by John Kerry
I have brothers and sisters also from the movement to stop the war, friends to this day: Tommy Vallely, Chris Gregory, John Hurley and George Butler. There are classmates from Boston College Law School who made a difference in my life, especially, my moot court partners Ronna Schneider and Tom Haynes, and Paul Kane, our advisor, and my study group. There are friends from every step of my political journey, whether in the 1972 campaign and beyond, including John Marttila, Tom Kiley and Dan Payne, the district attorney’s office, lieutenant governor’s campaign, Governor Michael Dukakis and Kitty who were so supportive and such loyal friends.
To twenty-eight years of senate friends, including but not limited to Chris Greeley, Patty Foley, Kaaren Hinck, Ayanna Pressley, Greg Stewart, Meaghan Carroll, Setti Warren, Roger Lau, Dan Gross, Brendan “B-Man” O’Donnell, Larry Carpman, Jim Shaer, Mary Anne Marsh, Roger Fisk and so many more who worked with me in Massachusetts on behalf of state and country. And to those we’ve lost—Mary Pappey, Jeanette Boone, Bill Bradley, Louise Etheridge and Gene Heller. Thank you Drew O’Brien—my savvy Massachusetts right-arm for so many years. And those in Washington who stood by me and pushed me, from some already mentioned to Ron Rosenblith, Jonathan Winer, Frances Zwenig, Tricia Ferrone, Nancy Stetson, Jim Jones, Pat Gray, Heather Zichal, John Phillips, George Abar, Gregg Rothschild, Tim Barnicle, Scott Bunton, David Leiter and so many more I wish I had the space to thank—including the late Jayona Beal.
Thank you to those who worked so hard on my presidential campaign. I wish I could thank you all individually, but I would like to especially thank Jim Jordan, Mary Beth Cahill, John Sasso, Michael Whouley, Jack Corrigan, Stephanie Cutter, Amy Dacey, Jeanne and Billy Shaheen, Harold Schaitberger, John Sweeney (former president of the AFL-CIO) and the leaders of organized labor, Jerry Crawford, Jim Margolis, Tom Keady, Mike McCurry, Marcus Jadotte, Nick Clemons, Jill Alper, Judy Reardon, Ken Robinson, Tad Devine, Mike Donilon, John Norris and, of course, Marvin Nicholson. From the extraordinary team that kept the lights on in campaign after campaign, I thank Peter Maroney, the late Bob Farmer, Jackson Dunn, Leigh Garland, Lou Susman, Bob Crowe, Alan Solomont, Anne Finucane, Joan Lukey, Bernie Schwartz, Jack Manning and Lyle Howland. To Jon Macks, thank you for the common sense and good humor. And I’m forever grateful to those who saddled up again after the presidential campaign.
There’s the dedicated team at the State Department who worked under difficult circumstances to make our country stronger. Thank you to three great deputy secretaries of state: Bill Burns, Heather Higginbottom and Tony Blinken; to our Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and my colleagues at the NSC and the White House, including Susan Rice, Tom Donilon, Valerie Jarrett, Denis McDonough and Pete Rouse. Thank you to Vice President Biden, who will always be a trusted friend.
Thank you to my senior State team, who worked around the clock without complaint to make our mission a success: Jon Finer, my exceptionally capable chief of staff and head of policy and planning; Wendy Sherman, Tom Shannon, Lisa Kenna, Jen Psaki and John Kirby, Frank Lowenstein, Kristie Kenney, Pat Kennedy, Julia Frifield, Joe MacManus and John Bass. To John Natter, Claire Coleman, Joe Semrad, Nick Christiansen, Chris Flanagan, Cindy Chang and all of my “S Specials”—thank you for all you did to keep the trains on Mahogany Row running. Thank you to Glen Johnson—who was both hardworking and great company on a global journey. To Jason Meininger, a jack-of-all-trades who was always by my side through thick and thin in both the Senate and at State. Thank you for your friendship, loyalty and the many early-morning bike rides. To the Operations Center and to “The Line”—the lifeblood of the department. Thank you to Diplomatic Security, who protects not only the secretary of state but our embassies and consulates around the world. And finally, thank you to all the men and women of the Foreign Service, who constantly uproot their lives and family and move around the globe—often to dangerous corners of the world—missing special milestones and holidays with loved ones, all in the name of diplomacy.
In addition to working with the talented people who represent our country, one of the extraordinary privileges of serving as secretary of state is to get to know as colleagues and friends the people who represent their own countries with equal skill and passion. They include diplomats like Britain’s Lady Cathy Ashton or Jordan’s Nasser Judeh; Norway’s Borge Brende, a committed environmentalist; Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan of UAE or Adel al-Jubeir of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; savvy emissaries like Salem al-Ismaily or leaders of countries like Sultan Qaboos of Oman; and religious leaders whose lives of faith remind me of the universal truths that bind us, including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the Aga Khan, or Cardinal Pietro Parolin of the Holy See. I was privileged to work closely on a variety of critical issues with many of my European counterparts like Philip Hammond and William Hague of the United Kingdom, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Laurent Fabius of France, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative to the European Union, and many others. There are many more, too many to mention, all of whom were on speed dial those four years and many who remain so today, but their friendship and camaraderie will always be fresh in my memory.
Thank you to the many people from the different parts of my life who were so helpful throughout the writing process: Martin Indyk, Will Imbrie, Tom Sullivan, Danny Russell, Bernie Aronson, Dan Feldman, Rick Stengel, Doug Frantz, Rob Malley, Salman Ahmed, Brett McGurk, Tom Countryman, Perry Cammack, Anthony Weir, Sue Biniaz, Melanie Nakagawa, Kathleen Frangione and Toria Nuland.
To my friends in the Senate and House who continue the fight, thank you for your service and your friendship. To my Senate colleagues who are no longer with us—Teddy Kennedy, John Glenn, Dan Inouye and Robert Byrd—thank you for your mentorship and your countless contributions to our country.
To the people of Massachusetts—thank you for allowing me to represent you for almost three decades in the U.S. Senate. I hope I kept faith with your aspirations. It was the honor of a lifetime.
To President Obama—thank you for the opportunity to serve as our nation’s sixty-eighth secretary of state and for your commitment to pursue peace as a first resort. Your trust made all the difference.
To my daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa, and their husbands, I hope you always know how grateful I am for the gift of our family. And to the extended Heinz family, Johnny, Andre and Chris, their families and the Pickle Mafia—thank you for supporting my adventure, putting up with the intrusions that came with it and helping to blend families, never an easy task.
Teresa, your gift of caring and your quiet way of calming, and your compass, which values what’s most important in life—precious time—has taught me to grab the important moments and always appreciate what we have. You’ve been amazingly supportive through all of it, and always you’ve been there when the road is steepest.
John Kerry
About the Author
JOHN FORBES KERRY is a former secretary of state and five-term US senator. Kerry is the author of A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America, The New War, and the bestselling This Moment on Earth. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs at Yale University, as well as the inaugural Visiting Distinguished Statesman for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, have two daughters, three sons, and seven grandchildren.
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Index
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Abadi, Haider al-, 544, 547
Abbas, Mahmoud, 441–42, 444, 450–451, 453, 456–59, 461, 462, 464, 466–70, 476, 557
ABC, 198
Abdullah, Abdullah, 372, 376, 419–24
Abdullah of Jordan, 392, 443, 455, 475, 478, 556
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 453, 547
abortion, 294–96, 318
Abrams, Elliott, 165
Abu Nidal, 188, 447
acid rain, 146, 559
activism, 259–60
anti-war, see anti-war activism
Afghanistan, 165, 233, 245, 246, 288, 298, 314, 315, 348, 369–76, 385, 386, 416–24, 439, 449, 566
elections of 2009 in, 372–76, 416, 419
elections of 2014 in, 417–21
Obama and, 371, 376, 416
Pakistan and, 376, 377, 381, 386–87, 417
Pashtuns in, 372–76, 420–21
Soviet Union and, 165, 379, 549
unity government in, 421–24
Africa, 169, 283, 411
Agent Orange, 84, 94
Agha, Hussein, 461, 462, 467
Agnew, Spiro, 126–27
Agriculture, Department of, 567
AIDS, 283
Akihito, Emperor, 25
Albania, 540
Albright, Madeleine, 409, 460
Aleppo, 549–50, 553–55
Alexander, Lamar, 401–2
al-Ismaily, Salem, 487–88, 491, 493, 494, 496–97
Al Jazeera, 319
Allen, John, 455, 462–63, 465
All the King’s Men (Warren), 151
al-Nusra, 550, 552–54
Alper, Jill, 253
al-Qaeda, 188, 233, 245, 315, 319, 370, 378, 379, 416, 531, 543, 550, 552
Alsop, Joe, 12
Alston, David, 99, 100
America, SS, 15–16
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 501, 511
American Legion, 126
American Petroleum Institute, 403
Americans with Disabilities Act, 405–6
Antarctica, 578–79
An Thoi, 72, 76–81, 92–93, 98–100, 102, 104, 108
anti-war activism, 52, 53, 59, 60, 115–118, 121, 123–24, 134, 136, 153, 163, 191, 192, 254
goal of, 128
increase in, 123
Kerry’s involvement in, 56, 115–18, 123–31, 132–35, 144, 148, 190, 191, 201, 212, 255, 257, 295, 322, 339
presidential election of 2004 and, 298–300, 307
see also Vietnam Veterans Against the War
March on the Pentagon, 123, 190
apartheid, 479
Aquinas, Thomas, 171
Aquino, Benigno “Ninoy,” 177–79, 181
Aquino, Cory, 176–81
Arab League, 458, 529
Arab Peace Initiative (API), 453, 454, 478
Arab Spring (Arab Awakening), 392, 393, 526, 528, 544
Arafat, Yasser, 447, 450, 453
Araghchi, Abbas, 500, 506, 511
Arctic, 403
National Wildlife Refuge, 242, 360
Arias Sánchez, Oscar, 167
Arizona, USS, 54
Arkin, Alan, 60
Arlington National Cemetery, 129, 333–34
Armed Services Committee (House), 118
Armed Services Committee (Senate), 153, 290
Aronson, Bernie, 431–33
Ashcroft, John, 242
Ashton, Cathy, 499, 501, 515
Assad, Bashar al-, 389–93, 439, 490, 528, 535, 539–40, 542, 546, 548–54
chemical attack by, 524, 525, 526–530, 532, 534–38, 541, 546
chemical weapon removal and, 536–541
Assad, Hafez al-, 389, 392–93, 525
Atkins, Chester “Chet,” 120
Auchincloss, Janet, 22–23
Augustine, Saint, 171
Aung San Suu Kyi, 237
Austin, Lloyd, 551
Ayotte, Kelly, 403, 404
Ayrault, Jean-Marc, 482
Backemeyer, Chris, 516, 517
Bac She De, 106, 108
Baden-Powell, Robert, Lord, 12
Bahrain, 391, 547
Bailey, John, 27
Baines, Bob, 260
Baird, John, 412
Baker, James, 180, 247, 249, 310, 389, 396, 409, 454, 546, 558
Ban Ki-moon, 571
Banking Committee, 368
Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), 187–89, 245
Barbiero, Danny, 26–28, 34, 42, 57
Barker, Skip, 108, 112–15, 300
Barnett, Bob, 317
Bartley, David, 146
Barton, Dominic, 454–55
Bass, Perry, 7
Baucus, Max, 353–54, 368
Bauer, Shane, 488
Bay Hap River, 101–3, 105–7, 583
BCCI, see Bank of Commerce and Credit International
Beach Boys, 123
Beatles, 123
Beck, Glenn, 415
Begala, Paul, 281, 282
Be Good, Smile Pretty, 115
Belodeau, Tommy, 99–100, 104, 224, 225
Benghazi, 413, 528
Bennett, Robert, 396, 402
Berlin, 14–15, 18–20
Berlin Wall, 195
Bernique, Mike, 82–84
Bernstein, Leonard, 60
Beveridge, Albert, 176
Bible, 169, 170
Biden, Beau, 260, 402
Biden, Hunter, 260
Biden, Jill, 415
Biden, Joe, 153, 155, 231, 244, 247, 248, 295, 334, 336, 341, 342, 351, 368, 395, 415, 430
presidential run considered by, 260–261
as vice president, 345–46, 351, 368, 369, 371, 402
Iraq and, 543–44
Pakistan and, 376, 378
Syria and, 529, 534, 536
bin Laden, Osama, 245, 266, 314, 315, 370
death of, 382, 384–87
at Tora Bora, 246, 314, 386
video of, 319–20, 386
Black, Barry, 297
Black Forest, 146
Blackwell, Ken, 292, 293
Blair, Tony, 443, 531
Blinken, Tony, 543
Blum, Jack, 186
Bo De River, 76–78, 82, 83
Boehner, John, 503
Bolton, John, 398
Bond, Kit, 228, 229
Bond, Richard, 290
Boren, David, 184, 228, 232
Boston, 217
politics in, 216
Boston College, 137
Boston Garden, 279–80
Boston Globe, 130, 141, 239, 255, 304, 410, 446
Warsh’s column on Kerry in, 223–25
Boston Harbor, 563–64
Boston Herald, 256
Bosworth, Steve, 177, 178
Boxer, Barbara, 243, 363–64
Bradley, Bill, 231, 232
brain development, 227
Brandt, Bob, 306–7
Brazil, 569
Brende, Borge, 575
Brennan, John, 551
Brennan, Margaret, 537
Bright Shining Lie, A (Sheehan), 56
Britain, 370, 487, 531–32, 534, 535
British Petroleum (BP), 364
Broder, David, 256–57
Bronfman, Edgar, Sr., 129
Brooke
, Ed, 149, 155, 168
Brookings Institution, 476
Brown, Hank, 183, 193
Brown, H. Rap, 53
Brown, Mike, 83
Brown, Sam, 116
Brown, Scott, 358–59, 401, 402
Buchanan, Pat, 290
Buckley, William F., 229
Bulger, Billy, 216–18, 226
Bulger, James “Whitey,” 141, 217
bullfights, 8, 36, 38, 40–41
Bundy, Blakely, 28
Bundy, Harvey, 27–28, 30, 31, 34, 42, 46, 347
Bundy, McGeorge “Mac,” 27–28, 42–43
Bundy, William “Bill,” 28, 42–43, 119
Burch, J. Thomas, 238
Burke, Dennis, 512–13
Burke, Raymond Leo, 294–98
Burns, Bill, 410, 496, 497, 500, 528, 532
Bush, George H. W., 149, 150, 185, 189, 222, 238, 246, 317, 324, 389, 396, 431, 481, 486, 563
Bush, George W., 242, 266, 273, 284, 288, 295, 298, 309, 340, 394, 396, 448, 485, 493
foreign policy of, 245–46, 320, 388
“axis of evil” speech and, 246
in Iraq, 246–49, 253–55, 298, 308, 314–15, 317–18, 320, 336–39, 341, 531, 535
gay marriage issue and, 290–92, 319
gun issue and, 281–86
in 2000 presidential election, 238–239, 241–42, 245, 263, 291, 292, 319
debates and, 310–11, 312
in 2004 presidential election, 265, 270, 277, 278, 290–93, 299, 308, 309, 320, 323, 324, 326, 327, 386
debates and, 311–19, 374
inauguration following, 335
Bush, Laura, 290
Bush, Prescott, 150
Bush v. Gore, 241–42, 327
Butler, George, 120, 123, 133
Butler, Victoria, 123, 133
Byrd, Erma, 159
Byrd, Robert C., 155, 157–62, 166–68, 179, 181, 185, 215, 283, 290, 352, 353, 400
Cahill, Mary Beth, 271, 326, 351
Cai Nuoc, 100, 101, 103, 106
Cambodia, 77, 83
in map, 66
Cameron, David, 531, 534, 535
campaign financing, 161, 231, 263, 275–78
Kerry’s presidential campaign and, 275–78
McCain-Feingold Act and, 276
Camp David Summit, 453
Campion, Chuck, 256