Engraved Menu Card from the American Embassy in Bonn for a Dinner to Honor Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans

Very Good. 1987. Cards. 1 pages; Engraved Menu Card from the American Embassy in Bonn for a Dinner to Honor Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans (4.75" X 7") "American Eagle Emblem // Dinner / In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans // Goose Liver on Garden Salad // Roast Saddle of Veal / Champagne Mustard Sauce / Vegetable Noodles // Tirami Su // Hacienda Chardonnay 1984 / Moet & Chandon Brut Imperial // American Embassy, Bonn / September 10, 1987" Printed in gilt and black ink. Eagle Emblem and all bevelled edges gilt, text in black. Very Good condition. Richard R. Burt (born 1947) served as United States Ambassador to Germany (1985-89) and was a chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Prior to his diplomatic career, Burt worked as director of an NGO and was a national security correspondent for The New York Times. He served as John McCain's top national security adviser during McCain's 2000 and 2008 Presidential campaigns. Burt claims to have contributed to Trump's first major foreign policy speech, April 27, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel. In the speech, Trump called for greater cooperation with Russia and encouraged Trump to take a less interventionist approach to foreign affairs. In an April 2019 interview of the Center for the National Interest's Dmitry Simes by Christiane Amanpour, Burt was the top national security adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign. Burt's simultaneous roles as a campaign adviser for Trump and a lobbyist for Russian interests first drew scrutiny in October 2016 following the discredited dossier. Burt is on the Alfa Capital Partners Advisory Board in which Russia's Alfa-Bank is an investor. [wikipedia]PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family. .