New Man in Town:

...The Soviet state, which John Foster Dulles confidently expected to blow up any time from internal combustion, has grown strong and relatively secure in the last decade...

...Curiously, the best assurance he received, and that, indirectly, was from James J. Wadsworth, who succeeded Henry Cahot Lodge at the United Nations and was the Eisenhower Administration's chief negotiator with the Russians at the Geneva test-ban talks...

...This world, so different from the pink cloud where Dwight D. Eisenhower and the American people floated blissfully for eight years, exists today because: • The nuclear arms race, which no longer involves only the United States and the Soviet Union, may veer out of control at almost any moment...

...So is, the Swiss Guard and the Foreign Legion, the Red Army, the United States Marines, the Free Stete Army...

...Wadsworth told a New York press conference, "I think generally, by and large, that the Russian Government has every intention of living up to any agreement it may make from the standpoint of nuclear tests or the larger areas of disarmament...

...John Kennedy's job, as he sees it, is primarily conservation...

...He sees reform and change as the only alternative to chaos, world war, revolution and anarchy...

...The world must be saved from its own destruction...

...Premier Khrushchev was so anxious to resume talks with...

...But, perhaps, the use of massive force can be outlawed...

...This he has accomplished to an extraordinary degree by the selection of his official family...

...it is our rival militarily and politically, and may soon challenge us economically...

...he has a zest for the challenge of trial...

...Sorenson never completely joins any group or conversation, but seems to be weighing in his mind, "How will this help Jack...

...The intellectuals are expected to produce exciting, creative ideas...

...Now Formosa is almost entirely dependent on U.S...

...magnanimously placed the name of the new Secretary of Labor in nomination...

...The President will break several new trails in foreign policy, away from the well-traveled ruts worn by the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations: • The United States will operate more through the United Nations, the regional defense pacts, and the Organization of American States, and less by unilateral plunges...

...He is McGeorge Bundy, until a few days ago Dean of Harvard's 1,000-man Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a foreign policy advisor to Governor Thomas Dewey in 1948...

...The politicians will file the jagged edges off so they will not tear gashes in public opinion...

...economic and military support...

...Bobby only wants to know, 'How many votes will this bring Jack?' and he is already thinking ahead to 1964...

...He regards the ultra-Tory as a fool for not being able to see how limited is the choice...

...its burdens hang heavily on the economy and the individual liberties of men...

...indeed, it is a stimulus...

...He must first of all draw the nation skillfully behind him and calm the fears of millions who voted...

...As a result, across the country one hears remarks such as, "I didn't vote for him, but I think Kennedy may be the best man, after all...

...The politician the President looks to is his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy...

...Bobby, too, is a genius at organization and at digging up buried bones...

...The returns showed plainly that the American people did not understand the dangers ahead and were not eager to jump into the rigors of the New Frontier...

...I'm nervous of it...

...He speaks of "the long twilight struggle...

...the Washington Government, he all but put a full-page ad in the New York Times...

...But the professional who will work most closely with the President is almost unknown to Washington...

...Bundy once remarked, "You can't possibly understand American foreign policy without having read Henry IV " In the end, however, it will be John Kennedy who will make the great decisions...

...He talked extensively with his own crew of Russian scholars and with Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, George Kennan and Adlai Stevenson...

...This means a constant birth and conflict within the Administration, a system which the President by temperament and training approves...

...In the same decade, United States prestige—never higher than at the close of World War II— began to collapse slowly like a tire losing air...

...A character, Monsewer, is asked what is so different from the old days, and he replies: "The H-bomb...

...He told the British Ambassador in Moscow, for one, that he would like to meet Kennedy informally at a heads of state meeting at the United Nations in March or April...

...And, being an old sailor who loves the feel of wind filling out canvas, he knows that storms pass...

...The more the President-elect pondered, the more questions he asked, the more one thought became clear: The cold war not only threatens to sweep the world with disaster...

...He is a cooly pragmatic young man, and was a leading spirit in the small but influential band of liberal Senatorial assistants...

...This intense loyalty and the way he examines men and ideas with an almost infuriating thoroughness tends to make him somewhat cautious...

...His stirring line, "If we cannot help the many who are poor, we cannot help the few who are rich," will underline the philosophy of foreign aid...

...Kennedy made a deliberate decision as he walked the sands of Cape Cod after his election...

...The intellectual closest to the President is his chief counsel, Ted Sorenson, Kennedy's chief collaborator for the past several years...

...against him...

...He believes this is necessary for a vital government...

...A new industrial revolution, automation, is stirring up problems to batter an economy already weakened by the second of two Eisenhower recessions, the flow of gold from the United States, and 5.5 million unemployed...

...Kennedy went out of his way to make friends with Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower and had as his guest in Florida Billy Graham, who was a symbol of the tight-lipped Protestant opposition to a Catholic President...

...Last ditch opposition to the admission of Communist China to the United Nations will be quietly dropped, and a new formula may be sought to gain international backing for a free Formosa...

...The revolutions against the old order in Asia, Africa and Latin America have caught the United States on the wrong side and are creating an immense world-wide instability...

...From diplomatic and intelligence channels, Kennedy heard reports that the Soviet Union was concerned over the prospect of war wiping out all trace of the material progress of the past 10 years...

...The IRA is out of date and so is the RAF...

...So, in his Inaugural Address, he asked the adversaries to join in a "quest for peace" and find "a beachhead of cooperation...

...As special assistant to the President for national security affairs, he will coordinate foreign policy, defense and intelligence matters for Kennedy...

...Yet, he can move swiftly and easily if he believes an idea will help Kennedy...

...Kennedy is first of all a realist...

...It was like a line from Brendan Behan's play, The Hostage...

...Kennedy has no illusion that the struggle between the humanists and the Communists can end in his lifetime...

...Bobby is utterly and completely loyal to his brother, and would jump off the Washington Monument or cut a man's throat if he thought it would help Jack...

...Secretary of State Dean Rusk is the ideal of the professional public servant: quiet, competent, open minded, familiar with the inner workings of government...

...It's such a big bomb it's after making me scared of little bombs...

...The professionals will bend them into place so they will fit into the complex machinery of government...

...Like Winston Churchill, he is a conservative in the best British tradition...

...At the Senate committee hearings on his choices, Republicans were almost as complimentary as the Democrats, and Senator Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz...

...The Western humanist philosophy, with its accent on the freedom and welfare of the individual, and a free economy, must be preserved...

...He has a quiet but deeply flowing confidence that he—of all men—is the best qualified to lead the United States out of the dangers that now threaten it on so many sides...

...The President-elect had to satisfy himself that the Russians wanted an armistice in the military phase of the cold war, and would keep agreements on disarmament and a nuclear test ban...

...The rule of thumb policy of "no bases, no dollars" will be radically altered to respect neutral nations and develop the potential of underdeveloped nations...

...To help him carry out reforms not only in foreign but in domestic policy, Kennedy has chosen a careful synthesis of himself—the intellectual, the politician, the professional public servant...

...He leads a crew of tough, young, energetic Irish politicians who, in the words of one observer, "don't give a bloody damn about philosophy, logic or altruism...