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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most U.S. Attorneys serve a four-year term coinciding with the President's. First appointed in 1961, Morgenthau quit to run unsuccessfully for Governor, was reappointed in 1963 and again in 1967. As a result, his appointment still has 18 months...
...toys to play with, a place to live. He needed and asked for lots of love, support and dependability. He got none of these-and it enraged him. He had learned to suspect everyone, and if he thought he was being crossed or cheated, his anger was uncontrolled. At first, he would kick a door, his eyes lowered; then he would smash things and curse. Eventually he would work himself up to a fight. Once I tried to get him in a shower to cool him off; after half an hour he succeeded in putting me in the shower...
...Ambassador Walter Stoessel managed to engage the interpreter of the Chinese embassy in a brief conversation. Between any other two men in the room, the encounter would have gone unnoticed. But as Stoessel and the interpreter chatted, other diplomats in the room looked on in surprise. For the first time in nearly two years, American and Chinese representatives had established direct contact...
...part, the Administration made the gesture of easing U.S. restrictions on trade with China. For the first time since the Communists won control of the mainland in 1949, U.S. businessmen may engage in nonstrategic trade with China. Though the ban on direct commercial import of Chinese goods remains, U.S. firms are free to buy Chinese products, and sell their own to China, through foreign-based subsidiaries or through intermediaries in other countries. U.S. citizens abroad will be able to bring back unlimited quantities of Chinese-made items, which will be subject only to normal tourist duties...
Useful Channel. Stoessel's contacts in Warsaw carry a special importance, since the Polish capital has been the site of earlier Sino-American conversations. Between 1955 and 1968, the U.S. and China held a total of 134 meetings, first in Geneva and then in Warsaw. While the talks produced mostly propaganda, they did provide a useful channel for confidential contacts. Occasionally, the U.S. ambassador delivered an unpublicized message; in 1962, for example, Washington used the talks to assure Peking that the U.S. would not support a Nationalist attack from Taiwan against the mainland...