Otherssuch as Dean Rusk and Arthur Goldbergmay have captured the headlines. But many Washingtonians are beginning to realize that the top performance by a Kennedy Cabinet officer to date has been turned in by Treasury Secretary C. (for Clarence) Douglas Dillon, 51, the Cabinet's lone Republican and the quiet man of the New Frontier.
Last week Doug Dillon, the Harvard-accented scion of Cháteau Haut-Brion,* gave a typical performance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. At issue was the restoration of a $16.9 million appropriation to hire 2,500 additional tax collectors that the House had cut from Treasury's budget. Because the Internal...
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