Jeff's CDI Remembrance Posted on Quincy Institute Website

After many months of hustling to be recognized for the research and writing of my 50th anniversary remembrance of Admiral Gene R. La Rocque's Center for Defense Information (CDI), thanks go out to Kelley Vlahos, Bill Hartung and others at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, they have decided to post my 1,000 word article on their website on May 7, 2022. Thanks are also offered to POGO's CDI Project and of course to my wife Deborah for her many years of encouragement and support. And a Special thanks to David T. Johnson who was there from day one at CDI and served as Research Director for three decades. He's also kept us all tremendously informed with his 25-plus years posting David Johnson's Russia List.

This remembrance is of course also dedicated to countless people, too many to name, but I'll give it a shot, many friends, colleagues and staff that I interacted with in my eleven years working for the Center (1992-2003, not counting my fall 1989 CDI internship) but obviously could not mention in my Quincy Institute article because of its required brevity. Sincere apologies if I missed mentioning anyone, but I'll make up for the error at a later date: Mark Ashton, Glenn Baker, Martin Calhoun, Emily Clark and dozens of other hard working CDI interns, Marcus Corbin, Ron Frazier, Rachel Freedman, Eleanor "Ollie" Harrison-Little, Jennifer Hazen, Chris Hellman, Theresa Hitchens, David Isenberg, Steve Kosiak, Anna Klingsberg, the late Oscar Laurie, Dunbar Lockwood, Jon Lottman, Nick Moore, Samy Moutanabbih, Robert "Stan" Norris, Danny Sagalyn, Steve Sapienza, Kathryn Schultz, Lynn Schuster, the late Goldia Shaw, Colonel Daniel Smith who passed in 2010, Rachel Stohl, Mark Sugg, Lt. Col. Piers Wood, Bill Yamanaka and other public affairs directors over the years who served before and after Bill. I must mention legislators who worked at CDI or supported our work like former director Senator Dale Bumpers (D-Arkansas), his wife Betty Bumpers who helped establish Peace Links, Senator Pat Schroeder, Rep. Ed Markey a Democrat from Massachusetts and countless other Congressional reps and staff. Also of note are of course the late Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Philip Straus Sr. and Jr. and a plethora of thoughtful and knowledgeable members of CDI's Board of Advisers and CDI's Military Advisory Council. Thanks also to some select Pentagon Public Affairs officers who when seeing me approach didn't respond, "It's one of those Defense Monitor types." And appreciation for information and support from many think-tanks, government agencies and particularly from a very helpful Rand Corporation public affairs director whose name escapes me unfortunately.

Here's the link to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft article I wrote

https://www.responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/07/after-50-years-this-dod-watchdog-still-has-plenty-of-bite/