Memo from Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon on Duke Ellington’s Soviet Tour (1971)

Government Record · William P. Rogers / U.S. Department of State · October 20, 1971

Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon, 1971: Duke Ellington's Soviet tour under the State Department's program was "an unqualified communications success."

The just-completed tour of the U.S.S.R. by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, under the sponsorship of our Cultural Presentations Program, has been an unqualified communications success.

Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon, 1971: Duke Ellington's Soviet tour under the State Department's program was "an unqualified communications success."