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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem solvers rather than idea brokers. They span the Republican midsection from the moderate progressives to the responsible conservatives, stopping short of ideological extremes. They are mostly affluent, some in the millionaire bracket, but they earned their money rather than inheriting it. There are no blooded patricians in the lot, just strivers who have acted out the middle-class dream. Thus, as much as any dozen individuals can, Richard Nixon's new Cabinet members mirror the qualities of their boss, of the campaign he waged, of the aspirations of the constituency that elected...
Like many of his colleagues in the new Cabinet, Bill Rogers comes to his job both free of the burden of past commitments and unscarred by old fights. Says Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach: "Rogers doesn't have to live with a lot of previously written books." In an interview with TIME Cor respondent Jess Cook Jr., Rogers observed: "I haven't any emotional ties to the past. I'm not associated with any school of thought. Sure, there are some disadvantages in that I don't have the background of others...
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...
...that the students who have used the bus may think it worthwhile to pay another nickle or so per ride to insure its continuation. As long as enough students continued to use the bus despite a rise in price, the money collected in fares would come a lot closer to meeting costs. Although ideally the bus service should be continued unchanged, such a compromise may be the only way to save the bus, providing students are indeed willing to pay somewhat higher fares...
Geoffrey P. Hellman, GSAS, suggested that Administration policy might be to build up a fear of major punishment and then "take a lot of wind out of our action" by being more lenient. "The overall effect would be at least as bad in terms of intimidation," he said...