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Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III
American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution
Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001
Born in Dayton, Ohio, to Jo and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II, Talbott attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University in 1968, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News, a position whose previous incumbents include Henry Luce, William F. Buckley, and Joe Lieberman. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in 1967–68, and belonged to a society of juniors and seniors called Saint Anthony Hall.
He became friends with former 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.
Also friends with Robert Reich (a fellow Rhodes Scholar) and David E. Kendall.
David Evan Kendall is an American attorney, a graduate of Yale Law School and Oxford University, who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,and has been a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, DC since 1981, where he has provided legal counsel to individuals and corporations on high-profile business and political matters. He has represented The Washington Post, advised Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and representing him during his impeachment trial. He served as defense attorney in the successful defense of retired General David Petraeus, and currently represents the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, including in the matter of her use of a private e-mail server while serving as United States Secretary of State.
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III
American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution
Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001
Born in Dayton, Ohio, to Jo and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II, Talbott attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University in 1968, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News, a position whose previous incumbents include Henry Luce, William F. Buckley, and Joe Lieberman. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in 1967–68, and belonged to a society of juniors and seniors called Saint Anthony Hall.
He became friends with former 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.
Also friends with Robert Reich (a fellow Rhodes Scholar) and David E. Kendall.
David Evan Kendall is an American attorney, a graduate of Yale Law School and Oxford University, who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,and has been a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP of Washington, DC since 1981, where he has provided legal counsel to individuals and corporations on high-profile business and political matters. He has represented The Washington Post, advised Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and representing him during his impeachment trial. He served as defense attorney in the successful defense of retired General David Petraeus, and currently represents the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, including in the matter of her use of a private e-mail server while serving as United States Secretary of State.