THE ADMINISTRATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
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• Publication Date: May 7, 1965
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

- THE ADMINISTRAKIQ'4ved
Lyndon 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 r uinner 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-
band. "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
dark about just what his new job would
he until the press conference began.
For months there had been rumors
in the aviation industry that Transport
Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for
his outstanding performance at CAB-
which he turned from a so-so agency
into one of the best-run in Washington
-was going to be moved up. A Florida-
born lawyer who logged more than
3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and
combat planes in World War II, Boyd
was first named to the CAB in 1959 by
President Eisenhower. Two years later
John Kennedy elevated him to chair-
man, a job to which he had been reap-
pointed each year since.
The other Johnson appointees:
- Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secre-
tary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd
as CAB chairman, though he has vir-
tually no bac~ground in the field. A
lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy
has served in Government for 28 years
in a wide range of jobs, notably as -
President Truman's special counsel from
1950 to 1953. During the Senate investi-
gation of the financial shenanigans of
Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes,
Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture
Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand
man, was roundly criticized by Repub-
licans for showing favoritism to Estes,
but he emerged from the scandal un-
scathed after Freeman vouched for his
integrity.
- Dr. John A. Schnittker, 40, the Agri-
culture Department's director of agri-
cultural economics, will take Murphy's
old job as Under Secretary. A Kansas
farm boy, Schnittker got a Ph.D. in
agricultural economics at Iowa State
University, taught at Kansas State Uni-
versity, shuttled back and forth between-
: teaching and Government service until
1961, when he joined the department
PRESIDENT ANNOUNCING NEW APPOINTEES` AT WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE
In the darlr at the top of the stairs, and downstairs too.
- William F. McKee, 58, retired Air
Force general, will become Federal
Aviation Agency administrator, replac-
ing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has
resigned and plans to write a book
called Washington Cockpit. Virginia-
born; West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is-
little known to the civilian aviation in-
dustry, but made a name for himself in
the Air Force as a management ex-
pert; he is the only' non-aviator ever to
be made a four-star Air Force general.
McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of
Staff before he retired last August to
join the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
- Warren Wiggins, 42, an associate di-
rector of the Peace Corps since it began
in 1961, was -named deputy director,
will fill the, vacancy left by Bill Moyers,
who has been on leave from the Peace
Corps as a White House special as-
sistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a dis-
tinguished twelve-year career with the
U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the
Peace Corps, has been credited by
Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shri-
ver as being "more than any other man"
responsible for making the Corps work.
Wiggins will supervise the activities of
the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and
far-flung staff, including his parents,
aged 67 and 66, who recently returned
from a two-year stint as volunteers in
Peru and now hold staff jobs at a Peace
Corps training camp in Puerto Rico. ed the original Social Security Act, he
- Donald F. Turner, 44, Harvard Law has been involved ever since in Govern-
professor, will become Assistant U.S. ment welfare programs; now is on an
Attorney General in charge of the extended leave of absence from the
antitrust division. A Phi Beta Kappa University of Michigan, where he
(Northwestern), Turner took a Ph.D. taught public welfare administration.
in economics at Harvard, earned a law In recent years he has been key man in
degree at Yale, where he met Nicholas preparing HEW's legislature program,
Katzenbach, now Attorney General. including the Medicare bill now before.
Turner was Katzenbach's personal Congress.
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 leader who is re- Government and -private industry in top Schnittker, Murphy, McKee, Cohen, Turner,
spected throughout this department." antitrust oases, Turner.has written wide- 'Meeker (and reporter
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ly on the subject, is considered an ex-
pert with a tough approach. In Anti-
trust Policy; An Economic and Legal
Analysis, a book that Turner co-au-
thored with Carl Kaysen, he suggested
that a single company that controls
more than half of its market, or any
four companies that together command
more than 80% of the market, are
monopolistic and should be required to
loosen their hold.
- Leonard Carpenter Meeker, 49, dep-
uty legal adviser in the State Depart-
ment, will move up to legal adviser. A
dedicated, little-known Government at-
torney from New Jersey, Meeker was
a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst, got his
law degree from Harvard in 1940, and,
except for four years' Army duty in
World War II, has been working for
the Government ? in Washington ever
since.
- Wilbur J. Cohen, 51, an Assistant
Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare, will become Under Secretary,
replacing a political appointee, Ivan
Nestingen, onetime mayor of Madison,
Wis., who has resigned. Cohen, who is
also from Wisconsin, was considered
too liberal by many Senators when
President Kennedy appointed him in
1961; he was confirmed by a one-vote
margin in the Senate. An assistant to
Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet Commit-
tee on Economic Security, which draft-
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 TOP RECRUITER MACY
The 25,000 are computerized.
The Talent Scout
In his first months as President, there
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
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 thePresident 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 Befes. Macy was named head ofl
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-I
ees who come under the competitive',
civil service system. But it was only last
November, when White House Person
nel Scout Ralph Dungan was appointed
Blue Books. Chicago-born John Macy
himself could well be first on the list for I
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
about 25,000 qualified names for the top
400 positions that a President may be
called upon to fill and has put the names
and basic qualifications on computer i.
punch cards. In addition, there is a fur-
ther dossier on each person, containing
information about family, recommenda-
dent's programs.
Macy turned his scouting job into a
near science. By now, he has assembled
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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-
ic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N.
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;
i
ever s
nce. i
Macy's effectiveness lies in his ability
to keep himself in the background-he?
rarely sees the press-and to perform I
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,! : >1
qualifications and shows the books to
the President for his decision. So far, j
Macy's blue books have .proved to, be'
presidential bestsellers
Ambassador to Chile, that President; T
Johnson asked Macy to take over top
level, non-civil service head-hunting du-
ties as well.
Lyndon's requirements were tough. He j
wanted men of high education and in-'
telligence, such as Phi Beta Kappas or'
Rhodes scholars, and he wanted men of 4 ^?,