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Richard G. Lugar

James F. Collins
Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The passing of Dick Lugar brings a life of service and meaning for good to a close. It was a great honor to know and work with Dick over almost two decades and to enjoy his company in E​E any number of ways from visits to missile silos to chats in his Senate office and our breakfasts during the meetings of the Hamilton Lugar School advisory board. I shall miss his counsel and his wit along with his dedication to what is best in our system and in his state.

Marie Harf
Political Analyst
Member, Dean's Advisory Council, IU Hamilton Lugar School
Senator Lugar, the Indiana farmer turned global diplomat, was what we all aspire to be—someone who never forgot his roots but knew he had to go out and work to make the world a better place. He was a kind and decent man, and he made all of us better for having known him. It has been the honor of my lifetime to showcase Senator Lugar’s wisdom for a new generation of students through our pub

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Senator Richard Lugar Oral History Interviews

SCARPINO: Our primary is also recording and so as I said when the recorder was off, I’m going to start with a short statement.

Today is September 30, 2016.  My name is Philip Scarpino, Professor of History and Director of Oral History for the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence at Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).  Today, I have the privilege of interviewing former Senator Richard G. Lugar at the Lugar Center in Washington, D.C.  This interview is sponsored and funded by the Administration of IUPUI, and is co-sponsored by the Tobias Center.  We’ll place a more complete biography of Richard Lugar with the transcript of this interview.

So briefly, Richard G. Lugar graduated from Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in 1954. He was first in his class and co-president of the senior class with Charlene Smeltzer, who he later married.

Following graduation from Denison, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar.

He served as an officer in t

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About Senator Richard Lugar

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Former United States Senator Richard G. Lugar was the first President of The Lugar Center, a non-profit organization focusing on global food security, WMD nonproliferation, aid effectiveness, and bipartisan governance. Senator Lugar served as a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar at the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He also served as a distinguished faculty member in the Department of History and Political Science and led the Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders at the University of Indianapolis.

A fifth generation Hoosier who left the United States Senate as the longest serving member of Congress in Indiana history, Senator Lugar was recognized as a gifted local and state leader, as well as a respected national and international statesman. During his tenure in the United States Senate, he exercised leadership on critical issues such as food security, nuclear non-proliferation, energy independence, and free trade. He earned 46 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in

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