Nitze, Paul H.

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1907, Jan. 26 Born, Amherst, Mass. 1928 B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1928 1929 Accountant, Container Corp. of America, Bridgeport, Conn. 1929 1938 Investment banker, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y. 1932 Married Phyllis Pratt (died, 1987) 1938 1939 President, P. H. Nitze and Co., New York, N.Y. 1939 1941 Vice president, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y. 1941 1942 Financial director, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, State Department, Washington, D.C. 1942 1943 Chief, Metals and Minerals Branch, Board of Economic Warfare 1943 1944 Director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch, Foreign Economic Administration 1943 Founded School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (Renamed Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 1989.) 1944 1946 Vice chairman, United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1946 1948 Deputy director, Office of International Trade Policy, State Department 1948 1949 Deputy to assistant secretary of state for economic affairs 1950 1953 Director, policy planning staff, State Department 1953 Appointed special assistant to secretary of defense; resigned amid Congressional opposition 1953 1961 President, Foreign Service Educational Foundation, Washington, D.C. 1961 1963 Assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs 1963 1967 Secretary of the Navy 1967 1969 Deputy secretary of defense 1969 1974 Member, United States delegation, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1974 1981 Consultant, Washington, D.C., for State Department, General Accounting Office, and System Planning Corp., Arlington, Va. 1976 Organized Committee on the Present Danger 1981 1984 Ambassador, head of United States delegation, intermediate-range nuclear forces talks, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1984 1989 Ambassador-at-large and special advisor on arms control matters to the president and secretary of state 1985 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1989 Published with Ann M. Smith and Steven L. Rearden From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, a Memoir. New York: Grove Weidenfeld 1993 Married Elisabeth Scott Porter Published Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 2004, Oct. 19 Died, Washington, D.C. From the guide to the Paul H. Nitze Papers, 1922-1998, (bulk 1946-1996), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Arms control


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Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989


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Civil defense


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Cold War


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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962


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Disarmament


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Security, International


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Persian Gulf War, 1991


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