Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than three decades, Veteran Negotiator W. Averell Harriman, 82, has helped shape U.S. foreign policy. Among his varied duties, the roving diplomat has served as administrator of the Marshall Plan in Paris, chief negotiator of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and Ambassador to Moscow. Always a blunt and clear-eyed evaluator of Soviet intentions, Harriman recently returned to Moscow for a three-hour private discussion with Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, he discussed the state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...Congressman James Symington quipping, "We have been brought together by the big enchilada of the Democratic Party." Some 750 Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician and diplomat under four...
...Rocky's loyal if colorless Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, 59. It was Wilson who initially pushed Rockefeller toward the executive mansion in 1958 when, as an influential state assemblyman, he took Rocky around to various Republican leaders and trumpeted him as the man who could unseat Democrat Averell Harriman. Now it was finally Wilson's turn to step into the limelight...
...Middle East situation has subsided, it is likely that détente as a whole will also be viewed in a somewhat more cautious and realistic light, at least in Washington. "Most people think of détente as a love affair," observes former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, 81, who has no use for the word. "It isn't that. It just means that a few things have been settled. The trouble with Nixon is that he blows up his successes too high, and then he has to create a crisis to get back to basics again...
...have been heartened by the response to my nomination," he told Sidey, "by telephone calls from people who have disagreed-Averell Harriman, Mac Bundy, John McCloy. It makes me hope we can really unite this country. There are elements of a truly constructive period ahead. If we don't tear ourselves to pieces domestically, we can build something that will last beyond this Administration. It must be built on previous Administrations too. We have brought some major changes, but some of them were open only to us. But they wanted what we wanted...