Richard G. Lugar

Sara Stefani, Dan Diller

Description

In the senatorial election of 1976, the people of Indiana offered a gift not only to the nation but to the world. For 36 years, Richard G. Lugar tirelessly and with great deliberation worked to advance causes of peace, health, and economic prosperity at home and abroad. This included the widespread elimination of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Respected and even beloved for his global initiatives and bipartisan efforts, in 2013 Lugar was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States and, in England, the rank of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Featuring insightful commentary and memorable photographs spanning the entirety of Senator Lugar's career, Richard G. Lugar: Indiana's Visionary Statesman is an indispensable companion to an exhibition of his papers at the world-famous Lilly Library at Indiana University.

Foreword

Introduction

1. Agriculture: Supporting America's Farms

2. Education: Advocating for US Students

3. Domestic Policy: Innovating and Negotiating America's Future

4. Nutrition: Feeding the World

5. Democracy: Championing Freedom Across the Globe

6. Foreign Policy: Preserving Global Order, Expanding American Power

7. Arms Control: Negotiating Security for the World

8. The Nunn-Lugar Program: Envisioning a Safer World

Epilogue

Sujets

• Political Ideologies
• Arms Control
• International Relations
• Legislative Branch
• American Government
• Political Science
• Political
• Lettres et linguistique
• América
• Diplomacy
• Lugar
• Biography
• Central government
• Federal government of the United States
• Statesman
• Legislature
• Senate
• Politics
• Government
• Central
• Autobiography
• Democracy
• Diplomatie (homonymie)
• National
• America
• Indiana

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253045355
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

RICHARD G. LUGAR
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RICHARD G. LUGAR
INDIANA S VISIONARY STATESMAN
Dan Diller Sara Stefani
Indiana University Press
The Lilly Library
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Agriculture: Supporting America s Farms

2. Education: Advocating for Students

3. Domestic Policy: Innovating and Negotiating America s Future

4. Nutrition: Feeding the World

5. Democracy: Championing Freedom across the Globe 76

6. Foreign Policy: Preserving Global Order and Expanding American Power

7. Arms Control: Negotiating Security for the World

8. The Nunn-Lugar Program: Envisioning a Safer World

Epilogue
Notes
Index

FOREWORD
When the Indiana University Libraries acquired Senator Richard G. Lugar s papers, it also gained the opportunity to reflect on the legacy and vision of one of Indiana s most prominent, even iconic, political figures. Richard G. Lugar entered public service in 1964, when he was elected to the Indianapolis School Board. He then served two terms as mayor of Indianapolis before being elected to the US Senate in 1976. One of Lugar s early Senate campaign slogans was that he was not just a senator from Indiana, he was a senator for Indiana, and he indeed served as a senator for Indiana from 1977 until 2013. Those years make him the longest-serving senator in Indiana s history.
What makes his legacy, and his archival collection, so rich is not just the length of time that he served, but also the breadth of the vision that he brought with him to Washington, a vision that combines both local and global perspectives. Senator Lugar is proud of being a fifth-generation Hoosier and of working on his 604-acre family farm located in Marion County, because both of those things gave him his deep Indiana roots. However, he is equally proud of having been a Rhodes Scholar and having studied abroad at Oxford University, of overseeing fair and democratic elections in the Philippines, and of authoring groundbreaking legislation in the Senate that contributed to global nuclear disarmament. His Indiana roots allowed him to branch out and become a major figure on both the national and international arenas. Through his vision and foresight, he made an incalculable impact on the state, the nation, and the world.
The Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers collection is part of the Modern Political Papers unit of the Indiana University Libraries. The collection is striking in terms of both its depth and its breadth. Its extent is impressive, comprising as it does over one thousand boxes of materials in a wide variety of formats. In addition to paper documents, there are over one hundred boxes of objects and memorabilia, thousands of audiovisual items, and tens of thousands of photographs. The scope of the content is also impressive. Senator Lugar served for many years on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and on the Committee on Foreign Relations. He also served as a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the Select Committee on Intelligence; and the Arms Control Observer Group. Materials cover topics that range from local Indiana issues to international affairs, from the problems of individual citizens to arms control treaties affecting the entire globe. They cover the agricultural concerns of rural areas and the urban affairs of big cities, big businesses and local shops, energy, health care, the economy, childhood nutrition, education initiatives, the environment and conservation, and more. And although the collection focuses on his Senate career, it still contains significant material from his early life and his tenure as mayor of Indianapolis.
In March 2019, an exhibition of items from the Senator s papers will celebrate his life, legacy, and vision. This book, Richard G. Lugar: Indiana s Visionary Statesman , serves as a companion piece to the exhibition. Properly speaking, it is not an exhibition catalog, but it showcases photographs and other materials contained in the archival collection, it discusses in depth many of the same themes and topics featured in the exhibition, and it joins the exhibition in celebrating the Senator s legacy.
Senator Lugar dedicated much of his career to forging bipartisan ties with other members of Congress, and in that same spirit, work on the exhibition highlights the collaborative relationships that are the specialty of the Indiana University Libraries. As the project archivist and curator, I could not have done my work without the support of many different units on campus. The exhibition is being hosted by the Lilly Library, a stunning venue with dedicated professionals. In addition to the talented team that works on the Richard G. Lugar collection with me, invaluable assistance has been provided by the Indiana University Press, the specialist in Modern Political Papers, the Indiana University Archives, the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Lab, the Moving Image Archive, the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility, the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, the Born Digital Preservation Lab, Library Technologies, Libraries Communications, and Library Administration. The extensive nature of Senator Lugar s legacy inspires multiple groups to connect with each other!
As someone who moved to Indiana only in 2009, my own experience of Senator Lugar has come mainly through my work on the exhibition, this book project, and the archival collection. The picture of Richard G. Lugar that has emerged for me in going through the archival materials is that of a politician who made decisions based not on what was always politically expedient, but on what he considered to be the genuinely right thing to do. One who genuinely cared about his constituents, who enjoyed meeting them, and who made sure that the letters they wrote and the issues they raised were acknowledged and addressed. One who believed in financial reform, economy, and efficiency, but who also believed that there was always room for compassion and room to help those who were hungry or less fortunate. One who believed that the world s problems could be solved if we approached them with reasonable thinking and respect for each other. One who believed that the most important thing in politics was reaching out to others and making connections, whether those connections be across the aisle, or between his state and the world.

Senator Richard G. Lugar s vision has inspired many people. It is his vision of connection, of wholeness, of doing what is right despite any difficulties, that is at the heart of the exhibition of his papers as well as of this book. Richard G. Lugar was not just a senator from Indiana, but he was also not just a senator for Indiana-he was a senator for the world.
SARA STEFANI, PHD, MLS
Project Archivist, Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers
Indiana University Libraries
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to Mark Lubbers, Jay Branegan, and Chris Geeslin for their contributions to the book.
RICHARD G. LUGAR
INTRODUCTION
THE EARLY YEARS: PUTTING DOWN ROOTS
SARA STEFANI
RICHARD G. LUGAR IS KNOWN FOR HIS LONG LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS as a US senator. Responsible for authoring landmark legislation in areas such as agriculture and nuclear nonproliferation, he also led the campaign for historic democratic reform in South Africa and the Philippines, fought to defend nutrition and food security programs, developed multiple education and fitness initiatives, and tirelessly argued in favor of ending Americans dependence on oil and instead developing alternative sources of energy. He was widely respected by other senators as a true statesman, someone known for his honesty, integrity, reasonableness, and intelligence, and he dedicated his career to developing bipartisan ties between both parties.
However, even before he became a US senator, Lugar had garnered a national reputation and entered history books as one of the greatest mayors of the city of Indianapolis. As a youth, he was involved with his family s farm in Decatur Township in Marion County. He graduated first in his high school class at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and first in his class at Denison University, and he became the first Denison University student to receive a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. He married his college sweetheart and became a family man with four sons, turned his two struggling family businesses into successful enterprises, and devised a plan to help the Indianapolis public school system embrace desegregation during the civil rights era. In the Senate, Lugar would go on to be a long-time member and chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry as well as the