Strobe Talbott
Nelson Strobridge Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia. He was associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001. He was president of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017.
Strobe Talbott
Early life[edit]
Talbott was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Helen Josephine (Large) and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II.[2] He attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated in 1968 from Yale University, where he had been chairman of the Yale Daily News, a position whose previous incumbents include Henry Luce, William F. Buckley, and Joe Lieberman. He was awarded Yale's Alpheus Henry Snow Prize. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in 1967–68, belonged to a society of juniors and seniors called Saint Anthony Hall and elected to the exclusive Elizabethan Club. He became friends with future President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford;[3] during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.[3]
Family[edit]
Talbott married Brooke Shearer in 1971. He had been the college roommate of her brother, Derek.[14] Brooke was a personal aide to Hillary Clinton. They were married for 38 years, until her death on May 19, 2009.[15] He has two sons, Devin and Adrian Talbott, co-founders of the now-defunct Generation Engage.[16] In 2015, he married Barbara Lazear Ascher.[17]
