Sunday, July 3, 2022
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
WITH AMBASSADOR ROBERT C. HILL IN EL SALVADOR IN 1955
LITTLETON, N.H., Nov. 28 (AP) —Robert C. Hill, who had served as United States ambassador to five countries, died today at his home after being stricken with a heart attack. He was 61 years old.
Mr. Hill had been ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico under President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, and 20 years later in Spain and Argentina under Presidents Richard m. Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Gov. Meldrim Thomson ordered flags at state buildings flown at half staff, and called Mr. Hill one of the nation's “most proficient fighters against the corrosive forces of Communism.”
Mr. Hill's diplomatic career began in 1943 with service in India. A native of Littleton, he had retired from the diplomatic service after serving as ambassador to Argentina under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston University Law School, Mr. Hill was a banker by profession.
Bill Cavan and Robert Charles Hill were lifelong friends. Cavan Served in El Salvador (1955-56), Spain (1969-1971), and Argentina (1974-1976) at Ambassador Hill's request.
A friendship that began in El Salvador in 1955.
Monday, May 17, 2021
Monday, May 2, 2011
EMPEROR HAILE SALASSIE'S PALACE WITH CHETTAH 1968
AT EMPEROR HAILE SALASSIE'S PALACE IN ETHIOPIA 1968
Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ኃይለ፡ ሥላሴ, "Power of the Trinity"[1]) (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen,[2] was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to the 13th century, and from there by tradition back to King Solomon and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the Queen of Sheba. Haile Selassie is a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African history.[3][4]
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