[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20001]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    RETIREMENT OF WILLIAM M. DEMPSEY

 Mr. ROBB. Mr. President, today I rise to honor Mr. William M. 
Dempsey who will retire from the U.S. Marshals Service on August 28, 
1999. He has served as a Public Affairs Specialist with the Marshals 
Service for 23 years.
  Mr. Dempsey has more than four and a half decades of experience in 
public affairs positions with various civilian, government and military 
organizations. For twenty years, from 1955-1975, he served with the 
U.S. Air Force in several positions. During the period 1959-1961 he 
served as a Public Information Officer with the U.S. Taiwan Defense 
Command. He later served a tour of duty in South Vietnam as Director of 
Information for all U.S. rescue and recovery activities. From 1968-1972 
he served on the staff of the Secretary of the Air Force.
  In late 1976, Mr. Dempsey joined the U.S. Marshals Service as a 
Public Affairs Specialist. In that capacity, he implemented a public 
affairs strategy for the agency, advised senior officials on public 
information aspects of major operational matters, and was frequently 
the agency's spokesman to the media. His extensive experience with 
national, regional, and local media organizations has benefitted the 
Marshals Service and the American public for more than two decades.
  Mr. Dempsey graduated from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He 
also has completed graduate level study in Public Relations/
Communications at Boston University. He resides in Fairfax, Virginia, 
near the Arlington headquarters of the U.S. Marshals Service.
  I am honoring Mr. Dempsey on the Senate floor today as a way of 
thanking him for his service to the law enforcement community, the 
public affairs community, and our nation.

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