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Home page  Experts James R. Schlesinger
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James R. SchlesingerCSIS Counselor and Trustee |
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James R. Schlesinger serves as senior adviser to the investment-banking firm of Lehman Brothers and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the MITRE Corporation. He also serves as counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In March 1969, Mr. Schlesinger began his government service as assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget (later the Office of Management and Budget) and served for a period as acting director. He left the Bureau of the Budget in August 1971 when President Nixon selected him to become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He held that post until February 1973 when he was named director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He served in the latter position until July 1973 when he was appointed secretary of defense. He remained at the Defense Department until November 1975. In 1976 President-elect Carter asked Mr. Schlesinger to become assistant to the president, charged with the responsibility of drafting a plan for the establishment of the Department of Energy and a national energy policy. On August 5, 1977, Mr. Schlesinger became the nation's first secretary of energy, taking the oath of office one day after President Carter signed the legislation creating the new department. He held that post until August 1979. Born in New York City on February 15, 1929, Mr. Schlesinger received an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1950. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was selected for the Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship, 1950-1951. He received an A.M. (1952) and Ph.D. (1956) from Harvard. Mr. Schlesinger is the author of The Political Economy of National Security (1960), America at Century's End (1989), and numerous articles. He has been awarded eleven honorary doctorates. Mr. Schlesinger is the recipient of the National Security Medal as well as five departmental and agency medals. He is the winner of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal, George Catlett Marshall Medal, H.H. Arnold Award, Navy League's National Meritorious Citation, Military Order of the World Wars Distinguished Service Award, Jimmy Doolittle Award, William Oliver Baker Award, and Henry M. Jackson Award for Distinguished Public Service. |
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