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View <a href="latestnews/walterjuddawardpressrelease.html">Press Release</a> and <a href="latestnews/walterjuddawardspeech.html">Acceptance Speech</a></strong><br> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong>DFF President Scholte Wins <a href="latestnews/seoulpeaceprize2008.html">Seoul Peace Prize 2008</a></strong> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong>Description of Suzanne Scholte&rsquo;s efforts for <a href="latestnews/scholteworknk.html">Human Rights for North Koreans</a></strong> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong><a href="latestnews/opeds.html">Opeds</a> Written By Defense Forum Foundation President</strong><br> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong>Description of Suzanne Scholte&rsquo;s efforts for the <a href="latestnews/scholteworkws2011.html">Sahrawi People and Western Sahara Self-Determination</a></strong> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong>View <a href="promotesd/westernsahara_congtestimony.html">Testimony</a> Before the U.S. Congress Regarding Western Sahara</strong> <li><p align="left" class="bodytext"><strong>View <a href="promotesd/westernsahara_untestimony.html">Testimony</a> Before the United Nations Regarding Western Sahara</strong> </ul> <td rowspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="420" border="0" alt=" "></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table style="width:auto;"> <tr><td><img style="border:2px solid wheat;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CYKHREgoCz8/TiZqNDBAnlI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/2mS7v5lDWYw/s800/photoboltonandboard3.jpg" height="170" width="240" /></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:center">DFF Board Members Amb Frank Ruddy, Honorable Tidal W. McCoy, Amb John Bolton, Suzanne Scholte, JEB Carney and Chadwick R. Gore following Amb Bolton's presentation on Capitol Hill (2011)</td></tr> <tr><td><img style="border:2px solid wheat;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-skNT1enNSDU/Th0hkCE5UkI/AAAAAAAAB1c/ACpjFjcHYRE/s800/photoseoulpeaceprize2.jpg" height="180" width="240" /></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:center">Scholte accepts Seoul Peace Prize from Chul Seung Lee (2008)</td></tr> <tr><td><img style="border:2px solid wheat;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iPqhKIrrptA/TiZngSaT08I/AAAAAAAAB2U/I9xUYoSyEAc/s800/photomdiddendorfreagan2.jpg" height="210" width="240" /></td></tr> <tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:center">DFF Chairman Ambassador J. William Middendorf, II with former President Ronald Reagan. DFF first began its bipartisan forums during the Reagan Presidency to promote on Capitol Hill the need to re-build America s defenses. Since that time DFF s programs have expanded to not only work for a strong American military but also to promote freedom, democracy and human rights abroad, the major philosophy of President Ronald Reagan.</td></tr> </table> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="330" border="0" alt=""></td> </tr>