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...present status of the U.S. military effort there, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara left Washington at week's end for his eighth visit to Saigon since 1961, accompanied by General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and newly appointed Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach...
...staff and commission members will decide which suggestions to incorporate in the final report. They will also organize it and rewrite many parts of it. The commission has begun exchanging ideas and information with state committees, which many governors have appointed at the request of former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
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...
...Katzenbach has had only peripheral foreign policy experience, most notably in advising President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Nonetheless, he is brilliant, energetic and, as he proved in his negotiations with Congress over civil rights legislation, a sound diplomat. Named Acting Attorney General by Johnson after close friend and mentor Bobby Kennedy resigned to run for the Senate, it was five uncomfortable months before he was formally given the top job, but Katzenbach passed L.BJ.'s private loyalty test with honors by assuring the boss that he would serve in any capacity the President requested...
...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...