1. Max Kampelman grew up in the Bronx, New York, attending Jewish parochial schools and the Talmudical Academy High School.
10 Facts About Max Kampelman
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Max Kampelman's career started during the Second World War as a conscientious objector.
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Max Kampelman served from 1949 to 1955 as Legislative Counsel to Minnesota Senator Hubert H Humphrey.
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Max Kampelman was chairman of the Washington public broadcasting radio and television stations from 1963 to 1970; and he hosted the PBS series Washington Week from 1969 to 1971.
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Max Kampelman served as Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe from 1980 to 1983; Ambassador and Head of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms in Geneva from 1985 to 1989; and as Counselor to the United States Department of State from 1987 to 1989.
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Max Kampelman was a member of the Board of Advisors for the think-tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
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Max Kampelman was vice chairman of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace from 1992 to 2001.
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On May 22,2008, at a ceremony held at the US State Department in Washington, DC, Max Kampelman was presented by the National Endowment for Democracy with its Democracy Service Medal in recognition of his lifetime achievement in advancing the principles of freedom, human rights, and democracy.
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In May and June 1990, Ambassador Max Kampelman returned to the negotiation table of the CSCE for the successful Copenhagen Declaration.
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Max Kampelman received thirteen honorary Doctorate degrees, as well as the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.