The Administration: Back from Limbo

In the early days of the New Frontier. Chester Bowles was a conspicuous and important man—Under Secretary of State and an insider in major White House foreign policy decisions. But after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, ex-Adman Bowles aroused Kennedy's anger by telling newsmen that he had disagreed with the invasion plans. For that mixture of indiscretion and disloyalty. Kennedy dropped Bowles from his No. 2 post in the State Department and gave him a new job that was long on title—the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs—but short on authority. During his...