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- Birth namePaul Henry Nitze
- Paul H. Nitze was born on January 16, 1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Elisabeth Scott Porter and Phyllis Pratt. He died on October 19, 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpousesElisabeth Scott Porter(1993 - October 19, 2004) (his death)Phyllis Pratt(1952 - 1987) (her death, 4 children)
- Architect of the US strategy against the Soviet Union at the onset of the Cold War; later a negotiator of arms treaties with the USSR.
- Children: first marriage: Peter, William, Anina, Heidi; second marriage: Erin (stepchild).
- Graduated from Harvard University in 1927 and worked for 12 years as an investment banker at Dillon Read & Co., before taking a job in 1940 in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He eventually served government posts under eight presidents.
- Director of the State Department's policy planning staff in 1950. Helped frame the strategy of building up U.S. forces to keep the Soviets contained in Eastern Europe.
- Founded the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1943. In 1957, he conceived the idea of attaching a "think tank" to the school, which is now called the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute. Three years later he helped Johns Hopkins University raise $4.2 million for the SAIS building near Dupont Circle.
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