People: Apr. 14, 1961

Someone was in the Kitchen Cabinet with Bundy. Widely reported as having written off the Administration's early accomplishments—"At this point, we are like the Harlem Globetrotters, passing forward, behind, sideways and underneath. But nobody has made a basket yet"-White House Aide McGeorge Bundy blew the whistle last week. Explaining that he had just been fending off compliments to the Kennedy Administration, had quoted Cambridge-Washington Colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (who had in turn borrowed the gag from Capital Attorney Paul A. Porter), Harvard's ex-faculty dean hustled out his own scorecard: "My position is that...

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