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...their public exchange at the Senate hearings two months ago, when Fulbright responded to the Secretary's legalistic interpretation of the war by describing the North Vietnamese as "poor, confused, and ignorant people." According to Sorenson's Kennedy, President Kennedy was forced to choose Rusk over Fulbright for the Secretaryship because of objections to Fulbright's position on civil rights. Future historians may well point to the irony of the decision by which J. William Fulbright remained a Southern Senator and did not become Secretary of State, while Dean Rusk became Secretary of State and not a Southern Senator...
...Cabinet went Thomas Fraser, who as Transport Minister infuriated Britain's freewheeling motorists by proposing a 70-m.p.h. speed limit and spot-check drunkometer tests. And out of the demanding home-secretaryship went Sir Frank Soskice, 63 and ailing, who intends to retire from politics by the next general election...
Changing Economy. There is every indication that the Europeans were impressed by the man who has taken on the Treasury secretaryship at a crucial point in U.S. economic history. The office of Treasury Secretary, obviously one of Washington's most important jobs, has been held by a distinguished line of men that began with Alexander Hamilton. In Room 3330 of the Treasury's grey granite Greek-revival building, the office of the Secretary, are made decisions that stretch across the fields of defense, foreign policy, trade and aid, and that affect the pocketbooks of all Americans...
Though the Tories may not need Sir Alec now, they owe the former 14th Earl of Home, who gave up his title to become Prime Minister when Harold Macmillan stepped down, a large debt. The gaunt, gracious aristocrat was hardly a public figure when he moved from the foreign secretaryship to No. 10 Downing Street. He inherited a party embarrassed by the Profumo-Keeler scandal and racked by dissension over his own selection. After nearly 13 years in power, the Tories were visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally...
...busy doing his homework to have any time for intraparty politicking. The same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union. No Cabinet post, but a respectful parliamentary secretaryship went to Jennie Lee, 60, widow of the late Nye Bevan...