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...five, four--Stanley Surrey, Archibald, Cox, Abram Chayes and John McNaughton--were professors at the Law School before going to the Capital. David Beil was Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration and Lecturer in Economics. Presently scattered around Washington in four different Departments, the Harvard contingent classifies their experience in Washington as "exhilarating," "frustrating," "fascinating," and as a "good kind of interlude." But while they welcomed the chance to "get in touch with reality," they all look with obvious relish to the day they will return to academic life...
While working on the legal problems of the Moscow treaty, Chayes was in constant contact with John McNaughton, who has the parallel post of General Counsel to the Department of Defense. McNaughton has been in the job since July 1962. Before that, he was deputy assistant secretary for arms control under Paul Nitze, dealing with Berlin crisis matters. Now, as the chief legal advisor to the Pentagon, McNaughton spends about half his time on "the charter responsibilities of the job"--the purely legal questions of defense matters--and the other half on special assignments...
...special assignments" have included a major part in the 1962 Nassau agreement with Britain and the implementation of the dismantling of ground-based missiles in Turkey and Italy. McNaughton also traveled to Moscow with Averell Harriman to help negotiate the test-ban treaty. Because he may be called to work on "crises" at any moment, McNaughton says he doesn't "dare run the risk of being away from his office." The object of risk is a single telephone with a blue light at which he stares with awe. If the phone rings, assistant secretary Gilpatric is calling; if both...
Staying by the phone usually takes up about 13 hours of McNaughton's day, but he doesn't particularly miss the free time he had as a professor. "When I was at the Law School, I always felt impelled to read material for my work during spare hours...
JOHN JAY McCLOY NEIL HOSLER McCLOY ANDREW G. McNAUGHTON HAROLD MEDINA RICHARD K. MELLON PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ETHEL MERMAN PERLE MESTA ROBERT B. MEYNER JOSÉ MIRÓ CARDONA RAYMOND MOLEY JEAN MONNET JAMES MORAN DELESSEPS S. MORRISON CHARLES G. MORTIMER LUIS MUNOZ MAŔIN PATRICE MUNSEL CLINTON MURCHISON JR. JOHN MURCHISON ROBERT D. MURPHY JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY...