Lecture and Book Signing with Chase Untermeyer

Please join us for a lecture and book signing with President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, Chase Untermeyer. Mr. Untermeyer will be at the Reagan Library to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Inside Reagan’s Navy: The Pentagon Journals. This event is free to attend, however books must be purchased in the Reagan Library Museum Store to receive signature.

While serving as an assistant to Vice President George H. W. Bush, Chase Untermeyer concluded that the only way to learn how the U.S. government really works was to leave the silken cocoon of the White House and seek a position in one of the departments or agencies.

In March 1983, when offered an appointment as a deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, he jumped at the opportunity. After only a year as a “DASN,” he was named by President Ronald Reagan as assistant secretary for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, in charge of all personnel issues affecting nearly one million sailors and Marines and a third of a million civilian workers.

Inside Reagan’s Navy offers an engaging, up-close narrative of Untermeyer’s experiences in the Pentagon, interwoven with descriptions of events and people, humorous anecdotes, and telling quotations, painting a portrait of official Washington during the Reagan years, with its politics, parties, and personalities.