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...riot with tear gas. In Washington, Bobby Kennedy was white-lipped with anger when he heard the news. Moving swiftly, he deputized some 400 nonmilitary officials-largely deputy marshals and Treasury agents. He sent them by chartered flights into Alabama, under the personal command of Assistant Attorney General Byron ("Whizzer") White. Attorney General Kennedy also set in motion injunctions against the Ku Klux Klan and other prime segregationist groups to prevent them from interfering with peaceful interstate travel...
...When not digging among the Cuba-invasion ruins, Bobby Kennedy was at the White House, serving as the President's closest counselor. It was usually late in the afternoon before Bobby got to the Justice Department to carry out his tasks as Attorney General. Deputy Attorney General Byron ("Whizzer") White was wearily trying to take as much routine work as possible off Bobby's shoulders, but there were many decisions that only the boss could make, and he worked late night after night...
...also true. Harvard's Dean Bundy, for instance, is a Yaleman ('40). In fact, Yale runs second to Harvard in top appointments, with eight alumni, from Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles ('24) to Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman ('13) and Deputy Attorney General Byron R. ("Whizzer") White (Law '46). Yale has already lost three faculty men to Kennedy, expects to lose two more, including Dean of the Law School Eugene V. Rostow. The next four years seem certain to produce countless occasions when Yaleman will meet Yaleman in a Washington corridor and growl...
Before he took the job, Bobby Kennedy talked at length with outgoing Attorney General William Rogers and an old friend. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His first act as a prospective Cabinet member was to announce his brother's appointment of Denver Lawyer Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43, University of Colorado All-America, Rhodes scholar and veteran Kennedy campaign worker, as Assistant Attorney General...
Attorney General: Connecticut's Governor Abe Ribicoff (en route to the Supreme Court, which he is said to long for); Whizzer White...