Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburgerwas an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as Deputy Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth1 August 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
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What we need is to develop in all Foreign Service Officers a better instinct for understanding the needs of U.S. business abroad.
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What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
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We must institute more training to give Foreign Service Officers the skills to do what they must do in this new world of commercial competition.
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I'm not sure very many people have had an opportunity to say anything about it,
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it would be a close call in either case.
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Probably some of them don't believe it was a mistake, and for those who do ... people don't often like to admit they're wrong. I'm not even sure I'm right when I say it was a mistake.
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One of the things that was clearly a part of the president's decision was that all of his generals were telling him it was time to leave,
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Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,
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It was Sharon - and Sharon alone - who was driving this thing in the right direction.
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There is no question that Saddam has been a pain in the neck ever since,
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There is no question in my mind that if given a chance, Saddam will again try to become the bully on the block in his part of the world.
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In the end, while I thoroughly understand and totally supported President Bush's decision not to pursue Saddam personally, I am now prepared to admit that it was probably a mistake.
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I didn't hear anyone making the argument very strenuously, quite frankly.