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Godley joined the [[United States Foreign Service]] in 1941.<ref name=Dacor/> He was posted in [[France]], [[Switzerland]], [[Belgium]], [[Cambodia]] and the [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)]].<ref name=Dacor/>
In 1946, he married Livia Paravicini, who had served as a [[sergeant major]] in the [[Swiss Army]] [[Ambulance Corps]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="NYTObit">{{Cite web |last=Healey
On February 20, 1964, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] appointed Godley [[United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. Ambassador Godley presented his credentials to the Congolese government on March 23, 1964. During his time as ambassador, [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] staged a second coup and seized control of the country. Godley left this post on October 15, 1966.
Godley married his second wife, Elizabeth McCray Johnson, on March 26 1966 in
In 1969, President [[Richard M. Nixon]] appointed Godley Ambassador to the [[Kingdom of Laos]], with Godley presenting his credentials on July 24. Godley arrived in the midst of the [[Laotian Civil War]] and effectuated the American policy of supporting the [[Royal Lao Government]] against the [[Communist]] [[Pathet Lao]].<ref name=NYTObit/> Although Laos was officially neutral in the ongoing Vietnam War, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] was secretly active in Laos, organizing and financing Laotian and [[Thai people|Thai]] [[guerillas]] who were fighting the Pathet Lao and the [[North Vietnamese]].<ref name=NYTObit/> Godley left his position as Ambassador to Laos on April 23, 1973.
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