Michael Armacost
| Michael Armacost link C-SPAN NNDB (Deep state operative?) | |
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| Born | 15 April 1937 Cleveland, Ohio,USA |
| Died | March 8, 2025 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Carleton College, Columbia University |
President of the Brookings Institution, Acting US Secretary of State for 5 days in 1989 | |
Michael Hayden Armacost was an American diplomat who attended the 1997 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Armacost was the son of George H. Armacost, president of the University of Redlands, and Verda Gay Armacost. He pursued higher education at Carleton College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1958, and at Columbia University, obtaining a Master of Arts in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1965.[1]
Career
In 1982, President Reagan appointed him as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, where he negotiated a successful five-year extension of the Military Bases Agreement, a key component of the overall U.S. Far East strategy at the time. He then became Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1984 to 1989 under George Shultz. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush appointed Armacost to be U.S. Ambassador to Japan.[1]
As undersecretary of state for political affairs, Armacost played a key role at the State Department during the entire Iran-contra affair.[2]
During his four-year tenure as US ambassador to Japan, Armacost earned the nickname "Mr. Gaiatsu" (external pressure) for demanding Japan to make a visible contribution to the Gulf War and for calling on Japan to allow Us imports and deregulate its markets[3], which part contributed to a three decade recession in Japan.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/michael-armacost-obituary?id=57958690
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/02/23/a-chance-to-fill-in-iran-contra-blanks/d21769ac-485a-470b-8990-437ed2ce0746/
- ↑ https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00020/
- ↑ See Richard Werner https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY
