NOTES ON KENNEDY APPOINTMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200750005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 1, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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STATINTL
dotes on .Kennedy Apt~atinfiments `
f ~r~ :,,clc?nt .lobo Kennedy's cabinet and other appoint-
,~? nt~: have elicited praise from all elaaaifications of pub-
l,r?a~ ions save communist and socialist. 60, maybe they
arc in general good selections; this .remains to be seen.
13ut l,crc are some Hates on a few men whose appoint-,
nu?nts tend to upset the- stomach.
. -Gov. lufhtr Hodges
'1'hc new Secretary' ofCommerce i$ a white ~suprema-
cisl. So what, if he is dealing only wlth? commerce? i50
~t hat is-thal three-fifths of the world is non-white, a>1d
l~c,r tlhe United States to place a white supremacist in ~
cabinet position is a slap in the face to these people.
Bodges has appealed to Negroes in his speeches not to
push their Supreme Couri vlctorie~ ?tQo rapidly. He-has
been severely criticized by Negro newspapers for refer-
rinz~ to Negroes as "nigtas."
C. Douq~los Dlpoa ~ .
'1'hc new Secretary of the Treasury was a senior exec-
utive of Dillon, Read & Co. which was under prosecution
by th,c .)ustice Department on a charge of investment
banking monop~ly_ (This was reported by Drew Pearson
u-- Dec?. 14, 1960, but wad censored out of the San b~?an-