Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger ( born August 1, 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † June 4, 2011 in Charlottesville, Virginia ) was an American politician and diplomat. He worked under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush. The latter he served for a short time as Secretary of State ( Foreign Minister ).
Life
Sidney Lawrence ( " Larry " ) Eagleburger was born the son of a doctor and a primary school teacher. The war years the family spent in Mississippi and in Seattle in 1946 she settled finally in Stevens Point, Wisconsin down. Eagleburger earned his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 1957, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, where he worked in various positions in embassies, consulates and the State Department. Between 1961 and 1965 he worked as an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade (Yugoslavia).
In 1969 he was active in the administration of President Richard Nixon as assistant to the National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. Until 1971 he remained at this post, then he held various positions including that of adviser to the U.S. mission to NATO in Brussels. When Kissinger was appointed Secretary of State, Eagleburger followed him on a number of other posts in the State Department. Eagleburger was considered a confidant and protégées of Henry Kissinger. After Nixon's resignation, he left the government, but was quickly appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States Ambassador in Yugoslavia, a position which he held 1977-1980. From May 1981 to January 1982 he was Under Secretary of State for European Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs ); his successor in this position was Richard Burt.
1982 President Ronald Reagan appointed him Secretary of State for Political Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ); these third-highest position in the State Department, he took one to May 1984. In 1989 he was appointed President Bush sen. Vice Foreign Minister ( the second highest position in the State Department ). He served as the first President of this consultant for matters relating to the decay processes of the state of Yugoslavia.
When the then Secretary of State James A. Baker resigned in August 1992 to organize the Bush campaign took Eagleburger in accordance with the laws his official duties ( Acting Secretary of State ). After Bush had lost the presidential election in November 1992, he called Eagleburger to the Secretary of State. He resigned on 19 January 1993 from the Office. This was Eagleburger U.S. Secretary of State with the second shortest tenure. Only Elihu Benjamin Washburne officiated in March 1869, only eleven days shorter in the State Department.
After the term of office
In 1998 he was appointed President of the International Commission on Holocaust Insurance Claims - time ( ICHEIC ). After nine years of activity this task was solved and completed in March 2007, to everyone's satisfaction. $ 300 million ( equivalent to about 226 million euros ) had been paid to nearly 50,000 recipients.
In spring 2010, Eagleburger criticized in view of the re- raised Falkland question to the neutralist position of U.S. President Barack Obama, it was not unconditionally pro-British.
Eagleburger was in 1989 honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest civilian award of the USA.
Personal life
Eagleburger was her death in 2010, his second wife from 1966 to Marlene Ann Heinemann Heinemann 's Bakeries from the Family of Milwaukee. The couple has two sons and Eagleburger are a son from his first marriage, all of which were named after her father, Lawrence Eagleburger and differ only by their middle name: Lawrence Scott, Lawrence Andrew and Jason Lawrence Eagleburger. From the Washington Post asked about this same name, he replied: "It was ego. And secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security System. " ( translation :" It was my ego And secondly, I wanted to annoy the pension system ". . )