Nominee's Background:
Family background:
Gary Hart was born in Ottawa, Kansas, and lives in Kittredge, Colorado. He is married to Lee Hart and is the father of Andrea Hart and John Hart.
Professional background:
* Attorney, Coudert Brothers (1988-present) * Member, U.S. Senate (1974-86) * Campaign manager, George McGovern for President (1970-72) * Attorney, private practice (1967-74) * Special assistant to the solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior (1965-67) * Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice (1964-65)
Education:
* B.A., theology and philosophy, Southern Nazarene University (1958) * B.D., Yale University Divinity School (1961) * J.D., Yale University School of Law (1964) * D.Phil., politics, Oxford University (2001)
Member of the following boards of directors:
* U.S.-Russia Investment Fund * Council of Foreign Relations * Global Green USA
Publications:
* Restoration of the Republic * The Patriot * The Minuteman * The Double Man (co-authored) * The New Democracy * Right from the Start: A Chronicle of the McGovern Campaign * Russia Shakes the World: The Second Russian Revolution and Its Impact on the West
Links to Ideas: http://www.garyhartnews.com/hart/ Quotations:
Nominating Speech:
"For I see an America where greed, self-interest and division are conquered by idealism, the common good and the national interest. I see an America too young to quit, too courageous to turn back, with a passion for justice and a program for opportunity, an America with unmet dreams that will not die. Tonight the torch of idealism is lit in thousands of homes and tens of thousands of lives, among the young in spirit and the young in age. It cannot go out. It will not go out. It will continue to burn." from the 1984 Democratic National Convention
"The extravagance, not to say arrogance, of this epic undertaking is sufficiently breathtaking in its hubris to make Woodrow Wilson blush. And as a visionary, George W. Bush is no Woodrow Wilson. I find nothing in the writings of America's founders, including those of the expansive Alexander Hamilton, that suggests our national purpose should be the remaking of the world in our own image. In fact, most founders, and the prudent leaders since, have believed we should focus on perfecting our own democracy as an example to the world." from the Washington Post
Nominated by: Progressive Government Institute
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Progressive Criteria:
The Defense Department will:
Recognize that as the most powerful country, the US must lead in international cooperation;
Instill and preserve a high level of compliance with all treaties such as the Geneva conventions;
Remember that the USA is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Will not manage Defense as either a jobs or a corporate welfare program;
Work to restrain the international arms trade and reduce arms and nuclear proliferation;
In keeping with our desire for a world of law, will work to make sure that our armed forces get no preferential treatment such as immunity from the International Criminal Court or the land mines ban;
Strictly limit privatization and outsourcing of military duties.
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