Word: dillons
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Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, the Cabinet's only Republican, also has talked about leaving Washington, but it probably won't happen soon. Moving up in Johnson's esteem is Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who pitched in to help write Lyndon's "prosperity" speeches during the campaign. Similarly Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges campaigned for Johnson in North Carolina, where he used to be Governor, and can probably stay on for as long as he likes...
...TREASURY--When Johnson became President, it was assumed that Douglas Dillon would be one of the first Kennedy men to go--the new Chief Executive had any number of business friends whom he would like to make Secretary of the Treasury. Most prominently mentioned was Donald Cook, ex-chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and present head of the American Light & Power Company. But Dillon, who definitely wants to stay in the Government rather than return to investment banking, has been a stalwart fund raiser in the past months and is now given an even chance of remaining...
Five seniors have been nominated for Danforth Graduate Fellowships by fessor of the Civilization of France Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Pro-and Danforth Liaison Officer for the College. The are Peter M. Briggs, Donald G. Marshall, Miles Morgan, Henry F. Smith III, and Peter W. Williams...
Johnson also ordered the FBI to assign 50 to 100 men "to make an immediate and comprehensive inquiry and report promptly to me and the American people." He instructed Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon to look into security procedures of the Secret Service, an arm of his department. And the Central Intelligence Agency quietly began probing the possibility that the Jenkins case might involve foreign espionage through blackmail...
...commission did, however, suggest that a top-level committee be set up to study the problem. No sooner urged than done. Last week President Johnson named as members: Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, CIA Director John McCone and White House Aide McGeorge Bundy...