Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eugene M. Zuckert, 49, Secretary of the Air Force. As personally close to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington as Texas' Connally is to Lyndon Johnson, affable, golf-loving Democrat Zuckert knew many a political big name When. Manhattan-born, he roomed at Connecticut's Salisbury School with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (new Assistant State Secretary for African Affairs), studied law at Yale under William O. Douglas, now a Supreme Court Justice. For four years (1940-44) Zuckert taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration (among his fellow teachers: his new boss...
...Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest. A graduate civil engineer, he started out surveying for the Missouri State Highway Department in 1920, rose to become its chief engineer and prime builder of 12,000 miles of state roads. Democrat Whitton has won nearly every top professional award his trade has to offer, was strongly recommended for his new job by outgoing Republican Administrator Bertram Tallamy...
Hardly a man alive could reasonably expect to be a Cabinet member, come Democrat or Republican in the White House. But Republican C. Douglas Dillon looked forward to being Nixon's Secretary of State or Secretary of the Treasury. Then President-elect Kennedy asked him to become the new Administration's Treasury Secretary. Dillon wanted the job, but was in a tough spot. As Dwight Eisenhower's Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, he would be accused of disloyalty if he turned around and served an Administration whose campaign platform derided the "high interest, tight money...
...trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan newsmen, Williams raffled off his vicuna. "We were cleaning out one of our closets before moving out of our house, and there...
...Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pleasantly surprised by how well the press-often scorned by critics as "the one-party press"-treated him during the campaign. The nation's newspapers followed his intricate Cabinet-picking maneuvering with interest and general approval. Last week the press's friendly attitude was meeting its severest test yet: the appointment of Brother Bobby, 35, as U.S. Attorney General...