Holbrooke then moved to the US Embassy, Saigon where he became a staff assistant to Ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 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.

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 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.

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 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.

Richard C. Holbrooke, who had reviewed the book in late November, 2008, was in 2009 a member of the team of Presidential advisers.

Manshel hired Richard C. Holbrooke as the first managing editor for Foreign Policy-later to become a U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, peace negotiator for the Dayton Accords, and U. S. Presidential Envoy to the Middle East.

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.

The leverage that this weaponry gave over Balkan aggressors and the recognition of what precision air attack means to decision-makers in the modern world was enunciated by former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke after the conclusion of the campaign and the settlement of the Dayton Peace Accords:

PON has recognized a diverse cast of distinguished negotiators from their respective fields: Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Finland ( 2010 ); Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created “ The Gates ” in Central Park ( 2008 ); Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm ( 2007 ); Sadako Ogata, former United Nations high commissioner for refugees ( 2005 ); Richard Holbrooke, former United States ambassador to the United Nations ( 2004 ); Stuart Eizenstat, former U. S. ambassador to the European Union ( 2003 ); Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations ’ special envoy for Afghanistan ( 2002 ); Charlene Barshefsky, U. S. trade representative in the second Clinton administration ( 2001 ); and former U. S. Senator George Mitchell for his work in Northern Ireland ( 2000 ).

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.

Other visits have included National Security Advisors James L. Jones and Thomas Donilon ; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ; Secretaries of Treasury Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner ; Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ; CENTCOM Commanders General David Petraeus and James Mattis ; Homeland Security Advisor John O. Brennan and Special Envoys George J. Mitchell, Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and a large number of sub cabinet officials.

His appointment was billed by late Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke as an unprecedented show of commitment by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the civil society and non-governmental actors playing a critical role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

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.

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.

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.

In 1897, he became conductor at the New Brighton Tower concerts, where he pioneered the works of Joseph Holbrooke, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Charles Steggall, Edward German, Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Corder and others, frequently devoting whole concerts to a single composer.

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.

In January 1981, Holbrooke left government and became both senior advisor to Lehman Brothers and vice president of Public Strategies, a consulting firm he formed with James A. Johnson, a former top aide to Walter Mondale.

When Holbrooke left the U. S. government in 2001, he became Chairman of The American Academy in Berlin.

In 1997, Holbrooke became a special envoy to Cyprus and the Balkans on a pro-bono basis as a private citizen.

In addition, Council member Susan Rice left to serve as the administration's ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke became the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, General Eric K. Shinseki became the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Anne-Marie Slaughter became Director of Policy Planning at the State Department.

Holbrooke also remained deeply engaged in prominent foreign policy issues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The President, who was growing frustrated by Soviet actions, wanted “ to be ready to reveal to the whole world the full truth about the Russian failure to honor agreements .”< ref name =" clifford "> Clark M. Clifford and Richard C. Holbrooke, < u > Counsel to the President: A Memoir </ u > ( New York: Random House, 1991 ).</ ref > With the assistance of George Elsey, Clifford set out to write a report that would take the analysis of the Long Telegram and translate it into concrete policy recommendations.

He deferred his admission until the fall of 2006 to work as an adviser to Richard Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and also to work with the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ).

* 1941 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat ( d. 2010 )

* 2010 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat ( b. 1941 )

* British — Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1909 ; libretto by Walter E. Grogan ).

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

In 2008, Honorable James D. Wolfensohn & Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke awarded him the Leo Baeck Medal ( Leo Baeck Institute ) for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice.

In 1991, Clifford's memoirs Counsel to the President ( co-authored with Richard Holbrooke, later U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations ) were published just as his name was implicated in the unfolding Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) scandal.

In Grass Valley the historic Holbrooke Hotel opened in 1851 and housed Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and four U. S. presidents ( U. S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and James A. Garfield ).

In 1908 when Sir Thomas Beecham wished to perform the work " Apollo and the Seaman " by the British composer Josef Holbrooke ( who had included parts for several sizes of sarrusophones ), the sarrusophone parts had to be played by performers brought over from France.

The peace conference was led by U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov.

Richard Holbrooke wanted to stop the posturing and walls that can be built up due to early leaks to the press.

In 2007, Perle presented the documentary " The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ", articulating his view of the challenges facing the U. S. post 9 / 11, and debating with his critics including Richard Holbrooke, Simon Jenkins, and Abdel Bari Atwan.