Research Catalog

Title

Potomac fever : a memoir of politics and public service / J. William Middendorf II.

Author

Middendorf, John William, 1924-

Publication

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 213 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Middendorf, John William, 1924-
• Goldwater, Barry M. 1909-1998 > Friends and associates
• United States. Navy > Officials and employees > Biography
• Organization of American States > Officials and employees > Biography
• Politicians > United States > Biography
• Ambassadors > United States > Biography
• Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
• Bankers > United States > Biography
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- Down to the sea, in a ship -- Postwar -- Presidential politics : Goldwater, the draft -- Presidential politics : Goldwater, the nomination -- Presidential politics : Goldwater, the convention -- Presidential politics : Goldwater, the campaign -- Presidential politics : Nixon -- Ambassador : Netherlands, one -- Ambassador : Netherlands, two -- Ambassador : Netherlands, three -- Secretary of the Navy : one -- Secretary of the Navy : two -- Secretary of the Navy : three -- Secretary of the Navy : once and forever -- the Bicentennial -- The business of banking -- CIA and OAS : politics, economics, minutiae -- Organization of American States : Nicaragua and El Salvador -- Organization of American States : Falklands and Grenada -- The European community -- The new Russia -- Economic freedom and justice -- Coda -- An epilogue of sorts: Thoughts on reaching eighty-six.

ISBN

• 9781591145370 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 1591145376 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2010052835

OCLC

693809313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library