Cabled home an evaluation of Kennedy’s speech at the commencement of American University, Monday.
Lindquist,【1】 the new Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Taipei, came to call, accompanied by Mr. Popple of China desk.
Received from Hilsman a reprint of an article by John Hopkins Adams on ginseng, its discovery in upper New York State and an attempt to grow it there. Very amusing. Diggers for ginseng exterminated the wild variety; night raiders made it impossible to cultivate it as a crop.
Reception in Anderson House.
Reception in Philippine Embassy.
【注】
【1】Robert Stewart Lindquist（1922-1996），美國外交官。
1944-1946年曾任職於聯合國善後救濟總署駐華辦事處，1952年進入美國外交機構服務，主要負責東南亞事務。
1956-1958年派駐美國駐臺北大使館同時學中文，後曾派駐印尼、在國務院負責印尼事務，1963-1966年為駐臺北大使館政治事務參事。
參考：Who’s Who in America, 38th ed., 1974-1975, vol. 2, p. 1885; “OBITUARIES,” Sarasota Herald Tribune (Dec. 18, 1996)
, p. 6B。