JAMES ADDISON BAKER, III
b. April 28, 1930
Soviet Foreign Minister EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE (l)
& U.S. Secretary of State JAMES A. BAKER, III (r)
in the cabin of a hydrofoil on Lake Baikal, USSR, August 1991
James Baker, Chief of Staff and then Secretary of the Treasury for President Ronald Reagan, in his role (above) as Secretary of State for President George Bush, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, with his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze. More information here (including a photograph of Baker in the White House) and here (Baker as tough negotiator) and here (with Shevardnadze in Irkutsk) and here (more about Baker, and especially the connection to Gulf War I).
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