Green's service began just before the overthrow and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
He evacuated women and children from the grounds and slept on his office couch for ten days due to explosions around Bucharest.,[1][2] In May 1990, he was recalled “to Washington for 'consultations.'
A State Department spokeswoman described the action as a 'public signal of our concern for the process of free and fair elections.
Green “rated guiding the Shipping Act of 1984 through Congress as one of his proudest achievements” of his four year tenure.
[4] Green was valedictorian of his class at Lincoln High School (Portland, Oregon) and served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II before graduating from Stanford University in 1949.