Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Gordon was involved with the university’s Glee Club; because Prohibition was still in place, wine was usually served at the Club’s parties. While he was a student at Harvard, Gordon met his future wife, Allison Wright, at a film exhibition in Dunster House. He received a BA from Harvard in 1933.

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  • Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Gordon was involved with the university’s Glee Club; because Prohibition was still in place, wine was usually served at the Club’s parties. While he was a student at Harvard, Gordon met his future wife, Allison Wright, at a film exhibition in Dunster House. He received a BA from Harvard in 1933. He received a PhD from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1936. He had a career in the administration and as a professor. He was program vice-chairman of the War Production Board from 1944 to 1945. He started in the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the War Production Board before joining the staff of the Requirements Committee, helping design the Controlled Materials Plan. This Plan regulated the conservation and allocation of critical materials such as steel, copper, zinc, and aluminum –materials that were scarce or were in danger of becoming so during World War II. Gordon then worked for the US State Department as Director of the Marshall Plan Mission and Minister for Economic Affairs and at the American embassy in London (1952-55). "To let Western Europe collapse for want of some dollars," Gordon has stated in regards to his role in the Marshall Plan, “would have been a tragedy. It would have been repeating the terrible mistake after World War I. ” He was Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention to foreign affairs.
  • Lincoln Gordon foi embaixador dos Estados Unidos no Brasil entre 1961 e 1966, participou das negociações de obtenção de crédito para o Plano Trienal do governo de João Goulart. Atuou como informante do status político pré-golpe Militar. Obteve aprovação do presidente dos EUA na época, Lindon Johnson, obtendo apoio militar de embarcações norte-americanas na costa bresileira caso o golpe militar fracassasse. Posteriormente, foi presidente da Johns Hopkins University entre 1967 e 1971. http://www. gwu. edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/index. htm
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  • Noam Chomsky
  • So, in one case, Brazil, the most important Latin American country, there has been what was called an "economic miracle" in the last couple of decades, ever since we destroyed Brazilian democracy by supporting a military coup in 1964. The support for the coup was initiated by Kennedy but finally carried to a conclusion by Johnson. The coup was called by Kennedy's ambassador, Lincoln Gordon, "the single most decisive victory for freedom in the mid-twentieth century." We installed the first really major national security state, Nazi-like state, in Latin America, with high-technology torture and so on. Gordon called it "totally democratic," "the best government Brazil ever had."... Well, there was an economic miracle and there was an increase in the GNP. There was also an increase in suffering for much of the population.
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  • Lincoln Gordon, 2006
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  • Sally (née Anne), Gordon, Hugh, Amy
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  • Allison Gordon (née Wright)
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  • John W. Tuthill
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  • 25 February, 1966
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  • Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Gordon was involved with the university’s Glee Club; because Prohibition was still in place, wine was usually served at the Club’s parties. While he was a student at Harvard, Gordon met his future wife, Allison Wright, at a film exhibition in Dunster House. He received a BA from Harvard in 1933.
  • Lincoln Gordon foi embaixador dos Estados Unidos no Brasil entre 1961 e 1966, participou das negociações de obtenção de crédito para o Plano Trienal do governo de João Goulart. Atuou como informante do status político pré-golpe Militar. Obteve aprovação do presidente dos EUA na época, Lindon Johnson, obtendo apoio militar de embarcações norte-americanas na costa bresileira caso o golpe militar fracassasse.
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