Brent Scowcroft KBE is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General. He was the United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005 and assisted President Barack Obama in choosing his national security team.
Scowcroft was born March 19, 1925, in Ogden, Utah, to Lucile Scowcroft and James Scowcroft, a grocer and business owner. He is a descendant of early 19thcentury British immigrants from England and Scotland, along with immigrants from Denmark and Norway. He considers himself a religious and cultural heritage Mormon, if not a formal follower of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints .
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