I'll keep looking for something totally specific on this point, but in the meantime here's this, where she served 8 solid years under her co-star's Mal-administration.
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http://www.mailtribune.com/primet/archive/1999/72799p1.htm.... And at the
age of 8, Shirley was accused by Red-hunting congressmen of being a dupe of the Communist Party. The evidence: among the thousands of photos she autographed was one to the Hollywood correspondent of an allegedly communist newspaper in Paris. ....
Temple Black's career in diplomacy began when her brother George was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1952.
"I got very active on the Los Angeles board, then the national board and finally was a co-founder of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies," she said. "I called it my little United Nations, because we had 19 countries."
President
Nixon in 1969 appointed Temple Black as delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. In
1974, President Ford made her ambassador to Ghana.
"Ambassadors, if they do it right, work about 14-hour days," she remarked. "My favorite part of the job was working in the office and with the people of the country. My unfavorite part was the parties and the receptions."
Returning to Washington in 1976, she was appointed by Ford as U.S. chief of protocol, a job that she describes with a thumbs down. "A lot of parties for one who doesn't like parties," she explained. She lasted six months, her tenure ending with Jimmy Carter's election.
For
eight years in the administration of her co-star in "That Hagen Girl," Ronald Reagan, she undertook another government job, as teacher at the State Department, conducting seminars for ambassadors and their wives.
In 1989, Temple Black was traveling to promote the first half of her autobiography, "Child Star," when President
Bush reached her in Seattle. "
I want you to be my ambassador to Czechoslovakia," he said.
"Yes!" she replied immediately.
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