Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news of the nominations had all dribbled out well ahead of air time. But as an indication of Nixon's intention to invest the Cabinet with more prestige and responsibility than most of its recent predecessors, the show was a good beginning. New department heads are rarely well known to the public; now Nixon's men are a little better known...
...Secretary of Transportation), Alaska Governor Walter Hickel (Interior), and Chamber of Commerce President Winton Blount (Postmaster General). The best-known figure in the group, Michigan Governor George Romney (Housing and Urban Development), was head of American Motors...
Nixon, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, became known primarily because of the Alger Hiss case, while Rogers pursued the five-percenters and saw some of them sentenced to jail. Rogers had earned so good a reputation for the way he conducted investigations that when the Democrats took control of his reconstituted committee after 1948, he was kept on as chief counsel of an investigating subcommittee. At the 1952 convention, both men worked for Eisenhower's nomination. The Vice Presidentelect recommended his friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General...
...Republican defeat in 1960 sent both men back to private law practice. Rogers rejoined the New York-Washington firm now known as Royall, Koegel, Rogers & Wells, practicing general corporate law. He is now a senior partner, with an income of about $300,000 a year, clients such as 20th Century-Fox, the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune, a home in Bethesda, Md., and a New York apartment overlooking the East River. Yet his life-style is not pretentious. His Washington office is smallish. His home is roomy but not luxurious; the swimming pool in back is a small...
Unlike Nixon, Rogers enjoyed private life. Urbane, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), affable and attractive, he is known around Washington as a kind of Republican Clark Clifford. "But," says Jack Javits, "he's got even more cool than Clark, and that's saying a lot." "I didn't want to get back into public life," Rogers said last week. "I didn't seek it. I thought there are others certainly better qualified. But when the President-elect asks, you have no choice...