SECRETARY OF THE NAVY JOHN H. DALTON TO RECEIVE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton will be the recipient
of the annual International Security Leadership Award. Only one
individual is presented with this special award each year, and
past recipients include former Presidents Ronald Reagan and
George Bush, and former Senators Sam Nunn (Ga.) and Howell Heflin
(Ala.). Dalton is the first service secretary to receive this
award.
The co-chairmen of the bipartisan National Security Caucus
(NSC) announced that Dalton will be recognized for his
leadership and vision in promoting American seapower and a
bipartisan maritime strategy at an 11:30 a.m. (EDT) reception
and 12:30 p.m. luncheon on Wednesday, May 7th at the Washington
Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The National Security Caucus is the largest congressional
member organization, and the award will be presented to the Navy
secretary on behalf of the 290 NSC lawmakers. It is the highest
award presented by the caucus, and the award is sponsored by the
non-profit National Security Caucus foundation.
The award will be presented by House Democratic Leader
Richard Gephardt and the luncheon is being held in cooperation
with the Paul Hall memorial committee of the University of
Southern California. The audience will include NSC lawmakers,
senior representatives of veterans organizations, as well as
prominent leaders of the national security community and the
maritime industry.
Reps. Chet Edwards and Randy (Duke) Cunningham, the
administrative co-chairmen of the caucus, will assist Gephardt in
presenting the award. They released the following statement:
The past four years have presented Navy Secretary John Dalton
with many challenges and opportunities. This has been a
difficult time to serve as secretary of the Navy, and the entire
national security community is very grateful for John Dalton's
leadership and tremendous yeoman labor.
Since his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1964 and his
subsequent service on USS Blueback and John C. Calhoun, Secretary
Dalton's philosophy can best be described as maintaining peace
through strength.' We know all of our colleagues in the National
Security Caucus are indebted to the secretary for his active
promotion of American seapower, a comprehensive and bipartisan
maritime strategy, as well as U.S. global power projection.
Secretary Dalton has also placed a high emphasis on improving and
updating American technology, and his innovations have been
responsible for numerous programs which have been on time and
under budget.
Edwards and Cunningham concluded by saying, By all
accounts, Secretary Dalton's operational strategy has been both
aggressive and forward-looking, and under his guidance the Navy
has been able to match tactics with the appropriate technology
and equipment.
Previous recipients of the International Security Leadership
Award are: 1979, Sen. John C. Stennis; 1980, Sen. Henry Jackson;
1981, Sen. Edward Zorinsky; 1982, Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger; 1983, President Ronald Reagan; 1984, Sen. John Tower;
1985, Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick; 1986, Sen. Robert Dole;
1987, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; 1988, Sen. Howell Heflin;
1989, Rep. William L. Dickinson; 1990, Vice President Dan Quayle;
1991, Sen. Sam Nunn; 1992, Rep. Charles Bennett; 1993, President
George Bush; 1994, Rep. John P. Murtha; 1995, Secretary of
Defense Les Aspin; and 1996, Secretary of Defense William Perry.
For information concerning the reception and luncheon
contact Tanya Daly at (202) 479-4580.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
The John H. Dalton Congressional Fellowship in Maritime
Strategy Studies has been established by the non-profit NSC
Foundation at the request of the co-chairmen of the bipartisan
National Security Caucus in the U.S. Congress. The program is
designed to honor the leadership role of Dalton and his efforts
to promote American seapower and develop a comprehensive national
maritime strategy.
Dalton received the 1997 International Security Leadership
Award from the National Security Caucus and the fellowship
program was created with an initial $100,000 contribution from
the U.S. Maritime Coalition. The Dalton Fellowship Program will
work to unite the worlds of scholarship and public policy. This
will be done in a search for practical solutions to the challenge
of maintaining and enhancing American seapower as well as an
adequate strategic sealift capacity for the United States.
A major goal of the John H. Dalton Fellowship Program in
Maritime Strategy Studies is preparing bipartisan synthesis of
the best thinking on key maritime issues facing our nation today.
John H. Dalton fellows will have the opportunity to work with
members of Congress and their staffs, as well as business
executives, diplomats, policy makers, and other scholars. Such
interaction is one of the primary benefits of the fellowship
program.
While all John H. Dalton Congressional fellows will receive
recognition for their collective role in the development and
implementation of a new maritime strategy, individual efforts
will also be acknowledged. All scholarly research and analysis
will be reviewed by lawmakers in the National Security Caucus, as
well as the staff of the National Security Caucus foundation. If
approved, the materials will be published by the National
Security Caucus foundation.
