IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1770 
Honoring the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke, 
a top ranking United States diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, 
Peace Corps official, and investment banker. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 16, 2010 
Mr. TURNER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles Al-
bert Holbrooke, a top ranking United States diplomat, 
magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, 
and investment banker. 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
succeeded in bringing resolution to many difficult assign-
ments over a career that spanned continents and decades; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
began his diplomatic work as a young Foreign Service of-
ficer in Vietnam in 1962 and ended it serving as the 
President’s Special Representative to Afghanistan and 
Pakistan, serving 5 different presidential administrations 
in every corner of the globe; 
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•HRES 1770 IH 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
was the only person to have held the position of Assistant 
Secretary of State for 2 different regions of the world, 
Asia from 1977 to 1981 and Europe from 1994 to 1996; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
had one of the most distinguished diplomatic careers in 
the Nation’s history and served as a strong advocate for 
United States national security interests in Asia, Europe, 
and the Middle East; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
was a skilled United States diplomat who forged a his-
toric deal to end Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World 
War II; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke is 
best known as the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton 
Peace Accords, the peace treaty that ended the Balkans 
War that threatened to destabilize Europe and resulted 
in the death of approximately 250,000 people, and the 
displacement of more than 2,000,000 men, women, and 
children; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
was awarded the Dayton Peace Prize in 2005 crediting 
his success in part to the support he received from the 
citizens of Dayton for helping move forward the negotia-
tions at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke’s 
passing on December 13, 2010, came almost 15 years to 
the day after the December 14, 1995, signing of the Day-
ton Peace Accords that bears his indelible imprint; 
Whereas the Honorable Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke 
will be remembered for his forceful personality, command 
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•HRES 1770 IH 
of the facts, brilliance, wit, and skill that amazed and at 
times intimidated both friends and opponents at the ne-
gotiating table; and 
Whereas with the passing of the Honorable Richard Charles 
Albert Holbrooke, the United States has lost an out-
standing diplomat and public servant: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors the passing of the Honorable Rich-
ard Charles Albert Holbrooke, a distinguished dip-
lomat and public servant; and 
(2) respectfully requests that the Clerk of the 
House transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to 
the family of the Honorable Richard Charles Albert 
Holbrooke. 
Æ 
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