| Title: |
Reminiscences of Richard Townsend Davies
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A92
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Early Foreign Service assignments: Warsaw, 1947-49, Moscow, 1952-53, Kabul, 1955-58; Public Affairs officer, State Department, 1958-61: Nixon's trip to Eastern Europe, Khrushchev's trip to America; director, Soviet and Eastern Europe Section, United States Information Agency, 1965-68: trade fairs and uses of propaganda; Ambassador, Poland 1972-76; disagreement with George Keenan's containment policy and attempt to publish controversial article, "After Containment, What?", 1952; John F. Kennedy and creation of Operation Center; role of Robert F. Kennedy in Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis; Nixon-Kissinger Soviet policy: Soviet Jewry, aborted defection of Simas Kudirka; impressions of George Keenan, Angus Ward, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, Llewellyn Thompson.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 514 leaves, Tape: 10 reels, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1980 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Davies, Richard Townsend, 1920-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1920
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| Speaker occupation: |
Diplomat
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| Age at speaking: |
60
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| Document date: |
1980
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| Interviewer: |
Jessup, Frederick Peterson
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Department of State; U.S. Information Agency
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Europe; North America; Poland; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Ambassadors--United States; Asia; Diplomacy; Diplomats--United States; Europe; North America; Oral history; Poland; Poland--Foreign relations--United States; Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States; U.S. Department of State; U.S. Information Agency; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; United States; United States--Foreign relations--1945-; United States--Foreign relations--Poland; United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Davies, Richard Townsend, 1920-
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018710-14153
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