Professor Robert R. Bowie dies at 104
Robert R. Bowie, the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus and founder and first director of the Center for International Affairs (now the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs) died Nov. 2 at the age of 104. Bowie’s career combined distinguished academic achievement with service at the highest levels of government. From 1946 to 1955, Bowie taught corporate and anti-trust law at Harvard Law School, with leaves of absence to serve as general counsel and special adviser to the U.S. high commissioner for Germany, John McCloy (1950-51), and as director of policy planning and assistant secretary of state under John Foster Dulles (1953-57). In this latter role he was a key figure in forging U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Returning to Harvard in 1957, Bowie became the first holder of the Clarence Dillon Professorship, named for the father of C. Douglas Dillon, treasury secretary under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. As founder and...