- He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- He received his a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1949.
- Served as United States Ambassador to France from 1997-2000 during the second Clinton Administration and is a Commander in the French Legion of Honor.
- His family lived in France from 1934-1942. They fled the Nazi occupation, escaping the country with forged papers.
- Stepfather of Nina Griscom.
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