 As a foreign service officer, he managed the agency's worldwide communications and advertising program until The Quaker Oats Company requested he return to it — which he did in 1971 — after which he became its vice president-government relations.He became the first corporate lobbyist to be appointed Fellow of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, serving in its Institute of Politics where he taught in addition to continuing his role — on leave — at Quaker.Shortly thereafter he was named a Woodrow Wilson International Fellow in Princeton, New Jersey.