PRESIDENT NAMES HIS 16 ADVISERS ACHESON AND DULLES AMONG HIS 16 CONSULTANTS

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• Publication Date: September 10, 1964
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PRESIDENT NAMES,
HIS 16 ADVISERS
Acheson and Dulles Among
His 16 Consultants
By ROBERT B. SEMPLE tr.
special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9
today that he had named 16
distinguished citizens to consult
with him in the coming months
on major international prob-
lems.
The group includes Dean
Acheson, who was Secretary of
State under President Harry S.
Truman; Allen W. Dulles, for-
mer director of Central Intelli-
gence, and Eugene R. Black,
former president of the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development and now
special financial consultant to
U Thant, Secretary General of
the United Nations.
The President said at' his
news conference that members
of the panel "will be consulted
in matters where the advice of
highly qualified and expe-
rienced men in public life may
be helpful In ' finding effective
courses of action in the quest
tor of the World Rule of Law
Center at Duke University, who
served as an adviser to Presiden
Dwight D. Eisenhower and as
director of the United States
Information Agency.
Mr. Johnson said the other
members would be Arthur H.
former disarmament negotiator
John Cowles, president of The
Minneapolis Star-and Tribune;
Morris Liebman, a Chicago law-
yer; Teodoro Moscoso, former
coordinator of the Alliance for
Progress` Gen Omar Bradley
able not only to the President
but also to the Secretary of.De-
fense and the. Secretary of
State.
The President said that he
James A. Perkins, president of had conferred with Secretary of
Cornell University and former State Dean Rusk and Secretary
vice president of the Carnegie of Defense Robert S. McNamara
Corporation; and Robert A. "in some detail about the.
Lovett, former Secretary of membership of the panel ? and
Defense. that he had informed Congres
Also, James Wadsworth, for-sional leaders of the plan.
mer United States representa-I In explaining the formation
tive at the United Nations and of the group, Mr. Johnson said
that while its members had at
one time or another served him
former director of the foreignI informally in the past, it.seemed
aid program and now manag to him "useful and Important to
ing director of the United Na-'re-emphasize the role,of leading
tions Special Fund; George B
Kistiakowsky, professor o private citizens, without regard
chemistry at Harvard Univer- to party, as counselors,.of the
sity and , science adviser t President."
President Eisenhower, and Ros- Some observers speculated
well L.. Gilpatric, New 'York that the' Presidents was eager
lawyer who served President
Kennedy as Deputy Secretary not only to obtain cqunsel on
of Defense, international questions but also,
for peace and the advancement) Mr. Johnson said the group
' (would not "act as a committee
f t
i
o
he nat
onal security:
The group has a bipartisan
cast. It includes such prominent
or hold regular meetings.
"Instead," he explained, "they
will be asked for advice as in-
Republicans as Mr. Dulles, John! d'vlduals,under flexible and
V. McCloy, who served as Pres- i ~e or each an the n ssums at
ident Kennedy's disarmament;, d" ,
adviser and Is now a partner in
the 'New York law firm of Mil-
bank: Tweed, Hadley di Mc-
Cloy; and Arthur Larson, direc-
The "regular, point of con-
tact" for-the panel he added,
will be McGeorge 8t{ndy,. the
President's special assistant for
in view of the sharpness of the
Presidential campaign, to 'pro-
ject an image of bipartisanship
and unity in foreign affairs.
His opponent, Senator Barry
Goldwater, has 'severely criti-
cized the Administration's con-
duct of foreign policy. ? ,,
In response to a question, the
President said that although he
was appointing no chairman
the group itself could select enj
if it wished;
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