he wanted action. he was a strong patriot. he really believed in america. it s unimaginable to think about american foreign policy without dick holbrooke being part of it. my whole life he has been part of it. i just want to say one other personal thing. one thing i was really pleased about in his life. he found enormous happiness in the last years in his marriage to connie martin. she was it was a second marriage for both. she had at one time been married to peter jennings. that marriage was just a blessing for him. he told me on many occasions just how it really changed his life so there was a soft side to dick holbrooke, too. david gergen, thanks for those reflections. barbara starr, join the conversation. as you listen, you have covered as well as anyone the disputes, disagreements, the tug of war between the competing voices within the administration over the strategy in afghanistan. should we surge with the troops over whether the administration was doing enough on the other
no slobodan milosevic. there s no big leader. there are no armies. it s terrorists and that s a very different ball of wax. david? there was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married connie martin who had been married to peter jennings. that was one of the great romances in new york city he pegsly in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side to him that connie filled and i think a lot of people who knew them will remember them as that romantic couple. i want to play for our viewers something president obama said earlier. richard is relentless. he never stops.
no slobodan milosevic. there s no big leader. there are no armies. it s terrorists and that s a very different ball of wax. david? there was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married connie martin who had been married to peter jennings. that was one of the great romances in new york city he pegsly in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side to him that connie filled and i think a lot of people who knew them will remember them as that romantic couple. i want to play for our viewers something president obama said earlier. richard is relentless. he never stops. he never quits because he s always believed that if we stay focused, if we act on our mutual interests, that progress is p
croatia or a particular city in bosnia. it s worth mentioning. there was another side to dick holbrooke and his marriage to connie martin was really one of the romance stories. yes. the two of them really had a special relationship that i think brought him enormous sense of satisfaction. they were in a certain sense at the center of the entire social circuit among what i would call the council on foreign relations, erudites, smart thinkers who to a certain extent these days are being derided but they were the ones who would run american foreign policy, understood our role in the world but exceptionalism. it is there. we re going to continue with our guests in a minute. we have to take a quick break. we ll be right back. in regard to afghanistan, here is a country which in which both india and pakistan have interests and unless those interests can be brought into symmetry and that symmetry aligned with the afghans, this
no slobodan milosevic. there s no big leader. there are no armies. it s terrorists and that s a very different ball of wax. david? there was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married connie martin who had been married to peter jennings. that was one of the great romances in new york city he pegsly in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side to him that connie filled and i think a lot of people who knew them will remember them as that romantic couple. i want to play for our viewers something president obama said earlier. richard is relentless.