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Within hours after Adlai Stevenson's death, President Johnson asked his advisers to begin compiling a list of candidates for the U.N. ambassador's post. Names were submitted by the dozen. But almost from the first, the President knew whom he wanted: Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, 56, former Secretary of Labor, who is short on foreign-affairs experience but impressively long on practice in the rough-and-tumble diplomacy of labor negotiations...
...Supreme Court was easier said than done, and the President started with his softest sell. By coincidence, Goldberg already had a White House appointment to bid pre-vacation farewell to Johnson three days after Stevenson died. While they talked, the President probed gently, asked Goldberg for his recommendations for Adlai's replacement, spoke about the importance of the U.N. job. When Goldberg left the White House, he had no notion that he was under Presidential consideration...
Although Goldberg's background bears little similarity to his predecessors'-Edward Stettinius, Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson-all of whom were well-versed in foreign affairs before they went to the U.N., it seemed little cause for concern. Arthur Goldberg once said of the art of collective bargaining: "The main thing you must have is the ability to realize there are two sides to the story, and so to be generally calm and courteous in the handling of people in inflamed situations, but at the same time not to relinquish the position of leadership, which...
...wonder if there have been any discussions of a successor to Adlai Stevenson?" a newsman asked bluntly just 24 hours after Stevenson's sudden death. Had George Reedy still been White House Press Secretary, such a query would have probably drawn a curt "No comment"-plus a suggestion, perhaps, that it was indelicate in its timing. But Bill Moyers, only a week in the job, took a puff on a slim cigar and answered evenly that the President had already talked over possible replacements with his staff and would not fill the post until after the funeral services...
After announcing an innovation of his own-worldwide fellowships for work by students at the U.N. as a memorial to Adlai Stevenson-President Johnson pledged himself to take on an immense amount of homework. He promised to read all the reports emerging from the conference...