NationMaster - Encyclopedia: James H. Webb

James H. Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is a former Secretary of the Navy under President Reagan, best-selling author, and a former United States Marine Corps officer decorated for valor in the Vietnam War. Webb is running for the United States Senate in Virginia. He defeated Harris Miller 53% to 47% in the June 13, 2006, primary election. February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Flag of the United States Secretary of the Navy. ... United States Marine Corps seal The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military, which along with the U.S. Navy, is under the United States Department of the Navy. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) United States of America South Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand the Philippines Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) Strength ~1,200,000 (1968) ~420,000 (1968) Casualties South Vietnamese dead: 230,000 South Vietnamese wounded: 300,000 US dead... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Harris N. Miller is running for the United States Senate from Virginia and is the President of the Information Technology Association of America and the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) . Miller is presently a Virginia Democratic Party candidate for Senate in 2006. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Early life

Webb, a native of Saint Joseph, Missouri, attended the University of Southern California on a Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship for a year, where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. He then transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1968 as a classmate of Dennis Blair and Oliver North. Webb and several other Academy graduates, including North and Senator John McCain, are the subject of Robert Timberg's book The Nightingale's Song. Saint Joseph is the county seat and largest city in Buchanan County and the sixth largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. ... The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern California and Southern Cal), located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... The Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps commissions individiuals into either the United States Navy as an Ensign or United States Marine Corps as a Second Lieutenant. ... Delta Chi (Î”Î§) (del-ta Kai) is an international fraternity formed on October 13, 1890 at Cornell University as a fraternity for law students. ... The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. ... Dennis Blair is president of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a national security-focused think-tank in the Washington D.C. area. ... Lt-Col. ... John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician. ...

Military career

Webb was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He served with the 5th Marine Regiment in Vietnam as a rifle platoon and company commander. He remained in the Marine Corps until 1972, receiving the Navy Cross,^[1] the second-highest award in the Navy; the Silver Star Medal; two Bronze Star Medals; and two Purple Hearts. Official force name 5th Marine Regiment Other names 5th Marines Motto No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy Branch United States Marine Corps Chain of Command 1st Marine Division I Marine Expeditionary Force Description Marine infantry regiment Readiness Capable of short notice world wide deployment. ... The Navy Cross The Navy Cross is the second highest medal that can be awarded by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. ... The Silver Star is also a passenger rail line run by Amtrak as part of their Silver Service and Palmetto service. ... The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration and is the fourth highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service. ... The Purple Heart is a U.S. military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who have been wounded or killed while serving in, or with, the U.S. military after April 5, 1917. ...

Webb wrote his first book, Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy, while a law student at Georgetown University. He received his J.D. in 1975. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and then Secretary of the Navy (1987-1988) during the Reagan Administration. He resigned as Secretary of the Navy after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy. Georgetown University is a private university in the United States. ... Flag of the United States Secretary of the Navy. ... President Reagan, with his Cabinet and staff, in the Oval Office (February 4, 1981) Headed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989, the Reagan Administration was conservative, steadfastly anti-Communist and in favor of tax cuts and smaller government. ...

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Webb wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today in which he considered the candidacies of John Kerry and George W. Bush from the perspective of military veterans. He criticized Kerry for his activism against the Vietnam War in the 1970s while affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and Bush for having "committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory" with the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[2] Presidential election results map. ... An Op-Ed is a piece of writing expressing an opinion. ... USA Today is a national American newspaper published by the Gannett Corporation. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) United States of America South Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand the Philippines Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) Strength ~1,200,000 (1968) ~420,000 (1968) Casualties South Vietnamese dead: 230,000 South Vietnamese wounded: 300,000 US dead... -1... Combatants Coalition Forces (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland) Iraq Commanders Tommy Franks Saddam Hussein Strength 263,000 375,000 The 2003 invasion of Iraq, termed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US administration, began on March 20. ...

2006 Senate campaign

In late 2005, an Internet campaign was started to draft Webb to run for the Senate. On February 7, 2006, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Virginia Senator George Allen. The Virginia Senate Election of 2006 will be held on November 7, 2006. ... Image File history File links JAMES_WEBB_PORTRAIT_With_Permission. ... Image File history File links JAMES_WEBB_PORTRAIT_With_Permission. ... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area Ranked 35th - Total 42,793 sq. ... George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952 in Whittier, California) is a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia. ...

Webb faced longtime businessman and lobbyist Harris Miller in the Democratic primary ^[3] and on June 13, 2006, he won the nomination in a low-turnout race, collecting 53% of the vote. Harris N. Miller is running for the United States Senate from Virginia and is the President of the Information Technology Association of America and the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) . Miller is presently a Virginia Democratic Party candidate for Senate in 2006. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Political Analyst Larry Sabato said that, "Jim Webb is George Allen's worst nightmare: a war hero and a Reagan appointee who holds moderate positions…. Allen tries to project a Reagan aura, but Webb already has it.”[1]. Larry J. Sabato is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. ...

In May, Webb said that if elected, he planned to introduce a bill establishing a five-percent tax break for U.S. citizens who have honorably completed a term of military service.^[4]

Webb as author

Webb's successful first novel, 1978's Fields of Fire, drew from personal experience to tell the story of a platoon of US Marines in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Reviewers hailed its pull-no-punches descriptions of infantry life and combat.

He followed that with five other novels, then wrote a work of non-fiction, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. The book traces the role of the people of Scots-Irish ancestry in the development of American history and culture. Webb argues that, far from the "cracker" and "redneck" stereotypes often applied to the Scots-Irish, many of whom settled in Appalachia, the American Midwest and the American South, the Scots-Irish were central to defining American working class values and culture. He cites the fiercely independent streak and individualism of the Scots-Irish as laudable values, and their political pragmatism as explaining their role as swing voters in elections, in recent decades as Reagan Democrats, and as Ross Perot and Reform Party voters. Ulster-Scots is a term mainly used in Ireland and Britain (Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irishis commonly used in North America) primarily to refer to Presbyterian Scots, or their descendents, who migrated from the Scottish Lowlands to Ulster (the northern province of Ireland), largely across the 17th century. ... White cracker, or more often just cracker, is an extremely pejorative term for a white person, mainly used in the Southern United States as a term of racist abuse. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Appalachian Region of the U.S., as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachian zones of the US - USGS Appalachia is a term used to include a region stretching from the state of New York to Alabama that surrounds the Appalachian mountains. ... Midwest States (United States of America, ND to OH) The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ... The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Individualism is a moral, political, and social philosophy, which emphasizes individual liberty, the primary importance of the individual, and the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence. It assumes that a person can be socially and culturally free of upbringing: deep-structure language(s), family(s) of origin, and both... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A swing voter is a voter who may not be affiliated with a particular political party (independents) or who will vote across party lines. ... The term Reagan Democrat is used (with caution) by psephologists and (more freely) by political commentators to describe traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class ones, who defected their party to support Ronald Reagan, either in the 1980 election, or, more commonly, the 1984 one. ... H. Ross Perot Henry Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930), is a billionaire American businessman from Texas best known as a candidate for President of the United States (in 1992 and 1996). ... The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA) is a political party in the United States, founded by Ross Perot in 1995 under the belief that Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics--as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital...

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Books

Movies

Webb wrote the story and was the executive producer for the 2000 movie Rules of Engagement, which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American movie starring Samuel Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, directed by William Friedkin. ... Jones on the cover of the DVD for U.S. Marshals Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Oscar-winning American actor and director. ... Jackson in The Man Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...

Warner Brothers acquired Webb's script for Whiskey River. Currently in production, the movie is directed and produced by Rob Reiner. The story is about a fictional American soldier injured in Iraq. Warner Bros. ... Rob Reiner Robert Rob Reiner (born March 6, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) an American actor, director, producer, and writer. ...

Trivia

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References

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External links

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