WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 1960 (UPI) - The outgoing and incoming administrations began talks at the White House today to plan for the transfer of powers to Sen. John F. Kennedy when he becomes president on Jan. 20. Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, President Eisenhower's chief assistant, met with Clark Clifford, Kennedy's liaison man with the White House.
Persons and Clifford discussed general arrangements and planned other meetings between Eisenhower administration officials and Kennedy aides to consider specific problems in various fields.
Such matters as foreign policy, defense, and farm policy undoubtedly will be taken up in more detail at the subsequent meetings between experts on those subjects.
It was learned that Kennedy's advisory committee on Defense Department reorganization is considering a proposal to eliminate the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force, and give stronger power to the Defense Secretary.
The group, headed by Sen. Stuart Symington (D., Mo.), also is weighing a plan to put greater authority in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Symington will confer with Kennedy next Saturday in Florida on the defense proposals.
