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continuing his education at Brown University in 1962, 
where he was editor of the Brown Daily Herald; 
Whereas one month after graduating from university, Ambas-
sador Holbrooke, inspired by President Kennedy’s call to 
service, entered the Foreign Service, where he spent the 
next 6 years focused on Vietnam, including serving with 
the United States Agency for International Development 
(USAID) in the Mekong Delta, as an assistant to Am-
bassadors Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor, as an 
author of one volume of the Pentagon Papers, and a 
member of the team led by Averell Harriman and future 
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at the Paris Peace talks 
in 1968; 
Whereas from 1970 to 1972 Ambassador Holbrooke served 
as the Peace Corps Director in Morocco; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke was the only person to have 
served as Assistant Secretary of State for two regions of 
the world, having served as Assistant Secretary of State 
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1977 to 1981, 
during which he was a tireless advocate for the expanded 
admission of tens of thousands of Indochinese refugees to 
the United States, and as Assistant Secretary of State 
for European and Canadian Affairs from 1994 to 1996; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke brokered the 1995 Dayton 
Accords which ended over 3 years of bloody sectarian war 
that took the lives of more than 100,000 Bosnians; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke marshaled many diplomatic 
and military tool and deftly negotiated concessions from 
all warring factions that created the conditions for peace;
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Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke’s relentless pursuit of a ne-
gotiated solution to ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia 
saved tens of thousands of innocent lives; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke served as United States Am-
bassador to Germany from 1993 to 1994, where he 
helped to found the American Academy of Berlin, a cen-
ter for United States-German cultural exchange; 
Whereas from 1999 to 2001, Ambassador Holbrooke served 
as the United States Permanent Representative to the 
United Nations where he was a critical partner in the im-
plementation of Congressionally-led efforts to lower the 
dues the United States paid to the United Nations, to 
implement certain reforms to the United Nations finan-
cial system, to settle substantial and longstanding United 
States arrears to the United Nations, to improve man-
agement within the United Nations, to include Israel in 
the United Nations’ Western European and Others 
Group, to end Israel’s longtime exclusion from regional 
deliberations, to render more effective the United Na-
tions’ efforts to address conflicts and save lives in Africa 
and East Timor, and to raise the profile of public health 
as a matter of global security, including through debate 
and passage of United Nations Security Council Resolu-
tion 1308 on HIV/AIDS; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke continued to marshal inter-
national attention and resources to combat the HIV/ 
AIDS crisis by catalyzing the private sector response to 
the global AIDS pandemic through the Global Business 
Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which 
mobilized corporations to address HIV/AIDS, garnered 
CEOs to be an advocacy force in the fight, and served
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as the private sector focal point for the Global Fund on 
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke served as a steadfast emis-
sary of the United States as the Special Representative 
for Afghanistan and Pakistan, tirelessly advocating for 
United States interests and peace in the region, mobi-
lizing unprecedented international support, facilitating 
economic, transit, trade, and security cooperation be-
tween Afghanistan and Pakistan, and working to enhance 
stability, to build prosperity, and to counter extremism 
and terrorism in the region; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke forged a new civilian-led, 
multi-agency approach seeking to bring stability and de-
velopment to the lives of millions striving for a better fu-
ture; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke was one of the most talented 
diplomats for the United States and possessed a fierce 
determination and intelligence in advocating for United 
States security interests around the world, including in 
Southeast Asia and post-Cold War Europe, at the United 
Nations, and most recently in Afghanistan and Pakistan; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke was a prolific writer and 
communicator, serving as the Managing Editor of For-
eign Policy, authoring works such as ‘‘To End A War’’, 
‘‘Counsel to the President’’, one volume of the Pentagon 
Papers, and a monthly column in The Washington Post, 
and sharing the art of mediation with countless audi-
ences; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke lent his expertise toward the 
improvement of management and organization for a host 
of nongovernmental organizations, serving as a board
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member of Refugees International, the Council on For-
eign Relations, the National Endowment for Democracy, 
the American Museum of Natural History, and the Citi-
zens Committee for New York City, as Chairman of the 
Asia Society, as Founding Chairman of the American 
Academy in Berlin, and as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke motivated many Americans 
to enter public service and served as an inspirational 
leader and public servant, mentoring countless United 
States Department of State officers and future ambas-
sadors; 
Whereas from Southeast Asia to post-Cold War Europe and 
around the globe, people have a better chance of a peace-
ful future because of Ambassador Holbrooke’s lifetime of 
service; 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke was renowned internation-
ally for his energy, persistence, sharp intellect, and skills 
of persuasion; and 
Whereas Ambassador Holbrooke leaves behind his beloved 
wife Kati, sons David and Anthony, step-children Eliza-
beth and Chris, daughter-in-law Sarah, four grand-
children, and countless friends and colleagues: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) honors the exceptional achievements of Am-
bassador Richard Holbrooke and recognizes the sig-
nificant contributions he has made to United States 
national security, humanitarian causes, and peaceful 
resolutions of international conflict; and
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(2) respectfully requests that the Clerk of the 
House transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to 
the family of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 
2010. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 335 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Honoring the exceptional achievements of Ambas-
sador Richard Holbrooke and recognizing the sig-
nificant contributions he has made to United 
States national security, humanitarian causes, 
and peaceful resolutions of international conflict.