About James L. Greenfield
James Lloyd Greenfield was an American journalist and government official. He served as the United States deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1962 to 1964, and then United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1964 to 1966. Latterly Greenfield worked in media, and was one of the editors of the New York Times who decided to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. After leaving the administration, Greenfield became Vice President of Continental Airlines, then headed by the famous Robert Six, and founded Air Micronesia for Continental which gave the airline a route to Asia. After college, Greenfield became a foreign correspondent for Time, with postings in Asia, Europe and Washington. In the early 1950s, while posted in Hong Kong for Time, Greenfield met his future first wife, Margaret Ann Schwertley (December 23, 1924 – December 8, 1999), who was a Pan Am stewardess based out of Hong Kong; the couple wed in 1954.
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