Word: bartlow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis, mostly echoing Senator William Fulbright's plaint that Washington was guilty of "overreaction." The most cogent and authoritative account of the affair, Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), was published last week, adding significant ly to history's vindication of President Johnson's action. Its author: John Bartlow Martin, 51, U.S. ambassador to Santo Domingo from 1962 to 1964, and, as Johnson's special envoy, one of the key American officials in the Dominican capital during last year's civil...
WHAT WENT WRONG IN SANTO DOMINGO? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A CBS News Special on the events leading up to the crisis in the Dominican Republic, with appearances by former President Juan Bosch, Rebel Leader Francisco Caamaño Deñó and U.S. Special Envoy John Bartlow Martin...
...middle ground has proved to be quicksand. The rebels will not even talk to U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett Jr. if only because he was the first to cry Communist about their hard-core cadres. With Bennett cut off, President Johnson sent to the scene former Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, a friend of deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, whose "constitutionalist" symbol the rebels were carrying. But the junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras remembered Martin as a promoter of Bosch and cut him cold. At that point, the U.S. had one pipeline to the junta (Bennett...
...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
...such things as the development of the Democratic Party and a history of dark horses; Harvard Historian and ex-White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has an essay on John F. Kennedy, to whom the book is dedicated; bouncy blonde Hearstwriter Marianne Means discusses famous First Ladies; Freelancer John Bartlow Martin, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic under Kennedy, has turned out a piece on the Kennedy record...