Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| 1907, Jan. 26 | Born, Amherst, Mass. |
| 1928 | B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1928-1929 | Accountant, Container Corp. of America, Bridgeport, Conn. |
| 1929-1938 | Investment banker, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1932 | Married Phyllis Pratt (died, 1987) |
| 1938-1939 | President, P. H. Nitze and Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1939-1941 | Vice president, Dillon, Read and Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1941-1942 | Financial director, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, State Department, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942-1943 | Chief, Metals and Minerals Branch, Board of Economic Warfare |
| 1943-1944 | Director, Foreign Procurement and Development Branch, Foreign Economic Administration |
| 1943 | Founded School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (Renamed Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 1989.) |
| 1944-1946 | Vice chairman, United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
| 1946-1948 | Deputy director, Office of International Trade Policy, State Department |
| 1948-1949 | Deputy to assistant secretary of state for economic affairs |
| 1950-1953 | Director, policy planning staff, State Department |
| 1953 | Appointed special assistant to secretary of defense; resigned amid Congressional opposition |
| 1953-1961 | President, Foreign Service Educational Foundation, Washington, D.C. |
| 1961-1963 | Assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs |
| 1963-1967 | Secretary of the Navy |
| 1967-1969 | Deputy secretary of defense |
| 1969-1974 | Member, United States delegation, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| 1974-1981 | Consultant, Washington, D.C., for State Department, General Accounting Office, and System Planning Corp., Arlington, Va. |
| 1976 | Organized Committee on the Present Danger |
| 1981-1984 | Ambassador, head of United States delegation, intermediate-range nuclear forces talks, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| 1984-1989 | Ambassador-at-large and special advisor on arms control matters to the president and secretary of state |
| 1985 | Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1989 | Published with Ann M. Smith and Steven L. Rearden From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, a Memoir. New York: Grove Weidenfeld |
| 1993 | Married Elisabeth Scott Porter Published Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 2004, Oct. 19 | Died, Washington, D.C. |