'''Richard V. Allen''' was a United States National Security Advisor to President [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 to 1982. He had previously served on the [[National Security Council]] staff under President [[Richard Nixon]]. Both presidents represented the [[Republican]] party, the more [[conservative]] of the two main [[political party|political parties]] in the [[United States]].
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'''Richard V. Allen''' was a United States [[National Security Advisor]] to President [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 to 1982. He had previously served on the [[National Security Council]] staff under President [[Richard Nixon]]. Both presidents represented the [[Republican]] party, the more [[conservative]] of the two main [[political party|political parties]] in the [[United States]].
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Allen is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a [[think tank]] based on the campus of [[Stamford University]] in the [[state]] of [[Connecticut]] and named after [[Herbert Hoover|Hoover]], and a member of the advisory board to the [[Heritage Foundation]]'s Asian Studies Center; the Heritage Foundation is a [[conservative]] [[think tank]] based in [[Washington D.C.]], the [[capital city]] of the [[United States]].
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Allen is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a [[think tank]] based on the campus of Stanford University in the [[state]] of [[Connecticut]] and named after [[Herbert Hoover|Hoover]], and a member of the advisory board to the [[Heritage Foundation]]'s Asian Studies Center; the Heritage Foundation is a [[conservative]] [[think tank]] based in [[Washington D.C.]], the [[capital city]] of the [[United States]].
He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the [[University of Notre Dame]], a historically [[catholic]] university near South Bend, [[Indiana]].
He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the [[University of Notre Dame]], a historically [[catholic]] university near South Bend, [[Indiana]].