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...just one of many voices, ranking no higher than primus inter pares. In deciding his policy, John Kennedy does indeed listen to Rusk; but he may just as likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, 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...
...Dealer Adolf Berle, 66, chairman of a special Latin America task force. Kennedy also assigned Arthur Schlesinger as a one-man presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from their paper planning on Laos to give advice on Cuba; Nitze and Attorney General Robert Kennedy added their potent voices in council. Fortnight ago, the President created still another Latin America specialist, sent U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on a prestige-building, length-of-the-continent trip. Inevitably...
...Among them Columnists Stewart Alsop and John Crosby, steamship-banking-airline Tycoon J. Peter Grace Jr., Princeton Dean J. Merrill Knapp, M.I.T. Professor Walt Rostow (now a White House adviser...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow, presidential assistants assigned to foreign policy thinking: down a bit because they showed too little skepticism toward CIA and Pentagon assumptions; furthermore, their authority inevitably suffers some dilution from the entry of Bobby Kennedy and Ted Sorensen into the cold war field...
...about uprisings and defections, he approved a too-skimpy, all-Cuban invasion that was doomed to bloody defeat. Secretary of State Dean Rusk went along with the plan, and so did the top foreign policy thinkers on the White House staff: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow. Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles opposed the project, somewhat deviously, by leaking to the press stories of sharp conflict within the Administration. The most outspoken opposition came from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright: he was convinced that the invasion attempt would fail...