Ambassador Feinstein was nominated by President Obama on July 20, 2009 and was confirmed by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate on September 22, 2009. As it came just two days before President Obama’s controversial announcement on removing the American missile shield from Poland, his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 15, 2009 did not…
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US Embassy Warsaw Farewell Interview with Ambassador Victor H. Ashe, Sept. 17, 2009
The interview with the outgoing US Ambassador to Poland Victor H. Ashe was conducted by a US Embassy Warsaw press attache on September 17, 2009, the day of President Obama’s announcement about discarding the American missile defense system in Poland and Czech Republic. The Polish government saw the missile shield as a major US security guarantee and protection against any…
Pope John Paul II’s 1979 Visit to the U.S. – VOA Video President Jimmy Carter’s notes from his private meeting with Pope John Paul II, October 6, 1979, front National Archives, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, Georgia