Talk:Robert D. Blackwill
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Now married to Wera Hildebrand
[edit]Until now, this article had stated Blackwill was married to Anne Heiberg Blackwill. Yet, throughout the time Blackwill served as U.S. Ambassador to India in the early 2000s, he was married to Wera Hildebrand. This is supported by his own statement in the cited report of his departing address shortly before leaving India. Regarding which marriage was the more recent/current: (1) Hildebrand and Blackwill purchased home together in 2004, at 3701 Winfield Lane (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20987-2004May12_4.html) and (2) From 3701 Winfield, a federal campaign contributions was made by Hildebrand in Q1 of 2008, as dredged up from federal records into http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Hildebrand&fname=Wera
I understand that at this point, it might be argued that it requires synthesis on (my, or any editor's) part to write that Blackwill is now married to Hildebrand. I am not particularly experienced at judging how best to proceed in such matters and if there is a sound rationale for reverting this edit on 'procedural' grounds or the like, I would be interested to hear it. But at this point the weight of the evidence inclines me to think that Hildebrand is Blackwill's current wife. Heiberg was his wife in 1989, per http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=16775 ; and until some time before Blackwill's Indian ambassadorship, but not now.