States might even have a salutary effect. In 1962 President Kennedy appointed Abba Schwartz administrator of the bureau. No greater contrast with McLeod could have been imagined. Schwartz, a liberal, a law partner of James Landis’s, a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt’s, had long experience in refugee and immigration problems. He had served as liaison between Mrs. Roosevelt and the Kennedys in the 1960 campaign. “We’ve lost a good deal of time,” the President told Schwartz, and I’m fed up with the image we have as a police state. I keep seeing reports about excluding visitors because of
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