[Autograph Note and Transcript] Conversations with Eric Sevareid: George F. Kennan. CBS News Special, Sunday, September 7, 1975

KENNAN, George F., Eric Sevareid, and Eugene C. Gerhart

Published by (New York; Princeton, New Jersey), 1975

About this Item

Typed autograph note, Signed, by the eminent U.S. diplomat George Kennan (dated September 19, 1975), together with two variant transcripts of Eric Sevareid s CBS television interview with Kennan. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, Kennan was the leading architect of America s policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. The autograph card was sent to Eugene Gerhart, Editor-in-Chief of the *New York State Bar Journal*, in response to Gerhart s letter to Kennan, asking Kennan if he could publish the CBS interview in the form of an article in the Journal. In the note Kennan writes that "CBS is preparing a text for wider distribution …" Accompanying Kennan s note are typescript copies of Gerhart s two letters to Kennan, one copy of the CBS transcript of the hour-long broadcast interview (18pp.), and a typed transcription of the interview made by Gerhart s secretary (23pp.) Near fine. An important interview concerning Soviet-American relations since World War II, with a nice association to Gerhart s *New York State Bar Journal*.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Autograph Note and Transcript] Conversations with Eric Sevareid: George F. Kennan. CBS News Special, Sunday, September 7, 1975
• Publisher: (New York; Princeton, New Jersey)
• Publication Date: 1975
• Condition: Near Fine