Stimulate & Vaccinate

Last week two Eisenhower Administration officials got new jobs: P: Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 46, became the President's special assistant in the field of foreign policy, succeeding C. D. Jackson, who resigned last spring to resume his vice-presidency of Time, Inc., and is now serving as U.S. representative to the U.N. Rockefeller will attend meetings of the Cabinet, the National Security Council, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy and the Operations Coordinating Board (the Government's nerve center for propaganda activities). The new high-level brain-truster has long followed the policy that his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., laid down for philanthropic works: "Don't coddle; stimulate." At 32, Nelson went to President F. D. Roosevelt to persuade him of the need for economic and cultural development of Latin America in order to deter south-of-the-border flirtations with Naziism and fascism.

F.D.R. made him Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Later, he served briefly as Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. After World War II, Rockefeller set up, largely with his own and his brothers' money, two private organizations to stimulate Latin America, one for technical assistance, the other to supply venture capital (mostly for agricultural enterprises). These operations served as pilot plants for the Point Four program. Having helped Ike and HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby reorganize the Government's newest Cabinet department, Rockefeller was ready for a broader assignment. Ike gave it to him, directing him to help the U.S. "seek to join with all peoples in a common effort to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity." In his new job, Nelson Rockefeller will have plenty to stimulate.

P: Joseph Campbell, 54, recently Atomic Energy commissioner, became Comptroller General of the U.S., under a recess appointment pending Senate confirmation. For the post of Congress' watchdog over executive spending, Certified Public Accountant Campbell has high professional credentials. As Columbia University's assistant treasurer, he negotiated $50 million worth of wartime Government contracts (for atomic research, midshipman training, etc.). In 1949, under Columbia President Dwight Eisenhower, he was made university treasurer, and last year Ike appointed Campbell to the AEC. Campbell's confirmation as comptroller is in doubt. For eight months House and Senate Republicans have stalemated each other on the issue of which should recommend a successor to retired Comptroller General Lindsay Warren. To break the deadlock, the President named his own man. This pleases neither House nor Senate. In addition, some congressional Democrats are angry at Campbell for his support of the Dixon-Yates power contract. Last week, after the new Comptroller General was sworn in, Ike shook Joe Campbell's hand and chuckled: "I hope it takes."

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