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    "ocrText": "Wire III - p. 2\nState Department and not at your level, then leave it alone. But unless you do it that\nkhat\nway -- I found/out about far eastern affairs when I first went in there -- they were in a\nhigh state of demoralization just on that point.\nDa\nThat's very true, and it goes beyond this particular issue. It goes beyond the\nimpact of criticism on the individual. One of the great problems which you and I have\ntalked about is that, if you ask a general question -- I mean a question of honor, a\npolicy -- you won't find out from an area what should be done. Even though it may not\nbring any criticism on them, by the time they worked this paper up they have all decided\nwhat the New York Times would say, what can be done with Congress and they get all these\npolitical judgments in the thing so that, as Dean says, by the time it gets to him or to\nwhen\nme\nI take it to the President, we have so warded it down that he doesn't\nget foreign policy advice. He gets an inexpert view as to what could have been done --\nQ\nthat he couldn't get away\nDemocratic National Committee.\nDA\nThat's right.\nQ\nSo true.\nDA\nWhat we all tried to do with these people was to tell them exactly what Dean has\nsaid, \"Now you stop being politicians and stop reading Walter Lipman, you tell us from\nyour professional point of view what ought to be done insofar as Indo-China is concerned.\"\nThe discounting will take place in the discount office but not in your office. That's\nvery true.\na\nDA\nIt happens over and over and over again.\nQ\nOn thés whole matter of testifying before Congress and so on, has this raised a\nproblem in your mind as to whether there should be many cases of permanent career officers\ngiven Presidential appointments. It seems to me we've seen some cases of late of the\npermanent usefulness, at least from guys in the Congress and maybe the present administra-\ntion, of good permanent foreign service officers being impaired by their tussels with\nCongress as sort of what you might call temporary Presidential appointees.\nDA\nWhat do you say to that?"
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