The
word is much overused but, Richard Lugar: statesman. He should be proud
for having contributed much to world peace and the world's welfare. And
he should have been President. He also should have been a Nobel Peace
Prize winner, a prize he would have gotten the old-fashioned way: by
earning it. (Perhaps the latter achievement remains within his grasp?)
May Indiana's Democratic candidate for the Senate prevail. Lugar's defeat in the primary is a sin that cannot be forgiven.
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Richard Lugar's comments on the outcome of the primary: http://www.dicklugar.com/2012/05/sen-lugars-remarks-to-supporters-prepared-follow-up-statement/
"In 1986, Lugar's leadership on legislation that imposed economic and political sanctions on South Africa marked a turning point in the U.S. response to apartheid and represents one of Lugar's finest moments in the Senate. He helped persuade the Reagan administration to embrace a more forceful role in opposing apartheid. That same year, he also helped persuade the Reagan administration to recognize Corazon Aquino as the winner of the disputed presidential election in the Philippines against incumbent Ferdinand Marcos." http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/what-richard-lugar-accomplished-for-us-foreign-policy/256936/
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lugar "Much of Lugar's work in the Senate is toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world. "Nuclear stockpile
Lugar has been influential in gaining Senate ratification of treaties to reduce the world's use, production and stockpiling of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In 1991, he initiated a partnership with then-Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn aiming to eliminate latent weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.[5] To date, the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program has deactivated more than 7,500 nuclear warheads. In 2004, Senators Lugar and Nunn were jointly awarded the Heinz Awards Chairman's Medal for their efforts.[48]"
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