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C. Siciliano (Chairman) is an attorney who has served
in four presidentially appointed positions and as a corporate chief
executive officer of two New York Stock Exchange companies. He is
also Chairman of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles
and was president and then chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower
World Affairs Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 2001.
Mr. Siciliano was Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for
Personnel Management in the White House after having served four
years as Assistant Secretary of Labor. He served as Under Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Commerce from February 1969 to April 1971.
He has served as president and chairman of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
and as a member of the National Commission on the Public Service
(the Volcker Commission). He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Committee
for Economic Development and the J. Paul Getty Trust. He served
in the U.S. Army during World War II as an Infantry Platoon Leader
in the 10th Mountain Infantry Division in Italy. He was awarded
the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Bronze Star for Valor,
and the Army Special Commendation Ribbon. Son of Italian immigrants
from Calabria, Mr. Siciliano is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Commission Chairman Rocco Siciliano’s favorite Eisenhower
quotation:
“A feeling came over me that the expression 'The
United States of America' would now and henceforth mean something
different than it ever had before. From here on it would be the
nation I was serving and not myself.”
In 1952 Ike remembers his first day at West Point,
June 14, 1911.
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Daniel K. Inouye (Vice Chairman) A United States Senator from Hawaii, Mr. Inouye is the third most senior member of the U.S. Senate. A combat-decorated World War II veteran, he won the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart with cluster for his service in France and in Italy. He won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1959 as the new state’s first congressman. Elected to the US Senate in 1962, he is Co-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation where he is ranking member of the Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Subcommittee. He is also Ranking Member on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and member of the Senate Indian Affairs and Rules and Administration Committees. He served as a member of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission from 1970 to 1997, and as Co-Chair of the Commission from 1990 to 1997. Click
here for his Website.
Commissioner Inouye’s favorite Eisenhower quotation:
"I hate war as only a soldier who has
lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity."
Speech in Ottawa, Canada, January 10, 1958
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Ted Stevens A United States Senator from Alaska, Mr. Stevens is the fourth most senior member of the U. S. Senate. A combat-decorated World War II veteran, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and won the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, and the Yuan Hai medal from the Republic of China. After his military service, he moved to Alaska in the early 1950s. President Eisenhower appointed him Solicitor (chief counsel) of the Department of the Interior in 1960. Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1968 upon the death of Sen. E.L. Bob Bartlett, Mr. Stevens was elected in his own right in 1972 and has served in the Senate since then. He is President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as well as the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, a member of the Rules Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Click
here for his Website.
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Dennis Moore A member of the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Moore represents the Third District of Kansas. After service in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Reserve, he became Assistant Attorney General for Kansas. Elected District Attorney in Johnson County, Kansas in 1976, 1980 and 1984, he was subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, where he serves as a member of the House Committees on the Budget, Financial Services, and Science. Click
here for his Website.
Representative Dennis Moore’s favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never
let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
process. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and
knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful
methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
In his last address as President Ike cautions Americans
about the potentially inappropriate political influence resulting
from combined military and defense industry power (Farewell
Address, January 17, 1961).
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Jack Reed The Senior Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Reed is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a U.S. Army veteran. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he was elected to the Rhode Island State Senate in 1984 and to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, he is the senior Democratic member of the Joint Economic Committee, Ranking Member of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member of the Housing and Transportation Subcommittee of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Click here for his Website.
Commissioner Reed's favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have
failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the
troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based
on the best information available. The troops, the air and the
Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any
blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
Unpublished draft press release written, but never issued, by
General Eisenhower on June 5, 1944
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Pat Roberts A United States Senator from Kansas, Mr. Roberts served in the United States Marine Corps and subsequently worked as a journalist and congressional staff member. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 for the First District of Kansas, he served eight terms. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, he is Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is also a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mr. Roberts was the recipient of The 2004 Eisenhower Leadership Award. Click
here for his Website.
Senator Pat Roberts’ favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“Because no man is really a man who has left out
of himself all the boy, I wanted to speak first of the dreams
of a barefoot boy…. Always in his dreams is the day when
he finally comes home to a welcome from his hometown. Because
today that dream of forty-five years ago has been realized beyond
the wildest stretches of my own imagination, I came here to thank
you and to say that the proudest thing I can claim is that I’m
from Abilene….”
Ike speaking to the people in his home town after
returning from the war. (Homecoming speech in Abilene, Kansas
June 22, 1945 )
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Leonard L. Boswell A member of the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Boswell represents the Third District of Iowa. A combat-decorated Vietnam veteran, he was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1984. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, he serves as Ranking Member of the Analysis and Counterintelligence Subcommittee within the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and is a member of the Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. Click
here for his Website.
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Jerry Moran A member of the United States House of Representatives, Mr. Moran represents the First District of Kansas, which includes Abilene, the site of the Eisenhower family home, the Eisenhower Library, and the Eisenhower Center. Congressman Moran is also a Trustee of the Eisenhower Foundation. After working in the fields of banking and law, he was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He serves as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. He also Chairs the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management and is a member of the Veteran’s Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Click
here for his Website.
Commissioner Moran's favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“America is exactly as strong as the initiative, courage, understanding and loyalty of the individual citizen.”
Speech launching the Crusade for Freedom in Denver, Colorado (September 4, 1950)
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Mac Thornberry A member of the United States
House of Representatives, Mr. Thornberry represents the Thirteenth
District of Texas. After graduating from the University of
Texas Law School in 1983, he worked as a congressional staff
member and became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Legislative Affairs in 1988. First elected to the U.S. House
of Representatives in 1994, he is chairman of the Subcommittee
on Oversight within the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence
and serves as a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Click
here for his Website.
Commissioner Thornberry's favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
From Ike's first inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
 David
Eisenhower, the grandson of President Eisenhower,
served in the U.S. Navy and afterward launched a successful
career as a writer. His 1986 book Eisenhower at War: 1943-1945,
was a New York Times best seller and a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize. He has served as a lecturer in Political
Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981 and is
currently writing a sequel to Eisenhower at War.
He has also served as the editor of Orbis. He is
currently Director of the Institute for Public Service at
the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Fellow at the Foreign
Policy Research Institute and member of the Editorial Board
for Presidential Studies Quarterly. In 2003, he
won the University of Pennsylvania Provost Award for Excellence
in University Teaching.
Commissioner Eisenhower's favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“Always take your job seriously, never yourself.”
A saying Ike tried to live by which he first learned from his mentor, Brigadier General Fox Conner while serving as his Executive Officer at Camp Gaillard, Panama, 1922-1924
 Alfred
Geduldig A principal in the firm of Geduldig & Co., LLC, and a senior consultant with Fleishman Hillard, Inc, Mr. Geduldig is an executive in the fields of corporate communications and public affairs. He joined Mobil in 1964 and became an architect of its public relations and issues advertising programs. In 1974 he was named Vice President, Public Affairs, for GAF Corporation, leaving in 1977 for a business venture. In 1983, he joined Travelers Corporation as Vice President, Corporate Communications. He has been a member of the Private Sector Advisory Council for USIA and the communications advisory committee of the Urban League’s Black Executive Exchange Program.
Commissioner Geduldig's favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“The nature of today’s weapons, the nature of modern communications, and the widening circle of new nations make it plain that we must, in the end, be a world community of open societies.”
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, August 13, 1958
 Susan
Banes Harris An attorney and legislative affairs specialist, Ms. Harris graduated cum laude from the American University Law School in 1979. After serving as Director of the Washington Action Office of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, she served as Assistant Director of the Staffing Unit for the Clinton-Gore transition team in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Washington Representative of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as a consultant for Heidepriem & Morgan, Inc., and the Hadassah Washington Action Office.
Commissioner Susan Harris’ favorite Eisenhower quotation:
“The things I saw beggar description….The
visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty,
and bestiality were…overpowering….I made the visit
deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence
of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency
to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’”
On April 15, 1945 General Eisenhower tells General
George C. Marshall why he personally visited a Nazi death camp.
“Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re”
attributed to Claudio Aqua
“Gently in Manner – Strongly
in Deed”
(Source note: The president kept a paperweight displaying this
inscription on his desk in the White House and later in his Gettysburg
office. It is now on display at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
and Museum in Abilene, Kansas)
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