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 90
Page 1
... foreign policy is, look at our domestic policy”: in particular, he pur- ported that Food for Peace (FFP), “producing food for hungry people, ourselves and the entire world,” symbolized his desire and attempt to transplant his domestic ...
... foreign policy is, look at our domestic policy”: in particular, he pur- ported that Food for Peace (FFP), “producing food for hungry people, ourselves and the entire world,” symbolized his desire and attempt to transplant his domestic ...
Page 3
... policies, in part, on a theory of “uplift” and came to view his foreign policies through similar lenses. In the ... foreign policy. Improving the lives of others existed as the ultimate objective: “From the Marshall Plan to now that ...
... policies, in part, on a theory of “uplift” and came to view his foreign policies through similar lenses. In the ... foreign policy. Improving the lives of others existed as the ultimate objective: “From the Marshall Plan to now that ...
Page 5
... policy. Foreign assistance constituted the seeds of the internationalized Great Society, although the practice of extending such aid certainly predated the Johnson administration. Broadly construed, the term foreign aid suggests a ...
... policy. Foreign assistance constituted the seeds of the internationalized Great Society, although the practice of extending such aid certainly predated the Johnson administration. Broadly construed, the term foreign aid suggests a ...
Page 6
... foreign policy during the cold war is complete without understanding the role of PL-480 within this context. Public Law 480, signed into law in 1954 and known as Food for Peace, served as the backbone for a permanent American food aid ...
... foreign policy during the cold war is complete without understanding the role of PL-480 within this context. Public Law 480, signed into law in 1954 and known as Food for Peace, served as the backbone for a permanent American food aid ...
Page 8
... foreign policy authored during the past fifteen years have pushed beyond Vietnam to examine Johnson's other foreign policy triumphs and setbacks and to describe the dizzying array of pro- grams and initiatives the United States utilized ...
... foreign policy authored during the past fifteen years have pushed beyond Vietnam to examine Johnson's other foreign policy triumphs and setbacks and to describe the dizzying array of pro- grams and initiatives the United States utilized ...
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