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...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 Assistant Theodore Sorensen. During a crisis, the President may rely for both intelligence data and contingency plans on the State Department's new Special Operations Office, headed by Career Diplomat Theodore Achilles...
...Sorensen, the President's longtime administrative assistant and specialist in domestic politics and policies: up a lot as a dedicated doubter who will now be turning his doubts on State Department and Pentagon careermen...
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...
...current Washington parlor game is guessing about when the close-knit Kennedy team will split in a struggle for influence between Top Aide Ted Sorensen's idea men and Patronage Adviser Kenny O'Donnell's professional politicians. According to close students of the Kennedy technique, the President-elect has hitherto managed to keep his staffers happy by dividing his favors between the "professors" and the "Irish Mafia." But he may have less time to soothe and smooth once he gets swamped by White House duties...
...Fulbright, who was already well known to Kennedy). In others (e.g., Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, whom Kennedy had never met), a complete dossier was ordered. As new possibilities surfaced, the FBI, as always, provided full security checks on each man, and Kennedy's right-hand man, Ted Sorensen, gave his imprimatur to the political background...