Paul H. Nitze was born on January 16, 1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA as Paul Henry Nitze. He was married to Elisabeth Scott Porter and Phyllis Pratt. He died on October 19, 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 398-401. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.
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Was a conservative Democrat who opposed President Jimmy Carter's 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the Soviet Union. Later swung to support President Ronald Reagan. He took charge of negotiating reductions in intermediate range missiles with the Soviet Union in 1981 for Reagan, who supported arms control accords.
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Founded the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1943. In 1957, he conceived the idea of attaching a "think tank" to the school, which is now called the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute. Three years later he helped Johns Hopkins University raise $4.2 million for the SAIS building near Dupont Circle.
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Director of the State Department's policy planning staff in 1950. Helped frame the strategy of building up U.S. forces to keep the Soviets contained in Eastern Europe.
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Graduated from Harvard University in 1927 and worked for 12 years as an investment banker at Dillon Read & Co., before taking a job in 1940 in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He eventually served government posts under eight presidents.
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Children: first marriage: Peter, William, Anina, Heidi; second marriage: Erin (stepchild).
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Architect of the US strategy against the Soviet Union at the onset of the Cold War; later a negotiator of arms treaties with the USSR.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Cold War
1998
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Last Days of World War II
1995
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Timewatch
1992
TV Series documentary
Himself
Who Wrote Shakespeare's Works?
1990
TV Movie documentary
Himself (diplomat, Johns Hopkins University) (as Paul Nitze)
First Strike
1979
TV Movie documentary
Representative of the Secretary of Defense to SALT 1969-1974
Panorama
1959
TV Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
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Year
Status
Character
The Untold History of the United States
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Secretary of the Navy
Planspiel Atomkrieg - Raketenpoker um die Nachrüstung