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26 de dic. de 1990 · Foy D. Kohler, the diplomat whose tour as the United States Ambassador in Moscow was only weeks old when the Cuban missile crisis began, died on Sunday at a hosital in Jupiter, Fla. He was 82...
24 de jul. de 2018 · Foy D. Kohler, already a seasoned diplomat by 1949, was appointed to direct the Voice of America by President Harry Truman. Kohler followed Charles Thayer both as Russian Service Chief and as VOA Director.
Foy D. Kohler, former Toledoan and University of Toledo student, was a career diplomat. He was present for the 1959 "kitchen debate" between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and then Vice-President Richard Nixon in 1959 and served as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
The Foy D. Kohler Papers document the work of a diplomat who specialized in Soviet affairs. The collection is from Kohler's home and office files; in general, any official documents included are writer's or information copies.
KOHLER, Foy David (b. 15 February 1908 in Oakwood, Ohio; d. 23 December 1990 in Jupiter, Florida), diplomat and U.S. ambassador to Moscow during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Source for information on Kohler, Foy David: Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s dictionary.
Foy Kohler (1908-1990) was the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1959 to 1962 and the Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1962 to 1966. This oral statement focuses on diplomatic relations with European countries, in particular the Soviet Union, during the Kennedy administration. Access. Open.
Papers encompass Kohler's entire career in the Foreign Service (1931-1967), including his four years as ambassador to the USSR (1962-1966) and his ten years at the University of Miami's Center for Advanced International Studies (1968-1978).
