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Boating and Barbecues. Bush's wide-open methods are in sharp contrast to the unobtrusive ways of his predecessor. Career Diplomat Charles Yost. Bush swings through the delegates' dining room slapping backs and greeting ambassadors by their first names as if he were still prowling the back corridors of Congress. He has replaced the standard U.N. luncheon-two hours, three wines, seven courses-with short working sessions in the U.S. mission on Manhattan's First Avenue, where guests sometimes must balance plates on their knees. Bush has invited several of his fellow ambassadors to his summer home...
NCID members, mostly Democrats, include former Attorneys General Nichol??s Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark; former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford; former U.N. Ambassadors Charles W. Yost and Arthur Goldberg; and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes...
This year the Visiting Committee includes such national figures as Lincoln Gordon, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966; Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and the current President of the World Bank; Charles W. Yost, former Ambassador to Laos and the United Nations; and Harry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation...
...Yost, a competent career diplomat who is widely respected at the U.N., was not informed that he was to be bounced to make way for Moynihan -or anyone else. Nor was there any direct word from the President or from his staff to the three Cabinet officers on Nixon's drop list: Interior's Walter Hickel, Treasury's David Kennedy and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin. The likely explanation is that Nixon wants to pressure the three men into resigning on their own. Says one staffer in the Office of Management and Budget...
Moynihan apparently changed his mind about the U. N. post after several major newspapers confirmed a press "leak" that he was replacing Charles Yost as chief delegate to the United Nations. According to close friends in Cambridge, though, personal reasons were more important than political or institutional pressures...