 6, 2010. One of these changes was expansion of the corporation's membership to thirteen.

8
. “Overseers and Associated Harvard Alumni Directors: A Guideline on Qualifications,”
http:news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/03.02/report.htm
).

9
. “Meeting of the Committee of the Board of Overseers to Visit the Department of Economics,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 13–14, 1976. Marina v.N. Whitman Personal Collection.

CHAPTER 9

1
. Emma Rothschild,
Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age
(New York: Random House, 1973).

2
. “The Squeeze on Oil,”
Time
, February 5, 1979.

3
. Charles Belle, “Business in the Black,”
San Francisco County Sun-Reporter
, April 1981.

4
.
Fortune
, August 20, 1984, 31.

5
. Marina Whitman, “Economics from Three Perspectives,”
Business Economics
, January 1983, 20–24.

6
.
The Dartmouth
, February 25, 1982.

7
. Giorgio Israel and Ana Millán Gasca,
The World as a Mathematical Game: John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science
, Science Networks Historical Studies, no. 38 (Basel, Boston, and Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag, 2009), xi.

8
. Ibid., 51.

9
. Maryann Keller,
Rude Awakening: The Rise, Fall, and Struggle for Recovery of General Motors
(New York: William Morrow, 1989).

10
. Marina Whitman, “Economic Scene: Auto Industry's New Challenges,” op-ed,
New York Times
, September 3, 1980.

11
. Marina Whitman, “Economic Scene: Shape of Power in Next Decade,” op-ed,
New York Times
, September 5, 1980.

12
. See, for example, Neil Sheehan,
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
(New York: Random House, 2009).

13
. Marina Whitman, interview with Maryann Keller, transcript, 1991.

14
. “Healing the Auto Industry,” GM Economics Staff and Financial Staff to the GM Executives, memorandum, September 3, 1982.

15
. Ibid., 2.

16
. “Trends,”
Forbes
, August 3, 1981.

17
.
Forbes
, August 31, 1981, 10.

18
. Henry Ford II to Ford CEO Philip Caldwell, memorandum, May 17, 1981.

19
.
Washington Post
, April 2, 1981.

20
. “Import Restrictions Revisited,” Marina Whitman to Chairman Roger Smith, Vice Chairman Howard Kehrl, and Executive Vice President Alan Smith, memorandum, January 12, 1981.

21
. Roger Smith, “Its Time to End the Auto Quotas,” op-ed,
Washington Post
, January 30, 1985.

22
. Oscar Frenette, “Automotive Report,” WJR-Detroit, January 6, 1986.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Statement of Marina Whitman,
The Future of the Automobile Industry: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
(February 8, 1984), 98th Cong., 2nd session, 1984, pp. 237–44.

26
.
Wall Street Journal
, June 10, 1987.

27
. Ibid.

28
.
Business Week
, September 6, 1986.

CHAPTER 10

1
. General Motors Annual Report,
America's Corporate Foundation
, 1985; General Motors
Annual Report,
America's Corporate Foundation
, 1990; General Motors Annual Report,
America's Corporate Foundation
, 1992; General Motors Annual Report,
America's Corporate Foundation
, 2005.