BAILEY'S BAILIWICK . . . WHO'S IN CHARGE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120094-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: January 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASH.CNGTON POST
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aiIey's Bailiwick,.. . Who's in.Charge?
week's news were gathered
by reporters of The Wash-
ington Post:
Connecticut Democrats are
putting increasing pressure.
on Democratic National
Chairman John M. Bailey to
give up his national post and'
e ense (Public
end he got out of hi
s car
ing headline bannered re" Affairs) Arthur Sylvester. ready to shake hands.
cently by the Eugene (Ore.) Sylvester,'most senior of the ' "He's looking for a camel
Register Guard: assistant secretaries, was driver," commented one
here and
o
ld b
w
u
e Acting press observer referring to I
"Sen. Morse Has No Word
Secretary of Defense until then Vice President John.
on U.S.-Vietnam Policy." Nitze's return, some officials son's famous invitation to a
During the last session of said. _ Pakistani camel driver in
Congress they say that prob. 1L But a written" inquiry to Karachi in 1961.
e Pentagon
as was known,
concentrate on
his home state e, to clarify the srtua?
politics in' er, or with more emotion, on otion, ffficfic produced this Ponta- - Humphrey extended no pri.
. the Vietnam issue vate invitations in Seoul
The pressure has intensi- gonese answer:
fied since Democrats in A story from New Delhi, "Secretary McNamara and Sen. Maurine Neuberger
published under the head- , Deputy Secretary Vance (D:Ore.), who in private life
H a r t f o r d, Bailey's home line, quoted Morse as in. are in constant touch with is Mrs. Philip Solomon, is
town, lost control of the City forming a delegation of stu- each other and the various enti enti irely ne l y new embar vocation n wlaan
Council to a coalition of dents:
ett
' They will four Republicans and three "My Ambassador speaks departments a n d services. she retires from the Senate
at the close of this a what
dissident Democrats w h o for me when I am abr ad." form their c functionso from She tells friends that t w
charged that Bailey denied,
them patronage. State party ,- With Pentagon chiefs 'their respective locations she really would like to do,
leaders also were urging scattered over the globe similar to the method used more than anything else, is
'Bailey to come home for over the New Year's week- by the President when lie teach political science. After
Gov. John N. Dempsey's re- end, the question arose as Is away from Washington. 15 years in state and national
election campaign. to who tending the store Those Defense Department politics few political pros
Bailey has been state party as Acting Secretary of De- '.officials who are, in the know more about it.
chairman since 1946 and Na- fense. area will continue to func- Dr. and Mrs. Solomon will
tional Chairman since Janu- Defense Secretary Robert tion within their areas of make their home in Newton
1961. S. McNamara flew to Aspen, responsibility." Center, a suburb of Boston
Colo., Friday afternoon. to When Vice President Hum? and right in the- middle of
Another change is Impend-' resume his skiing vacation. phrey arrived in Seoul, the Ivy League collegiate
-ing at the Central Intelli- Deputy Secretary Cyrus R. South Korea; over the week- complex.
aene~ .Annn,v Rw rr *-----
who has held the top post - ing in Florida, / due ? to re
on the intelligent' side of turn late Sunday. Army
!CIA, is expected to return. 'Secretary Stanley R. Resor
to in overseas post. Agency and. Air Force Secretary ;
f officials say it would he a - Harold Brown were in Viet.
normal change after four nam.
years here and that it has Navy Secretary Paul N)tze,
nothing to do with the much high on the list of succcs-
r u in o r e d dissatisfaction sion, was in New York, but
within CIA ' and the Admin- - - returned New Year's Eve. i
istration at the performance - Next in line, Director of
of Adm. William F. Raborn, Defense Research and - En-
e new CIA chief. gineering John Foster, was
"'Senate colleagues of Sen. In Puerto Rico. Next in line
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) got -to him was Assistant. See-.
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