[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF LT. GENERAL WILLIAM ODOM

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                           HON. LINCOLN DAVIS

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 12, 2008

  Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, born in Putnam County 
and raised in Cumberland County, Lt. General William E. Odom rose to 
great prominence in the U.S. military intelligence community and was a 
widely known expert on matters relating to the Soviet Union.
  A natural born leader, Odom graduated from the U.S. Military Academy 
at West Point in 1954. Over the next twenty years Gen. Odom earned a 
Masters Degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University, was stationed in 
East Germany for a lengthy period of time, taught at West Point, and 
served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
  In 1977, he was appointed as the military assistant to President 
Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. General Odom 
served in that position till 1981. Shortly after leaving the White 
House and for a little more than 3 years, Odom held the position of 
Assistant Chief of Staff for Army Intelligence. By 1985 General Odom 
was named the 11th Director of the National Security Agency, our 
nation's largest intelligence agency.
  Retiring in 1988 from the Army and the National Security Agency, 
General Odom embarked in a career in academia. Over the next twenty 
years he taught at Yale University and Georgetown University and was a 
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
  General Odom is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame at 
the United States Army Intelligence Center in Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
  On behalf of Tennessee's Fourth Congressional District and a grateful 
nation, we thank General Odom for his service in defense of our 
country.

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