1. Nelson Strobridge Talbott III was born on April 25,1946 and is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia.
16 Facts About Strobe Talbott
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Strobe Talbott was associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001.
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Strobe Talbott was president of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017.
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Strobe Talbott was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Helen Josephine and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Strobe Talbott II.
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Strobe Talbott attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated in 1968 from Yale University, where he had been chairman of the Yale Daily News.
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Strobe Talbott became a friend of future President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford; during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.
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Strobe Talbott translated and edited Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament by Nikita S Khrushchev.
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Strobe Talbott was appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent States from 1993 to 1994, to mitigate the consequences of the Soviet breakup.
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Strobe Talbott was then appointed to the second highest ranking position in the US State Department as deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001.
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Strobe Talbott was the sixth president of the Brookings Institution in Washington from 2002 to 2017.
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Strobe Talbott helped raise more than $650 million in support of independent policy research and analysis.
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On January 31,2017, Strobe Talbott announced his resignation from the Brookings Institution.
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In December 2011, Strobe Talbott returned to government service as chair of the US State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
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Strobe Talbott was on the advisory board of the DC non-profit America Abroad Media and holds leadership positions in other organizations such as the Aspen Institute and the American Academy of Diplomacy.
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Strobe Talbott had been the college roommate of her brother, Derek.
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Strobe Talbott has two sons, Devin and Adrian Talbott, co-founders of the now-defunct Generation Engage.