[1][2][3][4] Meyer found his tenure in Japan to be "particularly challenging ... because he faced the task of ‘easing the shock of President Nixon’s historic breakthrough to China.’".

Richard Nixon creates a task force on international terrorism after Israeli athletes were killed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Leona died when Armin was three and then he was raised by three aunts in Lincoln, Illinois.

In 1941, he earned a master's degree in mathematics at Ohio State University.

In 1943, Meyer joined the staff of the United States Office of War Information in Cairo.