Paul A. Allaire joined Xerox in 1966 as a financial analyst in Rochester, N.Y. He was with Rank Xerox Ltd. in London for 11 years, serving as managing director from 1980 to 1983. He was named senior vice president and chief staff officer of Xerox in July 1983, was elected president and a member of the board in August 1986, became CEO in August 1990, and was named chairman in May 1991. He is a member of the board of directors of Lucent Technologies, J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., Sara Lee Corporation, SmithKline Beecham p.l.c. and the Ford Foundation. He also serves on the boards of the Council on Competitiveness, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York City Ballet, and Catalyst. He is a member of the Business Council, the Business Roundtable and the National Academy of Engineering, and is a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from WPI in 1960 and a master of science in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon in 1966. In 1985 he received WPI's Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement. Allaire has served as chair of the FIRST executive board since 1994. He is now a trustee of both Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Carnegie Mellon University.

Formerly the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and is now also counselor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. I also found this paragraph about Brzezinski's role with the Trilateral Commission: "Upon reading the 1970 book Between Two Ages, David Rockefeller lured its writer, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, away from Columbia University to become the Chairman and co-founder of the Trilateral Commission. Brzezinski, who later became the mastermind of Jimmy Carter's foreign affairs and national security blunders, is still looked to as a policy guru by the liberal media today…. [Eric Barger, "The New World Order Under Clinton: Establishment Insiders and Political Deceit," The Christian World Report, May 1993, pg. 7.]"

Chairman and a Partner in The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C. based merchant bank. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group in 1989, Carlucci served as Secretary of Defense from 1987 - 1988. He served as President Reagan’s National Security Advisor in 1987. Before returning to Government service, Carlucci was Chairman and CEO of Sears World Trade, a business he joined in 1983. His Government service included positions as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1980 - 82), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1978 - 80), Ambassador to Portugal (1975 - 78), Under Secretary of Health Education and Welfare (1973 - 75), Deputy Director of OMB (1970 - 72), and Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969). Carlucci was a Foreign Service Officer from 1956 to 1980. Carlucci serves on the following corporate boards: Ashland, Inc.; BDM International, Inc.; East New York Savings Bank; General Dynamics Corporation; Kaman Corporation; Neurogen Corporation; Northern Telecom Limited; The Quaker Oats Company; SunResorts, Ltd., N.V.; Texas Biotechnology Corporation; Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; and the Board of Trustees for the RAND Corporation. Among his awards and honors are: Herbert Roback Memorial Award, 1989; George C. Marshall Award, 1989; Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, University of Scranton, 1989; Woodrow Wilson Award, 1988; James Forrestal Award, 1988; Presidential Citizens Award, 1983; National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, 1981; Defense Department Distinguished Civilian Service Award, 1977; Health, Education and Welfare Distinguished Civilian Service Award, 1975; and State Department Superior Service Award, 1971.

William S. Cohen is the current Secretary of Defense appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1997. …. receiving his B.A in Latin from Bowdoin College in 1962. He attended Boston University Law School where he got his LL. B cum laude in 1965... He practiced law in Bangor from 1966 to 1672, where he became the Mayor for a brief time (1971-1972). He was the Republican senator from Maine from 1979 to 1997. He was also in the House of representatives where, in 1974, he cast a crucial vote to bring impeachment charges against Richard Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal. He then won the election to the Senate of the United States in 1978, where he established a reputation as a moderate and bipartisan activist.As a member of the Senate Armed Services and Governmental Affairs Committee, he backed Ronald Regan's defense buildup, the MX missile project, and expanded navel forces. But he also opposed the construction of the space station and increased numbers of B-52 aircraft. As Chairman of the Committee on Aging, Cohen wanted to protect the elderly from fraud, from paying too much for prescription medication, and especially from medical overcharges. Cohen also served on the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence from 1983-1991, then again from 1995-1997. He was the vice chairman of this committee from 1987-1991.Cohen has also been a leader on both military issues and international relations. He served on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1989-1997, where he chaired the council's Middle East study group. He has also chaired and served on numerous study groups and committees at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 1986, he had an influential voice on defense and international security issues. Secretary Cohen played a leading role in crafting the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. In 1984, he was the Senate sponsor of the GI Bill. His efforts led to the creation of the Rapid Deployment Force, which later developed into the Central Command, and the maritime pre-position program, both of which were important to the success of the Gulf War. From the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984, which he authored, to the enactment of the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996, he has been in the forefront of reforming the federal government's procurement process.

U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN (Democrat, California) ELECTED OFFICE: United States Senator, first elected November 4, 1992 Re-elected November 8, 1994 for a six-year term….received a B.A. in History from Stanford University in 1955 where she served as Student Body Vice-President from 1954 to 1955. She is married to Richard C. Blum, Chairman of Richard C. Blum & Associates, Chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation and Honorary Consul General of Nepal. Her daughter, Katherine, is a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco…..The first woman to serve as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; San Francisco's first woman Mayor, the first woman to be nominated by a major party for Governor of California, among the first women to be considered for selection as a Vice Presidential nominee for a major party, and the first woman elected to represent California in the United States Senate…. Was appointed by then-Governor Pat Brown to serve on the California Women's Parole Board from 1960 to 1966. …In 1968, she also served as a member of the San Francisco Committee on Crime.In 1969… In November of 1978, in the aftermath of the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Board colleague Harvey Milk, Dianne Feinstein became Mayor of San Francisco. Advancing San Francisco's unique position as the gateway to the Pacific Rim, she pioneered the establishment of sister city relationships with major trading cities in Asia, Europe and Africa. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she authored the Gun Free Schools Act with Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act, legislation signed into law in 1994 to rid our schools of guns and increase penalties against hate crimes. That same year, Dianne Feinstein won one of the toughest battles of her career with passage of her legislation banning the manufacture, sale and possession of military-style assault weapons... Since 1994, Senator Feinstein has sought to strengthen the assault weapons ban by convincing President Clinton to sign an executive order to stop 59 types cosmetically adjusted imported assault weapons from coming into the country. This action has helped eliminate over 1.8 million of these weapons from being sold here in the United States…. Other important legislation by Senator Feinstein includes the California Desert Protection Act, protecting some of the most spectacular desert lands in the world; the Small Business Defense Conversion Guarantee Act...

Louis V. Gerstner left RJR Nabisco to become Chairman and CEO of IBM on April 1, 1993. Here's a short clip from his bio: Mr. Gerstner is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. And The New York Times Co., and previously served on the boards of American Express, AT&T and Caterpillar, Inc. He is a member of The Business Roundtable, serving on its policy committee, and a member of the Business Council. He is also a member of the board of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American China Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as a member of the president's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

(1993) Retired Editor and Chairwoman of THE WASHINGTON POST Graham recounts her sheltered girlhood as the daughter of a self-made millionaire and his formidable, egotistical wife; her education at Vassar at the University of Chicago; her early work at a San Francisco newspaper; and her marriage to the brilliant and politically ambitious Philip Graham, at the time a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. After her husband's suicide, which followed his harrowing descent into manic-depressive illness, Katharine Graham stepped abruptly out of her supporting role as wife and mother to take over as publisher of The Washington Post. The Washington Post, an ailing newspaper acquired by Katharine Graham's father at public auction in 1933 and brought, under her own stewardship, to national prominence with such epoch-making media events as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate…. Katharine Graham found a truly productive partnership with Ben Bradlee; in many ways he seems to have been an integral part of her success at the paper.By 1993, when Graham stepped down as chair of the Washington Post Company, her wise stewardship had not only secured the paper’s reputation, it had turned the company into a $1.5 billion media empire. In 1998, at 80, she garnered yet another honor, winning the Pulitzer prize for her autobiography, Personal History…."

Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox requests that the Supreme Court instruct Nixon to surrender the White House tapes. Nixon refuses to hand over the tapes and instead, decides to get rid of Cox. According to Pat Buchanan, Nixon's speech writer, Cox was an "out and out partisan" who was trying to make a name for himself. October 20, 1973 Nixon tells Alexander Haig, replacement of H.R. Haldeman as White House Chief-of-Staff, to order Attorney-General Elliott Richardson to dismiss Cox for insubordination. Richardson refuses and instead offers his own resignation. Haig then orders Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox, saying, "this is an order from your Commander-in-Chief". Ruckelshaus refuses and is subsequently fired. Eventually, Solicitor-General Robert Bork dismisses Cox and the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office is abolished. FBI are sent to seal off the files in Cox's office, as well as the files in Richardson's and Ruckelshaus' office.

Mr. Ruckelshaus is Chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. He was twice the EPA Administrator and served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. In addition, he held the positions of Majority Leader of the Indiana House of Representatives, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Senior Vice President of Weyerhaeuser Company. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School

1920–, American public official, b. New York City, grad. Princeton Univ., 1942, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949. A professor of industrial relations, Shultz taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946–57) and the Univ. of Chicago (1957–68). Under President Nixon, he served as Secretary of Labor (1969–70), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1970–72), and Secretary of the Treasury (1972–74). After several years in private business, he served as Secretary of State (1982–89) in President Reagan's administration.

Paul A. Volcker is North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Volcker is former Chairman of Wolfensohn & Co., Inc. (1988-96) and Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus of International Economic Policy, Princeton University (1988-96). Mr. Volcker served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System from 1979-87. Educated at Princeton and Harvard and the London School of Economics, Mr. Volcker divided the earlier stages of his career between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Treasury Department. He is a director, trustee, or member of several corporations and nonprofit organizations.