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This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Clarence Douglas Dillon

American Diplomat, Politician, U.S. Ambassador to France, Secretary of the Treasury, Member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) during the Cuban Missile Crisis

"Pride, the most dangerous of all faults, proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought."