| LC control no. | n 79018187 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Abshire, David M. |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 19260411 |
| Death date | 20141031 |
| Place of birth | Chattanooga (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Alexandria (Va.) |
| Field of activity | National security United States--Relations |
| Affiliation | Georgetown University. Center for Strategic Studies Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.) United States. Department of State United States. Board for International Broadcasting |
| Profession or occupation | Public officers Ambassadors |
| Found in | His National security, 1963. Saving the Reagan presidency, c2005: ECIP galley (b. 1926) Data converted from field 678, Nov. 3, 2014 (Center for Strategic Studies, Georgetown Univ.) Washington post WWW site, Nov. 3, 2014 (David M. Abshire, a leader among Washington decision-makers who helped found one of the capital's most influential think tanks, served as U.S. ambassador to NATO and was tapped to lead the Reagan administration's response to the Iran-contra controversy, died Oct. 31 [2014] in Alexandria, Va.; he was 88; spent much of his career leading the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a respected institution that he helped establish in 1962; David Manker Abshire was born April 11, 1926, in Chattanooga, Tenn.; received a PhD in American history from Georgetown University in 1959; in the Nixon administration, Dr. Abshire was assistant secretary of state for congressional relations; later, he was chairman of the U.S. Board for International Broadcasting, with oversight over Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty) |
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