Reminiscences of Richard Townsend Davies, 1980
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- Name
- Davies, Richard T. (Richard Townsend), 1920-2005 (Interviewee)
- Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Richard Townsend Davies, 1980
- Abstract
- 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 polic y and attempt to publish 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
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Ambassadors--United States; Diplomats--United States; Diplomacy--United States; United States Foreign relations 1945-1989; United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Poland; Poland Foreign relations United States; Davies, Richard T. (Richard Townsend), 1920-2005; United States Information Agency; United States. Foreign Service; United States. Department of State
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1980
- Note (Biographical)
- Diplomat
- Note
- Interviewed by Frederick Peterson Jessup
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15309201
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-hf08-0j35
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.