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With less than two months left before the end of the Great Crusade and the opening of the New Frontier, the Kennedy Administration last week began to take shape. Announcing four key appointments and nearing final decisions on several others, President-elect Kennedy, by the nature of his selections, indicated that his Administration will be generally moderate, eschewing the radicalism of the 1960 Democratic platform. Named by Kennedy to high Government posts: North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges as Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Harvard Economist David...
President-elect Kennedy's first top-level appointees...
...white Lincoln moved slowly through Georgetown's narrow streets, picked up speed as it headed downtown toward the Capitol. In the back seat President-elect Jack Kennedy fiddled with the electric window switch, then sat back and. as if thinking aloud, discussed the vast difficulties of forming a new U.S. Administration. "It's tough to find the kind of people we want," he said, "but we're coming along...
...Adviser Chester Bowles, who looked a little dour upon leaving-thus sparking rumors that he had not been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, who offered Kennedy a cigar. Asked the President-elect, smilingly: "Did you just have a son?" Startled, Chavez, 72, said no-and hastily put the cigar back in his pocket...
Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...