What is Jack F. Matlock Jr.?
{{Infobox officeholder | birth_name=Jack Foust Matlock Jr. | name=Jack F. Matlock Jr. | image=Jack F Matlock, Jr.jpg | imagesize= | ambassador_from1=United States | country1=the Soviet Union | term_start1=April 6, 1987 | term_end1=August 11, 1991 | president1=[[Ronald Reagan]] <br> [[George H.W. Bush]] | predecessor1=[[Arthur A. Hartman]] | successor1=[[Robert Schwarz Strauss|Robert S. Strauss]] | ambassador_from2=United States | country2=Czechoslovakia | term_start2=September 28, 1981 | term_end2=September 20, 1983 | predecessor2=Francis J. Meehan | successor2=[[William H. Luers]] | president2=[[Ronald Reagan]] | birth_date={{birth date and age|1929|10|1}} | birth_place=[[Greensboro, North Carolina]], [[United States]] | death_date= | death_place= | party= | spouse={{marriage|[[Rebecca Matlock]]|1949|}} | profession= Politician, foreign officer, educator, historian, linguist | religion= | alma_mater = [[Duke University]]<br>[[Columbia University]] | footnotes= }} '''Jack Foust Matlock Jr.''' (born October 1, 1929)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3UYgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Jack+F.+Matlock,+Jr.%22+AND+%221929%22 ''Hearings''], [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs]], 1971.</ref> is an American former [[ambassador]], career [[Foreign Service Officer]], a teacher, a [[historian]], and a linguist. He was a specialist in [[Soviet Union|Soviet affairs]] during the years of the [[Cold War]], and served as [[U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union]] from 1987 to 1991 during the Presidency of [[Ronald Reagan]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://JackMatlock.com JackMatlock.com website and blog] *{{C-SPAN|Jack Matlock}} **[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/183023-1/Jack+Matlock+Jr.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Matlock on ''Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended'', September 26, 2004.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115141422/http://booknotes.org/Watch/183023-1/Jack+Matlock+Jr.aspx |date=November 15, 2011 }} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Matlock, Jack F. Jr.}} [[