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208. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Komer ) to President Johnson

–6/15/66. Confidential. Washington , March 10, 1966 . Outlook in Africa . Aside from the looming black-white issue already on us in the southern third of Africa, our African affairs are moving along quite well. Military coups like those in Ghana and Nigeria are not really a matter of civilians vs. military, but of a dynamic educated element of the new African societies getting fed up with the ineptitude or posturing (or both) of the original leaders of these young countries. Telescoping the historical experience of the older nations of the world, the new nations of Africa are ending the first …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1966-03-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXIV, Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v24/d208
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Record ID	`frus:frus1964-68v24/d208`

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208. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Komer ) to President Johnson. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1966. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1964-68v24/d208.