Conservative thinktank run by the Democratic party, founded in 1972. Publisher of the quarterly Defense Democrat.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Les Aspin |
Politician |
21-Jul-1938 |
21-May-1995 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1993-94 |
| Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Feb-1921 |
23-May-2006 |
US Senator, Treasury Secretary |
| David L. Boren |
Politician |
21-Apr-1941 |
|
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
| Henry Cisneros |
Politician |
11-Jun-1947 |
|
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 |
| Midge Decter |
Journalist |
25-Jul-1927 |
|
Neoconservative maven |
| Norm Dicks |
Politician |
16-Dec-1940 |
|
Congressman, Washington 6th |
| Jim Exon |
Politician |
9-Aug-1921 |
10-Jun-2005 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1979-97 |
| Howell Heflin |
Politician |
19-Jun-1921 |
29-Mar-2005 |
US Senator from Alabama, 1979-97 |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
| Fritz Hollings |
Politician |
1-Jan-1922 |
|
US Senator from South Carolina, 1967-2005 |
| Hubert Humphrey |
Politician |
27-May-1911 |
13-Jan-1978 |
US Vice President, 1965-69 |
| Daniel Inouye |
Politician |
7-Sep-1924 |
17-Dec-2012 |
US Senator from Hawaii, 1963-2012 |
| Henry "Scoop" Jackson |
Politician |
31-May-1912 |
1-Sep-1983 |
US Senator from Washington, 1953-83 |
| Max Kampelman |
Diplomat |
7-Nov-1920 |
25-Jan-2013 |
US Ambassador to the CSCE |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick |
Government |
19-Nov-1926 |
7-Dec-2006 |
Reagan's UN Ambassador |
| Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
22-Jan-1920 |
18-Sep-2009 |
Influential neocon |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
| Sam Nunn |
Politician |
8-Sep-1938 |
|
US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97 |
| Bill Richardson |
Politician |
15-Nov-1947 |
|
Governor of New Mexico, 2003-11 |
| Chuck Robb |
Politician |
26-Jun-1939 |
|
US Senator from Virginia, 1989-2001 |
| Peter R. Rosenblatt |
Attorney |
4-Sep-1933 |
|
Washington attorney |
| Eugene Victor Rostow |
Educator |
25-Aug-1913 |
25-Nov-2002 |
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65 |
| James H. Scheuer |
Politician |
6-Feb-1920 |
30-Aug-2005 |
Congressman from New York, 1965-93 |
| Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
| Ben Wattenberg |
Pundit |
26-Aug-1933 |
28-Jun-2015 |
Think Tank moderator |
| James Woolsey |
Government |
21-Sep-1941 |
|
CIA Director, 1993-95 |
| Jim Wright |
Politician |
22-Dec-1922 |
6-May-2015 |
Congressman from Texas, 1955-89 |
