Reagan Doctrine legal barriers prohibiting private organizations and citizens from supporting these resistance movements. Within the Reagan administration, the doctrine was quickly embraced by nearly all of Reagan's top national security and foreign policy officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, and a series of Reagan National Security advisers including John Poindexter, Frank Carlucci, and Colin Powell. Reagan himself was a vocal proponent of the policy. Seeking to expand Congressional support for the doctrine in the 1985 State of the Union Address in February 1985, Reagan said: "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives...on
Richard S. Carnell Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 1987 and was then the Committee's Senior Counsel 1989-1993. In 1993, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated Carnell to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions. He held that office until 1999. Since leaving government service, Carnell has been a law professor at the Fordham University School of Law. Richard S. Carnell Richard Scott Carnell is a United States lawyer who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions from 1993 to 1999. Richard S. Carnell was educated at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1975. He