National Affairs: Appointments

From the White House last week came announcements of still more Administration appointments. Among them:

Arthur M. (for Meier) Schlesinger Jr., Special Assistant to the President. Harvard history professor and prolific author of articles and books (The Age of Jackson, The Age of Roosevelt), Schlesinger is a Ph.D. in doctrinaire liberalism. A leader of Americans for Democratic Action, he was Adlai Stevenson's adviser and speechwriter in 1952 and 1956, swung away in 1960 when it looked as if Kennedy would be the front runner in the presidential primary campaigns. He was a top man...

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