Richard Lee Armitage, the son of a businessman and a nurse, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on April 26, 1945, and grew up in Atlanta, where he graduated from St. Pius X Catholic High School ...

It was late spring 2002, and I was barely into my tenure as a sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution when I first met then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage while in D.C.

Richard spent the last years of his life serving under the title “Dad-a” to his 12 grandchildren, many who live in the Savannah area. The family bonded over sports – basketball in particular.

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage — who passed away this week at the age of 79 — was no ideologue. In fact, he couldn’t stand them. He was a realist, but his realism was not ...