Word: katzenbachs
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Italy and Spain argued for relief from restraints on tourism, which Katzenbach said might take the form of a head tax, increased passport fees or a tax based on the number of days spent abroad. While France demanded that the U.S. hold formal talks with its trading partners before imposing restrictive measures. Finance Minister Michel Debré hinted at reprisals if U.S. companies are forced to repatriate their profits rather than reinvest them in France...
...implement it. "We have a target," he said, "and we are going to put all the muscle that this Government has behind the dollar." He meant it. Three teams were dispatched abroad to urge "cooperative action" from America's allies-one headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost of keeping American troops overseas by getting West Germany to buy $700 million...
...Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach used to grumble: "If I hear that another woman has been raped, I just know that within 30 minutes I'm going to get a call from the White House: 'I thought I told you to clean up that crime situation.' " Lyndon Johnson knows that the alarming rate of crime is growing in im portance as a national political issue, and that the latest FBI statistics are rather harrowing. In the first nine months of 1967, crimes in the U.S. increased by 16%, with street robberies up 27%, bank robberies 60% and murders...
Dirksen and Long are among the strongest supporters that the President has on the war. In many other cases, the neo-isolationist mood may well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here...
...Hubert Humphrey declared that the U.S. does not seek "to make China our enemy," but "to contain the militant instincts or aggressive patterns of Communist China's conduct." Both the second-and third-ranking men in the State Department defended the Administration's policies-Under Secretary Nicholas Katzenbach in a speech at Connecticut's Fairfield University and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene V. Rostow during a regional foreign-policy conference in Lawrence, Kans. Even Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman ventured into the relatively unfamiliar field of foreign policy. In Syracuse, he declared that Asian leaders "are desperately...