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Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not established contacts with the outside world or been interested in that aspect of America's national interest as much as maybe Mr. Kennedy had. In any case, certainly in a country like Japan and most others he did not have a great image the way Mr. Kennedy
  • reaction to crucial U.S. decisions; exchanging his role as Asian scholar for that of ambassador; importance of early action to avoid later crisis; SEATO; attempts to minimize the bad Japanese-American relations; the Vietnam War and why U.S. methods didn’t