MCI Communications Corporation. Regulation and Public Policy (Records of Robert D. Sweezy, Jr.)

Robert D. Swezey, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1964, worked as a advertising copy writer, then for the Chicago Police Department. Swezey was seeking employment with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration when he was introduced to William G. McGowan, and from December 1969 became involved with MCI.

Swezey started as executive assistant for MCI chairman and CEO McGowan, and was primarily responsible for overseeing the contracts with individual carriers affiliated with Chicago-St. Louis microwave system. Swezey later occupied the positions of assistant treasurer, investor relations director, corporate communications director, and federal relations director. He wrote MCI's annual reports and many corporate speeches, collected documents for public offering prospectuses, and as a media relations officer was involved in antitrust litigation with AT & T and in MCI's legislative and lobbying activities.

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