Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Breakfast with Biden
"Vice President Biden will have breakfast on Tuesday with former Sen. Chuck Hagel, the White House says.
Hagel, a co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, was scheduled to meet with Biden at the Naval Observatory at 8 a.m. The White House didn’t say what they would talk about."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Chuck Hagel on Public Service
"Public service is the essence of a free people, an open society, and a vital democracy. It is the centerpiece of a generous and caring culture. And there are so many wonderful ways to engage oneself in the employment of humanity, including elective office. Public service defines us, and it takes many forms. It is more than anything else the privilege of helping make a better world for all mankind. What is more important in life, more fulfilling, and more compelling?"
Monday, September 27, 2010
Chuck Hagel pays tribute to Senator Lugar
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Interview with Senator Hagel - The Washington Diplomat
Thursday, August 19, 2010
How right they were
Chuck Hagel raised eyebrows in Washington by winning the Republican primary in Nebraska, where he was given little hope. He impressed more skeptics by overcoming odds and winning the general election over Democrat Ben Nelson to take the seat left by retiring Democratic Sen. Jim Exon.
"If he runs his office half as well as he did his campaign, he's going to be a player to watch," Mr. Marr said.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Secretary of Defense Gates to step down in 2011
Always the bridesmaid: Chuck Hagel
Former Nebraska senator
The Obama administration has been trying to give Hagel a prime posting for a while. He's reported to have turned down several sweet offers, including ambassador to China and director of national intelligence. He does serve as a co-chair of Obama's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In Hagel's favor, he's a Republican who won't bend to the GOP talking points of the moment and he's high-profile enough to fill the chair. The fear is that his independence and his penchant for veering off message in a Biden-esque way make him too risky to entrust with such a prominent perch. Moreover, if Obama chooses another Republican to lead DOD, many will begin to question whether the Democratic national- security bench is too thin or if Obama is wary of putting someone in his own party in charge of the wars.
Atlantic Council President Chuck Hagel on START
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
OWH: "Hagel speaks up for vets"
Hagel praised the At Ease program as a potential national model, saying local public-private partnerships could be the quickest and most compassionate way to get veterans the help they need.
The government is spending billions of dollars annually trying to help veterans, he said, but “our circuits are overloaded” after nine years of war and a crippling recession.
Nonprofits, religious groups and businesses must step up, he said, ignoring old assumptions that only veterans wearing a sling or a bandage are in need of serious help.
“We can't let (returning veterans) just drift,” Hagel said. “We don't say, ‘Well, it looks like you don't have a problem. You look fine.'”
Friday, July 10, 2009
Hagel Named to Defense Policy Board
Monday, June 15, 2009
"A Republican Looks at His Party"
In the wake of the big Republican fund-raising dinner keynoted by Newt Gingrich with Sarah Palin as an off-again, on-again attendee and distraction, the shambles in which the party finds itself is painfully apparent.Rather than trotting out a prominent figure who might bring a fresh and forward-looking message to the assembled faithful, the dinner spotlighted a veteran of Democratic vilification and a defeated vice-presidential nominee diminished by her transparent shortcomings in national and foreign policy international matters.