Who's Newly Who

The Cuba disaster brought a lot of shifts, some subtle and some drastic, in the new New Frontier pecking order. Among the major ups and downs:

Attorney General Bobby Kennedy: way, way up--to a position ranking second only to Big Brother.

Ted Sorensen, the President's longtime administrative assistant and specialist in domestic politics and policies: up a lot as a dedicated doubter who will now be turning his doubts on State Department and Pentagon careermen.

Dean Rusk, Secretary of State: up, because he voiced advance doubts about the success of the Cuba expedition--and refrained afterward from reminding his teammates that he had been right.

Roswell Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Paul H. Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs: up a bit because they are the cool, brainy, tough-minded types who seem all the more valuable after the Bay of Pigs calamity.

Allen Dulles, head of CIA: down in an ambiguous way. His standing as an intelligence chief inevitably dropped, but his standing as a man went up because he did not try to shift blame from himself (in the Eisenhower Administration, Allen Dulles also had offered himself up as a political scapegoat during the U-2 affair).

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow, presidential assistants assigned to foreign policy thinking: down a bit because they showed too little skepticism toward CIA and Pentagon assumptions; furthermore, their authority inevitably suffers some dilution from the entry of Bobby Kennedy and Ted Sorensen into the cold war field.

Adolf Berle, chairman of the President's task force on Latin America: down a little.

Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior: down because he embarrassed the President by publicly hollering that the Eisenhower Administration was really to blame for it all.

Lyman L Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: down a lot.

Richard Bissell Jr., deputy CIA chief and the man in charge of CIA's Cuba operation: way down.

Chester Bowles, Under Secretary of State: way, way down because he tried to protect his own reputation by assiduously leaking to newsmen that he was against the Cuban invasion all along.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.