Robert Richardson Bowie(August 24, 1909 – November 2, 2013) was an American diplomat and scholar.
Robert R. Bowie | |
|---|---|
| 3rdDirector of Policy Planning | |
| In office May 28, 1953 – August 2, 1957 | |
| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Paul H. Nitze |
| Succeeded by | Gerard C. Smith |
| 15thCounselor of the United States Department of State | |
| In office September 21, 1966 – April 1, 1968 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | Walt Whitman Rostow |
| Succeeded by | Richard F. Pedersen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 24, 1909 Baltimore, Maryland,U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 2013(aged 104) Towson, Maryland,U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University Harvard University |
Bowie graduated fromPrinceton Universityin 1931 and received a law degree fromHarvard Universityin 1934 and turned down offers to work as a corporate lawyer with New York's major law firms, returning toBaltimoreto work in his father's law firm, Bowie and Burke. He served in the U.S. Army (1942–1946) as a commissioned officer with the Pentagon and in occupied Germany from 1945 until 1946. In 1946 he resigned as a lieutenant-colonel. He taught at Harvard from 1946-1955. The youngest professor of the school, he was a trusted confidant toJohn J. McCloy,the "unofficial chairman of the American establishment." During periods of leave from Harvard between 1950 and 1952 Bowie worked for McCloy as one of his legal advisers inWest Germany.[1]
He served asDirector of Policy Planningfrom 1953–1957; co-founder, withHenry Kissinger,of Harvard'sCenter for International Affairs(1958); Counselor for the State Department from 1966-1968. He was a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations,theTrilateral Commission,theAmerican Law Institute,and theAmerican Academy of Diplomacy.He is a recipient of theLegion of Meritand the Commander's Cross of theOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]
He served asCIAchief National Intelligence Officer from 1977-1979.
He died at the age of 104 in November 2013.[3]
Books
edit- Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy,by Robert R. Bowie andRichard H. Immerman,Oxford UP, 1998,ISBN0-19-506264-7.Endnotes
- Suez, 1956,Oxford UP
- Shaping the Future: Foreign Policy in an Age of Transition,Columbia UP
References
edit- ^McFadzean, Andrew (1 July 1999)."Interviews With Robert Bowie: The Use of Oral Testimony in Writing the Biography of Professor Robert Richardson Bowie, Washington Policy Planner and Harvard University Professor".The Oral History Review.26(2).The Oral History Association:29–46.doi:10.1093/ohr/26.2.29.
- ^"OF NOTE: AWARDS: Robert Bowie Receives the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany".Centerpiece: Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.23(2). Spring 2009. Archived fromthe originalon February 15, 2012.
- ^"Professor Robert R. Bowie dies at 104".Harvard Gazette.Harvard University. 6 November 2013.Retrieved3 March2018.
External links
edit- Bio from the Eisenhower Memorial Commission
- Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- 100th Birthday Celebration[permanent dead link]
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