Word: mccone
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...Kennedy Administration is really attempting to revamp the governmental bureaucracy by putting the right professional in the right position, last week's confirmation of John A. McCone as head of the C.I.A. simply indicates failure...
Only twelve Senators voted against McCone on the floor, but they seemed to have twelve compelling reasons. Margaret Chase Smith had asked the nominee before the Senate Armed Services Committee, "Will you tell the committee what training or experience you had in the field of intelligence prior to your appointment to that position?" McCone answered "none," adding, however, that he had discussed his lack of qualifications with his wife, because it troubled him. He did not consult the President on this matter. Senator Bartlett confronted McCone with a conflict of interest question; the nominee remained unperturbed...
...Agency, of which both the U.S. and Yugoslavia are members. The agency, an outgrowth of Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposals of 1953, is supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel. The deal made last week's headlines only after Texas' Republican Senator John Tower heard of it and protested. It was, indeed, hard...
...have been opposed for high office for many reasons, but it remained for the liberal New Republic magazine last week to find one of the most tortuous (and wrongheaded) of all. In arguing against the confirmation of John A. McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the NR said: "He is the kind of man who hates Communism not because it has betrayed the revolution, but because he assumes it is the revolution. That is a flaw beyond correction...
Chief John McCone, Foster was long ago appraised by the New Frontier's talent scouts as an able, experienced administrator who might some day fill a job for President Kennedy. Also like McCone, he is a Republican, which may help fend off partisan objections to actions taken by an agency new to the ways of Washington. Born in New Jersey, courteous, methodical Bill Foster studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, piloted "Flying Jennies" as a combat instructor during World War I, then spent 24 years with Long Island's Pressed & Welded Steel Products...