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...Primus inter Pares. By law, Secretary of State Dean Rusk is the President's chief adviser on foreign policy. Yet in the current White House conferences on new policies for Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and disarmament, Rusk is just one of many voices, ranking no higher than primus inter pares. In deciding his policy, John Kennedy does indeed listen to Rusk; but he may just as likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull...
...seemed routine enough: the White House last week announced the appointment of Ambassador to Chile Robert F.Woodward, 52, as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. But behind that appointment lay five months of incredible confusion and frustration within the New Frontier. Before Woodward, no fewer than 21 persons had been sounded out for the Inter-American Affairs job. Such candidates as Ellsworth Bunker, retired Ambassador to India, and Carl Spaeth, dean of the Stanford University Law School, had politely but firmly rejected it. And Bob Woodward accepted only because, as a career diplomat, he had little choice...
During his 1960 campaign and since, John Kennedy repeatedly urged that the U.S. adopt new and progressive policies toward Latin America. In any such approach, the Assistant Secretary should be a key man. But in the maze of the New Frontier, the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs can get lost-and never be missed...
...been warnings that he might provoke riots if he ventured south of the border in the wake of the Cuban fiasco; the climate for his visit has improved noticeably, and his trip has been confirmed by the U.S. Stevenson's mission: to sound out prospects for joint inter-American action to cope with Castro...
...Lincoln Gordon, 47, a Harvard economist working part-time with Berle's task force, has become Kennedy's leading expert on Latin American economics. Gordon drew up the U.S. agenda for the July inter-American economic meeting approved last week by the Organization of American States...