Campaign Literature—Primaries


Jim Webb 2016
   
Flyer (one-sided) 8 1/2" x 11".

JimWebb'16

LEADERSHIP YOU CAN TRUST

Jim Webb, former Senator from Virginia, has been a combat Marine, a counsel in the Congress, an assistant secretary of defense and Secretary of the Navy, an Emmy-award winning journalist, a film-maker, and the author of ten books.

Both sides of Webb's family have a strong citizen-soldier military tradition that predates the Revolutionary War. Jim graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968. First in his class of 243 at the Marine Corps Officer's Basic School, he served as a rifle platoon and company commander in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts.

A graduate of Georgetown Law School, Webb served in Congress as counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981. In 1982 he led the fight to include an African American soldier in the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the National Mall. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, and in 1987 became Secretary of the Navy.

While in the Senate, Jim was selected to deliver the response to the President's State of the Union address in 2007. He wrote, introduced, and guided to passage the Post-9.11 GI Bill, the most significant veterans legislation since World War II. A long-time advocate of fixing America's broken criminal justice system, he was spotlighted in The Atlantic Magazine as one of the world's "Brave Thinkers" for tackling prison reform and possessing "two things vanishingly rare in Congress: a conscience and a spine."

Traveling widely as a journalist, Webb received an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983. A screenwriter and producer, his original story "Rules of Engagement" held the top slot in U.S. box offices for two weeks in April 2000. Webb has written ten books, including "Born Fighting," a sweeping history of the Scots - Irish culture, and "Fields of Fire," widely recognized as the classic novel of the Vietnam War.

Jim has six children and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Hong Le Webb. He speaks Vietnamese and has done extensive pro bono work with the Vietnamese community dating from the late 1970s.

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