Smith, Bromley K. (Bromley Keables), 1911-1987

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Bromley Smith was born April 21, 1911 in Muscatine, Iowa. He was a graduate of Stanford University and attended the Zimmern Institute School in Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris.

He joined the State Department in 1940 as a Foreign Service officer. He was vice consul in Montreal and third secretary of the Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. He returned to Washington in 1945, carrying out staff assignments in the Secretary of State's office and taking part in international conferences after World War II.

In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Mr. Smith to the National Security Council staff. He became the council's executive secretary in the Kennedy Administration and continued in that position under President Johnson. In his capacity as executive secretary, he kept track of the NSC daily business and was the executive manager. Mr. Smith compiled the NSC History on Deployment of Major US Forces to Vietnam, which is available at the Johnson Library. After his retirement in 1980, he became a consultant.

In 1964, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor given to a career employee.

Bromley Smith died March 1, 1987, in Washington, DC.

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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Papers of Bromley K. Smith, 1946 - 1986 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
creatorOf SMITH, BROMLEY: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW - JFK #1, 7/16/1970 John F. Kennedy Library
creatorOf National Security File, Files of Bromley K. Smith, ca. 1964 - 1/20/1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
creatorOf Eisenhower Administration Project, Reminiscences of Bromley K. Smith : oral history, 1972 Columbia University. Libraries.
creatorOf Oral History interview with Bromley Smith, Executive Secretary, National Security Council, 1961-69. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
creatorOf SMITH, BROMLEY: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW - JFK #2, 7/23/1970 John F. Kennedy Library
creatorOf Oral History Interview with Bromley Smith Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
contributorOf Lewis Mumford papers, circa 1905-1987 University of Pennsylvania: Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Manuscripts
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United States 00 US
District of Columbia DC US
Muscatine IA US
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National security
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Consultants
Foreign service officers
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Birth 1911-04-21

Death 1987-03-01

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Americans

English

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