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1996:
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A conversation about Africa
with Robert Krueger, Randall Robinson and Lansana Kouyate on May 16, 1996
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with Robert Krueger, Randall Robinson and Lansana Kouyate on May 16, 1996
Robert Charles Krueger American politician, is a former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Texas, a former U.S. Ambassador, and a member of the Democratic Party.
Krueger was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth United States Congresses, serving from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1979. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas in 1978 losing to incumbent John Tower. From 1979-1981, he was Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Mexican Affairs at the Department of State. In 1993, Governor Ann Richards appointed him to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lloyd Bentsen, who became Secretary of the Treasury in President Clinton’s cabinet. He served from January 21, 1993 until June 14, 1993. He lost the June 1993 special election for the remainder of the term ending January 4, 1995 to Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.
President Clinton appointed Krueger U.S. Ambassador to Burundi in 1994. He served in Burundi until 1995, when his convoy was ambushed in Cibitoke province. In 1996, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and concurrently Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Southern African Development Community. He held those posts until 2000, when he became a Visiting Fellow at Merton College, Oxford and began to write a memoir of his time in Burundi entitled ‘Cry from the Heart of Africa’.
