James Malone Rentschler

James Malone Theodore Rentschler (October 16, 1933 Rochester, Minnesota - May 2007 Paris, France)[1] was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who was Ambassador to Malta.[2] He succeeded Joan M. Clark who had been named Director General of the Foreign Service.[3]

Education

Rentschler received a certificate from the University of Paris in 1954, graduated from Yale University in 1955 and received a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.[2] [1]

Career

From 1955 until 1958, Rentschler was a military linguist with the U.S. Army Security Agency before joining the Foreign Service in 1959.[1]

Rentschler became a senior staff member in 1978. That year, he was posted as Director of West European Affairs on the National Security Council working in the Carter Administration and continued in the Reagan Administration. Reagan appointed Rentschler Ambassador to Malta (1982 until April 1985). While there, he was asked to head the Summit Public Diplomacy Inter-Agency Team. He was appointed Ambassador to Guinea in 1986 but the nomination was withdrawn[2] on September 11, 1986 before the Senate could act on it.[4]

Publications
  • A Reason to Get Up in the Morning: A Cold Warrior Remembers Publisher Estate of James M. Rentschler, 2008 ISBN 055701753X, 9780557017539
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Thoughts? Is this *too* cheaty?
gollark: Given that our slag production makes *about* one per ten seconds (probably less), and 12.8 units of 5 coal would be needed for 1 diamond, we could get one diamond every two minutes or so.
gollark: I figured out a terrible, terrible (in the sense of being slightly cheaty) way to get diamonds:1. hook up slag production to thermal centrifuge (there's a 1 slag -> tiny gold dust + 5 coal dust recipe)2. feed coal to compactor (makes compressed coal balls; without this it would need flint, but that's easy too)3. compress the coal ball into a ... compressed coal ball4. compress the compressed coal balls into a coal chunk (usually this would require obsidian, iron or bricks, but the compactor skips that too - obsidian is automateable easily but with large power input, though)5. compress coal chunk into diamond
gollark: Oh, this is really cool, Random PSIDeas has a thing which allows me to move my camera position.

References
  1. "Fletcher News" (Fall/Winter 2007). Fletcher News. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. "RENTSCHLER, JAMES M.: Files, 1981 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS" (PDF). Reagan Library. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. "Malta Envoy Nominated". The New York Times. August 5, 1982. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. "James Malone Rentschler (1933–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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