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Ambassador Richard B. Parker: Memorandum, Article and Review
Ambassador Richard B. Parker is a career foreign service officer. He was a political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt on June 8, 1967. He is fluent in Arabic, and is the first non-native speaker in the U.S. Foreign Service to attain a 4/4 rating in Arabic from the Foreign Service Institute. Ambassador Parker served as a foreign service officer in Jordan. He received the American Foreign Service Award for Lifetime Contribution to American Diplomacy.
Ambassador Parker served as United States Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon, and Morocco. He has published The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East (Indiana University Press 1993) and The Six Day War, A Retrospective (Richard B. Parker ed., Gainesville, FL; Univ. Press of Florida 1996). He has also served as Scholar-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute.
I did not formally interviewed Ambassador Parker. I have had the pleasure of meeting with him, exchanging research with him, corresponding with him and talking with him many times by telephone. He has authorized me to post the following material.
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