article_snippet.sent: Temple was a friend of Richard Nixon, who nominated Temple for the American ambassadorship to the UN, and of J Edgar Hoover, whose agency was asked to investigated Temple background .
article_snippet.sent: The FBI file claims that Temple and FBI director J Edgar Hoover were friends and says that agents were not to conduct neighborhood surveillance on Temple 'unless the need arises', and only with approval of agents superiors at the bureau.
article_snippet.sent: Temple was appointed to the post but only held Temple from September until December 1969.
article_snippet.sent: By 1974 Temple was being lined up for the post of US representative to the UN after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger heard Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discussing Namibia at a party and was 'surprised that I even knew the word', Temple said in one interview.
article_snippet.sent: The response was that Bush had known Temple through Secretary of State Henry Kissinger work at the UN and that Bush 'knows of no information which could conceivably contract from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger good character, associates, reputation, and loyalty'.
article_snippet.sent: Temple would later serve as US ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992, a role that Bush awarded to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger whilst Bush was in office.