Did Paul Boghossian or Paul Robert Ignatius hold a government position during the Lyndon Johnson Administration?
Paul Robert Ignatius
Paul Robert Ignatius
Paul Robert Ignatius (born November 11, 1920) is an American government official who served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson Administration.
Paul Boghossian
Paul Boghossian is Silver professor of philosophy at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy, where he was Chair of the Department for ten years (1994–2004) and responsible for building it into one of the top philosophy programs in the world.
 His research interests include epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
 He is Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.
Kermit Gordon
Kermit Gordon (July 3, 1916 – June 21, 1976) was Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) (December 28, 1962 – June 1, 1965) during the administration of John F. Kennedy.
 He continued to serve in this capacity in the Lyndon Johnson administration.
 He oversaw the creation of the first budgets for Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda.
 Gordon was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors, 1961-1962.
 After he retired from government service, he joined the Brookings Institution, first as vice president (1965–1967) and then as its president for nearly a decade (1967–1976).
 During his tenure, Brookings developed a left-of-center reputation chiefly because Gordon was a supporter of the Great Society and critic of the Vietnam War. Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968
The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968 when Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK), a U.S. Senator from New York who had won a won a Senate seat in 1964, entered an unlikely primary election as a challenger to incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ).
 After Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not seek re-election, Kennedy still faced two rival candidates for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination: the leading challenger Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
 Humphrey had entered the race after Johnson's withdrawal, but Kennedy and McCarthy remained the main challengers to the policies of the Johnson administration.
 During the spring of 1968, Kennedy campaigned in presidential primary elections throughout the United States.
 Kennedy's campaign was especially active in Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, California, and Washington, D.C..
 He had been making progress in building Democratic support for his nomination when he was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Zephyr Wright
Zephyr Wright was a cook for Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson from 1942 until 1969.
 When she moved with them to Washington, D.C., several hotels in the Southern United States refused to let her stay because she was black.
 When Lyndon Johnson was Senator, Wright refused to drive to Austin, Texas, with him, telling him, "When Sammy and I drive to Texas and I have to go to the bathroom, like Lady Bird or the girls, I am not allowed to go to the bathroom.
 I have to find a bush and squat.
 When it comes time to eat, we can't go into restaurants.
 We have to eat out of a brown bag.
 And at night, Sammy sleeps in the front of the car with the steering wheel around his neck, while I sleep in the back.
 We are not going to do it again."
 When Johnson became Vice President, he sought Wright's opinion on matters such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
 She later witnessed him signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and at the signing ceremony, he gave her the pen he had used to sign the Act, saying, "You deserve this more than anyone else." USS Paul Ignatius
USS "Paul Ignatius" (DDG-117) will be an "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
 She is named for Paul Ignatius who served as United States Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon Johnson from 1967 to 1969.
 Ignatius had previously served as a commissioned lieutenant in the Navy during World War II.
 "Paul Ignatius" will be the 2nd of 8 planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124. Bobby Baker
Robert Gene "Bobby" Baker (born November 12, 1928) is a former political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson, and an organizer for the Democratic Party.
 He became the Senate's Secretary to the Majority Leader.
 In 1962, he and a friend, Fred Black, established the Serv-U Corporation which was designed to provide vending machines for companies working for programs established under federal grants.
 During the following year, an investigation was begun by the Democratic-controlled Senate into Baker's business and political activities.
 The investigation included allegations of bribery and arranging sexual favors in exchange for Congressional votes and government contracts.
 The Senate investigation looked into the financial activities of Baker and Lyndon Johnson during the 1950s.
 Baker resigned from his position in October 1963.
 The investigation of Lyndon Johnson as part of the Baker investigation was later dropped. Lord High Treasurer
The post of Lord High Treasurer or Lord Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707.
 A holder of the post would be the third-highest-ranked Great Officer of State, below the Lord High Steward and the Lord High Chancellor. Stan Salett
Stan Salett (born April 6, 1936) is a civil rights organizer, national education policy advisor and creator of the Upward Bound Program and helped to initiate Head Start.
 In the early 1960s Salett was an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
 He was the first director of education of the Office of Economic Opportunity, where the Head Start program was created.
 He co-founded the National Committee for Citizens in Education, dedicated to promoting parent and citizen involvement in schools.
 During President Lyndon Johnson administration he initiated the National Upward Bound program.
 While working in Washington, D.C. he served on the staff of all three Kennedy brothers: President Kennedy's Committee on Youth Employment, Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Senator Edward Kennedy’s Presidential campaign in 1980.
 He was an active school board member in Maryland in the 80s.
 During President Bill Clinton’s transition he vetted candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of the Interior. Wally Bruner
Wallace “Wally” Bruner, Jr. (March 4, 1931 – November 3, 1997) was an American journalist and television host.
 He covered Congress and the Lyndon Johnson administration for ABC News in the 1960s.
 He was the first host of the 1968–1975 syndicated version of "What's My Line?
" and went on to host the syndicated home repair show "Wally's Workshop."