Subject: [big campaign] PRESS CALL TODAY: Les Gelb, Gen. Bob Gard, Experts Respond to McCain Claim of Victory in Iraq by 2013
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:35:08 -0400
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PRESS CALL TODAY: Experts Respond to McCain Claim of Victory in Iraq  
by 2013

Washington D.C. -  The National Security Network will be holding a  
conference call TODAY AT 2:00 PM with Les Gelb, President Emeritus of  
the Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of NSN's Advisory  
Board,  General Robert G. Gard (RET), Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at  
the Center for American Progress and Former Assistant Secretary of  
Defense under President Reagan, and NSN President Rand Beers to  
respond to John McCain's claim, made today, that he envisions victory  
in Iraq by 2013, as well as other aspects of his speech.

***Call-in #:        1-800-895-1085***
***Passcode:       7MCCAIN***

WHO:             Les Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on  
Foreign Relations and Chairman of the NSN Advisory Board
                         General Robert G. Gard (RET)
                         Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center  
for American Progress and Former Assistant Secretary of Defence under  
President Reagan.
                         Rand Beers, President of the National  
Security Network

WHAT:           Conference call responding to Sen. McCain's claim of  
victory in Iraq by 2012

WHEN:           TODAY Thursday, May 15th, 2008
                          2:00 PM ET

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Les Gelb is a former correspondent for The New York Times and is  
currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He  
is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a  
member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica that was re- 
established in 2005 after a 10-year hiatus.

Gelb was director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for  
International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense from 1967  
to 1969, winning the Pentagon's highest award, the Distinguished  
Service Award. Robert McNamara appointed Gelb as director of the  
project that produced the infamous Pentagon Papers, on the Vietnam  
War. He was an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter  
Administration from 1977 to 1979, serving as director of the Bureau  
of Politico-Military Affairs and winning the Distinguished Honor  
Award, the highest award of the US State Department.

He was diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to  
1977; later, between 1981 and 1993, he was in turn national security  
correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, editor of the Op-Ed  
Page, and columnist. He was a leading member of the Times team that  
won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1986 for a six- 
part comprehensive series on the Strategic Defense Initiative (known  
as "Star Wars").

Gelb became President of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993 and  
is now President Emeritus.
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. is Chairman of the Center for Arms  
Control and Non-Proliferation where his policy work focuses on  
nuclear nonproliferation, missile defense, Iraq, Iran, military  
policy, nuclear terrorism, and other national security issues.

During his military career, Gard saw combat in both the Korea and  
Vietnam wars, and served a three year tour in Germany. He also served  
as Executive Assistant to two secretaries of defense; the first  
Director of Human Resources Development for the U.S. Army; Special  
Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International  
Security Affairs; and President of National Defense University (NDU).

After retiring from the U.S. Army in 1981, after 31 years of  
distinguished service, Gard served for five years as director of the  
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies  
Center in Bologna, Italy, and then as President of the Monterey  
Institute of International Studies from 1987 to 1998. Since 1998, he  
has been an active consultant in Washington, D.C., on national  
security issues, including the international campaign to ban anti- 
personnel land mines.

Gard has written for well-known journals and periodicals that focus  
on military and international affairs and lectured widely at U.S. and  
international universities and academic conferences. He serves on the  
board of eight non-profit organizations and is a member of the  
Council on Foreign Relations.

Gard holds a B.A. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and  
both an M.P.A. and Ph.D in Political Economy & Government from  
Harvard University.

Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and a Senior  
Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the  
Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security  
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to  
October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and  
holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair.

Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the  
Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign  
Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the  
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University  
of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the  
Raytheon Company.

Dr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve  
Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that  
position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For  
his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of  
Defense's medal for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. Korb served on  
active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer, and retired from  
the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.

Rand Beers is the president of the National Security Network. He  
served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004  
campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant.  
After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in  
Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service  
in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served on the National Security  
Council Staff at the White House as Director for Counter-terrorism  
and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director  
for Intelligence Programs. From 1998-2003 he was Assistant Secretary  
of State for International. Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In  
2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director  
for Combating Terrorism. In 2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the  
President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National  
Security Council. Beers earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an  
M.A. from the University of Michigan.
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