Nation: How to Make Mincemeat

The Kennedy Administration's ballooning advisory corps continued to draw criticism, and some of the most withering words of all came last week from a man with all the credentials for being a White House insider. Hans J. Morgenthau* is director of the University of Chicago Center for the study of American Foreign and Military Policy and a onetime (1949-51) State Department adviser in the Truman Administration. Wrote he in the liberal New Leader:

"President Kennedy has done away with the committee system of governing, and has surrounded himself with a number of individual advisers, in different degrees brilliant, knowledgeable and experienced....

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