Trivia

National security advisor to US president Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.

His father, a Polish diplomat, was posted to Canada in 1938, thus barely avoiding the outbreak of WWII a year later. The family remained in Canada and later moved to the US.

Has Ph.D. in political science from Harvard (1953).

In 1981 awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contribution to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.

Received his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1950) in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Became a U.S. citizen in 1958.

In 1995, was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian recognition, for his contribution to the recovery of Poland's independence from Soviet Union.

Father-in-law of James Hoffer and Joelene Brzezinski.