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Walter Hubert Annenberg — as one Foreign Office brief delicately put it — was ‘an unusual diplomat’.1 He had no expertise in foreign affairs and his impact on the Nixon administration’s policy towards Britain was limited. Yet he remained US Ambassador to the United Kingdom for five years and returned to the United States with warm reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite his marginalisation from the centre of power, Annenberg was eventually able to carve out a niche within the American diplomatic machinery with some success in a way that surprised his critics and says a great deal about both the Nixon administration and the state of the Anglo-American relationship during this period.
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Cameron, J. (2012). Walter H. Annenberg, 1969–74. In: The Embassy in Grosvenor Square. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295576_10
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