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...capital at an hour guaranteed to assure him minimal exposure-just before midnight at the end of the New Year's weekend. During the week, he made only one public appearance and almost no announcements. He did not even attend the funeral of former Secretary of State Christian Herter, an old friend, though it was held in St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square from the White House...
Born in Paris, reared in New York and Boston, and by his mid-20s a veteran of diplomatic service in World War I Europe, Christian Herter was equipped as few other statesmen to revivify the crumbling Atlantic Alliance. Yet when he succeeded John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in 1959, his reward was frustration...
...Washington's dealings with either allies or foes. Soviet pressure on Berlin was a constant threat. Relations with Castro's Cuba continued to deteriorate. Laos tottered, the Congo fell apart, and Gary Powers' spy plane crashed on Soviet soil. With the U-2 fell whatever hopes Herter still held for the Paris summit conference. When he left office, one aide recalls, he was "an unhappy...
There is no doubt also that when Paul Reardon resigned as managing partner of a leading Boston law firm in 1954 for the job of special assistant to Governor Christian A. Herter, he was finally doing what he had always considered his calling. "There is no satisfaction I know of like getting into public work, even if it is controversial...
...AGRICULTURE. The Common Market countries, after many months of squabbling about farm subsidies, have agreed on a common policy that offers 5% to 10% tariff reductions on about half their farm imports. Christian Herter, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, has described the Common Market proposal as "very restrictive." The American Farm Bureau Federation wants the U.S. to pull out of the talks unless the Common Market makes a more generous offer. At stake is the $1.5 billion in annual sales of American farm products to the Common Market, which the U.S. fears the Europeans want...