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Kati Marton, Author of 'Paris: A Love Story'

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Kati Marton, a former ABC News correspondent, speaks to François Picard about Richard Holbrooke, her late husband who passed away suddenly in 2010. As a US diplomat, he negotiated the Dayton peace accords in Bosnia and was Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kati Marton has written about Holbrooke in her new book, 'Paris: A Love Story'.

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