Rusk Wins by 4 toLve Salinger Joins O'Donnell, O'Brien, Sorensen In Saying JFK Intended to Keep Secretary By Roscoe Drummond not far behind. If they ever did not reflect his total view write their own projected of us." IT NOW STANDS 4-to-1 book, it will reject the view From my own knowledge, I can report that on more than among his close aides that that Rusk was on the way President Kennedy was not one occasion President out. Eisenhower was "upset" by going to dismiss Dean Rusk Another senior Member of Secretary of State John Fos- as Secretary of State. the team, Theodore C. ter Dulles and his anger You may recall that "A Sorensen, who could think would at times go up like a Thousand Days" by White roman candle. But that didn't like Kennedy as well as House insider Arthur Schles- mean that Gen. Eisenhower write like him, has already was thinking of removing inger Jr. made front-page put his information on the headlines around the world record. In his book, "Kenne- Rusk is probably closer to by reporting that the Presi- President Johnson than he dy", Sorenson wrote that "at dent had decided to get was to President Kennedy no time, press reports to the rid of Rusk at the first good and the last thing LBJ wants contrary, did the President Is to lose him. opportunity. Schlesinger stat- regret having selected" Rusk qi) 1966, Publishers Newspaper Syndicate ed that the embarrassment as Secretary of State of having to admit he had And now comes the further made the wrong appoint- word of President Kennedy's ment In the first place kept press secretary, Pierre JFK from firing Rusk. Salinger, who, in his book, The evidence that Prof. "With Kennedy," puts it on Schlesinger either misheard, misunderstood or mis-report- the record that "not once did ed Mr. Kennedy's views is I ever hear JFK express any accumulating( steadily. lack of confidence in Rusk, Because Dean Rusk re- much less a desire to remove mains as Secretary of State 'him from the Cabinet." and because hit credentials "He (the President) did,, on in many capitals were im- occasion, express the wish," paired when it was stated so Salinger writes, "that Rusk authoritatively that he had would be more forceful in lost the confidence of the presenting his own views, President who appointed but the criticism was not him, it is well to have the quantitative. JFK was fre- record set straight. quently upset with many of his appointees, including me, PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S but his anger at the moment two closest associates, Ken- neth P. O'Donnell and Law- rence F. O'Brien, do not sup- port the Schlesinger view. Among all the White House staff of those years, O'Don- nell was the closest to. JFK, saw him more than any other aide and probably was the most influential. O'Brien was