Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1920, July 20 | Born, Boston, Mass. |
| 1941 | Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1942-1945 | United States Army |
| 1947 | LL.B., Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1947-1948 | Law clerk, Judge Learned Hand, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| 1948-1949 | Law clerk, Justice Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court |
| 1949-1953 | Associate, law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Ruggs, Boston, Mass. |
| 1952 | Married Anne F. Hazard (died 1999) |
| 1953-1954 | Assistant to Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts |
| 1955-1956 | Associate, law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Ruggs, Boston, Mass. |
| 1956 | Acting counsel, Christian A. Herter, governor of Massachusetts |
| 1957-1959 | Assistant secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |
| 1959-1961 | United States attorney for Massachusetts Special assistant to the attorney general of the United States |
| 1961-1964 | Partner, law firm of Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass. |
| 1965-1967 | Lieutenant governor, Massachusetts |
| 1967-1969 | Attorney general, Massachusetts |
| 1969-1970 | Under secretary of state |
| 1970-1973 | Secretary of health, education, and welfare |
| 1973 | Secretary of defense Attorney general of the United States |
| 1974-1975 | Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C. |
| 1975-1976 | Ambassador to Great Britain |
| 1976-1977 | Secretary of commerce |
| 1976 | Published The Creative Balance: Government, Politics, and the Individual in America's Third Century. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. |
| 1977-1980 | Ambassador at large, special representative of the president to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea |
| 1980-1992 | Senior resident partner, law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washington, D. C. |
| 1984 | Unsuccessful candidate, Massachusetts Republican primary for the United States Senate |
| 1989-1990 | Personal representative, United Nations secretary-general, for Nicaraguan elections |
| 1989 | Personal representative, president of the United States, for multilateral assistance to the Philippines |
| 1996 | Published Reflections of a Radical Moderate. New York: Pantheon Books |
| 1998 | Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1999, Dec. 31 | Died, Boston, Mass. |