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Lucy Webb HayesAs First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.
Truong Tan SangOn 25 July 2013, Sang met with US President Barack Obama to discuss bilateral trade between the U. S. and Vietnam.
Wolf BlitzerIn November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Egypt -- Israel Peace Treaty two years later.
Josh WhiteIn 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt (then the United Nations Ambassador in charge of War Relief) and White made a historical speaking and concert tour of the capitals of Europe to lift the spirits of those war-torn countries.
Juan Manuel Santos thumb | 200px | Santos and U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 9 June 2010.
Claude CoreaOn 8 September 1956 he arrived in Beijing as Special Ambassador to China, at the head of a Ceylon Government Delegation that was to have preliminary discussions with the Government of the People's Republic of China regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations, trade expansion, economic co-operation and cultural exchanges.
Geoffrey HarrisonOn 1 October 1956, Harrison was granted his first ambassadorship, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Brazil.
Michel DomingueUpon his return to Port-au-Prince on November 9, 1874, he was accompanied by Dominican negotiators to seal a treaty of friendship and an accord on trade and navigation.
Joe BidenFrank Church and -LSB- -LSB- President of Egypt Anwar El Sadat after signing Egyptian -- Israeli Peace Treaty, 1979 -RSB- -RSB- Regarding foreign policy, during his first decade in the Senate, Biden focused on arms control issues.
David LinOn May 11, 2013, Lin held a meeting with ROC President Ma Ying-jeou and ROC Minister of Defense Kao Hua-chu at the Presidential Office Building in Taipei in which the ROC government gave 72 hours for the Philippine government to give formal apology and bring those responsible for the shooting to justice, if not Taiwan will freeze Philippine worker applications, recall ROC representative to the Philippines back to Taiwan and ask the Philippine representative in Taiwan back to the Philippines.
Xi JinpingXi made his first foreign visit after his vice presidency to visit North Korea, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Yemen from 17 to 25 June 2008.
Hajdar MunekaIn 1997, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Albania in Beijing, China.
Hamilton Fish President Grant at the close of his second term, and Secretary Fish, remained interested in establishing an inter-oceanic canal treaty.
Derek SherinianOn September 13, 2012 Glenn Hughes and Sherinian met Bako Sahakyan, the president of de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and organized a concert there.
Najib RazakDuring the visit, Najib mentioned his family's special relationship with China, noting that his father, and Malaysia's second Prime Minister, first established diplomatic relations with China in 1974.
Taylor G. BelcherIn 1969, he was appointed ambassador to Peru by President Richard Nixon.
Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron SudeleyL to R : -LSB- -LSB- Denis Walker, Sudeley, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, Andrew Smith (yellow tie), Dr. Harvey Ward -RSB- -RSB- Sudeley was also a former Vice-president of the now-defunct Western Goals Institute, and on 25 September 1989, chaired a WGI dinner at Simpson's - in-the-Strand for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.
Alexander, Crown Prince of YugoslaviaOn 11 May 2006 he hosted a reception at the Royal Palace for delegates attending a summit on Serbia and Montenegro.
William Banks CapertonOn November 1, 1918, ten days before the signing of the Armistice which officially closed hostilities between Germany and the United States, Admiral Caperton was designated by the President of the United States as Special Representative with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to attend the ceremonies at Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1918, incident to the inauguration of His Excellency, Dr. Francisco de Paulo Rodriquez Alves, as President of the Republic of Brazil.
Gale W. McGeeA long-time supporter of the United Nations, McGee was appointed by President Richard Nixon to a four-member congressional delegation to represent the United States at the United Nation's 27th General Assembly in 1972.
Barack Obama A New Beginning'' at -LSB- -LSB- Cairo University on June 4, 2009 | alt President Obama stands at a podium delivering a speech on'' A New Beginning'' at Cairo University on June 4, 2009 -RSB- -RSB- In February and March 2009, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made separate overseas trips to announce a'' new era'' in U. S. foreign relations with Russia and Europe, using the terms'' break'' and'' reset'' to signal major changes from the policies of the preceding administration.
Abdullah of Saudi ArabiaHe again traveled to the United States as Crown Prince in October 1987, meeting Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Richard NixonNixon made one of his final international visits as president to the Middle East in June 1974, and became the first President to visit Israel.
Barbara Pierce BushBarbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.
Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlevthumb | right | 200px | Yakovlev as the head of the Commission on the'' Rehabilitation of Soviet Repression Victims'' meets President Vladimir Putin When Gorbachev became Soviet leader in 1985, Yakovlev became a senior advisor, helping to shape Soviet foreign policy by advocating Soviet non-intervention in Eastern Europe, and accompanying Gorbachev on his five summit meetings with United States President Ronald Reagan.
Warren ChristopherHowever, after Secretary Christopher convinced President Clinton that the Vietnamese government was fully cooperating in these searches, the President announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995.
Ian BrownlieHe served as an advisor to United States President Jimmy Carter during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Emil ConstantinescuPresident Constantinescu received senior foreign officials, including French President Jacques Chirac (February 1997) and U. S. President Bill Clinton (July 1997).
Harry Smith ParkesHe represented the British in negotiations which produced the United Kingdom-Korea Treaty of 1883 ; and under the treaty's terms, he was the first diplomatic representative to the Korean court.
P. V. Narasimha RaoHe decided in 1992 to bring into the open India's relations with Israel, which had been kept covertly active for a few years during his tenure as a Foreign Minister, and permitted Israel to open an embassy in New Delhi.
Henry A. PeirceBlue Room, 1874 Ulysses S. Grant | President Grant in the Blue Room, 1874 On November 17, 1874 Kalākaua left accompanied by Peirce and some other government ministers on a visit to Washington, D. C. which was the first state visit of a ruling monarch to the United States.
Robert BordenNevertheless, Borden would go on to represent Canada once more on the international stage when he attended the Washington Naval Conference in 1922 and signed the resulting arms reduction treaty on Canada's behalf.
Bill Nelson In December 2006, Bill Nelson made a trip to Syria to visit President Bashar Assad in Damascus.
Francis B. LoomisHis commissions included final negotiations which resulted in the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone, service as special ambassador to France to receive the body of John Paul Jones and Special Envoy Extraordinary to Japan, arranging the visit of the U. S. fleet to that country in 1908.
John E. HerbstAmbassador Herbst arrived in Tashkent on October 28, 2000 and presented his credentials to Uzbek President Islam Karimov on November 1, 2000.
Gene LohHis service there came to an abrupt end in February 1979 during the Carter administration : he was expelled right before Deng Xiaoping's official visit.
Escott ReidHe accompanied Minister of Trade and Commerce James MacKinnon on a tour of Latin America in 1941 which established trade agreements with several nations.
Zhou EnlaiRichard Nixon upon Nixon's arrival to China in February 1972.
William H. Sullivanright | thumb | The Iranian Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Shah meeting with -LSB- -LSB- Alfred Atherton, William Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, U. S. President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977. -RSB- -RSB-
William JordenIn 1984, he published'' Panama Odyssey'', a comprehensive study of the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, to wide critical acclaim.
Robert Milligan McLane left | thumb | Robert Milligan McLane In 1853, during the Taiping Rebellion, President Pierce appointed McLane as commissioner to China, with the powers of a Minister Plenipotentiary, and at the same time accredited to Japan, Siam, Korea, and Cochin China.
Fred RyanIn May 2013, he was Nancy Reagan's personal representative at the official funeral service for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London.
Ruth MontgomeryIn 1959, she was a member of then Vice-President Richard Nixon's press corps on his tour of Russia.
John BeyrleHe arrived in Moscow to present his credentials on July 3, 2008.
Rita (Israeli singer) In 2010 she performed in a special concert at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem, in the presence of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Israeli president Shimon Peres.
Jack K. McFallIn September 1952, President Truman nominated McFall as United States Minister to Finland and McFall presented his credentials on November 15, 1952.
Douglas Henderson (ambassador)When the Peruvian military overthrew the pro-American government of Manuel Prado in a July 1962 coup, the administration of President John F. Kennedy responded by withdrawing its ambassador, leaving Henderson as the de facto chief of the US embassy in Lima.
Randy ScheunemannIn mid-July 2008, The Sunday Times linked Scheunemann to Stephen Payne, a lobbyist covertly filmed as he discussed a lobbying contract and offered to arrange meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and others, and recommended donations to the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
Ted KnapHe went to Vietnam with Johnson, to Moscow with Nixon, to China with Ford, around the world with Carter, to Europe and the Vatican with Reagan and on July 24, 1969, witnessed from the deck of the U. S. S. Hornet the Pacific splashdown of the first astronauts to step on the moon.
Jean-Pierre NonaultHe was additionally accredited as Ambassador to Mongolia, presenting his credentials on 25 March 1976, and as Ambassador to Hungary, presenting his credentials on 28 April 1976.
Abd al-Rahman al-MahdiIn March 1926 Archer ignored this advice and made an official visit to Abd al-Rahman on Aba Island accompanied by a full escort of troops and officials.
Zalman ShovalIn 1998 he was a member of the Israeli delegation headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U. S. sponsored Wye River Conference and he was closely involved in the diplomatic negotiations with the U. S. Administration before and after the above conference.
Anil MoonesingheOn 14 March 2002 he presented his credentials as the first Sri Lankan Ambassador to Croatia.
Charles E. DeLong On November 11, 1869, DeLong presented his credentials to Emperor Meiji of Japan as Resident Minister of the United States Consulate in Japan.
Dirck HalsteadHalstead was one of the six photographers who accompanied Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in 1972.
Mutassim Gaddafi In April 2009, Mutassim Gaddafi met with U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the highest-level diplomatic exchange between the two countries since they resumed diplomatic relations several years earlier.
Richard NixonWith inflation unresolved by August 1971, and an election year looming, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David.
Marshall GreenHe did most of the background work for President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and he was one of thirteen State Department officials who accompanied Nixon during this trip.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn December 1933, Roosevelt signed the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, renouncing the right to intervene unilaterally in the affairs of Latin American countries.
Andrei GromykoIn 1943, the same year as the Tehran Conference, the USSR established diplomatic relations with Cuba and Gromyko was appointed the Soviet ambassador to Havana.
Zbigniew Brzezinski Iran ian Shah, -LSB- -LSB- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, meeting with Arthur Atherton, William H. Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, President Jimmy Carter, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, in 1977 -RSB- -RSB- Facing a revolution, the Shah of Iran sought help from the United States.
Sue Myrick; Hamas In April 2008, Myrick called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter's passport for defying U. S. policy and meeting with the leaders of the militant group Hamas, including the exiled Khaled Mashaal, on his visit to Syria.
Samir GeageaIn March 2008, he held talks in the USA with officials at the White House, including then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, then NSA Stephen Hadley and then chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia Gary Ackerman.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu Although he had no prior diplomatic experience (he had never traveled abroad), Sambuu was appointed Ambassador of the Mongolian People's Republic to Moscow in 1937, where he managed Mongolia's most important bilateral relationship.
Mustafa TlassOn 19 October 1999, defence minister of China, General Chi Haotian, after meeting with Mustafa Tlass in Damascus to discuss expanding military ties between Syria and China, flew directly to Israel and met with Ehud Barak, the then prime minister and defence minister of Israel where they discussed military relations.
Andrei GromykoGromyko met Churchill again in 1953 to talk about their experiences during World War II and this was the last time Gromyko ever talked to Churchill face-to-face as his return was not likely after the credentials of his role as ambassador had been revoked when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Carmen Barajas SandovalNevertheless, the partnership with her sister ended a few years later and Carmen ultimately closed the atelier Due to her close relationship with France, and her efforts to improve the diplomatic affairs between France and Mexico, in 1986 Carmen received the Légion d'honneur from President François Mitterrand at the Élysée Palace.
Justo ArosemenaIn 1868 he was responsible for negotiating the conditions in which Colombia allowed the United States the excavation of a canal in the Isthmus of Panama.
Simon MaillouxFollowing this, he was appointed Aide de Camp to the Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa and participated in the Presidential visit of Barack Obama to Ottawa, the 2009 visit to Haïti and the Emperor and Empress of Japan visit to Canada.
Zbigniew BrzezinskiBrzezinski briefed U. S. vice-president George H. W. Bush before his 1987 trip to Poland that aided in the revival of the Solidarity movement.
Finn St?renFrom 1944 he acted as an ambassador, accompanying Quisling on visits to Adolf Hitler.
Anna ChennaultShe arranged the contact with South Vietnamese Ambassador Bui Diem whom Richard Nixon met in secret in July 1968 in New York.
Maurice ChalleOn 14 October 1956, Challe visited British Prime Minister Anthony Eden at his home, accompanied by French Minister of Labor Albert Gazier.
Alexander HaigOn January 5, 2006, Haig participated in a meeting at the White House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with Bush administration officials.
J. Fife Symington Jr.When Nixon made President he named Symington ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago in 1969.
Deng Xiaoping thumb | Deng Xiaoping (left) and his wife Zhuo Lin (right) are briefed by Johnson Space Center director -LSB- -LSB- Christopher C. Kraft (extreme right) -RSB- -RSB- In November 1978, after the country had stabilized following political turmoil, Deng visited Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and met with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who advised him to open up and institute reforms, as well as to stop exporting Communist ideologies in Southeast Asia.
S. M. Krishna On 2 July 2012, SM Krishna paid a two day visit to Tajikistan to strengthen its economic and energy ties.
Ignatius Zakka I IwasDuring the visit of Pope John Paul II to Syria in 2001, the Pope paid an historic visit to Iwas in Damascus.
David HuebnerDuring her 2010 visit to Wellington, Secretary Clinton and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully signed the Wellington Declaration, reaffirming the historical ties between the U. S. and New Zealand and establishing a framework for renewed strategic partnership and practical cooperation.
Ma Bufang In 1957, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and the People's Republic of China, Ma was transferred by Taipei to serve as the ROC's ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Robert Stephen FordIn 2010, President Obama nominated Ford as the first United States Ambassador to Syria in five years (pending Senate approval).
Raymond A. HareAmbassador Hare arrived in Cairo shortly before the breakout of the Suez War, presenting his credentials to the Egyptian government on September 25, 1956.
John BaldacciIn February 2008, Baldacci hosted an official visit to Maine by Premier of New Brunswick, Shawn Graham, which was the first official visit to Maine by an incumbent head of a Canadian province.
Rogelio FrigerioAgain influencing economic policy from his informal role, Frigerio's close working relationship with the president continued until, on March 28, 1962, Arturo Frondizi was deposed while attending a Western Hemisphere summit in Montevideo, Uruguay in hopes of mediating the conflict between the U. S. and Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Lee A. FeinsteinOn October 20, 2009, Ambassador Feinstein presented his credentials to the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński.
William K. ReillyReilly accompanied President Bush to the 1989 Paris Economic Summit, the first environment minister to accompany a head of state to this annual meeting.
Wang ZhengtingAs foreign minister, Wang negotiated a settlement with Japan over the Jinan Incident of 1928 ; with Soviet Russia over the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria ; treaties restoring Chinese territory in British Weihaiwei and French Tonkin ; and tariff autonomy or commercial agreements with more than a dozen countries, including Japan.
John Sherman CooperIn January 1966, Cooper accompanied Secretary of State Rusk and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman on an official visit to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as part of a widely publicized'' peace drive''.
Shen Chun-shanIn 1978, he got Harvey Feldman, then Director of the United States Department of State's Office of Republic of China Affairs, to reveal over a game of Go the timetable for the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations which would end formal relations between Washington and Taipei.
Abubakar AuduIn December 1999, he was on the delegation of President Olusegun Obasanjo during the State visit to Germany.
John F. KennedyKwame Nkrumah, the first head of an independent -LSB- -LSB- Ghana, with Kennedy, March 1961 -RSB- -RSB- On June 4, 1961, the president met with Khrushchev in Vienna and left the meetings angry and disappointed that he had allowed the Premier to bully him, despite the warnings he had received.
Frank Capra In January 1952, Capra was requested by the U. S. Ambassador to India to represent the U. S. film industry at the International Film Festival to be held in India.
Benjamin F. TracyEdmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 555) He also helped negotiate a settlement to the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain which had culminated in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895.
Adel al-JubeirOn 8 January 2011, Ambassador al-Jubeir attended a meeting in New York between King Abdullah and U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former U. S. President Bill Clinton as well as meetings between the King and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon.
Joseph Blatchford thumb | 400 px | left | Joseph Blatchford (right), Third Director of the Peace Corps, meets with the Shah of Iran to discuss Peace Corps programs in Iran in 1970.
Frank CornerDuring his time as Ambassador, Corner oversaw a state visit to New Zealand by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, and a state visit by Prime Minister Keith Holyoake to Washington.
Pietro ParolinParolin represented the Vatican in a variety of sensitive assignments, including trips to North Korea and Vietnam as well as the 2007 `` Annapolis Conference'' on the Middle East convened by the Bush administration.
Muhamed SacirbeyIn November 1995, he accompanied the Bosnian delegation to the peace negotiations in Dayton, Ohio.
Jenny Shipley President of the United States | United States President -LSB- -LSB- Bill Clinton, 15 September 1999. -RSB- -RSB-
Terence O'Brien (British diplomat)He next went as ambassador to Indonesia in 1978, then presided over by Suharto, where he faced the challenge of a trade war between Britain and Indonesia.