Not Ready for Richard Holbrooke to Go

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Richard Holbrooke has been one of my most important touch points in Washington and has been a close friend, adviser, and in recent years -- a partner in sorting through and discussing in private some of America's biggest national security and foreign policy challenges.

He is very, very ill -- in critical condition at the moment -- after surgery to repair his aorta. My own father died of a ruptured aorta, and I find myself deeply distressed by the news just released.

Not Ready for Richard Holbrooke to Go