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VAN GALBRAITH's credentials were pretty impressive. We were classmates at Yale and then he went to Harvard Law School. After that came service as a naval officer, in the folds of the CIA. Then a top law firm in New York City, and on to London, where he represented his firm and did private business. But his interest in public affairs was irresistible, and when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president, Galbraith was sworn in as ambassador to France, abandoning even his post as chairman of the board of trustees of NATIONAL REVIEW. After Paris, back to the law and to business, but soon he was in Europe again, this time in Brussels as defense adviser to the U.S. mission at NATO. He pulled away from that in November, and died January 21 in New York of problems that traced to a cancer discovered, but not arrested, years ago.
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Adeskbound life? Hardly. He made four transoceanic passages with me on sailboats, performing duties at sea without ever ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Evan Galbraith, R.I.P.(OBITUARY)(In memoriam)(Brief article)