The Last Mission
Special Representative Holbrooke, in New York.Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe A week after being elected President, Barack Obama summoned Richard Holbrooke to his transition headquarters, at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago. To some members of Obama’s staff, the invitation was surprising: Obama and Holbrooke hardly knew each other, and Holbrooke had firmly supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries.
Holbrooke the dove
The last words of Richard C. Holbrooke, a lion of U.S. diplomacy, were "You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan" — a sentence worth pondering as the United States heads into a fresh round of debate over a conflict that has ground on for more than 9 years, steadily escalating from a sideshow to a nightmare that threatens to consume Barack Obama’s presidency. What did Holbrooke mean? Did he oppos
Richard Holbrooke dies: Veteran U.S. diplomat brokered Dayton peace accords
Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia - a success he hoped to repeat as President Obama's chief envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan - died Monday in Washington of complications from surgery to repair a torn aorta. He was 69. A foreign policy adviser to four Democratic presidents,
Strong American Voice in Diplomacy and Crisis (Published 2010)
Richard C. Holbrooke in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 2009.Credit...Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for every Democratic president since the late 1960s and oversaw the negotiations that ended the war in Bosnia, died Monday evening in Washington.
Richard C. Holbrooke, 1941-2010
As it turned out, I was the last person to have lunch with Richard Holbrooke. We ate last Thursday in the State Department cafeteria — sushi that, frankly, looked a bit green around the edges; his idea, not mine — and the ambassador was in his element. There were hands to shake, aides scurrying about with details of the last-minute trip he had to make that afternoon to Capitol Hill, an interesting
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Richard Holbrooke, veteran US diplomat dies aged 69
Richard Holbrooke, veteran US diplomat, dies
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