KENNEDY'S REPUBLICANS PRESIDENT FOLLOWS A 30-YEAR TREND IN GIVING THEM HIGH POSTS IN CRISES

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
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• Publication Date: October 1, 1961
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'resi(lcn t Follows a 30-Year Trend in
Giving Thetis High Posts in Crises
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% ASHINGTON, Sept. 30-The fundamental reason >P'lap. former Under Secretary ~~`'hat the .: I; . A. job under:
why President Kennedy, a Democrat
Of COMmerce an.1'fie
has been summonin
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p
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actively affiliated with the Rapttblitrt AdmhtlstraUoet a d co-au t~ Von-governinenttalY
y Part9 is not that he ?';. hf >i>ie ften..e, V i
d
bE
; r defenses.
t between ti rh
paramount --
cause his ppolitlcpi strategy is to paralyze the! When Mr. Kennedy becaone l ` ?P Ppsals to the
opposition by the presence of Republican hostage In hiai President-elect, one of his Hrst' cunt ,ri,'tire.agency,is tore'.
front Linea
"roves was to aak A1
hits fwt tta
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aluaung
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found In the sue-
cession of economic, social and military Crises D>~lke to remain for at I r the.. iff .fit clleets, avid
during tie!', anothe
i~
r Year as the direeto
gperaitioels {-
last thirty years of American history, the Cent: ai Intelligence A *t11 o>c.'tltrt ne Concluder
These required the goverrun" n The nature of the offices 0n1 R tb .. r
ordinated to individual capacity f- Icaned for this continuity in tie TuK>attr~d.
4I' eshingtgn, and President Tru ternationa] and national secur- that partisan political was, of course that ?*~lu,o"aaq .
coiWd at of Douglas
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publicans, as well-as Democrats,' : Republicans would be pron;!nent1 eluded from appointment vin' tary of Defense McNaniars dr
with special aptitude for dealing' among those who possessed the area of security. a-political and anyhow, 1
With the crises of their time- them. Roosevelt and Truman" Secret Operations `Ipubitcat4 are Fib's he voted for
had b
f
M
irst the depression; then the
rought, or Truman re-.
r. Kennedy in 1960), But
I'nrted States re-mlfitarization )summoned, into government, The operations of the C. I.A.~1 18n,In the Rlsenhower *x_
ar
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requ
red by the outbreak of war
mong-others, Henry L. ?11ni_;;
e necessarily secret, and
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pat,o? It that struggle; and`'
us n,? Dean, Roberti
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e Win., nnow more of the a, OR" Aue a cam.:
finally the cold war and they
A. Lovett William Chapman) quality of its record under
PaiStf Urt+c efi'tht!'
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p
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of
Korean War. roster, the brothersJohn Fost4l? )Dulles than wes indicated by "fr. ~jgfledy's )'Tashi policy,-UL.
and Allen W. Dulles, Lewis i the President's warm pralas. Presl .:found ? 1pn in full
fool of Talent L. Strauss, William A. Knudsen,ll Rut what Is known is that the agMVftts*t6i t ire bo
a
Eisenhower began his eight.. M ne? Few then or later weref erector who 1s tough-rnintl5Q,?
year term in 1953, a reservoir. active in politics. But 'all were] Imaginative Impersonal, ?hasl.
of Republicans of proved ablifty. normally Republicans. When; courage and fortitt,de, In so+intd
ho had been intensivel
d Mr
tin jud
Kenned
train
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.
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ecame President,
e codiectors of in.,.
in Government by his Demo- and began his search for expert- telligence and evaluating their:
"at.ic. predecessors, was avail eneed administrators in the vital product. and can inspire the
vhlc. Ilis draft of this pool es arras of military defense, other;1compiete confidence of the
enticrlly augmented their expe-, aspects of national security andl,President and Congress,
',once. So that when President disarmament negotiations, he! j The President's conclusion
~ennecl}-. confronted with old found outstanding the record:> - front the public -and private rec.
-rises r?owin, more. dangerous Of this group, (For example, to ord that Mceone can meet
:n,i new ones arising, looked Lovett, who was not available,', these requirements .within rea:,`
around for the most seasoned, h offered any of the threeJ.tson is shared 'In %vashington`
Disarmament
McCfoy, as Assistant Secre-
tary! of War under Roosevelt
wn, t,ermany unde- Truman,
'was a leading expert In the
~problims of armament'and dis.
armament and in negotiating
wit
h our Allier and the Kremlin.
Dean had been United State
o prepare the ntrjcture Pressed for the nuclea,testing.
of the U. S. Arms Control and 'morat.orittm ane for ifs long
Disarmament Agency. And to, Protraction. But after' Soviet;,
Russia's brutal rexum,p kin of
testing, with fa11-out in the'
;atmosphere, this aartieo or ills-,
approval of McC?,ne bs. mg a
minor i'resldfnti6; eonr!q yon.
Commis ,fists in Kore ? 'a ` f"is ne.
K and was as Particularly Unpopular with 'k
at the peak of a brilliant ca- -thosq "liberal" Democrats whd
veer as an, international lawyer. were an Important component
There wag no more qualified of the group
team t which euocessfully.
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tion, and by his Intimates.
Six months ago the Presl.,
dent might have
Jiu"'pan area. And, though