Avril Harriman

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8 mentions 2 recordings first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep ↑8 vs the 6 months before

American diplomat, son of Averill Harriman, WWII envoy

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Scandalous Lives of Truman Capote’s Swans 🦢🍸 | N... · 1:40:00 · 6 Sep

…Pamela called, they reconnected, they had dinner, they had several dinners.…

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Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Scandalous Lives of Truman Capote’s Swans 🦢🍸 | N... · 1:39:29 · 6 Sep

…Avril Harriman, her wartime lover from thirty years earlier, was now in his early eighties, recently widowed himself, one of the senior elder statesmen of the Democratic Party, and possessed of a fortune somewhere north of one hundred million dollars.…

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Geoffrey RobertsOpen Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Perso... · 11:05 · 18 Jun

…Harriman is a very, very effective representative for the United States in Moscow during the war.…

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Geoffrey RobertsOpen Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Perso... · 10:09 · 18 Jun

…Yeah, because Avril wasn't a diplomat.…

Anthony ScaramucciOpen Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Perso... · 9:58 · 18 Jun

…How much of what we think of as diplomacy in……

Anthony ScaramucciOpen Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Perso... · 9:43 · 18 Jun

…One of the things that I got out of it,……

Geoffrey RobertsOpen Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Perso... · 7:36 · 18 Jun

…And then Avril is appointed American Ambassador to the United……

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