Dillon Anderson Lecture on National Security
National Security Council: The Office, Its People, and Our Challenges Condoleezza Rice Wednesday, October 21st Hilton Americas Hotel Lanier Grand Ballroom, 4th Floor 1600 Lamar Street Registration: 11:30 a.m. Luncheon Program: Noon-1:30 p.m. Members: $50 per person Non-members: $60 per person Advance payment is required Online registration for this program is closed. To RSVP, please contact the Council. Email: rsvp@wachouston.org   Telephone: (713) 522-7811 To sponsor please view benefits and table sales form. Contact corporate@wachoustonl.org for information.
World War II and the Cold War intensified the need for the president to have people on his direct staff to help him with defense, intelligence, and diplomacy. Created in 1947, The National Security Council coordinated reports and proposals from the operating departments. Under the last 12 presidents, its use and organization has varied, sometimes mixing staff and operating roles. Condoleezza Rice will discuss the Council’s work, its relation to other agencies, and its responsiveness to America’s challenges. Condoleezza Rice Before serving as our 66th Secretary of State, Doctor Rice had been the National Security Advisor. During the dissolution of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany, she was the Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs in the Security Council. She has been a special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford University, she was a professor of political science and provost. She has written several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft with Philip Zelikow; The Gorbachev Era with Alexander Dallin; and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army. Doctor Rice has returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and to the Hoover Institution as the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She has earned degrees from the Universities of Alabama, Denver, and Notre Dame. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Dillon Anderson Dillon Anderson, statesman and writer, earned a bachelor of science at the University of Oklahoma and a law degree from Yale. In 1929, and joined Baker, Botts, Andrews, and Shepherd in Houston. In World War Two, Anderson was a colonel in the United States Army. After having been a consultant to the National Security Council for two years, President Eisenhower chose Anderson to be his assistant for national security in 1955. Anderson presided over the National Security Council and accompanied Eisenhower to the summit conference in Geneva in 1955. He returned to Houston in 1956. Anderson won O. Henry prize for short fiction and wrote three novels. Anderson was a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Conversation with History In addition to hearing the lecture, a select group of 30 students will have the opportunity to meet and interview Doctor Rice. Students were nominated for this honor by their teachers based on academic performance, interest in foreign affairs, and their eagerness to learn outside of the classroom. Thank you to The Brown Foundation, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Madison Benefits Group, Inc. for their support of student tables at this event. Thank you to our sponsors Underwriter - $25,000   Benefactor - $10,000 Patron - $5,000 Linnet F. Deily Additional support by: Action Gypsum Supply, LP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Baker Botts LLP Baker Hughes Incorporated Employee Benefit Solutions Encore Bank EnerVest, Ltd. Halliburton Jones Day Noble Energy Inc. Marathon Oil PricewaterhouseCoopers Eugene & Susan Vaughan