Richard Holbrooke - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Richard Holbrooke Index / People Transcripts Todd Stern ...think, initially, four special envoys. Dick Holbrooke for AfPak, called then, Afghanistan an... David Axelrod ...So there were those kinds of tensions. Dick Holbrooke was working at the State Department an... Michael McFaul ...suddenly you had all these ambassadors. Dick Holbrooke is on my working group, for god's sake... Michèle Flournoy ...colead the Afghan strategy review with Richard Holbrooke and Doug Lute,” I was like, “Ah... ...the strategy review with Lute and Holbrooke . There were multiple strategy review... ...Lute. It was Riedel. I'm sorry. Riedel, Holbrooke , and me. And then Doug came later... Jim Steinberg ...in the case with George Mitchell, and Richard Holbrooke , and Steve Bosworth, and others wh... ...Afghanistan policy led by Secretary Holbrooke that I just—there were more than enoug... Jake Sullivan ...Afghanistan. Now, at that same meeting, Richard Holbrooke walked up to the guy at lunch, i... ...in touch.” And that got reported, the Holbrooke engagement. But my effort, mor... ...love to talk about the appointment of Richard Holbrooke and what that signaled about th... ...wanting to bolster. Basically, Richard Holbrooke came to Secretary Clinton with a theor... ...and that also involved the Taliban. Holbrooke believed that from the beginning. An... ...theory. That was the theory behind Holbrooke 's appointment. And that was the theor... ...two dimensions to it. The first is that Richard Holbrooke had a very challenging relationshi... Show more... Michael Mullen ...young kids. I spent a lot of time with Richard Holbrooke on all of this. Holbrooke and I me... ...with Richard Holbrooke on all of this. Holbrooke and I met with a group of young kids o... Anne Patterson ...to ask about was Obama's appointment of Richard Holbrooke as Special Envoy for Afghanistan an... ...was unnerved by that because of Holbrooke 's reputation as disruptive. Then h... ...side show, in many ways. To be fair, Holbrooke was one of the most articulate peopl... Mark Lippert ...the debates, fascinating time. Dick Holbrooke told me to write a diary, and I didn't... Anne-Marie Slaughter ...know she read “America's Edge”—although Richard Holbrooke , were he still alive, would say thi... ...was jockeying going on. I did talk to Richard Holbrooke —actually, now I remember that—saying ... ...people to Melanne Verveer's staff, to Richard Holbrooke 's staff, to do work with the Office o... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism