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Clay T. "Tom" Whitehead (November 13, 1938 – July 23, 2008 〔Hevesi, Dennis, ("Clay T. Whitehead, Guide of Policy That Helped Cable TV, Is Dead at 69" ), ''The New York Times'', July 31, 2008〕) was a United States government official who served as director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy from 1970 to 1974, during the Nixon administration. He pioneered a policy of competition in the telecommunications industries, which later was reflected in legislation and regulations in the United States and around the world.〔〔Wu. Tim, (''The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires'' ), New York: Knopf, 2010, (ISBN 0307269930, ISBN 978-0-307-26993-5). Cf. (pp.187-197 ), p.177, & various.〕 == Early life == Whitehead was born in Neodesha, Kansas, the eldest of four children of Clay B. and Helen Hinton Whitehead.〔 As a young boy, be was interested in telecommunications, spending hours on his ham radio talking to amateur radio operators around the world.〔 He enjoyed photography with his self-made darkroom and built his own celestial telescope for studying the heavens. He graduated from Cherokee County High School in Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas 1957. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his undergraduate and master's degrees in electrical engineering, in 1960 and 1961 respectively, and a Ph.D. in management in 1967.〔 Before joining the Nixon campaign in 1968 as an expert on budget policies, Whitehead was a RAND Corporation economist and defense analyst.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clay T. Whitehead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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