WI: Cabinet of RFK Administration

I'm sticking with my previous suggestion:

However if you want to fill the post I suggest Marshall Carter. He's been Deputy Director of the CIA, was running No Such Agency in 1969, and was a former Lt. General. He hits all the buttons and would likely have a good working relationship with Helms and the rest of the intelligence community as well as the DoD.
 
Okay, here is my list of presidential staff and some other positions. I might need some help and advice in this field, as I'm not that good at presidential staff choices and other picks. Anyway, here's a list of some candidates, subject to change at a later date:

  • Chief of Staff: Kenny O'Donnell
  • Press Secretary: Jack Newfield
  • Chief of Domestic Policy (Assistant Chief of Staff?): Larry O'Brien
  • Head of VISTA: Allard Lowenstein
  • U.N. Ambassador: Andrew Young (D-GA)
  • Peace Corps Director: Rennie Davis
  • CIA Director: David Blee

That's all I have for now. Anyone care to make suggestions for positions that I haven't thought of? In the meantime, discuss my ideas. Feel free to bash them too.
 
[*]CIA Director: David Blee

He was head of the Near East division at the time. There is virtually no way that he leaps that far up the CIA career ladder. Nor would Kennedy, who loved all that covert action stuff, fire Helms who epitomizes that model of the CIA.

Heck by 1975 he was still only Assistant Deputy Director for Operations. It'd be like picking some Colonel and telling him he's now head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 
Traditionally, wouldn't it be Chief of Staff? Course then you just have to put O'Donnell somewhere else...

If I were writing this I would put Smith or Fred Dutton as Bobby's Chief of Staff, with O'Donnell chairing the DNC. I would also most certainly put Frank Mankiewicz as the new Press Secretary for the White House.
 
If I were writing this I would put Smith or Fred Dutton as Bobby's Chief of Staff, with O'Donnell chairing the DNC. I would also most certainly put Frank Mankiewicz as the new Press Secretary for the White House.

Would you like to co-collaborate on this hcallega, now that Reporting for Duty is done?
 
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Coming back to my RFK TL Preliminary Plans. Hope to start it fully with hcallega this summer. Meanwhile, I move onto another topic for discussion: The Republican Nominee in 1972. I have already planned for Reagan to be the Republican Nominee and Winner in 1976 (Since we've had about 16 years of Democratic presidents, I'm certain the voters are suffering from fatigue, plus Yarborough is a little too left for some). Would Peter Dominick work IOTL, like RogueBeaver's The Impossible Dream? Or somebody else? And what about V.P. picks. I believe that since Reagan isn't running against an incumbent President of his party ITTL, and is a lock for the nomination, he probably won't name his nominee for Vice President before the opening of the convention. As for VP Picks for TTL 1976 Republican Ticket, does anybody think that George H.W. Bush, who I have winning Ralph Yarborough's Senate seat in 1970, still work ITTL? Discuss.
 
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My list of Supreme Court Justice Picks in this RFK TL is now complete.

  • Nominee to fill vacancy of Earl Warren: Arthur Goldberg
  • Nominee to fill vacancy of Abe Fortas: Archibald Cox
  • Nominee to fill vacancy of Hugo Black: Thomas Kuchel
  • Nominee to fill vacancy of John Marshall Harlan: Joe Dolan
  • Nominee to fill vacancy of William Douglas (Should he retire early ITTL): Roger Wilkins
  • Nominee for Chief Justice: William Brennan (Though it can change by the time Actual TL is started)
 
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