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.

Early life and education

Talbott was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Helen Josephine (Large) and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II.¹ His grandfather was football player and coach Bud Talbott. He attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated in 1968 from Yale University, where he had been chairman of the Yale Daily News. 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 was elected to the exclusive Elizabethan Club. Talbott became a friend of future President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford;² during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.²

Career

In 1972, Talbott, along with fellow Rhodes Scholar Robert Reich and friend David E. Kendall, rallied their friends Bill and Hillary Clinton to help the Texas campaign to elect as president of the United States. In the 1980s, he was *Time'*s principal correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and his work for the magazine was cited in the three Awards won by in the 1980s. Talbott also wrote several books on disarmament. He translated and edited (2 volumes, 1974) by .