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David M. AbshireVice Chairman of the Board of Trustees |
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David M. Abshire is president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and president of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation of New York. He is the vice chairman of the board of CSIS and was its cofounder in 1962. He cofounded with Kazuo Inamori the CSIS Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy. Dr. Abshire is a graduate of West Point and was decorated during the Korean War as a company commander. He received a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University, where for many years he served as an adjunct professor. His full-time government service includes congressional staff (1958–1960), assistant secretary of state for congressional relations (1970–1973), U.S. ambassador to NATO (1983–1987), and special counsellor to President Ronald Reagan (1987). His part-time government service includes chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting (1975–1977) and member of the Murphy Commission (1974–1975), the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1981–1982), and the President’s Task Force on U.S. Governmental International Broadcasting (1991). He is vice chairman of the Council on American Ambassadors. He served for nine years on the board of Proctor & Gamble. He has been decorated by seven heads of government and received three honorary degrees. He is editor of Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Seventy Six Case Studies in Presidential Leadership (Praeger, 2001). The most recent of his six books is Saving the Reagan Presidency: Trust is the Coin of the Realm (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). |
David M. Abshire In the News
David M. Abshire was the subject of The Washington Post article, "The Civility Defense Force: David Abshire Aims to Put the Polite Back in 'Political.'" 04/07/2006
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