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...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...
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...
...officials are in which camp. Some authorities-inside the White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary...
...conditions are not changed, noted Katzenbach, the potential for new violence is almost limitless. "I don't know of a city that is not facing a serious problem today," he said. "There are 30 to 40 cities with the same frustrations, the same tensions that need only some unpredictable event to set them off." He dismissed the idea that left-wing agitators are responsible for the riots but conceded that they lose no time in joining them. The riots "were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing...