THE NEW TEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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but who provides the whirls that create7, as slimmed from some 265' 1
the wind? At the present time their early 200 in recent months. A
names are Moyers, Valenti, Jenkins and on intimate for 13 years, he w
Reedy. Three of them are from Texas, ide about whom newsmen ha
and all have known and served Lyndon riost doubts. But he has emerge
Johnson for a number of years-and apable performer who can p
right now they are very busy. -
- Bill Moyers, 29, a scholarly jour- effective during the complex railroad
nalism graduate whom Johnson calls labor-management negotiations.
"my Baptist preacher" (he was never Below the top four, whose relation-
a preacher but was ordained to teach ship to Johnson is particularly close,
in Baptist schools), has become the in- the most influential member of the staff
tellectual commander of the Johnson-' is former Kennedy Aide McGeorge
troops. He assigns the speeches, writes Bundy, a specialist in foreign affairs
some himself, checks them for tone and national security. Bundy almost
and accuracy. He plans Johnson's trips, quit after Kennedy's death, is less of
such as his recent poverty tours, sends 'a freewheeler than he was under Ken-
out advance men, coordinates it zll': nedy, but now seems completely com Reporter magazine, is expected to pro
with the President's desires. fortable with L.B.J. vide long-range thinking on foreign pot=
- Jack, Valenti, 42, an energetic for- So far, two topflight speech writers icy, will work with Bundy-although
mer Houston adman, serves the per- have emerged in the 'Johnson stable: by no means at Bundy's request. Prince i
sonal side of the President, arranges Kennedy's former Latin American spe- ton History Professor Eric Goldman,
his appointments, works out his daily 'cialist, Richard Goodwin, 32, and Hor' 48, although not a fulltime aide, is an
schedule, frets about his public image, ace Busby, 40, a University of Texas idea man who is supposed to draw upon
dogs Johnson wherever he goes-. Valen- graduate and longtime Johnson friend. - the nation's intellectual talents.
ti, says Johnson, "is the only man who Goodwin cranks out major texts in far As his own personal secretary, John-
knows everything that goes on in the less time than Kennedy's Ted Sorensen son has brought in Mrs. Juanita Rob-.
White House." - did, and Johnson insists that he does 4t-., erts, an attractive and efficient former
- Walter Jenkins, 46, a soft-spoken with just as much style. Busby is a WAC, who is still a lieutenant colonel
fellow from Jolly, Texas, has known quiet, discreet intellectual. Warns one in 'the Army Reserve.
Johnson longer than any of the others experienced Washington hand: "Watch The Johnson team regards the Presi-
and has been a Johnson aide since Buz. He's a comer." dent with a mixture of awe, terror and
1939. He manages the presidential ?of- Riding Herd. Two recent additions intense devotion. L.B.J..rides herd on::,
flee, handles Johnson's nonofficial af- to Johnson's staff also are beiog eyed them and needs their loyalty. As such,
fairs, often serves as his personal closely by the others, since their roles the operation is very different from the'
spokesman in the back corridors of are not yet clear. Douglass Cater, 40, way it was under Kennedy, but so far l?
Cauitol Hill. former national affairs editor of The it has worked with fabulous results.
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