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Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this delegation . As a matter of fact, at that time, I believe that John Leddy had already gone over to the Treasury Department to be his Assistant Secretary, having previously been Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs in the State Department . M: I didn't
  • LBJ as domestic leader; embassy personell; selection of ambassadors; biographical information; Punta del Este; Alliance for Progress; Spain mission; JFK's handling of Latin American affairs; treaty agreement with Spain; change of U.S. government
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Inter-American Affairs; once, as Assistant Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs; and once, as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs. F: You left the State Department then in '65 or '66? M: '66. F: You're now with the Automobile Manufacturing
  • : the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; service as under secretary of state for economic affairs; LBJ as a practitioner of foreign policy; the Peace Corps in Latin America; the CIA and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala; the Bay of Pigs; Chile nationalizes
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with Congress . My own direct involvement has been limited to briefings and replying to information, for the most part . Others in the Department, including principally our Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, were heavily involved in helping
  • Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of question. Do people like yourself, whose career is in the Department of Agriculture, ever begin to feel in recent years that you are somehow or other getting left out because of the increasing emphasis on urban affairs? W: I have been out in the Midwest