Christian A. Herter Quotes


I never saw anyone work harder but he didn’t seem to have any fun.


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Christian A. Herter, 1895-1966, U. S. Secretary of State (Republican), Describing Richard M. Nixon, then a Congressman who had gone abroad to study the affects of the Marshall Plan, Quoted by Ben Bradlee, C-SPAN May, 18, 1999

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Christian A. Herter
Christian A. Herter
  • Born: March 28, 1895
  • Died: December 30, 1966
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Christian Archibald Herter was an American Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61.