Reminiscences of Richard Townsend Davies : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Diplomat.

Scope and Contents

Early Foreign Service assignments: Warsaw, 1947-49, Moscow, 1952-53, Kabul, 1955-58; Public Affairs officer, State Department, 1958-61: Nixon's trip to Eastern Europe, Khrushchev's trip to America; director, Soviet and Eastern Europe Section, United States Information Agency, 1965-68: trade fairs and uses of propaganda; Ambassador, Poland 1972-76; disagreement with George Keenan's containment policy and attempt to publishe controversial article, "After Containment, What?", 1952; John F. Kennedy and creation of Operation Center; role of Robert F. Kennedy in Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis; Nixon-Kissinger Soviet policy: Soviet Jewry, aborted defection of Simas Kudirka; impressions of George Keenan, Angus Ward, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nikita Khrushchev, Henry Kissinger, Llewellyn Thompson.

Subjects

• Ambassadors--United States--Interviews.
• Davies, Richard T. (Richard Townsend), 1920-2005.
• Diplomacy--United States.
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Poland--Foreign relations--United States.
• Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States--Foreign relations--Poland.
• United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
• United States. Department of State.
• United States. Foreign Service.
• United States Information Agency.

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