KLEIMAN, Robert 1918-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born October 1, 1918, in New York, NY; died of cardiovascular disease March 22, 2004, in Washington, DC. Journalist, educator, and author. Kleiman, who was associated with the New York Times for two decades, was well known as an authority on European-American political relations. Graduating from the University of Michigan in 1939, his first job was with the Washington Post, where he was a reporter for two years. Next, he worked as the White House correspondent for the New York Journal of Commerce. With the onset of World War II, he served in the Office of War Information, where in 1942 he continued his work as White House correspondent, only this time for the Voice of America. During the war, Kleiman became involved in psychological warfare, helping to organize an operation in Burma that became a model for this new method of undermining the enemy. With the war over, he returned to journalism, first as an associate editor in Washington, D.C., for U.S. News & World Report, and then as a correspondent in Germany and France. In 1962, Kleiman was briefly the bureau chief in Paris for the Columbia Broadcasting System. The next year, he joined the staff at the New York Times, where he would remain, with the exception of a stint with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London from 1972 to 1973, until 1983. Beginning in the 1980s, Kleiman turned his expertise in foreign affairs to the classroom, teaching at such institutions as Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Columbia University, and Union College; in the late 1980s, he was also a visiting research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, England. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Overseas Press Club, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Authors Guild, and the Century Club, Kleiman, who was a Phi Beta Kappa and member of Sigma Delta Chi, published Atlantic Crisis: American Diplomacy Confronts a Resurgent Europe in 1964.

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2004, p. B13.

New York Times, March 25, 2004, p. C16.

Washington Post, March 25, 2004, p. B6.