About L. Nicholas Ruwe
Lived 1933 – 1990 (aged 56). L. Nicholas Ruwe was an American businessperson and ambassador.
Lester Nicholas Ruwe (September 22, 1933 – May 2, 1990) was the United States Ambassador to Iceland from 1985 until 1989.
Ruwe helped settle disputes involving shipping and whaling and was responsible for the operation of the 1986 summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. He was chief of staff in New York for former President Richard M. Nixon (1980-1984), assistant chief of protocol at the State Department from 1969 to 1975, and was responsible for the state funerals of former Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower and for the world tour of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins after their return from the Moon in 1969.
Ruwe graduated from Brown University in 1955 and the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration in 1956.
He died of cancer at the Mayo Clinic.
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Who was L. Nicholas Ruwe?
United States Ambassador to Iceland (1985–1989)
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L. Nicholas Ruwe was born on 22 September 1933 in Detroit.
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L. Nicholas Ruwe died on 2 May 1990 in Rochester, Minnesota.
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L. Nicholas Ruwe was a businessperson and ambassador.
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L. Nicholas Ruwe was American.
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