Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Abrams, Creighton W., Major General, USA, Commander of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Abrasimov, Pyotr A., Soviet Ambassador to East Germany until October 1971
  • Acheson, Dean G., Secretary of State from 1949 until 1953
  • Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States
  • Alsop, Joseph, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
  • Arbatov, Georgi A., Director, Institute of the United States of America, Russian Academy of Sciences; also Senior Foreign Policy Adviser, Foreign Department, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., “Roy,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Bahr, Egon, State Secretary (Foreign, Defense, and German Policy) in the West German Federal Chancellery and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in Berlin
  • Baker, John A., Jr., Country Director for Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State from 1961 until 1966
  • Beam, Jacob D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Bergus, Donald C., Principal Officer of the U.S. Interests Section at the Spanish Embassy in Egypt
  • Binh, Madam. See Nguyen Thi Binh.
  • Bogdan, Corneliu, Romanian Ambassador to the United States
  • Bohlen, Charles E., “Chip,” U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1953 until 1957
  • Brandon, Henry, chief Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times
  • Brandt, Willy, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Bray, Charles W., III, Director, Office of Press Relations, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Press Relations and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, from February 1971
  • Brezhnev, Leonid I., General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Bruce, David K.E., Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam until July 1971
  • Buckley, William F., editor-in-chief of National Review
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President of the Ford Foundation; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1961 until 1966
  • Bunker, Ellsworth, U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam
  • Burns, Arthur, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
  • Bush, George H.W., U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from February 16, 1971
  • Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President
  • Casey, William J., member, General Advisory Committee on Arms Control; Chairman, Security and Exchange Commission from April 14, 1971
  • Castro Ruz, Fidel, Premier of Cuba
  • Ceausescu, Nicolai, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and Chairman of the State Council of the Socialist Republic of Romania
  • Chancellor, John, anchor on NBC Nightly News
  • Chapin, Dwight L., Special Assistant to the President until 1971; thereafter Deputy Assistant to the President (President’s Appointments Secretary)
  • Chapin, Frank M., member, National Security Council staff
  • Chou En-lai. See Zhou Enlai.
  • Clay, General Lucius D., Deputy Military Governor and Military Governor of Germany from 1945 until 1949
  • Colson, Charles W., Special Counsel to the President
  • Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury from February 8, 1971
  • Cushman, Lieutenant Robert E., Jr., General, USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
  • David, Edward E., Jr., Science Adviser to the President and Director, Office of Science and Technology
  • Davies, Richard T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Davis, Jeanne W., National Security Council Staff Secretary (Director, National Security Council Secretariat)
  • Dayan, Moshe, Israeli Minister of Defense
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France from 1959 until 1969
  • Dean, John W., III, Counsel to the President
  • Dean, Jonathan, “Jock,” Political Counselor (Chief of the Political Section) at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn
  • Dewey, Thomas E., Governor of New York from 1943 until 1955
  • Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States; candidate member and, from April 1971, full member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Downey, Arthur T., member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Europe)
  • Dubček, Alexander, former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1968)
  • Dubs, Adolph, “Spike,” Country Director for Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State until June 1971
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State from 1953 until 1959
  • Ehrlichman, John, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States from 1953 until 1961
  • Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Executive Secretary of the Department of State
  • Ellsworth, Robert, Permanent Representative to the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until June 30, 1971
  • Evans, Rowland, Jr., co-author of syndicated newspaper column with Robert Novak
  • Falin, Valentin M., head of the Third European Department in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs until April 1971; Soviet Ambassador to West Germany from May 3, 1971
  • Farland, Joseph S., U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
  • Fisher, Max M., Detroit businessman and Jewish philanthropist
  • Ford, Gerald R., Republican Representative from Michigan; House Minority Leader
  • Frankel, Max, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times
  • Freeman, Mason B., Rear Admiral, USN, Deputy Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Freeman, John, British Ambassador to the United States until 1971
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister
  • Garment, Leonard, Special Consultant to the President
  • Garthoff, Raymond L., Deputy Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Executive Officer and Senior Adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Gierek, Edward, member, Politburo of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ (Communist) Party; First Secretary of the Central Committee from December 20, 1970
  • Gomułka, Władysław, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ (Communist) Party until December 20, 1970
  • Graham, Billy, Chairman of the Board, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
  • Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs; candidate member and, from April 1971, full member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Grunwald, Henry A., managing editor of Time magazine
  • Haig, Brigadier Alexander M., Jr., General, USA, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Haldeman, H.R., “Bob,” Assistant to the President (White House Chief of Staff)
  • Harriman, W. Averell, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1943 until 1946 and Governor of New York from 1954 until 1958
  • Harris, Louis, proprietor of Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. (marketing and public opinion firm)
  • Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister
  • Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Hilaly, Agha, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States until September 1971
  • Hillenbrand, Martin J., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Hinton, Deane R., Assistant Director, Council on International Economic Policy from March 1971
  • Holdridge, John H., member, National Security Council Operations Staff (East Asia and the Pacific)
  • Honecker, Erich, member, Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of (East) Germany; First Secretary of the Central Committee from May 3, 1971
  • Hoskinson, Samuel M., member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Near East and South Asia)
  • Houdek, Robert G., member, Office of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until July 1971
  • Howe, Jonathan T., Commander, USN, staff member (Military Assistant) in the Office of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Huang Chen, Chinese Ambassador to France
  • Hughes, James D., Brigadier General, USAF, Military Assistant to the President
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., Democratic Senator from Minnesota from January 1971
  • Huntsman, Jon M., Special Assistant to the President (Staff Secretary), Office of the White House Chief of Staff (Haldeman) from February 1971
  • Huston, Tom C., Associate Counsel (Staff Assistant), Office of the Counsel (John W. Dean III)
  • Hyland, William G., member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Europe)
  • Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State
  • Israelyan, Victor L., Soviet Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Ivanov, Igor, AMTORG (Soviet trading company) chauffeur; convicted of espionage in 1964
  • Jackson, Henry M., “Scoop,” Democratic Senator from Washington
  • Jarring, Gunnar, United Nations Special Representative for the Middle East
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States from 1963 until 1969
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Johnston, Ernest B., Jr., member, National Security Council Operations Staff (International Economic Policy) until September 1971
  • Kahane, Meir D., Chairman, Jewish Defense League
  • Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Kennedy, Edward M., Democratic Senator from Massachusetts
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from 1961 until 1963
  • Kennedy, Richard T., Colonel, USA, Director, Planning Group, National Security Council staff
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General from 1961 until 1964
  • Khrushchev, Nikita S., First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers from 1953 until 1964
  • Killham, Edward L., Chief, Soviet Foreign Affairs Division (Bilateral Political Relations Officer), Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State until July 1971
  • Kishilov, Nikolai S., First Secretary, International Organizations Department, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs; also General Secretary and Senior Adviser, Soviet Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Klosson, Boris H., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Moscow
  • Kohl, Michael, State Secretary for the Ministerial Council of the German Democratic Republic
  • Komarov, Nikolai D., Deputy Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade
  • Kornienko, Georgi M., Chief, United States of America Department and member of the Collegium in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Kosygin, Alexei N., Chairman (Premier) of the Soviet Council of Ministers; also member, Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kraft, Joseph, columnist with the Field Newspapers Syndicate
  • Kraslow, David, Washington bureau chief, Los Angeles Times
  • Krimer, William D., interpreter and Language Officer, Office of Language Services, Department of State
  • Kuznetsov, Vasily V., First Deputy Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Kvitsinsky, Yuli A., Deputy Chief, Third European Department, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense
  • Lake, W. Anthony, “Tony,” member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1970
  • Le Duan, First Secretary, North Vietnamese Workers’ (Communist) Party
  • Le Duc Tho, Special Adviser to the North Vietnamese Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Lord, Winston, member, National Security Council staff (Kissinger’s Special Assistant)
  • Mainland, Edward A., International Relations Officer, Bilateral Political Relations Section, Soviet Foreign Affairs Division, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Malik, Yakov A., Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Mansfield, Michael J., Democratic Senator from Montana; Senate Majority Leader
  • Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Chairman, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Marder, Murrey, columnist and diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post
  • Matlock, Jack F., Jr., Country Director for Soviet Union Affairs (Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs), Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State from June 1971
  • McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Press Relations and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State (Department of State Spokesman)
  • McCloy, John J., U.S. Military Governor and High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 until 1952
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from 1961 until 1968
  • Meir, Golda, Israeli Prime Minister
  • Mitchell, John N., Attorney General
  • Moorer, Thomas H., Admiral, USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Muskie, Edmund S., Democratic Senator from Maine
  • Nachmanoff, Arnold, member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Latin America)
  • Nguyen Cao Ky, Vice President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam
  • Nguyen Thi Binh (Madame Binh), Chief Delegate of the Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam
  • Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States
  • Novak, Robert D.S., co-author of syndicated newspaper column with Rowland Evans, Jr.
  • Oberdorfer, Donald, Jr., reporter for the Washington Post
  • Okun, Herbert S., International Relations Officer, Office of the Country Director for Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Packard, David, Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Parker, David, Special Assistant to the President (Office of Dwight L. Chapin) from January 1971
  • Pauls, Rolf, West German Ambassador to the United States
  • Pedersen, Richard F., Counselor of the Department of State
  • Perry, Jack R., International Relations Officer, Multilateral Political Relations Section, Soviet Foreign Affairs Division, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Executive Director of the Council for International Economic Policy
  • Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
  • Podgorny, Nikolai V., Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet; also member, Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Polansky, Sol, Political Officer (Deputy Chief of the Political Section), U.S. Embassy in Moscow
  • Pompidou, Georges, President of France
  • Price, Raymond K., Jr., Special Assistant to the President (Speechwriter’s Office)
  • Pursley, Robert E., Colonel, USAF, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Rabin, Yitzhak, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
  • Reston, James B., “Scotty,” Vice President of the New York Times
  • Riad, Mahmoud, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Roberts, Chalmers M., chief diplomatic correspondent of the Washington Post
  • Robinson, Rembrandt, Rear Admiral, USN, Joint Chiefs of Staff Liaison at the National Security Council
  • Rockefeller, David, Chairman of the Board, Chase Manhattan Bank; also Chairman of the Board, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A., Governor of New York
  • Rodman, Peter W., member, National Security Council staff
  • Rogers, William P., Secretary of State
  • Rumsfeld, Donald, Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Economic Opportunity until December 1970; thereafter Counselor to the President
  • Rush, Kenneth, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from 1961 until 1969
  • al-Sadat, Mohamed Anwar, President of Egypt
  • Safire, William L., Special Assistant to the President (Speechwriter’s Office)
  • Sakharov, Andrei D., Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist; researcher at the Lebedev Institute of Physics, Soviet Academy of Sciences; founder and member of the Moscow Human Rights Committee
  • Saunders, Harold H., “Hal,” member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Near East and South Asia)
  • Scali, John A., chief diplomatic correspondent for ABC News until April 1971; thereafter Special Consultant to the President
  • Schacter, Hershel, Chairman, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry
  • Schecter, Jerrold, Moscow bureau chief for Time magazine
  • Scheel, Walter, West German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Scott, Hugh D., Republican Senator from Pennsylvania; Senate Minority Leader
  • Semenov, Vladimir S., Deputy Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs; Representative (Ambassador) and Chairman of the Soviet Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Semler, Peter, International Relations Officer, Bilateral Political Relations Section, Soviet Foreign Affairs Division, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Shakespeare, Frank J., Jr., Director, United States Information Agency
  • Shaw, John P., Director, Office of Disarmament and Communist Politico-Military Affairs, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Adviser, U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Shultz, George P., Director, Office of Management and Budget
  • Sidey, Hugh, Washington bureau chief for Time magazine
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Smith, Gerard C., Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Representative (Ambassador) and Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Smith, Howard K., co-anchor of ABC Evening News
  • Smith, Wayne S., Foreign Affairs Policy Analyst, Office of Research and Analysis for USSR and Eastern Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State until June 1971; thereafter International Relations Officer, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, “Hal,” member, National Security Council Operations Staff (Europe)
  • Springsteen, George S., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Stalin, Josef I., General Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1953
  • Stans, Maurice H., Secretary of Commerce
  • Sukhodrev, Viktor M., interpreter, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Suslov, Mikhail A., Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; member, Politburo of the Central Committee
  • Symington, Stuart W., Democratic Senator from Missouri
  • Thant, U, General Secretary of the United Nations
  • Thieu. See Nguyen Van Thieu.
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., “Tommy,” U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1957 until 1962 and from 1966 until 1969; member, U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Timerbaev, Roland M., Deputy Chief, International Organizations Department, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks from March 1971
  • Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Ulbricht, Walter, First Secretary, Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of (East) Germany until May 3, 1971
  • Volpe, John A., Secretary of Transportation
  • Vorontsov, Yuli M., Soviet Minister Counselor to the United States
  • Walters, Vernon A., Major General, USA, Military Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris
  • Warner, John, Under Secretary of the Navy
  • Welles, Benjamin, foreign correspondent in the Washington bureau of the New York Times
  • Wexler, William A., President of B’nai B’rith International and Chairman of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations
  • Woods, Rosemary, President Nixon’s personal secretary
  • Xuan Thuy, Chief of the North Vietnamese Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks
  • Yahya Khan, Agha Mohammad, General, President of Pakistan
  • Yost, Charles, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations until February 25, 1971
  • Young, David R., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Zamyatin, Leonid M., Director General, Telegram Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)
  • Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai), Premier, People’s Republic of China
  • Ziegler, Ronald L., White House Press Secretary
  • Zimyanin, Mikhail V., editor-in-chief of Pravda; full member, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Zorin, Valerian A., Soviet Ambassador to France