Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected to keep his door and ear open to two others named to important posts. Paul W. McCracken, 52, an economist, a University of Michigan professor of business administration, and a member of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, will become chairman of Nixon's CEA (see BUSINESS). Harvard Government Professor Henry A. 'Kissinger, 45, who has served as a Government consultant and was a foreign-policy adviser to Governor Nelson Rockefeller during the preconvention period, will be Nixon's assistant for national-security affairs...
...appointments that were publicly announced received virtually unanimous praise. But it was Kissinger's that attracted the most attention-because of the man (see following story), because of the sensitive nature of the post, and because Nixon labeled Kissinger his instrument for a "complete reorganization and restructuring of the entire White House security planning machinery." If Kissinger and his new boss have their way, that will mean the resurrection of the National Security Council as a major organ of government...
Facing Finch is a vast bureaucracy comprising 107,000 employees and a budget of $44 billion. Some of the problems and programs are: - Welfare. Presently a disastrous $4 billion program, surrounded by problems and proposals for change (see TIME ESSAY...
...INCOME TAX SURCHARGE. Scheduled to expire June 30, the 10% surcharge worth more than $10 billion a year, will be crucial in budgetary considerations. Nixon would like to see it ended, but on the other hand he is pledged to check inflation. Mills and other fiscal conservatives who initially opposed the tax now argue that it may be necessary to keep it unless Government spending is reduced...
...first meeting involving all four sides (Secretary of State Dean Rusk predicted that it would be held some time this week). The other was the shape of the negotiating table. Hanoi wanted a square one, which would give the N.L.F. a side to itself. As the Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting...