Pieces of History: The Life and Career of John J. Harter

About the Book

John Harter here describes highlights of his Foreign Service career, including: meeting the South African reporter who became his wife, revamping a dilapidated shell of a house into an elegant mansion for the American deputy chief of mission in Chile, various links with UN economic and social policies and operations, financial reporting in Thailand, participation in trade-policy negotiations at GATT headquarters in Geneva, interviewing more than one hundred prominent Americans as a correspondent for USIA, and representing the United States at the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

About the Author

Alfred H. Moses, a former partner and now senior counsel at Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, is a co-founder and chief operating officer of Promontory Financial Group and affiliates in Washington. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1994-97, and as the President’s Special Emissary for the Cyprus conflict from 1999-2001. In the Carter administration Ambassador Moses served as special counsel and special advisor to the President and was Lead Counsel to the President in the Billygate hearings. From 1976 to 1989 he negotiated the exodus to Israel of Jews from Communist Romania. An honorary national president of the American Jewish Committee, Ambassador Moses presently serves as Chair of UN Watch (Geneva), the Project on Ethnic Relations, the AJC National Advisory Council and in 2006 chaired AJC’s 100th Anniversary Committee