John P. Wheeler III, American presidential aide, first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. died his (body was found on this date) he was , 66

John "Jack" Parsons Wheeler III  was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971–1972), held various positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978–1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009–death), member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations, and also held numerous other positions in the US military, the US government, and with US corporations died his (body was found on this date) he was , 66.^[2][3]

(December 14, 1944 – c. December 30, 2010)

 Early life

John Parsons Wheeler III descended from a family of military professionals which included Joseph Wheeler, who had served as a general both in the Confederate Army, and later with the United States Army. Wheeler III was born in Laredo, Texas, where his mother was staying with her mother while his father was in Europe. Five days after the delivery, the family received a telegram that his father was missing in action in the Battle of the Bulge. His father was later found to be alive.^[4]

Military career

Wheeler was a member of the United States Military Academy class of 1966 which lost 10 percent of its members in the Vietnam War.^[4]
After graduating from West Point, he was a fire control platoon leader at a MIM-14 Nike-Hercules base at Franklin Lakes, New Jersey from 1966 to 1967. From 1967 to 1969 he was a graduate student at Harvard Business School spending the summer of 1968 as a systems analyst for Office of Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC. From 1969 to 1970 he served in a non-combat position at Long Binh in Vietnam. From 1970 to 1971 he served on the General Staff at The Pentagon^[2]
Wheeler's West Point and laters years are featured prominently in Rick Atkinson's book, "The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966."

Law career

After leaving the military he was a senior planner for Amtrak in 1971 and 1972. From 1972 to 1975 he attended law school at Yale University becoming a clerk for George E. MacKinnon in 1975–76 and an associate for Shea & Gardner in 1976–78. From 1978 to 1986 he was Assistant General Counsel, Special Counsel to Chairman, and Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission.^[2]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

From 1979 to 1989 he was chairman of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial which opened in 1982. He had supported the controversial Maya Lin design and ran afoul of Ross Perot and Jim Webb who tried to oust him after they disagreed with the stark design. Wheeler worked to address their issues by adding The Three Soldiers sculpture by Frederick Hart to the memorial.
In 1983, Carlton Sherwood ran a four part series on WDMV-TV (now WUSA) "Vietnam Memorial: A Broken Promise?" which focused on Wheeler's handling of the Memorial Fund saying that most of the $9 million raised for the memorial was not accounted for. In the piece, Sherwood cast aspersions on Wheeler's career questioning his decision not go directly to Vietnam out of West Point and noting he had been disciplined shortly after arriving in Vietnam in 1969 for "misappropriation" of government property. A General Accounting Office audit spurred by the television report cleared Wheeler. WMDV made an on-air apology and donated $50,000 to the memorial.^[4]
In 1985, he published the memoir Touched With Fire: The Future of the Vietnam Generation, a book about the post-war experiences of Vietnam soldiers and anti-war protesters.

Other service

In 1988–89, Wheeler worked with George H.W. Bush to establish the Earth Conservation Corps. From 1997 to 2001, he was President and CEO, Deafness Research Foundation. He was consultant to acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from 2001 to 2005, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2009, he was Special Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Energy. From 1983 to 1987, he was Chairman and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and from 1993 until his death, he was the founding CEO of Vietnam Children's Fund.^[2]

Death

Wheeler was allegedly seen on December 28, 2010, exiting an Amtrak train,^[5] and later, on the afternoon of December 30, 2010, at 10th and Orange streets in Wilmington.^[6] On December 31, his body was seen by a landfill worker falling onto a trash heap in the Cherry Island Landfill.^[7] Police ruled his death a homicide and claimed that "all the stops made Friday (December 31) by the garbage truck before it arrived at the landfill involved large commercial disposal bins in Newark (Delaware), several miles from Wheeler's home."^[5]
Wheeler's neighbor of seven months, Ron Roark, said that he had met Wheeler only once and rarely saw him. Roark claimed that, in the days prior to Wheeler's death, he (Roark) and his family heard, from outside the Wheeler residence, a loud television within the home that was constantly on, though no one appeared to be home.^[8]
According to the Washington Post, Wheeler was sighted on December 29 at the New Castle County courthouse parking garage, disoriented and wearing only one shoe, as the other was ripped. Wheeler, attempting to gain access to the parking garage on foot, claimed that he wanted to warm up before paying a parking fee. (Police later determined that his car was not actually in the parking garage, but rather at a train station.) Wheeler explained to the parking garage attendant that his briefcase had been stolen and repeatedly denied being intoxicated. It is also claimed that, on December 29, Wheeler asked a pharmacist for a ride to Wilmington and "looked upset." The pharmacist offered to call a cab for Wheeler, at which point Wheeler left the store.^[9]
On December 30, Wheeler was sighted wandering various office buildings, including Mitre and DuPont locations, where he refused offers of assistance from several individuals.^[9] On January 28, 2011, the Delaware state medical examiner's office reported Wheeler's cause of death as assault and "blunt force trauma" without elaboration.^[1]
Wheeler's body will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors in April 2011.^[10]

Bibliography

• Wheeler, John (January 1982). "Theological Reflections upon the Vietnam War". Anglican Theological Review 64 (1): 1–14. 
• Wheeler, John (1984). Touched with Fire: The Future of the Vietnam Generation. New York: Watts. ISBN 053109832X. OCLC 10207966.

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Paul Calle American artist, postage stamp designer, died from melanoma.he was , 82,

Paul Calle  was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations. The sole artist hired by NASA to cover the Apollo 11 astronauts up close, Calle designed the 10-cent stamp that commemorated the first manned moon landing; it depicted an astronaut stepping onto the moon from the lunar module, with the Earth visible over the moon's horizon.

( March 3, 1928 – December 30, 2010)

Calle was born on March 3, 1928, in the Manhattan borough of New York City and earned his undergraduate degree from Pratt Institute. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War, doing illustration work. Returning to the United States, Calle's early career included designing magazine covers for The Saturday Evening Post as well as for a series of science fiction publications.^[1]

In 1962, Calle was among the first group selected to participate in the NASA Art Program. Calle contributed a pair of complementary five-cent stamps issued in 1967 as part of the Accomplishments in Space Commemorative Issue, with the right stamp showing the Gemini 4 space capsule with the Earth's horizon as a backdrop, while the left stamp showed astronaut Ed White making the first American spacewalk.^[2][1] His best-known stamp was designed to mark the first manned moon landing and was issued in September 1969, showing an astronaut stepping out onto the surface of the moon.^[1] The Apollo 11 crew carried with them a die proof of Calle's moon-landing stamp, which was hand canceled by the astronauts while on the mission.^[1][3] Calle had been given exclusive access to be with the astronauts on July 16, 1969, while they made their final preparations for the Apollo 11 mission.^[1] The sketches he made based on his experiences that day have been displayed at the National Air and Space Museum and at the National Gallery of Art.^[4] Together with his son Chris, Calle returned to the subject of space exploration with a pair of stamps issued in 1994 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the first manned moon landing.^[1]
Calle produced dozens of postage stamp designs, featuring such individuals as Douglas MacArthur and Robert Frost. He also produced Western-themed artworks that have been shown at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, as well as a 1981 stamp honoring Frederic Remington.^[1] His depictions of the American West have been included in the collections of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma and at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.^[4]
After doctors discovered that his melanoma had metastasized, he was placed on intravenous Ipilimumab, an experimental treatment being tested by Bristol-Myers Squibb that is meant to improve the response by the immune system to fight cancer. An initial course of treatment with the test drug combined with chemotherapy left no trace of the cancer in his body.^[5] A resident of Stamford, Connecticut, Calle died there at the age of 82 on December 30, 2010, of melanoma. He was survived by a daughter, two sons and six grandchildren. His wife Olga died in 2003; they had been married for more than 50 years.^[1]

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Donald Carroll, American author died he was , 70

Donald Carroll  was an American author, editor, poet, columnist and humourist died he was , 70.

(12 December 1940 – 30 December 2010)

 Early life

Born in Dallas, Texas in 1940, he was educated at the University of Texas, where he founded the poetry quarterly Quagga^[1] - which published the work of Richard Wilbur, e.e. cummings, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Robert Creeley, among others - and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he founded The Dubliner,^[2] a literary magazine, and edited the anthology, New Poets of Ireland. While at Trinity his own poems were widely published and earned an invitation from T.S. Eliot to visit him in London.^[3]

Editor and Publisher

Carroll moved to London in 1964 and after a brief spell as a literary agent, during which he met Quentin Crisp and worked closely with him in producing The Naked Civil Servant,^[4] he set up his own publishing house^[5] in 1966. The firm’s first two books, The Liverpool Scene, which introduced the 'Liverpool poets', and The Wife of Martin Guerre, made an immediate impact. By the end of the company’s first year, its list of authors included Robert Bly, Brigid Brophy, Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, James Dickey, Adrian Henri, Michael Levey, Edward Lucie-Smith, Roger McGough, Charles Osborne, Brian Patten and Ralph Steadman. The London Evening Standard declared Carroll to be, at 26, ‘one of the British publishing world’s most important and successful figures.’

[edit] Columnist and Humourist

After a disagreement over editorial policy with his firm’s German backer, he left publishing in 1968 to become a columnist, producing four national newspaper and magazine columns^[6] in addition to his own newsletter, The Fifth Column. In 1972 he returned to the US, living first in Los Angeles and then in New York, where he continued his columns for the London Evening News and Books and Bookmen. Over the next few years he also conducted a series of highly-acclaimed interviews (with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Kenneth Tynan, Malcolm Muggeridge, Henry Moore et al.) for the Xerox Education Group which were collected in a book, The Donald Carroll Interviews. In addition he wrote several humorous books, including Doing It with Style, in which he revived his collaboration with Quentin Crisp.

Recent years

In 1984 he returned briefly to England, before moving to Greece and then settling in Turkey, where he built a house at the tip of the Bodrum peninsula.^[7] Here he wrote the first of his travel books, the award-winning Insider's Guide to Turkey, as well as numerous articles for publications in England and America. It was also here that he became fascinated with the excavations at Ephesus, an interest that led eventually to his book Mary’s House, which established his reputation as the world’s leading expert on the history and discovery of the House of the Virgin Mary at Ephesus.
Since 1997 he lived in southwest France and died there on the 30th December, 2010.

Selected bibliography

• New Poets of Ireland (1963) Editor
• Art of the Romantic Era by Marcel Brion (1966) Translator
• The Donald Carroll Interviews (1973) ISBN 0-900735-15-5
• Four’s Company (1973) interviews; ISBN 0-900735-17-1
• Movements in Modern Art (1973) with Edward Lucie-Smith ISBN 0-8180-0122-4
• Dear Sir, Drop Dead!: Hate mail through the ages (1979) Editor ISBN 0-02-040360-7
• Why Didn’t I Say That?: The art of verbal self-defence (1980) ISBN 0-531-09923-7
• Doing It with Style (1981) with Quentin Crisp ISBN 0-531-09852-4
• The Best Excuse (1983) ISBN 0-698-11219-9
• The Insider’s Guide to Turkey (1990) ISBN 0-86190-283-1
• The Insider’s Guide to Florida (1991) ISBN 0-962-7031-60-7
• The Insider’s Guide to Eastern Canada (1993) ISBN 0-86190-395-1
• The Insider’s Guide to Western Canada (1994) ISBN 0-86190-396-X
• Resident Alien: The New York diaries of Quentin Crisp (1996) Editor ISBN 0-00-225649-9
• Mary’s House: The extraordinary story behind the discovery of the house where the Virgin Mary lived and died (2000) ISBN 0-9538188-0-2
• Surprised by France (2005) ISBN 1-901130-44-4

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Sir Ellis Clarke, Trinidadian politician, Governor-General (1972–1976) and President (1976–1987) died he was , 93,

Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, TC, GCMG ^[1] was the second and last Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago and the first President of Trinidad and Tobago died he was , 93. Clarke was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.

(28 December 1917 – 30 December 2010)

Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning an Island Scholarship in Mathematics in 1938. Ellis Clarke attended University College London of the University of London where he received a Bachelor of Law degree and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn. He returned to Port of Spain in 1941, taking up private practice there.
He served as Solicitor-General from 1954–1956, Deputy Colonial Secretary 1956–1957, and Attorney General 1957–1962. After Independence in 1962 he served as Ambassador to the United States, Canada and Mexico, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

In 1972 he succeeded Sir Solomon Hochoy as Governor General. When Trinidad and Tobago became a Republic in 1976, Clarke was unanimously elected the country's first President by the presidential electoral college, which comprised the elected members of both Houses of Parliament. He was re-elected by the PNM-controlled electoral college and completed his second term in 1987. Disagreements with the new National Alliance for Reconstruction government resulted in Clarke's decision not to seek a third term. He was succeeded by Noor Hassanali.
Ellis Clarke was invested as a Companion of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II in 1960 and was awarded a knighthood as a Knight Grand Cross of that Order in 1972. Although he ceased to use the title Sir after the country became a republic, after retirement from the presidency he re-adopted his title and was generally referred to as 'Former President, Sir Ellis Clarke' or Sir Ellis.
He was married to Lady Ermyntrude Clarke (1921–2002) for almost fifty years. They had three children: Peter Clarke (married to Suzanne Traboulay, a former beauty queen), Margaret-Ann (married to Gordon Fisken of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Richard (who died as a young child). Sir Ellis also has four grandsons: John Peter, Michael, Alexander and David, and one granddaughter, Katrina.
Ellis Clarke was one of six experts worldwide asked to submit reports to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee in 1993 detailing his country's experience in moving from a constitutional monarchy to a republic.
On 24 November 2010, Clarke suffered a massive stroke. He died on 30 December 2010, two days after his 93rd birthday.^[2]

Political offices
Preceded by Sir Solomon Hochoy	Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago 1973–1976	Succeeded by —
Preceded by —	President of Trinidad and Tobago 1976–1986	Succeeded by Noor Hassanali

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Bobby Farrell, Aruba-born dancer and entertainer (Boney M.). died he was , 61

Roberto "Bobby" Alfonso Farrell  was a dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.^[2]

(October 6, 1949 – December 30, 2010)

Early years

Farrell was born and raised on the island of Aruba in the Lesser Antilles, where he lived until the age of 15. After finishing school he worked as a sailor for 2 years, travelling across the oceans before settling in Norway. From Norway, he went to the Netherlands, where he got some work as a DJ in the Netherlands before getting better opportunities in Germany.


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Years with Boney M.

In Germany, he worked mostly as a DJ until producer Frank Farian spotted him for his new Boney M. group. He became the sole male singer in the group, although Farian later revealed that Bobby made almost no vocal contributions to the group's records, with Farian himself performing the male parts on the songs in the studio. Liz Mitchell claimed that only she and Farian had sung on the hit recordings. Farrell did, however, perform live in some of the various incarnations of 'Boney M', including the main 1970s incarnation.^[3]
He also appeared as a dancer in late 2005 in the Roger Sanchez video clip of Turn on the Music.

Later years and death

Farrell lived for many years in Amsterdam, in the neighbourhood of Gaasperdam in Amsterdam Zuidoost.
He died on the morning of December 30, 2010, in a hotel in Saint Petersburg, due to heart failure.^[4] His agent John Seine said Farrell was complaining of breathing problems after performing with his band the evening before.^[5][6] Farrell's body was reportedly discovered by hotel staff after he failed to respond to a wake-up call.^[7]

Discography

Singles

• 1982: Polizei / A Fool In Love
• 1985: King Of Dancing / I See You
• 1987: Hoppa Hoppa / Hoppa Hoppa (Instrumental)
• 1991: Tribute To Josephine Baker
• 2004: Aruban Style (Mixes) S-Cream Featuring Bobby Farrell
• 2006: The Bump EP

Bobby Farrell's Boney M. / Boney M. Featuring Bobby Farrell / Bobby Farrell Featuring Sandy Chambers

• 2000: The Best Of Boney M. (DVMore)
• 2001: Boney M. – I Successi (DVMore)
• 2001: The Best Of Boney M. (II) (compilation)
• 2001: The Best Of Boney M. (III) (compilation)
• 2005: Boney M. – Remix 2005 (featuring Sandy Chambers) (compilation) (Crisler)
• 2007: Boney M. – Disco Collection (compilation)

Please note: all of these releases contain re-recordings of Boney M.'s hits - not the original versions.

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Thomas Funck, Swedish author,composer and director died he was , 91.

Thomas Fredrik Georg Funck  was a Swedish baron (freiherr), author of children's literature, radio personality and voice artist, most famous for his stories about Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball (Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll), died he was , 91. He has been married to the TV hostess Eva Funck, is the brother of the singer and director Hasse Funck and currently resides in Hallingeberg, Västervik, Sweden.^[1]



(October 26, 1919-December 30, 2010)

Early career

Thomas Funck, who started out writing literature aimed for adults, has claimed to never have had a permanent employment.^[1] During the 40s he supported himself primarily as a guitar teacher. He performed in Norwegian radio for the first time in 1946 with his own written songs to guitar. During this time he started to get stories sold to be read and performed in Swedish radio as well.^[2]

Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball

Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball had appeared as parts of Swedish radio shows since the mid 40s, but portrayed by regular actors. In the early 50s Funck started to do the voice of Charlie Strap. The big breakthrough came in 1954, when all voices for the first time were provided by Funck himself, only with help of a guitar for sound effects. The radio performances were followod by several records with the same concept, a cartoon drawn by Nils Egerbrandt and from 1955 a series of books with illustrations by Einar Norelius. In 1956 there was a musical film made, Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends (Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner), with actors in costumes miming while Funck provided the voices. Some parts were also animated with dolls.^[3]
After the 50s the interest seemed to fade, but in the 70s the characters saw a revival after appearing on radio again.^[2] In the late 80s to early 90s two animated films where produced, directed by Jan Gissberg.

Characters

• Charlie Strap - A grasshopper dressed in a green tailcoat who speaks of himself in third person. He is very controlled on the border to neurotic and owns an umbrella with a silver ferrule.

• Froggy Ball - A rough but very kind frog who speaks in a sloppy way with lots of slang and wears a waistcoat.

• Plåt-Niklas (Sheet Metal Niklas; roughly "Tin Man") - A robot with extraordinary abilities.

• The Hen - A good friend of Charlie Strap who lives in a chicken coop.

• The Fox - A fox who might not always be completely trustworthy. Speaks in a slow way with random pauses for laughs.

• The Parrot - A parrot who grows tired of sitting in her cage all day and prefers adventure together with Charlie Strap and the others.

Filmography

• Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends (Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner) (1956)
• Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball (Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll räddar Hönan) (1987)
• Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High (Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på svindlande äventyr) (1991)

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Roger Milliken, American textile executive (Milliken & Co.) died he was , 95

 Roger Milliken  was a U.S. textile heir and businessman whose grandfather, Seth Milliken, co-founded a small textile company, Deering Milliken Company, in Portland, Maine, in 1865  died he was , 95. The company is today known as Milliken & Co.. In its early days, the company acquired financially strapped cotton mills as well as failed department stores, which eventually merged into the Mercantile Stores Company, Inc. In 1884, Deering Milliken Company invested in its first property near Spartanburg, South Carolina, where the company's headquarters have been based since 1958.
Milliken attended Yale University, where he studied French history. He graduated in 1937.

(October 24, 1915 – December 30, 2010)

Career

Roger started out in New York City’s Mercantile Stores, in which his family had an ownership stake. There he made the rounds of suppliers, seeing to it that coats and suits ordered by the stores were delivered. One of his jobs there was to pin up the hems of women’s coats. In 1941, he was given the stewardship of three small woolen-producing mills in Maine. When his father, Gerrish, died in 1947, the 32-year-old Milliken succeeded him as president.^[1]

In 1976, Deering Milliken Company changed its named to Milliken & Co., since the company's co-founder, William Deering, had moved onto other business ventures shortly after the company's original inception. Today Milliken & Co. is the largest privately-held textile & chemical manufacturing firm in the world, with 50 manufacturing facilities in seven countries. The firm has approximately 9,000 employees and has over 2,000 patents it has developed over the years.
The firm grew through product innovation and development as well as superior customer service. Milliken, who resided in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is known for the millions of dollars he donated to the Republican Party over many years as well as his fierce opposition to unionization. However, his unfailing commitment to manufacture products in America put him at odds with free trade Republicans and caused him to join with United States trade unions to protect U.S. workers. He initiated the "Made with Pride in the USA" programs in the 1990s. He served as president of his company until 1983, when he transitioned into the dual roles of chairman and CEO. He resigned from his duties as CEO in January 2006 at age 90, but remained the active role of chairman until his death.

Philanthropy/Awards

In 1999, Milliken established the Noble Tree Foundation to encourage the planting of enduring and beautiful trees, particularly in rundown or overlooked corners of the Greenville-Spartanburg area and at traffic interchanges. In 2004, Milliken received the Frederick Law Olmsted Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by the National Arbor Day Foundation. With his help, the entire Wofford College campus was declared a National Arboretum, later named for him. The science center at the Spartanburg college also sports his name. He was the only chairman of the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport Commission from its inception in 1959 until his death, and he was instrumental in the founding of Spartanburg Day School in 1957.^[2]
Textile World Magazine named him its "leader of the century" in 1999. Mr. Milliken was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2000. That same year, Milliken donated $5 millon of the $14.5 million needed to construct the Milliken Science Center, which opened on the campus of Wofford College in 2001. This state-of-the-art facility was an expansion and partial renovation of a prior science building on the campus also named for his generosity. In 2004, Wofford College announced the creation of a faculty award^[3] named after Milliken, and in 2008 celebrated its first annual Roger Milliken Day^[4] while also bestowing him the title of Trustee Emeritus.

Political affiliations/activities

According to Brian Doherty of Reason magazine, Milliken "was one of the earliest and most fervent supporters" of libertarian activist Robert LeFevre, and "used to require high execs in his Deering-Milliken company to take LeFevre classes."^[5] He also served on the board of the Foundation for Economic Education, "the first modern libertarian educational institution."^[5]
In addition to his devotion to libertarian causes, Milliken was also active in the conservative movement. He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to conservative politicians and political action committees including Sharp Pencil PAC,^[6] Bob Barr Leadership Fund, Peace Through Strength PAC,^[7] Fund for America's Future,^[8] and Freedom's Defense Fund.^{[9][10] [11]}
Milliken supported Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign in 1964 and helped to persuade South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond to leave the Democratic Party.^[12] He also served as one of three industrial advisers to 1996 Presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan. In the 2000 election, when Buchanan ran as the Reform Party Presidential candidate, Milliken raised a significant proportion of the campaign's total funds.^[13] Like Buchanan, Milliken was a vocal critic of free trade, opposing NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO as well as most favored nation status and permanent normal trade relations with China.^[12] In the 2008 presidential campaign, Milliken backed California congressman Duncan Hunter. Hunter campaigned in opposition to illegal immigration and in support of economic protectionism, as Buchanan did before.
Milliken opposed segregation even at a time when it was universally accepted throughout the South. In the 1960s, he "urged Wofford College to integrate its student body and promised to make up for any financial losses if it took the step."^[12]

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