43 Facts About Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Wolfowitz is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Paul Wolfowitz is the only World Bank president to have resigned over a scandal.

Paul Wolfowitz speaks five languages in addition to English: Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.

Paul Wolfowitz was reportedly the model for a minor character named Philip Gorman in Saul Bellow's 2001 book Ravelstein.

Paul Wolfowitz lived in the Telluride House in 1962 and 1963, while philosophy professor Allan Bloom served as a faculty mentor living in the house.

Against his father's wishes, Paul Wolfowitz decided to go to graduate school to study political science.

At the University of Chicago, Paul Wolfowitz took two courses with Leo Strauss.

Paul Wolfowitz traveled with Ikle to strategic arms limitations talks in Paris and other European cities.

Paul Wolfowitz helped dissuade South Korea from reprocessing plutonium that could be diverted into a clandestine weapons program.

Paul Wolfowitz reportedly had a central role in Team B, mostly focused on analyzing the role that medium-range missiles played in Soviet military strategy.

In 1978, Paul Wolfowitz was investigated by the FBI for providing intelligence to an Israeli government official while he was still an employee at ACDA.

Paul Wolfowitz was accused of handing over a classified document, via an AIPAC intermediary, which detailed the proposed sale of US weapons to an Arab government.

In 1977, during the Carter administration, Paul Wolfowitz moved to the Pentagon.

Paul Wolfowitz was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs for the US Defense Department, under US Secretary of Defense Harold Brown.

Paul Wolfowitz broke from this official line by denouncing Saddam Hussein of Iraq at a time when Donald Rumsfeld was offering the dictator support in his conflict with Iran.

The Chinese were now pushing for the US to end arms sales to Taiwan, and Paul Wolfowitz used the Chinese incentive as an opportunity to undermine Kissinger's foreign policy toward China.

Paul Wolfowitz soon came into conflict with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had been Kissinger's assistant at the time of the visits to China.

From 1986 to 1989, during the military-backed government of President Suharto, Paul Wolfowitz was the US Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia.

Paul Wolfowitz was a Jew representing America in the largest Muslim republic in the world, an advocate of democracy in Suharto's dictatorship.

Paul Wolfowitz attended academic seminars, climbed volcanoes, and toured the neighborhoods of Jakarta.

Paul Wolfowitz was present with Cheney, Colin Powell and others, on February 27,1991, at the meeting with the President where it was decided that the troops should be demobilised.

Paul Wolfowitz was instrumental in adding more than $75 million to the university's endowment, developing an international finance concentration as part of the curriculum, and combining the various Asian studies programs into one department.

Paul Wolfowitz advised Bob Dole on foreign policy during his 1996 US Presidential election campaign, which was managed by Donald Rumsfeld.

From 2001 to 2005, during the George W Bush administration, Wolfowitz served as US Deputy Secretary of Defense reporting to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Ten months later, on January 15,2003, with hostilities still continuing, Paul Wolfowitz made a fifteen-hour visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul, and met with the new president Hamid Karzai.

Two days after Shinseki testified, Paul Wolfowitz said to the House Budget Committee on February 27,2003:.

On October 26,2003, while in Baghdad staying at the Al-Rashid Hotel Paul Wolfowitz narrowly escaped an attack when six rockets hit the floors below his room.

In March 2005, Wolfowitz was nominated to be president of the World Bank by US President George W Bush.

Mr Paul Wolfowitz is willing to speak the truth to power.

Paul Wolfowitz was confirmed and became president on June 1,2005.

Paul Wolfowitz soon attended the 31st G8 summit to discuss issues of global climate change and the economic development in Africa.

When this meeting was interrupted by the July 7,2005 London bombings, Paul Wolfowitz was present with other world leaders at the press conference given by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Paul Wolfowitz is known for her expertise on women's rights and has been listed on the bank's Web site as a media contact for Iraq reconstruction issues.

The problem was that Paul Wolfowitz was married to someone else, and that someone was really angry about it, and she found a way to bring her complaint directly to the President.

Paul Wolfowitz initially proposed to the World Bank's Ethics Committee that he recuse himself from personnel matters regarding Riza, but the committee rejected that proposal.

Paul Wolfowitz referred to the controversy concerning his relationship with Riza in a statement posted on the website of the World Bank at the time.

World Bank Group's board of executive directors and staffers complained that Paul Wolfowitz was imposing Bush Administration policies to eliminate family planning from World Bank programs.

Paul Wolfowitz began today to negotiate the terms of his possible resignation, in return for the bank dropping or softening the charge that he had engaged in misconduct.

On May 17,2007, the World Bank Group's board of Executive Directors announced that Paul Wolfowitz would resign as World Bank Group president at the end of June 2007.

Paul Wolfowitz is a former steering committee member of the Bilderberg group.

In February 2013, Paul Wolfowitz publicly supported legal recognition for same-sex marriage in an amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court.

In January 2017, Paul Wolfowitz wrote an op-ed in The New York Times commenting on a "dissent cable" that had been signed by 1,000 Foreign Service Officers criticizing President Trump's executive action on immigration.

In February 2023, Paul Wolfowitz was awarded Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon by President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen.