Who for the Cabinet?

At his press conference, President-elect Kennedy was mum about which men he would pick for his Cabinet. That would have to wait, he said, until after his Thanksgiving weekend conference with President Eisenhower. The making of dream Cabinets spun on, nevertheless, and expert guesses from Washington centered on these names and posts:

Secretary of State: A spectrum of possibilities including World Bank President Eugene Black, an Atlanta-born independent; David K. E. Bruce, Maryland Democrat and former Ambassador to West Germany; and--last and apparently least probable--three Kennedy foreign-policy advisers: Arkansas Senator William Fulbright; Adlai Stevenson; and Connecticut's Chester Bowles, who resigned from Congress to help out in the campaign.*

Treasury: World Bank President Black; Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman (and former High Commissioner of Germany) John J. McCloy, a Republican; Republican Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon; Chairman Henry Alexander of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., a Republican.

Defense: Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Truman Air Force Secretary, who has been working up a Defense Department reorganization plan; Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; General Dynamics Chairman (and former Truman Army Secretary) Frank Pace. Pundit Joe Alsop predicted the picking of Byron ("Whizzer") White, Denver lawyer, All-America football star and national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy.

Agriculture: Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman; South Dakota's ex-Congressman George McGovern; Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson.

Commerce: Retiring Governor Luther Hodges of North Carolina.

Health, Education and Welfare: Michigan's retiring Governor "Soapy" Williams.

Attorney General: Connecticut's Governor Abe Ribicoff (en route to the Supreme Court, which he is said to long for); Whizzer White.

Labor: Oregon's Congresswoman Edith Green; New York's Mayor Robert Wagner; New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson; United Steelworkers' Counsel Arthur Goldberg.

Postmaster General: Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey; Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson.

Interior: Arizona's promising Congressman Stewart Udall, or any one of half a dozen Western Democratic Governors.

* And called for an appeasing "two-China" policy for the U.S.--"That is, an independent Formosa and an independent China"--in an interview played in London last week and taped last May.

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