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...memo landed on the desks of Commerce Department officials from Secretary Luther Hodges on down to the Weather Bureau director, the maritime administrator and the commissioner of patents. The message was pointed: "At a White House meeting of Cabinet assistants, we have been advised again that speeches of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers do not contain sufficient reference to the President and his personal interest in, and compassion with, the problems which face the nation. Liberal quotations from his speeches, past or present, should be used ... It is also to be kept in mind that, in making announcements of local...
...directive to build up Jack Kennedy's image fell into Republican hands, and the G.O.P. publication Battle Line gleefully printed it last week. Almost from that moment, the memo was memorialized as "The Klotz Botch...
...title came from the memo's author, Herbert W. Klotz, who serves as special assistant secretary to Secretary Hodges. At a recent White House meeting of Klotz and his counterparts from the other departments of Government, someone suggested that it might be a good idea for officials to give President Kennedy greater play in their speeches and announcements. Everyone else has treated the matter casually, but Herbie Klotz, filled with zeal, hurried back to his office, composed his memo, and sent it flying around the Commerce Department...
...student (sex undeterminable by typewriter printing) remarked, "Spring is here, and the Radcliffe Dorm Presidents are on the prowl with flashlight and memo pad. . . . I think this should be brought to the attention of all Harvard men so that they know the full story when their true love refuses their fondest wish...
Newest tenant of the Administration doghouse: General Arthur Trudeau, the Army's chief of research. . Last month Trudeau popped off about civilians who make military policy, was obliged to issue a public apology. Trudeau then circulated a memo, author undisclosed, which damned the U.S.'s "politically sterile" policies in the cold war, called for "developing a guerrilla warfare capability under U.S. sponsorship from refugees from Communist-dominated countries, including Cuba." The Pentagon's civilian chiefs have ordered Trudeau to keep quiet...