
Appointment of Ronald Keith Sable as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council
The President today announced the appointment of Ronald Keith Sable as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council. He will succeed Christopher M. Lehman.
Mr. Sable has served since December 1983 as Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council. Previously he served as special assistant to Kenneth M. Duberstein, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Prior to that time, Mr. Sable served as Chief of Air Operations, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, 1979-1982, and Air Force advance agent for Presidential travel from 1974 to 1978. Mr. Sable, a commercial and military pilot, is retired from the Air Force (colonel). He graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College (B.S., 1963) and Southern Illinois University (M.S., international relations, 1975). He also studied international security affairs at Harvard University. He is a recipient of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Medal.
Mr. Sable is married and has one child. He was born May 8, 1941, in Farmington, IA, and currently resides in Alexandria, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Ronald Keith Sable as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259359