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...Defense Secretary (statutory pay: $25,000, plus use of a chauffeured Cadillac), he would sell his 24,250 shares of Ford stock, drop options on 30,000 more shares-a potential personal loss of more than $3,000,000. Typically, McNamara turned down the suggestion from a Kennedy staffer that he should sell the stock to his children, thereby avoiding the loss without violating any conflict-of-interest...
...plan. He very much wanted able New York Banker Robert Lovett, 65, in a key spot. One of Henry Stimson's and George Marshall's top men in the '40s, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, Republican Bob Lovett is experienced and respected. One Kennedy staffer said that he wished there were three Lovetts, so that one each could be Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State. But Lovett has had a serious stomach operation, and regretfully turned down a Cabinet post...
...President," argues one White House staffer, "is the biggest gun we've got." Last week, amid mounting evidence of Democratic campaign achievement, Dwight Eisenhower wheeled dramatically onto the political firing line on behalf of his own candidate, Richard Nixon. In a nationally telecast speech before 1,800 G.O.P. faithful in Philadelphia, an indignant Ike struck coldly back at John Kennedy's "amazing irresponsibility" and "unwarranted disparagement of our moral, military and economic power." It was, by far, his most forceful political speech of the past four years...
...votes outside the South. His own mind made up, Nixon got the unanimous ratification of Lodge (who was Eisenhower's favorite choice even during the Rockefeller boom) in a two-hour session with party leaders after the presidential nomination. "This is the first time." says a top Nixon staffer, "that a vice-presidential nominee was chosen without any hope of his carrying his own state...
...gathering, Allen was all business. He was usually the first to arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike. Editor Allen took pity on the sole surviving staffer and chauffeured him home. "Now, don't come in till 6:30," he said indulgently-then drove briskly back to work...