Richard M. Moose

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Richard Menifee Moose (* 27. February 1932 in Little Rock , Arkansas ; † 25. September 2015 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American diplomat and business leaders , among others, from 1977 to 1981 Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs , as well as Was Under Secretary of State for Management from 1993 to 1996 .

Life

After attending Little Rock Senior High School in 1949, Moose began an undergraduate degree at Hendrix College , from which he graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate degree in international relations at Columbia University in 1954 with a Master of Arts (MA) and then served in the US Army between 1954 and 1956 . He then entered the diplomatic service in the US State Department in 1956 and was initially assistant to the then ambassador to Mexico , Francis White, and then to Robert C. Hill . He then worked at the newly established embassy in Cameroon , before he returned to work in the Executive Secretariat of the Foreign Ministry, where he was a liaison officer to the Ministry of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 .

Then was Moose 1966-1968 Special Assistant to the National Security Adviser Walt Rostow and then remained to 1969 employees on the staff of the National Security Council ( US National Security Council ) . He then served on the staff of Mo Udall , a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Arizona, between 1969 and 1975 . He then worked from 1975 to 1977 on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate , headed by J. William Fulbright .

On March 18, 1977, he returned to the State Department and replaced Lawrence Eagleburger as head of the administrative department (Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management) , but only held this position until August 15, 1977 and was then replaced by Benjamin H. Read . He took over earlier on July 6, 1977 by William E. Spatulas, Jr. the post as head of the Africa Unit in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ) and remained in this use by January 16, 1981. His dortiger He was succeeded on June 9, 1981 by Chester Crocker .

After the election of Ronald Reagan to the US president Moose left the Foreign Service in 1981 and was initially to 1988 managing director of investment bank Shearson Lehman Brothers in London and then from 1988 to 1993 Executive Vice President for international and government affairs of the financial services company American Express . On August 2, 1993, he returned to the State Department and replaced J. Brian Atwood as Head of Administration ( Under Secretary of State for Management ) . He held this position until September 1, 1996, before Bonnie R. Cohen took over the office on August 20, 1997 a year later . He then moved to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank , where he led a study of declining government spending on US foreign policy. He also became President of the Public Research Institute of the Center for Naval Analyzes in Arlington County .

Publications

  • Rhodesia. Address before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 7, 1979 , US State Department, Washington, DC, 1979
  • US policy toward Liberia. Statement before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, August 19, 1980 , US State Department, Washington, DC, 1980
  • The US and Angola. Statement before the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, September 30, 1980 , US State Department, Washington, DC, 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deputy Under Secretaries of State for Management on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for African Affairs on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ^ Under Secretaries of State for Management on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Moose, Richard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moose, Richard Menifee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Rock , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2015
Place of death Alexandria , Virginia