Kenneth Ashworth ended a long career of confrontation and conflict in the public service as the Texas Commissioner of Higher Education, surviving in that job five governors, ten chairmen, and eleven legislatures. Previously he held somewhat less disputatious jobs as vice chancellor for the University of Texas System and executive vice president of the University of Texas at San Antonio and in other local, state, and federal positions. Then he passed on what he had picked up from his experience to students at the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Texas A&M George Bush School of Public Service. "It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage." Jacques Jaujard