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After studying the evolution of Cabinets from George Washington's first appointees onward, Political Scientist Richard F. Fenno Jr. wrote: "The Cabinet is the show window of the Administration, and a favorable reception for the group will be an asset the President can use to augment his own public image." Nixon obviously agrees with that lesson in history. He unveiled his creation as a unit last week, the first time that has been done since Woodrow Wilson's mass announcement in 1913-and the first time ever as a live television show...
...Bill Rogers comes to his job both free of the burden of past commitments and unscarred by old fights. Says Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach: "Rogers doesn't have to live with a lot of previously written books." In an interview with TIME Cor respondent Jess Cook Jr., Rogers observed: "I haven't any emotional ties to the past. I'm not associated with any school of thought. Sure, there are some disadvantages in that I don't have the background of others. I'm going to do a lot of listening and reading...
...along, Nixon was looking for a Negro of stature and ability. Three are known to have rejected his offers: Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Ersa Poston, president of the New York Civil Service Commission. Now the Nix on scouts are hunting for black officials at the sub-Cabinet level...
...well as in Switzerland-account for at least 8% of the transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. In singling out Switzerland, U.S. officials seemed most disturbed about their lack of precise knowledge about all that may be going on. Swiss bankers, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Fred M. Vinson Jr.* told the committee, "are difficult to get information from of any sort...
NASA will apparently get its money's worth from the current $75 million observatory, which was planned to operate for at least six months. The craft is performing so perfectly, says OAO Project Scientist James Kupperian Jr., that "it now appears that all we have to worry about is the observatory's simply wearing out. It could last for two, three, four or even five years...