Appointments

The White House last week announced these appointments:

P: As liaison man between the departments and the President, with the title of administrative assistant: Val Peterson, 49, three-time governor of Nebraska. Peterson was first headed for New Delhi as U.S. Ambassador, but the assignment soured in the face of vociferous opposition from Nebraska's Republican Senator Hugh Butler, a bitter political enemy, and his newly elected colleague from Nebraska, Senator Dwight Griswold. The new job does not require Senate approval.

P: To be deputy to U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, 47. A lifelong friend of Cabot Lodge, "Jerry" Wadsworth has an impressive background of his own: he is the son of New York's late Senator-Congressman James W. Wadsworth Jr., grandson of John Hay (McKinley's Secretary of State and ambassador to Britain) and brother-in-law of Missouri's new Senator Stuart Symington. A hardworking, patient administrator, he has been active in public affairs for 25 years, as New York State legislator, in EGA and NSRB, most recently as acting head of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

P: To serve temporarily as special counsel to the President (for Thomas Stephens, who is filling in as appointments secretary for the ailing Arthur Vandenberg Jr.): Bernard M. Shanley, 49. A brainy, fast-moving lawyer from New Jersey, Shanley is a political newcomer, a preconvention supporter and protege of Harold Stassen. On the Eisenhower train last fall, he fell heir to the difficult task of shuffling VIPs, distinguished himself as a diplomat and peacemaker.

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