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134906
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This article provides a new perspective on Thomas C. Mann, a Foreign Service officer best known for serving as Lyndon Johnson’s assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs and coordinator of the Alliance for Progress. Mann is commonly portrayed as unsympathetic toward aiding Latin American development, often accused of dismantling John F. Kennedy’s idealistic aid initiative, the Alliance for Progress, supporting repressive regimes, and vigorously promoting U.S. private investment throughout the hemisphere. By focusing on Mann’s early career, up to and including the Kennedy–Johnson transition, this article seeks to undermine the common image of Mann, revealing instead a dedicated Latin Americanist who consistently advocated aiding hemispheric development. A more accurate understanding of Thomas Mann can provide a starting point for rethinking assessments of the Alliance for Progress, a crucial presidential transition, and Lyndon Johnson’s Latin American record.
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189263
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This article assesses President Gerald Ford’s two major tours of Asia that saw him visit Japan, South Korea, China, the Philippines and Indonesia in 1974 and 1975. The trips were intended to reemphasise American commitment to longstanding allies in the Pacific, shore up recent gains in relations with Beijing, and boost his image with voters at home. On the first two points, Ford was broadly successful, but his moderate diplomatic achievements did not translate into electoral success. In assessing both the impact of his diplomacy and failure to leverage this domestically, the article demonstrates the importance of presidential diplomacy in furthering American interests, the power of the media in shaping the narratives of diplomatic travel, and the interconnected nature of domestic and foreign affairs. It also adds depth to our understanding of an often-overlooked administration and its impact on a region of crucial strategic importance to American foreign relations.
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185936
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In November 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife Lady Bird hosted the president-elect of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, at their Ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River in the Texas Hill Country, not far from Austin. National flags lined the path to the Ranch house, and welcoming banners hung from the porch. Guests were served Texas barbecue featuring ribs, brisket, and sausages, accompanied by beans, biscuits, potato salad, and fried apple pies, all eaten on the gently sloping banks of the river under live oaks decorated with colorful piñatas. The entertainment featured a former Miss Texas performing Spanish dances, a marimba band that played a version of Johnson’s campaign song “Hello Lyndon” with a “Latin beat,” popular singer Eddie Fisher, and, finally, a sheepdog demonstration from handler Clint Harlow, whose act was “climaxed by a cowboy clad monkey riding a dog, herding sheep.”
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