Paris: A Love Story (21 page)

Elizabeth Marton Jennings’ first Christmas—in London, with my mother and Peter in the Scottish kilt he always wore at Christmas.

In 2000, Richard and I revisited Chartres where we had spent our first day together, at Christmas 1993. We are standing in front of La Vieille Maison, the restaurant where we had our first meal in France.

Wedding day in Budapest, May 25, 1995, in the garden of the American Ambassador’s residence.

David and Anthony Holbrooke at their father’s Budapest wedding in May 1995.

A dinner we hosted for President Bill Clinton at our Waldorf residence when Richard was United Nations Ambassador in 1999. My husband always insisted that I give the welcoming toast at these events. Here I am raising my glass to the president, while Harrison Ford, Caroline Kennedy, and Elizabeth Rohatyn look on.

With Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General and our dear friend whom I had known since the eighties. I met him during my research on Raoul Wallenberg, who was the uncle of Annan’s wife, Nane.

Sharing a laugh with Nelson Mandela at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a privilege to have him as our houseguest several times when Richard was UN Ambassador.

Visiting Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2006. The land and its troubles made a deep impression on Richard and me. This trip—arranged by my nephew Mathieu Marton Lefevre, a UN political officer in Kabul—was the beginning of my husband’s deep involvement with the region.

While on an AIDS mission to Botswana, Richard and I explored the spectacular Okavango.

The legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom I interviewed on the subject of his partner at Magnum Photo, Robert Capa, in his Paris apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden, 2004.

In Telluride, Colorado, with our close friends, Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein, in 2008. Samantha was Richard’s protégé and my steadfast companion during Richard’s final days and the months that followed.

Richard and I look ecstatic following a zip-lining adventure in the Costa Rican rain forest during Christmas 2005.

With General Roméo Dallaire and two former child soldiers while I worked on this issue at the UN in 2002.