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Title: Baker, Christopher to Head War Power Panel
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... /02/28/national/w095050S55.DTL
Published: Feb 28, 2007
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2007-02-28 13:33:47 by Brian S
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Comments: 7

(02-28) 09:50 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher will head a private, bipartisan panel to study a lingering and gnawing national question: Who does the Constitution say has the power to begin, conduct and end wars.

The dispute over the authority to wage war has historically divided presidents, members of Congress and scholars. Through the years, the White House gradually has assumed increased control of U.S. war-making, and it has arisen anew amid the shrill debate in the new Democratic-controlled Congress over President Bush's war buildup in Iraq.

Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., headed the Iraq Study Group that made recommendations last December to the Bush administration on Iraq war policy.

That panel, which was authorized by Congress, achieved wide notice as Bush was considering how to reshape the U.S. role in Iraq, and its findings have been embraced by many members of both parties. Bush ended up deciding to send extra troops to the war zone — essentially ignoring its recommendation that the U.S. remove its combat troops by early next year.

The war powers study is sponsored by the private Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Among its 12 members are Baker, who served under the first President Bush; Christopher, who was in the Clinton administration; Hamilton; former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who was also on the Iraq Study Group; and Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser.

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History of the Miller Center

Gerald L. Baliles, the former governor of Virginia and former chairman of the board of PBS, became the Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs in April 2006. The Center, following Jefferson’s vision of the University’s public service mission, is a leading public policy institution that serves as a national meeting place where engaged citizens, scholars, students, media representatives and government officials gather in a spirit of nonpartisan consensus to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.

The Miller Center was founded in 1975 through the philanthropy of Burkett Miller, a 1913 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and prominent Tennessean. Troubled by the partisan rancor he saw developing throughout the nation, Miller envisioned the need for a “non-political forum at which recognized authorities could assemble, consider and discuss matters of national importance.” He founded the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in memory of his father. Through Mr. Miller’s lead gift, as well as through past and present gifts by the Center’s thousands of supporters, the Miller Center’s endowment now stands at more than $50 million. The Center, under the oversight of its Governing Council, is an integral part of the University of Virginia, with maximum autonomy within the University system. Its programs are supported fully by private funds.

Throughout the Center’s history, U.S. presidents, senators, and cabinet secretaries, network anchors, major columnists and reporters, and prize scholars and experts, as well as students and the public, all have made the Center a nonpartisan gathering point to contemplate issues at the national level.

Fittingly, in its role as a national meeting place, the Miller Center enjoys an elegant physical plant of over 15,000 square feet. The core of the Center’s facilities is the historic Faulkner House, built in 1856 and named for novelist William Faulkner, the University’s writer in residence in 1957. Faulkner House was the home of Senator Thomas S. Martin, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1895 to 1919 and was majority leader. In 1989 the Center added the Newman Pavilion to Faulkner House, and in 2003 it added the Thompson Pavilion and Scripps Library. The additions are prominent examples of new traditional architecture. To learn more about the history of Faulkner House and the Center’s facilities, click here.

Kenneth W. Thompson, a prolific scholar of international relations and the presidency, served as the Center’s Director for over twenty years, until 1998. Many of the Center’s hallmark programs began under Thompson, including the Forum series, the comprehensive oral history projects for successive presidential administrations, and the Center’s influential national commissions. James S. Young, Bancroft Prize winner and former vice president of Columbia University, has been an instrumental member of the faculty of the Center since its earliest days and leader of its oral history work. A. Linwood Holton, Jr., Governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974, served as the chair of the Center’s Governing Council from 1977 to 1999, and remains a life member of the Council.

Frederick E. Nolting, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963 under President Kennedy, served as the Center's first Director, before retiring in 1977. Herbert J. Storing, a noted scholar of constitutional history who had spent his career with the University of Chicago, headed the Center's presidential studies before his untimely death that same year.

Philip D. Zelikow became the Director of the Center in 1998, and the Center significantly expanded its programming during his tenure. While on public service leave from the Center, Zelikow served as executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), before then departing the Center to serve as Counselor of the U.S. Department of State. In 2006, Zelikow left his position with the State Department to join the faculty of the University of Virginia History Department.

Since Governor Gerald L. Baliles joined the Miller Center as its Director in 2006, he has further strengthened the Center’s academic standing by adding to the faculty, among others, Bancroft Prize winner Melvin P. Leffler. In April 2006, Baliles also announced the Center’s plans for a National Commission on the War Powers of the President and Congress and for a National Debate Series.

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Gerald L. Baliles (born 1940) was the Governor of Virginia from 1986 to 1990. Baliles is a native of Patrick County in Southwest Virginia. Before serving as governor, he was an attorney in Richmond, Virginia, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Attorney General of Virginia. As governor he increased revenue for transportation, built more prisons, and appointed Elizabeth B. Lacy as the first woman to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.

He and his family continued to be influential in the politics of Virginia for decades. A Democrat, Baliles won the 1985 Gubernatorial election with 55.2% of the vote. He could not run for reelection, as Virginia governors are limited to non-consecutive single terms in office. However, Baliles' popularity helped secure the narrow election of Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder in 1989.

Baliles was widely seen as having potential for a continued political career after his service as governor. However, Virginia's United States Senate seats were held by Democrat Chuck Robb, Baliles' predecessor as governor, and popular Republican John Warner. Baliles also did not pursue the Democratic nomination for President in 1992.

Baliles has been a director at Norfolk Southern Corporation, located in Norfolk, Virginia, since 1990. He has been a partner since 1990 in the law firm of Hunton & Williams, a business law firm with offices in several major U. S. cities and international offices. On April 1, 2006 Baliles became director of the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, a leading public policy center focusing on both American presidencies and international affairs. He has also been active in educational and economic development efforts in his native Patrick County.

Pepper  posted on  2007-02-28   19:03:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#6. To: Pepper, All (#4)

Thanks for your informative history/backgrounder on the Miller Center.

Bump to all for reading.

scrapper2  posted on  2007-02-28 19:08:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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