Navy Secretary Wins Eliot Award
Richard Danzig ’65 is first recipient of medal honoring ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥'s spiritual godfather.
National security expert Richard Danzig ’65 is the first recipient of the Thomas Lamb Eliot Award for Lifetime Achievement by a ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥ College Graduate. His contributions to his field and commitment to public service exemplify the spirit and integrity of T.L. Eliot, who encouraged Simeon and Amanda ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥ to found the college.
Danzig served as Secretary of the Navy during the Clinton administration and is the chairman of the board for the Center for a New American Security. He serves as a trustee of the RAND Corporation and is a member of the Defense Policy Board. Danzig holds degrees in political science from ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥, a BPhil and a DPhil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White, taught at both Harvard and Stanford, and spent two years as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he served as a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama.
At his during ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥'s centennial celebration, Danzig lauded the benefits of a ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥ education. “Built into the DNA of ²Ø»¨¸óÖ±²¥ is . . . the gift of Western culture,” he said. “That expanded to become global culture, a richness of thought that constitutes our heritage. Through this institution we got a chance to see it and see it refracted through the prism of all the different minds of the people who were here with us.”
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