The Resume

(February 16, 1904-March 17, 2005)
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department (1947-49)
US ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952) and Yugoslavia (1961-63)
Wrote the books 'American Diplomacy 1900-1950' (1951), 'Realities of American Foreign Policy' (1954), 'Russia Leaves the War' (1956), 'Russia, the Atom and the West' (1958), 'Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin' (1961), 'Memoirs 1925-1950' (1967), 'Memoirs 1950-63' (1972), 'The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy' (1978), 'The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age' (1982), 'Sketches from a Life' (1993) and 'At Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995' (1996)
Considered the 'father' of the US Cold War policy of containment
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1989)

Why he might be annoying:

He ended up opposing a lot of decisions made as part of containment, including establishing NATO, rearming West Germany, stationing US soldiers in Japan and building the hydrogen bomb.
He said, 'I would like to see our government gradually withdraw from its public advocacy of democracy and human rights.'
He said that the effect of US Cold War policies was 'to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union.'
He called expanding NATO to include former Soviet satellites a 'strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He spoke seven languages: English, German, French, Polish, Czech, Portuguese and Norwegian.
He and his wife Annelise were married for 74 years until his death.
He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
He was one of the chief architects of the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Western Europe.
Colin Powell called him 'our best tutor' in dealing with foreign policy in the 21st century.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 27]
• Cold War Participants
• From St. Patricks to St. Peter [Died on March 17th] (Ranked: 2005)
• I Attended Princeton
• I Died in 2005 (Ranked: 101)
• I Lived to 100 (Ranked: 101)
• Influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Profiles 28251-28500 (Ranked: 28399)
• U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying