The Department of State and the Coordination and Supervision of U.S. Foreign Policy


121. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bator) to the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach)

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Chron File. Personal; Sensitive.


122. Memorandum for the Record

Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Registry, Job 80–B01580R, FAPS. Secret.


123. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Agency File, State Department, SIG, Memos & Misc., IV. Secret. The memorandum indicates the President saw it.


124. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State’s Special Assistant (Rosenthal) to the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/S-Katzenbach Files: Lot 74 D 271, Rosenthal, Jack. No classification marking.


126. Memorandum From the Country Director for Laos (Hamilton) to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Bundy)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, O/MS-Management Staff Files: Lot 70 D 474, Department of State, 1967, Country Director Organization. Secret.


127. Final Report of the President’s Task Force on Foreign Affairs Organization

Source: Johnson Library, Task Force Reports. Administratively Confidential. The President’s Task Force on Foreign Affairs Organization was a subgroup of the President’s Task Force on Government Organization organized in late 1966 primarily to review domestic agencies (see footnote 2, Document 118). Ben Heineman chaired both groups. Heineman forwarded the report to the President under cover of an October 1 memorandum in which he noted that Katzenbach had attended and participated in all of the task force meetings and was in general agreement with the report’s recommendations. Califano forwarded the report to the President under cover of an October 14 memorandum in which he summarized its contents and noted that the Task Force on Government Organization considered it “the second most important report they have submitted.” (Johnson Library, White House Central Files, Subject Files, Ex FG 749)


129. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs (Farley) to the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/P Files-SIG Papers: Lot 74 D 344, Political Military Group. Secret. Drafted by Joseph J. Wolf (G/PM).


131. Letter From Donald R. Lesh of the Senior Interdepartmental Group Staff to Harlan Clark of the U.S. Army War College

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/P Files-SIG Papers: Lot 74 D 344, SIG Comment. Confidential.


132. Information Memorandum From the Legal Adviser to the Department of State (Meeker) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1967–69, ORG 1–1. No classification marking. The memorandum indicates Rusk saw it.


133. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration (Rimestad)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/S-Katzenbach Files: Lot 74 D 271, NK Chron 1968. Personal and Confidential.


134. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Senior Interdepartmental Group (Katzenbach) to the Executive Chairmen of the Interdepartmental Regional Groups and the Chairman of the Political-Military Group

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/S-SIG Files: Lot 70 D 263, SIG Memo #73. Confidential.


135. Report Prepared in the Department of State

Source: Johnson Library, Administrative Histories, The Department of State During the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, Vol. II, Documentary Supplement, The Foreign Affairs Personnel System. No classification marking. The Committee on Foreign Affairs Personnel, known as the Herter Committee and chaired by former Secretary of State Christian Herter, was organized in 1961 at Rusk’s request. Although unofficial and privately sponsored, it worked in close association with State Department officials. Its recommendations were included in its report, Personnel for the New Diplomacy (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1962). For more information on the Herter Committee and implementation of its recommendations, see The Department of State During the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. I, chapter 2D, Efforts to Establish a Unified Foreign Affairs Personnel System, prepared in 1968 by Clifford Hailey of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Affairs Personnel Planning; and John Ensor Harr, The Professional Diplomat (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), especially pp. 76 ff.


136. Letter From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security and International Relations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations (Jackson)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1967–69, BUD 1. No classification marking. Printed in the Department of State Newsletter, September 1968, pp. 12–13.


137. Memorandum Prepared by the Staff of the Senior Interdepartmental Group

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/S-SIG Files: Lot 70 D 263, SIG/DOC #47. Confidential. Under cover of December 4 memorandum Arthur Hartman sent copies of the SIG Staff Study to the Staff Directors for each of the 6 IRGs.


138. Memorandum From the Staff Director of the Interdepartmental Regional Group for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Duemling) to the Staff Director of the Senior Interdepartmental Group (Hartman)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, S/S-SIG Files: Lot 70 D 263, SIG/Administrative. Confidential. A copy was sent to William Bundy.