1988 Republican Presidential Primary

PAT ROBERTSON

l.  BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENTS
A.  Beginning in 1959 with initial capital of $70, Pat Robertson founded, built and supervises a complex of companies and institutions which include:

1.  America's fifth-largest cable network with 34,000,000 homes connected. The weekly circulation of CBN cable at 16,300,000* homes exceeds the combined circulation of Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.

2.  Three major-market commercial television stations and one radio station with annual sales in excess of $30 mil­lion.

3.  A fully-accredited graduate university with present enroll­ment of 944 students from major American universities studying in five graduate schools and a law school.

4.  A major private sector relief agency, Operation Blessing, which in 1985, in cooperation with churches and other agencies, assisted an estimated 8.7 million needy in Amer­ica's cities, her farm communities and Appalachia. Through 1986, an estimated 100,000 adults and children, primarily in urban ghettos, will have been taught to read through CBN's "Sing, Spell, Read and Write" program.

5.  The 700 Club television program, which is seen each month in the United States by an estimated 28 million viewers. Since its inception, The 700 Club Crisis Counsel­ing Centers have received 25,000,000 telephone calls for help. This year approximately 5,000,000 calls will be received from hurting and needy people.

6.  Broadcast operations and relief centers in 24 nations around the world, in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Europe, plus a high­-powered VHF television station in Lebanon, on the border of Israel, broadcasting in English and Arabic. The Middle East television station of CBN is reported to be the most popular and best-watched in the region, and the most authentic and objective news source.

*Dec. 1986 N.T. l.

7. In addition, Pat Robertson has founded and has headed a construction company, a full-service advertising agency, and a company to make motion pictures and television series. He also founded The National Legal Foundation now with 300 associate lawyers, dedicated to fighting in court to preserve religious freedom.

II.  CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Pat Robertson not only has founded and directed the CBN com­plex, he has been the host and news analyst of the daily 700 Club television program. He analyzes matters of international, national and social significance while interviewing countless scholars and world leaders. He is the author of five books, four of which have been best-sellers. His book, The Secret Kingdom, was the number one religious book in America in 1983, appearing on Time Magazine's non-fiction, best-seller list. His Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions was the number one religious book for several months in 1985. His current work, America's Dates with Destiny, has just been released, with advance sales in hardback of 135,000 copies.

III.  OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
Pat Robertson studied briefly at the University of London and has traveled to 44 countries. He did analysis for W. R. Grace at textile and cement plants in Peru and Bolivia; founded and was President of a Colombian corporation which purchased and operated radio station Neuvo Continente in Bogota, Colombia; personally en­gaged in business negotiations in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, ltaly, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines. He has been a news commentator apd analyst on television specials produced in the Republic of China, West Germany, Pakistan, on the border of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, the Sudan, El Salvador, the Nicara­guan border, Guatemala, and Geneva (during the start of U.S./Soviet arms negotiations).

IV.  EDUCATION
Pat Robertson was educated at the McCallie School in Chatta­nooga; Washington and Lee University, where he majored in history, gained a B.A., Magna Cum Laude, and was a junior member of Phi Beta Kappa; Yale University Law School, where he specialized in tax law and received, in 1955, a Juris Doctor degree; and from New York Theological Seminary, where in 1959 he received the Master of Divinity degree. He also holds an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts University.

V.  ATHLETICS
At age fifteen, Pat Robertson played football and boxed in the heavyweight division in city tournaments as well as the novice heavyweight division of the Chattanooga Golden Gloves. In col­lege, he gained the finals of the lntramural Heavyweight Wrestler's Tournament. He plays tennis, golf, jogs and lifts weights. He operates a small horse farm where he enjoys breeding, training, riding and selling thoroughbreds, Arabians and Trakehner horses. He holds a private pilot's license.

VI.  MILITARY SERVICE
In 1948, Pat Robertson enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He held the rank of Corporal and Sergeant. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1950, and in 1951 was sent to the Far East where he served as the Assistant Adjutant of the First Marine Division in combat in Korea. He is entitled to the Korean Service Medal with three bronze battle stars and unit citations. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant upon his return to the United States, where he served in 1952 as Legal Officer, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico.

VII.  ORDINATION
Pat Robertson was ordained to the Christian ministry as a South­ern Baptist in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1961.

VIII.  BOARDS AND AWARDS
Pat Robertson serves or has served on the following boards and has received the following awards, among others:

A.  Member of the Executive Committee and past President of the prestigious Council on National Policy.

B.  Norfolk Metropolitan Board of Directors of the United Vir­ginia Bank, an $8.7 billion dollar banking institution.

C.  Board of Directors, National Religious Broadcasters.

D.  Past member, Board of Regents, Haifa University (only non­-Jewish member ever so chosen).
 
E.  President's Task Force on Victims of Crime

F.  Hall of Fame, National Religious Broadcasters

G.  George Washington Medal of Freedom, Freedom Foundation, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

H.  Humanitarian of the Year, Food for the Hungry, lnc.

I.  National Merit Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews

J.  Citations: Kentucky Legislature; California Senate; Los Angeles County; and other cities

K.  Broadcaster of the Year, Religious Heritage of America

IX.  FAMILY AND HERITAGE

A.  Pat Robertson was born on March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia, to A. Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill Robertson. He was married in 1954 to Adelia (Dede) Elmer of Columbus, Ohio. Dede Robertson serves as Principal United States Dele­gate to the lnter-American Commission of Women. In that capacity, she has traveled widely in Central and South Amer­ica. She holds a Master's Degree in Nursing from Yale and has been an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Tidewater Com­munity College. Dede Robertson is a noted lecturer, writes a monthly magazine column, and has authored two books. The Robertsons have four children: Tim, Elizabeth, Gordon and Ann, and four grandchildren.

B.  Pat's father, A. Willis Robertson, served twenty years in the United States Senate, where he was Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee and a Senior Member of the Appropriations Committee, and fourteen years in the House of Representatives as a member of the Ways and Means Committee, where he played a key role in the tax policies of the United States during World War II.

C.  Pat's heritage also includes a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamín Harrison, and two Presidents of the United States, William Henry Harrison and Benjamín Harrison.

D.  Also included in Pat's heritage is John Churchill, the 2nd Duke of Marlborough, who was the direct ancestor of Winston Churchill, eloquent statesman and Prime Minister of England during World War II.