Always in the line of fire, Galbraith was the last person to escape from Iraq during the Kurd uprising in 1991. Galbraith shared his videotape of the Kurd flight from Iraq and later recounted this experience for Peter Jennings of ABC News. Galbraith says he believes this account was influential in forcing the Allies to take quick action against Iraq.

Still wading through dangerous territory, but in a more secure position, Galbraith also wrote the legislation that provided humanitarian assistance in Cambodia after Pol Pot's rule.

Family Man

Despite his hefty professional duties and international stature, however, Galbraith says he still makes plenty of time for family and fun.

Galbraith and his wife, Tone R. Bringa, met on a blind business date a few years ago. Bringa, a Norwegian anthropologist who was working as a political analyst for the United Nations in Croatia, says one of her British journalist friends set up an interview for her with Galbraith.

Bringa says she was impressed with Galbraith's tough stance against the Croatian government, and the romance proceeded from there.

"He's fair, and he's very clear," she says. "He has very strong principles and a strong sense of right and wrong."

Now the couple has a two-year-old daughter, Liv, whom Bringa insists will be bilingual.

However, Liv gets to see her grandparents very little, as the family is always traveling from one place to another.

"We don't see a great deal of her," John Galbraith says. "We see much too little of them."

But perhaps Grandpa will finally get his wish. Peter is now faced with what to do--and where to live--next and may even settle down in Washington.