He was succeeded as ambassador by Clark T. Randt Jr. A native of Tennessee where he was born in 1942,[1][2] Prueher attended Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville and graduated from the U.S.

Prueher negotiated the settlement and delivered the "letter of the two sorries" which defused the Hainan Island incident in 2001.

[citation needed] He then joined Stanford University's Institute of International Studies as Consulting Professor in 2001.

[4] Prueher is currently the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, as well as Senior Advisor to the Stanford-Harvard Preventive Defense Project, working on dialogue for US-China security matters.

[citation needed] In December 1998 he was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia "for distinguished service in the promotion of Australian and United States of America Defence relations".