THE WEEK

• Last Wednesday the shelves of French bookstores blossomed out with scores of the brightly jacketed new Plon publication Le Président Kennedy— Nouvelle Vague à la Maison Blanche? (“President Kennedy—New Wave in the White House?”). Publisher Plon was playing a sure thing. Back in the store-pom, each bookseller had a pile of the companion bilography (same publisher, same author—Le Figaro’s brilliant American correspondent, Nicolas Chatelaine) : Le Président Nixon—Nouvelle Vague, etc.— the first book in history to be remaindered before going on sale.

• A number of citizens are terribly pleased, and about the same number gravely alarmed, because they think that Mr. Kennedy is going to name that First Citizen of the World, Adlai Stevenson, as his Secretary of State. We have a hunch he won’t. The Kennedys are not a forgetting family, and it’s unlikely that President-elect Kennedy will fail to remember that Stevenson fought him, rather nastily, to the end in Los Angeles; that First Citizeness Eleanor Roosevelt gave her two and a half New York delegate votes (we never did get the name of that halfvote) to Stevenson while her worst enemy in the state, Carmine De Sapio, was handing Kennedy 103; and that a sizable portion of Kennedy’s indispensable Eastern pluralities over Nixon last Tuesday was made up of Irish Catholics, many of whom had twice voted for Eisenhower over Stevenson. President Kennedy, we imagine, whomever he names as his Secretary of State, is going—for better or worse—to be his own Foreign Minister.

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• Last Wednesday the shelves of French bookstores blossomed out with scores of the brightly jacketed new Plon publication Le Président Kennedy— Nouvelle Vague à la Maison Blanche? (“President Kennedy—New Wave in the White House?”). Publisher Plon was playing a sure thing. Back in the store-pom, each bookseller had a pile of the companion bilography (same publisher, same author—Le Figaro’s brilliant American correspondent, Nicolas Chatelaine) : Le Président Nixon—Nouvelle Vague, etc.— the first book in history to be remaindered before going on sale.

• A number of citizens are terribly pleased, and about the same number gravely alarmed, because they think that Mr. Kennedy is going to name that First Citizen of the World, Adlai Stevenson, as his Secretary of State. We have a hunch he won’t. The Kennedys are not a forgetting family, and it’s unlikely that President-elect Kennedy will fail to remember that Stevenson fought him, rather nastily, to the end in Los Angeles; that First Citizeness Eleanor Roosevelt gave her two and a half New York delegate votes (we never did get the name of that halfvote) to Stevenson while her worst enemy in the state, Carmine De Sapio, was handing Kennedy 103; and that a sizable portion of Kennedy’s indispensable Eastern pluralities over Nixon last Tuesday was made up of Irish Catholics, many of whom had twice voted for Eisenhower over Stevenson. President Kennedy, we imagine, whomever he names as his Secretary of State, is going—for better or worse—to be his own Foreign Minister.