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...pragmatist, not a dogmatist," says Thomas Clifton Mann, "and I am not a miracle worker." Mann, 51, will need all of his pragmatism and may even have to work a few miracles if he is to succeed in his new job as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and President Johnson's top policymaker and adviser on the difficult, demanding world of Latin America...
...faltering way, the U.S. set out to meet the situation. It loosened up its economic policies, made loans easier to get. In 1960, with decisive U.S. support, the Inter-American Development Bank was set up, with a $1 billion lending capacity. Then Dwight Eisenhower went before the Congress and asked for $500 million that would be spent on projects "designed to contribute to opportunities for a better way of life for the individual citizens of the countries of Latin America...
...Crowded Act. Mann himself was then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Around and about him was a "task force" headed by aging, imperious Adolf Berle, a Latin expert under F.D.R. There was also a youthful White House speechwriter, Richard Goodwin, whom John Kennedy fancied as a real idea man about Latin America. Berle and Goodwin superimposed their decisions and advice on those State Department regulars, and there is little doubt that one reason for the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco was the number of fingers dipping into the Cuban problem. U.S. policy toward Latin America...
Instead of discussing politics, Dean Williams S. Barnes, director of Inter-American Studies, billed the conversation which 60 Faculty members and students attended as "a chance for some of us to say good-bye to Professor Figueres...
Dean Barnes then called upon Hector C. Ingrao, lecturer on Astronomy, who discussed the difficulties and rewards of studying the stars from the southern continent. Milton Katx, director of international legal studies at the Law School, stressed the common ground the inter-disciplinary study had revealed...