Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collectively, the Cabinet wound up squarely in the middle of the Democratic road-and miles from the left-side soft shoulder that sometimes seemed to be promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury), 51, and Independent Robert McNamara (Defense), 44, through Middle-Reading Abe Ribicoff (Health, Education and Welfare), 50, Labor Lawyer Arthur Goldberg (Labor), 52, to dogmatic Fair Dealer Orville Freeman (Agriculture), 42. The anchor man was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, more diplomat than Democrat, though both. The one that stirred...
...hardest to land was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Kennedy never considered a liberal for the Treasury post, sought his men almost exclusively in the ranks of conservative bankers. World Bank President Eugene Black, 62, was easily the most admired prospect, but after John McCloy, board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Lovett refused the lure, Kennedy decided that Republican Dillon was his man, and went after him personally. Once last week the President-elect went to the length of going secretly to Dillon's Washington home. Dillon accepted only after checking Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon to make...
...American service wife in England with my husband, I feel that curtailing dependent travel abroad is deplorable. It carries the usual perfidious odor of Republican policy. During the past week Secretary of the Treasury Anderson and Under Secretary of State Dillon both stepped off the plane in Bonn with their wives...
...evening's third speaker, Robert R. Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, said that despite the necessity for maintaining a negative policy of a military deterrent toward Russia and a positive policy of a search for a world order toward the new nations, there is still a cause for optimism...
...ignored these counterproposals. After three days the meeting broke up with a communique implicitly conceding that the parties had been unable to reach any agreement. A clutch of critics promptly raised the cry that Anderson's "brutal" methods had foredoomed his mission to failure. Under Secretary of State Dillon was reportedly miffed, not at the purpose of the mission, but at its ultimatum-style presentation...