Lawrence Eagleburger was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973.
23 Facts About Lawrence Eagleburger
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Lawrence Eagleburger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Helen, an elementary school teacher, and Leon Sidney Lawrence Eagleburger, a medical doctor.
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Lawrence Eagleburger graduated from Jacobs High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, then attended Stevens Point State College, before earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was a member of the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary from 1996 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2006.
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Lawrence Eagleburger served in the United States Army, attaining the rank of first lieutenant.
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Lawrence Eagleburger had three sons, all of whom are named Lawrence Eagleburger, though they have different middle names.
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In 1957, Lawrence Eagleburger joined the United States Foreign Service, and served in various posts in embassies, consulates, and the Department of State.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was known as the person who handled the Skopje 1963 earthquake crisis, and managed the first US-Soviet humanitarian cooperation, after which he was nicknamed Lawrence of Macedonia.
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Lawrence Eagleburger stayed in this appointment until 1971; thereafter he took on several positions, including advisor to the US Mission to NATO in Brussels, and, following Kissinger's appointment as Secretary of State, a number of additional posts in the State Department and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was then named the Executive Secretary to the Secretary of State from 1975 to 1977, and subsequently was appointed as ambassador to Yugoslavia by President Jimmy Carter, a post he held from 1977 to 1980.
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From May 14,1981, to January 26,1982, Lawrence Eagleburger was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.
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Lawrence Eagleburger then became president of Kissinger Associates, a consultancy firm which provided firms with advice on international politics.
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Lawrence Eagleburger had controversial ties to Yugoslavia both in promoting loans to Yugoslavia as a government official and later serving on the board of a Yugoslav-government-owned LBS Bank as well as with Yugo Motors, USA.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute.
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Lawrence Eagleburger became chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, or ICHEIC, which was set up in 1998.
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In 2005, Lawrence Eagleburger announced that the ICHEIC was offering approximately 16 million dollars to Holocaust victims and their heirs, noting as he did so the research ability of the ICHEIC staff which allowed them to evaluate claims from companies which no longer existed.
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Lawrence Eagleburger responded to these accusations by saying, among other things, that it was difficult to work quickly when many of the claimants lacked basic information such as the name of the insurance company involved.
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Lawrence Eagleburger caused some discussion with public comments about President George W Bush's foreign policy.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was chairman of the board of trustees for The Forum for International Policy, and a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Board of Advisors.
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Lawrence Eagleburger stated that many vice presidents have not been ready.
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On October 30,2008, on the Fox News Channel, Lawrence Eagleburger referred to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a "charlatan", citing his fundraising methods and other aspects of his presidential campaign.
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Lawrence Eagleburger died of pneumonia at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 4,2011.
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Lawrence Eagleburger was 80 years old and had lived outside Charlottesville since 1990.