Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the top men who have worked in and around the State Department since 1961 are abandoning their posts. McGeorge Bundy, foreign-policy coordinator for both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, left in February. Thomas Mann, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and third man in the State Department hierarchy, announced his departure last month. Under Secretary George Ball, Dean Rusk's No. 2 man, will probably be gone within three months...
...Thomas Mann, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, submitted his resignation last week to his friend and fellow Texan in the White House...
After 24 years as a State Department careerist, Mann, 53, intends to take a long rest and write a book. If it .resembles his career, the book should be hard-hitting, controversial and influential...
Born in Laredo, Mann spoke border Spanish-"Tex-Mex"-almost as soon as he spoke English and acquired a lifelong fondness for the neighboring Mexicans and the Latin temperament. All but two years of his State Department service were spent in Latin America or on Latin American affairs. He was ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk...
Bluntly candid, Mann was known as a hard-liner on Latin American affairs. He himself insisted, "I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...