William vanden Heuvel

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name = William vanden Heuvel


caption = v. Heuvel on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
birth_date = birth date and age|1930|4|14.
birth_place = Rochester, New York,
United States.
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = Businessman, Diplomat,
Attorney and Writer.
spouse = Melinda Fuller vanden Heuvel
footnotes =
children = Katrina vanden Heuvel, Wendy vanden Heuvel, Ashley von Perfall, John vanden Heuvel Pierce

William Jacobus vanden Heuvel (born April 14, 1930) is an attorney, former diplomat, businessman and author.

He is the father of Katrina vanden Heuvel, longtime editor of "The Nation magazine"and Wendy vanden Heuvel from his marriage to author/editor Jean Stein, the wealthy daughter of Jules C. Stein, founder of MCA.

Biography

Education

Vanden Heuvel was born in Rochester, New York and attended public schools in New York. He is a graduate of Deep Springs College and Cornell University. At Cornell Law School, he was editor-in-chief of Cornell's law review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1952. He joined the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine as an Associate in 1952, his first law firm. [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/797/000120437/ NNDB/Soylent Communications] web page.]

Career background

As an early protégé of Office of Strategic Services founder William Joseph Donovan, vanden Heuvel served at the U.S. embassy (1953–1954) in Bangkok, Thailand as Donovan's Executive Assistant. Afterward, in 1958, vanden Heuvel served as Counsel to New York State Governor Averell Harriman. He became U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's assistant in 1962 and was involved in Kennedy's 1964 and 1968 political campaigns. As special assistant to Attorney General Kennedy, vanden Heuvel played the key role in court orchestrating the desegregation of the Prince Edward County school system in Virginia. This action expanded the scope of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. [ [http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/mep/displaydoc.cfm?docid=erpn-bilvan Elenor Roosevelt Papers] web site.]

In 1965 he joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, as Senior Partner, where he practiced international and corporate law. He is currently Senior Counsel to the firm.

In the 1970s, vanden Heuvel, as Chairman of the New York City Board of Corrections led a campaign to investigate conditions in the city’s prison system. He has had a lifelong involvement in the reform of the criminal justice system.

He served as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as Ambassador to the European office of the United Nations in Geneva during the Jimmy Carter Administration. [ [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/fa_vanden+heuvel.htm John F. Kennedy Library National Archives] web site.]

Vanden Heuvel has held directorships in a number of public companies. They include: the U.S. Banknote Corporation, Time Warner, Inc., and the North Aegean Petroleum company, and others. Since 1984 he has been a Senior Advisor to the investment banking firm Allen & Company. [ [http://www.feri.org/kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=1814 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI)] web page.]

Currently he is a director of the American Austrian Foundation and Co-chairman of the Council of American Ambassadors. Since 1984 vanden Heuvel has been Chairman of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Governor and former Chairman of the United Nations Association, and has written extensively on the United Nations and American foreign policy. [ [http://www.aaf-online.org/heuvel.htm American Austrian Foundation] web site.]

Books

* vanden Heuvel, William, editor. "The Future of Freedom in Russia," Templeton Foundation Press (2000), ISBN 1890151432.
* vanden Heuvel, William. "On his own: Robert F. Kennedy, 1964-1968," Doubleday (1970), ASIN B0006DXOGI.

References

External links

* [http://www.feri.org/ Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute] .
* [http://hnn.us/articles/4268.html History News Network] , debating FDR and World War II.
* [http://newdeal.feri.org/feri/wvh.htm FERI] , "America, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust," speech (1996).