Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Collectively, the Cabinet wound up squarely in the middle of the Democratic road-and miles from the left-side soft shoulder that sometimes seemed to be promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury), 51, and Independent Robert McNamara (Defense), 44, through Middle-Reading Abe Ribicoff (Health, Education and Welfare), 50, Labor Lawyer Arthur Goldberg (Labor), 52, to dogmatic Fair Dealer Orville Freeman (Agriculture), 42. The anchor man was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, more diplomat than Democrat, though both. The one that stirred...
...strenuous effort to draft Manhattan Banker Robert Lovett, a Republican who held down half a dozen key offices with distinction in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, failed because of his poor health, but Lovett was a prime mover in recommending Rusk and McNamara. Bobby Kennedy was the most reluctant candidate, fearing the public and political wrath over a brother act in the new Administration-but he was finally persuaded, after Jack conferred with him in an upstairs bedroom (to escape the milling crowds belowstairs) for 20 minutes, and again, after another wave of misgivings, at breakfast 36 hours later...
...considered a liberal for the 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...
Bach on the Strad. In Columbus, Ind. (pop. 20,658), Miller is a substitute Sunday school teacher at the 350-member North Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is also a Rotarian, a faithful worker in the local Chamber of Commerce, a Republican. Before Businessman Miller turned to his family enterprises, he first earned a Phi Beta Kappa key in Greek and Latin at Yale, took his master's at Oxford, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He also learned to play the violin, manages fair Bach on his Stradivarius...
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...