Word: reischauers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reischauer today is trying to find a way to combat the short-sightedness necessitated by the day-to-day nature of American government. In the interview last week, he suggested that the President appoint a special advisory panel at the highest level of the Administration whose sole purpose would be long range planning. Although the ultimate decisions would remain in the President's hands, this panel could propose solutions to crisis situations based on a detached view of the long-term national interest. Reischauer said he had mentioned the idea to several Faculty members, but had not yet made...
...Reischauer disclaims any personal interest in politics, but sitting prominently displayed on his desk is a personally-inscribed copy of Robert F. Kennedy's To Seek a Newer World. Reischauer admits to an intense admiration for the junior Senator from New York. As Attorney-General, Kennedy twice visited Reischauer in the Tokyo Embassy, and the Ambassador found him "intelligent, receptive and strongly-principled." If Robert Kennedy were to run for President, Reischauer says, he would be glad to serve in the campaign, although he has no interest in returning to government service...
...Reischauer has a very keen sense of his own physical and intellectual limitations--and of where his own speciality should lead him. The stamina of men like Rusk and McNamara amazes him. "These are bone-crushing jobs," he said. In the more limited job of Ambassador, Reischauer at first felt ffihe was "on the edge of a precipice: one false move could cause a catastrophe," and marvels at Rusk's ability to step off a plane after wearying world-wide trips and still make errorless, careful statements to the press...
...Reischauer was born in Tokyo in 1910, the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He earned his A.B. at Oberlin (1931) and his Masters and Doctorate at Harvard. From 1933 to 1938, he studied in France, Japan and China on a Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship...
...summer of 1941, the tall, slim instructor in Japanese History went to work in the State Department. During World War II, he served the War Department as a lieutenant colonel, trying to break the Japanese code. After the War, Reischauer re- turned' to Cambridge; he became a professor...