Meyer, Armin
Ambassador Meyer’s distinguished public career spanned more than thirty tumultuous years of hot and cold war, beginning in World War II with a secret mission to Eritrea and an editing assignment in Cairo for the Office of War Information. In the postwar Foreign Service, his twenty-year involvement in the quest for Middle East peace included postings in Baghdad, Beirut, and the State Department’s Near East Bureau, where he dealt with Nasserism, Hawk missiles, and Arab refugees.
Armin Meyer served as President Kennedy’s ambassador to Beirut during Lebanon’s first peaceful presidential transition. As President Johnson’s ambassador to the Shah’s Iran, he dealt with arms, oil, and the Gulf median line. And he served as President Nixon’s ambassador to Japan during Okinawa’s reversion to Japanese administration, the contentious extension of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, and Nixon’s “China Shock.” He also served as the State Department’s first coordinator for combating terrorism.
