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Schaffer highlights Bunker’s seasoned views on the craft of diplomacy, explains the principal “rules” of negotiating strategy Bunker employed, and in the process demonstrates the importance of the personal factor in diplomacy.
Bunker was named ambassador to Argentina by President Harry Truman in 1951 and went on to serve every president from Eisenhower to Carter–as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and most famously, Vietnam, and as troubleshooting mediator in the Dominican Republic, the Yemen, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
Trustee Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company.
United States ambassador to Argentina, 1951, Italy, 1952-1953, India, 1956-1961, also Nepal, 1956-1959. Member Council on Foreign Relations, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Children: Ellen (Mistress Fernando Gentil), John Birkbeck, Samuel Emmet.
- Father:
- George R.
Bunker
- Mother:
- Jean Polhemus (Cobb) Bunker
- Spouse:
- Harriet Allen Butler
- Spouse:
- Carol C. Laise
- child:
- Samuel Emmet Bunker
- child:
- Ellen Bunker (Mistress Fernando Gentil)
- child:
- John Birkbeck Bunker
.
Decorated grand cross knight Republic of Italy; recipient Presidential Medal of Freedom with Special Distinction, 1963, 68, American Statesman award Freedoms Foundation, 1970, Sylvanus Thayer medal, 1970, General George Catlett Marshall award, 1974, Presidential award for distinguished civilian service, 1979.Trustee Hampton Institute (honorary), Asia Foundation, Experiment in International Living (honorary), Vermont Council on World Affairs (honorary president), Foreign Policy Association (honorary), New School for Social Research (honorary), Bureau Social Science Research, Population Crisis Committee.
Trustee George C. Marshall Foundation. Ambassador to Vietnam, 1967-1973.
Ambassador-at-large, 1973-1978.
Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar America's foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs.
Named ambassador to Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special negotiating missions.
Ambassador-at-large, 1966-1967.
Son of George R. and Jean Polhemus (Cobb) Bunker. Instead, he played a major role under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter in the six-year negotiation of the treaties that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal and in the difficult campaign to ratify them.
Career Foreign Service officer and South Asia expert Howard Schaffer served as ambassador to Bangladesh and twice as deputy assistant secretary of state.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1916, Doctor of Laws, 1959. A widely recognized hawk, Bunker helped shape U.S. policy in Vietnam during his six-year Saigon posting. Director Centennial Insurance Company.
Connections
Married Harriet Allen Butler, April.; married Carol C. Laise, January 3, 1967.
Against the odds, Ellsworth Bunker did not retire when he left Saigon in 1973 on his 79th birthday. Schaffer uses letters Bunker wrote to his wife, Ambassador Carol Laise, and recently declassified exchanges with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in recounting Bunker’s role in the war. Consultant to secretary of state, 1963.
United States representative on council Organization of American States, 1964-1966.
President American National Red Cross, 1953-1956. Schaffer’s insightful and carefully researched biography of this quintessentially American figure fills an important gap in our understanding.”
HENRY A. KISSINGER, former Secretary of State (1973–1977)
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894–1994), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of America’s foremost diplomats–from his formative years as a successful businessman through his long diplomatic career.
Doctor of Laws, Mount Holyoke College, 1962, Windham College, 1963, Georgetown University, 1976, St. Michael’s College, 1978, U. Vermont, 1979.
Career
Director National Sugar Refining Company, 1927-1966, president, 1940, Chairman of the Board, 1948-1951.