David Boren - Oklahoma City, OK - Living Statues on Waymarking.com

This bronze statue of David Boren is in front of the College of Allied Health, directly across Stonewall from the Gaylord Clock Tower. He is wearing Presidential Regalia (calf length robe) over a collared shirt and tie. A medallion hangs around his neck. With his left hand he holds a book close to his body. His feet are pointing slightly apart as he stands on the 3' tall podium/base that appears to be made of wood. David Boren is shown in approximate life size.

The front panel of the base has only the name "David L. Boren".

Side 2 text:

President University of Oklahoma
United States Senator
Governor of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Representative
Rhodes Scholar

Side 3 text:

(raised relief of Molly Shi Boren's portrait)
Molly Shi Boren
Committed Partner in Public Service
First Lady of The State Of Oklahoma and The University of Oklahoma

Side 4 text:

"Never underestimate the power of kindness. How we treat each other will help determine the future of our society."
David Boren


From wikipedia:

David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is an American university administrator and politician from the state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He was the 13th president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. On September 20, 2017, Boren officially announced his retirement as president of the University of Oklahoma, effective June 30, 2018.

Boren served as president of the University of Oklahoma until June 30, 2018, and was succeeded by business executive Jim Gallogly. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Texas Instruments and AMR Corporation (then parent company of American Airlines). As of 2017, his salary as president of the University of Oklahoma was $383,852.88 annually. One semester every school year, Boren taught a freshman level political science class to 200 students.

In 1996, Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot unsuccessfully sought Boren to be his vice-presidential running mate. In 2001, Boren, along with fellow Democrat former governor George Nigh was listed as being in support of the Right to Work law in Oklahoma. The measure, proposed and sponsored by then Gov. Frank Keating, was passed by the voters.

Boren is regarded as a mentor to former director of Central Intelligence George Tenet from his days as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Boren and Tenet were having breakfast together when Tenet was called away to respond to the terror attacks. Boren said that in the weeks before the Iraq War began in March 2003, he warned Tenet that since he was not a member of President George W. Bush’s closest circle of advisers, the White House would make him the scapegoat if things went badly in Iraq. "I told him they had your name circled if anything goes wrong," Boren recalls telling Tenet.

In June 2007, conservative political columnist Robert Novak claimed that Boren had met with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss a possible third-party presidential campaign. Bloomberg had recently left the Republican Party, and speculation arose that he discussed the possibility of Boren joining him as a running mate. However, on April 18, 2008, Boren endorsed the leading Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

In 2008, he released a book titled A Letter to America.

Boren and former U.S. senator Chuck Hagel served as co-chairmen of the nonpartisan U.S. President's Intelligence Advisory Board under Barack Obama. He sits on the honorary board of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues.[citation needed] He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1988. In 1996, Boren received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of his support for education and his authorship of the National Security Education Act of 1992.

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