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...cause for the massive aversion to the job. The Assistant Secretary is supposed to blueprint the State Department's Latin American policy for presentation to the Secretary of State and the President; he must also defend that policy on Capitol Hill. But under the Kennedy Administration, other New Frontiersmen have come to dabble deeply In Latin American affairs. They include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, currently on a good-will tour in Latin America; Kennedy Aides Richard Goodwin, architect of the Alliance for Progress program, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Mc-George Bundy; and Adolf Berle, chief of a "Latin America...
...after another, President Kennedy has sent his New Frontiersmen winging south to test the temper of Latin American opinion, particularly in Brazil, where new President Jánio Quadros' enigmatic ways and hands-off-Castro attitude create problems for the U.S. Last March, Latin America Task Force Chief Adolf A. Berle met an icy reserve that bordered on hostility. Two months ago, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, in Brazil to present Quadros with aid of nearly $1 billion, got a somewhat bigger hello, but was still hustled in and out of Brasilia's Planalto Palace via the underground...
Amid the first pained reactions to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, thoughts of sending in the Marines had occurred to many Americans, even including some New Frontiersmen. But within the Administration, the impulse quickly faded away. For a while at least, Castro is safe from any invasion by U.S. armed forces-unless he foolishly gives the U.S. an excuse for intervention by trying to seize the Guantánamo naval base...
...laments of disillusioned New Frontiersmen paled before the assaults from less charitable quarters-where newsmen seemed almost relieved that Kennedy had at last given them cause to howl. In Chicago, the conservative Tribune reprinted a few Kennedy campaign promises-"I am not satisfied to be second to outer space," "I am not satisfied to have the deadly hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with...
...many Democratic local bosses who grumble that the Kennedys have bypassed them in handing out patronage. New Frontiersmen now have a stock reply that parodies the most famous line in John Kennedy's inaugural address: "Ask not what the President can do for you, but ask what you can do for the President...