Jim Webb

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Jim Webb (2007)

James Henry "Jim" Webb junior (born February 9, 1946 in Saint Joseph , Missouri ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . He was United States Secretary of the Navy from 1987 to 1988 . From 2007 to 2013 he represented the state of Virginia in the US Senate .

Life

Webb (right) with his son and US President George W. Bush in the Oval Office (2008)

Webb was born into a Roman Catholic family with roots in Ireland . Webb's father was an officer in the US Air Force and served as a bomber pilot in World War II and as a pilot of a cherry bomber in the Berlin Airlift . Webb graduated from Bellevue High School in Nebraska .

Webb graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and served in the US Marine Corps until 1972 . He was an infantry officer and was recognized for his service in the Vietnam War .

After his military career, Webb attended Georgetown Law School from 1972 to 1975, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor . He then worked on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs from 1977 to 1981 . Webb was in 1987 Ronald Reagan to the administrative director of the US Navy named. He resigned on February 23, 1988 to protest the reduction in the size of the US Navy and the abandonment of the " Navy of 600 Ships " plan .

On November 7, 2006, he won the Senate election in an extremely close race against Republican mandate holder George Allen . With this narrow victory in Virginia, the Democrats gained a majority in the Senate.

In 2012 he was no longer a candidate. Tim Kaine became his successor. On July 2, 2015, he announced that he would be running in the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election and withdrew his bid in October. After his retirement, Webb said he did not want to vote for his party's candidate, Hillary Clinton . In March 2016, he spoke out in favor of the Republican Donald Trump . After his election victory in November 2016, Webb said that Trump understood his campaign to address white workers.

In early January 2019, according to the New York Times, the White House was considering replacing Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis with Webb . US President Donald Trump denied this on Twitter and described the report as fake news .

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Movies

Webb wrote the story and was executive producer on Rules, a movie starring actors Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson . He also wrote the story of Whiskey River , which Warner Bros. is currently filming. The film is about a fictional US soldier who is wounded in Iraq. The American professor Jack Shaheen considered Rules to be the film that worked the most with anti-Arab clichés and criticized it in his book Reel Bad Arabs . Commenting on criticism of his scripts, Webb said, “Every movie needs evil. Towelheads (derogatory term for Muslims) and rednecks (derogatory term for southerners) - and I am one of them - are best ”.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Democrats win control of Senate - mcnbc.com 2006, (English)
  2. ^ Dan Merica: Jim Webb drops out of Democratic presidential primary. In: CNN , October 20, 2015.
  3. ^ Jim Webb: I won't vote for Hillary Clinton. In: Politico , March 4, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Alex Pfeiffer: Jim Webb Won't Say Who He Voted For, But It Sure Sounds Like Trump. In: The Daily Caller , November 15, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Maggie Haberman: White House Mulls Jim Webb, Ex-Democratic Senator, as Next Defense Secretary. In: The New York Times , January 3, 2019.
  6. ^ Matthew Choi: Trump denies that Jim Webb is under consideration for Defense secretary. In: Politico , January 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Washington Post (English) ( Memento of 5 March 2016 Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Webb, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Webb, James Henry Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Joseph , Missouri