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  William Cohen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, on August 28, 1940.
Cohen was elected to and served on the Bangor City Council (1969-1972) and became the mayor of Bangor (1971-1972).
Cohen went on to be reelected in 1984 and 1990, serving a total of 18 years in the Senate from 1979 to 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Cohen   (2435 words)

  
 William Cohen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cohen went on to be reelected in 1984 and 1990 and served from 1979 to 1997.
Cohen retired from the Senate in 1996 and Collins was elected to succeed him.
Cohen then served as Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton, who was from the rival Democratic Party.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-William_Cohen.html   (629 words)

  
 William S. Cohen Papers, Biography
Cohen was the Assistant County Attorney for Penobscot County from 1968 to 1970.
William Cohen was first elected to public office as a city councilor in Bangor, a position he held from 1969-1972; he was also the mayor of Bangor from 1971-1972.
Cohen became involved in a second constitutional crisis in 1986, when he was appointed to the select Senate committee formed to investigate the sale of weapons to Iran and the funneling of these proceeds to the Contra resistance movement in Nicaragua.
www.library.umaine.edu /cohen/bio/bio.htm   (1471 words)

  
 SecDef Histories - William Cohen
Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, on 28 August 1940.
After confirmation by a unanimous Senate vote, Cohen was sworn in as the twentieth secretary of defense on 24 January 1997.
William Perry presided over much of the post-Cold War drawdown of the military services and traveled abroad more than any of his predecessors, to meet with foreign officials and visit U.S. service men and women stationed all over the world.
www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/cohen.htm   (2352 words)

  
 Law Firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP | I. William Cohen
Cohen concentrates in bankruptcy and insolvency matters and represents debtors, trustees and creditors’ committees in bankruptcy court and state court proceedings, out-of-court workouts and common law compositions.
Cohen is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and he serves on its board of directors and is a former Sixth Circuit Regent of the College.
Cohen is a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education organizations, including the Practising Law Institute, Commercial Law League of America, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Great Lakes Institute, State Bar of Michigan and the Michigan Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
www.pepperlaw.com /pepper/lawyer.cfm?rid=18.0   (347 words)

  
 Maine Secretary of State Kid's Page - Famous People
William Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine and studied at Bowdoin College.
Cohen's achievements were recognized by President Clinton in 1996 when he nominated him for the Secretary of Defense position.
After confirmation by the Senate, William Cohen was sworn in as the nation's 20th Secretary of Defense in 1997.
www.state.me.us /sos/kids/allabout/people/w_cohen.htm   (116 words)

  
 ABC This Week Interview: William Cohen (Nov. 16 1997): "The Iraq Situation"
William Cohen: After 1991 with the UN inspectors going in, they discovered that he had warheads that did contain Anthrax and was prepared obviously to use them if he thought it necessary to do so.
William Cohen: Well, not necessarily because we also found after 1991 that he was trying to acquire a capability of launching a missile that had a range of 3,000 kilometers, which can run all the way from Baghdad to Paris.
William Cohen: Well, I tried to indicate before, I thought it was really inhumane of him to allow any of his women and children and civilians to occupy positions that might expose him to those harmful toxins.
homepage.ntlworld.com /jksonc/docs/abc-cohen-19971116.html   (3933 words)

  
 National Press Club -- William Cohen
Cohen has also served on the board of directors of the nonprofit Council on Foreign Relations and worked with numerous think tanks and universities on issues including Department of Defense reorganization, NATO enlargement and control of chemical weapons.
Cohen was born on August 28, 1940, in Bangor, Maine, the son of Irish and Russian immigrants.
Cohen received a B.A. in Latin from Bowdoin College in 1962 and a LL.B. cum laude from Boston University Law School in 1965.
www.npr.org /programs/npc/2001/010110.wcohen.html   (393 words)

  
 William Cohen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cohen was an attorney and law professor entering politics.
Cohen from the Senate in 1996 and Collins was elected to succeed
Cohen's first book, Jane Austen in Boca, so much, that when I saw that she had published a second novel, I did a little dance in front of my computer.
www.freeglossary.com /William_S._Cohen   (567 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Secretary of Defense William Cohen -- March 25, 1999
WILLIAM COHEN: I've looked at the target selection, gone over it with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs, General Olson, the President, the Vice President and the national security team.
WILLIAM COHEN: Well, because the general in charge General Wes Clark has to make a determination in terms of releasing information, because it is an ongoing campaign, that he does not want to compromise in any way the safety or security of the pilots.
WILLIAM COHEN: What he has to do is take the keys to peace, which he has in his pocket, take them out and put them on the table and say he is prepared to pursue a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/cohen_3-25.html   (2479 words)

  
 Radio Islam: William Cohen: Israels Man at the Helm
Cohen told members of Portland's Jewish community that he was concerned about a potential antisemitic backlash in the US if the AWACS sale was blocked and an oil embargo resulted.
William Cohen is 57 years old and the most powerful civilian in the Pentagon, but to folks in Bangor, Maine, he's still their "Billy."
The basics are oft-told: Billy Cohen, the son of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother; the Hebrew-school student for whom the Orthodox rabbi refused a bar mitzva for not being halachically Jewish; the humiliated adolescent who wrenched the mezuza off his neck and flung it into the Penobscott River.
www.radioislam.net /islam/links/sources/english/w-cohen.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Sec. William Cohen -- November 10, 1997
WILLIAM COHEN: The message has been delivered in very unequivocal terms to Saddam Hussein through a variety of channels that he would be making a very big mistake if he were to even seek to bring any harm to that aircraft and to the person who's flying that aircraft, yes.
WILLIAM COHEN: Well, we have approximately 3,000 people; we will eliminate roughly 1,000 positions, and some of those will be transferred out into other departments outside of my office, but it'll be a reduction of 1/3.
WILLIAM COHEN: You've heard that word from Vice President Gore and the president many times--we're going to reinvent the way we are structured; we're going to consolidate; we're going to merge a lot of the other functions that currently--are spread throughout the department, itself.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec97/cohen_11-10.html   (2067 words)

  
 Washington Speakers Bureau: The Honorable William Cohen
During Cohen's tenure, the United States was targeted by Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network in the bombing of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and the attempt to destroy the U.S.S. Cole.
Cohen was a key player on the national security team that decided to strike Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and and a chemical weapons plant in Sudan.
Bi-Partisan Credentials: William Cohen was tapped by President Clinton to be his secretary of defense – the first time in modern U.S. history that a president appointed an elected official from the other party to his Cabinet.
www.washspkrs.com /speakers/Speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=3190   (897 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: William Cohen Confirmation -- January 22, 1997
KWAME HOLMAN: William Cohen, the grandson of Russian immigrants, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1940.
WILLIAM COHEN, Secretary of Defense Nominee: I spent as has been noted here today the last quarter of a century working with Congress, with people with whom I've agreed and those with whom I've disagreed, attempting to do so in a constructive fashion to produce some positive results.
WILLIAM COHEN: It is to stabilize the region to allow the forces of peace which are currently in existence with their shallow roots, to allow those roots to sink deeper so there might be a reconciliation at some point in that region.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/january97/cohen_1-22.html   (1317 words)

  
 William Cohen visits Hanoi
Cohen later was driven in a four-wheel drive vehicle to an excavation site, about 20 miles southwest of Hanoi, where U.S. forensics experts are directing a search for aircraft wreckage and human remains where a Navy F-4B Phantom jet is believed to have crashed during the Vietnam War.
William Stark, was captured, imprisoned and released in March 1973.
Cohen said the main focus of his two-day visit will be emphasizing the importance of joint U.S.-Vietnamese efforts to find, recover and repatriate the remains of American servicemen missing from the war.
www.mishalov.com /Vietnam_.usdefense.html   (804 words)

  
 William Sebastian Cohen - SourceWatch
William Sebastian Cohen is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the The Cohen Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying company founded in 2001.
Cohen served as Secretary of Defense during the William Jefferson Clinton administration (97-01).
Formerly a Republican U.S. Senator from Maine, Cohen was a member of the "Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1989 to 1997, whose Middle East Study Group he chaired.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=William_Sebastian_Cohen   (214 words)

  
 May 03 - Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen Shares Iraq Perspective with GBC
GBC President Don Fry (l) is pictured with William Cohen and Joseph Ralston (r) at the special event on April 25.
Cohen and Ralston are chairman and CEO, and vice chairman, respectively, of the Cohen Group, a Washington-D.C. international business consulting firm.
Cohen believes that democracy is coming to the Middle East, but that it must occur through "evolutionary, not revolutionary" processes.
www.gbc.org /news/May03/cohen.html   (426 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Cohen Praises Brazil's Stance Against International
BRASILIA -- Defense Secretary William Cohen wound up his five-day visit to South America May 27 in Brazil, where he praised leaders for their stance against nuclear weapons proliferation, terrorism and drug trafficking.
Cohen said he was most grateful for Brazil's response to India's nuclear detonations, which violated an agreement signed between India and Brazil committing to nonproliferation.
Defense Secretary William Cohen addresses Marine guards and staff members May 27 at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
www.dod.gov /news/Jun1998/n06051998_9806052.html   (612 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: William Cohen -- March 23, 2000
WILLIAM COHEN: Well, I had been trying to go for the last couple of years, and the trip had been postponed on several occasions, but it was important because I think that
WILLIAM COHEN: Well, I think that there could be the potential for armed conflict, but both sides appear to have stepped back.
WILLIAM COHEN: Well, we always have our security preparations to try and discourage and deter combat wherever we are deployed and so we're prepared for virtually any contingency.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june00/cohen_3-23.html   (1929 words)

  
 William Cohen, US Secretary of Defence
COHEN: Well, President Clinton has not yet made a decision as to whether we should actually deploy such a system, but I think the characterisation in the lead-in to this discussion is in error.
COHEN: We would look to Australia in any type of conflict that we have been involved for their partnership and share in the responsibility of providing peace and stability throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
COHEN: Well, I think that Australia must decide that for itself but it will have to pick and choose and be selective where it is engaged, and to put its priority in those areas that pose the greatest threat to instability.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_640.asp?s=1   (2915 words)

  
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Cohen Biography</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>William</b> S. <b>Cohen</b> (born <a href="/topics/1940" title="1940" class=fl>1940</a>) has been active in United States government since the mid-1970s, serving in both houses of <a href="/topics/United-States-Congress" title="United States Congress" class=fl>Congress</a> in subsequent terms. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Cohen</b> was born in <a href="/topics/Bangor%2C-Maine" title="Bangor%2C Maine" class=fl>Bangor, Maine</a>, to an ethnically and religiously mixed set of parents. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As a freshman representative, <b>Cohen</b> was assigned to a position on the House Judiciary Committee a position regarded by many of his colleagues as a political dead-end, because he could not use it to benefit his constituents directly.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bookrags.com /biography/william-s-cohen</font>   (962 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.uta.edu/goolsby/html/william-cohen.html">Dr. William Cohen</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Cohen</b> is <a href="/topics/President-of-the-United-States" title="President of the United States" class=fl>President</a> of the Institute of Leader Arts and is currently involved in the establishment of a new university. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Cohen</b>, a retired major general from the U.S. <a href="/topics/United-States-Air-Force" title="United States Air Force" class=fl>Air Force</a> Reserve, has held executive positions in several companies including Director of Research at Sierra Engineering Company, Manager of Advanced Technology Marketing at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, and <a href="/topics/President-of-the-United-States" title="President of the United States" class=fl>President</a> of Global Associates. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Cohen</b> has served on various city, state, national, corporate, and trade boards and boards of Chicago, an MA and PhD in management from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and has completed all coursework for a second PhD in psychology.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.uta.edu /goolsby/html/william-cohen.html</font>   (367 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript"> <!-- // This function displays the ad results. // It must be defined above the script that calls show_ads.js // to guarantee that it is defined when show_ads.js makes the call-back. function google_ad_request_done(google_ads) { // Proceed only if we have ads to display! if (google_ads.length < 1 ) return; 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