In November. he announced a major shift of personnel. including the transfer of three important White House staff members to the State Department. In addition to designating Mr. Rostow as head of the Policy Planning Staff of State. the President decided shortly thereafter to abolish the crisis desk in State. This unit. officially known as the Operations Center. was designed to cut across bureaucratic lines to other agencies and through the red tape of the Department itself. Let us look at Berlin. In this instance we were unprepared for the bold move. We knew of Khrushchevs concern with the embarrassing flow of refugees from East Berlin. We should have expected the construction of the concrete curtain. Mr.
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