His tenure was scandal-free but not without controversy. Hope the first chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, the agency that regulates the multibillion industry of bingo and other gambling enterprises on Indian reservations. Hope had lived in Washington for the previous 10 years. Hope was a candidate for a San Fernando Valley congressional seat, but he was defeated in the Republican primary by the mayor of Simi Valley, Elton Gallegly, in part because Mr. President Jimmy Carter named him to the Government Management Improvement Council, and he was one of the authors of a Grace Commission report recommending that Dulles and National airports be privatized. Ford appointed him vice president of finance for the Overseas Private Investment Corp. He returned to Washington in 1975 after President Gerald R.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965 and, after a stint in the Air Force, returned to Malibu, Calif., where he became director of business affairs at Twentieth Century Fox. After graduating from Loyola High School in Los Angeles, he entered Georgetown University, graduating in 1962. He was adopted by Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores, shortly after his birth and grew up in North Hollywood, Calif. He also was a competitive swimmer and sailor and a tournament bridge and poker player. Hope, whose cause of death has not been reported, was a Washington attorney and lobbyist who served in several government positions, most notably as head of the National Indian Gaming Commission. 'Tony' Hope, 63, who died on June 28 at Washington Hospital Center, was indeed the son of the late entertainer but, despite his own gifts as a raconteur and his appreciation for a good joke, his life took a very different course from that of his famous father, who died last July 27 at age 100. 'When I die,' Tony Hope told a California newspaper in 1994, 'my obituary will start, 'Tony Hope, son of Bob Hope, died yesterday.' It doesn't matter what I do with my life, that's what it will say.'Īnthony J.

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