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Film Industry Lobby Picks Successor to Valenti

By SHARON WAXMAN

Published: July 1, 2004

LOS ANGELES, July 1 — Dan Glickman, former agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton and a long-serving Democratic Congressman, has been named to head the Motion Picture Association of America, taking over from Jack Valenti who headed the movie lobby group for 38 years.

Mr. Glickman, 59, will resign his current position running the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government to take over the association in September, ending a search that has taken more than two years.

You can read the full story in the Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/movies/01CND-STUD.html?hp

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