Who is the greatest American diplomat of all time?
Treaties, alliances and back-channel dinners: the people who talked America out of trouble.
1Benjamin Franklin
Talked France into an alliance in 1778 and signed the Treaty of Paris that ended the war.
2Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State who opened relations with China and negotiated the Vietnam withdrawal.
3George C. Marshall
Architect of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe, and a Nobel laureate.
4John Quincy Adams
Negotiated the Treaty of Ghent and drafted the Monroe Doctrine before becoming President.
5Ralph Bunche
Mediated the 1949 Arab-Israeli armistice and became the first Black Nobel Peace laureate.
6Dean Acheson
Secretary of State who built the NATO alliance and the post-war containment strategy.
7Madeleine Albright
First woman to serve as Secretary of State, and a driving force behind NATO's expansion.
8John Jay
Negotiated the treaty that kept the young republic out of a second war with Britain.
9Averell Harriman
Wartime ambassador to Moscow and London, and a fixture of American diplomacy for fifty years.
10Richard Holbrooke
Forced the Dayton Accords through and ended the war in Bosnia.
11Eleanor Roosevelt
Chaired the commission that produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
12George F. Kennan
Diplomat and historian whose Long Telegram defined American strategy for forty years.
13Thomas Jefferson
Minister to France before Franklin's successor, and the first Secretary of State.
14Colin Powell
Career soldier who became the first Black Secretary of State.
Comments
No comments yet. Be the first!
0/1000