Reminiscences of Robert Thayer, 1972

Biographical Note

Diplomat, ambassador

Scope and Contents

United States embassy in Paris, 1951-1954; State Department, European section, 1954; Ambassador to Romania, 1955-58; Suez crisis, cold war, Rumanian-United States relations; Assistant Secretary for Education and Cultural Affairs, 1958-1963, cultural exchanges; impressions of John Foster Dulles and Harold Stassen

Subjects

• Ambassadors--Interviews.
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomats--Interviews.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Interviews.
• Luter, John, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Romania--History--1944-1989.
• Thayer, Robert Helyer, 1901-1984--Interviews.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States. Department of State.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976