leadership position, then called the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, on January 6, 1957. He was succeeded by Gordon Gray on June 24, 1958. Later life In 1958, Cutler was nominated for a seat on the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges by Governor Foster Furcolo. His nomination was rejected by the Massachusetts Governor's Council by a 4-3 vote on the grounds that the position should go to a Democrat. Furcolo submitted Cutler's nomination again, and on December 30, the Council approved his appointment by a 6-2 vote. On October 14, 1959, Eisenhower announced that he would nominate Cutler to serve a three-year term as an executive director of the new Inter-American Development Bank. He was sworn in by Eisenhower on February 2, 1960. He resigned effective July 15, 1962. He published his memoirs, No Time for Rest, in 1966. He died on May 8, 1974, in Concord, Massachusetts. Never married and predeceased by all of his brothers, Cutler left no immediate survivors but was survived by several nieces and nephews, including Elliott C. Cutler Jr., Robert B. Cutler and Roger W. Cutler Jr. References Further reading "Bostonian at Work", Time, June 4, 1953. Retrieved March 7, 2007. No Time for Rest, by Robert Cutler, published by Little, Brown, 1966. Ike’s Mystery Man, the Secret Lives of Robert Cutler, by Peter Shinkle, published by Steerforth Press, 2018. External links Papers of Robert Cutler, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Records of the White House Office of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library |- 1895 births 1974 deaths United States Army personnel of World War I Corporation counsels of Boston Cutler family Harvard Law School alumni Massachusetts Republicans United States Army colonels United States National Security Advisors Writers from Boston Harvard College alumni United States Army personnel of World War II