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George Wildman Ball (
December 21,
1909–
May 26,
1994) was an
American diplomat
Ball was born in
Des Moines, Iowa. He lived in
Evanston, Illinois and graduated from
Northwestern University. He was the
Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs in the administrations of
John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson. He is well known for his opposition to escalation in the
Vietnam War. Ball also served as
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from
June 26 to
September 25,
1968. During the
Nixon Administration, George Ball helped draft American policy proposals in the
Persian Gulf. He was buried in
Princeton Cemetery.
Long a critic of Israeli policies toward its Arab neighbors, Ball co-authored
The Passionate Attachment with his son, Douglas Ball. The 1992 book argued that American support for
Israel has been morally, politically and financially costly.
He often used the aphorism (perhaps originally coined by
Ian Fleming in
Diamonds are Forever) "Nothing propinks like propinquity," later dubbed the Ball Rule of Power. It means that the more direct access you've to the president, the greater your power, no matter what your title actually is.
Ball was an avowed socioeconomic elitist and an advocate of free trade,
multinational corporations and the latters' theoretical ability to neutralize what he considered to be "obsolete" nation states. He was also associated with the secretive
Bilderberg Group.
Ball was played by actor
Bruce McGill in the 2002 HBO movie
Path to War about the formation of Vietnam policy in the Johnson Administration.
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