Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace. In what could have been a significant move, word came that North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Peking, Ngo Minh Loan, had hurried back to Hanoi at about the same time that Johnson had left his ranch...
...Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
...pick Pennsylvania's William Scranton, who recently trekked to Europe on a fact-finding tour for him. If Nixon finally decides on an individualist for Foggy Bottom, the odds favor Douglas Dillon, who would have been Secretary of State in 1960 had Nixon won. Scranton might then become Ambassador to the United Nations. McGeorge Bundy, a Republican who served both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was once considered for State, but his call for a bombing halt hurt his chances because Nixon's camp felt that he was lifting a trial balloon for Lyndon Johnson...
...really don't know what the Soviet leaders have in mind," observed U.S. Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland. He referred to the fact that the Warsaw Pact forces moved into Czechoslovakia without having prepared a quisling regime or accurately gauged the Czechoslovaks' solidarity. Added Cleveland: "If the Russians couldn't read their close neighbors, the Czechoslovaks, any better than they did in August, how well are they reading us in October...
John Kenneth Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without...