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    "ocrText": "-3-\nmore than willing you should do, but those shoulders have to be stout\nand strong.\nK:\nWell,\nyou\nknow,\nmy problem ink has been that after I became Secretary\nI was immediately thrown into the Middle East crisis. But now I've got\nall my people appointed and Bill has been very good about confirming\nthem. So I think within two weeks of the Congress coming back all my\ntop people should be confirmed and then I have my own team in there.\nJ:\nVery good. I hear Sisco's staying.\nK:\nSisco is staying. We are going to announce him tomorrow or the day\nafter, as Under Secretary. Do you think that's a good appointment?\nJ:\nVery good. I think especially with you he will draw enormous resource\nfrom the confidence you will vest in him. He's a man who flowers and\nblossoms if confidence is vested in him. And he gets very conspirator-\nial if it's drained away.\nK:\nThat's a very sharp observation. You are right.\nJ:\nYou see, it works in reverse with Joe.\nK:\nIn fact, that was one hesitation I had about appointing him because I\nhad just seen ;his conspiratorial side. But I have now recognized him,\nXX in his travels with me that if you work closely with him he is really\nvery loyal. He\nJ:\nNot only is he loyal, but you know, he isn't kidding me. He's got\ndamn good standing with the Arabs. And he's earned it, which is all\nO.K. You know what I mean? And he values it highly, too, which\nis good too.\nK:\nNow, Jack, I'm thinking of appointing somebody in charge of Congres-\nsional relations who's a bit of an off-beat appointment. It's Nat Davis.\nI don't know whether you know him.\nJ:\nI know a little bit about him.\nK:\nHe was our Ambassador in Chile. He's the youngest career minister\nwe've got. He was in the Peace Corps with Shriver and when our\nAmbassador to Guatemala was killed when LBJ was President, he\nvolunteered to go down there as Ambassador. I've had him back here\nas Director General of the Foreign Service. He's so good that if\nSisco hadn't stayed I would have made him Under Secretary. But I\nthought it would be better to have somebody with substantive knowledge"
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