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© 2010 Young Jewish Leadership PAC
YOUNG JEWISH LEADERSHIP PAC
Invites you to our semi-formal
Keynote Speaker: KT McFarland
National Security Expert, Columnist, Commentator
Obama, Iran and the Bomb, Peace in our Time?
Will President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize deter him from successfully prosecuting our national security interests around the world?
with a special presentation on the state of New York Republican politics by Brian Kolb, Leader of the Republican Party in the NYS Assembly
Honorary Committee: Assemblymen
Tom Alfano, Bob Barra, Phil Boyle, Andrew Raia & Joe Saladino
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Metropolitan Republican Club
122 East 83rd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
VIP 6:30-7:00pm
Regular Admission 7:00-9:30pm
Business Attire Requested
Kosher hors d’ oeuvre, wine and beer served
KATHLEEN TROIA “KT” MCFARLAND
Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland is a national security commentator and columnist who appears weekly on a number of TV, online and national radio programs. Ms. McFarland held national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations, and received the Defense Department’s highest civilian award. She ran was a Republican candidate for the US Senate from New York in 2006.
Ms. McFarland’s government career began while a freshman at George Washington University, working part-time in the White House Situation Room typing the President’s Daily Brief. She spent seven years in the West Wing of the White House, working her way up to become a key member of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s National Security Council Staff. After the Ford Administration, Ms. McFarland studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations on nuclear weapons, China and the Soviet Union. She returned to Washington during the Reagan Administration as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff. In 1982 Ms. McFarland became the speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Cap Weinberger, and later the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Pentagon Spokesman.
Ms. McFarland is currently a regular panelist on FOX News’ online news program The Strategy Room, as well as all the FOX News programs. She is the host of the national security video blog, DEFCON-3 by KT, a contributing editor of FamilySecurityMatters.org and the FOXForum. Ms. McFarland is also the national security commentator for several radio shows, including WlIU and WVOX. She is a board member of The Jamestown Foundation, the Off the Record Lecture Series, a Distinguished Advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a Coalition Member of the Set America Free Foundation.
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