Word: katzenbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escape & Study. No one could say just why Johnson had kept Katzenbach dangling for so long-except, perhaps, for the fact that Katzenbach was a Bobby man. A big (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) man with an imposing expanse of bald scalp, Katzenbach is a son of a onetime New Jersey attorney general. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, was at Princeton when World War II broke out. As an Air Force navigator, he was shot down over the Mediterranean, captured, twice escaped from Italian prison camps, finally spent 20 months in a German prison camp. There...
...then Deputy Attorney General Byron White enlisted Katzenbach as a Justice Department lawyer in Washington, and when White went to the Supreme Court, Katzenbach succeeded him. Attorney General Kennedy used Katzenbach most notably as a troubleshooter. He headed the federal forces who fought a pitched battle trying to get Negro James Meredith admitted into the University of Mississippi. It was also Katzenbach who confronted Alabama's Governor George Wallace at the door of a University of Alabama building and, in a memorable scene, demanded that Wallace step aside to permit two Negro students to register. Wallace stepped aside...
Sharpening the Focus. Justice Department people foresee little, if any, change in operations now that Katzenbach is in official charge. Katzenbach and Bobby Kennedy saw eye to eye on just about every important phase of the department's work. Civil rights litigation will move apace, though Katzenbach thinks that the days of violent confrontations-and the use of federal troops to enforce the law-are over. Similarly, labor racketeering, a prime Kennedy target, will continue to get Katzenbach's attention; the new Attorney General will retain the so-called "Hoffa Unit," the anti-labor-racketeering section that...
...fill Katzenbach's old job as Deputy Attorney General: William Ramsey Clark, 37, son of Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark. He has been an As sistant Attorney General at the Justice Department in charge of public lands, recently worked with the President on the budget and matters concerning the Interior Department. - To be special assistant to the President: W. (for William) Marvin Watson, 40, assistant to the president of Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co., chairman of the Texas State Democratic Com mittee, and skilled political organizer who helped in the President's election campaign. As all-round...
...President presumably will soon be making his third Cabinet appointment (after Commerce Secretary Connor and Katzenbach). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week told newsmen that he would not be around to shepherd the new excise-tax reduction bill through Congress, and thus confirmed longstanding rumors that he would leave the Administration within a few months. The man most often mentioned for the job: American Electric Power Co. President Donald Cook (TIME, Sept. 11), who was once Senator Lyndon Johnson's counsel on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair...