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on hand at the Naval Officers Wives Club bazaar,
set to begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, December
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By BETTY BEALE
Why Doesn't the President
Change Camp David Name?
President Kennedy's sisters
were recently urged to per
suade their brother to change
the name of Camp David
either back to Shangri-La.
its pre-Eisenhower name, or
to something entirely new.
The reason given was that
Camp David, having been
named after President Eisen
hower's grandson, is so
thoroughly associated with
that administration that
when the Kennedys recently
visited the Maryland hill site
it almost seemed as if they
were encroaching.
Although Shangri-La was
an impersonal name, Presi
dent Eishenower is reported
as having such an antipathy
to it that he insisted that
the sign on the camp be
repainted by the time he re
turned from his first fishing
trip on his first visit to the
camp.
Why President Kennedy
hasn't changed the name of
the woodland retreat is hard
to understand, unless he
doesn’t intend to really use
it. He lost no time in erasing
David’s sisters’ names from
his much-used two-boat fleet
when he became President.
The Barbara Anne and the
Susie E. were quickly re
christened the Honey Fitz
and the Patrick J. after his
two grandfathers.
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THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington, D. C., December 3, 1961
LENDING SANTA A HAND
One wonders why the
present incumbent and his
predecessor have leaned so
heavily toward family names,
which are almost bound to
be changed by ■ a successor.
President Hoover used the
yacht Sequoia, President
Roosevelt the Mayflower and
President Truman the Wil
liamsburg—all impersonally
labeled —and the only one of
the .three still in use, now
the Secretary of the Navy's
yacht, is still called the
Sequoia. Presumably named
after a Cherokee Indian, not
a presidential antecedent,
offspring or grandchild, it
has managed to survive and
thus become a familiar in
stitution in Washington's of
ficial history.
In short, if President Ken
nedy does decide to change
the name of Camp David,
one would not urge him to
call it the Crimson Corner,
the Rocking Chair Roost, or
even the. Joseph P. His suc
cessor would certainly change
it again.
** * *
SECRETARY OF STATE
RUSK’S new attitude to
ward protocol printed in this
column last week—i.e„ “it is
entirely appropriate to mix
private citizens in among the
officials iat a dinner) if you
preserve the relative rank of
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the officials” —has produced
much comment among for
eign ambassadors.
Needless to say, the Secre
tary did not have in mind
seating a private citizen
above a foreign ambassador
who. if he is accredited to
Washington, represents a
chief of state. What he did
have in mind was a freer
distribution of officials and
civilians to make for more
interesting table conversa
tions and to keep the private
‘ citizen who, under our con
stitutional system, holds “the
loftiest position," from al
ways being seated below the
salt. ,
Luxembourg Ambassador
George Heisbourg said that
he himself ‘‘would never
seat a private citizen above
anyone with a presiden
tial appointment or any
body with a mandate from
the people on a Federal
basis" meaning United
States Senator or Congress
man.
Since presidential ap
pointees include presidential
assistants who are all the
way down to 47th place on
the table of precedence pub
lished in the Green Book
>a list unofficially derived
from State Department seat
ing), this means that this
Ambassador would not feel
free to follow the example
of Secretary Rusk who has
seated a president of a com
pany above a Congressman
who is 30th on the list.
Ambassador Heisbourg,
who is young, attractive and
not at all stuffy, also pointed
out that the demands of in
ternational protocol are so
strict, no foreign ambassador
while he is in this country
can ever attend even a com
pletely private and unofficial
party, except in the capacity
of his chief of state’s repre
sentative.
THE FRENCH, who prac
tically invented etiquette,
take the same view. In
France a foreign ambassador
ranks second only to Presi
dent de Gaulle, whereas in
this country foreign ambas- I
sadors are downgraded to
sixth place—after the Vice
President, the Speaker, the
Chief Justice, and former
Presidents.
The French also never have
such a thing as a guest of
honor. Even when a party is
planned in someone's honor
the invitations never say so, i
and unless he is the rank
ing guest he is not seated
on the right of the hostess.
The only time a French am
bassador can relinquish his
place is when he is dining
irt another French official's
household the French min
ister's, for instance—when he
may step down to permit a
very high-ranking American
to have the place of honor.
** « *
THE BRITISH go even
further. Said the British Em
bassy's protocol spokesman.
Patrick Wright: "When our
Ambassador is dining at an
English house he should nor
mally be given precedence
over everyone there-includ
ing all other ambassadors— ’
because he is the Queen’s
personal representative.”
It looks as though the Na
tion's Capital simply cannot
indulge in the kind of freely
disposed seating for which
Bernard Baruch has been
noted. When asked once
about his seating arrange
ments, Mr. Baruch replied:
“The people who matter don't
mind and the people who
mind don't matter.”
But that axiom doesn't hold
in the diplomatic life of a
capital. So more power to
Mr. Rusk if he is able to
make any headway at all
in the less astronomical
echelons.
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Soviet Ambassador Mikhail
Menshikov and Netherlands
Ambassador Herman van
Roijen had an unusual ex
change on male garb at the
Congo Brazzaville reception
the other day. It began when
someone observed that the
host. Ambassador Dadet, was
wearing white tie and tails
at his 6 to 8 party and that
many presidents of countries
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even before noon if they are
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with a rather serious expres
sion.
"Don’t you wear suspend
ers?” he was quickly asked
with a twinkle?
"I mean," he said with a
laugh, “there are so many
parts to it.”
"I didn't know,” said Am
bassador van Roijen with an
impish smile, “in the Soviet
Union that you ever had a
complex about things falling
down.”
*• * •
VICE PRESIDENT JOHN
SON, probably the only of
ficial in Washington who
doesn't have an unlisted tele-
phone, has been receiving so
many unnecessary calls since
the election last November
he has been tempted to take
his number out of the book.
But. says LBJ, “it is the
last concession I will make
to the office.” ... He has
had his number listed ever
since he came to Congress
in 1937. Lyndon, who can
turn off his phone in his bed
room at night, thinks public
officials should be available
to the public at least during
their waking hours.
This is an unusual attitude.
Judging by the number of
legislators and other officials
who do not list their phone
numbers mainly because of
crank calls from the home,
folks who forget about the
time difference. . . . Based
on the strenuous measures
Senator Clair Engle has had
to take, California must have
more oddballs eager to make
odd calls than any other
state. . . . First he had an
unlisted number which he
gave to a handful of key
people, but in no time at all
some of those oddballs got
it and began calling in the
middle of the night. So he
changed his number and the
only person who has it is
his secretary. Even the White
House has to call her first.