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...files, CBS assembled an hour-long program in which the late President and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman separately discussed the highest office in the land. This week on CBS, four members of Kennedy's Cabinet-Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense MacNamara, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon and Secretary of Labor Wirtz-will measure Kennedy's legacy to his country in terms of the past and the future...
...east wing of the White House, letters offering prayers and sympathy for Jackie piled up in stacks six feet high -over 300,000 in all. And at the Treasury Department Building, Jackie, expressionless, watched Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon award the department's citation for "exceptional bravery" to Secret Service Man Clinton J. Hill. It was Hill, assigned to protect Jackie since the day she became First Lady, who ran to the rear of the presidential limousine in Dallas after Kennedy had been killed, clambered onto the bumper and clutched Jackie's hand as she pulled him aboard...
...word was continuity. In talks with Heller, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon, the new President surveyed the economy and made some early economic decisions and readings. Among them: 1) Johnson will hold to John Kennedy's commitment to limit the increase in next year's federal spending to $3 billion or less; 2) in view of his promise of spending restraint, he will give congressional leaders an earlier-than-normal look at next year's budget-perhaps just before Christmas-to show them that he really means it; and 3) the Administration expects...
True Story. He began by telling a story about how Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, flying to Miami with a leading Florida businessman a year or so ago, spent most of his time explaining how the man's company would benefit if the Administration's investment-credit tax bill were passed. When the plane landed, the man said to Dillon: "I am very grateful to you for explaining the bill. Now tell me just once more why it is I am against...
...DOUGLAS DILLON. Aside from her husband's investment banking fortune, Phyllis Dillon boasts several advantages. She had a four-year taste of official entertaining when Douglas was Ambassador to France. Since her husband is a registered Republican as well as Treasury Secretary for a Democratic President, her range of guests is often broader than is the case with more partisan hostesses. And Dillon, who owns a fine French vineyard, has a wine cellar that ranks with Hervé Alphand...