William Matson Roth was a shipping executive, special ambassador for trade, member of the ACLU executive committee, and Regent for the University of California. The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU) consists of two separate Non-profit organizations the ACLU Foundation a 501(c(3 organization which focuses The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California.

In 1966 he was targeted (along with Clark Kerr and Elinor Raas Heller) by a fellow Regent, Edwin Pauley, for his alleged 'ultra-liberal' views. Clark Kerr ( May 17, 1911 &ndash December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley Elinor Raas Heller ( October 3, 1904 - August 15, 1987) was a Regent of the University of California from 1961-1976 Edwin Wendell Pauley Sr ( January 7, 1903 — July 28, 1981) was an American oilman and political appointee [1] Ronald Reagan made the Free Speech Movement and Opposition to the Vietnam War on the Berkeley campus one of his major campaign issues. The Free Speech Movement (FSM was a Student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California Berkeley under Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War is significant because domestic protest in the U The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Pauley, working with J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, succeeded in having Roth and the others removed from Berkeley when Reagan became governor of California in 1967. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. [2]

President Johnson appointed him United States Trade Representative from 1967-1969. The Office of the United States Trade Representative, or USTR, is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States

Among other activities, Roth worked as special representative for trade on US-European trade talks (named the Kennedy Round negotiations). The Kennedy round was the sixth session of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT trade negotiations held in 1964-1967 in Geneva Switzerland. See photo of Roth at a 1967 U. S. Chamber of Commerce conference alongside US Secretary of Commerce Alexander B. Trowbridge; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, and Under Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds. The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry the Department states its mission to Alexander Buel Trowbridge III ( December 12, 1929 – April 27, 2006) was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14 The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. Orville Lothrop Freeman (May 9 1918 February 20 2003 was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5 1955 to James J Reynolds ( 1907 - October 9 1986) was the Undersecretary of Labor for Labor-Management relations during the Lyndon B

William M. Roth, Commerce Secretary Trowbridge, Agriculture Secretary Freeman, and Labor Under-Secretary Reynolds, 1967.

Roth had a summer home on Sonoma Mountain with substantial area, having purchased the holding around 1950; the Roth family gifted this property to the Nature Conservancy, who transformed it into a nature preserve, presently known as the Fairfield Osborn Preserve. Sonoma Mountain is a prominent Landform within the Sonoma Mountains of southern Sonoma County California. The Nature Conservancy is a US charitable Environmental organization working to preserve the Plants, Animals, and natural communities nature reserve ( natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is a Protected area of importance for Wildlife, flora The Fairfield Osborn Preserve is a 411 acre (16 km² Nature reserve situated on the northwest flank of Sonoma Mountain in Sonoma County California Now his daughter Maggie Roth, wife of artist David Best,(David has two children from previous marriage) lives on the property. They have two children together. Today William Matson Roth is 91 and lives in Ireland (for summer and spring) and New York (Fall and Winter). He lives with his wife Joan Osborn and has 3 children with her.

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