THE ADMINISTRATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090062-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: May 7, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

CPYRGHT
;PYRyH ADMINIS19iIKitd -A
ynt on Johnson Presents
During a White House tea for top
Government employees' wives one aft-
ernoon last week, Mrs. Alan Boyd, wife
of the Civil Aeronautics Board chair-
man, slipped away to the Lincoln bed-
room to watch the televised presiden-
tial press conference that was going on
downstairs in the East Room. There on
the screen was Lyndon Johnson, play.
ing his much-relished role of master of
ceremonies. He was introducing, one by
one, somewhat in the runner of Ed
Sullivan, eight new Administration ap-
pointees. Suddenly Mrs. Boyd. gasped.
There, smiling out at the camera, was
the ruggedly handsome face of her hus-
hand. "To tell the truth," she said later,
"I didn't even hear what he was ap-
pointed to."
Her husband's new job, she soon
found out, was Under Secretary of
Commerce for Transportation.. But
such is the secrecy with which Lyndon
Johnson surrounds his appointments
these days that even Boyd was in the
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Y 7 1965
FOIAb3b
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCING NEW APPOINTEES* AT WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE
In the dark at the top of the stairs, and downstairs too.
dark about just what his new job would - William' F. McKee, 58, retired Air ly on the subject, is considered an ex-
he until the press conference began. Force general, will become Federal pert with a tough approach. In Anti-
For' months there had been rumors Aviation Agency administrator, replan trust Policy; An Economic and Legal
in the aviation industry that Transport ing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has Analysis, a book that Turner co-au-
Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for' resigned and plans to write a book thored with Carl Kaysen, he suggested
his outstanding performance at CAB- called Washington Cockpit. Virginia- . that a single company that controls
which he turned from a so-so agency born, West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is,' more than half of its market, or any ..
into one of the best-run in Washington little known to the civilian aviation in- four companies that together command
-was going to be moved up. A Florida- dustry, but made a name for himself in more than 80% of the market, are
born lawyer who logged more than the Air Force as a management ex- monopolistic and should be required to
3,000 hours pilbting troop carriers and pert; he is the only' non-aviator ever to' loosen their hold.
combat planes in World War II, Boyd be made a four-star Air Force general' ' - Leonard Carpenter Meeker, 49, dep-
was first named to the CAB in 1959 by McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of ' uty legal adviser in the State Depart- .
President Eisenhower. Two years later Staff before he retired last August to ment, will move up to legal adviser. A
John Kennedy elevated him to chair- oin the National Aeronautics and Space dedicated, little-known Government at-
man, a job to which he had been reap- Administration. torney from New Jersey, Meeker was
pointed each year since. - Warren Wiggins, 42, an associate di- a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst, got his
The other Johnson appointees: rector of the Peace Corps since it began law degree from Harvard in 1940, and,
- Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secre- ; in 1961, was -named deputy director, except for four years' Army duty in
tary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd will fill the, vacancy left by Bill Moyers, World War II, has been working for
as CAB chairman, though he has vir- who has been on leave from the Peace the Government, in Washington ever
tually no background in the field. A, Corps as a White House special as since. I
lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy sistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a dis- ' - Wilbur J. Cohen, 51, an Assistant
has served in Government for 28 year tinguished twelve-year career with the Secretary of Health, Education and
in a wide range of jobs, notably as U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the Welfare, will become Under Secretary,
President Truman's special counsel from Peace Corps, has been credited by "replacing a political appointee, Ivan
1950 to 1953. During the Senate investi Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shri- Nestingen, onetime mayor of Madison,
gation of the financial shenanigans o . ver as being "more than any other man" Wis., who has resigned. Cohen, who is
Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes responsible for making the Corps work. also from Wisconsin, was considered
Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Wiggins will supervise the activities of too liberal by many Senators when
Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and President Kennedy appointed him in
man, was roundly criticized by Repub . far-flung staff, including his parents, 1961; he .was confirmed by a one-vote
licans for showing favoritism to Estes, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned margin in the Senate. An assistant to
but he emerged from the scandal un ' from a two-year stint as volunteers in ' Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet Commit-
scathed after Freeman vouched for his, Peru and now hold staff jobs at a Peace 'tee on Economic Security, which draft-
integrity. Corps training camp in Puerto Rico. ed the original Social Security Act, he
- Dr. John A. Schnittker, 40, the Agri - Donald F. Turner, 44, Harvard Law has been involved ever since in Govern-
culture Department's director of agri professor, will become Assistant U.S. .ment welfare programs; now is on an
cultural economics, will take Murphy' Attbrney General in charge of the . extended leave of absence from the
old job as Under Secretary. A Kansa antitrust division. A Phi Beta Kappa -University of Michigan, where he
farm boy, Schnittker got a Ph.D. i (Northwestern), Turner took a Ph.D. taught public welfare administration.
agricultural economics at Iowa Stat in economics at Harvard, earned a law In recent years he has been key man in
University, taught at Kansas State Uni degree at Yale, where he met Nicholas preparing ' HEW's legislature program,
versify, shuttled back and forth betwee Katzenbach, now Attorney General. including the Medicare bill now before.
teaching and Government service unti " Turner was Katzenbach's personal . Congress.
1961, when he joined the departmcn choice to replace William Orrick, who
full time. He is, say's Freeman, "a. firm is resigning. A' consultant to both the- . '. seated in front row from left: Boyd, Wiggins.'
strong, tough-minded 1 q~ce~
spected throughout thiMMWP, : 1tHr~ ,`Tut' ~`VVir tIm ; (Ue oty. ?s5w_~isn-O
 CPYRGHT
PYRGH
TOP RECRUITER MACY
The 25,000 are computerized.
The Talent Scout
in nis s months as President, ere
was some doubt that Lyndon Johnson
could staff his Administration with the
high-caliber types necessary for any pre-
tense at good government. Now, after
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dent's programs.
Macy turned his scouting job into
about 25,000 qualified names for the tops
400 positions that a President may be d
called upon to fill and has put the names
and basic qualifications on computer
punch cards. In addition, there is a fur-
ther dossier on each person, containing
information about family, recommenda-
tions, personality and professional rec-,
ord. For each major job, there is a
"position file" that records job require-
ments and the history of those who,
down through the years, have held the
positions.
Blue Books. Chicago-born John Macy`;
himself could well be first on the list for
any number of Administration posts. He
was a Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes schol-
ar nominee at Wesleyan University in
Middletown, Conn., entered Government
service through the National Institute of
Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff
officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947
he was given a 90-day assignment to run
personnel and organization for the Atom-
is Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N.I.
Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos
town manager as well until 1951. He
joined the Civil Service Commission in
1953 as executive director and, apart)
from a three-year period when he worked
on the "outside in the field of edu
cation, has been with the commission
ever since.
Macy's effectiveness lies in his ability)
to keep himself in the background-he
rarely sees the press=and to perform
his head-hunting chores with discretion.
Cabinet members and government and
business executives are always sending
him names for Administration jobs. All
such nominees get the customary thor-
ough consideration. If they pass muster,
Macy makes up "blue books": on their
qualifications and shows the books to
the President for his decision. go far,]
Hil9Et{tliaFLdstsellers'
ved. For ReIea$e,;?.
relative youth-,Mttj aM26
Ambassador to Chile, that President:
Johnson asked Macy to take over top-
level, non-civil service head-hunting du-i
tics as well.
Lyndon's requirements were tough. He'
wanted men of high education and in-~
telligence, such as Phi Beta Kappas ors
Rhodes scholars and he wanted en ofl
nel Scout Ralph Dungan was appointed,
17 months in office, Johnson has made
about 130 top-level appointments-and
by any reasonable standard his report
card would read "excellent." Among the
blue-ribbon picks: John T. Connor as
Secretary of Commerce, Henry H. Fowl-
er as Secretary of the Treasury, and re-
tired Admiral William Raborn as the
new Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
For advice on.these and many of his
other choices, including the eight new
appointees announced last week (see pre-
ceding story), Johnson is the first to pay
tribute to his top recruiter: Civil Service
Commission Chairman John Williams
Macy Jr., 48. Macy makes recommenda-
tions that have nothing whatever to do
with the civil service as such. Says the'
President enthusiastically: "He's my tal-
ent scout. He's v~orking all the time. He
comes up with the names. He gives me'
several choices for every job. He's the:
best there is."
Phi Betes. Macv was named head of'.
the Civil Service Commission by Presi
dent Kennedy in 1961. He streamlined
the organization, strengthened its opera-i
tions considerably and helped get salary;
raises for the 1,600,000 federal employ-;
ces who cone under the competitive!
civil service system. But it was only last'
November, when White House Person-'
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