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...College, President Kennedy announced that Dulles, 68, would retire in November after eight years as CIA's boss. On hand to hear the President's sincere tribute to Dulles as a "courageous, selfless" public servant was the nation's new chief of intelligence: John Alex McCone, 59, a California industrial leader and former (1958-60) chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
From Kennedy's viewpoint, John McCone was an ideal choice. A tough, canny administrator with a wide range of governmental experience, he is respected on Capitol Hill as well as throughout the executive departments. As a politically active Republican (who was a top possibility for Secretary of Defense had Nixon won), McCone should be virtually immune from partisan political criticism. Just after the Russians broke the moratorium on atomic testing last month, Kennedy summoned McCone from California to Washington for consultation; to receive the President's telephone call, McCone left a golf course where he was playing with...
Fortnight ago, McCone was again in Washington to discuss atomic testing problems with Pentagon officials when he was asked to an early evening White House conference. In the quiet of his second-floor study, President Kennedy asked McCone to take the CIA post. McCone asked for a week to think it over, went back home to San Marino to talk the job over with his wife Rosemary, then called in his acceptance...
Prescience & Skepticism. CIA's director-designate is a Roman Catholic, son of a San Francisco foundry owner. John McCone studied engineering at the University of California, hired himself out as a riveter after his graduation in 1922. By the time he was 32, McCone was executive vice president of Consolidated Steel Corp. Eight years later he left to form the engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone-Parsons, took on the added job of running the California Shipbuilding Corp. after the U.S. entered World War II. Starting from absolute scratch-its main yard was a swamp, and less than...
...recent years McCone has hardly had time to keep more than one eye on his businesses. He was first called to Washington in 1947 as a member of President