Who Was Richard Holbrooke? | Conversations with Jim Zirin

Richard Holbrooke was almost great. He was Clinton’s Ambassador to the UN. He opposed the Vietnam War early on. He helped end the war in Bosnia. But his character was deeply flawed. Holbrooke’s biographer George Packer tells Jim Zirin that he "never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”

(Taped: 11/26/2019)

Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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