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I did it this way : from Texas and oil to Oxford, diplomacy, and corporate boards / George C. McGhee.
LIBRA E748.M1485 A3 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGhee, George Crews, 1912-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McGhee, George Crews, 1912-.
- McGhee, George Crews.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Directors of corporations--United States--Biography.
- Directors of corporations.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 310 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Danbury, CT : Rutledge Books, ©2001.
- Contents:
- Heritage and early life
- Professional career
- Three years at Oxford
- Participation in prewar defense
- Navy duty with LeMay's B-29s, bombing Japan
- Aid to Greece and Turkey
- they enter NATO
- Early days of the Arab-Israeli refugee problem
- Envoy to the middle world
- The Tripartite Declaration of 1950
- Anglo-Iranian oil negotiations
- Meetings with Mossadeq
- Ambassador to Turkey
- West New Guinea, Laos and Vietnam, Jupiters in Turkey
- Negotiations with Ramfis Trujillo
- Covert intelligence in Cuba, Iran, and Vietnam
- The Congo crisis
- Five years as ambassador to Germany
- Corporate boards and public service
- Final-policy formulation and negotiation.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McGhee, George Crews, 1912- I did it this way.
- ISBN:
- 1582441391
- 9781582441399
- OCLC:
- 49393620
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