Henry Brandon

Henry Brandon was a naturalized British citizen, born in the Czech Republic. He was the Washington correspondent for the London Sunday Times from 1950 to 1983, and in retirement became a guest scholar in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for the Washington Star. Prior to moving to DC, Brandon served as a war correspondent during World War II in Western Europe and North Africa, and served as a Paris correspondent and a roving diplomatic correspondent (based in New York). His column, “Inside Washington,” was published by The New York Times from 1894 to 1991.

Brandon is the author of a critically-acclaimed memoir, Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent’s Memoirs from Roosevelt to Reagan (1989), as well as six nonfiction books: In Search of a New World Order (1992), The Retreat of American Power (1973), The Anatomy of Error (1970), Conversations with Henry Brandon (1966), In the Red: the Struggle for Sterling 1964-1966 (1966) and As We Are (1961).

Brandon’s home telephone was wiretapped during the Richard M. Nixon administration, from 1969 to 1971. He was noted for his close friendships with a wide array of political power elites, including British Prime Ministers, John F. Kennedy, and Henry Kissinger. In 1985, Brandon was named a Commander of the British Empire.