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Ambassador Harriman near death after stroke
February 3, 1997
Web posted at: 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT)WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S.Ambassador to France Pamela Harriman suffered a severe stroke Monday evening and is near death at a hospital in Paris, a senior Clinton adminstration official told CNN.
Harriman, who turns 77 next month, collapsed while exercising at her home.
The official told CNN Harriman had not regained consciousness as of late Monday.
Harriman, 76, whose full name is Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, was born in Farnborough, England, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen after marrying her third husband, the late multimillionaire financier and diplomat W. Averell Harriman in 1971.
Her first marriage was during the Second World War at age 19 to Randolph Churchill, a journalist, hard-drinking rake and son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They were divorced as the war ended.
Her second husband was renowned Broadway producer Leland Hayward.
Harriman was national co-chairman of the 1992 Clinton-Gore presidential campaign. After President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, one of his first stops in Washington was a dinner party at Harriman's posh Georgetown home. For her favors to his party, Clinton named her ambassador to France in 1993, one of the plushest of diplomatic appointments.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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