Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a foreign policy leader in the Senate who received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, died Sunday.
WASHINGTON – Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a foreign policy leader in the Senate who received the Defense Department's highest civilian award for his efforts to secure and destroy weapons of mass destruction after the collapse of the Soviet Union, died Sunday, according to his family.Lugar, 87, served as mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975 and served in the Senate from 1977 to 2013.
The Almanac of American Politics said Lugar's strength had been to follow"where his stubborn convictions and his considerable intellect led, regardless of political risk or reward." Lugar always took the long view, saying once that there are times when you lead but are not always followed."A gentle, thoughtful, persuasive, persistent but wise course of action is a winner."Although he would become part of an increasingly small ideological middle in the Senate, he was viewed for years as a reliable conservative. In his first two years, Lugar co-led a successful effort to filibuster changes to labor laws sought by unions.
Lugar's top interest was foreign policy, a bug that bit him when he served in the Navy as an intelligence briefer for Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations. Lugar's ability to convince President Ronald Reagan that the 1986 election in the Philippines was fraudulent and Ferdinand Marcos should be persuaded to leave was viewed as one of the Reagan administration's top foreign policy achievements.
Lugar was the Senate point man for the George H.W. Bush administration during the first Persian Gulf War. But he was unable to get the George W. Bush administration to address his concerns about its handling of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and planning for its aftermath.
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