Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...very little research was needed (e.g., Arkansas Senator Bill Fulbright, who was already well known to Kennedy). In others (e.g., Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, whom Kennedy had never met), a complete dossier was ordered. As new possibilities surfaced, the FBI, as always, provided full security checks on each man, and Kennedy's right-hand man, Ted Sorensen, gave his imprimatur to the political background...
...Treasury post, sought his men almost exclusively in the ranks of conservative bankers. World Bank President Eugene Black, 62, was easily the most admired prospect, but after John McCloy, board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Lovett refused the lure, Kennedy decided that Republican Dillon was his man, and went after him personally. Once last week the President-elect went to the length of going secretly to Dillon's Washington home. Dillon accepted only after checking Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon to make sure they would not resent his decision...
...gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized him as one of the nation's most important citizens, a man...
...longtime Rusk admirer. So was Rusk's old boss at State, Secretary Dean Acheson; an aide reported that Acheson "couldn't be happier" about Kennedy's decision. Said Kennedy, explaining why he picked Rusk: ''He seemed to me to be the best man available...
...former associates in government service remember Rusk as a quietly dedicated man, a beaver who never tried to promote himself, who combined easygoing geniality with intellectual toughness. His ability to persuade by marshaling facts and arguments in logical array also impressed. "I don't recall that he ever had to say no to anybody," says one former colleague, "because they usually came around to his point of view...