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...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
President Kennedy gives daughter Caroline and son Jack, Jr., exclusive right to play house on the White House Lawn. The Chicago Tribune dennounces the action as "nepotism" and quotes extensively from Woodrow Wilson's letter to his brother, refusing to appoint him postmaster of Nashville, Tenn.... Trottenberg still says the MTA will be running "any day now".... Bundy completes his reorganization of the National Security Council and announces another Harvard appointment: Carle Tucker as director of the new NSC cafeteria. Furcolo in his American column decries the selection and Bundy. "Mr. Bundy is not just a bad administrator," Furcolo writes...
Dear Old Brother. Here and there were unreservedly hostile voices. The Tampa Tribune stiffly declared that "a President doesn't appoint a member of his family to the Cabinet," and the Chicago Tribune, in an editorial entitled "Dear Old Brother of Mine," pointedly quoted Woodrow Wilson's letter refusing to appoint his brother Joseph as postmaster in Nashville, Tenn. ("It would be a very serious mistake both for you and for me"). Bobby had defenders too ("There is no doubt," said the Denver Post, "of Robert Kennedy's competence or zeal to do his job"), and even...
...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...
Citizen Kane Feeling. Clansman Dean Martin began to put out word that President-elect Kennedy was going to appoint him "Secretary of Liquor." Sammy Davis Jr., a convert to Judaism, had other ambitions: "Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'll be lucky if I get Kenya." Some of Hollywood's other post-mortems last week were turning into post toasties as many echoed the comment of Democratic Writer-Producer-Director Dore Schary: "I don't know who can stave off this rush of professional showmen into politics...