Warren Christopher, former secretary of state, dies

[NYC Liberal]

Source: The Press-Enterprise

Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher died at the age of 85 Friday night, KABC-TV Los Angeles reported on its 11 p.m. newscast.

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He died from complications of kidney and bladder cancer, KABC reported.

Christopher’s family released a statement Friday night:

“Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher passed away peacefully, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles, on the evening of Friday, March 18, 2011. Mr. Christopher died from complications of kidney and bladder cancer. He was 85. Plans for a private memorial service are pending. A full obituary will be forthcoming shortly.”

Read more: http://www.pe.com/localnews/politics/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webchristopher.1fad69f18.html

[Sky Masterson]

1. RIP. Warren M Christopher Secretary of state

Source: CNBC

LOS ANGELES - Warren M. Christopher, a key figure in peace efforts in Bosnia and the Mideast as U.S. secretary of state in the Clinton administration, has died, a spokeswoman for his law firm said Saturday. He was 85.

Christopher died at his home in Los Angeles late Friday of complications from bladder and kidney cancer, said Sonja Steptoe of the law firm O'Melveny & Myers, where Christopher was a senior partner.
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[CBHagman]

2. He saw a great deal of history...

...made some of it himself, yet I feel he never was treated as he ought to have been in the media. I suspect most Americans really have no sense of what's done in the State Department, or how important it is, and even a top Cabinet officer, especially someone like Christopher, can be ignored when there are so many larger-than-life figures in the international arena.

[naaman fletcher]

3. wikileaks

has shown us that much of what is done inside the stater department is just messing around with other governments, reporting on gossip, etc.

[CBHagman]

8. Look up cognitive distortions.

Your post provides an example of several in the list at the link

http://www.mental-health-today.com/Healing/cog.htm

[BumRushDaShow]

4. R.I.P.

for a full and illustrious career. His commission after the L.A. riots helped to expose the crap festering in the L.A. police dept.

[The Nexus]

5. He represented Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election recount fiasco

RIP

[isuphighyeah]

6. He was a good man.

May he rest in peace.

[kestrel91316]

7. RIP. He was one of the good guys, IIRC.

[Miss_Underestimated]

9. I once saw him in person in a lounge at a hotel in Los Angeles in 2006. He was having

a drink with a man I didn't recognize. I said to him "you look familiar," and he told me who he was...I then told him with a very intense look that I wished that he were still our Secretary of State. He had a very serious look on his face. I later saw a news report and recognized who the other man was -- Douglas Feith, architect of the US led invasion of Iraq and user of false intelligence in order to justify the invasion!!! What strange bedfellows!!

[Vidar]

10. RIP, Mr. Christopher, you were certainly a better man than anything in the current Cabinet--

not withstanding that Hillary is a woman.