Word: herter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boost exports and seek new markets. They knew they now had to provide against the day in 1967 when the Common Market, which now imports more than $2 billion worth of British goods yearly, will be protected by a single, uniform tariff wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter, President Kennedy's special representative for trade negotiations, hastened to London to discuss new tariff-cutting strategy between the two nations to increase Anglo-U.S. trade. Britain also started a round of conferences with its hapless friends in the moribund Outer Seven trade bloc, and on a flying...
While the filibuster droned on, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended the confirmation of two major Administration appointees: former Budget Director David Bell, to be administrator of the foreign aid program, and former Secretary of State Christian Herter, to be President Kennedy's special representative in foreign trade negotiations...
...Swore in Christian Herter. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, as chief U.S. negotiator for the new tariff program, and Francis Keppel, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...post was created only last October, when Congress finally passed the liberalized foreign trade law, which is the Kennedy Administration's most notable legislative achievement to date. In naming Republican Herter, President Kennedy said that he would "be accorded a central role in the formulation of trade policy." Herter will be top U.S. negotiator at international trade conferences, handle day-by-day tariff matters, head a Cabinet-level organization of foreign trade advisers to the President, and will be expected to look out for the welfare of U.S. business even as the U.S. lowers its tariffs...
...position is one of vast opportunity. It is also, as Herter himself said, one of great difficulty...