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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1856–1924
Cordell Hull Cordell Hull An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1871–1955
James F. Francis Byrnes James F. Byrnes Roosevelt's "assistant president" who, as Secretary of State, designed the Potsdam reparations compromise Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1882–1972
John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1888–1959
Sumner Welles Sumner Welles US Under Secretary of State whose Welles Declaration of July 1940 refused to recognise the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1892–1961
Robert Daniel Murphy Robert Daniel Murphy The diplomat who read the danger in Berlin first Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1894–1978
Edward Stettinius Edward Stettinius A corporate executive turned architect of the postwar international order Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1900–1949
Llewellyn E. Thompson Llewellyn Thompson The US Ambassador to Moscow who knew Khrushchev personally and, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told Kennedy to ignore the second letter Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1972
Charles E. Eustis Bohlen Charles E. Bohlen The State Department Soviet expert who turned Kennan's and Clayton's policy memos into Marshall's Harvard speech Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1904–1974
Ernest Gross Ernest A. Gross An international lawyer who worked the UN’s procedures Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1906–1999
Dean Rusk Dean Rusk A Cold War diplomat who built containment through international coalitions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
George Ball George Ball The Under Secretary who stopped an airstrike on Cuba with the Pearl Harbor analogy, then alone opposed escalation in Vietnam Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1909–1994
Gerard Smith Gerard C. Smith A negotiator of the nuclear age Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1914–1994
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
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–