Everything about David L Boren totally explained
David Lyle Boren (born
April 21,
1941) is an
American politician from the
state of
Oklahoma. A
Democrat, he served as
governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the
United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently president of the
University of Oklahoma.
Boren is part of the
politically-prominent Boren family. His father,
Lyle Boren, served in the
U.S. House of Representatives (
OK-04) from 1937 to 1947. His son,
Dan Boren, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives (
OK-02) since 2005.
Biography
Boren was born in
Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1963 from
Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Conservative Party, elected president of the
Yale Political Union and was a member of
Skull and Bones. He was selected as a
Rhodes Scholar and earned a
master's degree in
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from
Oxford University (1965), serving later as a member of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee. In 1968, he received a
law degree from the
University of Oklahoma College of Law.
During the
Vietnam War, Boren served in the
Oklahoma Army National Guard from
1968 to
1974, attaining the rank of
Captain. While a state representative in 1967, he served on a legislative committee to investigate the
University of Oklahoma after the school allowed
black militant Paul Boutelle, a
socialist and
anti-Vietnam War activist, to give a speech there.
Boren has been a friend and political associate of several
Speakers of the House, including
Carl Albert. Albert's Chief of Staff, Charles Ward later served as Boren's Chief of Staff when he became U.S. Senator.
Boren's son,
Dan Boren, represents Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives. Boren's daughter, Carrie, is a former actress and current director for evangelism in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
He has been married twice, to the late Janna Little and currently to Molly Shi.
Boren was regarded as a political centrist, and was a strong advocate of tax cuts across the board as the cornerstone of economic policy.
In the Senate
In the
U.S. Senate, Boren was known as a centrist or
conservative Democrat, often aligning with southern Democrats such as
Sam Nunn of
Georgia and
Howell Heflin of
Alabama.
Boren served on the
Senate Committee on Finance and the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. he also served as chairman of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the longest-serving chairman of that committee ever. Boren sponsored the
National Security Education Act of 1991, which established the National Security Education Program.
Boren decided in 1990 to vote against the
Persian Gulf War, surprising most political observers.
Boren was one of the President
Bill Clinton's top choices to replace
Les Aspin as a
U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1994. However, Clinton selected
William J. Perry
In a controversial public
mea culpa in a
New York Times Op/Ed piece, Boren expressed regret over his vote
to confirm Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas. Partly as a result of that statement,
The Daily Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in Oklahoma, which had encouraged and endorsed Boren's entire career, began calling for his retirement from the U.S. Senate.
In 1994, he resigned his Senate seat to accept the presidency of the University of Oklahoma.
After the Senate
Boren currently serves as President of the University of Oklahoma, and sits on
Board of Directors of
Texas Instruments and
AMR Corporation (the parent company of American Airlines).
He is regarded as a mentor to former CIA Director
George Tenet from his days as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. On the morning of
September 11, 2001, Boren and Tenet were having breakfast together when Tenet was called away to respond to the terror attacks.
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In June 2007, conservative political columnist
Robert Novak reported that Boren had met with New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg to discuss a possible third-party presidential campaign. Bloomberg had just recently left the Republican Party, and speculation arose that he discussed the possibility of Boren joining him as a running mate.
(External Link) However, on April 18, 2008, Boren endorsed the leading Democratic candidate, Sen.
Barack Obama of Illinois.
In 2008, he released a book titled
A Letter to America.
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