[2] Puhan was born in Germany and in the 1940s, would read messages in German over the Voice of America, eventually writing for the show.
His career at the VOA spanned eleven years, where he rose to the position of program director.
[3] He almost went to work with Edward R. Murrow but decided on a job with the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, where he assisted in the creation of the Austrian State Treaty of 1955.
[4] He was named United States Ambassador to Hungary by president Richard Nixon where he served 1969-1973.
Fifteen years after entering the building, he was whisked away out of the country, with the public not allowed to witness his departure on September 28, 1971.