The 5 O'clock Club

 

LBJ’s 5 O’clock Club - Myer Mike Feldman and Fred Dutton

The articles and web site that details the creation of the “Daisy” TV ad mentions the following:

In addition to the higher-minded strategy meetings referenced by Goodwin in his book and attended by himself, Bill Moyers, Clark Clifford Jack Valenti and others, there was also a secret White House campaign apparatus known informally as "the Department of Dirty Tricks," "the anti-campaign" or "the 5 o'clock Club." It was a sixteen-man team that was headed by Johnson aides Myer "Mike" Feldman and Fred Dutton. Feldman reported directly to Johnson on the team's activities. This group—which met twice a day—monitored Goldwater's statements and positions and prepared various "books" that captured all of his ripe material. The 5 o'clock'ers also engaged in other more questionable activity such as feeding hostile questions to reporters covering Goldwater and otherwise trying to manipulate the mainstream media treatment of the senator.[ 34 ]

To aid DDP, the fruits of the 5 o’clock Club’s opposition research and all of the other ancillary ammunition collected against Goldwater was provided to the advertising team.…Sid Myers told CONELRAD… the most important (theme) was nuclear responsibility because at the time he (Goldwater) was saying we should use tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam….”

I had never heard of the 5 O’clock Club or Myer “Mike” Feldman or Fred Dutton before this, and wondered, if they were LBJ’s hit men on the Get Goldwater Shadow Team, did they have anything to do with what happened at Dealey Plaza?

Where were Feldman and Dutton on 11/22/63?

And the answer is, at the White House.

Biographies & Profiles
Myer Feldman

Myer "Mike" Feldman, Deputy Special Counsel to the President. AR 6295-R
Myer Feldman 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 worked on a wide range of programs, issues, and proposed legislation. He also monitored the Middle East and foreign trade matters for the President. Feldman handled most business requests to the White House relating to tariffs, airline routes, and subsidies and was one of the White House assistants responsible for briefing the President for his press conferences.

1914 June 22, Born, Philadelphia, PA
1935 B.S., Wharton School
1938 LL.B., University of Pennsylvania
1946 - 1954 Special Counsel and Executive Assistant to the Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission
1955 - 1957 Counsel, Banking and Currency Commission, U.S. Senate
1958 - 1961 Legislative Assistant to John F. Kennedy
1961 - 1964 Deputy Special Counsel to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
1964 - 1965 Counsel to President Johnson
1965 Founding Partner, Ginzburg and Feldman, Washington, DC
2007 Died March 1
See also:
Archives and Manuscripts: Myer Feldman: click here
Oral History Project: click here

Attorney; adviser to two presidents; businessman; founding board member of the Special Olympics.

Myer "Mike" Feldman worked as a legislative assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy in 1957. He became a key adviser as Kennedy prepared to run for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Feldman headed the research team that maintained "Nixopedia." After Kennedy's election, Feldman became Deputy Special Counsel to the president. 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; and he was one of the individuals responsible for briefing the President for his press conferences. Feldman continued under President Lyndon B. Johnson as White House general counsel. Feldman was involved with the Special Olympics from its inception in the 1960s. In collaboration with Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he helped set up the President's Council on Mental Retardation and provided guidance as it grew. Myer Feldman died March 3, 2007.

White House Staff Files (#8.7) consist of correspondence, memorandums, reports, notes, drafts, releases on general subjects, tariffs, trade, and legislation.
Oral History Interviews of Myer Feldman, 1966, 1967, 1968. 693 pp.

FREDERICK GARY DUTTON
June 16, 1923 – June 25, 2005

http://www.freddutton.com/history/bio/Fred_Dutton_Bio.htm

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

• Presidential Assistant to John F. Kennedy, 1961-62. Special Assistant to the President for Interdepartmental Affairs and Secretary to the Cabinet (in charge of coordinating domestic departments) and for Intergovernmental Affairs (relations with state and local governments)
• Assistant US Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, 1962-64
• Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff for California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, 1959-60
• Chief Assistant Attorney General of California for Criminal Law Enforcement, 1957-58
• Special Counsel, California State Senate Judiciary Committee, 1955-56

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

• Deputy National Chairman, Citizens for Kennedy & Johnson, 1960 Presidential Campaign
• Executive Director, 1964 Democratic National Convention Platform Committee
• Deputy National Chairman, Democratic National Committee in charge of Research, 1964 Presidential Campaign of Lyndon Johnson
• In charge of Robert F. Kennedy 1968 Presidential Primary Campaign traveling with RFK
• Campaign Manager, Edmund G. (Pat) Brown for Governor of California, 1958
• Southern California Campaign Manager, Adlai Stevenson for Prsident, 1956.
• Also invited to be campaign manager for Edmund Muskie’s 1972 Presidential Campaign. Was political advisor and traveled with the candidate in the Presidential Campaigns of Hubert Humphrey, Fall 1968, and George McGovern in 1972, and Arthur Goldberg for NY Governor, 1970
• Member of the Democratic National Committee Reform Commission, 1968-1971 (McGovern Commission)

AUTHOR

• Changing Sources of Power (in US politics), McGraw Hill, 1971, paperback, 1972
• Guide to the 1972 Presidential Election, Playboy, 1972
• Articles and Op-Ed Pieces: numerous publications including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times
• Editor, Los Angeles Bar magazine, 1955

EDUCATION and EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

University of California, Berkeley, 1946 with honors
Stanford University Law School, B.LL, 1949. On first Editorial Board of Stanford
Law Review
San Mateo High School, 1941
Board of Regents, University of California governing board, 1962-1976
Board of Trustees, American University of Cairo, 1983-86

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

• World War II, US Army, Infantry, 1943-45, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, 3 Battle Stars, Combat Infantry Badge. Prisoner of War, 1945, Germany. Rank: Lieutenant. Rainbow Division/Wounded during Battle of the Bulge
• Korean War, 1950-52, Judge Advocate General’s Corps at Pentagon, 6th Army Headquarters in California and US Army-Navy Force Joint Procurement Command in Japan

OTHER
• JFK Library, founding Coordinator, 1964-65, and organizing Director of the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project for the JFK Library

• Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, founding Executive Director of the foundation, 1968-70, and member of its Board of Directors, 1968-80

• National Town Meeting, John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, founder and Director, 1974-1981

PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE

Corporate and International Law. Member of the California, District of Columbia and US Supreme Court bars. Since 1975 practice included being chief US attorney for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and political advisor on US matters (Foreign Agents Registration with Department of Justice).

• 1949-50, Kirkbride and Wilson, San Mateo
• 1953-56, South Counties Gas Company, General Counsel’s Office, Los Angeles
• 1965, Clifford and Miller, Washington, DC
• 1965-1979, Solo Practice, Washington, DC
• 1979-present, Dutton & Dutton PC, Washington, DC with spouse/lawyer Nancy Dutton.

PERSONAL

Born: Julesburg, Colorado, June 16, 1923, son of Dr. Frederick G. Dutton and Lucy Elizabeth Parker Dutton. Family moved to San Francisco Area in 1930. Decendent from English immigrants who arrived prior to the American Revolution in Virginia (mother) and in the early 1800s in Vermont via Canada (father)

Married: Nancy Hogan Dutton, two daughters Stacy Dutton (Philadelphia) and Christina Dutton (Washington). Married and Divorced June Klingborg, son Christopher Dutton (San Anselmo, CA) daughters Lisa Dutton (Los Angeles) and Eve Dutton (San Carlos, CA)

Six Grandchildren: Andrew Dutton of San Anselmo, Parker and Pierce Cunneen of Philadelphia, Kevin and Scott Harris of San Carlos, CA, and Zoe Dutton of Los Angeles.

Edward P. Dutton, only sibling (deceased in 2002) who was a graduate school professor of social work at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) and the University of California/Berkeley; and community activist in the California Central Valley and Los Angeles, including as major advisor and political organizer for Caesar Chavez in the 1960s.

Arlington Cemetery Memorial Tribute: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fgdutton.htm

Behind-the-scenes adviser knew the fun of politics
By JULES WITCOVER
Published Thursday, July 7, 2005

Fred Dutton, the all-around adviser and strategist for leading Democrats since the Kennedy era who passed away last month at 82, was a rare breed. He walked comfortably and influentially among two customary adversaries - politicians and the press.

Dutton combined a keen knowledge of the inside workings of Washington with an optimistic, jovial personality that made him a valued counselor to such varied figures as the Kennedy brothers and, in more recent years, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States.

At the same time, Dutton had a wide circle of friends in the Washington press corps with whom he had an easy and mutually beneficial relationship in exchanging information and analyses of the events of the day.

Parties at the home of Dutton and his lawyer-partner wife, Nancy, were eclectic affairs that brought ranking politicians and other Washington insiders together with reporters, editors and columnists, often yielding grist for the next day’s news and commentary in leading journals.

Dutton was one of those most valued sources to whom you could go with confidence, not only for information but also for guidance on the dependability of stories floating about that could make you look good, if true, or leave you with
egg on your face, if false or inaccurate.

Dutton first gained political prominence as a campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson’s second presidential bid in 1956 in California, after which he ran Pat Brown’s successful campaign for governor and then served as his chief of staff in Sacramento.

He worked for the election of President John Kennedy in 1960 and was brought to Washington by him, serving as his Cabinet secretary and then assistant as secretary of state for congressional relations, a job he continued under President Lyndon Johnson.

I first met Dutton when he was Senator Robert Kennedy’s closest political adviser in his brief and dramatic presidential bid of 1968. In that frenzied campaign that ended in tragedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles minutes after Kennedy had won the California Democratic primary, Dutton was constantly at his side, offering the candidate much more than political advice.

Kennedy aides in that campaign were always required to function as crowd controllers, as enthusiastic followers endlessly sought to touch the candidate and grab articles of his clothing as souvenirs. On one California swing, Kennedy lost his shoes in the crush, and Dutton took off his own and gave them to the candidate. The mischievous RFK, in acknowledging the support of the assembled politicians at the next stop, blurted out to the perplexed crowd: "And I want to thank Fred Dutton for his shoes!"

Dutton was born in the small frontier town of Julesburg, Colorado, and during one whistle-stop swing, the train suddenly stopped there, although Kennedy wasn’t scheduled to speak. The candidate and entourage jumped off waving hand-made Dutton signs and held an impromptu rally for a grinning Fred, who did an imitation of RFK in a speech promising to "do better" and to "turn this country around." Mirth was always a constant companion of the man from Julesburg.

Dutton also was a key adviser in Sen. George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, after which he converted his public-service role to more lucrative employment as an adviser to Mobil Oil. He helped to burnish its image with sponsorship of a series of widely broadcast National Town Meeting forums at the Kennedy Center from 1974 to 196x

In a city laden with men and women on the make for celebrity, Dutton chose to keep out of the limelight, functioning in the fashion of other highly influential Democratic figures such as the late Clark Clifford and Lloyd Cutler but usually with more of the merriment that was his trademark.

Dutton combined the political skills and winning manner that would have made him an ideal candidate for public office, but he never chose to seek it. Behind the scenes, he probably accomplished more than most politicians who in their lifetimes did vie for public notoriety and acclaim, and he seemed always more content with that most constructive and joyful role.
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Frederick Dutton Dies; Power Broker, Presidential Aide
By Patricia Sullivan
Courtesy of the Washington Post
Sunday, June 26, 2005

Frederick Gary Dutton, 82, a Washington power broker who for 40 years was an adviser to the Kennedy family and the Saudi royal family, died June 25, 2005, at George Washington University Hospital of complications from a stroke.

Mr. Dutton had been the Washington liaison and consultant for Saudi Arabia since 1975and was widely credited with engineering the come-from-behind congressional approval of two major arms sales to the kingdom -- the 1978 sale of F-15 fighters and the 1981sale of radar planes.

Dubbed a "master power broker" by the Wall Street Journal and a "keen student of politics" by a New York Times correspondent, Mr. Dutton had both political credibility from his years in Democratic politics and social credibility from years spent wooing the press.

Working for John F. Kennedy, Mr. Dutton had a knack for finding ways to exercise influence. He was Kennedy's secretary of the Cabinet and served later as assistant secretary of state for congressional relations under Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the de facto campaign manager for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's presidential bid and was at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968 when the senator was fatally shot. Mr. Dutton muscled his way into the ambulance to ride to the hospital with the senator and Ethel Kennedy.

He worked on the presidential campaigns of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968 and George McGovern in 1972. He was an adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and an impresario of spin. As an adviser to Mobil Oil in the early 1970s, he suggested that the company buy an ad on newspaper op-ed pages to argue a single topic. Mobil vice president Herb Schmertz took the advice, and the corporate advertorial was born. Mr. Dutton had a brief career as a talking head, paired with John Sears on the old "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS.

A balding, pixie-ish, poker-playing rogue, Mr. Dutton was born in Julesburg, Colorado, and moved to California as a youth. During World War II, he served in the Army infantry and was wounded and taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was later awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps during the Korean War, stationed in Japan.

Mr. Dutton graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received a law degree from Stanford University in 1949. He was on the first editorial board of the Stanford Law Review with Warren M. Christopher, who became President Bill Clinton's secretary of state, and Shirley M. Hufstedler, President Jimmy Carter's secretary of education.

His political career began as Southern California campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign. Afterwards, he signed on with Edmund G. "Pat" Brown's campaign for governor and later served as his chief of staff.
Mr. Dutton was a member of the California university system's board of regents from 1962 to 1978.

In 1962, as a presidential aide, he described himself as "Typhoid Mary, carrying germs of ideas and outlooks back and forth between the State Department and Congress."

He was in charge of the platform committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, coordinator of the John F. Kennedy Library and founding director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation and served on the Democratic National Committee's McGovern Commission from 1969 to 1972, which resulted in the reform of the delegate selection process. His role in increasing the number of female delegates led feminist Betty Friedan to call him the "Papa Bear of the women's liberation movement," said Nancy Dutton, his wife and law firm partner.

Although he was once described as "Fred of Arabia," his work as a lobbyist involved much behind-the-scenes work as a "force multiplier" who paved the way for others to take the stage. He brought media personalities into social contact with politicians at dinner parties that his wife insisted were simply gatherings of friends but that are as much a part of the capital city's unwritten rules of influence as the power lunch.

"I like to keep things on a social level," Mr. Dutton said of one of his soirees.
When quoted in print, he played down the work of lobbying and observations that he was as much a political strategist as an aide to elected officials.

"When you get right down to it, we're just pimples on the process," he told The Washington Post in 1983. "So much of lobbying is just blue smoke and mirrors. One of the phoniest parts of the whole business is the extent to which the Washington office exists simply to feed the corporate vice president back home a steady diet of the insider Washington gossip. You're a bigger man on Fifth Avenue or out on Main Street if you can make a grand processional into Washington."

His marriage to June Kingborg ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, of Washington; three children from his first marriage, Christopher Dutton of San Anselmo, Calif., Lisa Dutton of Los Angeles and Eve Dutton of San Carlos, Calif.; two daughters from his second marriage, Stacy Dutton of Philadelphia and Christina Dutton of Washington; and seven grandchildren.
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Frederick Dutton, Adviser to the Kennedys and the Saudis, Is Dead at 82
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
Published: June 27, 2005

Jne 26, 2005 - Frederick G. Dutton, a Washington lawyer who spent the first half of his career as an adviser to the Kennedys and other Democratic politicians and the last half primarily as the lobbyist for Saudi Arabia, died here on Saturday. He was 82.

The cause was complications from a stroke, his family said.

Mr. Dutton worked on John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and after the election he came to Washington to be on the White House staff. After serving a year as a presidential assistant, he became assistant secretary of state for Congressional relations.

He was a deputy national chairman of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign in 1964, and he was effectively Robert F. Kennedy's campaign manager in the Democratic primaries in 1968.

Among the other Democratic politicians that he worked for were Adlai E. Stevenson, Hubert H. Humphrey and George McGovern. He remained close to the Kennedy family and helped to develop the John F. Kennedy Library and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, a foundation.

In the 1970's, he was hired by the Saudi royal family to be their Washington consultant and lobbyist. Filings with the Justice Department show that he earned millions of dollars from the Saudis over the years.

Mr. Dutton was instrumental in winning government support for the sale of fighter planes to the Saudis in 1978 and radar planes in 1981. In 2002, records show, he received more than $500,000 to help manage the Saudis' public response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Frederick Gary Dutton was born on June 16, 1923, in Julesburg, Colorado, the son of a doctor. In 1930, his family moved to the San Francisco area, and he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford University Law School.
Mr. Dutton was in the infantry in World War II. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He was recalled into the Army in the Korean War to serve in the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Shortly after he left the Army, Mr. Dutton became involved in politics in California. He was special counsel to the State Senate Judiciary Committee, chief assistant attorney general and chief of staff for Gov. Edmund G. Brown Sr.

In the Kennedy White House, Mr. Dutton was secretary to the cabinet and coordinator of domestic policy.

He began a law practice in Washington in 1965. Thanks to a friend from the Kennedy campaigns who was an executive for the Mobil Corporation, that company became one of his main clients.

Mr. Dutton's first marriage, to June Klingborg, ended in divorce. His second wife, Nancy Hogan Dutton, also became his law partner. In addition to her, he is survived by three children from his first marriage, Christopher, of San Anselmo, Calif.; Lisa, of Los Angeles; and Eve, of San Carlos, Calif.; two daughters from his second marriage, Stacy, of Philadelphia and Christina, of Washington; and seven grandchildren.

In an interview in 1978, Mr. Dutton said he was hired by the Saudis after Senator J. W. Fulbright, then the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told Rawleigh Warner Jr., the chief executive of Mobil, that the Saudis did not "handle themselves well" in Washington. Mr. Warner passed the message and Mr. Dutton's name to the Saudi government.

Many of Mr. Dutton's duties for the Saudis revolved around multibillion-dollar arms sales and development projects. But others were more personal, like negotiating the purchase of an apartment for the Saudi foreign minister on Park Avenue in New York City and finding orthopedic chairs for ailing Saudi royalty.
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Fred Dutton Remembered
June 27, 2005

Fred Dutton, a Democratic power broker in both Washington and California who served as assistant to President John F. Kennedy and chief of staff for Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, has died. He was 82.

Dutton died Saturday at George Washington University Hospital in the nation's capital of complications from a stroke.

Dutton wrote two books on national politics: "Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970s," published in 1971, and "Election Guide for 1972" in 1972.
He also contributed frequent Op-Ed articles to The Times and other newspapers and was paired for some months with Ronald Reagan's campaign chief John Sears on PBS' "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour."

After campaigning for Kennedy, Dutton moved to Washington in 1961 as his assistant for interdepartmental and intergovernmental affairs and secretary of the Cabinet. He later transferred to the State Department as assistant secretary for congressional affairs.

"The relationship of government to the chief executive, whether it is the president or a governor, is somewhat similar," he told The Times as he eased from state to national problem-solving more than four decades ago. But "the governor of California has more space — and it is more efficiently organized — than the president. I don't think anyone outside knows how small the White House office is."

When Kennedy was slain, Dutton was tapped as coordinator of the John F. Kennedy Library, where he organized the Kennedy Oral History Project. Loyal to the Democratic party as well as the Kennedy family, Dutton took charge of the platform committee for the 1964 convention and wrote speeches for Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign.

When Robert F. Kennedy ran for president in 1968, Dutton served as behind-the-scenes campaign manager. He was with the candidate when he was slain at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, and rode with Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, in the ambulance to the hospital. Later, Dutton served as founding director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation.

He also served on the Democratic National Committee's McGovern Commission from 1969 to 1972 to revamp the convention delegate selection process. His effort to include more women prompted feminist Betty Friedan to dub him "the Papa Bear of the women's liberation movement."

Dutton also worked on the presidential campaigns of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968 and George McGovern in 1972, but did so reluctantly.

"After Bobby was shot, the lights went out for me," he told The Times in 1981. "I've never really been as involved in presidential politics again as I was then."

The disillusionment helped explain to many why the unabashedly liberal Dutton, who established his Washington law firm in 1965, later agreed to represent the conservative Saudi Arabian government. He became so skillful at negotiating for and with the Saudi royals that one opposing Washington lobbyist dubbed him "Fred of Arabia," alluding to Britain's Lawrence of Arabia.

Dutton's efforts to engineer the sale of defense equipment in 1981 even placed him on the same side as conservative President Reagan, little more than a decade after the two men had clashed when both sat on the UC Board of Regents.

It was Dutton who coined the slogan "Reagan or Begin" — referring to then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel — to promote the sale of Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes to Saudi Arabia, a transaction that many American Jews saw as a slap at U.S. alliances with Israel.

"I enjoy the intellectual vicariousness of it. They are obviously paying me very well," he told The Times in 1981, explaining his acceptance of the job requiring him to do such varied tasks as lobbying Congress to ship recliners to the Saudi king and defending Saudi students in auto accidents. "And I'm back in politics without it being at the personal level. I'm not back with Bob Kennedy in the hallway of the Ambassador Hotel. I like the fight…. I think international policy is important."

Long before Dutton became a player in national and international politics, he had ensconced himself in California's halls of power.

Born Frederick Gary Dutton on June 16, 1923, in Julesburg, Colorado, Dutton moved to San Mateo, California, with his parents when he was 7.

He served in the Army during World War II and became a prisoner of war after he was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
After completing his bachelor's degree with honors at UC Berkeley, he earned a law degree at Stanford, where he was on the first editorial board of its law review, along with Warren M. Christopher, future secretary of State in the Clinton administration, and Shirley M. Hufstedler, who would serve as secretary of Education for President Carter.

Dutton began his private law practice in San Mateo, and after serving in the judge advocate general's corps during the Korean War, became chief counsel for what was then the South Counties Gas Co. in Los Angeles.

The energetic attorney cut his political teeth running the Southern California presidential campaign for Adlai Stevenson in 1956. That year he also linked up with Brown as the future governor's chief assistant in the state attorney general's office.

As Brown's campaign manager in 1958, Dutton succeeded in bringing the first Democrat to the governor's chair in the 20th century. A grateful Brown made him chief of staff, where Dutton helped push the landmark California Water Project through the Legislature.

The two men remained close even after Dutton left to join the Kennedy campaign in 1960, and Brown appointed him to the UC board, where he served from 1962 until resigning in 1976. As a regent, Dutton championed student protesters in the free-speech movement at Berkeley's People's Park and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.

Dutton clashed frequently with Reagan, who unlike other California governors took his automatic seat on the board seriously and attended meetings. Dutton and Reagan traded barbs over many issues, including Reagan's 1970 imposition of tuition, accusations that each politicized the board and Dutton's assertion that UC was a racist institution.

Reagan was so provoked at one 1970 regents meeting in San Francisco that he shook his finger at Dutton and called him a liar.

Dutton is survived by his wife and law partner, Nancy; their two children, Stacy Dutton of Philadelphia and Christina Dutton of Washington, D.C.; three children from his first marriage to June Kingborg, Christopher Dutton of San Anselmo, Calif., Lisa Dutton of Los Angeles and Eve Dutton of San Carlos, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services and burial with full military honors took place at Arlington National Cemetery on 30 September 2005.

DUTTON, FREDERICK GARY
1ST LT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II, KOREA
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/16/1923
DATE OF DEATH: 06/25/2005
BURIED AT: SECTION 32 SITE 250
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY