In Congress, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia led the contingent that favored maintaining the absolute ban on gays.

A year later, the band came under fire again, this time as part of a campaign by conservative activist William Bennett, Senator Joe Lieberman, then-Senator Sam Nunn, and National Congress of Black Women chair C. Delores Tucker to get major record labels — including Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-EMI, PolyGram and Bertelsmann — to " dump 20 recording groups ... responsible for the most offensive lyrics.

In 2007, Secretary Perry joined three other eminent statesmen, former Secretaries of State George P. Shultz and Henry Kissinger, and former Senator Sam Nunn in calling for the United States to take the lead in reducing and eliminating nuclear weapons.

Georgia's former US Senator Sam Nunn ( now retired ), Indiana US Senator Dan Coats, former Florida US Senator Connie Mack, and former Georgia governor George Busbee ( now deceased ) also joined the firm after their retirement from public office.

Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia ( 1972 until 1997 ) as a member of the Democratic Party.

“ Senator Sam Nunn will play an informal senior advisor role throughout the defense transition process.

In 1996, he ran in the Republican primary for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat U. S. Senator Sam Nunn.

On 15 May, Senator Cohen introduced the Senate bill, co-sponsored by Senator Nunn and others, which called for a joint military organization for SOF and the establishment of an office in the Defense Department to ensure adequate funding and policy emphasis for low-intensity conflict and special operations.

Image: Sam Nunn. jpg | Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia

As these forces prepared to invade, including elements of the 82nd Airborne already in the air, a diplomatic element led by former President Jimmy Carter, U. S. Senator Sam Nunn and retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell persuaded the leaders of Haiti to step down and allow the elected officials to return to power.

Vinson did not have children, but his grandnephew, Sam Nunn, served as a Senator from Georgia for more than 24 years.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Sam Nunn, a former Democratic Senator from Georgia and longtime chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.

Similarly, Nixon snubbed U. S. Representatie Fletcher Thompson in neighboring Georgia, who was challenging the Democrat Sam Nunn, and Republican Gil Carmichael in Mississippi, the Republican opponent of veteran Senator James O. Eastland.

On September 18, 1994 President Bill Clinton sent former president Jimmy Carter, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, and Sen. Sam Nunn, at the request of U. S. Senator Bob Bennett of Utah, to negotiate the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with Emile Jonassaint, Head of the Provisional Government in Haiti.

Senator Sam Nunn did not vote.

* Sam Nunn, former U. S. Senator from Georgia

* Based on information found at Senator Richard G. Lugar's website on the Nunn – Lugar Program.

Vandiver finished third behind Sam Nunn and appointed Senator David H. Gambrell in the Democratic primary election.

In 1972, Williams was a candidate in the primaries for U. S. Senator from Georgia, but victory went to fellow Democrat Sam Nunn.

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Senator Sam Nunn have joined together to form the Nuclear Security Project — an effort to galvanize global action to reduce urgent nuclear dangers and build support for reducing reliance on nuclear weapons, ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

Senator Taft assisted the President greatly in working with the Old Guard, and was sorely missed when his death left Eisenhower with his successor William Knowland, whom Eisenhower disliked.

After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".

I am not, and I have in my background much political activity well to the left of Senator McCarthy's position.

Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.

The leader of those who left was Colorado Senator Henry M. Teller ; he was immediately spoken of as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination.

The bloody and indecisive Korean War was dragging into its third year, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade was stirring public fears of an encroaching “ Red Menace ,” and the disclosure of widespread corruption among federal employees ( including some high-level members of Truman's administration ) left Truman at a low political ebb.

Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States ' longest-serving senator ( a record later surpassed by Senator Byrd ).

The periods of 2001-2002 and 2003-2007 were the first times since 1953-1955 that there was single-party Republican leadership in Washington, interrupted from 2001-2003 as Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republicans to become independent and caucused with the Democrats to give them the 51-49 Senate majority.

From left: President Harry S. Truman, Vice Presidential nominee Alabama United States Senate | Senator John J. Sparkman and Presidential nominee, Governor of Illinois | Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson.

CellAntenna lost its case, but as a response have supported legislation ( The Safe Prisons Communications Act ) sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Representative Kevin Bradley ; the bill attempting to amend the Communications Act of 1934 was left in committee in the House.

A notable printer of the Marysville Tribune was Preston Plumb, who eventually left Marysville and became a U. S. Senator in Kansas.

The Senate, thinking it was a compromise, approved the bill as amended ; by the time Senator Craighead returned, the bill had already left the Senate, and he took no further action.

After her death in 1999, Lallage Feazel Wall, daughter of interim U. S. Senator William C. Feazel and widow of State Representative Shady R. Wall of West Monroe left $ 18 million to Tulane to promote " creativity " among university faculty and staff.

During Senator McCarthy's tribute, the screen displaying his photograph left off his first name but included his middle name, calling him " Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Steffens ( right ) with Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | Senator La Follette ( center ) and maritime labor leader Andrew Furuseth ( left ), circa 1915.

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1807, and served there until he became a U. S. Senator in 1810 filling the vacancy left by Thomas Sumter.

Schilling was mentioned as a possible candidate for U. S. Senate in the special election in Massachusetts for the seat left vacant by the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

On October 26, he was again elected Senator by the Minnesota Legislature, this time to fill the vacancy left by his own resignation.

Edgerton was a replacement for Senator William Windom, who became Secretary of the Treasury under President James A. Garfield ; Windom left the cabinet after Garfield's brief presidency and then was re-elected to serve out the remainder of his own term.

In 1937, Senator Black was appointed to the Supreme Court and left the Senate, and Minton secured his post as chair of the committee.

The antiwar left now made him their primary enemy and the Democrats ran Massachusetts Senator George McGovern for president, but Nixon effectively took away any major issue he could run on by having ended the draft, began pulling out of Vietnam, and restored ties with China.

She left Iran in February and eventually went to her parents ' home in Cologne, Germany, where the Shah sent his wife's uncle, Senator Sardar Assad Bakhtiari in early March 1958, in a failed attempt to convince her to return to Iran.

* Contempt for the mainstream establishment, in particular for public figures who, in his view, gain mainstream respectability by criticizing those to their left ; targets have included The New York Times, President Barack Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, the late academic Irving Howe, and some of his colleagues at The Nation, including Marc Cooper, David Corn and Eric Alterman.