Too bad someone so articulate was not appointed Secretary of State. She is currently Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. My father was friends with her father at Lake Delaware Boys Camp back when my father was a teenager.

Who is she now ?

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Paula J. Dobriansky was nominated by President Bush on March 12, 2001, unanimously confirmed by the Senate on April 26, and on May 1, sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. On July 29, 2005, she became Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. In this capacity, she is responsible for a broad range of foreign policy issues, including democracy, human rights, labor, refugee and humanitarian relief matters, and environmental/science issues. She has also been designated as the Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues.

Her father, Lev Dobriansky is of Ukrainian extraction who helped Reagan develop his understanding of communism and is Chairman Emeritus of The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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There are numerous articles about her father.

LEV E. DOBRIANSKY RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, TRUMAN – REAGAN MEDAL OF FREEDOM

Washington, D.C. (UNIS) – The 47th annual Captive Nations Week meeting was held at the Heritage Foundation headquarters in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 2005. Captive Nations Week was conceived as a platform for raising awareness of oppressed peoples throughout the world while putting political pressure on their oppressors. The first Captive Nations Week was enacted in a 1959 resolution written by Lev E. Dobriansky and proclaimed by President Dwight Eisenhower. Since that time every American president through George W. Bush has reaffirmed Eisenhower’s proclamation. Lev Dobriansky, the founder of this commitment to justice, liberty, and self-determination, was honored at the meeting with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Captive Nations Committee and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America for “his inspiring leadership and unwavering commitment to the Liberation of all Captive Nations and the National Independence of all Peoples.”

In his opening remarks Dr. Dobriansky emphasized that despite the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, that empires still exist and still hold nations captive. “There is enough evidence in Moscow that Putin intends to maintain the 1st ring, what used to be the RSFSR and that there continues to be pressure on imperial holdings,” Dobriansky commented. He lauded what he called the “spectaculars” of the Orange and Rose Revolutions as official and popular reawakenings that disrupted Russia’s near aboard policy of dominant influence in countries of the former Soviet Union. At the same time, Dobriansky urged the United States not to become complacent with these democratic advances and to support the westernization of these nations. Dobriansky concluded by placing captive nations within the context of the major issues of today, “Our perspective,” Dobriansky said, “has to be the forest and not the trees. Captive nations continue to be tied up with the issues of today – terrorism for one.”

Following the official opening of Captive Nations Week, Michael Sawkiw, the president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), presented the UCCA and National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC) Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Dobriansky stating that Dobriansky has been “a fixture for nations in Central and Eastern Europe” and that he “understood the need for ethnic politics like no one else.” Lee Edwards, the chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, added the honor of the Truman-Regan Medal of Freedom and called Dobriansky “a true hero of the Cold War.” Lastly, a letter was read from President Bush, which praised Dr. Dobriansky for his great contribution to the plight of captive nations and affirmed the “transformational ability of freedom.” Dr. Dobriansky thanked everyone involved in Captive Nations Week and encouraged others by quoting William James: “the greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.”