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Robert Abercrombie Lovett (September 14, 1895 – May 7, 1986) was an American politician who served as the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, having been promoted to this position from Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Soon after President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Actitivites, that Board requested that Robert A. Lovett and David K.E. Bruce examine CIA's covert operations. [3] This information comes from Arthur Schlesinger's book about Robert F. Kennedy.
Robert Lovett may refer to: Robert A. Lovett (1895–1986), United States Secretary of Defense; Robert Morss Lovett (1870–1956), American educator and writer; acting Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Robert Q. Lovett, film editor; Robert S. Lovett (1860–1932), chairman of the Southern Pacific Company Executive Committee 1909–1913.
Robert Scott Lovett (June 22, 1860 – June 19, 1932) was an American lawyer and railroad executive. He was president and chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad and a Director of both The National City Bank of New York and Western Union .
Robert A. Lovett (1918), US Secretary of Defense [3]: 184–8 [74] Charles J. Stewart (1918), first chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company [75] Charles Phelps Taft II (1918), son of President William Howard Taft, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio [76] John Martin Vorys (1918), US Representative from Ohio [71] [77]: 427
Robert Morss Lovett (December 25, 1870 – February 8, 1956) was an American academic, writer, editor, political activist, and government official. Background
U.S. Under Secretary of the Army Robert A. Lovett said that former President Roosevelt's prohibition on a definite U.S. policy regarding Indochina was a "serious embarrassment to the military." Lovett's statement initiated a debate among Washington government agencies. [27] 16 April
Historian Walter Isaacson argues that in many ways Clifford resembled the four wise men who shaped American foreign policy in the 1940s and early 1950s – Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, Robert A. Lovett, and John J. McCloy. However, Isaacson argues, "Clifford remained a Wise Man wannabe because he could never quite shake his reputation as a ...