SENATOR HOWARD BAKER
(R-Tennessee)
Senator Howard Baker, Republican Leader of the United States Senate, is the Republican Party's highest
ranking elected official. In 1966, he became the first Republican ever popularly elected to the Senate from
Tennessee, and in 1977 was chosen Minority Leader. Mr. Baker-won national recognition as vice chairman of the
Senate Watergate Committee, and also served as the keynote speaker of the 1976 Republican National
Convention. He serves on the Committee on Foreign Relations where he has played a leading role in the
preliminary consideration of SALT II. Through his work on the Committee on Environment and Public Works,
Mr. Baker helped draft some of the most significant air and water quality legislation of the past decade. He also
serves on the Committee on Rules and Administration, and is an ex officio member of the Select Committee on
Intelligence.
Senator Baker was born on November 15, 1925, in Huntsville, Tennessee. He served three years in the United
States Navy as a lieutenant, including a brief tour of duty as a PT boat officer in the South Pacific during World
War II.
SENATOR SAM NUNN
(D-Georgia)
Senator TSunn served in the Georgia House of Representatives for two terms before being elected to the United
States Senate in 1972 to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Richard B. Russell. He was re-elected six years
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later to a second term.
Senator Nunn serves on the Armed Services Committee and as the Chairman of the Manpower and Personnel
Subcommittee. An active supporter of a strong national defense, he co-sponsored the Nunn/Warner amendment
which was recently signed into law by the President, and will increase various allowances, pay and bonuses for
military personnel.
The New York Times said his ". . .disproportionate influence in the SALT debate owes much to hard work, a
shrewd analytical bent in military affairs, and a reputation as someone who does not let ideology blot out the
facts."
In addition to his work on the Armed Services Committee, he also serves on the Governmental Affairs
Committee and the Select Committee on Small Business.
Born in Perry, Georgia in 1938, Senator Nunn graduated with honors from Emory University School of Law
in 1962.
SENATOR JOHN TOWER
(R-Texas)
Senator John Tower is a key member ofrke Republican leadership in the Senate. He is Chairman of the
Senate Republican Policy Committee, Ranking Minority member on the Armed Services Committee, and a
member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chmrnittee. He also serves on the Committee on Rules and
Administration. Senator Tower won a special election foSj^yndon Johnson's Senatorial seat in 1961, and has
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represented Texas with growing influence ever since.
sted in the Navy at age 17, shortly after
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Senator Tower was born in Houston on September 29,
the outbreak of World War II, and saw combat on a gunboat inSbe Western Pacific. Proud of his Navy
background, he is a Chief Petty Officer and the only enlisted reservist in CSogress.
SENATOR ABE RIBICOFF
(D-Connecticut)
- Senator Abe Ribicoff has served as a stateJegislator^Governor, cabinet officer ,-U.S. Representative and U.S.
Senator. During his 17 years in the Senate, his leadership has helped establish such important governmental
departments as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Education and
Civil Service Reform.
He currently serves as chairman of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on International Trade and
managed Senate passage of the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and 'Most Favored Nation'
status for the People's Republic of China. In 1978, he served as a Representative in the U.S. Mission to the United
Nations.
Senator Ribicoff is Chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee and, in addition to the Finance
Committee, serves on the Joint Economic Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Senator Ribicoff was born in New Britain, Connecticut on April 9, 1910.
SENATOR DAVE DURENBERGER
(R -Minnesota)
Senator Dave Durenberger was elected to the Senate to serve the remaining four years of Hubert Humphrey's
term. In January, 1979, he was also elected by his colleagues to serve as president of the eleven member
Republican freshman class.
Senator Durenberger serves on the Finance Committee and is the ranking minority member on the Revenue
Sharing, Intergovernmental Revenue Impact and Economic Problems Subcommittee. He is only the second
Republican freshman to serve on the Finance Committee.
In addition, he also is a member of the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Select Committee on
Intelligence.
A lawyer, Senator Durenberger was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota on August 19, 1934, and served as a
Lieutenant in U.S. Army Intelligence, Ft. Holabird, Maryland in 1956.
SENATOR HENRY M. JACKSON
(D-Washington)
Senator Henry M. Jackson, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, is a key
Congressional figureln all legislation related to energy. He~also servesbn the Armed Services Committee (where he
is Chairman of the 5Subcommittee on Arms Control), the Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Select
Committee on Intelligence, and his impact on American defense and foreign policies has been profound.
Senator Jackson served six terms in the United States House of Representatives before being elected to the
Senate in 1952. In 1960 he served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee at the request of thenPresidential candidate John F. Kennedy. Senator Jackson also sought the Democratic Party's nomination for
President in both 1972 and 1976.
Senator Jackson was born on May 31,1912, in Everett, Washington.
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ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Admiral Stansfield Turner was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence on March 9, 1977. In this position
he heads the Intelligence Community (the foreign intelligence agencies of the United States including the
intelligence units of the Army, Navy and Air Force; the National Security Agency; and the Defense Intelligence
Agency) as well as directing the CIA.
Following his graduation from Amherst College in 1941, Admiral Turner was appointed to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis and later entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
During his early career, Admiral Turner held a variety of sea assignments and, after his promotion to Rear
Admiral in May, 1970, assumed command of a Carrier Task Group of the Sixth Fleet.
He was appointed the 36th President of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island with the rank of
Vice Admiral on June 30, 1972. Two years later he was promoted to commander of the United States Second Fleet.
In 1975, he became Commander in Chief, Allied Forces South Europe and was promoted to the rank of
Admiral on September 1, 1975. He retired from active naval service in January, 1979.
Admiral Turner was born in Chicago on December 1, 1923.
AMBASSADOR MALCOLM TOON
Malcolm Toon served as our ambassador to the Soviet Union from December, 1976
to October, 1979. Prior to
that he was ambassador to Israel (June 1975 - December 1976); to Yugoslavia (Octob
er 1971 - May 1975); and to
Czechoslovakia (June 1969 - October 1971). ~~
Ambassador Toon joined the Department of State in 1946 and served as Director
of Soviet Affairs (1965-68)
and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of European Affairs (1968-69). His
previous assignments included
Embassy posts in Warsaw, Rome, London and Moscow.
Born in Troy, New York on July 4, 1916, Ambassador Toon graduated from Tufts
University in 1937 and
received an M.S. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1938. He did
graduate word at Middlebury
College in 1950 and at Harvard University from 1950-51.
Ambassador Toon served in the Navy during World War II principally as a PT boat
commander in the South
Pacific. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded the Bronze
Star.
In 1965, Ambassador Toon received the State Department's Superior Honor Award
and was promoted to the
rank of Career Minister on July 18, 1973.
Ambassador Toon is married, and has a son and two daughters.
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