4 WHO PLAN FOREIGN POLICY... KENNEDY COOLING ON TV PRESS CONFERENCES? ... MATCHBOX BOMBS IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700080053-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: April 3, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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pollcv planners by State Department,, ing that they 404 N K d torney genera', a Republican, is ex
reprt ,?ntative. in Laos. The mili-
mrnistration, too. ~Remerke-d a h~#h : pected to run against the present New
t n , under Kennedy, feel very much ijritishet: "During the past eight York mayor, Robert Wagner, in,thc
left out when policies . >,..
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Mc?Geurgt? Bundy, Special Assistant
to the Put-sident for National Securi-
ty Affairs, is referred to. ocn. the in-
side as "Mvlac the Knife" for.the tough
way he' runs-his job.
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Policy planning in world a4'airsis
said to center at the White Ho&$e; in
Mindy; his deputy, Walt W. R'ostow;
Paul Nitze, who handles White House
liaison at. the Defense Department,
and George McGhee, head of policy
planning in the State Department.
Pi t sldent Kennedy, in his first 10
wcr);,. called only two meetings of
the National Security Council. Pr'esi-
dent Eisenhower used this top-level.
crunGil r,gt larly for policy guibancc.
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Explained a high-level official: "With
so nurny policy- makers running
,lrouri l the White House, you might
this Administration run pretty
rrluch ti; some university - presidents
-run their faculties: Let the boys fight
it .,ut. Pitting, one against another if
nr, ' '.ary. Then listen and make a
decision. Franklin Roosevelt did that
ir.,111 time to time,"
Now no policy seems to be sacrosatlC'1
. and all ideas can be considered. 1Y ou
it election. Rockefeller is reported
> tking behind tice scenes to get a
on ticket.
tee! better even if you do not get<
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way.
Mk Di Salle, bem ts`rrrtiv Gover
1 ne . rresiaent is. reported, OVA 4
~RoAgkthat Stag jr>, I"
press ? conferences are "`utl
The eight of newspaperrnet lsptng
up all over a big hall to mo'kt little
speeches and cross-examint: a Pia
dent ,is felt to-leave som
sos crisis l l ' irit
Laos the dab
tiftf> inert read it to his
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