Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam and the Vatican (as Representative). He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election.

Henry Cabot Lodge in Worldwar
Henry Cabot Lodge served as the U.S. ambassador to the Race under the Warren Administration.

In his capacity as ambassador, Lodge negotiated the meeting of Jonathan Yeager and Kassquit, a Tosevite raised as a female of the Race. He further expressed the United States' distress over the renewed war between Germany and the Race in 1965, but communicated America's stance of neutrality.

It is most probably the case that Lodge did not know that the United States launched the missle attack on the arriving Colonization Fleet in 1962. Nonetheless, when the Race learned in 1966 that the U.S. was responsible, it fell to Lodge to communicate to Atvar of President Warren's agreement that the Race to destroy Indianpolis rather than surrender its space-faring capability.

Lodge continued to serve as ambassador after Warren took his life, and Harold Stassen ascended to the presidency.