Stephen Hadley

Stephen Hadley
21st National Security Advisor
In office January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Deputy	Jack Crouch James Jeffrey
Preceded by	Condoleezza Rice
Succeeded by	Jim Jones
Deputy National Security Advisor
In office January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Jim Steinberg
Succeeded by	Jack Crouch
3rd Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs
In office June 23, 1989 – January 20, 1993
President	George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	Ronald Lehman
Succeeded by	Ash Carter
Personal details
Born	Stephen John Hadley (1947-02-13) February 13, 1947 Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Ann Hadley
Children	2 daughters
Education	Cornell University (BA) Yale University (JD)

Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947) was the 21st U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor), serving under President George W. Bush. He has been floated as a potential option for Secretary of Defense under the Trump Administration.^[1]

Education and prior government service

Hadley was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Suzanne (née Bentley), a homemaker, and Robert W. Hadley, Jr., an electrical engineer.^[2][3] He received a B.A. degree in government from Cornell University in 1969, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, the Cornell University Glee Club, and the Quill and Dagger society. He later received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale Law School and served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1972 to 1975.

Hadley has served in a variety of capacities in the defense and national security field, including as an analyst for the Comptroller of the Department of Defense from 1972 to 1974, and a member of the National Security Council staff under President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977; from 1986 to 1987 he served as Counsel to the Special Review Board established by President Ronald Reagan to inquire into U.S. arms sales to Iran.

During the administration of George H. W. Bush, Hadley was a Pentagon aide to Wolfowitz,^[4] serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1989 to 1993.^[5] In that position, he had responsibility for defense policy toward NATO and Western Europe, on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. He also participated in policy issues involving export control and the use of space. Hadley served as Secretary of Defense Cheney's representative in talks led by Secretary of State James Baker that resulted in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START I and START II).

George W. Bush administration

Hadley served as a senior foreign and defense policy adviser to then-Governor Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign and worked in the Bush-Cheney Transition on the National Security Council. Previous to this position, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner and a principal in The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international consulting firm.

He had been Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor from January 22, 2001. In 2002, Hadley was a member of the White House Iraq Group. He admitted fault in allowing a disputed claim about Iraq's quest for nuclear weapons material from Niger to be included in Bush's January 28, 2003 State of the Union Address (see Niger uranium forgeries). On July 22, 2003, Hadley offered his resignation to Bush because he had "failed in that responsibility" and that "the high standards the president set were not met." Bush denied Hadley's request. Amid this, The Times of London reported that Hadley was Robert Novak's source for Valerie Plame's name in the CIA leak scandal,^[6] but this report proved to be false when Richard Armitage admitted that he was Novak's source.^[7]

On January 26, 2005, he replaced Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor, upon Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State. Beginning in 2009, he served as senior adviser for international affairs at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.^[8] On January 24, 2014, he was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace.^[9]

In his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, former president Jimmy Carter recounts that Hadley, in his capacity as national security adviser (Carter calls him by title rather than by name) personally denied Carter permission to visit Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in early 2005, in the wake of the administration's decision to isolate the regime, due its "differences with Syria concerning U.S. policy in Iraq".^[10]

Member

Hadley at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2016

Hadley is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[11] He has been a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Board of Trustees of Analytical Services ("ANSER"). His professional legal practice focused on business problems of U.S. and foreign corporations particularly as they involve international business, regulatory, and strategy issues.

In January 2001, as George W. Bush prepared to take office, Hadley served on a panel for nuclear weapons issues sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.^[12] Other members of the panel included Stephen Cambone, William Schneider, and Robert Joseph. This panel advocated using tactical nuclear weapons as a standard part of the United States defense arsenal.

Hadley is on the Board of Directors at defense contractor Raytheon.^[13]

Post Bush administration

Hadley (right) discussing the 2006 Israel–Lebanon crisis with Bush and Rice

Hadley is a co-founder and principal, along with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates and Anja Manuel, in RiceHadley Gates LLC, a strategic consulting firm.^[14] Hadley is senior advisor for international affairs at the United States Institute of Peace.^[15]

In 2013, Hadley was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.^[16]

Controversy

During the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in September 2013, Hadley appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and also wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post in which he advocated attacking Syria with missiles. At the time, Hadley was a director at Raytheon and owned 11,477 shares of stock, but the news organizations failed to disclose the link and conflict of interest.^[17][18]

Family life

Hadley lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Ann, a Justice Department lawyer. His daughter Kate graduated from Stanford University in 2008. His younger daughter Caroline is set to graduate from Duke University in 2011 and is pursuing a pre-med track.^[19]

References

This article incorporates text from Stephen Hadley's National Security Council biography, which, as a work of the U.S. government, is in the public domain

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephen Hadley.

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Stephen Hadley on Charlie Rose
• Stephen Hadley at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Stephen Hadley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "Stephen Hadley collected news and commentary". The New York Times. 
• Center for Cooperative Research profile of Stephen Hadley
• New National Security Adviser Shuns the Spotlight Newhouse News Service
• Security adviser named as source in CIA scandal The Sunday Times
• The Security Adviser Who Wants the Role, Not the Stage from the Washington Post, by Peter Baker, January 29, 2006
• The 2006 National Security Strategy Hadley's Address to U.S. Institute of Peace, March 16, 2006
• Ivo H. Daalder and I.M. Destler, In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. Bush Simon & Schuster; 2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-5319-9.
• Eight Ways to Deal with Iran 26 September 2012

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