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FILE - In this July 24, 1971, file photo, Leslie H. Gelb, who directed the task force which submitted the 47-volume study of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War, poses in his Brookings Institution office in Washington. A diplomat and journalist specializing in world affairs, Gelb, has died. He was 82. The New York Times reports that Gelb's wife says he died Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, at a New York hospital of renal failure brought on by diabetes. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer, File)

FILE - In this July 24, 1971, file photo, Leslie H. Gelb, who directed the task force which submitted the 47-volume study of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War, poses in his Brookings Institution office in Washington. A diplomat and journalist specializing in world affairs, Gelb, has died. He was 82. The New York Times reports that Gelb's wife says he died Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, at a New York hospital of renal failure brought on by diabetes. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer, File)

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