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Jun 15, 2024 · Harriman served as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1946, where he served as the chief presidential envoy to Josef Stalin, and was influential in foreign policy affairs in the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. Harriman was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 but lost to Adlai Stevenson. In 1954 ...
3 days ago · William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat.
Jun 5, 2024 · Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Genealogy for David Anthony Kennedy (1955 - 1984) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Jun 18, 2024 · Douglas Kennedy ’76 admitted to stifling a sob as he watched the last remaining “wizened American veterans of the Normandy landings being brought out onstage in wheelchairs,”* the youngest of whom must have been at least ninety-eight years old.
4 days ago · Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968.
Jun 12, 2024 · After his appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in the Kennedy administration, Harriman was tasked with facilitating an alliance between Laos’s neutralist leader Souvanna Phouma and right-wing generals favored by the CIA in order to undercut the left-wing Pathet Lao.
3 days ago · For his running mate, Truman accepted Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley after his preferred candidate, Justice William O. Douglas, turned down the nomination.
