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WASHINGTON, September 18, 2002—The Nixon Center announced today that its Board of Directors has selected CIA Director George J. Tenet to receive the Center’s 2002 Distinguished Service Award Dinner. Director Tenet has agreed to accept the award at a December 11 black-tie dinner at Washington’s Four Seasons Hotel.

Commenting on the selection, Nixon Center Chairman Maurice R. Greenberg said, "George Tenet and the entire CIA staff have been vital to America’s ongoing successes in the war on terrorism. We at The Nixon Center are pleased and proud to recognize their important contribution to American security in an increasingly dangerous world."

Center Executive Committee Chairman James Schlesinger, himself a former Director of Central Intelligence, said, "George Tenet has been an outstanding Director under conditions that have been among America’s most difficult. His leadership is essential in adapting the CIA to pursue American interests—and to protect American lives—in the dramatically different world of the 21^st century."

Previous Nixon Center honorees have included Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (1998), Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman (1997), John Warner (1999), and Max Baucus (2001), American International Group Chairman and Chief Executive Maurice R. Greenberg (2000), Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kwan Yew (1996), and House Speaker Newt Gingrich (1995).

For further information, contact Nixon Center Director Paul Saunders at (202) 887-1000.

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