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...Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull ideas from Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Washington Lawyer (and Truman's Secretary of State) Dean Acheson; Special Presidential Consultant Henry (The Necessity of Choice) Kissinger; Disarmament Adviser John McCloy; or Presidential Assistant Theodore Sorensen. During a crisis, the President may rely for both intelligence data and contingency plans on the State Department's new Special Operations Office, headed by Career Diplomat Theodore Achilles...
DISARMAMENT. Disarmament Administrator John McCloy will make a strong, serious effort to get agreement on a nuclear test ban as the first step toward realistic negotiations on disarmament. Kennedy is seeking a postponement in order to give McCloy time to rejudge U.S. stands and strategy of the Geneva test-ban talks, which had been scheduled to begin next week. In seeking the delay-until March-Kennedy will continue to abide by Dwight Eisenhower's decision in October 1958 to suspend U.S. nuclear tests. But strong pressure in favor of more tests will come from some of Kennedy...
...Edward Day (Law '38) and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ('48). Others include former Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, reformer of regulatory agencies, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze ('28), Federal Housing Authority Director Robert C. Weaver ('29) and Disarmament Adviser John Jay McCloy...
...John Jay McCloy, 65, director of the U.S. Disarmament Administration. Bald, brusque Banker-Lawyer McCloy, a Republican, has a flair for doing the almost impossible-a characteristic that suits his new job of supervising the new Administration's disarmament policy. A graduate of Amherst ('16) and Harvard Law School, McCloy began his Government life at the edge of World War II. After resigning from his Manhattan law practice, he became a troubleshooting assistant to the Secretary of War, worked in the distinguished circle that included General George C. Marshall, Robert A. Lovett, James Forrestal, Robert Patterson...
...appointments, he was greeted with a chorus of approbation. The New York Times, whose campaign endorsement of Kennedy had been singularly tepid, warmed to his appointees as the list lengthened: the choice of "Soapy" Williams was merely "good," but Dean Rusk's was "first-rate" and John J. McCloy's "splendid." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser took conservative Southern comfort in the new first team: "So far, the Advertiser couldn't be more comforted were Nixon the President-elect and making the Cabinet appointments. Which statement is a horse laugh at the officious, twittering host who self-righteously...