Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story on Rusk, McNamara, Dillon & Co. really makes them sound like the "best men" kind of selections President-elect Kennedy wanted for his Cabinet...
There seems to be some high-level Republican pouting because Mr. Dillon accepted a Cabinet post. As a Republican, I would like to comment to the disgruntled that Mr. Dillon is, first, an American and, second, a Republican; and he will probably serve our country well...
More money is by no means all the program needs, but this does not mean that its budget for this year is satisfactory. The Budget Bureau has already out Undersecretary Dillon's figure of $5.5 billion to $4.7 billion, and the Administration will be extremely lucky if the combined axes of the House and Senate leave as much as $4.0 billion Unless the President-elect is willing to fight for between $4.5 and $5.0 billion at the expense of other legislation, his subordinates are unlikely to escape their by now traditional frustrations...
...comely Kennedy secretary drove him from the hotel, prattled through a guided tour of Joe Kennedy's cream-colored villa before depositing him in the library. There was a suitable moment's wait, then in strode Jack, followed shortly by Lyndon, Kerr and incoming Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. (Notably absent: future Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...Johnson will be No. 2 man instead of Nixon. Rusk will speak for U.S. in foreign affairs instead of Herter; Dillon will be in charge of finances instead of Anderson. The whole command will change...