Edward Rowny Lieutenant General Edward L . Rowny , born in Baltimore , Maryland on April 3 , 1917 , was a U . S . Army general and an ambassador , chief U . S . negotiator in arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union , and one of the originators of the helicopter as a platform for combat . The citation from his Presidential Citizen ' s Medal , which he received in 1989 , reads : " one of the principal architect ' s of peace through strength policy . " He served as an arms control adviser and negotiator to five presidents - Nixon , Ford , Carter , Reagan and Bush . General Rowny graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute , an engineering high school , in 1933 . Rowny earned a BS from Johns Hopkins University in Engineering , and holds degrees from West Point , Yale ( MAs in Engineering and International Affairs ) and American University ( PhD in International Studies ) . General Rowny commanded troops in World War II , Korea , and Vietnam . After the 92nd Infantry Division was decimated in the invasion of Italy in 1944 , Rowny was brought in as a battalion commander that drove the Germans up the Western coast of Italy until the end of the war . A day after the end of World War II in Europe , he was assigned to planning the invasion of Japan . Assigned to General Douglas MacArthur , he became his spokesman and one of the planners of the landing of Inchon ( September 15 , 1950 ) , which forced a North Korean retreat and enabled the taking of Seoul . Rowny air dropped a bridge to cross a chasm permitting the rescue of the surrounded Marines and Army troops at the Chosin Reservoir . He was in charge of the evacuation of U . S . troops which rescued one hundred thousand North Koreans who wished to join South Korea . During the Vietnam War he tested the helicopter as a platform for the Army to fight insurgency . Subsequently , as deputy chief to General Andrew P . O ' Meara he was in charge of relocation of NATO troops from France . In 1971 he was appointed the US representative to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) and held this post under three presidents : Nixon , Ford and Carter . In June , 1979 he retired from the Army in protest over President Carter ' s signing of the SALT II Treaty which he believed would undermine United States security . He subsequently led the fight to prevent the Congress from ratifying the faulty SALT II Treaty . After the election of President Reagan , General Rowny was appointed to the rank of Ambassador as the President ' s chief negotiator on Strategic Nuclear Arms ( START ) . During his second term , President Reagan appointed Rowny his Special Advisor on Arms Control . He was awarded the Presidents Citizen Medal with the citation : " Rowny was one of the chief architects of peace through strength " , Rowny continued as President George H . W . Bush ' s special advisor for arms control for the first two years of his term . In 1990 , General Rowny retired from the Government after fifty years of Government service to become an international consultant on negotiations . He also began advising the Administration and Congress on National Security matters and combating terrorism which he continues to this day . In 1992 he authored It Takes One to Tango , a memoir of his service to five Presidents and his dealings with the Soviets . In 1992 , Rowny fulfilled his fifty year ambition to return the remains of Ignacy Jan Paderewski to Poland . Paderewski was not only a famous composer and pianist but an eminent statesman . He inspired the 13th of President Wilson ' s 14 points for the Versailles Treaty which resurrected a free and democratic Poland . Paderewski became Poland ' s first Prime Minister a post he held from 1918 to 1921 . In 2003 , Ambassador Rowny became the Vice President of the American Polish Advisory Council ( APAC ) an organization which promotes Polinia ' s Agenda and encourages them to vote and become government officials . When President Nicholas Rey died in 2007 Rowny became President of APAC an office he still holds . In 2004 , he established the Paderewski Scholarship Fund to bring Polish University students to Georgetown University to study American style democracy . In 2005 , the 25th anniversary of Solidarity , he received the Truman - Reagan Medal of Freedom from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation , along with John Paul II , Anna Walentynowicz and the ten million unsung heroes of first free trade union , Solidarity . In 2007 , Rowny received the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies . Rowny married Elizabeth Ladd in 1994 and has five children from his former wife Mary Rita who died in 1988 .