Oral history interview with Richard N. Gardner, 2002.

Biographical Note

United Nations--Special Advisor; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Ambassador to Italy and Spain.

Scope and Contents

(Born 1927); background and childhood: childhood in New York, single child, lawyer father, housewife mother, concerned with ethical values and social justice in the home; education: ethical cultural school in NY, the Fieldston School, 1941-44, B.A., Economics, Harvard College, 1944-48, Yale Law School, Ph.D., Economics, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University; career: deputy assistant secretary of state for international organizational affairs, 1961-65, UN ambassador to Italy, 1977-81, special advisor to UN at Rio Earth Summit, 1992, UN ambassador to Spain, 1993-97, public delegate to the Millennium General Assembly, 2000, Columbia Law School professor; writings: In Pursuit of World Order, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy; personal: wife; proponent of family planning and constrained population growth for fostering economic development, human rights, political stability, environmental protection; proponent of providing food for the poor; proponent of climate change and environmental reform

Subjects

• Ambassadors--United States--Interviews.
• Columbia University. School of Law--Faculty--Interviews.
• Economic development.
• Environmental policy.
• Gardner, Richard N.--Interviews.
• Human rights.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Population.
• United Nations--History.
• United Nations--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992 :--Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2002