Tributes
Dick Murphy Celebration of Life Remarks By Bill Burns – March 1, 2025 “Dick Murphy’s humanity shone through in NEA,…
Your Diplomats at Work: A Comedy in Seven Acts
This book is an account of the author’s sometimes comical, sometimes frustrating, but always enlightening adventures as a diplomat in…
Fifty Years of U.S. Africa Policy: Reflections of Assistant Secretaries for African Affairs and U.S. Embassy Officials
Fifteen men and women have occupied the position of Assistant Secretary for African Affairs. They charted the course of U.S.…
Rescuing Americans from East Berlin
Rescuing Americans from East Berlin William J. Dyess, a native of Troy, Alabama, and a University of Alabama graduate, joined…
Issuing the Visa that Would Save a Jewish Girl
Issuing the Visa that Would Save a Jewish Girl Richard H. Davis, a young Foreign Service officer from Chautauqua County,…
Stopping the Spread of Ebola
Stopping the Spread of Ebola When Ebola threatened the Ghanaian capital of Accra in 2014, it posed a risk to…
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal
Getting Past The Interpreter To Clinch an Aircraft Deal U.S. Ambassadors are often asked to weigh in on a big…
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War”
Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Argentina’s “Dirty War” Franklyn Allen Harris, known to his colleagues as “Tex,” was born in…
Early Warnings of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Early Warnings of the Attack on Pearl Harbor Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop was born in Gravette, Arkansas, grew up in…
Escaping the Political Police in Communist Hungary
Escaping the Political Police in Communist Hungary Harrison Lewis was born in Amarillo, Texas and grew up in Los Angeles,…