Feldman, Myer, 1914-2007

Myer Feldman, also Mike Feldman, (b. Jun 22, 1914, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d. March 1, 2007, Bethesda, Maryland) held the post of Deputy Special Counsel to the President throughout the Kennedy administration. He served with Assistant Special Counsel Lee C. White directly under Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen. Feldman's duties included staff work on a wide range of programs, issues, and legislative proposals. He watched the Middle East and foreign trade matters for the President. He handled most business requests to the White House relating to tariffs, airline routes, and subsidies. He was one of the individuals responsible for briefing the President for his press conferences. From 1964 to 1965, he was Counsel to President Johnson, and beginning in 1965, was a partner with the Ginzburg and Feldman firm of Washington, D.C.

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Mr. Feldman is a graduate of Girard College, the Wharton School of Business, and holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In the nineteen fifties, he worked as Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations and the Senate Armed Services Joint Committee, taking part in the investigation of President Truman's discharge of General MacArthur. After working as an assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy, Feldman went on to become Deputy Special Counsel for both President Kennedy and President Johnson. In 1965, he founded his own law firm. In addition to helping to draft the legislation to make the Special Olympics program possible, Feldman has served on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee