Word: katzenbachs
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Thus, in a characteristic charade aimed at dramatizing the news he had planned to disclose all along, Johnson announced the appointment of Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 44, to succeed George W. Ball, 56, who had long been impatient to resign as Dean Rusk's No. 2 man and resume private law practice. Beaming at the success of his ploy, the President went on to inform startled newsmen that he had filled two other major vacancies in the State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former...
...demonstrate the Administration's difficulty in recruiting top policy-making officials from outside the government. Professor Eugene Rostow, who will leave Yale Law School to become Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was the only outsider named to fill one of the three vacant positions. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach will succeed George Ball as Under-Secretary of State and Foy Kohler, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, will be the new Deputy Under-Secretary for Political Affairs...
...Attorney General, who once taught international law, is not a member of the foreign policy "establishment" that has been the target of Johnson's critics on foreign policy. All but the die-hard conservatives have considered Katzenbach an effective, intelligent and tireless Attorney General, particularly in the civil rights field. In Congressional committee sessions he has been informed, articulate, and well-received as a witness...
...role or opinions will be similar to those of his predecessor. Ball was originally chosen to supervise U.S. policy toward Western Europe, particularly in relation to the Common Market, and in the past few years he has assumed the role of a "devil's advocate" on Vietnam. Since Katzenbach joined the Kennedy Administration in 1961 his views on foreign affairs have not been voiced in public. It is thus difficult to estimate the possible impact of his opinions on Johnson's policies. Still, Katzenbach's lobbying experience as Attorney General and his widely acknowledged intelligence and imagination will surely make...
Loosening Hobble. Then, last June, the Supreme Court encouraged those who argue that the 14th Amendment should be the main conduit of equal rights. By a vote of 7 to 2, the court ruled in Katzenbach v. Morgan that Congress may enforce the 14th Amendment by enacting a federal law that displaces a state law-even though the state law does not itself violate the 14th...