Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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...
Respect for Complexity. In part, the State Department's enthusiasm for its new boss-to-be stems from its awareness of the professional seasoning he accumulated in the Truman years. "He'll be able to take up his work the first day here, just as if he were walking from one office into another." predicts an old State Department colleague of Rusk's. But the enthusiasm also reflects a respect for the qualities of mind and character that Dean Rusk showed at State...
Though a Wilsonian and Rooseveltian Democrat, Bowles was an early member of the isolationist America First Committee, as were many other New Dealers. His eagerness for public service got him at length into Washington, where he was F.D.R.'s price administrator and Truman's boss of the Office of Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest...
...Once convicted of manslaughter and five times arrested on suspicion of murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
...went according to Jack Kennedy's plan. He very much wanted able New York Banker Robert Lovett, 65, in a key spot. One of Henry Stimson's and George Marshall's top men in the '40s, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, Republican Bob Lovett is experienced and respected. One Kennedy staffer said that he wished there were three Lovetts, so that one each could be Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State. But Lovett has had a serious stomach operation, and regretfully turned down a Cabinet post...