ORGANIZATION

Conservative defense policy think tank, founded in 1950, relaunched in 1976, and again in 2004.

Founding Date:
1950

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ken Adelman	Diplomat	9-Jun-1946		Deputy US Ambassador to the UN, 1981-83
Richard V. Allen	Government	1-Jan-1936		Reagan National Security Advisor
Martin Anderson	Economist	5-Aug-1936	3-Jan-2015	Revolution: The Reagan Legacy
Jose Maria Aznar	Head of State	25-Feb-1953		Prime Minister of Spain, 1996-2004
William E. Brock	Politician	23-Nov-1930		US Secretary of Labor, 1985-87
William Casey	Spy	13-Mar-1913	29-Jan-1987	CIA Director, 1981-87
James B. Conant	Educator	26-Mar-1893	11-Feb-1978	President of Harvard, 1933-53
Midge Decter	Journalist	25-Jul-1927		Neoconservative maven
Joseph E. diGenova	Government	c. 1945		US Attorney, District of Columbia, 1983-88
Steve Forbes	Business	18-Jul-1947		Owner and publisher of Forbes magazine
Frank Gaffney	Columnist	5-Apr-1953		Prominent neocon
Newt Gingrich	Politician	17-Jun-1943		Speaker of the House, 1995-99
Victor Davis Hanson	Historian	5-Sep-1953		Carnage and Culture
Vaclav Havel	Head of State	5-Oct-1936	18-Dec-2011	Playwright President of Czechia
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
Jon Kyl	Politician	25-Apr-1942		US Senator from Arizona, 1995-2013
John F. Lehman	Politician	14-Sep-1942		9-11 Commission member
Joseph Lieberman	Politician	24-Feb-1942		Former US Senator from Connecticut
Clare Boothe Luce	Politician	10-Apr-1903	9-Oct-1987	Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
Clifford D. May	Activist	c. 1951		Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Andrew C. McCarthy	Pundit	?		National Review Online
Ed Meese	Government	2-Dec-1931		US Attorney General, 1985-88
Paul Nitze	Diplomat	16-Jan-1907	19-Oct-2004	US cold warrior
Michael Novak	Religion	9-Sep-1933		The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Mark Palmer	Diplomat	14-Jul-1941	28-Jan-2013	US Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-90
Richard Perle	Government	16-Sep-1941		Prince of Darkness
Daniel Pipes	Government	9-Sep-1949		Influential neocon
Danielle Pletka	Pundit	12-Jun-1963		American Enterprise Institute
Norman Podhoretz	Author	16-Jan-1930		Prominent neocon author
Ronald Reagan	Head of State	6-Feb-1911	5-Jun-2004	40th US President, 1981-89
Peter R. Rosenblatt	Attorney	4-Sep-1933		Washington attorney
Nina Rosenwald	Philanthropist	?		Sears Roebuck heiress
Eugene Victor Rostow	Educator	25-Aug-1913	25-Nov-2002	Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65
Donald Rumsfeld	Government	9-Jul-1932		US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06
Richard Scaife	Activist	3-Jul-1932	4-Jul-2014	The Republican George Soros
Randy Scheunemann	Government	?		Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Albert Shanker	Labor Leader	14-Sep-1928	22-Feb-1997	American Federation of Teachers
John H. Shenefield	Attorney	23-Jan-1930		Morgan Lewis
George Shultz	Government	13-Dec-1920		US Secretary of State, 1982-89
Stephen Solarz	Politician	12-Sep-1940	29-Nov-2010	Congressman from New York, 1975-93
Raymond Tanter	Scholar	?		Iran Policy Committee founder
Kenneth R. Timmerman	Journalist	4-Nov-1953		Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Victoria Toensing	Pundit	16-Oct-1941		Washington lawyer
Emmett Tyrrell	Columnist	1943		Publisher, The American Spectator
Ben Wattenberg	Pundit	26-Aug-1933	28-Jun-2015	Think Tank moderator
John C. Whitehead	Business	2-Apr-1922	7-Feb-2015	US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89
Elie Wiesel	Activist	30-Sep-1928		Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist
Edward Bennett Williams	Attorney	31-May-1920	13-Aug-1988	Washington Superlawyer
Richard S. Williamson	Diplomat	9-May-1949	8-Dec-2013	Special Envoy to Sudan
James Woolsey	Government	21-Sep-1941		CIA Director, 1993-95

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