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_Richard Holbrooke_
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/obama-holbrooke-tough-son-gun-12387329) , a forceful presence in American diplomacy for more
than 45 years, died tonight in Washington, D.C. He was 69.
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His death, after emergency surgery Friday for a _torn aorta_
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ambassador-richard-holbrooke-collapses-hospitalized/story?i
d=12367074) , was confirmed by sources to ABC News White House
Correspondent Jake Tapper.
Holbrooke, served in the Obama administration as the U.S. special
representative for _Afghanistan_ (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/) and
_Pakistan_ (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=12374248) , was putting
the finishing touches on a major report on American military and diplomatic
efforts in Afghanistan, due to be released on Thursday.
Holbrooke joined the Foreign Service in 1962. Vietnam loomed large in his
early career. He served a tour there in the mid-1960s, including time in the
Mekong Delta for USAID. In 1966, he began working on Vietnam issues in the
White House under President Lyndon Johnson. He later authored a portion of
the Pentagon Papers -- the secret internal history of the Vietnam War that
was leaked to and published by the New York Times. Holbrooke saw the
Vietnam War come full circle: he was part of the U.S. delegation to the Paris
peace talks with the North Vietnamese that ended the war.
Holbrooke's career took him to all corners of a changing world. He served
as director of the Peace Corps in Morocco in the early 1970s and later,
under President Jimmy Carter, tackled issues in Asia as the Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He served as chairman of the
Asia Society from 2002 to 2009.
During President Clinton's second term in office, Holbrooke was the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations.
Beyond his roles in the State Department, Holbrooke also served as managing
editor of Foreign Policy, in leadership roles at two Wall Street banks
and, prior to joining the Obama administration, as vice chairman of Perseus
LLC, a private equity firm. He also served in leadership roles at a number of
non-profits and authored a memoir, "To End a War," about his time in the
former Yugoslavia.
It was there where Holbrooke engaged in his most dramatic moments of
diplomacy and statecraft. In the mid-1990s, he served as assistant secretary of
state for Europe, where he brokered peace in the Balkans, crafting the
Dayton Peace Accords that ended years of brutal fighting in Bosnia.