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...responsibility. A few days later, Kennedy took complete responsibility for the Bay of Pigs-and the planes were revealed to be U.S. bombers that had been disguised, with little flair for the art, by the CIA. Deeply hurt, Stevenson was finally soothed with promises of better future liaison...
...State Rusk through his old friend Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. But he is often on the direct line to Kennedy from his U.N. mission headquarters or from his Waldorf Tower suite. He consults constantly with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. a White House liaison man and an old Stevenson speechwriter who, however, switched allegiance to Kennedy in early 1960. At least once a week Stevenson flies to Washington to attend State Department meetings or meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council...
Republic of Engineers. Another close confidant of De Gaulle is Olivier Guichard, 42, who was Pompidou's administrative assistant before he caught the President's eye. A baron who maintains informal liaison with the left wing, Guichard is De Gaulle's traveling companion, troubleshooter and one-man intelligence network...
...soldier's contempt for politicians, would not dream of letting them ruin his work with their "parliamentary impotency." In addition to a popularly elected President, who will be chosen in March to a four-year term, the new constitution provides for a Premier whose role is limited to liaison man be tween the President and a unicameral legislature of 150 to 200 members who will have no veto powers over the executive. The President, on the other hand, is given enough power to make Charles de Gaulle look like a front man. Foremost candidate for the job: Park Chung...
...least of all President Kennedy, was trying to con the press. His two chief press liaison officers were working overtime, by direct presidential order, to keep reporters thoroughly informed. Arthur Sylvester, 61, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and a former newsman himself (37 years on the Newark Evening News), had the experience to understand and soothe press corps complaints about Government news control. Patient and cooperative, Sylvester was holding three press conferences a day to see that newsmen got every bit of intelligence they were entitled to. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger rushed White House bulletins...