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Monday, January 27. 2020

A great national security asset and friend retires

Bob Turner and I have been friends during our college years and after in Vietnam military service and since and colleagues on defending the cause and rightness of South Vietnam's defense from communist takeover. Turner's career as the nation's leading professor of national security law and his contributions are summarized in the press release on his retirement from the University of Virginia law school.


It's worth reading. Please do, to recognize the lifetime of sacrifice, focus, and hard work to protect the security of the United States.


Fortunately, as Bob announces in his Facebook post today: "After more than 32 years on the UVA faculty, I will be retiring on Friday. I am not ceasing my work on issues I care about, and indeed should have more time to focus on them...."


Thank you Bob, from a lifelong friend, and from a grateful nation. 

Posted by Bruce Kesler at 15:38 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Back in the '80s I read his book Nicaragua V. United States: A Look at the Facts : Special Report, 1987 (Special Report (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis).)

I photocopied the book, which is still on my bookshelves.
#1 Gringo on 2020-01-27 17:29 (Reply)
We need more good men like him.

RIP Mr. Turner, and thank you for your service to this world.
#2 Screw 'Em on 2020-01-27 19:30 (Reply)
I looked at the UVA School of Law website, and to me it looks like an unmitigated disaster. It's just another leftist politically correct diploma mill; for social justice warriors. I don't know who this guy Bob Turner is, but if he's typical of the sludge coming out of this school, he'll get no thanks from me.

You see this list? It's the people who are destroying our country.


1 Kirkland & Ellis
2 Latham & Watkins
3 Baker McKenzie
4 DLA Piper
5 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
6 Sidley Austin
7 Hogan Lovells
8 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
9 Jones Day
10 Norton Rose Fulbright
11 White & Case
12 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
13 Ropes & Gray
14 Greenberg Traurig
15 Sullivan & Cromwell
16 Weil, Gotshal & Manges
17 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
18 Mayer Brown
19 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
20 Davis Polk & Wardwell
21 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
22 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
23 King & Spalding
24 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
25 Reed Smith
26 Paul Hastings
27 Cooley
28 Morrison & Foerster
29 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
30 Goodwin Procter
31 Squire Patton Boggs
32 K&L Gates
33 Winston & Strawn
34 Dechert
35 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
36 Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
37 Covington & Burling
38 McDermott Will & Emery
39 Shearman & Sterling
40 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
41 Proskauer Rose
42 Holland & Knight
43 Debevoise & Plimpton
44 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
45 Perkins Coie
46 Alston & Bird
47 Willkie Farr & Gallagher
49 O'Melveny & Myers
50 Baker Botts
51 Vinson & Elkins
52 McGuireWoods
53 Cravath, Swaine & Moore
54 Foley & Lardner
55 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
56 Baker & Hostetler
57 Seyfarth Shaw
58 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
59 Bryan Cave
60 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
61 Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
62 Katten Muchin Rosenman
63 Hunton & Williams
64 Venable
65 Littler Mendelson
66 Troutman Sanders
67 Locke Lord
68 Faegre Baker Daniels
69 Polsinelli
70 Nixon Peabody
71 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
72 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
73 Duane Morris
74 Drinker Biddle & Reath
75 Fox Rothschild
76 Jenner & Block
77 Blank Rome
78 Williams & Connolly
79 Schulte Roth & Zabel
80 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
81 Jackson Lewis
82 Crowell & Moring
83 Fish & Richardson
84 Cozen O'Connor
85 Boies Schiller Flexner
86 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
87 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
89 Haynes and Boone
90 Barnes & Thornburg
91 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
92 Cahill Gordon & Reindel
93 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
94 Akerman
95 Fenwick & West
96 Steptoe & Johnson
97 Davis Wright Tremaine
98 Ballard Spahr
100 Husch Blackwell
#3 Ron Lieberman on 2020-01-27 22:52 (Reply)

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