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Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. Kathleen Harriman Mortimer (December 7, 1917 – February 17, 2011) was an American journalist and socialite who played an important role in helping her father and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with behind-the-scenes management of the American delegation to the Yalta Conference.
Apr 18, 2018 · Adored daughter of tycoon turned diplomat Averell Harriman, Kathleen Mortimer got a crash course in W.W. II politics, adultery, and journalism when she followed her father to London and Moscow ...
- Marie Brenner
Feb 19, 2011 · Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, a daughter of W. Averell Harriman, died on Thursday at 93. The death, at her cottage in Arden, N.Y., was confirmed by her son David Mortimer. Mrs.
Oct 1, 2020 · In the spring of 1944, the Soviets finally reclaimed the Crimea and pushed the Nazis out, but not before the retreating enemy plundered Livadia Palace, taking everything they could carry. It was here, in this despoiled palace in February 1945, that Kathleen Harriman, the glamorous, 27-year-old daughter of the fourth-richest man in America, now ...
Daughter of aristocratic titan Averell Harriman, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born to wealth, beauty, and blueblood values. But when her father plunged into the politics of World War II as President Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain and later the ambassador to Russia, she went with him, going from working as a wide-eyed ingénue reporter to enchanting both Churchill and Stalin. After ...
- Marie Brenner
After the war she retired from public life, married Stanley G. Mortimer, changed her name to Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, settled down, and raised a family. Except to people like me, she rarely talked about the war, or her letters, but she sure went to a lot of trouble to preserve her legacy and to shape our perceptions of it. Geoffrey Roberts is professor of history at University College Cork ...
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Kathleen Harriman was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind.
