We will always remember his independent, brilliant mind and his willingness to accept everyone despite their unique, and often, quirky personalities. Mike was non-partisan, looking through a uniquely, independent lens at issues, nearly impossible in today’s deeply divided and frazzled political world. He was a scholar and a doer, a green beret and an athlete. He always sought the win, even in chess against his son, and always against me in tennis!
Mike drove himself relentlessly amid the most bureaucratic organizations to force change by his sheer will. Some of his contributions to name just a few include – identifying Bin Laden as the key culprit of terrorism against our country, changing the footprint of the Freedom Tower in NYC following 9/11, protecting NYC against future attacks, bringing together peacekeeping operations in Africa and spearheading stronger French/American relations in Mali, leading US military DOD drone operations and the special ops teams under Obama, working in severe conditions as a green beret ranger in El Salvador (as the sole American leader in his field operations and learning Spanish fluently consequently) and on the DMZ in Korea, and identifying the term “drain the swamp” for terrorism not DC.
He supported women, working for the first woman US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. He was always supportive of my working until it was no longer feasible when he became sick, supportive of his daughter, of the many women he taught at Georgetown, of the women he worked for, worked with, and who reported to him.
We will always remember him, statesman, soldier, scholar, father, husband.
Sita
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