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These Are The Men On Nixon’s Cabinet Team
WASHINGTON (UPD-Here
are thumbnail sketches of the
members of President-elect
Richard M. Nixon's cabinet:
Secretary of State: William P.
Rogers, 55—attorney general
during the second term of the
Eisenhower adm inistratlon;
long-time close friend and
confidant of Nixon, senior
partner, Washington—New York
law firm of Royall, Koegel,
Rogers and Wells; little exper
ience in foreign affairs; youth
ful-looking and sophisticated; he
and his wife—also a lawyer
have four grown children.
Defense Secretary: Rep. Mel
vin R. Laird of Wisconsin, 46—
consummate politician who built
a vast store of knowledge about
the Pentagon’s workings during
16 years in the House; a
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John A. Volpe
balding, youthful-looking; ad
vised Nixon on defense and
Vietnam during the campaign;
chairman of the House Republi
can Conference (caucus); ori
ginally a “hawk” on Vietnam.
Treasury Secretary: David M.
Kennedy, 63 board chairman of
Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Co., Chicago;
former lawyer; a Mormon; rose
in Federal Reserve System to
special assistant to former
chairman Marrlner Eccles;
assistant to former Treasury
Secretary George Humphrey in
Eisenhower administration; pri
vate banking serves in 30 civic
and service groups.
Attorney General—John N.
Mitchell, 55—Nixon’s law partner
It's Off To School For Them
By EUGENE V. RISIIER
WASHINGTON (UPD—Rich
ard M. Nixon, confidently proud
of his “cabinet with a new
dimension,” sent its members
off to school today for eight
hours of briefings on the foreign
and domestic problems they will
inherit Jan. 20.
The president-elect also or
dered the cabinet wives to
attend the sessions, saying that
“I want them to be there on the
take-off. That may avoid a
crash landing later.”
The lectures, conducted by
the experts who will serve on
Nixon’s White House staff,
concerned foreign policy, econ-
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I manager this year; Nixon
considers him tough-minded,
• analytical: one of his junior
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John F. Kennedy; made a '
! reputation as a legal specialist
I in state and municipal bonds.
Secretary of Health, Educa-1
, tion and Welfare: Robert H. i
( Finch, 43—Nixon friend; lleuten-1
. ant governor of California; !
managed Nixon’s 1960 bid for
, the presidency, and was a key
1 campaign adviser this year;
tall, ruggedly handsome former
. Marine; outpolled Gov. Ronald
Reagan and every other Repub
lican in a partisan race in 1966.
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development: George
omic issues, politics, public
relations and other sticky ;
problems President Johnson will ’
pass along to his Republican ■
successor.
Nixon chose the Shoreham
Hotel and a half-hour of prime ,
broadcast time to formally ,
present to the nation the men
who will help him in his avowed (
aim of putting government on a ,
more businesslike basis and
charting a long-range foreign
policy designed to prevent
recurrent crises.
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No Surprises
There were no surprises. The i
two big posts went to former i
Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers, i
Robert H. Finch
Romney, 61—governor of Miclii-
Igan; short-time aspirant for
GOP presidential nomination
! this year; vigorous, white
( haired neither drinks nor
(smokes; a Morman; succeeded
I in bailing both American Motors
Corp., of which he was
president, and the state of
(Michigan out of financial
| trouble.
Labor Secretary: George P.
| Shult, 48—dean of graduate
(business school, University of
Chicago; seasoned arbitrator
Elsenhower and Kennedy admi
nistrations; opposes government
intervention in labor disputes.
Transportation Secretary:
John A. Volpe, 60—Massa
chusetts governor; rose from
hod carrier to wealthy construc-
•who will succeed Dean Rusk as
Secretary of State, and Rep.
Melvin Laird of Wisconsin who
will take over the Pentagon
from Clark Clifford.
There were three governors,
two businessmen, two members
of the academic community,
two Nixon campaign aides, one
congressman and two members
of the former Elsenhower
administration. It also was an
all-Republican group.
But Ron Ziegler, Nixon’s
press spokesman, said the
president-elect would soon name
a Democrat as ambassador to
the United Nations, a post most
often mentioned in connection
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Melvin Laird
tion contractor; son of Italian ’
immigrants; tapped by former
i President Eisenhower to be first
federal highway administration
■ in 1956; reform minded gover
nor; once was considered as
. Nixon’s vice presidential run
ning mate.
Interior Secretary: Walter J.
Hickel, 49—Alaska governor;
Anchorage hotel owner and
contractor; Nixon’s cochairman
for the western states, which >
went heavily for the president- (
elect; former Golden Gloves
boxing champion in his native (
, Kansas; father of five sons.
Commerce Secretary; Mau
rice Stans, 60—New York ■
investment banker; exhibited
conservative views and atten-(
tion to detail; Eisenhower’s ■
I with Sargent Shriver, a Kenne-!
;dv brother-in-law now serving
I as U.S. ambassador to France.
The new cabinet also included
no women, no Negroes and no
one under 43. But Nixon said
that in all 12 men he had
discerned that “extra dimension
which is the difference between
good leadership and great
leadership.” And he said the
nation needed great leadership.
Nixon’s choices won prompt
praise from congressional lead
ers, including the men in a |
position to cause them the most i
headaches — the Democratic |
chairmen of the House and I
Senate committees which have '
jurisdiction over their depart-1
ments.
Senate Praise
Sen. J. William Fulbright. D-:
Ark., chairman of the senate I
foreign relations committee and I
a sharp critic of Rusk’s Far I
East policies, said he had “the I
highest regard” for Rogers. (
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-
Wash., who turned down the!
defense job, praised Laird.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D- j
Ga., the senior Democratic I
senator who will head the (
powerful Senate Appropriations |
Committee next year, said all of (
Nixon’s selections were “men of \
outstanding ability and unques- j
tioned devotion to our country.” (
Nixon, whose decision to •
announce his cabinet all at once I
was unprecedented In modern |
political history, took the (
occasion to give special praise i
to Secretary Rusk, whose (
policies the president-elect shar- ’
ply criticized during the cam- (
paign.
Despite these differences,
Nixon said, Rusk is winding up
eight years in one of the most
difficult jobs In government. He
said he had only the highest
respect for the secretary’s
“quiet dignity and confidence”
in grappling with the nation’s
foreign policy problems.
Hosted by Rusk
Rusk will be host at a
reception following to d a y’s
briefings at which members of
the Nixon cabinet will meet
their Democratic counterparts
and get a preliminary personal
fill-in on some of the problems
they will face.
Nixon, his wife and daughter,
will visit the Johnsons at the
White House at about 5 p.m.,
their second such visit since the
election.
The television program was
the first time Nixon had met
jointly with all his cabinet,
although he had talked with
each personally before selecting
them. Most were men he had
known for years.
Only once did Nixon slip—
when he failed to mention the
i name of Maurice Stans, his
! Secretary of Commerce, as he
outlined the process of selecting
him.
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budget director; fund-raiser for
Nixon campaign; accomplished
big game hunter.
Postmaster General: Winton
M. Blount, 47—president of the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
head of multimillion-dollar con
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Winton Blount
Ala.; led volunteers for Nixon-
Lodge in eight southeastern
states in 1960; called publicly
for law and order in the south
when 1964 civil rights act was
passed.
Agriculture Secretary: Clif
ford M. Hardin, 53—suave, cool-
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who favors pipes; University of
Nebraska chancellor; raised on
a farm near Knightstown, Ind.,
and attended college on a 4-H
scholarship; joined the faculty
at Michigan State University in
1944; went to Nebraska in 1954.