The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-12-13


ming to take shape.
While the new President is re
tanning his late predecessors
Cabinet and White House staff
for the time being. thu first
steps are being taken loolli-g to-
ward important changes in 18th.
Intimates of Johnson are indi-
eating that the pool meaning
White House staff will be en-
tirely recast by next June.
Three major posts top the list
Of the first significant charges
under contemplation, as follows:
Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy to be replaced by Deputy
Attorney General Nicholas deb.
KatZenbach after Congress
has disposed of the torrid We'll
rights issue, not earlier than
spring.
Abe FOrtas. underSecretary Of
Interior in the Truman admins
tration and until last week at
torney for Bobby" Baker. one
time Senate secretary now I'M
der investigation on sensational
charges. to succeed Theodore
SorenSen as special counsel to
johnson.
Phillip .Jessup, member Of the
World Court at The Hague, or
career diploma Llewellyn
Thompson. former ambassador
to Moscow and now special So
Wet adviser to Secretary Rusk,
to replace McGeorge Bundy as
foreign affairs adviser to the
President.
Katzenbach is as highly re-
garded by johnson as by Presi-
dent Kennedy. Tall. Al. former
Yale law professor and World
War II bomber navigator. Kat
zenbach is rated as "the law
yer" of the Justice Department
and its real administrator. At
torney General Kennedy ha S
been chiefly occupied with poll
cy and other activities, including
foreign affairs and domestic
politics. ~
Fortas was among the first
summoned by the new President
when he took office. Fortas as
sisted johnson in preparing his
first official address to the joint
session Of Congress.
Jessup. Sc. has an extensive
legal and diplomatic career. Ap-
pointed to the World Court in
1861. he served as a U. S. dele
gate to the United Nations and
was ambassador at-large from
l949 to 1858. While in the State
Department, he came UNI r
sharp congressional fire and his
selection as special foreign af-
fairs adviser to the President
would be certain to arouse con-
troversy.
Former Secretary Dean Ache
son is credited as Jessup's chief
hacker. Acheson has long had
close ties with the President.
Secretary Rusk is understood
to strongly favor Ambassador
Thompson.
ASSASSINATION PROBER NV
j. Lee Rankin. solicitor general
and later deputy attorney gen.
eral in the Eisenhower admins
tration, tops the list of POSSIBLE
ties as general counsel Of the
special commission investigating
the Staying Of President Ken
needy.
| Rankin. IS. now practices law
in New York and Lincoln. Neb.
Chief Justice Earl Warren's
first choice for this key post was
Warren Olney, one-time assis-
tant Of Warren when he was
Governor of California. Olney,
assistant attorney general in
charge Of the Criminal Division
in the Eisenhower admimistra-
ton, is now director Of the Ad-
ministrauve Office of U. S.
Courts. with headquarters in the
Supreme Court Building.
/ Several members Of the spc-
cial commission indicated objec-
tons to Olnty. and Warren with
drew his name.
| CASTRO GUEST - Herbert
Matthews. veteran staff writer
OF The New York Times, is back
i'll Cuba again. According to in
telligence. he has been there
since early last month, flying by
way Of Mexico.
| Matthews has had at least one
meeting with dictator Fidel Cas-
tro. Also present was Faustin
Perez. who arranged Matthews
visit to Castro in a mountain
hide-out IT, 1857 when he was
/ fighting the Batista regime,
Matthews wrote series Of ar
ticles about Casters operations
! These stories. widely repub-
hshed, were extremely helpful in
pubhcZing Castro's revolt.
| Robert Hill, former U. S. Am.
baSsador tn Mexico, testifylne
before the Senate Internal Sc.
curltv Subcommittee in 1861. de
clared. Matthews has always
been an enthusiastic supporter
Of Eide! Castro.