Robert F. Woodward

He then returned to Washington to serve as Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel 1952–53 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs 1953–54.

(On a sidenote, Ambassador Woodward was a longtime advocate in favor of creation of the Inter-American Development Bank, which was created in 1960.)

President John F. Kennedy then named him United States Ambassador to Chile, though he held this post for only two months, from May 5, 1961, to July 6, 1961.

As Assistant Secretary led a successful effort to have Cuba suspended from membership in the Organization of American States.

He was also the architect of the first meeting of the Alliance for Progress, a centerpiece of the Kennedy Administration's Latin America policy post-Bay of Pigs.