"I would like more background on this Pastor critter. Where he was born. His family. Ethnic extraction. Early education. Where he was raised. This guy is AWFUL!!!!"
This was posted by Calcowgirl yesterday.
Here is some old background on Pastor.
http://clinton6.nara.gov/1994/05/1994-05-18-president-names-pastor-ambassador-to-panama.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 18, 1994
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES INTENT TO NOMINATE ROBERT A. PASTOR
AS AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
The President today announced his intent to nominate Robert A. Pastor, of Georgia, as Ambassador to the Republic of Panama.
Dr. Pastor has been Professor of Political Science at Emory University and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Program at Emory's Carter Center since 1986. The author of nine books and over 200 articles on U. S. foreign policy and Latin America, he also served as Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely- Elected Heads of Government, a group of 23 hemispheric leaders led by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The Council has monitored elections in eight countries in the Americas, including Panama, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
Robert Pastor was the Director of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs on the National Security Council during the Carter Administration. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the Linowitz Commission on U. S.-Latin American Relations, a private group that recommended new Panama Canal Treaties.
Dr. Pastor was born on April 10, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. He received his B.A. from Lafayette College, his M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. A Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, his languages are Spanish and Malay/Indonesian. He is married to the former Margaret E. McNamara. They have two children, Tiffin Margaret, age 13, and Robert Kiplin, age 11.
15 posted on 07/25/2006 7:50:54 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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Thanks much. This helps!
Here is a newer snip about Pastor with some other details:
http://www.miami.edu/eucenter/pastorfinal.pdf
Dr. Pastor is Vice President of International Affairs, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. He was National Security Advisor for Latin America (1977-81). From 1985-2002, Dr. Pastor was Professor at Emory University and Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy Program. At the Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Pastor has been a foreign policy advisor to each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates since 1976. President Bill Clinton nominated him to be Ambassador to Panama, and he served as the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell Mission to restore constitutional government in Haiti in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New (2001)and Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean (2001). Dr. Pastor was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.