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...create still more economic interdependence: the so-called Kennedy Round tariff talks that aim to cut almost all duties in half. The Europeans at Vienna tried to disarm the U.S. delegates of their fears that General De Gaulle may scuttle those negotiations, but the chief U.S. tariff negotiator, Christian Herter, was uncharacteristically pessimistic. It became clear at Vienna that unless the U.S. and Europe can resolve their immediate conflicts, the march toward Western economic unity may be set back in a way that would affect the pocketbooks of everyone who buys anything from Japanese cameras to German Volkswagens...
...lawns and lakeside vistas to meet amid six scraggly potted palms in the salon of the Batiment Electoral, where the Swiss hold cantonal elections. On a floor below, the brass band of the Geneva Landwehr could be heard holding its rehearsals. The remarks of Chief U.S. Negotiator Christian A. Herter were punctuated by the faint oom-pah-pahs of the Landwehr as he warned: "The longer we procrastinate in setting the formulas by which these negotiations will proceed, the more we risk the success of the entire negotiations...
Another Stassen defeat occurred is the summer of 1956, when he said that polls showed Nixon would detract from the ticket and might cost the Republicans some Congressional seats and statehouses, if not the White House. He offered Christan Herter of Massachusetts as an alternative. Nixon and his manager, Leonard Hall, moved fast and ruthlessly to isolate Stassen. Under this shadow, Stassen in 1958 sought the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in his adopted state of Pennsylvania, but was put down by a hostile machine. In 1959 he ran for mayor of Philadelphia, and lost to Dilworth in a definitively Democratic city...
...advisers, and three times during the week he conferred with Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. His speech before Congress bore down heavily on the economic policies endorsed by John Kennedy-the tax cut, the stability of the dollar, the expansion of foreign trade. To Christian Herter, the chief U.S. trade negotiator, he restated his "strong support" for broad tariff reductions when the U.S. meets European nations at Geneva...
...atmosphere for next May's scheduled round of tariff-cutting negotiations, at which the U.S. hopes to win broad mutual tariff reductions. For the moment, everyone was simply relieved at the chicken truce. "We are all glad it's over," said W. Michael Blumenthal, Trade Negotiator Christian Herter's deputy in Geneva. He was addressing an American Club luncheon in Geneva-at which the main course was French chicken...