Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Kathleen Harriman Mortimer" in English language version.
As her father's companion and aide, Kathy spent a lot of time with sophisticated, older people; she had little time for the frivolities of her own generation, especially if they didn't share her passion for the allied cause.
Though she was a far less visible public presence than her father a United States ambassador to Moscow and London, a governor of New York and a secretary of commerce under President Harry S. Truman Mrs. Mortimer was quietly accomplished throughout her life and, when she could be, graciously subversive.
As the younger daughter of the fourth richest man in America, Kathy was accustomed to taking charge — from an early age she had helped manage her father's Sun Valley resort — but nothing could have prepared her for the task of turning the ransacked 116-room Livadia Palace, the former summer home of the dead czar, into a suitable headquarters for the handicapped president and his entourage.
An extraordinary Soviet commission investigating German atrocities reported today that its examinations had definitely established that the Germans had individually shot and killed 11,000 Polish officers and men in near-by Katyn forest during August and September, 1941.
Mr. Harriman died in 1986 at age 94 after establishing trusts for his two daughters from a previous marriage, along with their children and grandchildren. He appointed Mr. Clifford, an old friend, as a trustee. He left half of his $65 million estate to Mrs. Harriman, now 74, who married Mr. Harriman in 1971 and became a trustee at his death.
Though Pamela and Kathleen Harriman Mortimer met and became friends when both were in their early twenties, the relationship degenerated about 30 years later after Pamela – the younger of the two – became Mortimer's stepmother in 1971. Ogden said Pamela Harriman bears most of the blame for the rift with the Harriman children.
The Harriman offspring first confronted their stepmother quietly. Last December, 76-year-old Kathleen left her apartment in New York and flew to Paris with Charles Ames.
