George Ball (diplomat)

2022-03-22 thumb|George Wildman Ball (1966) George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 – May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat and banker. On the Vietnam War If we go down that road we might have, within five years, 300,000 men in the rice paddies of the jungles of Viet-Nam and never be able to find them. At a Nov. 7, 1961, meeting with President John F. Kennedy. Ball is objecting to the recommendations of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor and Deputy National Security Advisor Walt W. Rostow to, among other things, increase the US troop presence in Vietnam (see the Taylor-Rostow report).DiLeo David L. George Ball, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of Containment https://books.google.com/books?id=Oqlez_rUsRAC&pg=PA56 14 September 2018 1991 Univ. of N. Carolina Pr 978-0-8078-4297-3 56 On the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty ... the ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack had far more effect on policy in Israel than in America. Israel's leaders concluded that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal. If America's leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens, it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything.Ball George W. Ball Douglas B. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel 1947 to the Present 1992 W.W. Norton 0-393-02933-6 58 The "Ball Rule of Power" Nothing propinks like propinquity.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952191,00.html Hugh Sidey Learning How to Build a Barn Time October 17, 1983 14 September 2018 References Category:United States Under Secretaries of State Category:United States Under Secretaries of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Category:United States Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Category:Diplomats of the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:Political leaders Category:1909 births Category:1994 deaths Category:People from Des Moines Category:People of the Cold War