Events & Speeches Archive

Eurasia Foundation honored Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn with the 2013 Sarah Carey Award on May 9 for their visionary efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear catastrophe around the world.

Federal Republic of Germany President Joachim Gauck bestowed on retired U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. The presentation was made by German Ambassador to the U.S. Dr. Peter Ammon in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening, May 8.

Senator Richard Lugar, who is serving as a visiting distinguished professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI), delivered the 2013 Whittington Lecture, which honors the memory of Leslie Whittington, a GPPI professor and associate dean, who along with her husband and two young daughters died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11

Lugar Academy announcement at the University of Indianapolis

CGD and Foreign Policy Magazine honored Senator Richard Lugar, winner of the 2012 Commitment to Development Award. Bestowed annually since 2003, the Award honors an individual or organization that has made .

President Obama visited Army post Fort McNair to mark the 20th anniversary of the Cooperative Threat Reduction U.S.-Russia program to secure nuclear weapons in former Soviet states. The agreement was initiated by Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) and former Senate Sam Nunn (D-GA). President Obama praised the work of both senators, and told humorous stories of his first foreign trip as a senator from Illinois with Senator Lugar.