Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Acheson, Dean, former Secretary of State; adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany until October 17, 1963
  • Akalovsky, Alexander, Department of State interpreter
  • Alphand, Hervé, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Anderson, Clinton P., Democratic Senator from New Mexico
  • Barber, Arthur W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Arms and Trade Control)
  • Bell, David E., Director, Bureau of the Budget, January 1961-December 1962; Administrator, Agency for International Development, from December 21, 1962
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until September 4, 1962; Ambassador to France from October 27, 1962
  • Bowles, Chester B., Under Secretary of State, January 25-December 3, 1961; President’s Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, December 4, 1961-June 9, 1963; Ambassador to India from July 19, 1963
  • Brown, Harold, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
  • Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1961
  • Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Ambassador to the United States until September 1961; British Permanent Under Secretary of State from 1962
  • Cleveland, Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 23, 1961
  • de Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • de Murville, Couve, French Foreign Minister
  • Dean, Arthur, Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee at Geneva until December 27, 1962
  • Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States from March 13, 1963
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Under Secretary of State until January 4, 1961; Secretary of the Treasury from January 21, 1961
  • Dirksen, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois
  • Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 29, 1961
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961
  • Farley, Philip J., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space
  • Fisher, Adrian S., Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1961
  • Foster, William C., Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from October 6, 1961
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1961
  • Godber, Joseph B., British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the British Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee
  • Goodby, James E., Officer in Charge, Nuclear Test Negotiations
  • Gore, Albert, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Gullion, Edmund A., Acting Deputy Director of the U.S. Disarmament Administration until 1961; Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo from August 3, 1961
  • Hailsham, Viscount Quinton M.H., British Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science and Technology; also British representative at the test ban treaty negotiations at Moscow, July 1963
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at Large, February 13-December 3, 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, December 4, 1961-April 3, 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Haworth, Leland J., Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Hickenlooper, Bourke B., Republican Senator from Iowa
  • Holifield, Chet, Democratic Representative from California and Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
  • Home, Lord Alexander Frederick Douglas, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until October 20, 1963; thereafter Prime Minister
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, British Minister to the United States until December 1962; thereafter British Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Hosmer, Craig, Republican Representative from California
  • Humprey, Hubert H., Democratic Senator from Minnesota
  • Jackson, Henry M., Democratic Senator from Washington
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Democratic Senator from Texas until January 20, 1961; Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1961-November 22, 1963; thereafter President
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from May 2, 1961
  • Kaysen, Carl, President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from November 1961
  • Keeny, Spurgeon M., Jr., National Security Council Staff member from January 1961
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States, January 20, 1961, until his assassination on November 22, 1963
  • Kent, Sherman, Assistant Director and Chairman, Board of National Estimates, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeivich, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until August 19, 1962; Ambassador to the Soviet Union from September 27, 1962
  • Komer, Robert W., National Security Council Staff member from January 1961
  • Kuznetsov, Vasili Vasilievich, First Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister
  • LeMay, General Curtis E., Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
  • Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, until September 30, 1962
  • Long, Dr. Franklin, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until October 20, 1963
  • Mansfield, Michael J., Democratic Senator from Montana and Senate Majority Leader
  • McCloy, John J., President’s Adviser on Disarmament
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 29, 1961
  • McCormack, John W., Democratic Representative from Massachusetts and Speaker of the House
  • McDermott, Edward A., Deputy Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, until September 22, 1961; Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Planning, September 22, 1961-February 2, 1962; thereafter Director
  • McGhee, George C., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman, Policy Planning Council, February 16-December 3, 1961; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, December 4, 1961-March 27, 1963; Ambassador to Germany from May 18, 1963
  • McGovern, George, Director, Office of Food for Peace, January 1961-April 1962
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 21, 1961
  • McNaughton, John T., General Counsel, Department of Defense, from July 5, 1962
  • Murrow, Edward R., Director of the U.S. Information Agency from March 15, 1961
  • Myrdal, Alva, head of the Swedish Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Conference
  • Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, January 29, 1961-November 29, 1963; thereafter Secretary of the Navy
  • Ormsby Gore, David (Lord Harlech), British Ambassador to the United States from October 26, 1961
  • Pastore, John O., Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
  • Penney, Sir William, Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
  • Price, Benjamin, Chief Science Officer, British Ministry of Defense
  • Price, Charles M., Democratic Representative from Illinois
  • Rostow, Walt Whitman, President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, January-November 1961; Counselor and Chairman, Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from November 29, 1961
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 21, 1961
  • Russell, Richard B., Democratic Senator from Georgia
  • Saltonstall, Leverett, Republican Senator from Massachusetts
  • Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., President’s Special Assistant from January 1961
  • Schroeder, Gerhard, West German Foreign Minister from November 14, 1961
  • Scoville, Herbert, Jr., Assistant Director, Bureau of Science and Technology, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • Seaborg, Glenn T., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from March 1, 1961
  • Smith, Bromley, Executive Officer, Operations Coordinating Board, until February 1961; Acting Executive Secretary, National Security Council, June-August 1961; thereafter Executive Secretary
  • Spaak, Paul-Henri, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until March 5, 1961; Belgian Foreign Minister from April 25, 1961
  • Stelle, Charles C., U.S. Deputy Representative at the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests until 1962; Deputy Representative to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Conference, 1962-1963
  • Stevenson, Adlai E., III, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 23, 1961
  • Symington, Stuart, Democratic Senator from Missouri
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., President’s Military Representative, July 1, 1961-October 1, 1962; thereafter Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Thant, U, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, November 3, 1961-November 30, 1962; thereafter Secretary-General
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union until July 27, 1962; Ambassador at Large from October 3, 1962
  • Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Tsarapkin, Semen Konstantinovich, Soviet Representative to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee
  • Tyler, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 24, 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from September 2, 1962
  • Van Zandt, James E., Republican Representative from Pennsylvania until January 1963
  • Wiesner, Jerome B., President’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology
  • Zorin, Valerian A., Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations until 1962; Soviet Representative to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, 1962