Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novak is around because he can "smell" him. Still, the Evans-Novak style of reporting does not always make L.B.J. look bad. Like almost all the rest of the press, they took the President to task for the offhand manner in which he announced the appointment of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach as Under Secretary of State. But unlike most of their colleagues, they went on to explain why Katzenbach was a wise choice, how much care and thought went into the selection...
...banks, permitted 510 banking mergers, and empowered commercial banks for the first time to get into revenue-bond underwriting, the direct-leasing business and insurance selling. Along the way, he irritated two U.S. Presidents and obstreperously tangled with such Washington Pooh-Bahs as Robert Kennedy, William McChesney Martin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Senator John McClellan and Congressman Wright Patman-as well as leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Independent Bankers Association...
...pressure of time, has been unable to build a strong, creative secretariat that can anticipate problems before they reach the fire-bell stage or recognize when a policy has outlived its usefulness. Building a flexible, imaginative second-level team that will not shy from new approaches will now be Katzenbach's most pressing task...
...Under Secretary last week catalogued his initial impressions before the Foreign Service officers who run what Ball fondly called "the fudge factory." After a quote-heavy speech, with references ranging all the way from Lyndon Johnson and Oliver Cromwell to Heraclitus and Anatole France (commenting on Kant), Katzenbach concluded: "Can I urge each and every one of you that you have got political problems at home and that you should be as shrewd observers and as concerned about politics here in the United States-about what public opinion is and about what the Congress is doing-as you are about...
...Russia and Eastern Europe. The Administration plans to push hard next year not only for a trade bill but also for a consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Government will also face renewed heckling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Viet Nam. In this kind of encounter, Katzenbach has already won his spurs as a diplomat...