Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace"Uses recently declassified sources to trace the successes and limitations of the Johnson administration's efforts to use food aid as a diplomatic tool during the Cold War, both to gain support for U.S. policies and to reward or punish allies such as Israel, India, and South Vietnam"--Provided by publisher. |
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... committee—Parks Coble, David Forsythe, and Peter Maslowski—were unstinting with their time and encouragement, as were other history faculty, including Learthen Dorsey, Edward Homze, Timothy Mahoney, Kenneth Winkle, and John Wunder. I ...
... committee—Parks Coble, David Forsythe, and Peter Maslowski—were unstinting with their time and encouragement, as were other history faculty, including Learthen Dorsey, Edward Homze, Timothy Mahoney, Kenneth Winkle, and John Wunder. I ...
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... Committee, National Famine Emergency Council, and Citizens Food. 2. Raymond F. Hopkins and Donald J. Puchala, Global Food Interdependence: Challenge to American Foreign Policy, 72. 3. Hurt, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the ...
... Committee, National Famine Emergency Council, and Citizens Food. 2. Raymond F. Hopkins and Donald J. Puchala, Global Food Interdependence: Challenge to American Foreign Policy, 72. 3. Hurt, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the ...
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Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace Kristin L. Ahlberg. Famine Emergency Committee, National Famine Emergency Council, and Citizens Food Committee to advise him and engender public support. Surpluses returned, however, once American ...
Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace Kristin L. Ahlberg. Famine Emergency Committee, National Famine Emergency Council, and Citizens Food Committee to advise him and engender public support. Surpluses returned, however, once American ...
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... Committee, Humphrey wanted to amend the 1953 Foreign Assistance Act to allow for the distribution of surplus grains ... Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy, Food for Peace, 1954 ...
... Committee, Humphrey wanted to amend the 1953 Foreign Assistance Act to allow for the distribution of surplus grains ... Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy, Food for Peace, 1954 ...
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... Committee on Agricultural Surplus Disposal, and tapping General Foods chair Charles Francis to serve as the administration's surplus disposal coordinator. By early 1954 the president assured Americans that his administration's solution ...
... Committee on Agricultural Surplus Disposal, and tapping General Foods chair Charles Francis to serve as the administration's surplus disposal coordinator. By early 1954 the president assured Americans that his administration's solution ...
Contents
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3 A Time to Reap 19651969 | 74 |
4 Food for Peace andthe Short TetherIndia 19641968 | 106 |
5 Plowshares into SwordsIsrael 19641968 | 147 |
6 Food for WarVietnam 19641968 | 175 |
Final Harvest | 207 |
Bibliography | 215 |
Index | 243 |
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