J. William Middendorf

J. William Middendorf   (diplomat)
Born	1924-09-22 Baltimore, Maryland
Alma mater	College of the Holy Cross, Harvard College
Member of	Institute of World Politics, International Republican Institute/Board and Staff
Party	Republican
U.S. Ambassador to The EU In office June 23, 1989 - August 26, 1991  US/Ambassador to the OAS In office 1 July 1981 - 20 June 1985 Succeeded by Richard McCormack  United States Secretary of the Navy In office April 8, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Succeeded by W. Graham Claytor  United States Ambassador to the Netherlands In office 1969 - 1973  United States Ambassador to the European Union In office 1984 - 1987

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.

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