Office of the Historian

61. Presidential Determination No. 67–141

Washington, January 5, 1967.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUBJECT

  • Determination under Section 201(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the “Act”), to permit the making of Development Loans to certain countries in FY 19672

In accordance with the recommendations in your memorandum of December 3, 1966,3 I hereby determine pursuant to Section 201(b) of the Act, that it is in the national interest of the United States to make Development Loans in FY 1967 in the following countries:

  • Afghanistan
  • Cameroon
  • Ceylon
  • Chad
  • Congo (Kinshasa)
  • Dahomey
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Rwanda
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Korea
  • Liberia
  • Malagasy Republic
  • Mali
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somali Republic
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda

You are requested on my behalf to give notice of these determinations, together with the reasons therefor, pursuant to Section 201(b) of the Act, to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Lyndon B. Johnson
  1. Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 286, AID Administrator Files: FRC 73 A 518, LEG 4–1 Presidential Determinations FY 1967. Confidential.↩
  2. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, P.L. 87–195, was approved on September 4, 1961. Under Section 201(b) of the Act funds made available pursuant to its provisions could not be used to make loans in more than 10 countries in any fiscal year, except that loans could be made to additional countries after at least 30 days had elapsed following the submission by the President to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of a report stating that the making of loans in such additional countries was in the national interest and giving his reasons therefor. (75 Stat. 426)↩
  3. Not printed. (Washington National Records Center, RG 286, AID Administrator Files: FRC 73 A 518, LEG 4–1 Presidential Determinations FY 1967)↩