Sam Nunn was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
35 Facts About Sam Nunn
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In high school, Sam Nunn was a standout athlete, captaining the school's basketball team to a state championship.
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Sam Nunn attended Georgia Tech in 1956, where he was initiated as a brother of Phi Delta Theta.
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Sam Nunn transferred to Emory University in 1959 and received his undergraduate degree in 1961.
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Sam Nunn then received a degree from the Emory University School of Law in 1962.
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Sam Nunn returned to Perry, Georgia, where he practiced law and managed his family's farm.
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Sam Nunn served as the president of the Perry Chamber of Commerce.
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Sam Nunn first entered politics as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968.
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Sam Nunn was elected to the United States Senate in 1972, defeating appointed US Senator David H Gambrell in the Democratic primary and US Rep.
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Sam Nunn retired from the Senate in 1997, offering a lack of "zest and enthusiasm" as justification.
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Sam Nunn served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees.
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Sam Nunn was supposedly a top choice to be Secretary of Defense or State in 1992 and 1996 and in a prospective Gore cabinet in 2000.
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Sam Nunn opposed the budget bill of 1993, which included provisions to raise taxes in order to reduce the budget deficit.
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Sam Nunn neither supported nor opposed Hillary Clinton's attempt to establish universal health care, though he spoke out very strongly against the proposed insurance mandate.
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Sam Nunn actively worked to block President Bill Clinton's proposal to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military.
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Sam Nunn voted in favor of school prayer, capping punitive damage awards, amending the US Constitution to require a balanced budget, and limiting death penalty appeals.
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On certain issues like abortion, the environment, gun control, and affirmative action, Sam Nunn took a more liberal line.
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Sam Nunn went to Haiti to facilitate the dictators' departure.
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Sam Nunn was an active Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.
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Sam Nunn signed a number of the organization's bipartisan policy statements on important issues ranging from climate change to enhanced interrogation practices and nonproliferation.
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Additionally, Sam Nunn serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC At CSIS Sam Nunn and former Senator and United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen joined together for a series of public roundtable discussions designed to focus Americans on the seminal issues that the United States must face.
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The Cohen-Sam Nunn Dialogues featured top thought leaders, public policy experts, prominent journalists, and leading scholars.
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Sam Nunn was a board member of The Coca-Cola Company.
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In 2005, Sam Nunn teamed up with former Senator Fred Thompson to promote a new film, Last Best Chance, on the dangers of excess nuclear weapons and materials.
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Sam Nunn gave a full presentation outlining his goals at the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Sam Nunn was a Member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, a not-for-profit organization uniting leading experts on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials and delivery vehicles.
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Sam Nunn served on the Board of Advisors for the National Bureau of Asian Research, a non-profit, nonpartisan research institution.
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In June 2013, Sam Nunn added his voice to public support for an updated nuclear-arms limitation agreement with Russia.
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Sam Nunn applauded the determination of Presidents Obama and Putin to renew its core provisions, while urging further work to agree on chemical and biological weapons limits.
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Sam Nunn served as a member the Board of Curators for the Georgia Historical Society.
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Sam Nunn was an advisory board member of Theranos, a fraudulent biotech company.
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Sam Nunn met his future wife at the US Embassy in Paris while she was working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Michelle Sam Nunn serves as CEO of Points of Light and is the CEO of CARE and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2014.
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In 1989, it was reported that Sam Nunn had had a drunk driving crash in 1964.
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Sam Nunn was opposing Tower due to Tower's alleged drinking problems.