Brent Scowcroft served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
27 Facts About Brent Scowcroft
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Brent Scowcroft served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W Bush from 2001 to 2005, and advised President Barack Obama on choosing his national security team.
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Brent Scowcroft was a descendant of early 19th-century British immigrants from England and Scotland, along with immigrants from Denmark and Norway.
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Brent Scowcroft received his undergraduate degree and commission in the United States Army Air Forces from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in June 1947.
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Brent Scowcroft subsequently earned an MA and PhD in international relations from Columbia University.
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Brent Scowcroft served in a variety of operational and administrative positions from 1948 to 1953.
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Brent Scowcroft next attended the National War College at Fort McNair, followed by assignment in July 1968 to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
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Brent Scowcroft was appointed Military Assistant to the President in February 1972; and was reassigned as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in January 1973.
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Brent Scowcroft was promoted to lieutenant general on August 16,1974, and retired from active duty at that rank on December 1,1975.
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Brent Scowcroft had, just a month earlier, during the Halloween Massacre, become the United States National Security Advisor, replacing Henry Kissinger.
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Brent Scowcroft had a long association with Henry Kissinger, having served as his assistant when Kissinger was the National Security Adviser under Richard Nixon, from 1969.
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Brent Scowcroft served on the Guiding Coalition of the nonpartisan Project on National Security Reform.
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Brent Scowcroft was appointed Co-Chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future from 2010 to 2012 alongside Lee Hamilton.
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Brent Scowcroft's aircraft was en route to Offutt when the second hijacked airliner struck the WTC.
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Brent Scowcroft was the founder and president of The Forum for International Policy, a think tank.
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Brent Scowcroft was president of The Scowcroft Group, an international business consulting firm.
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Brent Scowcroft was co-chair, along with Joseph Nye, of the Aspen Strategy Group.
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Brent Scowcroft was a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Atlantic Council.
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Brent Scowcroft strongly opposed a precipitous withdrawal, arguing that a pull-out from Iraq before the country was able to govern, sustain, and defend itself "would be a strategic defeat for American interests, with potentially catastrophic consequences both in the region and beyond".
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In 2005, Brent Scowcroft was awarded the William Oliver Baker Award by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
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Critics have suggested that Brent Scowcroft was unethical in his lobbying for the Turkish and Azeri governments because of his ties to Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors that do significant business with Turkey.
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Brent Scowcroft was a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute, and served on the Advisory Board for Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and for America Abroad Media.
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Brent Scowcroft endorsed Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 United States presidential election.
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The result was that Brent Scowcroft "proved to be an extraordinarily effective national security adviser" in comparison with others who have held the office, particularly in light of the difficult and transformative period in which he held office.
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Brent Scowcroft was smart, deceptively articulate with a calm demeanor that often masked his strategic thinking.
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In March 1993, when Brent Scowcroft was given an honorary KBE by Queen Elizabeth II, his daughter was received by the Queen.
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On January 29,2021, Brent Scowcroft was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.