page_title: Phillips Talbot
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Phillips Talbot / Career / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Phillips Talbot, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs meeting Israel's PM David Ben Gurion in Jerusalem.
context_page_description: William Phillips Talbot was a United States Ambassador to Greece and, at his death, member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Council of American Ambassadors and the Council on Foreign Relations.
context_section_description: Talbot was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs from 1961-65 during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
  Talbot served as President of Asia Society from 1970-1982 and was awarded the Padma Shri in March 2002 for his efforts in fomenting peace between India and America during his tenure as President.
caption: Phillips Talbot, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, meeting Israel's PM David Ben-Gurion in Jerusalem
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