William vanden Heuvel

William Jacobus vanden Heuvel (April 14, 1930 – June 15, 2021) was an American attorney, businessman and author, as well as a former diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the European office of the United Nations in Geneva (1977–79) and United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations (1979–1981) during the Jimmy Carter Administration. John F. Kennedy Library National Archives  web site.

He was the father of Katrina vanden Heuvel, longtime editor of The Nation magazine, and Wendy vanden Heuvel, children from his marriage to author/editor Jean Stein, the well-to-do daughter of Jules C. Stein, founder of MCA.

Vanden Heuvel died on June 15, 2021 in New York City from problems caused by pneumonia, aged 91.

References

Other websites
 The Roosevelt Institute.
 History News Network, debating FDR and World War II.
 FERI , "America, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust," speech (1996).



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