- He is a sufferer of myasthenia gravis, a chronic muscle disease.
- Eagleburger had one son by his first marriage and two by his second - all three of whom are named Lawrence. He said he named them all after himself out of ego and "to screw up the Social Security system." To avoid confusion, the boys use their middle names--Scott, Andrew, and Jason.
- While second secretary in the American embassy's economics section in Yugoslavia, Eagleburger became a hero following the terrible 1963 earthquake in Skopje, Macedonia. He directed a massive relief effort, almost single-handedly arranging for the construction of an army field hospital. The local people called him Lawrence of Macedonia. When President Jimmy Carter appointed him Ambassador to Yugoslavia in 1977, Eagleburger was cheered in the streets upon his return to Belgrade.
- U.S. government official, a moderate Republican, who was employed by presidents of both parties. As vice-chairman for his congressional district of the Wisconsin Young Republicans from 1950 to 1951, Eagleburger spoke out against Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy's horrific anti-Communist witch-hunting. He spent his career in the foreign service as Henry Kissinger's deputy, in the State Department, and briefly as Secretary of State in 1992. Under President Jimmy Carter, Eagleburger served as ambassador to what was then Yugoslavia (he had studied the Serbo-Croatian language). In 1981, Eagleburger was named assistant secretary for European affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He supported Reagan's funding of the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Under President George Bush, Eagleburger returned to the State Department as deputy to Secretary James Baker III in 1989. Three years later, he was White House chief of staff and manager of the flagging Bush reelection campaign.
- U.S. Secretary of State (1992-1993).
- After resigning from government service, he spent five years at Kissinger Associates before returning to the state department as James Baker's deputy secretary of state. He was sent on missions to Israel and China after the Tiananmen Square and to Panama after the American invasion in 1989.
- During Carter's administration, he served as an American envoy in Yugoslavia and returned to Washington D.C. under President Ronald Reagan. He was appointed as assistant secretary for European Affairs under Alexander M. Haig Jr., then secretary of state. He was promoted to under secretary of state for political affairs.
- After an illness in June 1969, he was assigned to Brussels, Belgium and served in the Pentagon before Henry Kissinger assigned him to the State Department when he became secretary of state in 1973.
- He was assigned to Washington DC where he was a special assistant to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He later joined as an expert of European Affairs the staff of Walt W. Rostow who was head of the National Security Council. He returned to the State Department as a special assistant to Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach, the under secretary of state.
- During his Foreign Service time, he was assigned to Honduras and to the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research where he was assigned to Serbian-Croatian language training which started his identification with Yugoslavia.
- He was a leader of the Wisconsin Young Republicans from 1949 to 1951. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a Bachelor's Degree. He joined the United States Army from 1952 to 1954.
- Son of Leon Eagleburger and Helen Eagleburger of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father served in the United States Army during World War II. The family moved to Mississippi and later to Seattle, Washington and returned to Stevens Point, Wisconsin in 1946.
- In 2003, President George W. Bush asked him to lead the United States delegation at the funeral of Zoran Djindjic, the assassinated Serbian prime minister.
- From 1962 to 1965, he was an economics officer for the American Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- During Kissinger's term as secretary of state, he was his top aide. In June 1969, he was sent to NATO as head of the political section. He returned in 1973 to be Kissinger's executive assistant. He was responsible for the State Deparment during the Watergate period and America's foreign policy for the White House.
- He retired from the Foreign Service in 1984 and was employed as a consultant at Kissinger's firm. He returned to government service in 1989 as deputy secretary of state under James Baker. He was named acting secretary of state in August 1992. He was officially named Secretary of State from December 8,1992 to January 19,1993. He served the second shortest term as secretary of state.
- During the George H.W. Bush's presidency from 1989 to 1992, he was second in command at the State Department under James A. Baker III. He served as Henry Kissinger's aide in the Middle Esat. He was sent to Israel in 1991 at the start of the Persian Gulf War which was to remove Iraq from Kuwait.
- He began his Foreign Service career in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, he spent seven years and two tours of duty in Europe particularly the Balkan states. He served as United States Ambassador in Belgrade, Yugoslavia but was unable to maintain the country's stability.
- He had one son by his first marriage which ended in divorce. He had two sons named Lawrence by his second marriage. His sons Scott of Madison, Wisconsin; Andrew and Jason both of Charlottesville, Virginia; a sister Jean Case of Las Vegas, Nevada; and three grandchildren.
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