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...President's press set-up also reflects the Old Nixon. The idea that a central press man will control all executive press matters mirrors the old Christian Herter operation under Eisenhower. Klein's performance at the first Cabinet press conferences confirmed the worst fears. Time and again Klein interrupted to censor questions and prevented the appointees from making any statements about their plans or policies. Nixon spent most of his campaign trying to avoid any definite stands on issues, and he has continued that policy through the period when he waits for power. Prospects look bleak for the "Open Presidency...
...point, the tensions grew so great that William Matson Roth, a millionaire San Francisco shipping executive who succeeded the late Christian Herter early this year as chief U.S. negotiator, angrily threatened to break off negotiations and return to Washington. That impasse, which might well have doomed the Kennedy Round to failure, was resolved when Nils Montan, chief Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised...
...authority of the United States," his acceptance is automatically considered his resignation from the governor's office. When constitutional lawyers told Volpe what he had done, he called the whole business "quite ridiculous." Then lawyers pointed out that in 1954 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court advised Governor Christian Herter against accepting an appointment to a similar federal commission lest he jeopardize his office. Late last week, Democratic State Committee chairman Lester S. Hyman attacked Volpe's "flippancy" about the matter. Volpe became considerably unnerved...
...Supreme Judicial Court is, of course, apolitical. But the Herter opinion, which if followed could end Volpe's tenure, is quite strong and quite recent. The Court might be swayed by the fact that the Governor hasn't taken the federal oath, but some of Volpe's advisors feel his case is too tenuous to go before the court...
...often infallible instinct--a blend of pragmatic expertise and first-hand information--has made him one of the leading Soviet experts in the State Department. In 1959, he was recalled by Secretary of State Herter to serve in the newly created Bureau of Soviet Affairs. One of his associates has commented, "His special ability is his sense of political interrelationships. He can take an event and immediately see its impact on a whole series of other events in widely separated parts of the world...