Tim Rieser, right, with U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy. Courtesy/Rieser by The World and Viet Nam Report
Author Kai Bird
LAHS News:
Los Alamos Historical Society will sponsor a special occasion, “Oppenheimer Conversations” including Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus, the book on which the upcoming “Oppenheimer” film is based.
Special visitor at the talk, to be moderated by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) National Security Research Center Director Brye Steeves, is Tim Rieser, U.S. Senate staffer who contributed in the recent abandoning of the cancellation of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance.
The night starts at 6 p.m., June 20 in Fuller Lodge with Kai Bird’s book finalizing and a social hour. Hors d’oeuvres will be served by the Blue Window, with beverages from Bathtub Row Brewery. Conversations will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $100, available at losalamoshistory.org. This fundraising occasion supports the restoration of the Oppenheimer House.
Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has actually released bios of John J. McCloy, McGeorge Bundy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Ames, and now The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. He has actually likewise authored a narrative about his youth in the Middle East. He is the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Rieser went to Stanford University and Dartmouth College, getting his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1976. He made his JD from the Antioch School of Law in 1979. From 1980–1983 he worked as a public protector in Vermont, his home state, and after that invested a year as a mentor assistant at the Harvard Law School Project on Negotiation. In 1985, he started working for previous Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who served for 8 terms and as President Pro Tempore and Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
In 1989, Rieser ended up being an expert team member of the Appropriations Committee. In 1995, he was called the Democratic Clerk of the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations and held that position up until 2022, managing appropriations for the operations and programs of the Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other federal firms and commissions, together with contributions to the United Nations and other multilateral companies. He acted as a senior consultant to the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee in 2023. From 1995–2023, Rieser likewise acted as Sen. Leahy’s senior diplomacy consultant.
Those with concerns or wanting more details might call the Historical Society at 505.662.6272.
