Word: klotz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lanin played no twists, but Mrs. Jacob Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator, nevertheless twisted to a fast fox trot with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Herbert Klotz. Lyndon Johnson danced with Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John McClellan, better known for their oratory than for their ballroom skills, jostled about. Equally at ease were such non-Washington types as the Alfred G. Vanderbilts, the Henry Ford IIs, the William Paleys. and Mrs. Gary Cooper...
...directive to build up Jack Kennedy's image fell into Republican hands, and the G.O.P. publication Battle Line gleefully printed it last week. Almost from that moment, the memo was memorialized as "The Klotz Botch...
...title came from the memo's author, Herbert W. Klotz, who serves as special assistant secretary to Secretary Hodges. At a recent White House meeting of Klotz and his counterparts from the other departments of Government, someone suggested that it might be a good idea for officials to give President Kennedy greater play in their speeches and announcements. Everyone else has treated the matter casually, but Herbie Klotz, filled with zeal, hurried back to his office, composed his memo, and sent it flying around the Commerce Department...
When the memo became public, New Frontiersman Klotz heatedly criticized Battle Line for reprinting it. "The Republicans," he said, "must have damn little to write about." Beyond that, he was unfazed: "Sometimes a little emphasis to accentuate the positive is helpful. I feel very happy." As for the Administration, in quieter times it might have been squirmingly embarrassed. But the way bigger news was breaking, the White House paused only for a brief tch-tch at The Klotz Botch. "Herbie's plenty gung ho," shrugged one Presidential aide, "but in the wrong direction." Said White House Press Secretary Pierre...