"What Would You Do If You Were Pres

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Subject: "What Would You Do If You Were President?"

> Subject: "What Would You Do If You Were President?"
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:24:38 +0200
> From: Dawn Star <dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: UVI/ Euro-BurmaNet<http://www.euroburma.com/> To:
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> 
> Did you know  or have you ever read "The Ugly American" (1958)
> by William J Lederer and Eugene Burdick, a veritable classic "The
> best-selling novel that has become an Affair of State" wrote the New
> York Times."If this were not a free country, this book would be banned,
> a bombshell," blipped the New York Herald Tribune. "Far more than
> fiction...      a powerful, searching book." "Slashing, not to  be ignored,"
> Time Magazine. President Kennedy and his advisors had all read it. The
> State Department and CIA was badly shaken. US Ambassadors around the
> world, especially in South East Asia were put on alert to its pearls of
> wisdom and folly. And Kennedy called Air Force Colonel Landsdale, his
> "Ugly American". Its not the kind of book my elitist pre college prep
> school gave us to read, but it always seemed to come up here or there,
> and this summer, at a friends 18th century colonial cape house on the
> connecticut river, i found a copied to borrow. Again, i didnt open it
> until this afternoon, and there, chapter 13 speaks out "What Would You
> Do If You Were President?" Immediately after, the chapter reads on: "U
> Maung Swe probably is the best known journalist in Burma, i not in all
> Southeast Asia. His name is mentioned wherever the world press is a
> subject for discussion...."
> 
> Must reading, probably out of print, pick it up at the library or used
> book stores. And hold on to it. Unfortunately, not all the lessons were
> taken to heart by the US State Department and its kind...
> 
> ds