Richard Nolte, Three-Week Ambassador During Six-Day War, Dies at 86
Richard Nolte, a Middle East expert whose tenure as American ambassador to Egypt lasted only three weeks in 1967 because of the turmoil of the Six-Day War and despite the fact that he sympathized with the Arab cause, died Nov. 22 at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 86.
The cause was complications of a stroke, his brother, Charles, said.
Mr. Nolte eventually became chairman of the American Geographical Society, the oldest cartography society in the United States. He was a somewhat controversial choice in 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him ambassador to what was then the United Arab Republic, the temporary union of Egypt and Syria. At the time, Mr. Nolte was director of the Institute of Current World Affairs, a group that sends young scholars to study abroad. His views on the Middle East were already known.
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The cause was complications of a stroke, his brother, Charles, said.
Mr. Nolte eventually became chairman of the American Geographical Society, the oldest cartography society in the United States. He was a somewhat controversial choice in 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him ambassador to what was then the United Arab Republic, the temporary union of Egypt and Syria. At the time, Mr. Nolte was director of the Institute of Current World Affairs, a group that sends young scholars to study abroad. His views on the Middle East were already known.