Bill Clinton: TIME
magazine’ Man of the Year for 1992
Seldom has a president provoked so many extreme
reactions. In naming President Clinton Man of the Year for 1992 (1/4/93), TIME magazine wrote,
"History may eventually decide that the key to Clinton's accomplishment
lay in his temperament — in his buoyancy, optimism and readiness to act, in his
enthusiasm for people and curiosity about their lives. Clinton emerges from the
sunnier, gregarious side of American political characters."
However, by 1999, when President Clinton and Kenneth
Starr were named TIME's Men of the Year for 1998, the magazine wrote,
"There is rubble everywhere around us now. The fate of a President moved
from the hands of a flushed girl on a rope line to the halls of a howling
Congress in battle fatigues. Civility, long rationed, ran out first... No
action, however solemn, is judged on its merits; everyone's got an angle. Even
if the fighting ended tomorrow, it will be years before the wreckage is
cleared." (1/4/99).
Strobe Talbott was Time's principal
correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and his work for the magazine was
cited in the three Overseas Press Club Awards won by Time
in the 1980s.
In 1972, Talbott, along with his friends Robert Reich
(a fellow Rhodes Scholar) and David E. Kendall,
rallied to his friends Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
to help them in their Texas campaign to elect George McGovern
president of the United States. In the 1980s, he was Time's principal
correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and his work for the magazine was
cited in the three Overseas Press Club Awards won by Time
in the 1980s.[3]
Talbott also wrote several books on disarmament.
Following Bill Clinton's election as president, Talbott
was invited into government where he served at first managing the consequences
of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the
Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent
States. After leaving government, he was for a period Director of the Yale Center for the Study
of Globalization.[4]
Talbott was the sixth president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2017.[5] At
Brookings, he was responsible for formulating and setting policies,
recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. He brings to
Brookings the experience of his careers spanning journalism, government service
and academe, and his expertise in US foreign policy[6] with
specialties on Europe, Russia,[7] South
Asia and nuclear arms control.[8] On January
31, 2017, Talbott announced his resignation from the Brookings Institution. The
resignation was later retracted, but in October he was succeeded by General John R. Allen.[9][5]
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[10] Talbott
currently also sits on the DC non-profit America Abroad Media's
advisory board.[11]
Controversy
The former Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
operative Sergei Tretyakov said that SVR considered
Talbott a source of intelligence information and classified him as "a
special unofficial contact," even though "he was not a Russian
spy."[12] The
allegations center on Talbott's relationship with Russia's ambassador to
Canada, Georgiy
Mamedov, who was a longtime SVR "co-optee," according to
Tretyakov. Mamedov called the allegations "blatant lies."[12] Talbott
also rejected the accusations, calling them "erroneous and/or misleading
in several fundamental aspects..."[13] and said
that his meetings with Mamedov advanced US objectives, such as getting Russia
to accept NATO enlargement
and helping to end the Kosovo
War.
REPORT: Hillary Clinton
praises Greta Thunberg for ‘Person of the Year’ win
By DML News App -
December 11, 2019
Hillary
Clinton praised Greta Thunberg after Time magazine named the teen climate activist its “Person of the Year,”
tweeting that she could not think of a better choice for the award.
Time’s 2019 Person
of the Year – Greta Thunberg
Climate activist Greta Thunberg photographed on
the shore in Lisbon, Portugal December 4, 2019Photograph by Evgenia Arbugaeva
for TIME.
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