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Despite numerous importunings from on high, flatly refused to ... cast a cloak of national security over the guilty parties. At the critical moment he ... refused to involve the Agency and bluntly informed the highest levels of the executive that further insistence from that quarter would result in
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I told that on the day I went to work at the CIA I had hung on the wall of my office a color photograph showing the view through the window of my home in Florida. When people asked me what it was, I told them was what was waiting if anyone squeezed me too
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allies. His language skills helped him win Truman's confidence, and he accompanied the President to the Pacific in the early 1950s, serving as a key aide in Truman's unsuccessful effort to reach a reconciliation with an insubordinate General
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said "I can't think of anyone who has had a more extraordinary career. Who's been to all the places that Dick Walters has been to?" Walters said "I think I tell a lot" in his autobiography, but believe me, I couldn't tell the half of it".
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Nixon had favored Walters since together surviving the 1958 Caracas attack. As president, Nixon appointed Walters as Deputy Director for Central Intelligence (DDCI) in 1972. (Following the abbreviated incumbency of
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had said previously about this: "a nuclear free zone would be unacceptable to the US given our strategic needs (...) the US must do everything possible to counter this movement". Walters spoke with Bavadra and
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into France for secret meetings with a senior North Vietnamese official, and then smuggle him out again. He accomplished this by borrowing a private airplane from an old friend, French President
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During the 1990s, after he had again retired from public life, Walters worked as a business consultant and was active on the lecture circuit. On November 18, 1991, he was presented with the
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In later years he seemed to enjoy reflecting on the fact that he had risen high and accomplished much despite an almost total lack of formal education.
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Alan Goodman discuses the role of the United States at the UN and the UN's contributions to American foreign policy with Vernon Walters, on
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wrote in 1985 that despite being unknown to the public, "no one has been closer to this country's foreign affairs since World War II".
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fluently, but, as he joked, inaccurately, and knew the basics of several other languages. His simultaneous translation of a speech by
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Walters was a bachelor, stating that he "married the U.S. government a long time ago". Upon his death in 2002 he was buried in
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While serving as a military attaché in Paris from 1967 to 1972, Walters played a role in secret peace talks with
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with his family. His formal education beyond elementary school consisted only of boarding school instruction at
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at the Pacific Islands Luncheon, Kahala Hilton Hotel, Hawaii, February 10, 1982, cited in the 1989 paper by
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Walters in the Reagan Cabinet 1989 as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, back row, third from right
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from 1989 to 1991, being responsible on behalf of the United States for the preparations of the
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summit conferences. During this period he participated in the famous visit of Eisenhower to
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to say to Nixon, "You gave a magnificent speech, but your interpreter was eloquent."
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He served as an aide and interpreter for several Presidents. He was at President
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Walters himself reflected on those challenging days in his 1978 autobiography
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Deputy directors of Central Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency
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came to office. Bavadra wanted to create a nuclear-free zone in Fiji.
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serving at Camp Ritchie. Soon after he was commissioned. He served in
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Permanent Representatives of the United States to the United Nations
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Officials say pope, Reagan shared Cold War data, but lacked alliance
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The Mighty and the Meek: Dispatches from the Front Line of Diplomacy
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and other top US officials as a translator and aide at a series of
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ended Walter's first retirement from public life. He served as
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Walters joined the Army in 1941 and was one of the over 12,000
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Autobiografia di una Repubblica. Le radici dell'Italia attuale
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Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary
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Walters in 1972 as Deputy Director for Central Intelligence
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Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
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Attaché Extraordinaire: Vernon A. Walters and Brazil
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Deputy directors of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Autobiography, Publisher, Doubleday 1978; 1258:Vernon Walters – Renaissance Man In Memoriam 795:Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe 573:(January 3, 1917 – February 10, 2002) was a 3378:Ambassadors of the United States to Germany 1499:George Bush Presidential Library and Museum 3463:American expatriates in the United Kingdom 3085:Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 2766: 2752: 2546: 2532: 2252: 2238: 1818: 1804: 1108:, vol. 7, no. 36 (1993), pp. 158–67. 1089:, vol. 11, no. 3 (1989), pp. 136–39. 157:October 3, 1990 – August 18, 1991 131: 3413:People of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1548:Dwight D. 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London: St. Ermine's Press (2001). 1044: 706:Walters in 1976 as Lieutenant General 1858:Embassy of the United States, Berlin 1834:United States Ambassadors to Germany 1424: 1340:Bono, Agostino (November 17, 2004), 1339: 1082:"1988: A Year of Success at the UN." 928: 840:had participated in the Government. 804:in 1958 when an anti-American crowd 47:adding citations to reliable sources 18: 1760:United States Ambassador to Germany 1731:United States Ambassador to Germany 1418: 1354: 1309:"Vernon Walters, Back in His World" 1294: 793:headquarters and helped set up the 389:May 2, 1972 – July 2, 1976 145:United States Ambassador to Germany 13: 3383:American people of British descent 1504: 1361:Kelley, Tina (February 15, 2002), 1321:from the original on April 4, 2017 692: 607:Military Intelligence Hall of Fame 14: 3479: 3368:20th-century American politicians 3204: 1525: 1479:This work is in the public domain 3293:Ambassador to the United Nations 3243:Director of Central Intelligence 2819: 2679: 2502: 2269: 1883: 1837: 1827: 1656:Director of Central Intelligence 1530: 1464:Burial Detail: Walters, Vernon A 1197:London: SW Pictures (2011). via 697: 541: 523: 324:Director of Central Intelligence 23: 3458:20th-century American diplomats 3443:United States military attachés 1853:Germany–United States relations 1475:A tribute by Henry R. 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(1997). 1049:Walters was portrayed by 1030:. He wrote another book, 953:During the presidency of 849:National Security Advisor 847:. He arranged to smuggle 589:and from 1989 to 1991 as 564: 554: 536: 518: 513: 499: 482: 462: 457: 453: 441: 429: 407: 393: 382: 374: 362: 350: 340: 329: 321: 309: 297: 287: 276: 268: 251: 239: 229: 218: 211: 199: 171: 161: 150: 143: 139: 130: 123: 3448:American Roman Catholics 3373:20th-century translators 2973:Secretary of Agriculture 1991:Ambassador Extraordinary 1868:Minister Plenipotentiary 1275:digital-library.usma.edu 1070: 861: 815: 493:West Palm Beach, Florida 2581:William Harding Jackson 1451:The Mighty and the Meek 1291:(Donzelli, 2009), p. 54 1199:Alexander Street Press. 1032:The Mighty and the Meek 677:United States President 3166:Secretary of Education 1579:Full testimony (video) 1425:Blum, William (2002). 950: 938: 926: 913: 900:Letelier assassination 871: 707: 571:Vernon Anthony Walters 2998:Secretary of Commerce 2611:Robert E. 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