... assume the burden of "defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger." Kennedy's Cabinet appointments included Dean Rusk, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, as secretary of state, and Robert S. McNamara, president of Ford Motor Company, as secretary of defense. Other appointments, were C. Douglas Dillon, who had been undersecretary of state in the Eisenhower administration, as secretary ... of the treasury, and Kennedy's own brother, Robert, as attorney general. Kennedy sought with significant success to attract brilliant young people to government service. Kennedy's most inf...

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