[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 171 (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2329]
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                  HONORING VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, PH.D.

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 6, 2007

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Victor 
Davis Hanson upon being honored with the 2007 ``Friend of Israel'' 
Award. Dr. Hanson is to be honored at the annual dinner for the 
Republican Jewish Coalition of Central California on November 4, 2007 
in Fresno, California.
  Dr. Hanson grew up as a Central Valley farmer. He graduated from the 
University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelors Degree in 
Classics in 1975. He attended the American School of Classics Studies 
in 1978 and 1979 and received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford 
University in 1980. He was a full-time farmer on his tree and vine farm 
before joining the staff at California State University, Fresno in 1984 
to initiate a classics program. In 1991, he was awarded an American 
Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award. This award is 
given annually to the country's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and 
Latin.
  Victor Davis Hanson has been honored with many achievements and 
awards. In 1992-1993 he was a National Endowment for the Humanities 
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavior Sciences and 
he was a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University in 1991-
1992. He has been the recipient of the Eric Breindel Award for opinion 
journalism (2002) and an Alexander Onassis Fellow (2001). Further, Dr. 
Hanson was named as alumnus of the year for the University of 
California, Santa Cruz in 2002. From 2002-2003 he was the visiting 
Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy in 
Annapolis, Maryland. He was honored with the Manhattan Institute's 
Wriston Lectureship in 2004 and the 2006 Nimitz Lectureship in Military 
History at the University of California, Berkeley.
  Dr. Hanson has authored about 170 articles, book reviews, newspaper 
editorials and essays that discuss Greek, agrarian, domestic policy, 
military history and contemporary culture. He has written or edited 
sixteen books. He has been published by the University of California 
Press, Routledge, Free Press, Cassell, Doubleday, Encounter and Random 
House. Dr. Hanson has had editorials published in the New York Times, 
Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, 
New York Post, National Review and Washington Times along with numerous 
others. Dr. Hanson has used these different outlets, in his writings 
and speeches, to place a focus on the importance of Israel, while 
keeping the priority on the United States. Dr. Hanson has been a 
champion of the cause to keep Israel in mind with the United State's 
foreign policy.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to commend and congratulate Victor Davis 
Hanson upon being awarded with the 2007 ``Friend of Israel'' Award. I 
invite my colleagues to join me in wishing Dr. Hanson many years of 
continued success.

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