Word: rubottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, with no fuss whatsoever, President Kennedy asked some 40 career ambassadors to remain at their present posts. Among them: Roy Rubottom, Argentina; H. Freeman Matthews, Austria; John Moors Cabot, Brazil; Edward Page Jr., Bulgaria; William C. Trimble, Cambodia; Christian M. Ravndal, Czechoslovakia; Robert McClintock, Lebanon...
...Rubottom, the man nominally responsible for the earlier policy as head of the State Department's Latin American desk, was forced to walk the plank. He now becomes U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, will be succeeded by Thomas C. Mann, 47, another career diplomat. The U.S. is resolved (and committed by treaty) not to intervene militarily in Cuba. Raul Castro says, "We're not going to touch" the $76 million U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...
Along with the switch of policy, the White House downgraded Roy Richard Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to the post of Ambassador to Argentina. During Ru-bottom's tenure, U.S. handling of Latin American relations has consisted chiefly of making, upon the arrival of a crisis, some concession that the U.S. previously vowed not to make. Item: for years the Latin American nations that rely largely on coffee for their livelihood asked the U.S. to cooperate in some form of international control over wild price fluctuations. In January 1958 Assistant Secretary Rubottom announced that price...
Angry at the policy shortcomings that made him the target of Latin American stones, spit and insults, Vice President Nixon tried to get rid of Rubottom when he returned from his 1958 trip. The Assistant Secretary was saved by the intervention of 'his longtime friend Milton Eisenhower, but now Dwight Eisenhower is alarmed at the setbacks the U.S. has suffered in Latin America. One recent influence on Ike is Peru's conservative Premier Pedro Beltran, a visitor to the White House last month, who argues that the U.S. should help meet some of Latin America's social...
...Rubottom's successor will be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Thomas C. Mann. He has served as embassy counselor in Guatemala and Ambassador to El Salvador. He is credited with drawing up the plan for U.S. participation in the international coffee agreement...