Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater challenge to an American ambassador during the coming years than Paris- where the man representing the U.S. will have to cope with the rapidly evolving community of European nations and the stubborn aspirations of Charles de Gaulle. Last week, as his choice to succeed retiring Ambassador James A. Gavin in Paris, President Kennedy chose a handsome, seasoned career diplomat who has already made his name as a Russian expert: Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 57, Ambassador to Moscow from...
Rosemont, Ill., O'Hare Inn Theater: Heaven Can Wait (your plane might not), with John Gavin...
...Gavin did differ sharply with the Kennedy Administration on one of the touchiest issues which separate the U.S. and France: President de Gaulle's insistence that France create its own nuclear force apart from NATO. In plainly worded reports home, Gavin argued that De Gaulle is determined to build his atomic force with or without U.S. cooperation, and that the U.S. might as well help on everything short of the warheads themselves. Kennedy presented Gavin's arguments to the National Security Council, then advised him that the U.S. still objected to the whole notion. But White House...
...Gavin was admitted to the frosty presence of President de Gaulle as often as a U.S. ambassador might expect to be, and French newspapers never failed to point out that his first visit to France was on Dday, by jump with his 82nd Airborne Division. Last week France's most influential newspaper, Le Monde, warmly praised "his profound learning, his total honesty, his devotion to his duty...
...basic reason for Gavin's resignation involved neither policy nor performance. It was mostly a matter of money. A career soldier, who had served only briefly (1958-61) as a top executive of the industrial research firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Gavin, at 55, was worried about educating his four young daughters and building an estate. As ambassador, he drew an annual salary of $27,500 and had been given an increased expense allowance of $25,650−but in today's era of mass wine-and-dine diplomacy, he was losing money...