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HOLBROOKE, Richard , american Diplomat > In January 2009, Holbrooke
was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and Afghanistan,
working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, a frustrating assignment which was said to have caused his
health to deteriorate. He served until he died from complications of
an aortic dissection on December 13, 2010.[1]
------ALLAH said, 'I am nearer to you than your jugular Vein', his
aorta was hurt and he died on his JUGULAR vein, not enought ALLAH with
him ? Christian 'Pro christ' did not like him nor MC CRYSTAL and
called this people > PIGS ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke

So ALLAH took him as an example, he was involved with the Killings of
Innocent people in pakistan and Probably Afghanistan by DRONES and
missiles, so he might have earned a curse ?
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Richard Holbrooke
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Holbrooke
United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
In office
January 22, 2009 – December 13, 2010
President Barack Obama
Preceded by (post created)
Succeeded by Marc Grossman
22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
August 25, 1999 – January 20, 2001
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Bill Richardson
Succeeded by John D. Negroponte
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
In office
September 13, 1994 – February 21, 1996
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Stephen A. Oxman
Succeeded by John C. Kornblum
United States Ambassador to Germany
In office
October 19, 1993 – September 12, 1994
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Robert M. Kimmitt
Succeeded by Charles E. Redman
15th Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
In office
March 31, 1977 – January 13, 1981
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
Succeeded by John H. Holdridge
Personal details
Born Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke
April 24, 1941
New York City, New York
Died December 13, 2010 (aged 69)
Washington, D.C.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Larrine Sullivan (m. 1964)
Blythe Babyak (m. 1977)
Kati Marton (m. 1995-2010, his death)
Children 2 sons
Alma mater Brown University
Princeton University

Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010)
was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace
Corps official, and investment banker.

He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant
Secretary of State for two different regions of the world (Asia from
1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996).

From 1993 to 1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Long well known
in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great
public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister
Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in
Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.
Holbrooke was a leading contender to succeed the retiring Warren
Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over as President
Bill Clinton chose Madeleine Albright instead. From 1999 to 2001,
Holbrooke served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

He was an adviser to the Presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry
in 2004. Holbrooke then joined the Presidential campaign of Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton and became a top foreign policy adviser.
Holbrooke was considered a likely candidate for Secretary of State had
Kerry or Hillary Clinton been elected President. In January 2009,
Holbrooke was appointed as a special adviser on Pakistan and
Afghanistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, a frustrating assignment which was said to have
caused his health to deteriorate. He served until he died from
complications of an aortic dissection on December 13, 2010.[1]

Holbrooke's unfulfilled ambition was to become Secretary of State; he
along with George Kennan and Chip Bohlen, were considered among the
most influential U.S. diplomats who never achieved cabinet rank.
Several considered Holbrooke's role in the Dayton Accords to merit the
Nobel Peace Prize, another honor that he never won.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Contents

1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Vietnam (1962–1969)
2.2 Morocco and Foreign Policy (1970–1976)
2.3 Carter Administration (1977–1981)
2.3.1 East Timor controversy
2.4 Wall Street years (1981–1993)
2.5 U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1993–1994)
2.6 Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs (1994—1996)
2.7 Balkan envoy (1996—1999)
2.8 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999—2001)
2.8.1 Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria
2.9 Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009—2010)
2.10 Other activities
3 Positions
4 Personal life
5 Death
6 Writings
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links

Early life

Holbrooke was born on April 24, 1941, in New York City, to Dan
Holbrooke and Trudi Kearl (née Moos); his brother, Andrew, survives
him.[6][7] Holbrooke's mother, whose Jewish family fled Hamburg in
1933 for Buenos Aires before coming to New York, took him to Quaker
meetings on Sundays. His mother, a potter, has stated: “I was an
atheist, his father was an atheist... We never thought of giving
Richard a Jewish upbringing. The Quaker meetings seemed
interesting.”[8]

Holbrooke’s father, a doctor who died of cancer when Richard was 15
years old,[6] was born of Russian Jewish parents in Warsaw and took
the name Holbrooke after migrating to the United States in 1939. The
original family name was Goldbrajch. [9]

After Scarsdale High School,[10] Holbrooke earned a Bachelor of Arts
from Brown University in 1962, attending on a full-tuition
scholarship.[10][11] He was later a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University,
leaving in 1970.[11]
Career
Vietnam (1962–1969)

In 1962, Holbrooke graduated from Brown University, where he was
inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s call to service to enter
government work.[12][13] A few weeks after college graduation,
Holbrooke entered the Foreign Service. A year later, after Vietnamese
language training, he began six years of service in and on Vietnam. He
served first in the Mekong Delta, as a civilian representative for the
Agency for International Development working on the rural Pacification
Program. This involved supporting the South Vietnam government with
economic development and enacting local political reforms. Holbrooke
then moved to the US Embassy, Saigon where he became a staff assistant
to Ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.[13] During
this time, he served with many other young diplomats who would play a
major role in American foreign policy in the decades ahead, including
John Negroponte, Anthony Lake, Frank G. Wisner, Les Aspin and Peter
Tarnoff. As the Vietnam War escalated, President Lyndon Johnson formed
a team of Vietnam experts to work in the White House under the former
head of the Phoenix Program, R.W. Komer, in an operation that was
separate from the National Security Council. As a rising young
diplomat with significant experience in the country, Holbrooke was
asked to join the group when he was only twenty-four years old.

Following his time in the White House, Holbrooke served as a special
assistant to Under Secretaries of State (then the number-two position
in the State Department) Nicholas Katzenbach and Elliot Richardson. In
1968, Holbrooke was asked to be part of the American delegation to the
1968 Paris peace talks, which was led by former New York Governor
Averell Harriman and Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance. He also
drafted a volume of the now famous Pentagon Papers, a top-secret
report on the government’s decision-making in Vietnam. Following these
assignments, Holbrooke spent a year as a mid-career fellow at the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Morocco and Foreign Policy (1970–1976)

In 1970, at his own request, Holbrooke was assigned to be the Peace
Corps Director in Morocco. After two years, he left the Foreign
Service to become the managing editor of the magazine Foreign Policy
from 1972–1976.[14] At the same time, from 1974–1975, he was a
consultant to the President’s Commission on the Organization of the
Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy and was a contributing
editor to Newsweek International.[14]
Carter Administration (1977–1981)

In the summer of 1976, Holbrooke left Foreign Policy to serve as
campaign coordinator for national security affairs to Governor Jimmy
Carter (D-GA) in his bid for the White House. During the campaign,
Holbrooke helped Carter prepare for his foreign policy debates with
President Gerald Ford. After Carter's victory, Holbrooke followed in
the footsteps of such diplomatic mentors as Philip Habib, Dean Rusk
and Averell Harriman and, on March 31, 1977, became Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, making him the
youngest person ever to hold that position, a post he held until
1981.[15] While at State, he was a top adviser to Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance. During his service, he oversaw a warming with Cold War
adversaries in the region, culminating in the normalization of
relations with China in December 1978.[13] He was also deeply involved
in bringing hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees to the
United States, thus beginning a lifelong involvement with the refugee
issue.
East Timor controversy

In August 1977, then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke
traveled to Indonesia to meet with President Suharto in the midst of
one of the Indonesian military’s brutal counterinsurgency campaigns in
East Timor, in which tens of thousands of East Timorese were being
killed. According to Brad Simpson, director of the Indonesia and East
Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archives,
Holbrooke had visited officially to press for human rights reform but,
after meeting Suharto, had instead praised him for Indonesia’s human
rights improvements, for the steps that Indonesia had taken to open
East Timor to the West, and for allowing a delegation of congressmen
to enter the territory under strict military guard, where they were
greeted by staged celebrations welcoming the Indonesian armed
forces.[16]
Wall Street years (1981–1993)

In January 1981, Holbrooke left government and became both senior
advisor to Lehman Brothers[6] and vice president of Public Strategies,
a consulting firm he formed with James A. Johnson, a former top aide
to Walter Mondale. From 1985 until 1993, Holbrooke served as managing
director of Lehman Brothers. During this time, he co-authored Counsel
to the President, The New York Times best-selling memoirs of legendary
Democratic wise man and Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, published in
1991. He was a top policy adviser to then-Senator Al Gore (D-TN)
during his 1988 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And four years later he advised Bill Clinton, in his quest for the
White House.

Holbrooke also remained deeply engaged in prominent foreign policy
issues. He visited Bosnia twice in 1992 as a private citizen and a
member of the board of Refugees International, witnessing firsthand
the damage and devastating human costs of the conflict. This
experience committed Holbrooke to pursuing a more aggressive policy in
Balkans and, in a memo to his colleagues, he urged that "Bosnia will
be the key test of American policy in Europe. We must therefore
succeed in whatever we attempt."[17]
U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1993–1994)

In 1993, after Bill Clinton became President, Holbrooke was initially
slated to be Ambassador to Japan due to his depth of knowledge and
long experience in Asian affairs. However, this appointment eventually
went to former Vice President Walter Mondale, and Holbrooke
unexpectedly was appointed Ambassador to Germany.[18] In 1992,
Holbrooke was also a member of the Carnegie Commission on America and
a Changing World and Chairman and principal author of the bipartisan
Commission on Government and Renewal, sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation and the Peterson Institute. He was Chairman and principal
author of the “Memo to the President-Elect: Harnessing Process to
Purpose,” a blue-ribbon Commission report sponsored by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace and the Institute for International
Economics.[19]

Holbrooke served in Germany during a dramatic moment: only a few years
after German reunification, he helped shape U.S. relations with a new
Germany. A highlight of his tenure was President Bill Clinton’s visit
to Berlin in July 1994, when thousands of Germans crammed the streets
to welcome the American leader.[20] While in Germany, Holbrooke also
was a key figure in shaping the U.S. policy to promote NATO
enlargement, as well as its approach to the war in Bosnia.

In 1994, while serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany, he conceived the
idea of a cultural exchange center between the people of Berlin and
Americans. With Richard von Weizsäcker, former President of Germany,
and Henry A. Kissinger as co-Chairman, this institution—The American
Academy in Berlin—was announced on September 9, 1994, the day after
the U.S. Army Berlin Brigade left Berlin. The American Academy in
Berlin opened three years later in a villa on the Wannsee once owned
by the German-Jewish banker Hans Arnhold. When Holbrooke left the U.S.
government in 2001, he became Chairman of The American Academy in
Berlin. It is now one of the most important links between Germany and
the United States.[21] Its Fellows have included writers (including
Pulitzer Prize winning authors Arthur Miller and Jeffrey Eugenides),
economists, government officials, and public policy experts such as
Dennis Ross and former U.S. Ambassador to The Peoples Republic of
China, J. Stapleton Roy.[22] In 2008, The American Academy in Berlin
awarded its annual Henry A. Kissinger Award for Transatlantic
Relations to George H. W. Bush. In 2007, the Award's first recipient
was former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (1994—1996)

In 1994, Holbrooke returned to Washington to become the assistant
secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, a position he held until
1996, when he resigned for personal reasons (he had recently married
the author Kati Marton and wished to return to New York). While
assistant secretary, Holbrooke led the effort to implement the policy
to enlarge NATO and had the distinction of leading the negotiation
team charged with resolving the Balkans crisis. In 1995, he was the
chief architect of the Dayton Peace Accords. In 1996, he was awarded
the Manfred Wörner Medal, awarded by the German Ministry of Defense
for public figures who have rendered "special meritorious service to
peace and freedom in Europe."
Holbrooke and Carl Bildt before peace talks in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995.
Balkan envoy (1996—1999)

Upon leaving the State Department, Holbrooke was asked by President
Clinton to become, as a private citizen, a special envoy to the
Balkans given his distinguished service in the region. Holbrooke left
his post as assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian
affairs and joined Credit Suisse First Boston, eventually taking the
position of Vice Chairman. In 1997, Holbrooke became a special envoy
to Cyprus and the Balkans on a pro-bono basis as a private citizen.
During 1998 and 1999, in his capacity as special presidential envoy,
Holbrooke worked to end the conflict between the armed forces of
Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), who were fighting for an
independent Kosovo in the Kosovo War. In March 1999 he traveled to
Belgrade to deliver the final ultimatum to Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milošević before the NATO attack began.[23] Holbrooke has written
numerous articles about his experiences in the Balkans, and in 1998,
published the widely acclaimed book, To End a War, a memoir of his
time as the chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, ending the
Bosnian civil war. The New York Times ranked the book as one of the
eleven best books of the year in 1998.[24]

According to Radovan Karadžić and Muhamed Sacirbey, ex-Bosnian Foreign
Minister, Holbrooke signed an agreement with Karadžić that if the
latter withdrew from politics he would not be sent to the Hague
tribunal.[25] Holbrooke denied these terms, saying Karadžić's
statement was "a flat-out lie."[26]
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999—2001)

In August 1999, Holbrooke was sworn-in as the 22nd U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations, replacing Bill Richardson. During his tenure,
Holbrooke was known for innovation and for achieving diplomatic
breakthroughs that settled a series of longstanding tensions in the
United States' relationship with the UN. His highest-profile
accomplishment was negotiating a historic deal between the United
States and the UN's then 188-Member States to settle the bulk of
arrears owed by the United States to the United Nations. The deal,
achieved with the agreement of the UN's entire membership in late
December 2000, lowered the rate of UN dues paid by the United States
to the UN, fulfilling the terms of a US law championed by Senators
Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Joseph Biden (D-DE). In return for the
reduction, the US paid the UN over $900 million in back dues.[27]
Holbrooke secured a reduction in US dues to the UN despite a booming
American economy by enfolding the US position within a broad push to
update the UN's long-outdated financial system. As negotiations
reached a critical phase in the fall of 2000, Holbrooke bridged a gap
between what the US was legally permitted to pay and the amounts the
rest of the UN membership were willing to shoulder by securing an
unprecedented contribution by billionaire Ted Turner, founder of the
UN Foundation. Holbrooke and his team received a standing ovation in
the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the terms of
the deal were presented.

Holbrooke's other achievements as UN Ambassador included getting the
United Nations Security Council to debate and pass a resolution on
HIV/AIDS, the first time that body had treated public health as a
matter of global security. In January 2000, Holbrooke used the United
States' presidency of the UN Security Council to spotlight a series of
crises in Africa, holding six consecutive UN debates that brought
together leaders from the region and the across the globe, including
former South African President Nelson Mandela and then U.S. Vice
President Al Gore, to catalyze more effective UN interventions in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and elsewhere. Holbrooke decried
a "double standard" whereby African conflicts received insufficient
global attention.[28] In 2000, Holbrooke led a UN Security Council
delegation in a series of diplomatic negotiations throughout Africa,
including to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Rwanda and Uganda. Holbrooke also secured membership for Israel in the
UN's Western European and Others regional group, ending Israel's
historic exclusion from regional group deliberations and allowing it
to, for the first time, stand for election to leadership positions in
UN sub-bodies.[29] During the final weeks of his term, Holbrooke
secured consultative status at the United Nations for Hadassah, the
Jewish women's service organization, overcoming strenuous objections
from certain Arab delegations.[30]
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

In January 2000, when the United States was in the rotating presidency
of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Holbrooke held an unprecedented
meeting of the Security Council to discuss AIDS in Africa.[31] No
Security Council session in the history of the UN had ever been
devoted to a health issue prior to this historic meeting. Vice
President Al Gore presided over the Security Council and declared that
AIDS was a security threat to all nations.[32]

Upon leaving the UN a year later, Holbrooke took over a nearly
moribund NGO that was intended to mobilize businesses and corporations
in the fight against AIDS. At the time, it had 17 members. Over the
next six years, Holbrooke turned this organization—originally called
the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS—into a worldwide organization
with over 225 members.[33] It expanded to include malaria and
tuberculosis and is now known as the Global Business Coalition on
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is now the official focal point
for mobilizing the business community in support of The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and has grown into an important
part of the ongoing war against these three diseases.[34]
Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009—2010)
Holbrooke in Herat, Afghanistan, in August 2009 to be briefed by
leaders of the coalition forces on the overall security of western
Afghanistan.

In January 2009, Holbrooke was appointed by President Obama as special
representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.[35] In that position, he
helped kill an initiative to "back the creation of a new UN special
envoy empowered to pursue peace talks with the Taliban."[36] He also
asserted that

"one of the most cost-effective steps Washington could take would
be to boost the agriculture sector of Afghanistan, which in years past
had been a productive and profitable source of exports. Replicate the
past success, he said, and Afghans would have money and jobs—and that,
in turn, would create stability in the country. He called for 'a
complete rethink' of the drug problem in Afghanistan, suggesting that
draconian eradication programs were bound to fail."[37]

However, "Holbrooke's skill set did not lead to much accomplishment in
Afghanistan. He never worked out a productive relationship with Afghan
President Hamid Karzai . . . He butted heads with other administration
officials and was dismissed by European colleagues. He brokered no
breakthroughs."[37]

Richard Holbrooke's dying words were "You've got to stop this war in
Afghanistan," which he told his Pakistani surgeon moments before he
was sedated for surgery to repair his torn aorta. NYDailyNews.com
Further information: South Asian Foreign Policy of the Barack Obama
administration
Other activities

Holbrooke was the vice chairman of Perseus LLC
, a leading private equity firm. From February 2001 until July 2008,
Holbrooke was a member of the Board of Directors of American
International Group. During his time as a member of the board of
directors of AIG, the firm engaged in wildly speculative credit
default insurance schemes that may cost the taxpayer hundreds of
billions to prevent AIG from bringing down the entire financial
system. He was a member of the board of directors of the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York and formerly served on the Advisory
Board of the National Security Network. Holbrooke was also a member of
the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Citizens
Committee for New York City, and the Economic Club of New York. He was
a member of the Trilateral Commission, and he has been listed on their
membership roster as one of their "Former Members in Public
Service".[38][39] He was the Founding Chairman of the American Academy
in Berlin; President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on
HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
, the business alliance against HIV/AIDS, until his appointment as a
special envoy by President Barack Obama;[40] and Chairman of the Asia
Society. Holbrooke's other board memberships included the American
Museum of Natural History, Malaria No More (a New York-based nonprofit
that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of
ending all deaths caused by malaria), Partnership for a Secure
America, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Holbrooke was also
an honorary trustee of the Dayton International Peace Museum, as well
as professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International
Studies at Brown University, his alma mater. Additionally, Holbrooke
was an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America,
a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan
center in American national security and foreign policy.

Holbrooke also served as vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston,
managing director of Lehman Brothers,[41] managing editor of Foreign
Policy, and director of the Peace Corps in Morocco.

He wrote numerous articles and two books: To End A War, and the
co-author of Counsel to the President, and one volume of The Pentagon
Papers. He received more than a dozen honorary degrees, including an
LL.D. from Bates College in 1999. He wrote a monthly column for The
Washington Post and Project Syndicate.

On March 20, 2007, he appeared on The Colbert Report to mediate in
what Stephen Colbert (or rather, his television alter-ego) saw as
Willie Nelson infringing on his ice cream flavor time. Holbrooke was
the 'ambassador on call' and after a short mediation process the two
parties agreed to taste each other's Ben and Jerry's ice cream to make
amends. He subsequently sang "On the Road Again" in a trio with
Colbert and Nelson.[42]

Holbrooke was an Eminent Member of the Sergio Vieira de Mello
Foundation until his death.

In June 2008, Conde Nast Portfolio reported that Holbrooke and his son
allegedly got multiple below-rate loans at Countrywide Financial
because the corporation considered them "FOA's"—"Friends of Angelo"
(Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo).[43]
Positions

In January 2001, Holbrooke said that "Iraq will be one of the major
issues facing the incoming Bush administration at the United Nations."
Further, "Saddam Hussein's activities continue to be unacceptable and,
in my view, dangerous to the region and, indeed, to the world, not
only because he possesses the potential for weapons of mass
destruction but because of the very nature of his regime. His
willingness to be cruel internally is not unique in the world, but the
combination of that and his willingness to export his problems makes
him a clear and present danger at all times."[44]

On February 24, 2007, Holbrooke delivered the Democratic Party's
weekly radio address and called for "a new strategy in Iraq",
involving "a careful, phased redeployment of U.S. troops" and a "new
diplomatic offensive in the Gulf region to help stabilize Iraq."[45]

During the 2008 South Ossetia war between Russia and Georgia,
Holbrooke said during a CNN interview that he had predicted the
conflict in early 2008.
Personal life

Holbrooke was married three times. His first wife was Larrine
Sullivan, whom he married in 1964; Holbrooke and Sullivan divorced.[6]
He later married Blythe Babyak, a reporter for MacNeil/Lehrer
NewsHour, on January 1, 1977; they divorced.[46] He was married to
Kati Marton from 1995 until his death.[6]
Death

On December 11, 2010, Holbrooke was admitted to George Washington
University Hospital in Washington after falling ill at the State
Department's headquarters.[47] While there, he underwent twenty hours
of surgery to fix an aortic dissection, a rare condition.[48]

Holbrooke died on December 13, 2010, from complications of the torn
aorta.[48] Holbrooke's last words before being sedated for surgery,
which have been clarified to have been a comical interchange with his
doctor, were: "You've got to end this war in Afghanistan."[49]

Frank Rich of New York Times wrote: "His premature death — while
heroically bearing the crushing burdens of Afghanistan and Pakistan —
is tragic in more ways than many Americans yet realize."[50]

On January 14, 2011, Holbrooke's memorial service was held at John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. [51]
Writings

1991: Clifford, Clark, with Richard Holbrooke. – Counsel to the
President: A Memoir. – New York, New York: Random House. – ISBN
9780394569956.
1998: To End a War. – New York, New York: Random House. – ISBN
9780375500572.

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