Implementation of Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal
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IMPLEMENTATION OF
DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL REPEALt
Jeh C. Johnson*
I am happy to be here at Albany Law School. I have never
been to Albany Law School before. Everyone keeps saying: Well,
thank you for coming up from Washington to Albany, and this
was not such a huge deal for me because I was raised in the
Hudson Valley. I grew up in a little town called Wappingers
Falls. Many of you here are probably familiar with Wappingers
Falls. I married the girl next door there. We now live in
Washington, but my parents still live in Dutchess County, so the
Hudson Valley, this part of the world, is very much home to me.
I must confess that I do not consider myself an expert or an
activist or an advocate for any particular policy position, though I
am a political appointee in the Obama administration. I was
asked in February of 2010 to do an assessment,' and that is what
we did.' So my talk to you will be very much in the nature of
another talk that is slated for this afternoon, which is an oral
history about the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state of
New York.' My discussion will be an oral history about the
t Delivered as the Keynote Address at the Albany Government Law Review
Symposium LGBT Rights: Toward a More Perfect Union, on October 13, 2011.
The transcript was edited for clarity and readability.
General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense.
I Robert M. Gates, Sec'y of Def., Statement on Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Feb. 2,
2010), available at http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1419.
2 See generally U.S. DEP'T OF DEF., REPORT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF
THE ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH A REPEAL OF DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL (2010)
[hereinafter DOD REPORT], available at http://www.defense.gov/home/features
/2010/0610_dadt/DADTReportFINAL_20101130(secure-hires).pdf.
The daylong symposium on October 13, 2011, featured a discussion with
Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, sponsor of the Marriage Equality Act, and
Katherine Grainger, assistant counsel to Governor Cuomo. The transcript is
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