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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 45
Page 9
... famine and kick - started agricultural reform , but the United States attached both programmatic and political strings to this aid . Johnson extended Food for Peace commodities to the Israeli government to subsi- dize defense purchases ...
... famine and kick - started agricultural reform , but the United States attached both programmatic and political strings to this aid . Johnson extended Food for Peace commodities to the Israeli government to subsi- dize defense purchases ...
Page 13
... Famine Emergency 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 ...
... Famine Emergency 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 ...
Page 14
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. Sur- pluses 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. Sur- pluses returned, however, once American ...
Page 15
... famine-wracked India in 1951. Frus- trated by the Department of State's inability to coordinate any sort of overseas relief plan for Indian famine, Humphrey went directly to the American people on the CBS radio network to ask for ...
... famine-wracked India in 1951. Frus- trated by the Department of State's inability to coordinate any sort of overseas relief plan for Indian famine, Humphrey went directly to the American people on the CBS radio network to ask for ...
Page 17
... famine conditions. The failure did not deter Humphrey, who partnered with Kansas Republican senator Andrew Schoeppel to introduce S 2475 in July 1953, which authorized the president to redis- tribute surplus to “friendly” countries with ...
... famine conditions. The failure did not deter Humphrey, who partnered with Kansas Republican senator Andrew Schoeppel to introduce S 2475 in July 1953, which authorized the president to redis- tribute surplus to “friendly” countries with ...
Contents
1 | |
11 | |
42 | |
A Time to Reap 19651969 | 74 |
India 19641968 | 106 |
Israel 19641968 | 147 |
Vietnam 19641968 | 175 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration’s approved Bundy Califano cold war commitment Committee commodities Congress congressional Country Files Dean Rusk December Development diplomatic domestic economic Eisenhower famine farmers February food aid food aid program Food for Freedom Food for Peace foreign aid foreign policy Freeman Papers Freeman to Johnson FRUS Gandhi George McGovern global grain Hubert Humphrey humanitarian Humphrey hunger India International Israel Israeli January John Johnson administration Kennedy Komer to Johnson LBJL legislation Lyndon Baines Johnson Lyndon Johnson March McGeorge Bundy McGovern Memorandum ment military million November October Office Orville Freeman pacification Peace program PL-480 agreements political president presidential production Public Law 480 Public Papers recipient reform Reuter rice Rusk Saigon Secretary of Agriculture self-help Senate September short tether Society South Vietnamese surplus telegram tion Title I agreements U.S. Department U.S. Food Aid U.S. foreign United University Press USDA USDA Diaries Viet Vietnam Washington WHCF White House York