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ane Kennedy’ T. op-Rated As Justice Boss A A Lot 0 of f Dynamic Pluses Stacked Against ya Bobbles b ¥ At ey vencra . By James E. Clayton Stat Neperter aL. OR A MAN whose, motives, Intel. . The Indictment es “lect, experience and judgment were sharply questioned when he took joifice, Robert F. Kennedy will be leav- ‘ing the Justice Department ‘shortly jwith a rematkably good record. Kennedy may not be the best Attor- ey General this Nation has had in a ceneration, but if he is not the best, he is awfully close to it. He has guided more important leg- istation through Congress than did any of his predecessors in the past 20 vears. He has made the Federal Gov- ernment, for the first time, a vigorous enemy of organized crime. He has pushed equal rights for all Americans harder and farther than any other [\ttorney General in history. And he has gotten from his top aides work of such excellence as has seldom before een approached in the Justice Depart- ent. All this adds up to an administrative {record for Kennedy — as contrasted with his record on nonlegal activities —that puts him near the top among he 68 men who have occupied the riffice of Attorney General since it was created in 1789. : eo. _ == HE KENNEDY record, however, is not perfect. His critics say that he has been vindictive against those . who dared defy him or his brother, brutai in his handling of civii rights problen. , soft in his application of the antitrust laws to big business, inclined to use his power to aid his brother's political image and careless of civil liberLies. Some of these criticisms are valid, and it will be inleresting in the wecks ahead to see how those who cried out against his appointment now assess his record. Te those who said In 1964 ihat he as a political opportunist, Kennedy can point to the indictment and con- viction of two Democratic Conzress- men for violating the conflict of inter- est laws—an indictment that cost the Democrals a seat in Conpress in 1962. To the liberals who said in 1960 that he failed to understand the need far scrupulous care about civil Jiber- tles, ienthedy can point lo the .tremen- ENCLOSVRE 13 6" 27e = ers Coy mR New Leader SEP Uspér _ Cellchan . Conrad: Det iy = Eva Gale fi osen Sullivan Tavel Trotter tee Tele Room Holmes — eet Gandy Tae Laraey Stee The Washington Post and owes Times Herald \. The Washington Dally News The Eventing Star New York Heraid Tribune New York Journai-American \ New York Mirtor New York Dally News — rv. 7 New York Post The New York Times The Worker = eG The Wall Gtreet Journal ———... ¢jailenal Observer —___ eople’s World ee ee ee see MARDER OAS Bemus a aR es f 7 rs ue : Mires rea’