J. William Middendorf
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| J. William Middendorf link (Diplomat) | |
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| Born | 22 September, 1924 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross, Harvard College |
| Party | Republican |
John William Middendorf II is a former United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy, and Republican political operative.
He is a member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation.
Activities
In 1969, as US ambassador to the Netherlands, Middendorf gifted a moon rock to former PM Willem Drees. The rock ended up in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 2009, it was exposed that the object, which is roughly the size of a matchbox was "nothing but petrified wood hardly worth 50 euros". The US space agency NASA gifted pieces of the alleged moon rock to several countries.[1]
