Robert H. McBride Quotes
Mobuto is irrational and highly unstable.
This and other quotations like {640617} and {640615} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who should be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
Robert H. McBride, 1918-1983, United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States Ambassador to Mexico, Note to National Security Advisor Walt Rostow, 1965
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This and other quotations like {640611} and {640616} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who would be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
This and other quotations like {640615} and {640616} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who should be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
Robert Henry McBride was an American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1967 to 1969 and as United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1969 to 1974.
