Ambassadors at Sea - The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat

Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 396 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. Inscribed and Signed on the ffep "For Kay and Rowly --/ and especially Kay - who / kept me going and helped / more than I can say. / Henry Catto / Nov 1998" Henry Edward Catto Jr. (1930 – 2011) was an American businessman and public servant. Catto held several positions within the United States government, including Ambassador to El Salvador from 1971 to 1973, the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1974 to 1976, the Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1976 to 1977, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs from 1981 to 1983. In 1989, President G.H.W. Bush appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. In 1999, he was elected chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and in 2007, its chairman emeritus. In the 1980s, Mr. Catto and his wife owned the Washington Journalism Review, which they donated to the University of Maryland in 1987 which became the American Journalism Review. Under their stewardship, Katherine "Kay" Evans served as editor of the Review. The endeavour is described in the book. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family. .