Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy - Hardcover

Patricia Gates Lynch

9780978619121: Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0978619129 ISBN 13: 9780978619121

Publisher: Countinghouse Pr Inc, 2008

As a military wife, the author lived through a number of World War II experiences, including a stint at Oak Ridge, TN, where the Manhattan Project was underway. Following the War, she and her husband spent time in Munich and in Paris, where he was attached to SHAPE. She recounts her phenomenally successful Voice of America Radio experience, which began in a small Fairfax, VA station on her return to the United States. For a time, VOA loaned her to the Nixon White House, where she was a radio coach to First Lady Patricia Nixon. Pat Gates Lynch's career culminated with an ambassadorship to Madagascar under President Ronald Reagan. In her many years of service, she touched many lives, and became a positive force for good.

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From the Inside Flap:

"Life changed for me one August day that summer of 1941," notes Patricia Gates Lynch in her first chapter, "though I didn't realize it until much later." She was to embark on a career that took her from Army bases in the U. S. and Europe as a military wife, to the postwar U. S. radio arena, to worldwide prominence as a host on the Voice of America "Breakfast Show," to an assignment with First Lady Patricia Nixon, and finally, to an Ambassadorship under President Ronald Reagan to Madagascar and the Comoros Islands. Patricia Lawrence Gates married "Ink" Gates, a West Point Graduate, not long after America entered World War II. Her husband was assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, then worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the couple resided. Through this assignment, she came to know personally many of the prime movers of America's early nuclear program. After the War, Pat Gates moved to Western Europe with her husband, who worked in Munich, then in Paris for SHAPE (Strategic Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe.) Her radio experience began on her return to the D.C. area in the mid-fifties, with a daytime program at a small suburban Virginia station. Guests from all walks of life appeared on her shows, from Maurice Chevalier, to Bob Hope, to Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Her years of public service culminated with a White House assignment and an ambassadorship to Madagascar under President Ronald Regan. Pat Gates Lynch's book provides a spectacular overview of the second half of the twentieth century through the eyes of a remarkable woman who represented the United States as a journalist and diplomat during historic times. Foreword by Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

About the Author:

West Point graduate marries Connecticut high school girl, or so a headline might have run in the early days of World War II. Pat Gates and her husband, Ink, started their marriage at Camp McCoy in Wisconsin. After his return from the China Burma India theatre, he was posted to Oak Ridge, TN and they lived there during his assignment to the Manhattan Project. The author found herself in Europe after the war, then in a spectacular radio career, and finally, in an ambassadorial post in Madagascar. Her presence at many of the events of the twentieth century makes fascinating reading. She now resides in the Washington, DC area.

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