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    Richard Holbrooke

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  1. Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat and author. 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.

  2. May 1, 2024 · Richard Holbrooke was an American diplomat who brokered the Dayton Accords (1995) to end the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN; 1999–2001), and was the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009–10) in the administration of Pres.

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  3. May 9, 2019 · Richard Holbrooke was a large man with gargantuan appetites — for food and women and movies and acclaim and, above all, diplomatic and undiplomatic maneuvering — appetites that struggled to ...

  4. Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, generally known as Dick, was born in Manhattan. Though his parents were ethnic Jews, they had little sense of Jewish identity, and were atheists.

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  6. Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was born in Manhattan on April 24, 1941, to Dr. Dan Holbrooke, a physician, and the former Trudi Moos. He attended Scarsdale High School, where his best friend was ...

  7. Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Holbrooke was a US diplomat who served as architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords in Bosnia and President Barack Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a controversial figure in his role as US ambassador to the UN.

  8. Dec 14, 2010 · The lifelong diplomat known as "The Bulldozer" for his negotiating style passed away at 69 on Monday after complications from emergency heart surgery. He was President Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan and a strong supporter of his 2008 bid for the White House. He also helped broker the Dayton accords in Bosnia and was a U.N. ambassador.

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