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Radio 4,01 Aug 1986,15 mins

Averell Harriman (1891-1986)

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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A tribute to politician and diplomat Averell Harriman, former US Ambassador, Governor of New York and a leading official in the Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy administrations

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