SPEAKING REQUESTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 4, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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4 April 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Speaking Requests
1. Over the past year, I have received a steadily increasing number
of requests to give speeches or participate in seminars dealing with Vietnam.
My standard policy is to refuse such requests unless they come from some
official body (e. g. , the National War College or Foreign Service Institute)
and do not involve trips outside of Washington. Normally I do not bother you
with these requests (though I do not accept any from outside the Agency
without your concurrence), but I have three of them in hand on which I would
like your guidance. I am inclined to accept two of them and would like to
turn down the third, if you approve.
2. Last week Dr. George Tanhaan (former USAID Director of Rural
Operations and now number two man in RAND's Washington office) asked me
if I would participate in a seminar being arranged by Professor Samuel P.
Huntington of Harvard. I told Tanham that I do not normally accept outside
engagements and, in any event, would have to have some written description
of the activity involved. On 31 March I received the attached letter from
Professor Huntington, which is self-explanatory. I would not want to submit
a paper but could give a talk on Sunday (14 May) without missing more than
half a day at most (Monday morning) from my desk (with luck on airline
connections, I could get back to Washington Sunday night). Subject to your
approval. I am inclined to accept this request, since it would not.involve
much time away from work and because it seems to me that it would be good
public relations for the Agency for me to participate in this exercise.
3. I have also received a request from the current Program Committee
Chairman of the 1967 Delegation of Bersselius, my Senior Society at Yale,
inviting me to speak at one of the Society's Sunday evening meetings this
spring on a topic of my choice. Yale Senior' Societies are curious institutions
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with strict rules. No Society meeting may be attended except by current
or past members, and nothing said at any meeting may be mentioned outside
the Society's building (known in New Haven an its "tomb"). These ironclad,
tradition-encrusted ground rules would minimize the risks of an unfortunate
incident or publicity, were I to accept this invitation. Apart from personal
considerations, I think this might be an opportunity to educate fifteen leading
members of Yale's current senior class on the facts of life in Vietnam, thus
performing, in essence, the same sort of service that we performed in
speaking to Williams College's delegation which visited Washington last year.
If I go, I can pick the date and be back at my desk by midday on the Monday
after the Sunday session.
4. 1 have also received a letter from Mr. Francis P. Hoeber, Assistant
Director of the Strategic Studies Center of the Stanford Research Institute,
asking me to participate in this year's Military Operations Research Society
Symposium to be held on 25, 26, and 27 April at Fort Bliss, Texas. This one,
which would take three work days, I am strongly inclined to turn down unless
you see reason why the Agency would benefit greatly from my participation.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Professor of Government
6 DIVINITY AVENUE
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138
March 30, 1967
Mr. George A. Carver, Jr.
I was delighted to learn from George TanhamIthat you might be
interested in preparing a paper on the role of the military in Vietnamese
politics for the Conference on Political Development in Vietnam. The con-
ference will take place on May 14th and 15th at the Wingspread conference
center of the Johnson Foundationk-at Racine, Wisconsin. It is sponsored by
the Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group*in conjunction with the
Johnson Foundation. The participants will include approximately twenty-five
people expert in Vietnam and/or political development coming primarily from
universities and the government.
It is our hope that in your paper you could analyze the patterns
of change within the Vietnamese military with some attention to the social-
economic background of the officers, the factional cleavages and their
political ideologies and purposes. It would also be extremely useful, I
think, if you could touch on the relations between the various military
groups and principal civilian actors on the Vietnamese political scene.
Obviously, however, you are the best judge of what should be in the paper,
and I would hope that you would feel free to develop whatever lines you
think to be important. If you should wish to discuss it with me,.please
give me a ring (617-868-7600, Ext. 4432).
George said that you might only be able to make it out for
Sunday, and if this is the case, we can certainly schedule your paper for
that day.
Among the other papers which will be presented at the conference
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John Bennett, "Political Implications of Economic Changeft; John Donnell,
"Revolutionary development and Its Impact on Political Infrastructure";
Edward Mitchell, "Lard Tenure and Rebollion tn`South Vietnam"; Tthi l do
Sola Pool ,'"Political Alternatives to the Viet Cong"; Milton Sacks, Con-
stitution Building in Vietnam: Prospects for Civilian Government". We
are also in the process of negotiating with other scholars for additional
papers on relevant topics.
I very much hope that you will be joining us and that you will
be able to do this paper.
Sih~erely yours,
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