Fitzhugh Green Papers

The late Fitzhugh Green was a man of service, not only to his country which he served well as an administrator in the United States Information Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency but also to Georgetown University, where for many years he advised the Foreign Service School on its graduate admissions. Moreover, he ardently supported Lauinger Library, and not long before his untimely death in September 1990 he donated his personal archives.

Fitz, as he was known to many, joined the USIA in 1954 and remained until 1970. His foreign postings included Laos, Israel, and Zaire, and for two years he held the position of deputy director for Far East operations. The United Nations in New York was another assignment. In 1971 he went to work at the EPA, an association which would last on and off until 1987. The author of several books, his writing career began at the age of 14 when he published Fitz Jr. with the Fleet (1931), an account of his experiences while on a naval exercise with his father, Fitzhugh Green, the famed arctic explorer, writer and naval officer. Later books included A Change in the Weather (1977), American Propaganda Abroad (1988) and George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (1989).

The papers, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts and research files, document all aspects of Green's eventful life. There are letters from a variety of politicians, diplomats and writers, among them Howard Baker, John Brademas, George Bush, John H. Chafee, William E. Colby, Richard Nixon, Claiborne Pell, Charles Percy and William Ruckelshaus. Perhaps one of the most interesting correspondences is with his own cousin, Julien Green, the noted American-French author.