Sen. Tom Harkin speaks at a rally held by the Coalition for the Advancement of Stem Cell Research.

Harkin published photographs he took during the trip and a detailed account of the " tiger cages " at Con Son Island prison in Life Magazine on July 17, 1970.

Harkin came out in favor of the Fairness Doctrine during an interview with Bill Press.

On 28 February 2011, Harkin introduced Senate Bill 418, which calls for recognition of Civil Air Patrol members who served during World War II.

When the incumbent six-term Republican in what was then the 2nd District, Tom Tauke made an unsuccessful run against Senator Tom Harkin during the 1990 election, Nussle ran as the Republican candidate for Tauke's House seat.

Harkin began his career as a journalist under the umbrella of the Ottawa Daily and Montreal Herald, two conservative newspapers at the time, but soon through his persistence and prowess gained entry into civil service during his mid-twenties.

In the first primary contest, the Iowa caucus, Clinton finished a distant third to Iowa Senator Tom Harkin.

Harkin was the first Democratic primary contender to drop out and throw his support behind Clinton — a favor that led to a close relationship throughout the Clinton presidency.

Roche asked James B. Harkin, the first Commissioner of Dominion Parks, to develop a departmental heritage policy.

Harkin believed that the Parks Branch did not have the necessary expertise to manage historic resources ; he was troubled by the relatively weak historic value of Fort Howe, the country's first historic park, and feared that the Branch's park improvements were incompatible with the heritage attributes of Fort Anne, the second historic park.

Although advocated by Dominion Parks Commissioner James Harkin to be the first national park outside the Rocky Mountains, it remains the only federal park that is not a national park, a situation that has direct repercussions on its ecology, boundaries, and land mass.

On 3 December 1913, Dominion Parks Commissioner James B. Harkin wrote to Deputy Minister of the Interior William Cory, arguing for the creation of a nation-wide system of parks, the first of which was to be Gatineau Park.

" Brendan Harkin and Pieter Sweval were asked to leave the band after Attention Shoppers !, reportedly since they wanted to continue in that record's musical direction, while the others favored a return to the harder sound of the first two releases.

Under the tutelage of some influential figures working for the Liberal Party of Canada, most notably Clifford Sifton and Frank Oliver, Harkin was able to acquire an appointment to be the first commissioner of the Dominion Parks Branch in 1911.

Despite Oliver's distaste for Sifton, Harkin retained his position with Oliver and worked a further 6 years as Oliver's secretary until receiving an appointment to be the first commissioner of the Dominion Parks Branch in 1911.

Parks Branch papers show that what is attributed to Harkin was actually first drafted by others, especially his assistant, F. H. H.

One of the first controversies that Harkin was involved in was the Parks Branch ’ s first attempt to create a wood bison sanctuary.

* Harkin: Vilsack tapped for agriculture secretary The Des Moines Register, December 16, 2008

Jim Norton's performance as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer at The National Theatre won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier Award, and he picked up a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Featured Actor in a play.

After Harkin left the race, Hightower supported Jerry Brown, again the governor of California, and cast his superdelegate vote for Governor Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Thomas Richard " Tom " Harkin ( born November 19, 1939 ) is the current junior United States Senator from Iowa serving since 1985, and a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1969, Harkin moved to Washington, D. C., and began work as an aide to Democratic U. S. Congressman Neal Smith.

In 1984, Harkin won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate and defeated freshman Republican Roger Jepsen by a surprisingly wide 11-point margin.

While running for his Senate seat in 1984, and again while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Harkin has faced criticism for claiming that he had flown combat missions over North Vietnam.

Harkin won the Iowa caucus and those in Idaho and Minnesota ( with help from Senator Paul Wellstone ), but he ran poorly in New Hampshire and other primaries and ultimately lost the Democratic Party nomination to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

When Iowa senator Tom Harkin ran for the Democratic nomination in 1992, none of the other Democratic candidates chose to compete in Iowa, which minimized its importance in the nomination process.

Senator Martinez, who claimed not to have read the memo, had inadvertently passed it to Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democratic supporter of the legislation to keep Schiavo alive.

Democratic Senators Tom Harkin and Kent Conrad also supported federal intervention in the Schiavo case, although Republican Representative Dave Reichert was against it.

Martinez said that he inadvertently gave the memo to Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.

Prominent liberals in the Democratic Party like senators Tom Harkin, Ted Kennedy, Claiborne Pell, and Carol Moseley Braun voted in favor of the legislation while many conservative-to-moderate Democrats such as senators John Breaux, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Sam Nunn and representatives such as John Murtha and Gene Taylor voted against it.

Jepsen was defeated by Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin in the 1984 Senate election.

Thinking it would bring increased tourism to the national park which Grey Owl would be working at, along with serving as a platform where Grey Owl could promote his conservation work, James Harkin offered Grey Owl a job at the Riding Mountain National Park in early 1931.

Although Beaver Dams was not made a national park, discussion of the proposal — along with the ad hoc creation of Fort Anne National Park in 1917 — helped highlight the need for a coherent heritage policy, prompting the Interior minister to ask J. B. Harkin of the Parks Branch to develop one.

* James B. Harkin ( Birthplace of the First Commissioner of National Parks in Canada )

Graduates include several leading judicial, academic, and political figures, including U. S. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, U. S. Senator Robert Patrick Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania, U. S. Rep. Kathy Hochul of New York, Justice Peggy A. Quince of the Florida Supreme Court, U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Naomi C. Earp, Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Rhode Island House Minority Leader, Robert A. Watson, Chief Judge Edward J. Damich of the United States Court of Federal Claims, former National Labor Relations Board Chair John H. Fanning, Chief Administrative Law Judge James G. Gilbert of the United States Postal Service, B. Jeffrey Cravath, Senior Vice President of Fannie Mae, Christine Luchok Fallon, Reporter of Decisions for the U. S. Supreme Court, and Arizona Cardinals President Michael Bidwill.

James B. Harkin ( 30 January 1875 – 27 January 1955 ), also known as the Father of National Parks, was a Canadian-born journalist turned bureaucrat with a passion for conservation but also widely renowned for his commodification of the Canadian landscape.

As a result of Harkin ’ s contribution, the Wood Buffalo National Park was established in December 18, 1922.

When Harkin was appointed National Parks Branch Commissioner in 1911, he had to juggle the twin policy of advocating conservatism while encouraging tourism to the parks, which brought forth controversy to Harkin ’ s role as commissioner.

Harkin also adapted many of his policies from the American National Park Service, because of the familiarity of geographic location and goal at improving the development of the parks through tourism.

With the Migratory Birds Convention Act, Harkin was able to achieve his goal of receiving complete authority for game protection in Canada.

Harkin won caucuses in Idaho and Minnesota while Jerry Brown won Colorado.