19 Facts About Kenneth Adelman

Kenneth Lee Adelman was born on June 9,1946 and is an American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and Shakespeare scholar.

Kenneth Adelman was born to a Jewish family and graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, majoring in philosophy and religion.

Kenneth Adelman received his master's degree in Foreign Service studies and doctorate in political theory from Georgetown University.

Kenneth Adelman began working for the federal government in 1969 at the US Department of Commerce and then served in the Office of Economic Opportunity.

From 1975 to 1977 during the Gerald Ford administration, Kenneth Adelman was an Assistant to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and was later a member of the Defense Policy Board.

Kenneth Adelman has served as a national editor of Washingtonian magazine for more than 17 years.

Kenneth Adelman was the deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations for two-and-a-half years, working with Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Kenneth Adelman served as the Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for nearly five years during the Reagan administration.

Kenneth Adelman was an advisor to President Ronald Reagan during the superpower summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Kenneth Adelman took part in the Zaire River Expedition in 1975, travelling down the Congo River on the 100th Anniversary of Henry Morton Stanley's exploration.

Kenneth Adelman was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and was involved in conservative policy efforts dating back to the 1970s when he was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger.

Kenneth Adelman strongly supported the war on Iraq and worked for the think tank Project for the New American Century, arguing for new policies to help the United States remain a global leader.

Kenneth Adelman, called "a lifelong neocon activist", worried in 2006 that the incompetence shown in handling the war in Iraq would damage the neoconservative movement; neoconservatism, he said, "is not going to sell" for at least a generation.

Kenneth Adelman went on to become senior counsel at Edelman Public Relations, where he led several campaigns linked to US trade and intellectual property interests via the organization USA Innovations, an organization he leads.

Kenneth Adelman is an expert on William Shakespeare and has taught extension school classes at Georgetown University and George Washington University on Shakespeare.

Kenneth Adelman wrote a pair of editorial columns regarding the Iraq War in the Washington Post in February 2002 and April 2003 entitled, respectively, "Cakewalk In Iraq" and "'Cakewalk' Revisited".

Also notable are Kenneth Adelman's predictions regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Kenneth Adelman was quoted as saying "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent National Security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent".

The New Yorker reported on October 20,2008, that Kenneth Adelman decided to buck his conservative leanings and vote for Senator Barack Obama for President on November 4,2008.