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Ex-Pentagon Official Paul Nitze, 97, Dies Wednesday October 20, 2004 5:46 PM By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Paul H. Nitze, a senior arms control adviser in the Reagan administration who served in various national security roles under eight presidents, is dead at 97. Reports of his death late Tuesday were confirmed by the Navy Department, which Nitze once headed. His long career, which began with success on Wall Street as a young investment banker, was capped last April in Bath, Maine, where Nitze witnessed from a wheelchair the christening of a warship bearing his name. He...

Former arms control negotiator for Reagan, dead at 97 Paul Nitze, a former top Pentagon official who served as the senior arms control adviser to president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, died at the age of 97, the US military announced Wednesday. A spokesman for the US Navy -- a branch that Nitze once headed -- confirmed his death. Nitze served in several top government posts, including secretary of the navy 1963-67 and deputy secretary of defense 1967-69. Nitze headed the US arms negotiationg team with the Soviet Union in the 1980s under Reagan. The Harvard graduate worked for many...

Paul H. Nitze, an expert on military power and strategic arms whose roles as negotiator, diplomat and Washington insider spanned the era from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and helped shape America's cold war relationship with the Soviet Union, died Tuesday night at his home in Washington. He was 97. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Elisabeth Scott Porter. From the beginning of the nuclear age, whether in government or out, Mr. Nitze urged successive American presidents to take measures against what he saw as the Soviet drive to overwhelm the United States through the force of arms....

Destroyer's 97-Year-Old Namesake on Hand to Witness Ship's Christening By David Sharp Associated Press Writer BATH, Maine (AP) - A 97-year-old former Navy secretary and chief arms control adviser in the Reagan administration was on hand Saturday as a warship bearing his name was christened. Paul H. Nitze smiled broadly from his wheelchair as his wife swung a champagne bottle against the destroyer's bow to the cheers of hundreds of onlookers. A band then broke into "Anchors Aweigh" and red, white and blue streamers and confetti shot into the air. The event marked only the eighth time in U.S. Navy...