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With less than two months left before the end of the Great Crusade and the opening of the New Frontier, the Kennedy Administration last week began to take shape. Announcing four key appointments and nearing final decisions on several others, President-elect Kennedy, by the nature of his selections, indicated that his Administration will be generally moderate, eschewing the radicalism of the 1960 Democratic platform. Named by Kennedy to high Government posts: North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges as Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Harvard Economist David...
President-elect Kennedy's first top-level appointees...
Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...
Figures close to President-elect Kennedy are also said to have expressed interest in the Harvard project, and are reported to have asked for results of the poll...
...Orleans once again shows the nation (and the all to smug North) how dirty America's house really is. The situation should teach the President-elect the truth of what he has said: that the moral force of the Presidency must be enlisted behind the law as expressed in the Supreme Court decisions on desegregation. But what is most remarkable about New Orleans is how faintly the American message, which so many try to hard to export, has been heard at home...