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363-08495 to 363-08498
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Title
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Article about Nelson Rockafeller as the potential ambassador to South Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "Ambassador", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about Nelson Rockafeller as the potential ambassador to South Vietnam, for The North American News Alliance
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AI Usage Disclosure
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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Beverly Ann Deepe
64A Hong Thap Tu
Saigon, Vietnam
Ambassador-page I
December 15, 1966
SAICON, SOUTH VIETNAM-President Lyndon Johnson had pritatód expected
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to lose his post in the recent American
election and was hence considering asking the billionaire Republican to
become U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, informed sources disclosed today.
One of the Multitides of White House aides, assistants and lieutenants
visiting Vietnam let the word slip out in conversations with officials here.
This correspondent was subsequently told the report by a senior official,
who was speaking in private.
"I don't suppose Rockefeller had been clued in on this strategy,"
the source said, shrugging his shoulders. "I don't know how you would tell
anyone something like that!
"But, the prediction certainly gives American officials here something
to worry about regarding the political forecasting abilities of the President
Remember, he missed by 15 the number of Congressional seats he expected
the Democrats to lose during the election.
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Doope
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The report distinctly suggests that Henry Cabot Lodge, also a ranking
Ambassador hore and that the
Republican, is planning to leave his post as
White House was and perhaps still is planning to replace him with another
prestigious Republican. Recurrent press reports here that Ambassador Lodge
planned to leave Szige his Saigon post have been officially denied. The
Ambassador and his wife have recently departed for the United States to visit his
family during the Christmas holidays; they are expected to return to Sai pr
AFTER
THAT
but no one is speculating how many more months Lodge will stay in his post.
The Democratic strategy of appointing a ranking Republican as Ambassador
to South Vietnam-long considered the graveyard of ambassadors, diplomats and
gonorals-was initiated by President John F. Kennedy whon ho nanod Lodge
to his torm hero in the midst of the Buddhist crisis in mid-1963. While a
Ropublican Ambassador here, serving a Democratic Administration, created the
appearance of a bi-partisan American foreign policy on Vietnam,
also indicated that in domestic political toms,
observers
President Kennedy had "exiled"
one of his long-time rivals from Massachussets and a potential opposition
CANdidate.
Bresidential effidate.
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Deepe
Ambassador pago 3
In mid-1964, Lodge resigned his post end returned to the United States
before the Republican national convention. He was replaced by General Maxwell
Taylor, who initiated the bombing of North Vietnam and ushered in the arrival
of the first American combat ground troops, which he was known to oppose
privately. In tid mid-1965, Lodge replaced Taylor and began his second tour
as Ambassador to Vietnam.
During the shift of Ambassadors and the American military build-up within
South Vietnam, the American military leaders have gained increasing of the
decision-making power while the authority of the Ambassador has shriveled in
importance. During the October visit of Secretary of Defence Robort S. Mc.Namara
sharp disagreements broke out between the Secretary and Ambassador Lodge, reliable
sources report. The first area of disagreement revolved around American military
officials usurping more control from the American military civilian agencies;
McNamara approved; the Ambassador Lodge disapproved; These functions included
military predominance in the field of administration and intelligence on the
American side, excluding the functions of the American Central Intelligence
Agency. Most of funding for American izin Ingoidicano luling CIA hore
come
from the military defense appropriations, and American military leaders
#ENCE
here believe it is their prerogative to "call the shots."
The second area of disagreement between Lodge and McNamara revolved
around how American combat units would be utilised in the total conduct of the
war
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Mola mara and the military leaders wanted the American combat untis to
be deployed against the Communist "hard-hatz" main-force units mostly in the
Communist stronghold areas, such as C-Zone and the jungles of Central Vietnam
Lodge, however, believed that the most significant Communist threat comes from
the guerilles which control the populated villages, wanted a minimum number
of American troops deployed into the jungles and a maximum number to secure
the villages from which the Communist guerillas and political cadre would be
sifted out.
Reliable reports here indicate that McNamara and the military leaders m
won the disagreement.
"It will difficult to find anyone to replace Lodge," one Western diplomat
explained. "Because the post of Ambassa dor here has become a figurehead."
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Date
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1966, Dec. 15
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B118, F6
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
