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This awful news is almost incomprehensible, not least of all because I cannot imagine Richard Holbrooke in anything but a state of perpetual motion. He was always working. He was always a man on a mission, the toughest mission, and that mission was waging peace through tough as nails, never quit diplomacy - and Richard's life’s work saved tens of thousands of lives.

We loved his energy, we loved his resolve â€" that’s who Richard was, and he died giving everything he had to one last difficult mission for the country he loved. It is almost a bittersweet bookend that a career of public diplomacy that began trying to save a war gone wrong, now ends with a valiant effort to keep another war from going wrong.

Teresa and I both extend our heartfelt sympathy to Richard’s family, especially his extraordinary wife Kati and Richard’s two sons, David and Anthony.

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