Embassy Events 2007
General Edward Rowny’s
Memoirs Published in Polish
13 March 2007
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Fifteen years after it was published in the United States under the title It Takes One to Tango,
a new Polish edition of General Edward Rowny’s book was released at a
March 12 press conference at the Polish Press Agency (PAP) offices in
Warsaw as Tango z Niedżwiedziem. The Polish version includes a
foreword by Polish Senator Radoslaw Sikorski and an epilog by Rowny
consisting of his observations on the past 15 years of Polish history.
Rowny served as an arms control negotiator and advisor under five U.S.
presidents, from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush.
Under
President Ronald Reagan, Rowny was one of the White House’s chief
points of contact with Solidarity in Poland and Charter 77 in
Czechoslovakia, as well as Pope John Paul II. In 1992, President Bush
included General Rowny in the delegation that brought Jan Ignacy
Paderewski’s body from Arlington Cemetery back to Poland, honoring a
longstanding U.S. Government commitment to see Paderewski buried in a
free Poland.
The profits from the sale of the book will be
donated to the Paderewski Scholarship Fund. General Rowny was unable
to be present at the event due to family commitments. Rowny will take
part by speaker phone in an April 20 I.J. Paderewski tribute event
featuring a piano recital being organized by U.S. Embassy Warsaw and
the I.J. Paderewski Museum in Lazienki Park.
