Oral history interview with Harlan and Lois Cleveland, 1984-1989?.

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Oral history interview with Harlan and Lois Cleveland, 1984-1989?.

In this interview, Harland Cleveland discusses working as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He speaks of his working relationship with Dean Rusk and of his great admiration for him. He touches on both his own and Rusk's relationship with Robert Kennedy. His wife, Lois speaks of her fondness and respect for both Dean Rusk and his wife, Virginia Foskie Rusk. Cleveland also discusses his European colleagues view of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (58 min.)Transcript: 20 leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7558229

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Cleveland, Harlan.

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Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Harlan Cleveland : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513128 Harland Cleveland's career includes leadership positions in government, education, business, and volunteer organizations; United Nations Rehabilitiation administrator in the late 1940s; Director of the China Aid Program of the Economic Cooperation Administration; Washington-based supervisor of the M...

Rusk, Richard.

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Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

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Dean Rusk (1909-1994), U.S. Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia. From the description of University of Georgia faculty papers, 1952, 1971-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477809 Dean Rusk was born in Cherokee County, Ga., on February 9, 1909. He attended Davidson College, graduating in 1931 as a Rhodes Scholar. He then attended St. John's College, Oxford. In 1946 he became assistant chief of the Division of International Security Affairs of the U.S. De...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Cleveland, Lois,

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