Birth Name:

George Ball (diplomat)

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Dec 21, 1909

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Age:

114

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

29°

Sag

16'

About George Ball (diplomat)

George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• George W. Ball Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

• Cold War International History Project's Cold War Files at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-11-16)

• Bio at Northwestern University

• Bio at Montgomery Endowment

• Profile: George Ball at the Wayback Machine (archived 2004-12-18) – The Center for Cooperative Research

• Memorandum for the President from George Ball, "A Compromise Solution in South Vietnam"

• Memo from George Ball to McNamara

• Personal papers at National Archives Records at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-03-08)

• Personal papers at Princeton University at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-09-06)

• George W. Ball. How to save Israel in spite of herself, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, April 1977.

• George W. Ball. The Coming Crisis in Israeli-American Relations, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, Winter 1979.

• George W. Ball. The conduct of American foreign policy, Foreign Affairs, The Council on Foreign Relations, 1980.

• James A. Bill. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy

• Robert Dallek. George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, July 1997.

• William Engdahl. George Ball's role in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Payvand News, March 10, 2006.

• Book review of biography on George Ball

• Oral History Interviews with George Ball, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-16)

• Interview with George W. Ball, 1981, on the Vietnam War at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-12-21) – WGBH Open Vault

• Appearances on C-SPAN

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for George Ball (diplomat): Sun 29 Sagittarius, Moon 21 Aries, Mercury 9 Capricorn, Venus 15 Aquarius, Mars 12 Aries, Jupiter 12 Libra, Saturn 16 Aries, Uranus 19 Capricorn, Neptune 18 Cancer, Pluto 25 Gemini, Sun Opposition Pluto, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Square Mars, Mercury Square Jupiter, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Trine Jupiter, Venus Sextile Saturn, Mars Opposition Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Jupiter Opposition Saturn, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Square Neptune, Uranus Opposition Neptune

Categories related to George Ball (diplomat): Iowa, December 21 births, 1994 deaths, Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, American people of the Vietnam War, United States Under Secretaries of State, Evanston Township High School alumni, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni, Recipients of the Four Freedoms Award, 1909 births, Kennedy administration personnel, People associated with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Permanent Representatives of the United States to the United Nations, Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel, Burials at Princeton Cemetery, Businesspeople from Des Moines

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