Galbraith Urged Goldberg for UN

John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, was the man who first suggested to President Johnson that he appoint Arthur Goldberg as ambassador to the United Nations.

Mary McGrory wrote in the Washington Star Monday that "after Adlal Stevenson's funeral service last Friday at the National Cathedral, (Galbraith) proposed to the President that what was needed at the U.N. was 'someone who knows the mood of the American people, and someone with standing in the United States.' Diplomatic experts are a dime a dozen, he said."