Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Armstrong, Oscar Vance, Political Advisor to CINPAC until July 1973; Director of People’s Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs from July 1973; Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1976
  • Armstrong, Willis C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until April 16, 1974
  • Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until April 1974
  • Barnes, Thomas J., senior member of the NSC staff from August 1975 until September 1976
  • Bhutto, Begum Nusrat, wife of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, mother of Benazir Bhutto
  • Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, President of Pakistan until August 14, 1973, then Prime Minister
  • Brandt, Willy, Chancellor of the FRG (West Germany) until May 6, 1974
  • Brezhnev, Leonid, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Bruce, David K.E., Head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing from May 14, 1973 until September 25, 1974; Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from October 17, 1974 until February 12, 1976
  • Burger, Warren E., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Burns, Dr. Arthur F., Chairman, Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
  • Bush, George H.W., Representative to the United Nations from February 16, 1971 until January 18, 1973; Head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing from October 21, 1974 until December 7, 1975; Director of Central Intelligence from January 30, 1976
  • Butz, Earl L., Secretary of Agriculture until 1976
  • Cai Weiping (Tsai Wei-ping), ROC Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Ceausescu, Nicolae, First Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party; President of Romania
  • Chang Chun-chiao, see Zhang Chunqiao
  • Chang Wen-chin, see Zhang Wenjin
  • Chi P’eng-fei, see Ji Pengfei
  • Chiang Ching, see Jiang Qing
  • Chiang Ching-kuo, see Jiang Jingguo
  • Chiang Kai-shek, see Jiang Jieshi
  • Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, see Jiang Jieshi, Madame
  • Chiao Kuan-hua, see Qiao Guanhua
  • Chien Fu (Fredrick F.), Director-General of the ROC Government Information Office from 1972
  • Chou En-lai, see Zhou Enlai
  • Chow Shu-kai, see Zhou Shukai
  • Chu Te, see Zhu De
  • Colby, William E., Director of Central Intelligence from September 4, 1973 until January 30, 1976
  • Davis, Jeanne W., Staff Secretary, NSC Staff Secretariat after 1971
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France from January 8, 1959 until April 28, 1969
  • Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p’ing), Vice Premier of State Council after 1973
  • Dent, Frederick B., Secretary of Commerce until April 1975
  • Dobrynin, Anatoly Fedorovich, Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Douglas-Home, Sir Alexander Frederick, British Foreign Secretary until March 4, 1974
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State from January 21, 1953 until April 22, 1959
  • Eagleburger, Lawrence S., member of NSC staff from June 1973; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State from October 1973; Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Management from February 1975 until May 1975; Under Secretary of Management for Management from May 1975
  • Ehrlichman, John D., Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs until May 1973
  • Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State until September 26, 1973
  • Flanigan, Peter, Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy, Executive Office of the President
  • Ford, Gerald R., Republican Congressman from Michigan until 1973; House Minority Leader until 1973; Vice President from October 13, 1973 until August 8, 1974; President from August 8, 1974 until January 20, 1977
  • Franco, Francisco, Spanish head of state until 1975
  • Freeman, Charles W., Jr., Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs until July 1973
  • Froebe, John A., Jr., assigned to the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island Desk, Bureau of East Asian Affairs, Department of State, but actually on the NSC staff beginning in 1971; formally detailed to the NSC in January 1974; left NSC staff in August 1975
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas until 1974; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until 1974
  • Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India
  • Gates, Thomas S., Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Peking with a personal rank as Ambassador from April 14, 1976
  • Gleysteen, William H., Jr., Deputy Chief of Mission, Taipei, until 1974; Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from September 1974; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Japan-Korea-Republic of China-People Republic of China from October 1975; NSC Staff from August 1976
  • Granger, Clinton E., Member of the NSC staff from August 1974 until September 1976
  • Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 10, 1973
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
  • Habib, Philip C., Ambassador to Korea until August 19, 1974; Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from September 27, 1974 until June 30, 1976; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from July 1, 1976
  • Haig, General Alexander M., Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff from January to August 1973; Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff from August 1973 to August 1974
  • Han Hsu, see Han Xu
  • Han Xu (Han Hsu), Deputy Head of the PRC Liaison Office in the United States from 1973
  • Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister until March 4, 1974
  • Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence until February 2, 1973; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1973–1976
  • Hill, Robert C., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1973 until 1974; Ambassador to Argentina from 1974
  • Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese Workers Party (later the Vietnamese Communist Party)
  • Holdridge, John Herbert, member of the NSC Operations Staff/East Asia until April 1973; Co-Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing from 1973 to 1975; Ambassador to Singapore from August 1975
  • Hormats, Robert, member of the NSC Operations Staff/International Economic Affairs from 1970 until 1973
  • Howe, Lt. Cmdr. Jonathan, member of the NSC staff from 1970 to 1973
  • Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng), Member of Politburo from 1973; Premier of PRC from 1976; Chairman of Chinese Communist Party from 1976
  • Hua Kuo-feng, see Hua Guofeng
  • Huang Chen, see Huang Zhen
  • Huang Hua, Chief Delegate to the Security Council and PRC Ambassador to the United Nations until October 1976
  • Huang Zhen (Huang Chen), PRC Ambassador to France until March 1973; Chief of the PRC Liaison Office in the United States from March 1973
  • Hummel, Arthur W., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until 1975; Ambassador to Ethiopia from February 20, 1975 until July 6, 1976; Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from July 12, 1976 until March 14, 1977
  • Hyland, William G., member of the NSC Operations Staff/Europe until 1974; Director of INR from January 1974 until November 1975; Deputy Assistant to the President from November 1975 until April 1976
  • Ingersoll, Robert Stephen, Ambassador to Japan until November 8, 1973; Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from January 8, 1974 until July 9, 1974; Deputy Secretary of State from July 10, 1974 until March 31, 1976
  • Jackson, Henry M. (“Scoop”), Democratic Senator from Washington State
  • Jenkins, Alfred le Sesne, Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, until February 1973, co-Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing from early 1973 until May 1974
  • Ji Pengfei (Chi P’eng-fei), PRC Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs until April 1971; Acting Foreign Minister until February 1972; Foreign Minister from February 1972 to November 1974
  • Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), President of the ROC until April 5, 1975; Chairman, ROC National Security Council until 1975; Director-General, Kuomintang, until 1975
  • Jiang Jieshi, Madame (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), wife of Jiang Jieshi; born Song Meiling (Soong Mayling)
  • Jiang Jingguo (Chiang Ching-kuo), son of Jiang Jieshi; ROC Premier
  • Jiang Qing (Chiang Ching), wife of Mao Zedong; member of the CCP Politburo until October 1976
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States from November 22, 1963 until January 20, 1969
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until February 1, 1973
  • Kennedy, Col. Richard T., Deputy Assistant to the President for NSC planning from 1973 until 1975
  • Khan, Agha Muhammad Yahya, President of Pakistan until December 20, 1971
  • Kim Il-sung (Kim Il Sung), President (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly) of the DPRK and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
  • Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until November 3, 1975; Secretary of State from September 21, 1973 to January 20, 1977
  • Kosygin, Alexei N., Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Premier) of the Soviet Union
  • Kubisch, Jack B., Deputy Chief of Mission in Paris until May 1973
  • Kuznetsov, Vasily V., Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister
  • Lai Mingtang (Lai Ming-tong), ROC Chief of the General Staff, MND, from 1970
  • Lai Ming-tong, see Lai Mingtang
  • Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense until January 29, 1973
  • Le Duan, General Secretary of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party (later the Vietnamese Communist Party)
  • Le Duc Tho, member of the Politburo of the DRV (North Vietnam) and leader of the DRV negotiating team in Paris until 1973
  • Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
  • Li Hsien-nien, see Li Xiannian
  • Li Xiannian (Li Hsien-nien), Vice Premier of the PRC State Council until 1975
  • Lincoln, George, Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness until 1974
  • Lin Biao (Lin Piao), PRC Minister of Defense from 1959 until September 1971; Vice Chairman of the CCP Central Committee (Politburo) until September 1971
  • Lin Piao, see Lin Biao
  • Lon Nol, President of the Khmer Republic until 1975
  • Lord, Winston, member of the NSC staff until 1973; Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State from October 1973
  • Malik, Adam, Indonesian Foreign Minister
  • Malik, Yakov Alexandrovich, Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations until 1976
  • Magnuson, Warren, Democratic Senator from Washington State
  • Mansfield, Michael, Democratic Senator from Montana until 1976, Senate Majority Leader until 1976
  • Mao Tse-tung, see Mao Zedong
  • Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Marchais, Georges, head of the French Communist Party
  • McConaughy, Walter P., Jr., Ambassador to the ROC until April 4, 1974
  • McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations, and Special Assistant to the Secretary, until May 1973; Ambassador to Cyprus in 1973 and 1974; Ambassador at Large and Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, 1975–1976
  • McFarlane, Robert C. (“Bud”), Military Assistant to the National Security Adviser from 1973 until 1977 (promoted to Special Assistant to the President in 1976)
  • McGovern, George, Democratic Senator from South Dakota
  • Mitterand, Francois, French Socialist politician
  • Moorer, Adm. Thomas H., USN Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1, 1974
  • Moynihan, Daniel P., Ambassador to India until 1975; U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN from 1975 until 1976
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal, Leader of India’s Congress Party and Prime Minister from 1947 to 1964
  • Nessen, Ron, Press Secretary to President Gerald Ford
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) until April 21, 1975
  • Nguyen Co Thach, Vice-Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States from January 20, 1969, to August 9, 1974
  • Ohira, Masayoshi, Japanese Foreign Minister until July 12, 1974
  • Park Chung Hee (Pak Chong-hui), President of the ROK (South Korea)
  • Pauls, Rolf, West German Ambassador to the United States until May 1973
  • Phouma, Souvanna, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos until 1975
  • Pickering, Thomas R., Executive Secretary of State and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from August 1973
  • Platt, Nicholas, Deputy Director, and then Director, of the Secretariat Staff, Department of State, until May 1973; political officer in USLO from May 1973 until January 1974; stationed in Japan from July 1974
  • Podgorny, Nikolai V., President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
  • Pompidou, Georges, President of France until April 3, 1974
  • Qiao Guanhua (Chiao Kuan-hua), Deputy [Vice] Foreign Minister of the PRC until November 1974; Foreign Minister from November 1974 until December 1976
  • Rahman, Mujibur, Prime Minister of Bangladesh until 1975
  • Richardson, Elliot L., Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare until January 1973; Secretary of Defense from January 30 to May 24, 1973; Attorney General from May to October 1973; Ambassador to Great Britain from 1975 until 1976
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A., Governor of New York until 1973; Vice-President of the United States from December 19, 1974 until January 20, 1977
  • Rodman, Peter W., member of the NSC staff
  • Rogers, William P., Secretary of State until September 3, 1973
  • Rumsfeld, Donald, Counselor to the President until January 1973; Ambassador to NATO from 1973 until 1974; Secretary of Defense from November 20, 1975
  • Rush, Kenneth, Deputy Secretary of Defense until January 29, 1973; Deputy Secretary of State from February 2, 1973 until May 29, 1974
  • Sadat, Anwar, President of Egypt
  • Sato, Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan until July 6, 1972
  • Scali, John, Special Consultant to the President until 1973, U.S. Representative to the United Nations from 1973 to 1975
  • Scheel, Walter, West German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister until May 6, 1974
  • Schlesinger, James R., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission until February 1973; Director of Central Intelligence from February 2 until July 2, 1973; Secretary of Defense from July 2, 1973 until November 19, 1975
  • Schmidt, Helmut, West German Minister of Finance until May 6, 1974; Chancellor from 1974
  • Schumann, Maurice, French Foreign Minister until March 28, 1973
  • Scott, Hugh, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, Minority Leader
  • Scowcroft, Brent, Military Assistant to the President until 1973, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from August 1973 until 1975, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from November 3, 1975 until January 20, 1977
  • Shen, James C. H., ROC Ambassador to the United States
  • Shultz, George P., Secretary of the Treasury until April 17, 1974
  • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Cambodian leader of a government-in-exile in Beijing until 1975
  • Sirik Matak (Sisowath Sirik Matak, sometimes spelled Sivik), Prince and cousin of Norodom Sihanouk; ally of Lon Nol; Deputy Prime Minister, then member of the High Political Council, from 1970 to 1974
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until February 18, 1974; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 19, 1974 until June 30, 1976
  • Smyser, W. Richard, senior staff member of the NSC from 1973 until 1975
  • Sneider, Richard L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until September 1974; Ambassador to Korea from September 1974
  • Solomon, Richard H., senior staff member of the NSC until 1976
  • Song Zhangzhi (Soong Chang-chih), ROC Commander-in-Chief
  • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, member of the NSC Operations Staff/Europe until January 1974; Counselor to the State Department, 1974–1977
  • Springsteen, George S., Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary of State until August 1973; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from August 1973 until January 1974; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department from January 1974 until July 1976; Director of the Foreign Service Institute from July 1976
  • Stein, Herbert, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors until July 1974
  • Stoessel, Walter J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until January 7, 1974
  • Suharto, Mohammed, President of Indonesia
  • Sullivan, William H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until July 1973; Ambassador to the Philippines from July 1973 until 1977
  • Sun Yunxuan (Sun Yun-suan), ROC Minister of Economic Affairs
  • Symington, Stuart, Democratic Senator from Missouri
  • Tanaka, Kakuei, Prime Minister of Japan until December 9, 1974
  • Teng Hsiao-p’ing, see Deng Xiaoping
  • Thayer, Harry E. T., Member of the US Delegation to the UN General Assembly in 1973 and 1974; Posted in Peking in May 1975; Deputy Director of the Office of PRC and Mongolian Affairs from August 1976
  • Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Tsai Wei-ping, see Cai Weiping
  • Unger, Leonard, Ambassador to Thailand until November 19, 1973; Ambassador to ROC from May 25, 1974
  • Waldheim, Kurt, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Weinberger, Caspar W., Director of OMB, 1972; Secretary of Health Education and Welfare from 1973 until 1975
  • Whitlam, Gough, Prime Minister of Australia until November 11, 1975
  • Xuan Thuy, Foreign Minister of the DRV (North Vietnam) from 1963 to 1965, Chief Delegate to Paris Peace talks from 1968 to 1970
  • Yan Jiagan (Yen Chia-kan), Vice President of the ROC
  • Yang Hsi-kun, see Yang Xikun
  • Yang Xikun (Yang Hsi-kun), ROC Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Ye Jianying (Yeh Chien-ying), Marshall, member of the Central Committee and Politburo; Defense Minister from 1975
  • Yen Chia-kan, see Yan Jiagan
  • Yeh Chien-ying, see Ye Jianying
  • Zhang Chunqiao (Chang Chun-chiao), Politburo member until 1976, Vice Premier from January 1975 until October 1976
  • Zhang Wenjin (Chang Wen-chin), Assistant to the PRC Foreign Minister until September 1973
  • Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai), Premier of the PRC until January 8, 1976; member, Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Bureau until 1976
  • Zhou Shukai (Chow Shu-kai), ROC Minister without Portfolio
  • Zhu De (Chu Teh), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples Congress until 1976
  • Ziegler, Ronald, White House Press Secretary until 1974