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=== Second CPD (1970s) === On November 11, 1976, the second iteration was announced. The name of this version of the committee was "borrow[ed]" from the 1950s version, and was not a direct successor.<ref name="AlertingAmerica">{{Cite book |last=Kampelman |first=Max M. |title=Alerting America: The Papers of the Committee on the Present Danger |publisher=Pergamon Brassey's |year=1984 |isbn=0080319254 |editor-last=Tyroler, II |editor-first=Charles |pages=xviii}}</ref> Some of its members lobbied for, and were members of, the 1976 [[Team B]], providing an opposing view to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s ''Team A''. Thirty-three officials of the Reagan administration were CPD members, including [[Director of Central Intelligence]] [[William Casey]], [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] [[Richard V. Allen]], [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], [[Secretary of the Navy]] [[John Lehman]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[George Shultz]], and [[United States Assistant Secretary of Defense|Assistant Secretary of Defense]] [[Richard Perle]]. Reagan himself was a member in 1979. ==== Founding members of the second CPD ==== <!-- Per Wikipedia convention, notables only. --> {{div col|colwidth=15em}} * [[Theodore Achilles|Achilles, Theodore C.]] * [[Richard V. Allen|Allen, Richard V.]] * [[John Moore Allison|Allison, John M.]] * [[Eugenie Anderson|Anderson, Eugenie]] * [[Jacob D. Beam|Beam, Jacob D.]] * [[Saul Bellow|Bellow, Saul]] * [[Karl Bendetsen|Bendetsen, Karl R.]] * [[Warren Randolph Burgess|Burgess, W. Randolph]] * [[John Moors Cabot|Cabot, John M.]] * [[William J. Casey|Casey, William J]], * [[Sol Chick Chaikin|Chaikin, Sol C.]] * [[Ray S. Cline|Cline, Ray S.]] * [[William Colby|Colby, William E.]] * [[John Connally|Connally, John B.]] * [[John T. Connor|Connor, John T.]] * [[Colgate Darden|Darden, Colgate W. Jr.]] * [[Arthur Dean (lawyer)|Dean, Arthur H.]] * [[C. Douglas Dillon|Dillon, C. Douglas]] * [[S. Harrison Dogole|Dogole, S. Harrison]] * [[Peter H. Dominick|Dominick, Peter H.]] * [[Walter C. Dowling|Dowling, Walter]] * [[Evelyn Dubrow|DuBrow, Evelyn]] * [[James T. Farrell|Farrell, James T.]] * [[David Fellman|Fellman, David]] * [[Henry H. Fowler|Fowler, Henry H.]] * [[Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.|Frelinghuysen, Peter H. B.]] * [[Nathan Glazer|Glazer, Nathan]] * [[Andrew Goodpaster|Goodpaster, Andrew J.]] * [[J. Peter Grace|Grace, J. Peter]] * [[Gordon Gray (politician)|Gray, Gordon]] * [[Oscar Handlin|Handlin, Oscar]] * [[Rita Hauser|Hauser, Rita E.]] * [[J. C. Hurewitz|Hurewitz, J. C.]] * [[Chalmers Johnson|Johnson, Chalmers]] * [[David C. Jordan|Jordan, David C.]] * [[Max Kampelman|Kampelman, Max M.]] * [[Geoffrey Kemp|Kemp, Geoffrey]] * [[Leon Keyserling|Keyserling, Leon H.]] * [[Lane Kirkland|Kirkland, Lane]] * [[Jeane Kirkpatrick|Kirkpatrick, Jeanne J.]] * [[Foy D. Kohler|Kohler Foy D.]] * [[Peter F. Krogh|Krogh, Peter]] * [[Ernest W. Lefever|Lefever, Ernest W.]] * [[Lyman Lemnitzer|Lemnitzer, Lyman L.]] * [[Willard Libby|Libby, W. F.]] * [[Seymour Martin Lipset|Lipset, Seymour Martin]] * [[Jay Lovestone|Lovestone, Jay]] * [[Clare Boothe Luce|Luce, Clare Boothe]] * [[William McChesney Martin|Martin, William McChesney Jr.]] * [[Edward A. McCabe|McCabe, Edward A.]] * [[George C. McGhee|McGhee, George C.]] * [[Robert Evander McNair|McNair, Robert E.]] * [[Joshua Morse|Morse, Joshua M.]] * [[Steven Muller|Muller, Steven]] * [[Robert S. Mulliken|Mulliken, Robert S.]] * [[Bess Myerson|Myerson, Bess]] * [[Paul Nitze|Nitze, Paul H.]] * [[George H. Olmsted|Olmsted, George]] * [[David Packard|Packard, David]] * [[Midge Decter|Podhoretz, Midge Dector]] * [[Norman Podhoretz|Podhoretz, Norman]] * [[Estelle Ramey|Ramey, Estelle R.]] * [[Paul Ramsey (ethicist)|Ramsey, Paul]] * [[Matthew Ridgway|Ridgway, Matthew B.]] * [[Eugene V. Rostow|Rostow, Eugene V.]] * [[Dean Rusk|Rusk, Dean]] * [[Bayard Rustin|Rustin, Bayard]] * [[Charles E. Saltzman|Saltzman, Charles E.]] * [[Richard Mellon Scaife|Scaife, Richard M.]] * [[Richard Schifter|Schifter, Richard]] * [[Paul Seabury|Seabury, Paul]] * [[Albert Shanker|Shanker, Albert]] * [[George Tanham|Tanham, George K.]] * [[Maxwell D. Taylor|Taylor, Maxwell D.]] * [[Edward Teller|Teller, Edward]] * [[Charles Tyroler II|Tyroler, Charles, II.]] * [[William Van Cleave|Van Cleave, William R.]] * [[Charls Walker|Walker, Charls E.]] * [[Eugene Wigner|Wigner, Eugene P.]] * [[Francis O. Wilcox|Wilcox, Francis O.]] * [[Bertram Wolfe|Wolfe, Bertram D.]] * [[Elmo Zumwalt|Zumwalt, Elmo R.]] {{div col end}}
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