He was a political conservative who supported Nixon 's foreign policy , including the Vietnam War , and gave the invocation at the 1972 Republican National Convention . Nonetheless , he was known for maintaining an internationalist perspective , serving for many years as the permanent representative from the global Quaker community to the World Council of Churches , an organization he helped bring into being . In the 1950s , he served as a senior advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower , who created a post for him as Director of Religious Information at the U.S. Information Agency ( formerly the '' Voice of America '' ) . '' Time '' magazine profiled him in this role on March 15 , 1954 . During the Nixon Administration he again served as an adviser to the President
1972 Republican National Convention
1972 Republican National Convention
D. Elton Trueblood