much has been written about this giant public figure, richard holbrooke. today i would like to focus on his extraordinary contributions, briefly, to the asia society, an institution that he loved very deeply for more than four decades. richard holbrooke was first spotted as a young with man with real promise by our founder, john d. rockefeller iii. mr. rockefeller invited this young diplomat to participate in our annual williamsburg policy die hog in 1972 -- dialogue in 972 and stayed in touch with him through the late '70s when richard served as assistant secretary of state for east asia with president carter and was heavily involved in the normalization of relations between china and the united states. we lost richard to europe and to global affairs in the 1990s, but he came back to his early love for the asia society when he became chairman of our organization in 2002 and remained our leader in that position until january of 2009. when he entered into government service this time as special representative for afghanistan and pakistan. to say that richar

late ambassador richard holbrooke. we're also thrilled that you will in moderate this season of outside programs at the asia society. ladies and gentleman, please welcome the 67 secretary of state, the honorable hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. it is wonderful to be back here at the asia society, and i think vishakha for that introduction and for her strong leadership. i also want to thank jack wadsworth and all of the board members and supporters who are here doing what i think is very important work -- continuing to build ties between people across regions and continents, and looking for opportunities to find those points of common concern and common cause. it is always a pleasure to be back here. i tell vishakha that it is mostly because of the gish -- the gift shop. [laughter] i am always coming back. i gave my first major's speech as secretary of state here. and i am so pleased to be back here today to celebrate you and all you do to strengthen relationships and understanding. and i also

i want to go back to richard holbrooke. when the croatian offensive was really grinding forward, richard and we were marched en on a sunday morning. the minister of defence said "wait a minute. we are in complete disarray. they are shooting disorders in the street. they sent a new general to take charge. if this is the opportunity. we will be there in a week. you want us to stop?" they stopped. after that, it never got going again. that was t 51-49 boundar the sbs did n know it got going again. richard is all that and got the conditions set. the other thing about this, if you have to have the right personality and ability to put the pieces together. richard holbrooke was right. heid it at the dayton and with lot of help from a lot of people. it was his responsibility. he did it. we saw pieces and bit of it. i cannot tell you all of the eces. he cajoled and fttered and it did everything to bring those groups together. even when you use all of the tools and set the conditions on the ground, there is a certain amount of chemis

richard holbrooke and dr. henry kissinger are often referred to as the great american diplomats of the second half of the 20th century. mr. holbrooke had many accomplishments to his credit. perhaps the one that shines brightest are the so-called dayton accords, reached in dayton, ohio, in 1995, which brought peace to the balkans. he would later write a best- selling book about that called to end a war. i had the pleasure of sitting down with him in manhattan. he was working as an investment banker at credit suisse, and he was working precisely on that book, and we discussed the dayton accords. here once again is richard holbrooke, who passed away unexpectedly last month at the age of 69. ambassador holbrooke, there are a lot of good diplomats around the world who, as diplomats should do, are called upon to ease tensions and bring about agreements. we've had boutros- ghali on the show, and pérez de cuéllar, and dr. kissinger, but you have stood out from your class, so to speak, your graduating class of diplom

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i want to go back to richard holbrooke. when the croatian offensive was really grinding forward, richard and we were marched en on a sunday morning. the minister of defence said "wait a minute. we are in complete disarray. they are shooting disorders in the street. they sent a new general to take charge. if this is the opportunity. we will be there in a week. you want us to stop?" they stopped. after that, it never got going again. that was the 51-49 boundary. the serbs did not know it got going again. richard is all that and got the conditions set. the other thing about this, if you have to have the right personality and ability to put the pieces together. richard holbrooke was right. he did it at the dayton and with a lot of help from a lot of people. it was his responsibility. he did it. we saw pieces and bit of it. i cannot tell you all of the pieces. he cajoled and flattered and it did everything to bring those groups together. even when you use all of the tools and set the conditions on the ground, there is a certain

holbrooke who came here in ninety four and said hello to to us you know richard holbrooke when he is around. where now he is dead but there are certain are there others coming but richard holbrooke and he said why don't you can take on the baltic states so sweden did look at what we're doing now we're almost one of the best guys in the club in the it we do more than the other parts that are in nato and that was sweden is now it's a shame it's a shame i've found i missed my countries joining in nato secretly forming people. that. thank you very much for sitting down with us. stop we are going to pay cut back all. will have a rally a low sell lots of beer low. they will wear uniforms the little damage is the same now the black man milling but very little damning the wife. and they are the key to our problems are all right. he is easy to be. if you feed. well sources are naughty frustration with governments reaches a boiling point across the middle east and north africa as protesters push for change at the same time egyptians are starting to question the. unrest. u.s. military is fighti

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holbrooke who came here in ninety four and said hello to to us you know richard holbrooke when he is around the where now he's dead but there are certain are there others coming but richard holbrooke and he said why don't you can take on the baltic states so sweden did look at what we're doing now we're almost one of the best guys in the club in the two we do more than the other countries that are in nato that were sweden is now it's a shame it's a shame i've shamed i'm ashamed of my country it's joining in nato secretly pulling people. that. thank you very much for sitting down with us. well as a holiday encircled you could. holiday in ski hotels. in the region country club suborning children from this beach of the first book. swiss are told close knit hold me gloats go golden retriever coachman. hello again this is all see it with a check of the headlines. so stray shoe with governments reaches a boiling point across the middle east and north africa is protesters push for change at the same time injections are starting to question the outcome of. the us and the trees to use a nail

holbrooke, many people have mentioned that the last assignment of richard holbrooke was perhaps the toughest of his life. he accepted this challenge because he was persuaded by his friend, secretary clinton, secretary clinton, you have this effect on people. it is hard to say no to you. because you always appealed to the highest instinct in all of us for serving this nation. and the truth is, serving this nation is what richard holbrooke was all about every day of his life. youe honored to welcome back to this society, madam secretary. last time you spoke here was on february 13, 2009. less than a month after you were sworn in as the 67 secretary of state of the united states. this is on the eve of your first overseas trip to asia. those of us who are asia were happy regard to asia first. and it was your first major speech on the renewed u.s. commitment to engage with a should hours. right before the program, i definitely and distinctively remember getting a paucolorado m richard. he was on his way to pakistan, his first trip as your special representative to afghanistan and pakista

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holbrooke who came here in ninety four and said hello to to us you know richard holbrooke when he is around the where now he's dead but there are certain are there others coming but richard holbrooke and he said why don't you can take on the baltic states so sweden did look at what we're doing now we're almost one of the best guys in the club in the eight we do more than the other countries that are in nato that were sweden is now it's a shame it's a shame i've found i'm ashamed of my country it's joining in nato secretly pulling people. thank you very much for sitting down with us. roma golden certainly literally who turned the little princess in bangkok radisson three children in cold dream literally going cold joelson totally grounded going cold implicitly kowtowed born cold grim brown who told one cold close enough and even told a real meridian. again this is also the headlines. that risings internees endangered continue to spawn away by the rest across the middle east and north africa as demonstrators wanting to change and reform clashed with police in several countries as bahra

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richard holbrooke, whose wife is here, and i would like to say hello to her. he describes this as the greatest failure of collective security since the second world war. in the sense that the idea of the u.n. really was a collective security treaty. if there is a country that is an aggressor we all gang up on the aggressor and presumably the aggression is deterred. it had worked against iraq when they invaded kuwait. and it was failing here. the europeans had said initially and 91, when this war broke out actually in croatia, and let's not forget the president of croatia is here, 15,000 people died in that war. that is europe's second deadliest war cents the second world war, but the europeans said we will handle it. and then, they sent a troika. that was the leadership of the european union that consisted of luxembourg, portugal and the netherlands in an environment in eastern europe where military power counted. that was not a very impressive representation of europe. i don't mean to fall to the individuals. it is how the european system worked at that time.

i want to go back to what richard holbrooke did. richard called and i do not know whether it came from him or washington, but we've marched in on a sunday morning. -- week marched in on this in the morning. we said it stopped. we are about to -- they are in complete disarray. they are shooting deserters in the streets. milosevich has sent a new general to take charge. this is the opportunity. you want us to stop. they said stop. and they stopped. after that, it never got going again. and that was the 51-49 boundary. the serbs did not know it could not get going again. richard saw that and got the conditions on the ground set. you have to have the right personality. you have to have the ability to put all the pieces together. richard holbrooke was the right personality and he did it at dayton with a lot of help from a lot of people but it was solely his responsibility to make it happen inside dayton. there was a lot of us who saw pieces and bits of it. i cannot begin to tell you about all of the pieces of it. he did everything in the

now, of course, we had always envisioned richard holbrooke leading this effort. he was an architect of the integrated military, civilian, diplomatic strategy, and we feel his loss so keenly, but richard left us a solid foundation. over the past two years, he built an exceptional team and a strong working relationship with our allies and regional partners. today i'm pleased to announce the president and i called back to service ambassador mark grossman, a veteran diplomat, and one of richard's most esteemed colleagues as our new special representative for afghanistan and pakistan. his first tour in the foreign service was in pakistan. he knows our allies and understands how to mobilize common action to meet shared challenges. he played a crucial role in the dayton talks, and richard described him in a book that richard wrote as one of the most outstanding career diplomats. ambassador grossman has followed in richard's shoes before when he was secretary of state of european affairs in the 1990s. i'm confident in his ability to hit the ground running. now, ambassado

the retired diplomat replaces richard holbrooke, who died suddenly last december. >>> there's tragedy for the dahly llama's family this morning. his nephew was killed last night, as he walked along a highway. he participated for a walk for tibet. >>> the facade of a dentist's office gave way, sending bricks on three of the four cars nearby. another reason folks hate going to the dentist. >>> now, for this morning's weather from around the nation. heavy rain from seattle to san francisco, stretching into southern california by tonight. >>> one to two feet of snow in the sierras, cascades. temperatures take a 20-degree dip in the northeast before warming back up tomorrow. >> mostly 70s from miami to dallas. 51 in kansas city. 40 in chicago. and 37 in minnean 50s in boise and salt lake city. and just shy of 80 in phoenix. >>> when we come back on this tuesday morning, a giant comet races by earth overnight. >>> plus, money news. gas prices reaching in the highest level everfebruary. >>> and prepare to pay more at the mall. why clothing prices are going up by as much as 10%. >>> plus, the

it's not going as well as richard holbrook and others hoped. >> i don't see any serious problem. >> charlie: but you will acknowledge -- >> i will tell you. there was no problem in recruitment. >> charlie: army and police. >> yes. there is no problem in retention. i think we always meet the goal that 70% and sometime even last year up to 86%. the people who fought i think they have fulfilled their contract of the three years. retention means they are recontracting. so that is not a problem. then the problem that you are referring, i mean there is no occasion that the afghan army have defected from the battlefield anyway. >> charlie: i'm not talking about -- okay. >> usually sometime i think when they go for their vacation they don't come back. >> charlie: what do you call that. >> so we call it attrition. so attrition is a combination of people killed in action, then wounded in action, sick. then it comes to this which we call it awol, absent without leave. there is a level which is accepted in any army for this type. >> charlie: are you on that level. >> we are at the moment, last year i t

i would like to pay a tribute to richard holbrooke. his name is emblazoned on the station. just to go back briefly, the negotiations that president clinton brought everybody to having led the defining of the targets and brought it to a point where he could actually have a negotiated peace -- it was not inevitable when the three leaders went to dayton and holed themselves up for that many days. it was not bound to happen, was it? >> i think that is right. it was, for anybody who had the privilege of actually being there and hold up in dayton for those weeks, quite an extraordinary moment. on the one hand you had this horrible, terrible human tragedy. in the room, people were responsible for that. trying to find a way to not lose sight of the enormity of the crimes, and yet to deal with these individuals in try to find a way to reach an agreement. i think perhaps the most important was richard holbrooke understood the history of the region. he did not see it just does something that happened today or yesterday or even with the fall of communism. he understood the individuals.

the retired diplomat replaces richard holbrooke who died suddenly last december. the appointment comes at an especially challenging times between the u.s. and the two nations. among those challenges, a new u.n. report which finds an increasing number of children are victims of the war in afghanistan. the u.n. said nearly 1,800 children were hurt or killed as a result of the u.s.-led conflict over the past two years. >>> all the unrest overseas is being felt right back here at home at the gas pump. the average price for a gallon of gas is the highest it's ever been for the month of february. now standing at $3.14 a gallon. higher fuel costs are being passed onto consumers in other ways, too. companies that make everything from food to clothing say they will also raise prices to accommodate those soaring fuel costs. >> it would be so nice if just once we could report they're absorbing the costs, no trickle down. >> keep dreaming. >>> our politicians are trying to save you money. today republican lawmakers in the house begin three days of debate from slashing billion

i was a friend of richard holbrooke and i lament is passing. i talked to him about his work with slobodan milosevic who he said was one of the most reprehensible human beings he had ever met. he said but i have to negotiate with the man to stop the genocide in the balkans. i think we need to negotiate directly with the north koreans. the current leadership in south korea has undone a number of good things that were published by his two predecessors. to summit meetings were held with north korea. a number of agreements were reached at those summit meetings including something about growing new barriers in the western sea where the showing of the island took place and the sinking of a ship took place. i have been to north korea five times. what they are looking for is a guarantee from us that we will not attack them and they have built nuclear weapons as they turned against what they see as hostility on our part. that can be defused. our problem has been and was reflected in the question i was asked on my first visit how you function as a country

i was a friend of richard holbrooke, and i lament his passing. i talked to him about his work with slobodan milosevic whom he said was one of the most reprehensible human beings he had ever met, and he said, but i have to negotiate with the man to stop the genocide. and i think we need to negotiate directly with the north koreans. and the current leadership in south korea has undone a number of good things that were accomplished by his two predecessors, with whom i was very close, to summit meetings were held with north korea. a number of agreements were reached at those summit meetings, including something about growing new barriers in the western sea with a killing in the island took place in the sinking of the ship took place. i've been to north korea five times i think that what they are looking for is a guarantee from us that we will not attack them and that they have built nuclear weapons as a deterrent against what they see as hostility on our part. i think that can be diffused. our problem has been, and it was reflected in a question that

i was a friend of richard holbrooke and i lament his passing. i talked to him about his work with slobodan milosevic who he said was one of the most reprehensible human beings he had ever met. he said but i have to negotiate with the bad to stop the genocide in the balkans. i think we need to negotiate directly with the north koreans. the current leadership in south korea has undone a number of good things that were accomplished by his two predecessors. to summit meetings were held with north korea. a number of meetings were reached with -- or the sinking of the ship took place, i have been to north korea five times. i think what they are looking for is a guarantee for best that we will not attack them and they have built north korea against determine what would be seen as hostility on our part. our -- it how the function as a country will have president to have nothing to do with their predecessors? in speaking to the fact that clinton had been invited. they sent their secretary of state had 11 hours of conversation. at the state of the union a

holbrooke pushed and prodded and pressed and persuaded and finally prevailed. after nearly four years of bloodshed, 100,000 killed, 2 million displaced,ed leaders of bosnia and croatia turned the page towards peace. yet, president clinton, another battle was just beginning. the president decided to send 20,000 troops to help nato implement the agreement. most americans opposed the idea. many within the military were skeptical. much of congress was dubious at best. dick army declared winning the support of the house would be like pulling teeth from the back of your head. in fact, the house refused to take action in support of the mission, and yet the president moved forward because he knew it was right. we had helped to end a terrible war, and now we would lead for peace. it has been said courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue as a testing point. to be sure, president clinton showed political courage in seizing the initiative to stop the bloodshed and in doing what needed to be done to enforce the peace that had been so hard to se