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Richard Harris Smith

Smith is a diplomatic historian and public policy consultant. After serving briefly as a junior Intelligence officer during the Cold War, in 1972, with the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as mentor, he wrote the first history of the OSS, the World War II Office of Strategic Services. Smith has since written on national security issues for the Washington POST, the Los Angeles TIMES and the International Journal of Intelligence, and has taught foreign policy seminars at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. A political "gut-liberal" Democrat, he has worked in the campaigns of nine congressional, gubernatorial, senatorial and presidential candidates. He now lives with his daughter on the central coast of California.

Articles by Richard Harris Smith

State of Emergency: Why Bill Lockyer Should Be Governor of California
November 14, 2009
California is a State of Emergency. Not the usual costly, tragic consequences of natural disasters, of earthquakes, floods and forest fires that soon pass. The present Emergency is open-ended and man-made, one for which many bear responsibility. Democrats are to blame. Republicans are to blam...
THE MISCASTING OF CONGRESSMAN LANTOS
November 21, 2007
Historians and biographers like to play the parlor-game of finding a single small action or decision which, seen in retrospect, affects the future of men and women in public life - and may thereby change the course of history. Trying to pinpoint such a fateful moment in advance is foolhardy. Stil...
REMEMBERING HISTORICAL INSPIRATION: ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
March 01, 2007
I was 24 when my father died suddenly, and prematurely, of a heart attack. At the time, I was writing a history book, and, for months, I found it almost impossible to sit down and complete the manuscript. Of the many comforting things I heard from friends then, the one that sticks most clearly i...

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