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Frank Mankiewicz is Vice-Chairman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hill_and_Knowlton" title="Hill and Knowlton" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hill and Knowlton</a>.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_on_Budget_and_Policy_Priorities" title="Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Center on Budget and Policy Priorities</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Mankiewicz#cite_note-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Committee, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jewish_Fund_for_Justice" title="Jewish Fund for Justice" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jewish Fund for Justice</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Frank Mankiewicz, "Power Failure", Letter to the Editor, Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2006, page 6. (Not available online). (The<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_Energy_Institute" title="Nuclear Energy Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nuclear Energy Institute</a> is one of H&K's clients).</li>

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Frank Fabian Mankiewicz II (born May 16, 1924) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">journalist</a>.

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He grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,California" title="Beverly Hills, California" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Beverly Hills, California</a>, the son of Sara (Aaronson) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">screenwriter</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Mankiewicz" title="Herman Mankiewicz" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Herman Mankiewicz</a>, who co-wrote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane" title="Citizen Kane" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Citizen Kane</a>. His uncle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mankiewicz" title="Joseph Mankiewicz" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Joseph Mankiewicz</a>, directed such films as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Eve" title="All About Eve" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All About Eve</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra(1963_film)" title="Cleopatra (1963 film)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cleopatra</a>. His brother is television writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mankiewicz" title="Don Mankiewicz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Don Mankiewicz</a>.

Mankiewicz received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_arts" title="Bachelor of arts" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">B.A.</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">political science</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of California, Los Angeles</a> in 1947; a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">master's degree</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism" title="Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism</a> in 1948; and an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL.B." title="LL.B." class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">LL.B.</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1955. He has been president of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio" title="National Public Radio" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Public Radio</a>, regional director for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peace Corps</a> in Latin America, campaign director for 1972 Democratic presidential nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George McGovern</a>, and presidential campaign press secretary in 1968 to Sen. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, D-N.Y. In June 1968, Mankiewicz made the famous announcement of Kennedy's death about 26 hours after the Senator was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He told reporters:

"I have, uh, a short..... I have a short announcement to read, which I will read, uh..... at this time. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 AM today, June 6, 1968. With Senator Kennedy at the time of his death were his wife Ethel, his sisters Mrs. Stephen Smith, Mrs. Patricia Lawford, his brother-in-law Mr. Stephen Smith, and his sister-in-law Mrs. John F. Kennedy. He was 42 years old. Thank you."

His work in politics earned him a place on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents" title="Master list of Nixon political opponents" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">master list of Nixon political opponents</a>. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Maryland</a> in 1974.

An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated" title="Animated" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">animated</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody" title="Parody" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">parody</a> of him appears in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_Central" title="Comedy Central" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Comedy Central</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_series" title="Television series" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">television series</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_Show_(TV_series)" title="Freak Show (TV series)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Freak Show</a> as a parking garage attendant at the Pentagon.

In 1984, Frank Mankiewicz wrote for Quarante magazine owned by Kathleen Katz of Arlington. A piece he wrote for Quarante in 1985 was one of the first to point out how television coverage of politics had changed. The article was titled, "Politics and Media: In Search of An Angle." He wrote:

As part-time advisor to Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1984—the first I had participated in actively since 1972—I was struck by the minutiae of the press's questions. The authorship of a speech—the identity of the speechwriters—seemed far more important than its content. Strategy was a primary concern—which votes are being sought? How much money has been raised for television commercials? Who will produce the commercials?.... Rarely if ever does the question turn on such things as "does he have the right ideas?" or "would he make a strong—or even good—president?"

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Mankiewicz lives in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C." title="Washington D.C." class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington D.C.</a> with his wife, novelist Patricia O'Brien, who also writes under the pseudonym of Kate Alcott. His son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Mankiewicz" title="Josh Mankiewicz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Josh Mankiewicz</a>is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NBC News</a> correspondent. His son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Mankiewicz" title="Ben Mankiewicz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ben Mankiewicz</a> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Turner Classic Movies</a> host and a host on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks(talk_show)" title="The Young Turks (talk show)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Young Turks</a>, who also served from September 2008 to September 2009 as co-host (with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lyons" title="Ben Lyons" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ben Lyons</a>) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies(U.S._TV_series)" title="At the Movies (U.S. TV series)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">At The Movies</a>. Both Josh and Ben Mankiewicz live in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Los Angeles</a>.

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Mankiewicz and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn_Nofziger" title="Lyn Nofziger" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lyn Nofziger</a> were major players in halting the 1970s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States" title="Metrication in the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">metrication</a> effort in the U.S., largely by convincing President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ronald Reagan</a> to shut down the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Metric_Board" title="United States Metric Board" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States Metric Board</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Mankiewicz#cite_note-metric-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-metric-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Mankiewicz#cite_ref-metric_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a>} Mankiewicz, Frank (March 29, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032802142.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Nofziger: A Friend With Whom It Was a Pleasure to Disagree"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Washington Post</a>.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm542533/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Frank Mankiewicz</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" title="Internet Movie Database" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Internet Movie Database</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1246" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">C-SPAN Q&A interview with Mankiewicz, August 23, 2009</a></li>

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<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Frank Mankiewicz is a vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton’s Washington D.C. office and a senior member of the public affairs practice. In this position, he counsels numerous national and international clients on media strategy and public affairs. <br style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Prior to joining Hill & Knowlton's predecessor, Gray and Company in 1983, Mr. Mankiewicz was president of National Public Radio. Under his leadership, the NPR audience increased from two to eight million listeners for a network of nearly 300 non-commercial stations. <br style=" list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />

<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">Active in politics, Mankiewicz served as press secretary to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as presidential campaign director for Sen. George McGovern, and has been active in national and regional political campaigns as a senior advisor to political candidates. In the mid-1960s, he served as regional director of the Peace Corps for Latin America. He is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

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