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John A. Scali


11th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office February 20, 1973 – June 29, 1975
President	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
Preceded by	George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by	Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Personal details
Born	John Alfred Scali (1918-04-27)April 27, 1918 Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Died	October 9, 1995(1995-10-09) (aged 77) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse(s)	Helen Glock (1946–1973) Denise St. Germain (1973–1995)
Education	Boston University (BA)

John Alfred Scali (April 27, 1918 – October 9, 1995)^[1] was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1973 to 1975.^[2] From 1961 he was also a long time correspondent for ABC News.

As a correspondent for ABC, Scali became an intermediary during the Cuban Missile Crisis and later a part of the Nixon Administration. Scali gained fame after it became known in 1964 that in October 1962, a year after he joined ABC News, he had carried a critical message from KGB Colonel Aleksandr Fomin (the cover name for Alexander Feklisov) to U.S. officials. He left ABC in 1971 to serve as a foreign affairs adviser to President Nixon, becoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1973. Scali re-joined ABC in 1975 where he worked until retiring in 1993.

Scali was contacted by Soviet embassy official (and KGB Station Chief) Fomin about a proposed settlement to the crisis, and subsequently he acted as a contact between Fomin and President Kennedy and the Executive Committee. However, it was without government direction that Scali responded to new Soviet conditions with a warning that a U.S. invasion was only hours away, prompting the Soviets to settle the crisis quickly.

References

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^ J.Y. Smith (October 10, 1995). "JOHN SCALI DIES". The Washington Post.
^ "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; At The Brink; Interview with John Scali, 1986", Openvault.wgbh.org, retrieved 2021-08-06

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by George H. W. Bush	United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1973–1975	Succeeded by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Cabinet of President Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Cabinet
Vice President	Spiro Agnew (1969–1973) None (1973) Gerald Ford (1973–1974)
Secretary of State	William P. Rogers (1969–1973) Henry Kissinger (1973–1974)
Secretary of the Treasury	David M. Kennedy (1969–1971) John Connally (1971–1972) George Shultz (1972–1974) William E. Simon (1974)
Secretary of Defense	Melvin Laird (1969–1973) Elliot Richardson (1973) James R. Schlesinger (1973–1974)
Attorney General	John N. Mitchell (1969–1972) Richard Kleindienst (1972–1973) Elliot Richardson (1973) William B. Saxbe (1974)
Postmaster General	Winton M. Blount (1969–1971)
Secretary of the Interior	Wally Hickel (1969–1970) Rogers Morton (1971–1974)
Secretary of Agriculture	Clifford M. Hardin (1969–1971) Earl Butz (1971–1974)
Secretary of Commerce	Maurice Stans (1969–1972) Peter G. Peterson (1972–1973) Frederick B. Dent (1973–1974)
Secretary of Labor	George Shultz (1969–1970) James Day Hodgson (1970–1973) Peter J. Brennan (1973–1974)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Robert Finch (1969–1970) Elliot Richardson (1970–1973) Caspar Weinberger (1973–1974)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	George W. Romney (1969–1973) James Thomas Lynn (1973–1974)
Secretary of Transportation	John A. Volpe (1969–1973) Claude Brinegar (1973–1974)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Bureau of the Budget	Robert P. Mayo (1969–1970)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	George Shultz (1970–1972) Caspar Weinberger (1972–1973) Roy Ash (1973–1974)
Ambassador to the United Nations	Charles Yost (1969–1971) George H. W. Bush (1971–1973) John A. Scali (1973–1974)
Counselor to the President	Arthur F. Burns (1969) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1969–1970) Bryce Harlow (1969–1970) Robert Finch (1970–1972) Donald Rumsfeld (1970–1971) Anne L. Armstrong (1973–1974) Dean Burch (1974) Kenneth Rush (1974)

Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

Cabinet
Vice President	None (1974) Nelson Rockefeller (1974–1977)
Secretary of State	Henry Kissinger (1974–1977)
Secretary of the Treasury	William E. Simon (1974–1977)
Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977)
Attorney General	William B. Saxbe (1974–1975) Edward H. Levi (1975–1977)
Secretary of the Interior	Rogers Morton (1974–1975) Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) Thomas S. Kleppe (1975–1977)
Secretary of Agriculture	Earl Butz (1974–1976) John A. Knebel (1976–1977)
Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) Rogers Morton (1975–1976) Elliot Richardson (1976–1977)
Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) William Usery Jr. (1976–1977)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Caspar Weinberger (1974–1975) F. David Mathews (1975–1977)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James Thomas Lynn (1974–1975) Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977)
Secretary of Transportation	Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (1975–1977)

Cabinet-level
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Roy Ash (1974–1975) James Thomas Lynn (1975–1977)
Trade Representative	Frederick B. Dent (1975–1977)
Ambassador to the United Nations	John A. Scali (1974–1975) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975–1976) William Scranton (1976–1977)
White House Chief of Staff	Donald Rumsfeld (1974–1975) Dick Cheney (1975–1977)
Counselor to the President	Anne L. Armstrong (1974) Dean Burch (1974) Kenneth Rush (1974) Robert T. Hartmann (1974–1977) John Otho Marsh Jr. (1974–1977) Rogers Morton (1976)
White House Counsel	Philip W. Buchen (1974–1977)