Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State) Dean Acheson; Special Presidential Consultant Henry (The Necessity of Choice) Kissinger; Disarmament Adviser John McCloy; or Presidential Assistant Theodore Sorensen. During a crisis, the President may rely for both intelligence data and contingency plans on the State Department's new Special Operations Office, headed by Career Diplomat Theodore Achilles...
Anderson is a remarkable combination of military politician, diplomat, public relations expert, disciplinarian, moralist-and experienced Navy airman. He has flown Navy aircraft ranging from aged PBYs to new jets. He has commanded carriers, task forces and fleets, handled wartime air logistics in Honolulu and Washington, piloted postwar swivel chairs at General Eisenhower's SHAPE and as Admiral Arthur Radford's assistant on the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...fewer than 21 persons had been sounded out for the Inter-American Affairs job. Such candidates as Ellsworth Bunker, retired Ambassador to India, and Carl Spaeth, dean of the Stanford University Law School, had politely but firmly rejected it. And Bob Woodward accepted only because, as a career diplomat, he had little choice...
...Russia's favorite Premier, "neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, and his brother, "Red Prince" Souphanou-vong, who commands the Pathet Lao. Prince Souvanna greeted his rival warmly and talked in friendly style about getting together on a "broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat cracked, "Boun Oum will be lucky to get the Education Ministry." After two days, about the only thing the princes could get together on was that they would keep amiable King Savang Vatthana as a figurehead monarch. "The King is sacred to us," said the Red Prince piously...
Brazil's aloof Quadros unbent farther than he has for any other U.S. diplomat. He chatted with "my dear friend" Stevenson for two hours, told the press: "I firmly believe that relations between this democracy and the great democracy of North America will become constantly closer and more intimate." On Castro, whom Stevenson tactfully refrained from bringing up first, Quadros simply reiterated his previous stand: the dictator was a problem for Cuba, not the U.S. or the hemisphere, to solve...