Word: staffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gregarious man with uncommon social charm, Kennedy has become steadily less and less available to old college and political pals. Once the most accessible President the Washington press corps had ever known, he is now acutely sensitive to criticism. His vivid Irish wit flashes infrequently. One White House staffer who sees him daily says that even in the midst of briefings the President sometimes ceases to listen as he stares into space-apparently searching for the answer to some nagging problem...
...after the president spoke, New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock charged that "a little more beautiful White House coordination would have spared Mr. Kennedy at least one acutely embarrassing experience." Recently, Kennedy nominated White House Staffer Frank Reeves to be the first Negro on the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia. Although checking financial records of presidential nominees is routine, no White House aide noticed that eight income tax liens had been sworn out against Reeves in the last ten years-a fact that the Senate easily discovered. Last week Kennedy was forced to withdraw Reeves...
There are those who consider Field's assessment a bit generous. One longtime News staffer (Stuffy wishes he knew who) insisted that his boss was "as profound as a one-pound box of chocolates"; a former city editor has compared working for Walters to "being bitten to death by a duck." Robert M. Hutchins, who went on to become chancellor of the University of Chicago after helping Walters put out a paper for U.S. troops in Italy during World War I, has been even more outspoken. Some years ago Hutchins complained: "What can you expect...
...that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force at work scouting good...
Kicking off another busy week, Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip...