Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carl T. Rowan, director of the United States Information Agency, last night sharply criticised Americans who think they live "in a dream world where there are readily identifiable enemies against whom we are either tough or soft...
While disagreement between the U.S. and neutral or allied countries cannot always be dispelled, Rowan continued, "no foreign policy can succeed today that makes no allowance for what is in the hearts and minds of the people of other countries...
...Rowan also laid strong emphasis on the propaganda effect of passing the Civil Rights Act. Widespread compliance, he declared, is of "vital importance" to the United States in "the world struggle" against Communism...
...Rowan quoted a Chinese charge that the Civil Rights bill is a "legislative fraud designed to stifle the Negro civil rights movement." Noting that anti-American charges fall on sympathetic ears throughout Asia and Africa, Rowan outlined USIA programs to counteract the effects of Chinese propaganda...
...member of the audience asked Rowan how the USIA is portraying the Presidential campaign, in light of hostility abroad towards Sen. Goldwater. "The goal is to make both candidates look as good as the facts and their own statements will permit," answered Rowan. He was appointed by President Johnson in January...