LBJ'S KITCHEN CABINET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930033-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: November 28, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

ANT) NOV 2 8 1963
I $' `' `4 1 I l Xpr;~ved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RD
STATINTL
Inside Report
? ? By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
LBJ's Kitchen Cabinet
IN HIS first 72 hours as
Chief' Executive, President
Johnson began, picking the
brains of the .men who will
be his trusted advisers in
the year ahead.
Their names--like Ben-
jamin Cohen or Dean Ache?
son from out of the past-
will surprise those unaware
that Johnson had his own
Secretary of the Army and
slated for promotion to Dep.
utY Secretary of Defense,
win have the President's:
ear on national security,
matters. Harry McPhersoh,
another protege from-Mr.,
Johnson's Senate days end
now ona of Vane's deputies
may move to the White"..
House to serve In a key posi,.1
tion.
va aua4a 4a.4 an uw ?nwauuucw? collected an informal array ,FOR THE first time `' since~
Unq days as Senate Majority
Leader, of advisers during 30 years the Truman administration.
Actually, Mr. Johnson in Washington. lie instine? the new President will ask
seems to be absolutely sin- tively sought their counsel certain Senators for advice
last weekend. . ` -fit merely ,go throw~hh ~e
cere in his desire to keep as polite tnotiona of confertl9
much of the .Kennedy team The old New Dealers .wt11""with them. Near the top: o
on the job as long as possl- be influential In basic policy this list,
Sen.. J. W. Ful-
advice
D
.
ean Acheson, 70,. bright of Arkansas ~.4Chalr
ble. He quickly passed the
word to appointed officials President Truman' Seas- man of the..Forelgn Relations
from' the, Cabinet level on. ' of State, will be an un- Commit t ee. Fulbright, a
down that there would be no official consultant for Prem. strong Johnson-for.Presldent
replacements. But beyond I dent Johnson. Acheson ad. Senator John. man in 1060,. hat bco#t erse
ilent in private conversa?
these official! spots, the new viaed the then son during the 1967 civil tin about'Irospeots,for the
President will'hsve his own Jhn
son Presidency ='
kitchen cabinet.ht4 fight, Indicating that o The o
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With or without portfolio, ad
ay not be Jim- shl l~tween they President
these are `the ` en who will iced to foreign, policy, and ? Geoga's Sen Rlill
ard
Be
njnain Cohett, 90, one Russell as.. 11 ins nt
f
be closicat to le newPresi?
of FDR s bralb-trusters, may
dent. Many of th'm are out yeabut one bt tls est
of the old New leas, brain- actually take., a Job. within copvetsaUonsahe e Presi.
the White House
e
ial d
sp
c
ent had was with the sage
trustfts who first, got -to
know Mr,. Johnson as a co" 15 Over the years!. he old Sou eft pa h.
has Kept in close contact Other nators closest to
young
liberal Congressman
?
,
from Texas' v, Others are with Mr. . Johnson on eco. Mr. Johnson are " political
younger men 'o' had sec= nomica, politics, and
ondary civil moderates, never on: