Ronald H. Brown Quotes
As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.
Ronald H. Brown, 1941-1996, U. S. Secretary of Commerce (Democrat), Chairman, Democratic National Committee, Lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 1989
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on the University of California campus before he became Chancellor
Ronald Harmon Brown was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Prior to this he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions. He was killed, along with 34 others in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.
