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Jim Webb
United States Senator from Virginia
Senator Jim Webb (D—Va.)
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2007–Serving with John Warner
Preceded by	George Allen
Succeeded by	Incumbent (2013)
Personal details
Political party	Democratic
Height	303px
Spouse(s)	Barbara Samorajczyk (div.) Jo Ann Krukar Webb (div.) Hong Le Webb
As of November 8, 2006

James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior U.S. Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, Webb served as the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, then as Secretary of the Navy. Webb won the Democratic nomination for the 2006 Virginia Senate race by defeating Harris Miller in the primary, then won the general election by defeating the Republican incumbent, George Allen.

Webb's thin margin in the general election (less than 1%) kept the outcome uncertain for nearly two days after polls closed on November 7, and provided the final seat that tilted the Senate to Democratic control.

Biography

Early life and education

Webb was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri into a military family, and descended from immigrants from Ulster (northern Ireland) who emigrated in the 18th century to the British North American colonies. The descendants of this immigration, the Scots-Irish Americans, are scattered across the United States. Webb's 2004 book Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America details his family history, noting that his ancestors fought in every major American war.

Webb's father, a career officer in the U.S. Air Force, flew B-17s and B-29s during World War II, dropped cargo during the Berlin Airlift, and was later involved in missile programs. He is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Because of his father's military career, Webb grew up on the move, attending more than a dozen schools across the U.S. and in England. After graduating from high school in Bellevue, Nebraska, he attended the University of Southern California on a Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship from 1963-1964 (and was a member of Delta Chi). In 1964, Webb earned nomination to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. At Annapolis, Webb was a member of the Brigade Honor Committee. He graduated in 1968, in the same class with Dennis Blair and Oliver North. Other members of the Naval Academy class of 1968 include the current Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, and the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Michael W. Hagee. Another classmate, retired Admiral Jay L. Johnson, also served as Chief of Naval Operations--the U.S. Navy's senior ranking officer. (Webb and several other Naval Academy graduates, including North and Senator John McCain, are the subject of Robert Timberg's book The Nightingale's Song.)

Personal Life

Webb is married to his third wife, Hong Lee, a securities and corporate lawyer. Lee was born in Vietnam and escaped after the fall of Saigon. Lee and Webb have one child together, Georgia LeAnh, born 2006. Webb has four grown children -- Amy, Sarah, Jimmy, and Julia -- from previous marriages and is stepfather to Lee's daughter. Webb's first wife is Barbara Samorajczyk, an Anne Arundel County Council member. Webb's second wife is Jo Ann Krukar, a health care lobbyist, who assisted in his 2006 Senate campaign. Webb's son, Jimmy, is a Marine stationed in Iraq.

Military service

After graduating from Annapolis, Webb was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a first lieutenant during the Vietnam War he served as a platoon commander with Delta Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines. He earned a Navy Cross, the second highest decoration in the Navy and Marine Corps for heroism in Vietnam. Webb also earned the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts.

Webb received the Navy Cross for actions on July 10, 1969. The citation read:

The Navy Cross is presented to James H. Webb, Jr., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in connection with combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 10 July 1969, while participating in a company-sized search and destroy operation deep in hostile territory, First Lieutenant Webb's platoon discovered a well-camouflaged bunker complex which appeared to be unoccupied. Deploying his men into defensive positions, First Lieutenant Webb was advancing to the first bunker when three enemy soldiers armed with hand grenades jumped out. Reacting instantly, he grabbed the closest man and, brandishing his .45 caliber pistol at the others, apprehended all three of the soldiers. Accompanied by one of his men, he then approached the second bunker and called for the enemy to surrender. When the hostile soldiers failed to answer him and threw a grenade which detonated dangerously close to him, First Lieutenant Webb detonated a claymore mine in the bunker aperture, accounting for two enemy casualties and disclosing the entrance to a tunnel. Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion and the possibility of enemy soldiers hiding in the tunnel, he then conducted a thorough search which yielded several items of equipment and numerous documents containing valuable intelligence data. Continuing the assault, he approached a third bunker and was preparing to fire into it when the enemy threw another grenade. Observing the grenade land dangerously close to his companion, First Lieutenant Webb simultaneously fired his weapon at the enemy, pushed the Marine away from the grenade, and shielded him from the explosion with his own body. Although sustaining painful fragmentation wounds from the explosion, he managed to throw a grenade into the aperture and completely destroy the remaining bunker. By his courage, aggressive leadership, and selfless devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Webb upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.

In a November 19, 2006 appearance on Meet the Press, Webb told Tim Russert "And I, you know, I’m one of these people who—there, there aren’t many of us—who can still justify for you the reasons that we went into Vietnam, however screwed up the strategy got."

Post-military

Webb attended Georgetown Law School from 1972 to 1975, graduating with a law degree. While at Georgetown, Webb wrote his first book, Micronesia and U.S. Pacific Strategy.

From 1977 to 1981, Webb worked on the staff of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. During this time, he also represented veterans pro-bono.

During the Reagan Administration, Webb served as the nation's first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from 1984 to 1987. During his time as Assistant Secretary, Webb sought to reorganize the Marine Corps. He was gravely concerned with the disarray the Marines had fallen into post-Vietnam: drug use, racial infighting, and low morale within the Corps left him with the impression it was no longer America's premier fighting force. The Marine Corps was also rocked by two scandals shortly during this time: the Clayton Lonetree espionage affair, where Lonetree became the first Marine convicted of espionage, and Marine Lt.-Colonel Oliver North's central role in the Iran-Contra affair.

In 1987, he served as Secretary of the Navy, becoming the first Naval Academy graduate to serve in the military before serving as the civilian head of the Navy. As Navy Secretary, Webb pushed the appointment of Alfred M. Gray, Jr. as Commandant of the Marine Corps, hoping that Gray could reshape the Corps into the elite unit it once was. Webb resigned in 1988 after refusing to agree to reduce the size of the Navy.

After his resignation, Webb earned his living primarily as an author and filmmaker. He won an Emmy Award for his 1983 PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut.

Among Webb's awards for community service and professional excellence are the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Medal of Honor Society's Patriot Award, the American Legion National Commander's Public Service Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Media Service Award, the Marine Corps League's Military Order of the Iron Mike Award, the John H. Russell Leadership Award, and the Robert L. Denig Distinguished Service Award

On March 30, 2003, Webb wrote a prescient opinion piece for the New York Times. While he erred in believing that the Iraqi leadership had learned lessons from the first Gulf War that would enable them to stop U.S. troops from taking Baghdad, subsequent events proved correct his conclusion that a protracted guerrilla conflict would be a likely outcome of an American invasion of Iraq.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Webb wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today in which he, as a military veteran, evaluated the candidacies of John Kerry and George W. Bush. He criticized Kerry for opposing the Vietnam War in the 1970s while affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and accused Bush of using his father's connections to avoid service in Vietnam. Webb also wrote that Bush had "committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory" with the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Webb has been married three times, and has five children. He is now married to a lawyer, Hong Le Webb, a Vietnamese-American born in Vietnam who grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to his wife, Jim speaks excellent Vietnamese for a non-native speaker. He has four children from previous marriages to Anne Arundel County Council member Barbara Samorajczyk and health-care lobbyist Jo Ann Krukar Webb: Amy, Sarah, Jimmy, and Julia. Jimmy is an infantry Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, and currently serving in Iraq. His unit is based out of Camp Lejeune. In tribute to Jimmy and "all the people sent into harm's way", Webb wore his son's old combat boots every day during his 2006 Senate campaign.

2006 Senate campaign

In late 2005, a campaign to draft Webb to run for the Senate in 2006 began on the Internet. On February 7, 2006, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the 2006 Senate race against incumbent Virginia Senator George Allen and Gail Parker, the Independent Green Party nominee.

In the Democratic primary on June 13, 2006, Webb faced longtime businessman and lobbyist Harris Miller. Webb won with 53.5% of the vote, in a race with low turnout.

Webb benefited from the fallout from an August 11 2006 incident in which Allen used the word macaca to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming an event as a "tracker" for the Webb campaign. A poll the following week showed Webb gaining 10 percentage points. The race, which at one point looked like a sure win for Allen, became one of the most watched and closest races of the 2006 midterm elections.

On September 7, 2006, Webb released his first television advertisement. It featured footage of a 1985 speech by Ronald Reagan praising Webb at the secretary's alma mater, the United States Naval Academy in 1985. The next day, an official working for the Reagan Presidential Foundation faxed a letter to Webb's campaign on behalf of former first lady Nancy Reagan, urging them not to air the advertisement.

Five women graduates of the United States Naval Academy held a press conference, decrying a 1979 article by Webb, titled "Women Can't Fight". The women said Webb's article contributed to an atmosphere of hostility and harassment towards women at the academy. Webb was later endorsed by nine military women who stated that Webb is a "man of integrity" who "recognizes the crucial role that women have in the military today".

Allen had been expected to be reelected relatively easily, and that this reelection would prepare him for a possible 2008 Presidential candidacy. But Webb's entry into the race and primary victory changed the political landscape. Political analyst Larry Sabato said in May that "Jim Webb is George Allen's worst nightmare: a war hero and a Reagan appointee who holds moderate positions…. Allen tries to project a Reagan aura, but Webb already has it." In September, Bloomberg.com's Catherine Dodge wrote an article highlighting Webb and the Senate race, and said "Webb isn't a typical Democrat. His family hails from the rural southern part of the state. He's pro-gun ownership, and he takes a harder line on illegal immigration than many Senate Republicans."

On October 26, 2006, the Allen campaign issued a press release quoting several passages from Webb's novels with sexual content, including graphic references to female anatomy, alleged pedophilia, homosexuality, and incest. The press release said that the passages showed a "continued pattern of demeaning women". Allen's campaign refused to tell a local radio news station, WTOP-FM, whether it in fact had issued a news release on the matter.

On November 9, 2006, after the Associated Press and Reuters projected that Webb had won the seat, Allen conceded the election. Although the margin was narrow—less than one-half of 1% of the total vote and therefore small enough under Virginia law to allow demanding a recount—Allen stated that he would not challenge the result.

Webb, as a Democratic veteran challenger, is also considered one of the Fighting Dems.

Senator-elect

On November 15, 2006, Senate majority leader in waiting Harry Reid assigned Webb to three committees: the committees on Foreign Relations, Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services.

Terse exchange with Bush

On November 28, 2006, at a White House reception for those newly elected to Congress, Webb declined to stand in the line to have his picture taken with the president, whom Webb often criticized during the campaign. The president approached Webb later and asked him, "How's your boy?", referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in Iraq. According to Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia, aides warned the President to be "extra sensitive about talking to Webb about his son, since Webb's son had had a recent brush with death in Iraq." Webb replied "I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President." Bush responded, "That's not what I asked you. How's your boy?" Webb responded "That's between me and my boy, Mr. President." Webb was so angered by the exchange that he was reportedly tempted to "slug" the president and later remarked "I'm not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall."

Some conservatives criticized Webb, including George Will, who wrote, " already has become what Washington did not need another of, a subtraction from the city's civility and clear speaking." Others, such as conservative columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, reserved their criticism for Bush.

Jim Webb was asked about the exchange in a January 4, 2007 appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews. He told Matthews:

"My feeling about that—first of all, it‘s been kind of a bit overblown. But I think when people are now seeing how John McCain is handling the situation with his son being in the Marine Corps, perhaps they can understand a little bit more what I was having to go through during the entire campaign. I greatly respect my son‘s service and all of the people who are serving. At the same time, I have not commented, even to many of my friends, about the operational side. That‘s personal to me in terms of my feelings about it. And it was not a casual comment. As I said in the piece that you just ran, I think the best article that was written on that was by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal when she basically said that the lack of civility was not mine and I feel that way."

110th United States Senate

On Jan. 4, 2007 Webb was accompanied by Senior Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner and former Virginia Democratic Sen. Charles Robb as he was sworn into the 110th US Senate.

Webb’s first legislative act was to introduce a bill expanding benefits for military families entitled the “Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act”. The act is set to replace the Montgomery GI Bill and “makes veterans benefits identical to those soldiers received following World War II.” Democratic leaders in Congress “ have already signaled the bill will be a top priority in the new session.” Speaking about his bill, Webb said “With many of our military members serving two or three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is past time to enact a new veterans’ education program modeled on the World War II era GI bill. This is exactly what our legislation does.”

On January 16, 2007, it was reported that Webb has been selected to deliver the Democratic response to the President's upcoming State of the Union address. A full transcript can be read here:

Iraq War position

In a January 4, 2007 appearance on The Situation Room, Jim Webb articulated his position on the Iraq War:

"What we really need to do is to get into the arena where we can talk about a strategy, talk about the pluses and the minuses of the Baker-Hamilton Commission and work toward a solution that, on the one hand, will allow us to remove our combat troops, but on the other, will increase the stability of the region, allow us to continue to fight against international terrorism and allow us, as a nation, to address our strategic interests around the world. And this is -- this is one of the drawbacks that we've had with so many troops having been put into this constant rotational basis inside one country when we have a war against international terrorism that's global."

When asked by Wolf Blitzer if he would ever support the efforts of Dennis Kucinich to cut funding for the war, Webb responded by stating "I -- you know, I lived through Vietnam. I lived through it as a Marine and I know that those sorts of approaches, while they seem attractive on one level are really not that realistic. What we want to do -- and I was talking with a number of senators today -- is to try to get some of these so-called emergency legislation packages back into the committee process so that the committees can actually play."

As an author

Books

Webb's successful first novel, Fields of Fire (1978), drawn from personal experience, tells the story of a platoon of US Marines in late 1960s Vietnam. Reviewers hailed its pull-no-punches descriptions of infantry life and combat.

After five more novels, he wrote a work of nonfiction, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, tracing the role people of Scots-Irish ancestry have played in American history and culture. Webb argues that, contrary to the "cracker" and "redneck" stereotypes often applied to the Scots-Irish, many of whom settled in Appalachia, the American Midwest and the American South, the Scots-Irish were central to defining American working class values and culture. He lauds the fiercely independent streak and individualism of the Scots-Irish, and explains how their political pragmatism has often led them to play the role of swing voters in elections, for example as Reagan Democrats, and as voters for Ross Perot and Reform Party.

• Fields of Fire (1978) ISBN 0-553-58385-9
• A Sense of Honor (1981) ISBN 1-55750-917-4
• A Country Such as This (1983) ISBN 1-55750-964-6
• Something to Die For (1992) ISBN 0-380-71322-5
• A Sense of Honor (1995) ISBN 1-55750-917-4
• The Emperor's General (1999) ISBN 0-553-57854-5
• Lost Soldiers (2002) ISBN 0-440-24091-3
• Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (2004) ISBN 0-7679-1688-3

Movies

Webb wrote the story and was the executive producer for the 2000 movie Rules of Engagement, which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.

Warner Brothers acquired Webb's script for Whiskey River. Currently in production, the movie is directed and produced by Rob Reiner. The story is about a fictional American soldier injured in Iraq.

In October 2006, while commenting on the need to break away from stereotypical movie villains, Webb stated, "very movie needs a villain. Towel-heads and rednecks -- of which I am one...became the easy villains in so many movies out there."

Articles

On November 15, 2006, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Webb entitled "Class Struggle." Webb argued that the government must "confront the growing unfairness in this age of globalization." He also stated that the "elites" ignore the average American and believe that "ertain immigrant groups have the 'right genetics' and thus are natural entrants to the 'overclass,' while others, as well as those who come from stock that has been here for 200 years and have not made it to the top, simply don't possess the necessary attributes." Columnist Jim Glassman argued against the logic of the article and insinuated that Webb's last comment was anti-Semitic ("The Class Struggle of Jim Webb").

Trivia

• Webb won a varsity letter for boxing at the U.S. Naval Academy. In his second-class (junior) year, he fought and lost a boxing match against Oliver North.
• He was a Fall 1992 fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.
• Webb was interviewed as a guest on The Colbert Report in the episode aired March 8, 2006.
• Webb has two favorite U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and Andrew Jackson.
• On NBC's Meet the Press, Webb mentioned Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) as his model Senator and vowed to follow his footsteps in the United States Senate
• Virginia's senior Senator, John Warner, who serves alongside Webb in the U.S. Senate, was one of Webb's predecessors in the post of Secretary of the Navy, serving from 1972 till 1974.

Election history

See also

• Virginia United States Senate election, 2006

References

1. Argetsinger, Amy and Roxanne Roberts. 12 Dec. 2006. "The Reliable Source." Washington Post. C03.
2. Barnes, Robert. "For Webb, Fighter is a Label that Sticks." Washington Post. 8 Jun. 2006. Metro B01.
3. "US Marine Corps Awards - Vietnam". Full Text Citations for Vietnam War Awards of the Navy Cross. HomeofHeroes.com. Retrieved 2006-03-25.
4. "MTP Transcript for Nov. 19". MSNBC.com. Retrieved January 4, 2007.
5. Webb, James H. (1974). Micronesia and U.S. Pacific strategy: a blueprint for the 1980s. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-08940-1.
6. Ricks, Thomas E. (1997). Making the Corps. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-83109-0.
7. James Webb (March 30, 2003). "The War in Iraq Turns Ugly. That's What Wars Do". New York Times. Retrieved 2006-11-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
8. Webb, James (2004-02-18). "Veterans face conundrum: Kerry or Bush?". USA Today. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
9. "Webb Puts Family Before Parade". Washington Post. September 1, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
10. Robin Toner (September 18, 2006). "As Senator Falters, a Democrat Rises in Virginia". The New York Times. Retrieved 2006-10-28. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
11. Shear, Michael D. (2006-02-08). "Reagan Navy Secretary Will Run for U.S. Senate". Washington Post. p. B05. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
12. "Official Results: Primary Election, June 13, 2006". Commonwealth of Virginia. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
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14. "Let Reagan Be Reagan". Washington Post. 2006-09-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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18. "Allen's revenge: Exposes Underage Sex Scenes in Opponent's Novels". Drudge Report web site. Drudge Report. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
19. "Jim Webb Defends Content of His Novels". WTOP-FM. 2006-10-27. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
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27. "'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Jan. 4". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
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29. "THE SITUATION ROOM". January 4, 2007.
30. "Reviving the Story-Telling Art". Time. October 30, 1978.
31. Libby Copeland (October 18, 2006). "Don't Call Him Redneck: James Webb Hates the Expression, But Is Very Proud of the Culture". Washington Post. Retrieved 2006-10-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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33. "Virginia State Returns". Commonwealth of Virginia. Retrieved 2006-11-13.

External links

Official

• Official Senate Website
• Webb for Senate
• Veterans for James Webb
• Real Virginians for Webb
• Generation Webb

• Jim Webb's Grassroots Myspace.com Page
• James Webb Enterprises
• James Webb at IMDb

Articles

• 2006 Campaign Finance Data
• About.com's Inside Profile of U.S. Senator Jim Webb of Virginia
• Webb's Navy Cross citation
• Webb, James H. "The Price of Duty", PARADE Magazine, May 27, 2001. URL accessed December 29, 2005.
• Webb, James. "Purple Heartbreakers, New York Times, January 18, 2006.
• About James H. Webb, Jr., from the Naval Post Graduate School.
• Rules of Engagement at IMDb
• Whiskey River at IMDb
• Interview on Comedy Central
• Jim Webb vs. George Allen on Meet the Press (September, 17 2006)
• Allen: Webb's Books Show Bad Character: Webb Allies Defend Novels as Works of Imagination
• Wilder endorses Webb: The mayor plans to campaign for Webb
• A racial slur has long past in Southern politics
• Military women support Webb as 'man of integrity'

Comparisons

• Differences on the issues between James Webb and George Allen (whereIstand.com)

Other

• Congresspedia entry

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