Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
About Eric Johnston
Eric Allen Johnstonwas a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations. As president of the MPAA, he abbreviated the organization’s name, convened the closed-door meeting of motion picture company executives at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that led to Waldorf Statement in 1947 and the Hollywood blacklist (including firing of the Hollywood Ten), and discreetly liberalized the Motion Picture Production Code.
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The dinosaur’s eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator
Movies are immortal art – the first new art since Greek drama.
president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator
If the power goes out, business stops… whether you sell roses or you’re a big manufacturer.
president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a motion picture association executive and U.S. government administrator