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.
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.
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