GOOD MORNING!

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200090047-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 47
• Content Type: NSPR

-Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CI 00
f"'Good Morning!
You shall know that I am in the midst of
Israel, and that I. the Lord, am your God
and there is none else. And my people shall
never again be put to shame.-Joel 2:2-11.
Converting grace puts God on the
throne, and the world at His fou,
stool; Christ is in the heart, and
the world under His feet.
--Joseph Alleine.
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Why Lodge?
Why would President Kennedy name
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., member of a
Republican family with which the Ken-
nedys have been feuding politically in
Massachusetts for three generations,
ambassador to Vietnam?
True, Lodge has excellent qualifica-
tions for this ambassadorial post, and
politics. ought not to enter into the se
lection of ambassadors if we are to get
the best obtainable men to represent us
abroad. But such jobs in the past nearly
always have been awarded as a return
for past political of financial assistance.
In this case, Kennedy is not doing
Lodge any favors. The. Vietnamese
assignment is a tough one, and
Lodge will need all the skill he pos-
sesses to protect U. S. interests in
that troubled land. Lodge is doing
the United States a favor by accept-
ing this difficult post.
The rat reason for naming Re-"
publicans to such lobs probably Is
a combination of the two, plus the
fact that there has developed in
this country a "ruling class" so to
speak, which operates at fhe federal
level no matter which party hap-
pens to be in control.
To many it will be regarded as a con-
tinuation of President Kennedy's habit Both the Dulles boys, John Foster and
of giving some of the toughest jobs, not Allen, worked for President Roosevelt
to Democratic friends, but to Republi-,quite happily during FDR's terms of
cans. Secretary of Defense McNamar:., .office, and returned to serve President
currently holding down the second most Eisenhower when he was in office,
difficult job in Washington, is a Repub? The Dulleses are merely. two b! "the
lican. Douglas Dillon, Kennedy's Secre-Americans who are willing atrld
ad. many
McGeorge tart' of the Bundy, a Treasury, top is a presidential Republican
..abln to run federal agencies and bureaus visor, is a Republican. Allen Dulles, no matter which political party is in
former Central Intelligence Agency power. The State Department has thous
head, is a Republican. So are mar .v ands of employes who stay in place re-
other top administration aides. i;ardless of how the elections turn out,
The charitable might be inclined to and in the opinion of many this is part
of
regard this as an attempt by the Presi- our problem.
American voters may think they are"-o`
dent to otn]e,ul?egf);pSrtisan
ship in r 4 r u f 1 r ration's throwing the rascals out when they affairs. Sonic cynics might ace it as a vote against incumbent politicians, but
move to put hcpublicans in ttsurh Slut:_ the sad truth appears to be that too
v hore, if thin";: o ot1~ 1w GCir) ! r any of the rascals stay right where.
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