The most controversial man in Washington last week was settling down to work in his freshly painted, light green office in the Executive Office Building. "I'm not an institution and I'm not an agency," Maxwell Davenport Taylor told friends, as he described his brand-new job as Military Representative of the President. "I'm an individual trying to be of service to the President."
Exactly how handsome Max Taylor, a onetime Army Chief of Staff and a longtime military rebel, would serve John F. Kennedy was the subject of nervous conversation all over the Pentagon. No one thought for a moment that...
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