Goldberg's New Guard

As usual when he has appointments to announce, the President looked like a magician with a Stetson full of rabbits. And, as usual, they came as a surprise to his audience. To support recently appointed Ambassador Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations, Johnson named a virtually new team of delegates. His selections:

> Charles W. Yost, 58, to serve as Goldberg's chief deputy. A career diplomat for more than two decades, Yost has served ably as No. 3 man in the U.N. Mission, as No. 2 will replace Francis T. P. Plimpton, who is returning to his Manhattan law practice.

> James Madison Nabrit Jr., 64, Negro president of Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, to succeed Yost as delegate to the Security Council.

> James Roosevelt, 58, F.D.R.'s eldest, as representative to the Economic and Social Council. Roosevelt, who will resign his California congressional seat, suceeds Franklin Williams, a Negro.

> Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 56, ex-Democratic national committeewoman from Minnesota, former Ambassador to Denmark (1949-53), later Minister to Bulgaria (1962-64), as representative to the Trusteeship Council, succeeding Mrs. Marietta Tree.

Though he thus replaced nearly all of Adlai's aides, the President offered neither explanation for the change nor praise for their past performance. That task fell to Goldberg, who paid graceful tribute to Stevenson's "old guard," adding: "We did not feel we had the right to exact further arduous service from people who had done so much."

Computerized Bureaucracy. L.B.J. named another Negro, Hobart Taylor Jr., to the board of the Export-Import Bank. Taylor, 45, has been serving as an associate special counsel to the President. A third Negro, Clifford Alexander, succeeds Taylor in the White House post; only 32 years old, Alexander graduated from Harvard cum laude, took a law degree at Yale, has been deputy special assistant to the President since last year. L.B.J. also appointed David G. Bress, 57, a practicing lawyer in Washington for 30 years, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Last week the President also:

>Signed an executive order making childless married men between the ages of 19 and 26 who marry after midnight Aug. 26, 1965, subject to the draft. The order triggered a minor stampede of couples hurrying to get married before midnight. Nevada, where couples can marry as soon as they obtain a license, was inundated by lovers, who queued 300 deep before the open-all-night marriage bureau.

> Announced at his press conference that he has ordered Administration officials "to immediately begin to introduce a very new and a very revolutionary system of planning and programming and budgeting throughout the vast Federal Government." The new system calls for all Government agencies to adopt Pentagon-style program-analysis techniques to define their goals and estimate costs.

> Accepted the credentials of new Ethiopian Ambassador Teshome Haile Marriam, later cruised down the Potomac with Marriam and 34 other ambassadors. An uninvited guest was New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who hustled aboard at the last minute thinking that he was joining another party. Said Lyndon: "You're my favorite stowaway."

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