Nomination of Ernest W. Lefever To Be an Assistant Secretary of State

The President announced today his intention to nominate Ernest W. Lefever to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs).

Dr. Lefever was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which he founded in 1976 at Georgetown University, which became independent in 1980. He is a professorial lecturer in the department of government and a faculty associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both of Georgetown University.

From 1964 to 1976, Dr. Lefever was on the senior foreign policy studies staff of the Brookings Institution. His most recent Brookings book, "Nuclear Arms in the Third World," was published in 1979.

He was a member of the Values Education Commission of the State of Maryland.

He received an A.B. from Elizabethtown College and a B.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Lefever is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, and the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. He served on the editorial boards of World Affairs and Policy Review.

Dr. Lefever has written, edited, or coauthored 14 books and has written for many American journals and newspapers.

He has done research at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, taught political science at the University of Maryland and American University, headed the Foreign Affairs Division of the Library of Congress, and was associated with the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research. He has lectured at the National War College, the Army, Navy, and Air Force War Colleges, the Japan Defense College, the Foreign Service Institute, and many universities.

Dr. Lefever has traveled widely in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has visited and attended international conferences in many other countries.

Born in York, Pa., on November 12, 1919, Dr. Lefever is married and has two children. He resides with his family in Chevy Chase, Md.