One year in office, John F. Kennedy's Cabinet had shaken down in an interesting pattern. In performance and prestige, its members fell into three groups. From top to bottom:
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara stands as the strong man of the Kennedy Cabinet. His presence is emphatically felt by the Pentagon braid; his computing-machine efficiency has won the President's high admiration.
Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon scores impressively for no-nonsense administration of his department, for a clear-eyed approach to such sticky problems as the gold flow, foreign aid, and tariff reduction; the...
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