- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
The Nixon Years
The Nixon Years
Two Case Studies
- Chapter:
- (p.306) 14 The Nixon Years
- Source:
- The Political History of American Food Aid
- Author(s):
Barry Riley
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The administration of President Richard Nixon presents several examples of how Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, used food aid as a tool to advance foreign policy goals that Congress was attempting to foreclose. This chapter discusses two such examples: (1) food aid to Thailand in 1971, intended to free other financial resources in support of Southeast Asian military purchases, and (2) White House intervention in food aid decisions involving East Pakistan/Bangladesh and India in the months after Pakistani leader General Yahya Kahn unleased military reprisals against East Pakistan that led to the latter’s war of independence and a consequent flood of millions of East Pakistani refugees into India. Nixon’s support of Yahya Kahn and reluctance to assist India and the food aid-related repercussions of that support are described in this chapter.
Keywords: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Yahya Khan, food relief, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi famine, Thailand
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
