The Administration: Name in the Game

As State Department men tell it, White House staffers play a game they call "Frontier." The first player starts off by naming a plausible shift in New Frontier personnel—like "Bundy for Rusk." The man whose turn is next must come up with a reasonable candidate for the displaced person's job—as in "Rusk for Stevenson." A player must drop out of the game if he comes up with a patently implausible shift—such as "Stevenson for McNamara." It is remarkable how often the game starts off with Secretary of State Dean Rusk as the first to be replaced.

This sort of thing...