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77-404: Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr. (born April 7, 1949) is an American academic administrator , businessman, author, and retired politician who served as the 49th governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. A Republican , he later served as president of Purdue University from 2013 until the end of 2022. Daniels began his career as an assistant to senator Richard Lugar , working as his chief of staff in

154-511: A provost supervises the institution's entire academic staff, occupying a position generally superior to any dean. In other instances the Dean of a College may be the equivalent to a Provost or Vice Chancellor or Vice President for Academic Affairs. Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic departments and of individual administrative departments. These heads (commonly styled "chairs" or "directors") then supervise

231-443: A Republican—if he had any" but Daniels had "nothing to do" with selling drugs. Another roommate said that police obtained a warrant to search the room based on the activity of the first roommate arrested. "Unbeknownst to [Daniels and the other current roommates] ... [he] was coming back there and using the room when we're not there and was involved with drugs much worse than pot...We considered ourselves innocent victims." Daniels refutes

308-511: A common nuisance" for allowing the room to be used for the sale and use of drugs. In a plea agreement, the prosecutor dropped the charges in exchange for Daniels agreeing to pay a fine of $ 350 for using marijuana. Thirty-four years after the arrest, the first roommate detained (the individual arrested months before Daniels), told the Indianapolis Star that he was a partisan Democrat who "would gladly offer unflattering information about

385-429: A complicated economy, was needed to end constant confusion and bring Indiana into a year-long alignment with the rest of the country. Prior to the change, the counties in the western side of the state did not observe daylight saving time, although the counties in southeastern Indiana near Cincinnati , Ohio, did observe it unofficially due to being in that city's metropolitan area. Interests for both time zones had prevented

462-461: A distinct role in Australia from the mid-1970s, as institutions sought to deal with their increasing size and complexity, along with a broadening of their aspirations. As the professionalism of tertiary administrators has developed, there has been a corresponding push to recognise the uniqueness and validity of their role in the academic environment. As of 2004 , general staff composed over half

539-507: A job at the Indianapolis headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Pitman-Moore. The 10-year-old Daniels was accustomed to the mountains, and he at first disliked the flatland of central Indiana. He was still in grade school at the time of the move and first attended Delaware Trail Elementary, Westlane Junior High School, and North Central High School . In high school he was student body president . After graduation in 1967, Daniels

616-416: A one time payment of $ 3.85 billion and the commitment to make $ 4.4 billion worth of upgrades to the road. Most Democrats opposed the measure by starting an advertising campaign accusing Daniels of selling the road to foreign nations. Other critics characterized the deal for fundamentally changing the relationship between infrastructure and taxpayers" saying "the road intended to serve the people of Indiana now

693-482: A part of a several months long drug investigation that began on Saturday, March 7, 1970, when one of Daniels's roommates was arrested for possessing "large quantities" of marijuana and other drugs. Two months later police raided the same residence hall, finding enough marijuana to fill two size 12 shoeboxes and arresting five additional individuals, including Daniels. Daniels and a roommate were charged with possession of marijuana, LSD and other drugs, along with "maintaining

770-558: A savings of $ 190 million, resulting in a budget of $ 23 billion. Annual spending growth for future budgets was cut to 2.8% from the 5.9% that had been standard for many years. Increase in revenues, coupled with the spending reductions, led to a $ 300 million budget surplus. Indiana is not permitted to take loans, as borrowing was prohibited in its constitution following the 1837 state bankruptcy . The state, therefore, had financed its deficit spending by reallocating $ 760 million in revenue that belonged to local government and school districts over

847-532: A search committee, composed mostly of Purdue faculty and administrators recommended Daniels to become the university's 12th president after his term as governor ended on January 14, 2013. Ultimately, the hiring decision was made by the Trustees of the Board of Purdue University , all of whom Daniels appointed or re-appointed while Governor. He retired as Purdue president on January 1, 2023. Mitchell Elias Daniels Jr.

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924-443: A second term, defeating Jill Long Thompson . During his tenure, Daniels cut the state government workforce by 18%, cut and capped state property taxes, balanced the state budget through austerity measures and increasing spending by less than the inflation rate . In his second term, Daniels saw protest by labor unions and Democrats in the state legislature over Indiana's school voucher program, privatization of public highways, and

1001-403: A state take-over of a project initially started by the city of Indianapolis and led to a bitter feud between Daniels and the city leadership over who should have ownership of the project. The state ultimately won and took ownership of the facilities from the city. In 2006, Daniels continued his effort to reduce state operating costs by signing into law a bill privatizing the enrollment service for

1078-745: A stock sale leading to speculations of insider trading; and, because of his role at Eli Lilly, the high cost of prescription drugs. The 2004 election was the costliest in Indiana history, up until that time, with the candidates spending a combined US$ 23 million. Daniels won the election, garnering about 53% of the vote compared to Kernan's 45%. Kernan was the first incumbent governor to lose an election in Indiana since 1892. On his first day in office, Daniels created Indiana's first Office of Management and Budget to look for inefficiencies and cost savings throughout state government. The same day, he decertified all government employee unions by executive order , removing

1155-517: A win. In his many public stops, he frequently used the phrase "every garden needs weeding every sixteen years or so"; it had been 16 years since Indiana had had a Republican governor. His opponent in the general election was the incumbent , Joe Kernan , who had succeeded to the office upon the death of Frank O'Bannon . Campaign ads by Kernan and the Democratic Party attempted to tie Daniels to number of issues—his jail time for marijuana use;

1232-656: Is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana , United States. It is part of the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township . North Central is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school. North Central was established in 1956 in response to Washington Township 's rapidly growing population and the desire of residents to have a local high school. Prior to this, students from the township attended Broad Ripple High School and Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. (At this time, most of

1309-610: Is applied everywhere else in life," he said. Despite such efforts, during Daniels's 29-month tenure in the position, the projected federal budget surplus of $ 236 billion ballooned to a $ 400 billion deficit , due to the recession of 2001, tax cuts, the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) , and Iraq War . Nobel economics Laureate Paul Krugman noted Daniels is "held up as an icon of fiscal responsibility" without having earned it. Commenting on Daniels leadership he wrote "what I can't forget

1386-589: Is his key role in the squandering of the fiscal surplus Bush inherited. It wasn't just that he supported the Bush tax cuts; the excuses he made for that irresponsibility were stunningly fraudulent. So I just can't take his current pose of deficit hawkishness seriously." Following the September 11, 2001 attacks , Congress passed legislation authorizing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security . Just before

1463-436: Is serving the profit needs of a multinational corporation". Daniels defended the lease, claiming that the road was not earning the state money because of the historical lack of political will to raise tolls. He told a congressional committee, "…instead of making money for the state, the road had operated at a loss for 5 of the previous 7 years…Political timidity had kept tolls locked at the same price since 1985…Even if we raised

1540-572: Is the Association for Tertiary Education Management . The structures for administration and management in higher education in the United Kingdom vary significantly between institutions. Any description of a general structure will therefore not apply to some or even many institutions, and therefore any general statement of structures may be misleading. Not all UK universities have the post of Registrar. The Director of Finance may report to

1617-638: The Hudson Institute , a conservative think tank . In 1988, Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States , and Indiana governor Robert D. Orr offered to appoint Daniels to Quayle's vacant Senate seat. Daniels declined the offer, saying it would force him to spend too much time away from his family. While serving as the executive director of the Senate Republican campaign committee, Daniels expressed concern about

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1694-745: The Senate from 1977 to 1982. He was appointed executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee when Lugar was chairman from 1983 to 1984. He worked as a chief political advisor and as a liaison to President Ronald Reagan in 1985. He then moved back to Indiana to become president of the Hudson Institute , a conservative think tank. He later joined Eli Lilly and Company where he served as president of North American Pharmaceutical Operations from 1993 to 1997 and as senior vice president of corporate strategy and policy from 1997 to 2001. In January 2001, Daniels

1771-528: The provost (or vice president for academic affairs, or academic dean) serves as the chief academic officer. Although the demographic picture of university leadership is changing, the majority of academic administrators remain middle-aged white men. The ten highest-paid administrators at private colleges earn an average of about $ 2.5 million per year, while at public colleges the figure is $ 1.4 million. These figures includes both base pay and other income. Deans may supervise various and more specific aspects of

1848-567: The requirement that state employees pay union dues by rescinding a mandate created by Governor Evan Bayh in a 1989 executive order . Dues-paying union membership subsequently dropped 90% among all state employees. In his first State of the State address on January 18, 2005, Daniels put forward his agenda to improve the state's fiscal situation. Indiana has a biennial budget, and had a projected two-year deficit of $ 800 million. Daniels called for strict controls on all spending increases and reducing

1925-532: The vice-chancellor (many Commonwealth countries), principal (Scotland and Canada), or rector (Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East and South America). An administrative executive in charge of a university department or of some schools, may be termed a dean or some variation. The chief executive of academic establishments other than universities, may be termed headmaster or head teacher (schools), director (used to reflect various positions ranging from

2002-543: The 2020-21 school year, enrollment was 3,754 students. Of these, 38% were black, 33% were white, 19% were Hispanic, 6% were multiracial, and 4% were Asian. 45% of students qualified for free lunches and 2% qualified for reduced-price lunches. The North Central Wind Ensemble has been named the ISSMA State Concert Band Champions six times (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011). The North Central High School Symphony Orchestra has been named

2079-486: The Healthy Indiana Plan, which provided 132,000 uninsured Indiana workers with coverage. The program works by helping its beneficiaries purchase a private health insurance policy with a subsidy from the state. The plan promotes health screenings, early prevention services, and smoking cessation . It also provides tax credits for small businesses that create qualified wellness and Section 125 plans. The plan

2156-698: The Northwest Regional Development Authority for local economic development. Over the next ten years, Indiana would use the cash and interest from the deal to add or expand several major new roadways such as US 31, the Hoosier Heartland Highway, I-69, and the Ohio River bridges. It also rehabilitated 1,400 bridges and 50% of the state's roads without using tax dollars or taking on new debt. As anticipated, drivers experienced dramatic hikes in tolls after

2233-809: The Reagan administration's response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority , regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act, and advocated limiting the power of the federal government in defining overtime rules for state and local governments, summing up his position by asking "What business is it of the Federal Government to tell localities how to structure their personnel practices?". In 1987, Daniels returned to Indiana as president and CEO of

2310-629: The Registrar or directly to the Vice-Chancellor, whilst other senior posts may or may not report to the Registrar. This next tier of senior positions might include Directors of Human Resources, Estates, and Corporate Affairs. The Academic Registrar is often included in this next tier. Their role is mostly to accomplish student-facing administrative processes such as admissions, student records, complaints, and graduation. The overarching body for all staff working in administration and management in

2387-472: The UK is the Association of University Administrators . In the United States, a college or university is typically supervised by a president or chancellor who reports regularly to a board of trustees (made up of individuals from outside the institution) and who serves as chief executive officer . Most large colleges and universities now use an administrative structure with a tier of vice presidents, among whom

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2464-456: The administration was budgeting for both. The failure to provide long term cost estimates led opponents to claim that Daniels and the administration had suggested the entire war would cost less than $ 60 billion. The CBO has estimated the total cost of the war in Iraq to U.S. taxpayers will be around $ 1.9 trillion if it was carried on until 2017. Three months later, on March 25, 2003, five days after

2541-541: The annual growth rate of the budget. He also proposed a one-year 1% tax increase on all individuals and entities earning over $ 100,000. The taxing proposal was controversial and the Republican Speaker of the House, Brian Bosma , criticized Daniels and refused to allow the proposal to be debated. The General Assembly approved $ 250 million in spending cuts and Daniels renegotiated 30 different state contracts for

2618-405: The attempt to pass ' right to work ' legislation, leading to the 2011 Indiana legislative walkouts . During the legislature's last session under Daniels, he signed a ' right-to-work law ', with Indiana becoming the 23rd state in the nation to pass such legislation. It was widely speculated that Daniels would be a candidate in the 2012 presidential election , but he chose not to run. Shortly after,

2695-419: The case. Eli Lilly experienced dramatic growth during Daniels's tenure at the company. Prozac sales made up 30–40% of Lilly's income during the mid-to-late 1990s, and Lilly doubled its assets to $ 12.8 billion and doubled its revenue to $ 10 billion during the same period. When Daniels later became governor of Indiana, he drew heavily on his former Lilly colleagues to serve as advisers and agency managers. During

2772-560: The costs of the Iraq war. In 2002, Daniels helped discredit a report by Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence B. Lindsey estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $ 100-$ 200 billion. Daniels called this estimate "very, very high" and stated that the costs would be between $ 50-$ 60 billion. At the time Daniels would not provide specific costs for either a long or a short military campaign against Saddam Hussein, saying

2849-564: The course of many years. The funds were gradually and fully restored to the municipal governments using the surplus money, and the state reserve fund was grown to $ 1.3 billion. Two of Daniels's other tax proposals were approved: a tax on liquor and beverages to fund the construction of the Lucas Oil Stadium and a tax on rental cars to expand the Indiana Convention Center . The new source of funding resulted in

2926-450: The director of O.M.B. is only concerned about numbers ... and he has no concern about what those numbers do or do not do for the country, for our military, for our security." Then HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson complained that Daniels's office would reject a proposal "nine times out of 10, just to show you who the boss is". The $ 2.13 trillion budget Daniels submitted to Congress in 2001 would have made deep cuts in many agencies to accommodate

3003-775: The director of the Office of Management and Budget . and was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 100–0 on January 23, 2001. In this role he was also a member of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council . During his time as the director of the OMB, Daniels sought to restrict congressional spending, saying Congress's motto apparently is "Don't just stand there, spend something." During his tenure he

3080-515: The employees at Australian universities. Around 65% of these are female. There has recently been a shift in the preferred nomenclature for non-academic staff at Australian universities, from "general staff" to "professional staff". It has been argued that the changing in role of the professional staff has been due to the changing work that they are performing, as professional staff assist students with technology. The overarching body for all staff working in administration and management in Australia

3157-484: The faculty and staff of their individual departments. The Chair of a department is typically a tenured or at least tenure-track faculty member, supported by administrative staff. Administrative expansion The number of administrators on university campuses has grown dramatically in recent decades, one reason that the rise in college tuition costs has outstripped the rate of inflation. North Central High School (Indianapolis) North Central High School

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3234-503: The head of an institution to the head of a program), or principal, as used in primary education . Like other professional areas, academic administration follows a specialized and often highly abstract terminology. This terminology often depends on that used in military strategy (as in Strategic Planning) and business management (including Public Relations). Digital era brings a communication overload and intense stresses of

3311-829: The honesty of Illinois elections saying in 1984, "ballot integrity will be the single most decisive factor in the Illinois Senate race", a theme Daniels has returned to throughout his career. In 1990, Daniels left the Hudson Institute to accept a position at Eli Lilly and Company , the largest corporation headquartered in Indiana at that time. He was first promoted to President of North American Operations (1993–97) and then to Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Policy (1997–2001). During his tenure Lilly pleaded guilty to two criminal misdemeanors, paid more than $ 2.7 billion in fines and damages, settled more than 32,000 personal injury claims—and copped to one of

3388-560: The idea that he was innocent saying he "had used marijuana" and "was fined for that, and that was appropriate". Daniels has disclosed the arrest on job applications and in government background checks and spoken about the incident in opinion columns. In a 1989 opinion piece in The Washington Post , Daniels called the incident the "unfortunate confluence of my wild oats period and America's libertine apogee" and said "On my college campus, just as on most college campuses, marijuana

3465-478: The institution, or may be CEOs of entire campuses. They may report directly to the president or chancellor. The division of responsibility among deans varies widely among institutions; some are chiefly responsible for clusters of academic fields (such as the humanities or natural sciences ) or whole academic units (such as a graduate school or college ), while others are responsible for non-academic but campus-wide concerns such as minority affairs. In some cases

3542-582: The job are threatening administrators mental or physical health. Administrators are operating in an era of multiple continuing crises, unreliable supply chains etc. Prof. David D. Perlmutter dean of the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University suggests several questions to ask about the regular meetings which administrators hold: Academic administrations are structured in various ways at different institutions and in different countries. Full-time tertiary education administrators emerged as

3619-422: The largest state consumer protection cases involving a drug company in U.S. history. In 2009, Lilly also pleaded guilty for illegally marketing Zyprexa during Daniels' tenure and agreed to pay a $ 1.415 billion penalty that included a criminal fine of $ 515 million, the largest ever in a healthcare case and the largest criminal fine for an individual corporation ever imposed in a U.S. criminal prosecution of any kind at

3696-580: The lease was transferred to another Australian investment company without altering the terms of the lease. An October 2014 ITR report to the Indiana Toll Road Oversight Board cited numerous deficiencies along the highway including: deficient pavements and signage at travel plazas, activities at vehicle maintenance facilities that could allow petroleum products or other chemicals into open storm water drains, and closed sewage dump stations at risk of unmonitored dumping. In response,

3773-419: The lease, which increased the cost to travel on the public road from $ 4.65 to $ 8.80 for passenger vehicles, and semitrailer trucks from $ 18 to $ 35.20. Despite doubling toll prices, the foreign-owned operator of the toll road filed for bankruptcy in 2014, and its $ 3.85 billion purchase price resulted in $ 6 billion in debts owed by the company to its financiers. Indiana retained the $ 3.85 billion lump sum payment and

3850-502: The legislation was signed by Bush, Republican lawmakers inserted language into the bill that authorized protection from liability corporations that manufactured thimerosal , a controversial vaccine preservative that has been the subject of multiple lawsuits. Eli Lilly was once the largest maker of thimerosal and is a major target of the lawsuits. Daniels was the budget director at the time of the bill's passing and some have raised concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Congress repealed

3927-566: The new lease owners pledged to invest $ 260 million in capital improvements. In June 2015, Ken Daley, the new CEO of the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company, announced that all of the original 1955 travel plazas would be demolished and replaced within the next five years. As of October 2015, the Booth Tarkington service area, the easternmost in Indiana, was permanently closed. In 2007, Daniels signed

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4004-611: The northwest and southwest corners that are in the Central Time Zone . In 2006 the legislature enacted Daniels' controversial plan to remake the state's highways system by leasing the Indiana Toll Road . Called the Major Moves, the road was leased to Statewide Mobility Partners, a joint venture company owned by Spanish firm Cintra and Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group for 75 years in exchange for

4081-602: The official adoption of daylight saving since the 1960s, leading to decades of debate . Daniels pressed for the entire state to switch to Central Time, but the General Assembly could not come to terms. Ultimately after a long debate, the General Assembly adopted Eastern Daylight Saving Time in April 2005. The measure passed by one vote and put most of the state on the Eastern Time Zone , except for counties in

4158-479: The primary with 67% of the vote. While campaigning in the general election, Daniels visited all 92 counties at least three times. He traveled in a donated white RV nicknamed "RV-1" and covered with signatures of supporters and his campaign slogan, "My Man Mitch". "My Man Mitch" was a reference to a phrase once used by President George W. Bush to refer to Daniels. Bush campaigned with Daniels on two occasions, as Daniels hoped that Bush's popularity would help him secure

4235-501: The road was worth $ 2 billion at most and were surprised by the offer of nearly $ 4 billion in cash, plus that much in contracted improvements. Daniels called it the best deal since "Manhattan was sold for beads—except this time, the natives won." Initially, Daniels's support for the controversial legislation led to a rapid drop in his approval rating; in May 2005, a poll showed an 18-point drop in support and that only 42% of Hoosiers approved of

4312-462: The rules I learned under Ronald Reagan ." Academic administration Key broad administrative responsibilities (and thus administrative units) in academic institutions include: The chief executive, the administrative and educational head of a university, depending on tradition and location, may be termed the university president , the provost , the chancellor (the United States),

4389-614: The same period, Daniels also served on the board of directors of the Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL). He resigned from the IPL Board in 2001 to join the federal government, and sold his IPL stock along with all other holdings in order to comply with federal ethics requirements. Later that year the value declined when Virginia -based AES Corporation bought IPL. On December 22, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Daniels to serve as

4466-411: The six-month supplemental appropriation as a request to fund the entire war. The costs of the Iraq war have exceeded $ 800 billion. Between September 2001 and October 2012, lawmakers appropriated about $ 1.4 trillion for operations in both the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. On May 7, 2003, Daniels announced that he would resign as OMB director within 30 days in a move that Bush administration officials said

4543-500: The start of the invasion, President Bush requested $ 53 billion through an emergency supplemental appropriation to cover operational expenses in Iraq until September 30 of that year. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Military operations in Iraq for 2003 cost $ 46 billion, less than the amount projected by Daniels and OMB. Douthat and other defenders of Daniels accuse Daniels's critics of mischaracterizing

4620-409: The state's welfare programs. Indiana's welfare enrollment facilities were replaced with call centers operated by IBM . In mid-2009, after complaints of poor service, Daniels canceled the contract and returned the enrollment service to the public sector. One of the most controversial measures Daniels successfully pushed through was the state adoption of Daylight Saving Time , which Daniels argued, in

4697-510: The tax cuts being made, but few of the spending cuts were actually approved by Congress. Shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan , Daniels gave a speech to the National Press Club in which he challenged the view of those who wanted to continue typical spending while the nation was at war. "The idea of reallocating assets from less important to more important things, especially in a time of genuine emergency, makes common sense and

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4774-487: The thimerosal provision following expressions of public displeasure. Conservative columnist Ross Douthat stated in a column about Daniels's time at OMB that Daniels "carried water, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, for some of the Bush administration's more egregious budgets." But Douthat, while calling Daniels "America's Best Governor", defended Daniels against accusations that Daniels inaccurately assessed

4851-498: The time. Daniels managed strategy to deflect attacks on Lilly's Prozac product by a public relations campaign against the drug being waged by the Church of Scientology . In one interview in 1992, Daniels said of the organization that "it is no church," and that people on Prozac were less likely to become victims of the organization. The Church of Scientology responded by suing Daniels in a libel suit for $ 20 million. A judge dismissed

4928-426: The tolls, there was little reason to believe that the governors who would come after me would have the inclination or the political ability to do the same. I once asked how much it cost to collect that 15-cent toll on the road and the answer came back at 34 cents. I joked that we would have been better off with the honor system and a fishbowl for occasional donations." Daniels and an independent accounting firm believed

5005-409: The township was outside the city limits.) In 1963 the current facility was opened, and the original building was repurposed to Northview Middle School. For the 2015-2016 school year, enrollment was 3,636 students. 41% were black, 35% were white, 14% were Hispanic, 6% were multiracial, and 4% were Asian. 42% qualified for free lunches and 6% of the student body qualified for reduced-price lunches. For

5082-588: The way he was doing his job. In the following months, many of his reforms appeared to have a positive effect and his approval ratings rebounded. The income from the lease was used to finance a backlog of public transportation projects and create a $ 500 million trust fund to generate revenue for the maintenance of the highway system. Local governments also received a significant windfall from the deal, including $ 150 million that went to Indiana's 92 counties for local roads, $ 240 million to seven counties for infrastructure and economic development projects, and $ 120 million for

5159-709: Was a member of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society , where he overlapped with future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito , who was a year below. He initially studied law at the Indiana McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. After accepting a job with newly elected Senator Richard Lugar , he transferred to the Georgetown University Law Center , from which he earned a Juris Doctor . In 1970, while an undergraduate at Princeton, Daniels and three roommates were

5236-568: Was appointed by President George W. Bush as the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget , where he served until June 2003. Daniels ran in Indiana's 2004 gubernatorial election after leaving the Bush administration . He won the Republican primary with 67% of the vote and defeated Democratic incumbent Governor Joe Kernan in the general election. In 2008, Daniels was reelected to

5313-411: Was as easy to obtain as Budweiser beer and was viewed with equal complacency. For a time, I was a carefree consumer of both." Daniels claimed his "young Midwestern tail was jerked back into line" following the arrest. Daniels had his first experience in politics while still a teenager when, in 1968, he worked on the unsuccessful campaign of fellow Hoosier and Princeton alumnus William Ruckelshaus , who

5390-806: Was born on April 7, 1949, in Monongahela, Pennsylvania , the son of Dorothy Mae (née Wilkes) and Mitchell Elias Daniels. His father's parents were Syrian immigrants from Qalatiyah , Syria , of Antiochian Greek Orthodox descent. Daniels has been honored by the Arab-American Institute with the 2011 Najeeb Halaby Award for Public Service. His mother's ancestry was mostly English (where three of his great-grandparents were born). Daniels spent his early childhood years in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Daniels family moved to Indiana from Pennsylvania in 1959 when his father accepted

5467-620: Was criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike. After his first year in office Senator Ted Stevens , then the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations , suggested 'the best thing Daniels could do to repair relations with Congress was to go back to Indiana'. Representative Bill Young , then chairman of the United States House Committee on Appropriations complained about Daniels' leadership saying ''I'm convinced

5544-577: Was elected chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee , Daniels was appointed its executive director. Serving in that position (1983–84), he played a major role in keeping the GOP in control of the Senate. Daniels was also manager of three successful re-election campaigns for Lugar. In August 1985, Daniels became chief political advisor and liaison to state and local governments for President Ronald Reagan . As part of this position, Daniels led

5621-562: Was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976, Daniels followed him to Washington, D.C. , as his Chief of Staff . Daniels served as Chief of Staff during Lugar's first term (1977–1982). During Daniel's time working with Senator Lugar, he met Cheri Herman, who was working for the National Park Service. The two married in 1978 and had four daughters. They divorced in 1993 and Cheri married again; Cheri later divorced her second husband and remarried Daniels in 1997. In 1983, when Lugar

5698-503: Was named one of Indiana's Presidential Scholars —the state's top male high school graduate that year—by President Lyndon B. Johnson . In 1971, Daniels earned a Bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University after completing a senior thesis titled "The Politics of Metropolitanization: City-County Consolidation in Indianapolis, Indiana". While at Princeton, he

5775-401: Was paid for by an increase in the state's tax on cigarettes and the reallocation of federal Medicaid funds through a special waiver granted by the federal government. In a September 15, 2007, Wall Street Journal column, Daniels was quoted as saying about the Healthy Indiana Plan and cigarette tax increase saying, "A consumption tax on a product you'd just as soon have less of doesn't violate

5852-627: Was running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh . After the campaign, Daniels secured an internship in the office of then- Indianapolis mayor Richard Lugar , a Ruckelshaus ally. Daniels worked on Lugar's re-election campaign in 1971, and later, in 1974, he worked on Lugar's first campaign for Senate via L. Keith Bulen 's Campaign Communicators, Inc, a political consultancy where Daniels served as vice president. Daniels joined Lugar's mayoral staff in December 1974. Within three years, he became Lugar's principal assistant. After Lugar

5929-515: Was to prepare to run for governor of Indiana . Daniels's decision to run for Governor of Indiana led to most of the rest of Republican field of candidates dropping out of the race. The only challenger who did not do so was conservative activist and lobbyist Eric Miller. Miller worked for the Phoenix Group, a Christian rights defense group. Daniels's campaign platform centered on cutting the state budget and privatizing public agencies. He won

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