Word: katzenbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though hardly a stranger to domestic crisis, Katzenbach, 44, had had no direct experience with foreign policy be fore his appointment in September...
Since then the former Attorney General has spent nearly every waking hour learning the red-taped ropes of diplomacy. Days, including Saturday and most of Sunday, have begun shortly after 8 a.m., ended 13 hours later. After 21 straight days without going home for dinner, Katzenbach finally had his family to supper with him at Foggy Bottom, then plowed through the torrent of dispatches at his desk while his children watched Tarzan on the undersecretarial color...
...Right Questions. More instructive than the files, which he devours at a 1,000-words-a-minute clip, have been his skull sessions within the department. Applying the Socratic approach, which he learned as a law professor at Yale and the University of Chicago,' Katzenbach stirs up debate and, in the words of one participant, "asks the right questions and plenty of them...
...bearish Nick Katzenbach-one of the few men in Washington who call Rusk by his first name-could not present a greater physical contrast to George Ball, who ably occupied State's No. 2 post for more than five years. The elegantly attired Ball was never seen in shirtsleeves or without a vest; Katzenbach makes the most expensively tailored suit look as if it came from the thrift shop. (Yet, as he explained to amused associates, he will always be U-the traditional designation of the Under Secretary in the department's phone book.) The Under Secretary...
...Indeed, Katzenbach's restless, probing nature should more than outweigh his present lack of experience in foreign relations. Lyndon Johnson, like John