Background
Walters, Vernon Anthony was born on January 3, 1917 in New York City. Son of Frederick J. and Laura (O'Connor) Walters.
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Vernon A. Walters was a United States Army officer and a diplomat. Most notably, he served from 1972 to 1976 as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, from 1985 to 1989 as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and from 1989 to 1991 as Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany during the decisive phase of German Reunification. Walters rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. Walters served as an aide and interpreter for several Presidents. He was at President Harry S. Truman's side as an interpreter in key meetings with America's Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American allies. His language skills helped him win Truman's confidence, and he accompanied the President to the Pacific in the early 1950s, serving as a key aide in Truman's unsuccessful effort to reach a reconciliation with an insubordinate General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of United Nations forces in Korea. In Europe in the 1950s, Walters served President Dwight Eisenhower and other top US officials as a translator and aide at a series of NATO summit conferences. He also worked in Paris at Marshall Plan headquarters and helped set up the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe. He was with then-Vice President Nixon in 1958 when an anti-American crowd stoned their car in Caracas, Venezuela. Walters suffered facial cuts from flying glass. The Vice President avoided injury. Walters himself reflected on those challenging days in his 1978 autobiography, 'Silent Missions'.
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Walters, Vernon Anthony was born on January 3, 1917 in New York City. Son of Frederick J. and Laura (O'Connor) Walters.
Student, St. Louis Gonzaga University, Paris, 1928. Student, Stonyhurst College, England, 1934.
Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Army, 1941, advanced through grades to lieutenant general, retired, 1976. Served in N. Africa, Italy, World World War II. Military attache Brazil, 1945-1948.
Assistant to Governor Harriman in Korea, 1950. Accompanied to Iran, 1951. Assistant deputy chief staff Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe, Paris, 1951-1956.
Staff assistant President Eisenhower, 1956-1960. Member North Atlantic Treaty Organization standing group, Washington, 1956, 60. Served in Vietnam, 1967.
Aide V.P. Nixon to Son of America, 1958. Accompanied President Nixon to Europe, 1969, 70. Defense attache American Embassy, Paris, 1967-1972.
Deputy director Central Intelligence Agency, 1972-1976. Business consultant, lecturer, 1977-1981. Senior advisory to secretary United States Department State, Washington, 1981, ambassador-at-large, 1981-1985, United States permanent representative to United Nations New York City, 1985-1989, United States ambassador to Federal Republic Germany Bonn, 1989-1991.
Interpreter President Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon. Participant IX Pan American Conference, Bogota, Columbia, 1948, Geneva, 1953, Bermuda, 1955, summit meetings.
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Member Veterans of Foreign Wars, National Military Intelligence Association (president).