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Everything I hear about this guy is good.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051105/pl_nm/richardson_dc
Richardson, starting a national tour to promote his new book published on Friday, "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life," which details his globe-trotting diplomatic missions and shortlisting as the Democratic vice presidential pick in the past two elections
A former U.S. congressman, energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations, Richardson, 57, said he was "considering a presidential run."
He has launched a campaign for a second term as governor, but will not commit to serving the four-year term if higher office intervenes. "I'm going to be having a conversation with my constituents where I'm going to be open and very candid about my plans and I may say to them that I am running for reelection and beyond that we will see," he said
The son of an American businessman and Mexican mother who was born in California and raised in Mexico City, Richardson is known as a maverick who at times takes contrarian positions.
His recent declaration of a "border crisis" rankled some Hispanics.
That "was popular with those who live near the border," he said, but "it was not so popular with Hispanic groups nationally." Still he said, he "had to do it" because of a growing crisis created by 12 million undocumented aliens. The Bush administration's commitment of 1,500 new border guards to the Southwest will ease the crisis, he said.
In his book, Richardson tracks a public career that hit its zenith with highly publicized personal diplomacy that brought him face-to-face with Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and into the heart of North Korea's nuclear complex.
Richardson visited North Korea in October and said he saw signs of change, after years of failure by U.S. policy-makers trying to keep the country from producing nuclear weapons.
Richardson toured a nuclear facility and was "encouraged by the openness" of North Korean scientists and felt "a better mood toward Americans than at any time in 15 years of dealing with them."
He attributes the new attitude toward a desire to expand the economy, and the growth of Chinese and South Korean investment.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051105/pl_nm/richardson_dc
Richardson, starting a national tour to promote his new book published on Friday, "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life," which details his globe-trotting diplomatic missions and shortlisting as the Democratic vice presidential pick in the past two elections
A former U.S. congressman, energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations, Richardson, 57, said he was "considering a presidential run."
He has launched a campaign for a second term as governor, but will not commit to serving the four-year term if higher office intervenes. "I'm going to be having a conversation with my constituents where I'm going to be open and very candid about my plans and I may say to them that I am running for reelection and beyond that we will see," he said
The son of an American businessman and Mexican mother who was born in California and raised in Mexico City, Richardson is known as a maverick who at times takes contrarian positions.
His recent declaration of a "border crisis" rankled some Hispanics.
That "was popular with those who live near the border," he said, but "it was not so popular with Hispanic groups nationally." Still he said, he "had to do it" because of a growing crisis created by 12 million undocumented aliens. The Bush administration's commitment of 1,500 new border guards to the Southwest will ease the crisis, he said.
In his book, Richardson tracks a public career that hit its zenith with highly publicized personal diplomacy that brought him face-to-face with Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and into the heart of North Korea's nuclear complex.
Richardson visited North Korea in October and said he saw signs of change, after years of failure by U.S. policy-makers trying to keep the country from producing nuclear weapons.
Richardson toured a nuclear facility and was "encouraged by the openness" of North Korean scientists and felt "a better mood toward Americans than at any time in 15 years of dealing with them."
He attributes the new attitude toward a desire to expand the economy, and the growth of Chinese and South Korean investment.
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