A native Houstonian, Baker graduated from Princeton University in 1952. They have six sons and two daughters, and 18 . Baker and his boss, the 41st president, were two of the most influential figures in GOP politics from the 1970s onward. He previously was The Post's education editor, and he worked as an investigative reporter, a military correspondent and covered crime and courts in Northern Virginia. Bush and Baker had a strained relationship with Israeli leaders from the start, the book explains. DALLAS (CN) - A politically connected D.C.-based private equity firm, founded by former Secretary of State James Baker's son, defrauded a company of $5 million by pitching it a $300 million defense sector investment fund whose only "assets" are loan the defendants "squandered," Dallas-based Tice . Baker was a member of the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954, attaining the rank of first lieutenant as a naval gunfire officer serving in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USSMonrovia. Its a quote that has haunted former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker for almost three decades. As treasury secretary, he was also chairman of the President's Economic Policy Council. 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Stop settlement activity. [18] Privately, Bush ignored Baker's assurances and later pushed for NATO's eastwards expansion. Baker attended The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In the Trump-led Republican Party of 2020, that position is shared by very few. In March 1997, Baker became the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara. The group also included Martin S. Feldstein and N. Gregory Mankiw. James Baker III was born on April 28, 1930 in Houston, Texas, USA. The following year, he was selected as Gulf Coast Regional Chairman for the Richard Nixon presidential campaign. On January 9, 1991, during the Geneva Peace Conference with Tariq Aziz in Geneva, Baker declared that "If there is any user of (chemical or biological weapons), our objectives won't just be the liberation of Kuwait, but the elimination of the current Iraqi regime." Baker later acknowledged that the intent of this statement was to threaten a retaliatory nuclear strike on Iraq, and the Iraqis received his message. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. Secretary of State before returning as the 16th White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Secretary Baker would tell you that hes a strong supporter of Israel and that he thinks America should remain its indispensable ally, Peter Baker told Haaretz on Monday. According to the new biography, its far from certain those words were actually ever used by Baker. Baker became chairman of Bush's Senate campaign in Harris County, Texas. Bush appointed Baker Secretary of State in 1989. Baker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and has been the recipient of many other awards for distinguished public service, including Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the American Institute for Public Service's Jefferson Award, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Award, The Hans J. Morgenthau Award, The George F. Kennan Award, the Department of the Treasury's Alexander Hamilton Award, the Department of State's Distinguished Service Award and numerous honorary academic degrees. While serving as Treasury Secretary, Baker organized the Plaza Accord of September 1985 and the Baker Plan to target international debt. In addition to the university, Hermann Park, the land for the future Museum of Fine Arts were in proximity. On March 15, 2006, Congress announced the formation of the Iraq Study Group, a high-level panel of prominent former officials charged by members of Congress with taking a fresh look at America's policy on Iraq. Afterwards, he earned a J.D. He was previously married to Mary Stuart McHenry. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker III, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir conferring following meetings at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, September 17, 1991. Amy Lubas, a police spokeswoman, said the whirlpool had been checked recently. Baker was a shrewd and highly effective political manager whose skills were a major factor in the Republicans retention of the presidency throughout the 1980s. James West Baker (Jimmy), of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was born in Benton County, Mississippi, on April 7, 1939. From 1992 to 1993, he served as Bush's White House Chief of Staff, the same position that he had held from 1981 to 1985 during the first Reagan Administration. Studying timely issues in global economic policy as well as developmental policy in foreign countries. with honors in 1957 and practiced law with the Houston firm of Andrews and Kurth from 1957 to 1975. Bush, as well as Reagan's treasury secretary and Bush's secretary of state, told his biographers Susan Glasser and Peter Baker (no relation) during a virtual event Friday that he supports . Bakers reflections on those years of revolution, war and peace The Politics of Diplomacy was published in 1995. He has been married to Susan Garrett Winston since 1973. More below about Doug Baker's appointment by Bush in Nov 2001. His friends . His grandfather was attorney and banker Captain James A. Baker, and his great-grandfather was jurist and . Reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights. Bakers use of the term Greater Israel and his insistence on criticizing both sides of the conflict, not just the Palestinians, was received negatively by AIPACs leadership. [10] Winston had two sons and a daughter with her former husband. [23], Baker also spent considerable time negotiating one-on-one with the parties in order to organize the Madrid Conference of October 30-November 1, 1991, in an attempt to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Palestinians, as well as Arab countries, including Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.[24]. Bush asked him to run Bushs political campaign for the U.S. Senate. Mary Stuart Baker (Mary Stuart was her full first name) died of breast cancer in February 1970. Bush believed Shamir had lied to him and never forgave him., A month after that incident, Baker gave a speech at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, his first-ever appearance before the large pro-Israel gathering. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Together they had four sons, including James Addison Baker IV, a partner at Baker Botts. "It was functioning perfectly," Lubas said. High-Powered D.C. James Addison Baker, III born on: 28 April 1930 at 07:31 (= 07:31 AM ) Place: Houston, Texas, 29n46, 95w22 : Timezone: CST h6w (is standard time) Data source: BC/BR in hand: Rodden Rating AA: . Baker voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, and said prior to the 2020 election that he would do so again. Addressing a broad range of policy issues that affect scientists and their research. 's Baker Hints Iraq Plan Needs Change". He has been married to Susan Garrett Winston since 1973. Originally Baker had been a Democrat, although he had been too busy trying to succeed in a competitive law firm to worry about politics and he considered himself apolitical. Tabor. Baker is considered to have had a high degree of influence over the first Reagan administration, particularly in domestic policy. Israeli leaders initially thought that Baker had a poor grasp of Middle Eastern issues a perception exacerbated by his use of the term "Greater Israel" and viewed Israel as a "problem for the United States" according to Moshe Arens. Former President George H.W. James Addison Baker, III, was born April 28, 1930, into a wealthy Houston, Texas, family. Robert was born in 1735 and fought at King's Mountain and is believed to be the brother of the famous Rev. Israel, a country Baker visited countless times during his four years as President George H.W. Several people who were at the party then tried to revive the girl, who was taken by helicopter to Inova Fairfax Hospital and pronounced dead. His father was a partner of Houston law firm Baker Botts. Baker and his son are partners in the law firm of Baker Botts, which has offices in Washington and in the elder Baker's home town of Houston. (Read James Bakers Britannica essay on isolationism.). Seventeen-year-old Mary Stuart. Since March 2006, Baker and former U.S. Bush later confirmed that he made such an offer to Baker but that he declined. Baker III worked as White House chief of staff and secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as secretary of state and White House chief of of staff under President George. He was named under secretary of commerce by Pres. Baker also served on Reagan's National Security Council, and remained Treasury Secretary until 1988, during which time he also served as campaign chairman for George H. W. Bush's successful presidential bid. For a quarter century, every Republican president relied on Baker to manage his campaign, his White House, his world. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III was published Tuesday after a seven-year journey, during which the authors New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker (no relation to James Baker) and New Yorker senior columnist Susan Glasser conducted more than 200 interviews. Long active in American presidential politics, Baker led presidential campaigns for Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush over the course of five consecutive presidential elections from 1976 to 1992. In 199091 he helped orchestrate the international coalition that opposed Iraqs invasion of Kuwait. After the election, Bush appointed Baker to the position of Secretary of State. The administration forced Israel to halt the development of the 6,000 planned housing units, but the 11,000 housing units already under construction were permitted to be completed and inhabited with no penalty. [39] When the U.S. occupation of Iraq began in 2003 he was one of the Bush administration's first choices to direct the Coalition Provisional Authority, but he was deemed too old. He served as the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, which Congress formed in 2006 to study Iraq and the ongoing Iraq War. Everybody over there should know that the [White House] telephone number is 1-202-456-1414, he said. Baker was the Republican co-chairman along with Democratic Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, to advise Congress on Iraq. Mr. Baker was present in a leading position when, in 1990, the negotiations with the Soviets on the reunification of my homeland primarily concerned the question of the future of the transatlantic alliance. D URING THE confusion that followed the attempt on . In this November 21, 1990 file photo, Secretary of State James Baker is seen whispering to National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft during a press conference by President George H. W. Bush. Proud grandfather and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III dared graduates of his alma mater, The Hill School, on Saturday to be revolutionaries. Texas Hometown: Baker was born in Houston on April 28, 1930. . Going it alone is not an option.. But did Baker ever actually say it? Sanger, David E. His wife, Susan, listens at right. In addition to the numerous recognitions received by Baker, he was presented with the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for public service on September 13, 2000 in Washington, D.C.. Baker served as chief legal adviser for George W. Bush during the 2000 election campaign and oversaw the Florida recount. Read more at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. In 1973 and 1974, in the wake of the Nixon Administration's implosion over Watergate, Baker returned to full-time law practice at Andrews & Kurth.[9][10]. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Baker also called on Shamir to forswear annexation. They have one child. Doubleday; 720 pages; $35. Baker III and the late Bush enjoyed a close 60-year friendship forged on the tennis courts. For three decades and more, James A Baker III was the face of American power. Baker blocked the creation of Palestine by threatening to cut funding to agencies in the United Nations: As far back as 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a "declaration of statehood and changed the name of its observer delegation to the United Nations from the PLO to Palestine. Baker attended The Kinkaid School in Houston, before graduating from The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Bakers memoir Work Hard, Study . [58] Another granddaughter is Rosebud Baker, a stand-up comedian.[59]. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. They have six sons and two daughters. Baker also served on Reagan's National Security Council, and remained Treasury Secretary until 1988, during which time he also served as campaign chairman for George H. W. Bush's successful presidential bid. George Herbert Walker Bush then encouraged Baker to become active in politics to help deal with the grief of his wife's death, something that George Herbert Walker Bush himself had done when his daughter, Pauline Robinson Bush (19491953), died of leukemia. A family member found her, and it took two adults to dislodge her, authorities said. James Baker was the latest in a long line of James Bakers. Virginia was the daughter of James A. Baker IV, who is the son of the former cabinet secretary. Bush Changed the Face of the Middle East. Baker is the son of former Secretary of State, James Baker. Biography of the GOP elder statesman chronicles his battles with Israel, including the time he barred Netanyahu from entering the State Department. He serves on the World Justice Project and the Climate Leadership Council. [10] From 1992 to 1993, he served as Bush's White House Chief of Staff, the same position that he had held from 1981 to 1985 during the first Reagan administration. He was a regular tennis partner with Bush at the Houston Country Club in the late 1950s. His father was a partner of Houston law firm Baker Botts. Clearly, constant adult supervision is the only solution to the dangers of having children around water, whether it's open water, pools or hot tubs. He served as the nation's 61st secretary of state from January 1989 through August 1992 under President George H.W. [42] Bush would appoint another G. H. W. Bush Administration veteran, Robert Gates, instead, after the 2006 midterm elections. However, Baker changed his mind about running when his wife was diagnosed with cancer. According to the Bethesda-based Consumer Product Safety Commission, the risks are largely from older-model drains that do not employ suggested safety measures, such as a secondary drain or a specialized cover. Baker has a sister, Bonner Baker Moffitt. He graduated from Princeton University in 1952. Virginia Graham Baker of McLean was playing with other children in a friend's whirlpool on Alps Drive during a graduation party Saturday when she accidentally got caught in the pool's drain. [19], When Ukraine became independent, Baker sought to ensure that Ukraine would give up its nuclear weapons. Newhouse, John. The 23-year-old son of James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief of staff, has surrendered to the county authorities on a felony warrant charging him with delivering marijuana. He resigned his post as secretary of state in 1992 in order to serve as White House chief of staff while simultaneously directing Bushs unsuccessful reelection campaign. Baker, however, was happy with the reception, The tension between the two governments became a full-blown crisis a year later in 1990 when, as described in the book, a deputy foreign minister named Benjamin Netanyahu openly assailed the United States for being too gullible in its dealings with the Palestinians., Netanyahu, then in his early 40s and a rising star in Likud, said in remarks to the media: It is astonishing that a superpower like the United States, which was supposed to be the symbol of political fairness and international honesty, is building its policy on a foundation of distortion and lies.. [6], From 1957 to 1975, he practiced law at Andrews & Kurth after the anti-nepotism policy of his family firm, Baker Botts, prevented him from receiving a job there.[7][8]. James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. Baker's record of public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford. Diplomacy Center Commemorates Sec. Bush then encouraged Baker to become active in politics to help deal with the grief, something Bush had done when his daughter, Pauline Robinson (19491953), died of leukemia. In a classic instance of Washington's willful self-deception, the people who work with James A. Baker III proclaim him a warm, funny Renaissance man with old-fashioned family values. The conference is covered extensively in the book, ending with a quote by James Baker telling his close aides he would like to move even further on the peace process after helping Bush win reelection. Former secretary of state James Baker considered voting for Joe Biden in November but will instead keep backing Donald Trump, a new biography reveals, in the process outlining a key reason for. Baker, no relation, is the co-author of "The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of James Baker III." He wrote the book with his wife, "New Yorker" correspondent Susan Glasser.. Baker served in the United States Marine Corps (19521954), attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and later rising to Captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He left The Post in December 2020. When Bush was elected, he only received 29% of Jewish voters' support, and his reelection was thought to be imminent, so there was little pressure on the administration to make bold moves in diplomatic relations with Israel. Writing about Mr. Baker years later,. James Baker III was born on April 28, 1930 in Houston, Texas, USA. [36] In June 2004, he resigned from this position, frustrated over the lack of progress in reaching a complete settlement acceptable to both the government of Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front. It was a political comment, Baker said, not an anti-Semitic comment, not a slur.. [40] In December 2003, President George W. Bush appointed Baker as his special envoy to ask various foreign creditor nations to forgive or restructure $100billion in international debts owed by the Iraq government which had been incurred during the tenure of Saddam Hussein. James A. Baker III. Journalism power-couple Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and Peter Baker, the New York Times' chief White House correspondent, have cowritten The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of former Secretary of State and White House chief of staff James A. Baker III, arguably the 20th century's savviest DC power player.. Baker played a role in nearly every major event near the . He married Mary McHenry in 1953 and they had four sons, James IV, Mike, John and Doug. [52], Baker began service on the Rice University board of trustees in 1993.[53]. In 1993 Baker became the founding chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Bush at St. Martin's Episcopal Church,. [26] In the meantime, Baker also tried to negotiate with the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, in order to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and Syria. The couple met while on in Bermuda for spring break. "Thank you for being such a great leader for this country and for this department.". [31] However, despite having run two winning campaigns for Ronald Reagan and one for Bush, Baker was unsuccessful in the second campaign for Bush, who lost to Clinton by 370 electoral votes to 168.[32]. By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. The 7-year-old granddaughter of former secretary of state James A. Baker III died when she became trapped in a whirlpool and drowned in McLean, Fairfax County police said yesterday. They didnt vote for us., The word Jews didnt actually appear in the quote, but an editor at the Post inserted it in parentheses, presumably to help the readers understand who Baker was supposedly referring to. After calming down a bit, he settled for declaring Netanyahu persona non grata, barring him from even entering the doors of the State Department. Despite pleas from his Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross, Baker refused to change the decision. It turns out the full story is more complicated than how most people remember it. He is the honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Bakerwho served on George W. Bush's Homeland Security Councilis the son of James Baker, who for more than a decade was one of the most powerful people in Washington, serving from 1981 to. Durham's indictment alleges that Sussmann told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 that he was not doing work "for any client" when he requested and held a meeting in which he . She and Baker welcomed their daughter Mary Bonner Baker, born in 1977. In 1993, Baker became the honorary chair of the James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Offering nonpartisan analysis of elections to better understand the changing dynamics of presidential campaigns. Ray Covey, HP staff / Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of 2 Honorary Chair, Baker Institute for Public Policy, A bronze bust of former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III that will be part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Diplomacy was recently unveiled in Washington, D.C. James Addison Baker, III, was born April 28, 1930, into a wealthy Houston, Texas, family. James Addison Baker III was born in Houston at 1216 Bissonnet St.,[3] the son of James A. Baker Jr. (18921973) and Ethel Bonner (ne Means) Baker (August 6, 1894 April 26, 1991). Secretary of State James Baker warned publicly, I will recommend to the President that the United States make no further contributions, voluntary or assessed, to any international organization which makes any changes in the PLO's status as an observer organization.". In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of the Federal Commission on Election Reform. But the former secretary of state was portrayed for many years as anti-Israeli, in large part because of the infamous Fuck the Jews quote. Bibi Banks on Trump, but History Is Not on His Side, For Better or Worse, George H.W. James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. James A. Baker Iii, Baker, James Addison, 3d James Addison Baker, 3d, 1930-, U.S. political leader, b. Houston, Tex. The tall Texan with the impassive stare ranks as the only person to have served as White House chief of staff,. [26], Baker was notable for making little and slow efforts towards improving the state of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Anybody with a spa or residential pool needs to make sure they have them checked out to prevent these types of accidents from happening.". James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. Mary Stuart Baker (Mary Stuart was her full first name) died of breast cancer in February 1970. . In 2003, Baker was appointed special presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi debt. In 1975, he was appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for Gerald Ford. President George H. W. Bush appointed Baker Secretary of State in 1989. In 1978, Baker ran unsuccessfully to become Attorney General of Texas, losing to future Governor Mark White. Vetter. According to his wife, Baker was "so anxious to get out of [his job]" that he gave some consideration to the prospect of becoming Commissioner of Baseball, but he ultimately did not pursue that. In this candid, revealing account, Baker uses his unique perspective to take us inside those events and the personalities involved in them: the collapse of Communism, the Berlin Wall, and the. [citation needed], His son, James A. Baker III, is the political figure especially known from the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. George Kennan, James Baker, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Sam Nunn, and Thomas Friedman, among others, all warned in the 1990s of a new Cold War if NATO was expanded without including Russia.
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