silber, J
<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b>John R. Silber</b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b>
</b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-26.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%20standalone%3D%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2212%22%20height%3D%2212%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%20d%3D%22M1.5%204.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M5.765%201H11v5.39L9.427%207.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393%209.35l-2.69-2.688%202.81-2.808L4.2%202.544z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M9.995%202.004l.022%204.885L8.2%205.07%205.32%207.95%204.09%206.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;"><i>GroupWatch.org</i></a> (last updated September 1989), <b>Coalition for a Democratic Majority</b> (CDM) "was formed in 1972 by the late Senator <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Henry_M._Scoop_Jackson" title="Henry M. Scoop Jackson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Henry M. Scoop Jackson</a> (D-WA) who headed the conservative wing of the Democratic Party. Jackson and his coalition favored a strong military and promoted the concept of 'peace through strength.' The CDM has its roots in the intellectual movement of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Neo-conservatism" title="Neo-conservatism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">neo-conservatism</a>--intellectual and pragmatic, with an emphasis on democracy, anticommunism, and globalism. By the mid-1970s, the Vietnam war had cooled the ardor of the American public for the policy of interventionism, a philosophy of great importance to the CDM. The election of President <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jimmy Carter</a> pushed the 'hardliners' into action and, in 1976, the CDM helped to found the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger" title="Committee on the Present Danger" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on the Present Danger</a> (CPD), a lobby group for <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Containment_militarism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Containment militarism (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">containment militarism</a>. The CPD developed and implemented a new 'Soviet Threat' campaign. The broader goal of CDM, however, was to reinstate containment militarism as the central theme of U.S. foreign policy.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">"The CDM argued that the U.S. must have a strong national defense and a foreign policy of active resistance to what it calls 'totalitarianism and repression.' Further it urges strong support for 'foreign allies who share America's democratic values--whether it is the government of Israel in the Middle East or the government of El Salvador's <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jose_Napoleon_Duarte" title="Jose Napoleon Duarte" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jose Napoleon Duarte</a> in Central America.'"</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><b></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Dr. John Silber was formally installed as President of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Boston_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boston University (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Boston University</a> on May 26, 1971. He became Chancellor in 1996, resigning in 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/infocenter/content/index.php?pageid=310" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">He is listed as a Prominent Fulbright Scholars of the Past, see <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fulbright_Program" title="Fulbright Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fulbright Program</a>.</p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Common_Good" title="Common Good" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Common Good</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coalition_for_a_Democratic_Majority" title="Coalition for a Democratic Majority" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Coalition for a Democratic Majority</a> Task Force on Foreign Policy and Defense</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former National Council member, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Prodemca" title="Prodemca" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Prodemca</a></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">”<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/infocenter/content/index.php?pageid=310" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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