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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | Llewellyn E. Thompson |
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, Colorado , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 24, 1904
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| Died | February 06, 1972
(67 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Llewellyn E. ("Tommy") Thompson Jr. served a total of seven years in Moscow in two separate tours under three Presidents; Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. The son of a Colorado rancher, he joined the Foreign Service in 1928 and served his first tour in Moscow during World War II, staying in the city while the Embassy was evacuated to Kuybyshev. Few Ambassadors to Moscow faced as many crises as Thompson - the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Sverdlovsk; a confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Berlin; the building of the Berlin Wall; difficult summits between Khruschev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; and tensions over the Vietnam War. In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thompson, as an Ambassador-at-Large in Washington, was a member of President John F. Kennedy's Executive Committee (ExComm), advising the President. There were also steps toward better relations, particularly during Thompson's second tour. At Thompson's suggestion, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S. in 1959. Thompson helped arrange the 1967 meeting in U.S. between President Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, after the Six-Day War in the Middle East. In 1967, the Soviet Union and U.S. agreed to begin cooperation in space, with the joint Soyuz-Apollo program. The first treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed on July 1, 1968. Thompson's wife, Jane Monroe Goelet, an artist, originated the State Department's Art in Embassies Program at Spaso House.
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