This NY Sunday Times article reviews Former White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury James Baker, III co-chairmanship of the Iraq Study Group, which is currently scheduled to deliver its report to the President by mid-December. Mr. Baker, who spends most of his time these days at the Baker Institute at Houston’s Rice University, is described in the article as wanting the chairmanship of the Iraq Group to be the template for his role as an elder statesman in the coming years:

Now, at 76, Mr. Baker is in high diplomat mode, on a mission, friends and supporters say, to aid his country and his president ó and, while he is at it, seal his legacy in the realm of statesmen, a sphere he cares about far more than politics.
ìI think heíd like to be remembered as a 21st-century Disraeli,î said Leon Panetta, a Democratic member of the group, referring to the 19th-century British statesman and prime minister. ìI think deep down he is someone who believes that his diplomatic career, in many ways, helped change the world.î

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