Nothing annoys President Johnson more than the notion that he cannot get good men to come to work for him in Washington. Last week, in his first Cabinet appointment, the President took special pains to disprove that theory: he named John T. Connor, 50, president of the multimillion-dollar drug firm, Merck & Co., as his new Secretary of Commerce to replace Luther Hodges.
Hodges, 66, a former (1954-1960) Democratic Governor of North Carolina who once showed his salesmanship by posing in his underwear to promote his state's textile industry, was in John Kennedy's original Cabinet, made his most...
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