“He did not accept the bank's policy on conflict of interest, so he sought to negotiate for himself a resolution different from that which would have applied to the staff he was selected to head.”
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Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and dean of School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
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politics · American politician and diplomat (born 1943) · political scientist · diplomat · politician · economist · banker · also Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Dundes Wolfowitz, Wolfowitz
Born 22 December 1943 · Q219861
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2026· 3 entries
“wants you to know that he stands in solidarity with you”
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“took a keen personal interest in development, including health care, agriculture and private sector expansion”
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2025· 1 entry
KESQ News: Paul Wolfowitz Fast Facts
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2021· 2 entries
Salon: Newsmax tricked by pranksters into fake Paul Wolfowitz interview — twice
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Newsweek: Prankster Pretends to Be Paul Wolfowitz in Bizarre 9/11 Anniversary Interview
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2020· 1 entry
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
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2019· 1 entry
American Enterprise Institute: The Global Challenges Facing America: A Conversation with Paul Wolfowitz
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2016· 1 entry
Claimed: “"The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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2011· 2 entries
American Enterprise Institute: Coffee House Interview: Paul Wolfowitz
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Wrote columns that appeared in publications such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, and Newsweek
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2008· 1 entry
New York Sun: Paul Wolfowitz To Head Arms Control Panel
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2007· 8 entries
The World Bank Group's board of Executive Directors announced that Paul Wolfowitz would resign as World Bank Group president at the end of June 2007
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The World Bank committee investigating the alleged ethics violations reported (in part):
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Juan José Daboub—the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and "a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran pol
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To attend a high-profile meeting and the controversy led to disruption at the World Bank when some employees wore blue ribbons "in a display of defiance against his leadership
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After reviewing these documents, the Financial Times concluded that it was "a potentially fatal blow" to Wolfowitz
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The London Financial Times reported that, in a 2005 memorandum, Wolfowitz had personally directed the bank's human resources chief to offer Riza a large pay rise and promotion, according to two anonymous sources who told
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Reuters and Al Kamen in The Washington Post, reported that Wolfowitz and the World Bank board had hired the Williams & Connolly law firm to oversee an investigation into the leaking of internal bank documents to Fox News
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Kamen had disclosed that "Bank records obtained by the Government Accountability Project" documented pay raises in excess of Bank policies given to Shaha Riza
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2005· 3 entries
Despite their cultural differences:Riza, an Arab feminist who confounds portrayals of Wolfowitz as a leader of a "Zionist conspiracy" of Jewish neoconservatives in Washington
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Left the Pentagon to serve as president of the World Bank only to resign after two years over a scandal involving allegations he used his position to help World Bank staffer Shaha Riza to whom he was romantically link
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Career landmark: President of the World Bank Group (2005–2007).
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2003· 5 entries
While in Baghdad staying at the Al-Rashid Hotel Wolfowitz narrowly escaped an attack when six rockets hit the floors below his room
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Wolfowitz told the House Appropriations Committee that oil revenue earned by Iraq alone would pay for Iraq's reconstruction after the Iraq war; he testified his "rough recollection" was: "The oil revenues of that country
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That "something in the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would probably be required for postwar Iraq
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With hostilities still continuing, Wolfowitz made a fifteen-hour visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul, and met with the new president Hamid Karzai
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“s reconstruction after the Iraq war; he testified his”
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2002· 3 entries
Then Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz observed that "the reason the terrorists are successful in Indonesia is because the Suharto regime fell and the methods that were used to suppress them are gone
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NPR: Paul Wolfowitz
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The National Solidarity Rally for Israel was called in Washington to promote U
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2001· 4 entries
George Robertson, then Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, went to the Pentagon to offer NATO troops, planes and ships to assist
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Were a turning point in administration policy, as Wolfowitz later explained: "9/11 really was a wake up call and that if we take proper advantage of this opportunity to prevent the future terrorist use of weapons of mass
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Career landmark: United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005).
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Wolfowitz was an early advocate of the Iraq War and has widely been described as an "architect" of the war
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2000· 1 entry
“s relationship with a foreign national—Riza—posed a national security risk. It has been reported that Scooter Libby intercepted the letter. Sidney Blumenthal also reported on the letter Clare Wolfowitz wrote: This embittered letter remained a closely guarded secret, although a former high official of the CIA told me about it. Chris Nelson also reported it on April 16 in his widely respected, nonpartisan foreign policy newsletter:”
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1999· 1 entry
And, according to some sources, became legally separated in 2001 and divorced in 2002
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1998· 1 entry
Wolfowitz testified before a congressional committee that he thought that "the best opportunity to overthrow Saddam was, unfortunately, lost in the month right after the war
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1991· 1 entry
At the meeting with the President where it was decided that the troops should be demobilized
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1989–1993).
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1986· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1986–1989).
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1983· 2 entries
“A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.”
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Many within the Reagan administration including the President himself began to fear that the Philippines could fall to the communists and the US military would lose its strongholds at Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay N
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1982· 3 entries
The New York Times predicted that "Paul D
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Career landmark: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1982–1986).
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Secretary of State Shultz appointed Wolfowitz as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: Director of Policy Planning (1981–1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Wolfowitz resigned from the Pentagon and became a visiting professor at the Paul H
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1978· 1 entry
Wolfowitz was investigated by the FBI for providing intelligence to an Israeli government official while he was still an employee at ACDA
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1977· 1 entry
During the Carter administration, Wolfowitz moved to the Pentagon
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1968· 1 entry
Had three children and lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland
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1962· 1 entry
And 1963, while philosophy professor Allan Bloom served as a faculty mentor living in the house
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-12-22.
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