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Charles Vanik Charles Vanik The congressman who made emigration a condition of trade Economy, finance and planning · United States state institutions 1913–2007
Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith A negotiator of the nuclear age Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1914–1994
William Westmoreland William Westmoreland US Army general who commanded American forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 and pursued a strategy of attrition measured by body count Military command · United States state institutions 1914–2005
Arthur Lundahl Arthur C. Lundahl The founding father of photo interpretation whose analysts spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba and triggered the crisis Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1915–1992
Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis Government and administration · United States state institutions 1916–2009
John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back Government and administration · United States state institutions 1917–1963
McGeorge Bundy McGeorge Bundy The National Security Advisor who chose not to wake the president on the first night of the Cuban Missile Crisis Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1919–1996
Walter Stoessel Walter Stoessel A career diplomat who worked the front lines of détente Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–1986
George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1920–2021
Gail Halvorsen Gail Halvorsen An airman whose small act of kindness became an international symbol Military command · United States state institutions 1920–2022
Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger The architect of détente who used 'linkage' to build the first framework for superpower arms control, the face of American realism Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1923–2023
George H. W. Herbert Walker Bush George H. W. Bush The US president who declared the Cold War over with Gorbachev at Malta, yet whose caution nearly let history slip away Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2018
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter The 39th U.S. president whose administration marked both the peak and the end of détente Government and administration · United States state institutions 1924–2024
Robert F. Francis Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy The president's brother and attorney general who engineered the secret settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis Law and justice · United States state institutions 1925–1968
Brent Scowcroft Brent Scowcroft A cautious strategist at the Cold War's end Government and administration · United States state institutions 1925–2020
Richard Heyser Richard Heyser The U-2 pilot whose six-minute, 928-photo run over Cuba on 14 October 1962 revealed Soviet missiles and ignited the Cuban Missile Crisis Military command · United States state institutions 1927–2008
Ted Sorensen Ted Sorensen Kennedy's speechwriter whose pen chose 'quarantine' over airstrikes at the nuclear brink Government and administration · United States state institutions 1928–2010
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński Carter's National Security Advisor who drew the Soviet Union into the Afghan trap Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1928–2017
Jack Foust Matlock Jack Matlock Reagan's NSC Soviet expert who assembled the 'Soviet 101' briefing papers and the last US ambassador to the USSR Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1929–
James Baker James Baker The pragmatic diplomat who engineered the Cold War's final transition Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1930–
Leonard H. Perroots Leonard H. Perroots An intelligence officer whose restraint mattered at the nuclear brink Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1933–2017

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