Richard Holbrooke - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Richard Holbrooke Index / People Transcripts Samantha Power ...the cheap attacks on the other side. So Holbrooke said, “Did you have to piss of... ...I got more great advice from Richard Holbrooke , which was, “Stop whining about wha... ...so again, if you view the UN, as Richard Holbrooke liked to say, blaming the UN for crisi... Ryan Crocker ...[A.] McChrystal's departure in 2010, Richard [C.] Holbrooke 's position within the State Departmen... ...not sure I would have taken the job if Dick Holbrooke had still been the SRAP [specia... ...at Karzai, and didn't. And that was Holbrooke , of course. So just to end—Obama gav... James Jones ...working their own agendas. We had Richard Holbrooke as the ambassador for India, Pakistan... ...think history shows pretty clearly that Ambassador Holbrooke , for all of the good things he did i... ...was out to replace him, and Ambassador Holbrooke 's performance would indicate that h... ...good ambassadors, by the way, but the Holbrooke imprimatur on everything was contrar... ...big obstacles was the relationship with Richard Holbrooke , and his whole operation. Th... ...Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and Holbrooke were awful. But you know, the fact tha... ...we had—I hate to keep coming back on Richard Holbrooke , but he was the voice of th... ...say the role that Richard [“Dick” C.] Holbrooke played was probably the best example o... ...at some point just didn't want Richard Holbrooke present in any of the deliberations... ...to deal with him. On the other hand, Richard Holbrooke wanted to make sure that everybody kne... ...himself even further by replacing Richard Holbrooke —which never happened—that was kind o... ...reasons it was deteriorating was that Richard Holbrooke was working his own agenda with othe... ...true, but it was true, probably, that Richard Holbrooke was. How were you hearing this? Was i... ...clearly that this particular effort by Ambassador Holbrooke was not in keeping with what th... ...was kind of emblematic of the fact that Holbrooke was who he was at the time, which i... ...develop? It was early on. I had known Richard Holbrooke when he was ambassador and liked him... ...made sure a couple of times that Holbrooke knew that that wasn't going to happe... Show more... Ben Rhodes ...somebody saying, as an example, Richard Holbrooke is not going to say something nic... ...it with him. I remember saying, “But Richard Holbrooke was Hillary's guy [laughs]—” I wasn'... ...Hillary Clinton, of course, but then Richard Holbrooke seems to loom pretty large in thes... ...the military on a military matter.” Holbrooke was, ostensibly, the one tasked wit... ...of this strategy?? Whereas I think Holbrooke saw himself as a grand strategist wh... John Kerry ...reasons, the special envoy, Dick [Richard C.] Holbrooke , was not particularly able to engag... Denis McDonough ...of compare him with is [Richard “Dick”] Holbrooke , who is not substantive at all. He'... Hillary Clinton ...war in Afghanistan. You had appointed Richard Holbrooke as a special envoy for Afghanistan an... ...There has been so much written about Ambassador Holbrooke —the person and his personality. ... ...George Mitchell for the Middle East and Richard Holbrooke for Afghanistan and Pakistan to th... ...higher visibility. I had worked with Holbrooke during the '90s, and what I reall... ...with the kind of creative energy that Holbrooke had could see openings that might no... ...trying to deal with somebody like Holbrooke . The no-drama Obama attitude was real... ...believed, and believe to this day, that Holbrooke was the kind of person, as we had see... ...began a secret peace exploration under Holbrooke . And it was very tightly held. Th... ...began holding conversations between Holbrooke 's deputy, Frank Ruggiero, and a... ...of the Taliban. And, actually, Richard Holbrooke had his fatal attack in my office as w... ...a really complicated situation. But Holbrooke had a way of coming across as bigge... ...having to negotiate with him. And Holbrooke was very overtly looking for somebod... Show more... Tom Donilon ...positions, including, additionally, Dick Holbrooke as the Afghan-Pakistan coordinator an... ...George Mitchell on the Middle East, and Dick Holbrooke , who is a whole nother—that's a whol... ...read George Packer's book [Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century]... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America