Lake (left) meets with Bill Clinton and Leon Panetta at the White House in 1994. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is Democratic politician and scholar from California's Central Coast.

Anthony Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American diplomat, political figure, and academic. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting Negotiations between representatives of groups or states Politics of the United States takes place in the framework of a presidential, Federal republic where the President of the United States (the Head of He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Adviser (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes ANSA S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Lake is credited with developing the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War. The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly known as the Bosnian War, was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995 He is currently a faculty member at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, holding the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy. The Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service (commonly abbreviated SFS) is a school within Georgetown University in Washington D Georgetown University is a Jesuit Private university located in Georgetown Washington D The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies

Lake was born in New York City. The City of New York He attended Middlesex School and Harvard College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of Higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing Lake studied international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and later received a Ph.D from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1974. International economics is a branch of Economics with three main subdisciplines International trade, Monetary theory and International finance Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (often truncated to Woodrow Wilson School or abbreviated WWS; known as "Woody Woo" in Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Lake joined the State Department in 1962, serving until 1970 as a Foreign Service Officer. The United States Foreign Service is the diplomatic service of the United States government under the aegis of the Department of State. Lake was an assistant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. during the Vietnam War. An ambassador is the highest ranking Diplomat who represents their country Henry Cabot Lodge Jr ( July 5, 1902 &ndash February 27, 1985) was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia His State Department career included assignments as consul in Saigon, South Vietnam (1963), vice consul in Huế (1964-1965) and special assistant to the assistant to the president for national security affairs (1969-1970) in the Nixon administration. "RVN" redirects here RVN is also the former callsign of a TV station in Wagga Wagga New South Wales Australia ( 化 in Chữ Nôm) is the capital city of Thừa Thiên - Huế province, Vietnam. National security is the entire scope of measures undertaken by the Governments of Nation-states in providing assurance of national Sovereignty In 1969, he accompanied National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger on his first secret meeting with North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German -born American bureaucrat diplomat and 1973 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN or less commonly Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa was a Country on the northern half of Vietnam The Paris Peace Accords (or Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam) were signed on January 27, 1973 by the governments of the In 1970, he had a falling-out with Kissinger over the Nixon administration's Cambodian Campaign and later wrote a book critical of Kissinger's approach to Africa. The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during the late spring and summer

Lake worked for Democratic U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine in his 1972 presidential campaign. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie ( March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic Politician The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean The United States presidential election of 1972 was waged on the issues of radicalism and the Vietnam War. After Muskie lost the nomination to George McGovern, Lake served briefly at the Carnegie Endowment and International Voluntary Services before returning to serve as Director of Policy Planning under Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). George Stanley McGovern The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the Department's internal think tank the Policy Planning Staff. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002

After Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, Lake became a professor, holding the Five College Professor of International Relations chair in Massachusetts (1981-1992). The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent Ronald Reagan The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies The Five Colleges comprises four liberal arts colleges and one University in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Lake taught at Amherst College. Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. In 1984, he moved to Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught courses on the Vietnam War, Third World revolutions, and American foreign policy. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Third World is a name given to nations that are generally considered to be underdeveloped economically A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turnaround" is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively The foreign policy of the United States is highly influential on the world stage as it is a Superpower.

During the 1992 presidential campaign, he was one of Clinton's chief foreign policy advisers. The United States presidential elections of 1992 featured a battle between incumbent President, Republican George H Following Clinton's 1996 reelection, Lake was nominated to become the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but his nomination was withdrawn due to Republican opposition. The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence It has also been reported that the failure of his nomination was related to his decision to withdraw support at the last minute for an Iraqi coup that might have removed Saddam without U. S. intervention. Others speculate that Lake's nomination failed because he faltered when asked about the innocence or guilt of Alger Hiss, in spite of the release of Venona information that had demonstrated Hiss' guilt. Alger Hiss (November 11 1904 – November 15 1996 was a US State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. The Venona project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between Intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved ^[1]

Lake later served as National Security Advisor (1993-1997) and then White House Special Envoy (1998-2000). As special envoy Lake mediated the drafting of the Algiers Agreement, ending the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. The Algiers Agreement was an agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia signed on December 12, 2000, at Algiers The Eritrean-Ethiopian War took place from May 1998 to June 2000 between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the Conflicts in the Horn of Africa

Lake co-founded Intellibridge Corporation in 2000 with David Rothkopf. Intellibridge was a strategic analysis firm in Washington DC, founded by David Rothkopf in 1999 David J Rothkopf (born 24 December, 1955) is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U In 2005 the assets of Intellibridge were acquired by the Eurasia Group. Eurasia Group is a global Political risk consultancy founded in 1998

Lake is currently a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in ^[2]

Lake was an advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. The Partnership for a Secure America ( PSA) is a Non-profit organization is a policy center in the United States. He has also served as chair on the boards of the United States Fund for UNICEF and the Marshall Legacy Institute. He also is serving a term from 2005-2010 on the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Trustee is a Legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary.

Anthony Lake also converted to Judaism in 2005. ^{[3] [4]}

Bibliography

• More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U. Humanitarianism is an active belief in Humanism (the idea of the value of human life whereby Humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans S. Approach Toward Africa (2006, co-author with Christine Todd Whitman)
• 6 Nightmares: The Real Threats to American Security (2001)
• After the Wars: Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Central America, Indochina, the Horn of Africa, and Southern Africa (1990, editor)
• Somoza Falling: A Case Study of Washington at Work (1989)
• Third World Radical Regimes: U. Christine Todd "Christie" Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican Politician and Author who Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. The Horn of Africa (alternatively Northeast Africa, and sometimes Somali Peninsula; shortened to HOA) is a Peninsula in East Africa Southern Africa is the Southernmost Region of the African Continent, variably defined by Geography or Geopolitics. S. Policy Under Carter and Reagan (1985)
• Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984, co-author)
• The "Tar Baby" Option: American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (1976). Tar-Baby was a doll made of Tar and Turpentine, used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British Colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe
• Legacy of Vietnam: The War, American Society, and the Future of U. S. Foreign Policy (1976, contributing editor)

See also: Timeline of Cox Report controversy

External links

• An article all about Lake's conversion to Judaism, as well as how he became Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor
• Mount Holyoke biography
• Lake's Georgetown Homepage
• Source Watch entry for Anthony Lake
• National Security Archive on Nixon's consideration of use of nuclear weapons in Viet Nam and Anthony Lake's role
• A blog post on the "Rubin Lake Incident" in Guam