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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kennedy to high Government posts: North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges as Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Harvard Economist David E. Bell as Budget Director, and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs...
...appointment giving Kennedy the most trouble was the most important one of all: Secretary of State. One by one Kennedy ran down a list of eligibles, rejecting them for various reasons. By week's end his strongest preference was for Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, 55, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...
...some Kennedy advisers, that fact alone was enough to eliminate Fulbright from consideration. (Said one: "We can't have a Secretary of State from Little Rock.") But as the moment of decision neared, Jack Kennedy still thought that Fulbright's talents outweighed his drawbacks-and that all the other top contenders also had drawbacks. He went off to Florida, still open to argument, still showing a strong inclination for making up his own mind...
...hard for the ticket in politically touchy North Carolina; he is trusted by the South; and he is respected and liked by the U.S. business community. An old pro with young ideas, Hodges is the Methodist son of a dirt-poor tenant farmer. He worked his way through the state university at Chapel Hill, spent 17 years with the Marshall Field & Co. textile empire. where he became a vice president, before taking his first political step in 1952. Then, on a friend's advice, he ran for lieutenant governor, won with surprising ease. Two years later, Governor William Umstead...