Nunn, (Samuel Augustus, Jr.) Sam

(1938– ) U.S. senator; born in Perry, Ga. After serving in the Georgia legislature (Dem., 1968–72), he was elected to the U.S. Senate (1972). As chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, he attained national prominence as an expert on defense issues. Regarded as a moderate among the Democratic Party leadership, he won the respect of the party's liberals during the administration of Ronald Reagan for his role in the Iran-Contra hearings, his opposition to the nomination of John Tower as Secretary of Defense, and his criticisms of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program. He played a pivotal role in the negotiations that ensued when President Clinton announced his intention of allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military.

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He also makes the intriguing suggestion that RFK's suspicion of bureaucracies and iconoclasm presaged Bill Clinton's "New Democrats" (It is a bit of a reach to believe that Bobby Kennedy is what Sam Nunn and LBJ son-in-law Chuck Robb had in mind when they founded the Democratic Leadership Committee.) But he is not alone in wondering--like many of those who care for Democratic ideals--whether Robert Kennedy could have succeeded where Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern failed, leading a unified party into the 1970s.

Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade

Yes, the DLC was the perfect mechanism for big business to help Chuck Robb of Virginia, Sam Nunn of Georgia - or Bill Clinton.

Campaign reform? Get real!

Dark horses: most distressing, Sam Nunn; most intriguing, Michael Dukakis.

The morning after

After five minutes Roundhegians were ahead from a penalty, but Rishworthians soon got into their stride and birthday boy Sam Nunn off-loaded for lock Fraser Swarbrooke to score and Kelly converted.

YMCA hopes of third success are dashed

Sam Nunn and senior Army officers to promote an Army friend that Hackworth considers a true warrior--as if lobbying for promotions were a reporter's proper role.

Hazardous Duty: America's Most Decorated Living Soldier Reports from the Front and Tells It the Way It Is

(Is it gauche to wonder whether Bill and Hillary returned Guinier's wedding gift after making her into a burnt offering to Sam Nunn and the Democratic Leadership Council?)

President Piggly Wiggly

The principal sponsors were Orrin Hatch of Utah and Sam Nunn of Georgia; both men consistently draw low ratings for their voting records on labor issues from the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education.

Sounds nice, but it's antiunion: the labor racketeering bill

Scrum half Liam Phillips then kicked through for winger Chris Flanagan to touch down, before teenage centre Sam Nunn raced 60 yards to score Rishworthians' bonus point try.

Rampaging Rishworthians run riot

Two major U.S.-Russian programs are the Department of Energy's "Lab-to-Lab," which aims to tighten the security of research facilities, and the Cooperative Threat Reduction plan sponsored by Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar.

May the force be with you: because the Republicans' costly missile defense system probably won't be

But as the Center for Defense Information observes, "politicians of all stripes seem preoccupied with keeping military spending high for economic and political reasons." Those reasons include a pathetic eagerness to please such Congressional hawks as Senator Sam Nunn, the Georgia Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee.

Cold War - the sequel

Nunn, Sam

Nunn, (Samuel Augustus, Jr.) Sam