"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name calling is left to the foreign ministers."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesUnited States Ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet UnionUnited States Secretaries of CommerceUnited States Ambassadors to Great Britain and the United KingdomUnited States Under Secretaries of State for Political Affairs
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Comment on the 1955 Geneva Summit, quoted in the CQ Weekly Report (1 August 1955)
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W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (15 November 1891 - 26 July 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson both times. Harriman served President Franklin D. R
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