Stuart E. Eizenstat
Stuart E. Eizenstat | |
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United States Ambassador to the European Union | |
In office August 2, 1993 – April 1996 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | James Dobbins |
Succeeded by | Vernon Weaver |
White House Domestic Affairs Advisor | |
In office January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | |
President | Jimmy Carter |
Preceded by | James Cannon |
Succeeded by | Ralph Bledsoe (1985) |
Personal details | |
Born | Stuart Elliott Eizenstat January 15, 1943 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Frances Eizenstat |
Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Stuart Elliott Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the
Biography
Early life
Stuart E. Eizenstat was born on January 15, 1943, in Chicago and raised in Atlanta; he was an all-city and honorable-mention All-America basketball player in high school.
Career
He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Newell Edenfield of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Eizenstat worked as the issues director of Jimmy Carter's 1970 gubernatorial campaign.[4]
Eizenstat worked on Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. He served as his point man in the drafting of the 1976 party platform and headed the issues operations of Carter's campaign.[4]
From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff.
In 1983, he wrote for Quarante magazine an article entitled "The Quiet Revolution". He was the first to describe the "
In 1984, Eizenstat was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.[7]
He has served as the
Eizenstat led the U.S. delegation at the
In 2008, the Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat Distinguished Professorship in Jewish history and culture was endowed in Eizenstat's honor at the
Eizenstat is also a member of the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors.[10]
Holocaust restitution
He has devoted much effort to various aspects of
He successfully negotiated major agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrian and French, and other European countries. This importantly concerned Slave and Forced Labor. It also included life insurance policy payments to heirs of victims of the
Most recently, in 2018, he helped negotiate a symbolic payment of 2,500 Euros to those who had survived the Holocaust by having escaped it by the Kindertransport program, which had been assisted by the British Government. All parties involved agree that there is no way to "make good" to these Holocaust Survivors for the trauma they had suffered, often as very young children, when they had been separated from their parents in 1938 or 1939. Also, their extra trauma when, in 1945 or even later, nearly all of them had discovered that their parents had been murdered by the Nazis - yet this symbolic payment is an important form of official recognition for the extreme trauma they had suffered due to the Nazi Holocaust.
This statement similarly applies to the symbolic payment of 2,500 Euros to Child Holocaust Survivors, negotiated by Child Survivors in 2014 - it too cannot "make good," but it is an official recognition. In fact, for any personal victimization (murder, imprisonment, slave labor, ghetto, displacement, hiding, etc.) no restitution scheme can make good - but for most of these victimization, the German Government has provided monthly continuing significant Restitution. In general, the German Government has attempted to make meaningful, if partial, restitution. Ambassador Eizenstat has written about his earlier Restitution efforts in his 2009 book Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2009). This has been translated into German, French, Czech and Hebrew. (See bibliography, below.)[citation needed] In 2013 Ambassador Eizenstat was appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as "Special Advisor for Holocaust Issues." As of 2017, he has remained in this position.[14]
Personal life
He was married to the late Frances Eizenstat and has two sons and eight grandchildren.
Honors
- Leo Baeck Medal (2013)[15]
Publications
- Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II. PublicAffairs. 5 August 2009. ISBN 978-0-7867-5105-1. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- Justicia Imperfecta. Berg Institute. Spain. ISBN 978-84-948528-4-8
- The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 3 May 2012. ISBN 978-1-4422-1629-7. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- President Carter: The White House Years. Thomas Dunne Books. 24 May 2018. ISBN 978-1-2501-0455-7.
See also
References
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
- ^ a b c d Covington & Burling: Stuart E. Eizenstat
- ^ "AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD Southern summer camp spawns generations of committed Jews". 24 June 1997.
- ^ ISBN 1555879160.
- ^ a b c APCO Worldwide: Stuart E. Eizenstat Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-253-04542-3.
- ^ Incorporated, Prime. "National Academy of Public Administration". National Academy of Public Administration. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ^ Global Panel Foundation
- ^ Hermann, Burkely (January 20, 2022). "National Security and Climate Change: Behind the U.S. Pursuit of Military Exemptions to the Kyoto Protocol". Briefing Book # 784. National Security Archive. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ Covington & Burling web-page http://www.cov.com/seizenstat
- ^ "The Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets". Fcit.usf.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ Claims Conference http://claimscon.org
- ^ U.S. State Dept. https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/218946.htm
- ^ "Stuart Eizenstat Honored by Leo Baeck Institute". 10 February 2014.