Ambassador to the United Nations: Difference between revisions

| seat = [[United Nations Headquarters]]<br>[[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]]

[[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the [[United States Senate]] to [[John F. Kennedy]] in the [[1952 United States Senate election in Massachusetts|1952 elections]], was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in gratitude for the defeated senator's role in the new president's defeat of conservative leader [[Robert A. Taft]] for the [[1952 Republican Party presidential primaries|1952 Republican nomination]] and subsequent service as his campaign manager in the [[1952 United States presidential election|general election]]; Eisenhower raised the ambassadorship to [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet rank]] in order to give Lodge direct access to him without having to go through the State Department.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The United States and the End of British Colonial Rule in Africa, 1941–1968|last=Hubbard|first=James P.|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2011|isbn=978-0-7864-5952-0|location=Jefferson City, NC|pages=172}}</ref>

The ambassadorship continued to hold this status throughout the remainder of the [[Cold War]] but was removed from Cabinet rank by [[George H. W. Bush]], who had previously held the position himself. It was restored under the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton administration]]. It was not a Cabinet-level position under the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush administration]] (from 2001 to 2009),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97661695&ft=1&f=1003|title = U.N. Envoy Nominee Rice Known As Smart, Tough |publisher = National Public Radio|date=December 1, 2008 |last=Kelemen |first=Michele |quote=The head of the United Nations Foundation, a Washington-based advocacy group, released a statement praising Rice as well as Obama's decision to make the post of U.N. ambassador a Cabinet-level position once again{{snd}}as it was during the Clinton years.|access-date=January 21, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Helene|title=Clinton Decision Holding Up Other Obama Choices |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/politics/20Cooperweb.html|date=November 20, 2008|quote=Ms. Rice could get the post of United States ambassador to the United Nations, a cabinet-level position under President Clinton. President Bush downgraded the position when he came into office|access-date=February 9, 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> but was once again elevated under the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]], and initially retained as such by the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] during the tenure of [[Nikki Haley]].<ref>Walker, Hunter. "[https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-announces-his-full-cabinet-roster-044552214.html President Trump announces his full Cabinet roster]." Yahoo News. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2017-02-08.</ref> However, in December 2018, it was reported by several news organizations that the Trump administration would once again downgrade the position to non-Cabinet rank.<ref>{{cite news

| rowspan="3" | [[Harry S. Truman]]

| rowspan="3" | [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]

| rowspan="4" | [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]

| rowspan="7" | [[George W. Bush]]