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Lawrence Eagleburger
 
Date of birth: 01 August 1930
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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Diplomat

Statesman

Biography:
   Secretary Eagleburger capped a brilliant twenty-seven year career in the State Department when he was named Secretary of State by President Bush. He helped chart and guide U.S. foreign policy through the turbulent end of the Cold War, the conflict in the Balkans, the confrontation in the Persian Gulf and through revolutionary changes in the former Soviet Union and then Russia.

President Bush swore in Lawrence S. Eagleburger as U.S. Secretary of State on December 8, 1992. (More...)
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" And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Embassy officers need to understand how business works, something that is not necessarily guaranteed by a PhD in economics. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" If George Bush decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy. "

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" In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. "

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" In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Most Ambassadors and most Senior Foreign Service Officers understand, and the younger generation of Foreign Service Officers clearly understands, the importance of export promotion. We are much better off now, but it is too early to tell if the export priority is institutionalized. "

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" My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" The Foreign Service has spent 50 years concentrating on political and military affairs at a time when the U.S. economy was preeminent. "

Lawrence Eagleburger
" The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. "

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