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The Slade Gorton International Policy Center. Housed in NBR’s new high-
tech building adjacent to the university campus, the center plans to offer
fellowships and internships and sponsor seminars on global economics,
emerging technology and national security. Gorton is the mentor in resi-
dence. Creigh H. Agnew, another former Gorton aide, is its president.
Ellings is leading a campaign to raise $13 million in public and private
money to ensure the center’s long-term success. Gorton has already
moved his 14 framed quills from his Supreme Court appearances.^16 The
Gorton Center is supported by a host of Slade’s old friends and former
staff, including Dan Evans, Bill Ruckelshaus, Jim and John Ellis, Trent
Lott, Pete Domenici, Rudy Boschwitz, Tom Daschle, Mike McGavick, J.
Vander Stoep, Mariana Parks and Chris Koch.^17
Aivenitin i At pRoposing An incoMe tAX on the rich—defined as indi-
viduals earning more than $200,000 and couples twice that—found
Gorton and Bill Gates Sr., two old friends, in opposite corners. Although
Gorton also qualifies as genuinely rich, his net worth pales in compari-
son to Gates’, the co-chairman of the philanthropic foundation endowed
Bill Gates Sr. and Gorton leave the stage following their debate of Initiative 1098
at the University of Washington Tacoma. I-1098 would have established an
income tax on the state’s highest earners. Janet Jensen/The News Tribune