-- to manage the foreign service for the secretary and to manage the secretary for the foreign service. [laughter] he carried out both tasks with a river diploma. -- with irreverence a plut aplo. if truth be told, even without it. [laughter] a letter larry wrote me shortly after i left office can serve as an example.

it describes a scene in the moscow state house after cs have -- after cease-fire and in the 1973 war was being negotiated. this was leery. i recall sitting at a desk in a fairly large room, yelling over the phone at the communications people at the embassy. i was yelling because of the bad telephone connection, not because i thought it would help move the kills faster i might certain secretariat of state. i never believed that a loud voice had much impact on inanimate objects. [laughter] there were some 20 to 30 people in the room, all talking, and i

was pretty much hidden from view. unbeknownst to me, you walked in at the moment and obviously heard what i was saying. there was a bill along the lines of what? the cables are not out yet? i looked up to find you standing in the middle of the room with smoke issuing from nose, eyes, and ears and no one else in sight. all 20 or 30 people had exited with a speed and facility that would have put houdini to shame. [laughter] the single exception was winston lord who was huddled in a corner prepared to hang around for the pyrotechnics and to clean up my blood when it was all over. [laughter]

larry's variations on that scene in exhaustive. as for example, his tail of my reaction to a fax machine that had swallowed a just three edited version of my maiden speech to the un at the precise moment i was leading to deliver it. on the occasion in damascus when, after a night-long negotiation, i had barely gone to bed when they called the faithful to prayer from a loudspeaker seemingly placed right outside my window. [laughter] reacting to what i treated as one harassment too many, i knocked on larry's door convinced that he was my solution to every problem and he insisted that he put an

immediate end to the noise. larry, in underwear, new the foreign service procedure for dealing with an overwrought secretary. he picked up his ubiquitous pat and said, "and to whom, mr. secretary, would you like me to address that message?" [laughter] not the larry was infallible. in the mid-1970's, we were engaged in a secret negotiations led by larry with cuban officials. it had been agreed that when the cubans had something to communicate, they should call larry's home and ask for mr. henderson. this stratagem would probably

not have passed muster at langley. at any rate, larry had neglected to tell marlene about it. [laughter] when the occasion arose, marlene told the caller repeatedly and with growing exasperation that he had reached the wrong number until the emissary gave up and finally asked for larry by name and stated it is business, blowing the operation. [laughter] but i cannot part from our gallant friend without a personal word. lucky are those who, in their

journey through life, encounter someone of total reliability, absolute unselfishness, and a devotion that in its magnitude could never be deserved. larry played such a role in my life. his friendship was a gift. he occasionally honored me by describing me as his mentor. he was, in turn, one of the buttresses of my existence. when i called them the day before he leftist, -- before he left us, i tried to tell them how much he meant to me. he wanted to talk about a letter he had sent me about a recent

book i had written. he wanted to make sure i understood it, that he had read every page of it. it will be a lonely world without him. but for those who shared larry's life ambled him, he will never leave us. we will recall his courage, his dedication, his patriotism, the dignity with which he bore his many afflictions. it will be a lasting honor to have been lares contemporary.

>> i would like to thank the eagleburger family for saying a few words. his professional accomplishments and his singular contribution to american national security are well chronicled and have been described here today. his extraordinary reputation is entirely wanted. too often, on occasions like this, the person gets obscured by the professional accolades. so i would just like to say a few personal words about my friend larry. what i remember most fondly about larry was his sense of humor, his independence, and this ought orneriness. like declaring his office says the secretary of state is the only office exempt from the no- smoking rule.

or the presidential trip where an early baggage call led to his packing error, producing the unforgettable sight of larry emerging with a plumber from his hotel room, impeccably dressed suit and tie,ece cer but missing his shirt and socks, or having lunch with larry. [laughter] if you wait too slowly, o'leary would finish his meal and then, without a word, would begin to share yours. [laughter] my favorite professional memory of larry, when president george h.w. bush sent us on secret missions to consult with our european allies about u.s. military drawdowns in europe. we always started with prime minister thatcher, figuring that if we could get pastor, the rest would be a breeze. the second time around, she greeted us in her parlor at no.

10 and said, frostily, will you not take your custom seats? later, as she was walking us out, she smiled warmly and said, you two are always welcome in my house. her face then froze and she continued -- but never again on this subject. in a conversation shortly thereafter with president bush, she referred to the two of us as twiddle dum and tweedle dee. [laughter] larry and i would argue for years about who was which. [laughter] that same trip, we met with chancellor kohl and looked out at the rhine. i watched in off as coal and larry, between them, the art and entire platter of huge german pastries and made history as they did so. the only person even more independent-minded than larry was marlene. i will never forget him telling

me that mrs. reagan frown on marlene wearing pants is however elegant to white house dinners. you can only imagine both larry's and marlene's reaction to that. for all the wit and foibles that were so endearing, larry was a brilliant, blunt spoken, hard- headed realist and a lifelong defender of our country and its interests. america will miss the diplomat and of the national security legend. larry's friends will forever missed the man. >> i want to think the eagleburger family, scott, and, jason, for the invitation to

share some observations about the uninsured and diplomat, not only on my own behalf, but on behalf of the men and women of the state department. when i was first asked to be secretary of state by president obama, i figured i should call all of my esteemed predecessors to ask for any words of advice. and i had met secretary eagleburger, but i cannot claim to have been a friend or colleague. so when i called and i said i would very much appreciate any advice, he kept saying, "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the wholhole." and i said, "excuse me." and he said, "exactly." and then i look on the back of this program with a picture of

larry and marlene and there is the famous saying about keeping your eye upon the doughnut and not up, hold -- and not upon blthe hole. every time i saw him he would ask me if i was keeping my eye on the doughnut. and i told them that if i could find the doughnut i would keep my eye on it. [laughter] the operations center is the nerve center of the state department. we met with many of the young watch officers who work grueling hours to keep what we call ops -- and as all of my predecessors know -- running around the clock. this is what the kind of thing that larry love. how so appreciated him because

he rarely passed up an invitation to speak with the next generation of the united states foreign and civil service. on this occasion, larry was not in the best of health. drew was there with him and others. he had two canes with him. he sat on the stage with the rest of us who would be speaking. i was a little worried because he did not look well. but that this appeared as soon as he stood up and he got to that podium. the moment he took the microphone, he had everyone in that room in the palm of his hand and he spoke with such great gusto, without a note, and, as usual, with no qualms whatsoever about saying exactly what was on his mind.

i think, in the years since larry eagleburger was secretary, this town and many of us have become much more edited. so it was quite a treat for me to be sitting where i was sitting, looking at the faces of all of these young men and women, turning to each other and saying -- did he really say that? [laughter] he shared a story that encapsulated a great deal of what made him so special. feisal these young foreign service officers that one of his earliest jobs in the foreign service was with the intelligence bureau. and he was -- and his seat was cuba. one day in 1961, he had come home early and discovered that something big had happened in cuba overnight.

it is what we now know as the start of the bay of pigs invasion. larry thought it was his job to report on what was happening as far as he could figure it out. sobe collect all the facts available and wrote his analysis. someone he wrote was trying to overthrow the castro government and they were going to fail. [laughter] a few hours later, he figured out who was supporting the invasion -- senior officials of the united states government. and he discovered how they felt about his analysis. [laughter] he was summoned to the white house. for several hours, he was to out by one big shot after another. larry was, in his own words, a junior engineer a junior officer. and plenty -- a junior jrunior

junior officer. and plenty of others would have tried to diminish their position. but not larry. he issued -- he had been issued a warning -- never to cross paths with the kennedy administration again. he returned to the secretary's office bloody, but unbowed. unimpressed by all of the pomp and circumstance, unafraid to put forth an unpopular opinion if he was convinced he was right, and often, as with the bay of pigs and on many other occasions, he was right. listening to secretary eagleburger tell stories at the state department last month was not only a treat for the young

foreign service officers, but for all the rest of us. it was thrilling to hear him and it meant so much to those young men and women and watching them hang on his every word was worth it to me. to them, larry was kind of a demigod, although i'm sure he would take issue with the prefix. [laughter] the only zerofso to -- the only fso to serve as secretary. it is a commitment not only by officers, but by their families. i am very grateful to larry's families for their support during his long service to our country. he served in difficult places,

including the former yugoslavia. he served in tumultuous times and he constantly raised the bar for everyone else. through it all, he served with integrity. he was devoted to the state department and believed that his devotion meant being honest, both about its strengths and its weaknesses, and he pushed everyone, his staff, his superiors, the entire bureaucracy to be better, more effective, and more strategic. the state department is called "the building" and it seems to have a life of its own. it is like this creature from somewhere that is never tamed and can only be slightly known, understood, and occasionally managed. but for larry, he loved every part of it. but he always expected more than

people even thought they were capable of delivering. and he was not always, even as america's top diplomat, very diplomatic. when a deputy secretary -- when as deputy secretary he saw his renovated office for the first time, he said he thought it looked like a moroccan whorehouse. [laughter] that comment prompted a complaint from the moroccan ambassador. [laughter] i was also told about that trip to israel when president bush sent him. he and the other members of the american delegation there in 1991 were told that they would be participating in a drill and they would all have to wear gas masks. of course, you know the story. everyone beautifully put on his or her gas mask except larry. he lit a cigarette instead. [laughter]

and when his colleagues protested, he pointed out they could not claim that the smoke was bothering them with their gas masks on. [laughter] soleri was by no means a typical diplomat -- so larry was by no means a typical diplomat in a position and a town that can be preoccupied for hierarchy. he did not have much use for either. and if anyone -- and is anyone who enjoyed a conversation with him knows, he could be somewhat profane but always funny and always clear about what is we were trying to achieve together. i also heard stories that day about his kindness to everyone who worked around him. once, at the end of a long day of official travel in vienna, he stopped to chat with the people staff in the control room, which was his custom.

he told some jokes. he made conversation. and then he headed off for bed. then he said, when they sent me over here, they told me in that i would never see anyone important, but that is the deputy secretary of state. he knew those small gestures of friendship meant the world to sfo's and civil servants because he had been there. he did not parachute in from somewhere else. he worked his way up to all of the positions that we have now describe him as holding. he knew that the work that people like those of us who have had the privilege of speaking today do can only succeed because of the talents of those around us. they are doing the constant back of work and the support that makes it possible for the rest of us to make that speech, to

attend that negotiation, to go to that conference. for this and all other regions, he was the pride of the state department. and tulare's sons and daughters of law and grandchildren -- and to larry's sons and daughters in law and grandchildren, thank you for sharing him with all of us. thank you, too, to marlene and his grandmother. he is remembered with great fondness for being a warm and wonderful partner to larry throughout his years of state. and on a personal note, for wearing pants suits. [laughter] last month, and when it came time for larry to finish his remarks at the state department, he did so in typical fashion, saying, "someone just said that 50 years from now that the work

for the ops center will continue. well, i do not know how he or anybody else would know that because none of us will be around then." everyone burst out laughing. and then he said, "thank you and the bless you," and went on his way. 50 years from now, many of us will no longer be here, but, at the state department, i am confident that people will still be telling stories about lawrence eagleburger, the foreign service officer who rose all the way to the 74 as secretary of state, the diplomat who helped presidents and secretaries and america lead through times of crisis, the men who traveled with briefcases full of cartons of cigarettes but who always made time to talk with the junior officers. his time as secretary was brief, but his service was long, and

his impact will endure. thank you, secretary eagleburger and god bless you. >> next, the chief justice john roberts of life on the supreme court for in after that, a memorial service for former secretary state lawrence eagleburger. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] then talk about the decision of president obama to drawdown troops in afghanistan. >> chief justice john roberts

was the featured speaker at the fourth circuit court of appeals annual conference. he began with comments on the years caseload. this runs about 50 minutes. >> good morning. i am joe goodman. i am the district judge here in west region yeah. i trust your having a wonderful and informative conference. we will begin this session with what the program calls an informal conversation with the chief justice.

informal in the sense that the chief justice will be sitting in wingback chairs, in being televised on c-span. [laughter] introduced the chief justice of the united states, the hon. john roberts, jr. and the arnold j. wilkinson. [laughter] >> good morning. good morning. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you for getting up so early today. i am delighted to be here. one of the great privileges of being the chief justice is that you get to be the circuit justice for the first -- for the fourth circuit. the tradition goes back to john marshall. the role has changed dramatically since his time.

chief justice is no longer have to ride circuit. that arduous process began during the 12th century, came over to the colonies with the english legal system, and even though, here, writing circuit was much more arduous given the greater distances and the greater dangers of travel. the system fell into disuse after 1891, which set up the system of immediate courts of appeals that we have today and the practice formally ended 100 years ago this year with the judiciary act of 1911. since that time, we worked out with strikes me as a pretty good deal. we will stop interfering directly with your group and you will invite us to your conferences. [laughter] before i sit down and joining judge wilkinson, i want to make some brief remarks about the state of your supreme court. my colleagues and i heard 86

cases this year, selected from more than 8000 petitions for review. as you know, our argument cannot -- calendar runs from october to april. but continue the practice this year of hearing more cases in the fall than we do in the spring, with the idea that that will give us a chance to start working on decisions rather than having them distributed evenly throughout the year. the jury is still out on whether we will continue that practice going forward. as of today, the court has issued decisions in 82 of the six cases that were argued. we expect to release the last four on monday can when i say that we expect to release them, you probably deduced that the expectations are pretty high since i'm here. [laughter] this term, the fourth circuit, despite its best efforts, did provide us with interesting work. work. fourfour cases from the