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[[File:Robert M. McKinney and JFK.jpg|thumb|President John F. Kennedy meets with Robert M. McKinney, United States Ambassador to Switzerland. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.]]
'''Robert Moody McKinney''' (August 28, 1910 [[Shattuck, Oklahoma]] - June 24, 2001 [[New York City]]) was the editor and publisher of [[The Santa Fe New Mexican]] and Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under under President John F. Kennedy.<ref name="Embassy"></ref> He also owned [[The Taos News]], The [[Las Vegas Optic]] and [[The Monte Vista Journal]].<ref name="Lee"></ref> In addition, McKinney served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna, Austria, <ref>[https://ift.tt/32dm5kk IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. McKINNEY: 1910-2001]</ref>
==Biography==
McKinney graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in English literature. He served in the Navy during World War II, becoming a [[Lieutenant (junior grade)|lieutenant j.g.]] and became financially successful by investing in bankrupt railroad stock during the Depression.<ref name="Lee" />. When he graduated college, he worked as an investment analyst at Standard Statistics, now Standard and Poor's and as a partner in his cousin Robert Young's investment firm from 1934 to 1950. McKinney died of pneumonia.<ref>[https://ift.tt/32dm5kk IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. McKINNEY: 1910-2001]</ref>
==Newspaper career==
His career in journalism started when he was a teenage reporter at The [[Amarillo Globe News]]. McKinney, bought ''The New Mexican'' in 1949 for $560,000 and sold it to [[Gannett]] in 1976. Under the terms of the sale, McKinney “would maintain editorial and managerial jurisdiction.” After two years, McKinney sued Gannett for breach of contract. In 1980 the court ruled in McKinney’s favor and finally, in 1987, he was restored as publisher. In 1989, he bought the paper back for his remaining Gannett stock, which was worth $33 million at the time.<ref name="Lee" />
==References==
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'''Robert Moody McKinney''' (August 28, 1910 [[Shattuck, Oklahoma]] - June 24, 2001 [[New York City]]) was the editor and publisher of [[The Santa Fe New Mexican]] and Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under under President John F. Kennedy.<ref name="Embassy"></ref> He also owned [[The Taos News]], The [[Las Vegas Optic]] and [[The Monte Vista Journal]].<ref name="Lee"></ref> In addition, McKinney served as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna, Austria, <ref>[https://ift.tt/32dm5kk IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. McKINNEY: 1910-2001]</ref>
==Biography==
McKinney graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in English literature. He served in the Navy during World War II, becoming a [[Lieutenant (junior grade)|lieutenant j.g.]] and became financially successful by investing in bankrupt railroad stock during the Depression.<ref name="Lee" />. When he graduated college, he worked as an investment analyst at Standard Statistics, now Standard and Poor's and as a partner in his cousin Robert Young's investment firm from 1934 to 1950. McKinney died of pneumonia.<ref>[https://ift.tt/32dm5kk IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. McKINNEY: 1910-2001]</ref>
==Newspaper career==
His career in journalism started when he was a teenage reporter at The [[Amarillo Globe News]]. McKinney, bought ''The New Mexican'' in 1949 for $560,000 and sold it to [[Gannett]] in 1976. Under the terms of the sale, McKinney “would maintain editorial and managerial jurisdiction.” After two years, McKinney sued Gannett for breach of contract. In 1980 the court ruled in McKinney’s favor and finally, in 1987, he was restored as publisher. In 1989, he bought the paper back for his remaining Gannett stock, which was worth $33 million at the time.<ref name="Lee" />
==References==
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