US Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933-1991 by Alan P. Dobson

Author:Alan P. Dobson [Dobson, Alan P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Commercial Policy, 20th Century, International, History, Business & Economics, Embargo, Foreign Trade Regulation - United States, Economic Sanctions; American - History - 20th Century, Economics, Commercial, United States - Commercial Policy - History - 20th Century, United States, United States - Foreign Economic Relations, Embargo - History - 20th Century, International Trade, Foreign Trade Regulation, Economic Sanctions; American, Law, Economic History
ISBN: 9780415281843
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-13T18:30:00+00:00

Notes

1 Gary Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (Pocket Books,

New York, 1983); James N.Giglio, The Presidency of John F.Kennedy (Kansas UP, Lawrence, 1991); R.E.Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership From Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, New York, 1990); Arthur Schlesinger jr.,

The Imperial Presidency (Popular Library, New York, 1974).

2 Walt W.Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Cambridge UP, London, 1969), p. 105.

3 Giglio, Presidency, p. 94; Thomas G.Patterson, (ed.) Kennedy’s Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy 1961-63 (Oxford UP, New York, 1989).

4 JFK Lib., NSF box 176, folder: USSR General: US Relations with the Soviet Bloc 5/25/61 Edwin Martin to McGeorge Bundy 25 May 1961, subject: review of US relations with the Soviet Bloc.

5 Ibid., box 310, folder: trade East-West 10/63-11/63, action circular, Rusk, 14 Oct.

1963.

6 Dobson, ‘Kennedy Administration’.

7 Lyndon B.Johnson Library (hereafter LBJ Lib.), NSF, NSC Meetings box 1, folder: vol. 1 tab 8, 4/16/64, McGeorge Bundy memo for Johnson, 14 April 1964; ibid.,

NSF Committee File box 16, folder: Miller Committee Meetings, 4-5, 18-19, 25-26 March 1965, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Dorothy Jacobson to Fried, 16 March 1965 re ECRB chairmanship and need to refer matters to Kennedy.

8 Some FRUS references in this chapter are taken from the on-line version at the Department of State website; instead of page numbers they are located by document number. FRUS 1961-3, vol. ix, doc. 298, memo by Bohlen to Bowles on meeting with Secretary Hodges, 7 April 1961.

9 Contrasting analyses of Kennedy’s performance are in R.J.Williams and D.A. Kershaw, ‘Kennedy and Congress: The Struggle for the New Frontier’, Political Studies, 27, 1979; and J.Hart, ‘Kennedy, Congress and Civil Rights’, Journal of American Studies, 13, 1980, pp. 165-78.

10 Thomas W.Zeiler, American Trade and Power in the 1960s (Columbia UP, New York, 1992), p. 48.

11 Ibid., p. 49; William S.Borden, ‘Defending Hegemony: American Foreign Economic Policy’, in Paterson, Kennedy’s Quest, p. 63, describes Kennedy as being ‘obsessed’ with the balance of payments problem. George W.Ball, The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs (Norton, New York, 1982), p. 205 describes Kennedy as brooding over the problem and says that this was exacerbated by his father’s pessimistic views.

12 LBJ Lib. NSF Intelligence Estimates boxes 1-5, folder: 11-60 USSR. ME No. 114-60, 1 Dec. 1960; Frank Costigliola, The Failed Design: De Gaulle and the

Struggle for Europe’, Diplomatic History, 8 (3), (1984), pp. 227-251.

13 David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Random House, New York, 1973).

14 For details of Kennedy’s problems with high-level Cold War strategy, see Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Tears: Kennedy and Krushchev 1960-1963 (Harper Collins, New York, 1991).

15 JFK Lib. NSF box 328, folder: NSAM 22, Kennedy to Rusk, 6 Feb. 1961; Adler-Karlsson, Western Economic Warfare, p. 101.

16 Rostow, Stages of Economic Growth.

17 LBJ Lib. Vice Presidential Papers, Security File box 7, ‘Basic National Security Policy’, 26 March 1962, quoted in Gaddis, Containment, p. 214.

18 Theodore C.Sorensen, Kennedy (Harper Row, New York, 1965), p. 678.

19 JFK Lib. NSF box 297, folder: Foreign Economic Policy Task Force Report 12/31/60, Report to Kennedy from George Ball.

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