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WASHINGTON -- Robert Strauss, a colorful Texan who led the national Democratic Party in the 1970s, died Wednesday. He was 95.
Strauss, chairman of Jimmy Carter's 1976 and 1980 campaigns, was an old-school powerbroker who advised Democrats and Republicans in the White House -- from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush.
He served as ambassador to the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation at the request of President George H.W. Bush, whom he had been friends with since they both led their respective political parties.
After helping Carter win the White House, Strauss served as U.S. trade representative and guided a key trade bill through Congress. Carter then tapped Strauss to be his personal representative to the Middle East with the idea of building on the landmark peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/19/robert-strauss-dies-at-95/6632589/
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(36,974 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I thought he died 5-6 years ago.
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(48,121 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)He was a great man. I spent a couple of years at Akin Gump in the late 1980s. My mentor was good friends with Mr. Strauss