GOING STALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160094-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: February 9, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
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AN AIR OF FATIGUE
H ffuses Washington these
ays, and not only because a
cond - hand war, and see-
0
0
nergies.
At the Cabinet level, the
my fresh spirit in town be-
ongs to the Secretary of
ealth, Education and Wel-
are, John, W. Gardner. To
e sure, two other new boys
re on the job. But Secre-
ary of Commerce John T.
onnor has not succeeded
n building, as be had hoped,
Department of the Econ-.
d-hand ar-
uments
out it, go
n and on
nd on with-
ut end. The
t in osphere
I i sterile, in
arge part
ecause of a
ant of new
, -r] nnw
ent's top . appointments, v,
here has been, as perhaps lowest level all around the frome the need for new met
ever before', movement Goverrtment: The No. 2 men
without novelty-a pouring at Agriculture, Defense, Jus- further underlined by th
of old wine into old bottles. tice, Commerce, and Health, big jobs that are going beg
Arthur Goldberg has gone Education and Welfare are ging. McGeorge rom the Supreme Court to all' officials long in Wash- made known his fortheom
he United Nations. Henry ington Who have been ing is gnatiol AssistJPre
owler from Under Sec?re- moved up a 'peg.
ary' of Treasury and a brief A particularly ?stri~Cing x National Security la
yet in sig t; an expec a-
tions are that Bundy will
probably linger past his ap-
pointed deadline of March 1.
Bill Moyers has been-
quite rightly-looking for a
way to disentangle himself
from the dull routine of
spelling out names and
reading aloud schedules
that makes up a large part
of the press secretary's job.
So far he has failed, be-
cause of inability to find a
substitute.
THE FAILURE to find
new men from the outside
world is not, as some seem
to believe, merely a matter
of personalities. The central
fact seems to be that the
Johnson Administration did
not come in, as is usually
the case, after most people
had been fed up with a pre-
vious administration. There
has not been, accordingly,
the urge to serve-the elan
born of furious disappoint-
ment with what went before.
Whatever the cause, the
effect is clear. At point aft-
er point-in Vietnam, in Lat-
in America, in civil rights,
iin transportation, in balance
of payments policies, in
foreign aid - the Adminls-
tration has been slow to
react to changing situations.
Some of its highest offi-
cials (Under Secretary of
State George Ball and AID
Administrator David Bell,
for, instance) have been
thinking about getting out.
More and in o r e, in other
Words, the Administration is
manned by tired and dispir-
ited4nen. Itis going stale.
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By Joseph Kraft
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to Secretary of the Treas- developed around the post
u r y; Nicholas Katzenbach of Assistant Secretary of
from Deputy Attorney Gen- State for Latin America.
eral to Attorney General; The Under Secretary of
Cha?rlee - Schulze from As- State for Economic Affairs,
sistant Director of the Thomas Mann, is the for-
Budget, after a few months mer Assistant Secretary for
in academia, to Director of
the Budget; Lawrence Latin America. His sucees
O'Brien from the, White sor, Jack Vaughn, has be-
House to the job of Post- come Director of the Peace
master General. Corps. And his place was
Even for the new job of taken-not by someone from
Secretary of Housing and ? the outside-but by a man
Urban Development, the who has been for the past
President, after going over five years Ambassador in
300 other names, settled for Brazil, Lincoln Gordon.
the former head of the A less important but worse
new Department's chief con- example of the same trouble
-stituent agency - Robert concerns the chief training
Weaver of the Housing and agency for American repre
Home Finance Adminis- sentatives a abroad, For.
tration. And for the abso eign
lutely vital job of Ambassa. stead of going to someone
dor in Saigon, the President familiar, with new training
picked Henry Cabot Lodge techniques, the job of direc
at odds tor is due to be filled b
rl
d f
y
orme
-a retrea
with both the American and George V. Allen, a retire
Vietnamese military. , Foreign Service officer o
the old school who recentl
THE SAME pattern re- has been active as a tobacc
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