Background
Cherne, Leo was born on September 8, 1912 in New York City. Son of Max and Dora (Bailin) Cherne.
Cherne, Leo was born on September 8, 1912 in New York City. Son of Max and Dora (Bailin) Cherne.
Graduate, New York University, 1931. Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School, 1934. Doctor of Laws, Pace College, 1967.
Doctor of Laws, New York Law School, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters, Northeastern University, 1977. Doctor of Fine Arts, Manhattan College, 1982.
His career spanned more than fifty years. Cherne"s father Max Chernetsky was a Russian-Jewish compositor who emigrated from Bessarabia to New York in 1904. Cherne, an economist and attorney, was a public policy expert who became a principal co-anchor of American Broadcasting Company-television"s All-Star News, the first hour-long prime time nightly network news broadcast, in the 1952-1953 television season.
While not a ratings success against entertainment programs on National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System, All-Star News is credited as pointing the way toward the format later used by long-form local news broadcasts in cities across America in the 1960s and beyond, and by Cable News Network and other national and international cable news networks since 1980.
He maintained these positions for the greater part of his career. Cherne also served many Presidents, from Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to George H. West. Bush, in a variety of capacities, including memberships on the United States. Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigration and the United States. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, as well as his activities on the President"s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the Intelligence Oversight Board (Inter-Organization Board).
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Cherne may have been the actual source of this popular quotation often misattributed to Albert Einstein: "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Manitoba is incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation."
Rescuing the World: The Life and Times of Leo Cherne by Andrew F. Smith is a biography of Leo Cherne.
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Cherne later gained prominence in the private sector as Executive Director of the Research Institute of America, founded to translate complex government legislation for the businessman. Chairman of the Executive Committee of Freedom House, established to advance the struggle for freedom at home and abroad. And Chairman of the International Rescue Committee, formed to assist democratic leaders, scholars, and others to escape Fascism, Communism, and other forms of totalitarianism.
Member select commission Western Hemisphere Immigration, 1967—1968. Member United States Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1971—1976, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1973—1976, chairman, 1976—1977. Member Intelligence Oversight Board, 1976—1977.
Member Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, Panel on International Information, Education and Cultural Relations, 1974—1975. Advisory board Center for Strategic and International Studies, since 1975, chairman, executive board, 1980—1981. Board visitors National Defense University, 1976—1979.
Chairman Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, since 1978. Vice chairman President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, since 1981. Board directors Wilkie Memorial, Freedom House, since 1946, chairman executive committee, 1946—1975, honorary chairman, since 1977.
Member of National Sculpture Society, Council on Foreign Relations, Key Biscayne Yacht, Lotos.
Married Julia Rodriguez Lopez, June 7, 1936 (divorced 1967). 1 child Gail Gambino. Married Phyllis Abbott Brown, April 13, 1968.