1. The “shake-up” also included the appointments of: George W. Ball from Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to Under Secretary of State; George C. McGhee from Counselor and Chairman of the Department of State Policy Planning Council to succeed Ball; Walt W. Rostow from the White House to succeed McGhee; W. Averell Harriman from Ambassador at Large to Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs; Frederick G. Dutton from the White House to Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations; and Richard N. Goodwin from the White House to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.
2. M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Pub., Inc., 1965), pp. 405–414.
3. Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy (New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1966), pp. 322–325.
4. The New York Times, November 27, 1961, p. 24.
5. Schlesinger, op. cit., p. 412.