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Choice for Paris post is a Bush confidant
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| Contributor | Ben |
| Last Edited | Ben Apr 15, 2005 11:02am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON In nominating Craig Roberts Stapleton as the next ambassador to Paris, President George W. Bush is sending a self-described risk-taker and straight-shooter to handle one of the most delicate and important U.S. diplomatic missions.
But Bush has also chosen one of his top fund-raisers, a man he has known well and worked with closely for years, a top executive with experience in Europe.
If the Senate confirms him to the much-coveted Paris post - a process expected to go smoothly - Stapleton will have key responsibility for nursing back to health the U.S.-French relationship, which is still haltingly recovering from the strains of the Iraq war.
The former president of a big real estate firm, Marsh & McLennan, Stapleton assumed his first diplomatic post, as ambassador to Prague, exactly two weeks before Sept. 11 terror attacks, which meant that dealing with terrorism vaulted immediately from No. 6 on the embassy's priority list to No. 1, he said later.
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