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...Katzenbach's first month in the State Department - which included four days in Viet Nam and two weeks as Acting Secretary of State while Dean Rusk was attending the Manila Conference...
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...
Lyndon Johnson's unhappy relations with the intelligentsia have not impaired his uncanny skill for dealing with the tough-minded thinkers who are the stars of U.S. diplomacy. Rounding out his foreign bargaining team after former Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's switch to the State Department, the President used his special brand of persuasiveness to retain two consummate professionals in Government service long after retirement age and introduce an internationally minded businessman to the delicate art of bar gaining among nations...