Still wet behind the ears and just out of graduate school, I was fantastically lucky in 1974 to land a job as special assistant to Governor Brendan Byrne, reporting to Byrne's incredibly talented Special Counsel Lewis B. Kaden. I am eternally grateful to Lew Kaden for having taken a chance on this non-lawyer to undertake a policy research and planning function in education, healthcare and intergovernmental fiscal relations that under-girded the rest of my professional life in public finance. The Northeast-Midwest Institute was founded in no small measure because of the groundwork laid in 1976 by Lew Kaden, David Burke, Felix Rohatyn and the Northeast Governors' staff conception and execution of the "100 days project" culminating in the CONEG conference at Saratoga Springs and the Agenda for Action for the Northeast presented by the Governors to President-elect Jimmy Carter and his domestic policy transition team at Blair House a few weeks after his election.
Here is the full Lew Kaden story as it appeared on Legacy.com:
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