Alfred Puhan

Alfred Puhan (March 7, 1913 – January 20, 2005) was an American diplomat and presidential adviser. Puhan acted as an advisor to Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, and also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary in the Nixon administration in 1969.[1] He left the post in 1973.[2]

Puhan was born in Germany and in the 1940s, would read messages in German over the Voice of America, eventually writing for the show. His career at the VOA spanned eleven years, where he rose to the position of program director. He had 900 employees under him.[3] He almost went to work with Edward R. Murrow but decided on a job with the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, where he assisted in the creation of the Austrian State Treaty of 1955.[1] But his first job in radio was with the British Broadcasting Company.[4]

  1. ^ a b Saewitz, Mike (24 January 2005). "Alfred Puhan, diplomat, dies at 91". Sarasota Herald Tribune. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Alfred Puhan". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ^ Puhan, Alfred (1990). The Cardinal in the Chancery and Other Recollections. New York, New York: Vantage Press. ISBN 0-533-08843-7.
  4. ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Information Series AMBASSADOR ALFRED PUHAN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 22 January 1990. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.