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Ambassador's Journal

A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years

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Kiadó: Hamish Hamilton
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Vászon
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Méret: 23 cm x 16 cm
ISBN: 241-01619-3
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^ ft\\r days after his election in 1960, 'resident Kennedy called Professor Galbraith to tell him he was to be his Ambassador to India. As he relates 1 ere, Professor Galbraith decided that i would be an interesting time and resolved to keep a journal. So he did c.ad this is it. Never before has there been such an expert account of exactly what an American ambassador does. His diary will be counted, we think, as one of the most important, certainly one of the most readable and by all odds the most relaxed of the books on the Kennedy years. President Kennedy also asked Professor Galbraith to write to him occasionally about his activities and his views on current issues. The Ambassador happily obliged and so pleased was the President by these communications that, shortly before his death, he proposed they be published-then. They tell, among other things, of Ambassador Galbraith's early and relentless struggle against America's Vietnam involvement - an opposition, he has since said,... Tovább

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^ ft\\r days after his election in 1960, 'resident Kennedy called Professor Galbraith to tell him he was to be his Ambassador to India. As he relates 1 ere, Professor Galbraith decided that i would be an interesting time and resolved to keep a journal. So he did c.ad this is it. Never before has there been such an expert account of exactly what an American ambassador does. His diary will be counted, we think, as one of the most important, certainly one of the most readable and by all odds the most relaxed of the books on the Kennedy years. President Kennedy also asked Professor Galbraith to write to him occasionally about his activities and his views on current issues. The Ambassador happily obliged and so pleased was the President by these communications that, shortly before his death, he proposed they be published-then. They tell, among other things, of Ambassador Galbraith's early and relentless struggle against America's Vietnam involvement - an opposition, he has since said, "that ^g^ajly jeopardized my reputation with all the experienced statesmen who saw the intrinsic merit of this adventure." On numerous other matters, he was at odds with the established wisdom of the State Department and Pentagon. Most of the great figures of the sixties pass through these pages. The author is unsparing on those officials who preferred official comfort to the perils of leadership. But he is warmly sympathetic on the problems and struggles of the Indian people. And the Journal tells in awe-inspiring detail of the duties that the Galbraiths packed into every
[continued from front flap) day - travel, talks with villagers, official negotiations without end and the equally endless flow of visitors from home. One visitor was Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy who, having read the Ambassador's accounts, decided to come and see for herself. Her sojourn is here described in amusing detail. Here also is the story of the ChinaIndia border war in 1962. Washington was preoccupied with the Cuban missile crisis so American policy to an extent rare in modern times was left to the Ambassador. Professor Galbraith does not seem to have regretted the responsibility. Early in the seventeenth century, a French physician, Francois Bernier, through a series of misadventures, found himself in India at the court of Shah Jahan, known to Europe as the Great Moghul. He kept a full account of what he saw and thus established a precedent for other visitors, official and otherwise, to this marvellous country for the next 350 years. President Kennedy's ambassador to India (and to Jawaharlal Nehru) is in this great reportorial tradition. ccJVor did the President appear to mind (Galbraith's) guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador he had " Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days Vissza

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