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| + | |description=former [[United States]] [[diplomat]], [[Secretary of the Navy]], and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] political operative. | ||
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| + | '''John William Middendorf II''' is a former [[United States]] [[diplomat]], [[Secretary of the Navy]], and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] political operative. | ||
| + | He is a member of the board of trustees for [[The Heritage Foundation]]. | ||
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
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| Born | 22 September, 1924 Baltimore, Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross, Harvard College | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Institute of World Politics, International Republican Institute/Board and Staff, The Heritage Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Republican | ||||||||||||||||||||
former United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy, and Republican political operative.
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John William Middendorf II is a former United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy, and Republican political operative.
He is a member of the board of trustees for The Heritage Foundation.
Activities
In 1969, as US ambassador to the Netherlands, Middendorf gifted a moon rock to former PM Willem Drees. The rock ended up in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 2009, it was exposed that the object, which is roughly the size of a matchbox was "nothing but petrified wood hardly worth 50 euros". The US space agency NASA gifted pieces of the alleged moon rock to several countries.[1]
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