Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he had made his pledge with the understanding that there would be "prior consultation and prior agreement" between himself and the White House before any major step was taken in foreign affairs. To this end, he appointed as his liaison man Robert D. Murphy, 74, a retired career diplomat who has handled sensitive assignments in hot wars and cold, and who will now occupy an office next to Dean Rusk's at the State Department...
Even Thieu's political opponents rallied to his side. "For one year you have asked me to give the President full support," snapped Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, Thieu's most powerful rival, to a U.S. diplomat. "Now I'm going to give the President full support...
...deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always thought that one of our biggest problems would be to get our own military to admit the fact of a fadeaway...
...with Washington turned frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought to his new job the same inventiveness and dash with which he led the Peace Corps...
...world's largest manufacturer, the company has long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...