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...directions; big-time lawyers shift readily into high posts in business and government. The late John W. Davis of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl left Wall Street in 1924 to be come the Democratic candidate for President; he lost and went back to lawyering. Several Cabinet officers, Henry L. Stimson and John Foster Dulles among them, have been Wall Street lawyers. Defense Secretary McNamara's newest deputy, Cyrus Vance, came from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. The big outfits, sometimes referred to as "factories" (the term makes the lawyers wince), also supply a sizable share of the presidents, board chairmen...
...Boss Allen Dulles fended Mc Carthy off, and Bill Bundy served as his deputy for nearly ten years. In 1961, Kennedy moved him to the Pentagon, and his new office in the outermost "E" ring is just down the hall from where his father used to operate under Stimson...
...Sunday. Mac joined the Government via a more circuitous route. After the war he helped Stimson write his fine memoirs, On Active Service in Peace and War, joined the Harvard faculty in 1949 as a lecturer. Within four years he became the first Yale-educated dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one of the top jobs in U.S. education...
...surprises in reporting his first reactions to the news that the U.S. intended to drop the atom bomb on Japan. He thought it was a mistake on the ground that Japan was already defeated and "that our country should avoid shocking world opinion." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told him of the plans on a visit to Ike's headquarters in 1945. "During his recitation of the relevant facts," writes Ike, "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings . . . The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost...
...Lyndon Johnsons usually do not win at Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned with broad "way-of-life" issues...