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- Birth nameCharles Eustis Bohlen
- Nickname
- Chip
- Charles Bohlen was born on August 30, 1904 in Clayton, New York, USA. He was married to Avis Howard Thayer. He died on January 1, 1974 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpouseAvis Howard Thayer(August 29, 1935 - January 1, 1974) (his death, 3 children)
- Interpreter for President Truman at Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945).
- U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1953-57.
- In 1982 an annual Avis Bohlen Award was established, administered by the American Foreign Service Association. The award is named after Avis Bohlen (1912-1981), wife of Charles E. Bohlen, and "honors the accomplishments of a family member of a Foreign Service employee whose relations with the American and foreign communities at post have done the most to advance the interests of the United States".
- Entered U.S. Foreign Service in 1928; first posted at Riga, Latvia.
- In 1934 he joined a staff of 15 at the newly re-opened U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and served there with Llewellyn E. "Tommy" Thompson, Jr. and George F. Kennan - all three would later serve at various times as U.S. Ambassadors to the Soviet Union.
- I do not think we can look forward to a tranquil world so long as the Soviet Union operates in its present form. The only hope, and this is a fairly thin one, is that at some point the Soviet Union will begin to act like a country instead of a cause.
- It is my gloomy conclusion that the United States faces decades of uneasy relations with the Soviet Union. The fault, if that is the right word, lies with both countries, but primarily with the Soviet Union.
- In my years in Moscow, I must have seen Swan Lake fifty times; I think I could dance every step.
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