Bio
Amb Jack F. Matlock Jr
First posted to Moscow in 1961, career diplomat Jack F. Matlock, Jr., was on the scene for most of the Cold War. A scholar of Russian history and culture, Matlock was President Reagan's choice for ambassador to the Soviet Union. He is the author of Reagan and Gorbachev and Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union.