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Mitchell spoke for less than 25 minutes to KSG graduating students about his career in politics and diplomacy and stressed the importance of public service.
Promising he would not emulate the afternoon-long debate that dominated Harvard’s first Commencement in 1642, Senator George J. Mitchell was the epitome of brevity at yesterday’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) graduation speech.
Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, focused on his efforts in international conflict resolution after he decided in 1994 not to seek another term as Maine’s Democratic senator.
In addition to chairing the all-party peace negotiations in Northern Ireland in the mid-1990s, Mitchell was President Clinton’s envoy to lead a fact-finding committee on the faltering Middle East peace process.
“George is terribly disappointed, as had both parties followed the Mitchell Plan in spirit and in fact, there could have been a resolution,” Rudman says. “Unfortunately the hatred was just too great to allow for serious compromise.”