Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep Them Talking. As ambassador to Moscow, succeeding Foy Kohler, Johnson picked Llewellyn E. Thompson, 62, one of the best working Sovietologists in Government. "Tommy" Thompson has spent nine years in the Soviet Union, five of them as ambassador-longer than any other American envoy -speaks fluent Russian, and has been a Kremlin watcher since 1933, when President Roosevelt first recognized the Bolshevist regime...
...Thompson's cold-war technique is the essence of diplomacy: to keep talking when both sides are scarcely on speaking terms and to set a breakneck pace for negotiations at the first sign of a thaw. To win withdrawal of the Red army from Austria, Thompson haggled fruitlessly through 379 meetings for nine years, then achieved agreement in eleven hectic days...
...ambassador to Moscow from 1957 to 1962, Thompson was able to work more closely with Soviet leaders than any other postwar U.S. envoy. His firsthand knowledge of Nikita Khrushchev's mind helped Thompson to divine Moscow's reactions throughout the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He has been the State Department's chief resident negotiator with the Russians ever since...
...Banana. To succeed Thompson as ambassador at large, Johnson named Ellsworth Bunker, 72, a courtly, tough-minded troubleshooter. It was Bunker's Yankee courage and persistence, above all, that brought peace and honest elections to the Dominican Republic in 1966 after its acrid civil war. As an envoy of the Organization of American States, the tall, white-haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...