Word: stimson
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McGeorge Bundy, 41, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Bostonian Bundy's first claim to public attention came in 1948 when he helped write the memoirs of old friend Henry L. Stimson, for whom Bundy's father had worked in the War Department during World War II. Later he became the only Yaleman ever to serve as dean of arts and sciences at Harvard, was long best known in the Yard for his trenchant course on the U.S. in world politics. Bundy, a liberal Republican, admires the foreign policy views of his close friend...
...went according to Jack Kennedy's 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...