Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...expect to speak with one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere," said Johnson when he appointed Mann last month. "Mr. Mann will be that voice." Too often in the recent past, U.S. policy toward Latin America, expressed by a babble of confused voices, has been dangerously diluted by a division of responsibilities in Washington. It now becomes Mann's task to bring order and direction to U.S. relations with an immensely important area that is crying out for change...
What can the U.S. do? Drawls Texan Mann: "Our job is to convince the Latin Americans that their interests lie parallel to ours-not because of sentiment, but in their own self-interest. Democracy is a tie in these cases, economics is a tie, and Christianity is another tie. The total of these ties is where our interest lies, and when these ties are strong enough, no Marxist can separate...
...only performances that are at all deficient are those of Paul Mann (Quentin's father), who shows a slight tendency to hamminess, and Virginia Kaye, whose portrayal of the Mother does not yet ring true...
...Latin American ambassadors failed to appear at a discussion of Latin American political problems Friday night. Enrique Tejera of Venezuela and Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica remained in Washington to attend a special reception for Thomas Mann, new Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America...