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...others, President-elect Kennedy, by the nature of his selections, indicated that his Administration will be generally moderate, eschewing the radicalism of the 1960 Democratic platform. Named by Kennedy to high Government posts: North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges as Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Harvard Economist David E. Bell as Budget Director, and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs...
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, 50, to be Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "If I am elected," John Kennedy once promised, "Abe Ribicoff can be anything he wants to be in my Administration." One of Kennedy's first and staunchest supporters for President, Connecticut's popular, soulfully handsome Ribicoff was considered a top candidate for U.S. Attorney General. Ribicoff turned down that job with the characteristic comment that he was out of practice as a lawyer-and besides, it would be politically hard on the new Administration for a Catholic and a Jew to lead any fight for integration...
Attorney General: Connecticut's Governor Abe Ribicoff (en route to the Supreme Court, which he is said to long for); Whizzer White...
This tendency to vote the party rather than the man is unusual in a town like Brooklyn with a long history of ticket-splitting (two years after giving Eisenhower a whooping vote of confidence, the voters returned Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff to office with just as handsome a majority). It would seem to indicate that, despite the publicity and exposure given both candidates, neither has succeeded in impressing his personality upon the voters...
Connecticut: Democrats are nervous about a big independent small-town registration but Governor Abe Ribicoff, a Kennedy pioneer, should lead a Kennedy victory, especially since Catholics make up 47% of the population...