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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President-elect John Kennedy...
President-elect John Kennedy stood in the patio of his father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...
...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 up almost universal misgivings, and considerable anger, was not a question of left or right but the appointment of the President-elect's own brother Bobby as Attorney General. "A shaky and somewhat embarrassing start," the New York Herald Tribune called...
...Cabinet members averaged 47, four years older than the President-elect himself. There were six Protestants, two Jews, one Roman Catholic and one Mormon, or-to put it another way-three Governors, two businessmen, two lawyers, two State Department hands and a Congressman. Some critics thought that, as individuals, they were an unspectacular lot, and wondered whether Kennedy had planned it that way. But they were indisputably impressive in total and they added up to an impression of the kind of "vigah" that Kennedy had long promised "to get America moving again...
...President-elect and Cabinet were now holiday-inclined to relax and enjoy the headlines about themselves, there were plenty of other headlines-from Ethiopia to Laos-to jog them into awareness of what they were up to. Along with Postmaster Day, they will be carrying the world's most valuable mail when they begin their appointed rounds a month hence...