- Longtime Public Servant Brent Scowcroft Dies
- Statement from Bush School Dean Mark Welsh
- George & Barbara Bush Foundation: A Tribute to General Brent Scowcroft
- Brent Scowcroft Memorial Program
- Robert M. Gates Eulogy
- Richard N. Haass Eulogy
- Stephen J. Hadley Eulogy
- Henry A. Kissinger Eulogy
- Virginia A. Mulberger Eulogy
We at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University mourn the passing of General Brent Scowcroft. He was a great American and a great public servant: a role model for Bush School students who aspire to a career in public service. General Scowcroft is properly regarded as one of the greatest national security advisors since the position was created. His National Security Council reforms after the Iran-Contra controversy – which remain in place to this day – strengthened the White House foreign policy management process. He gave prudent and carefully thought out policy advice to President George H.W. Bush during a turbulent and chaotic period in international affairs where one mistake could well have led to a conflagration. General Scowcroft displayed a keen understanding of the world as it was, not as we dreamed it should be. President George H.W. Bush’s historic record of achievement in foreign affairs was, in no small measure, a function of the high quality people he chose to run the foreign policy apparatus of the federal government. Brent Scowcroft was foremost among them. One of General Scowcroft’s legacies is the Institute which carries his name here at the Bush School which aspires to provide thoughtful research, commentary and scholarship on issues facing the United States and the world.
Andrew Natsios
Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs
The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Texas A&M University
