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Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach's long ordeal was over. Precisely 147 days after Katzenbach, 43, became the U.S.'s Acting Attorney General, a stand-in for Bobby Kennedy, he received a call asking him and his wife Lydia to have dinner at the White House. President Johnson arose from his sickbed and, wearing pajamas and a robe, supped with Lady Bird and the Katzenbachs in the family quarters, told Katzenbach that next day he would name him Attorney General for real.

Escape & Study. No one could say just why Johnson had kept Katzenbach dangling for so long--except, perhaps, for the fact that Katzenbach was a Bobby man. A big (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) man with an imposing expanse of bald scalp, Katzenbach is a son of a onetime New Jersey attorney general. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, was at Princeton when World War II broke out. As an Air Force navigator, he was shot down over the Mediterranean, captured, twice escaped from Italian prison camps, finally spent 20 months in a German prison camp. There, he got the Red Cross to send him the textbooks that he would need for his junior and senior years at Princeton. After his release, Katzenbach returned to Princeton, wrote a thesis and passed both his junior and senior exams, all in six weeks. He graduated magna cum laude, took his law degree at Yale, and won a Rhodes scholarship. He practiced law only briefly, then taught at the Yale and University of Chicago law schools.

In 1961 then Deputy Attorney General Byron White enlisted Katzenbach as a Justice Department lawyer in Washington, and when White went to the Supreme Court, Katzenbach succeeded him. Attorney General Kennedy used Katzenbach most notably as a troubleshooter. He headed the federal forces who fought a pitched battle trying to get Negro James Meredith admitted into the University of Mississippi. It was also Katzenbach who confronted Alabama's Governor George Wallace at the door of a University of Alabama building and, in a memorable scene, demanded that Wallace step aside to permit two Negro students to register. Wallace stepped aside.

Sharpening the Focus. Justice Department people foresee little, if any, change in operations now that Katzenbach is in official charge. Katzenbach and Bobby Kennedy saw eye to eye on just about every important phase of the department's work. Civil rights litigation will move apace, though Katzenbach thinks that the days of violent confrontations--and the use of federal troops to enforce the law--are over. Similarly, labor racketeering, a prime Kennedy target, will continue to get Katzenbach's attention; the new Attorney General will retain the so-called "Hoffa Unit," the anti-labor-racketeering section that was set up in the department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach's pet projects will certainly get fresh attention: the need for better legal aid for the poor. The department's new Office of Criminal Justice is studying the questions of bail, proper counsel and pretrial publicity as they affect indigents.

Among other presidential appointments announced last week:

-- To fill Katzenbach's old job as Deputy Attorney General: William Ramsey Clark, 37, son of Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark. He has been an As sistant Attorney General at the Justice Department in charge of public lands, recently worked with the President on the budget and matters concerning the Interior Department. -- To be special assistant to the President: W. (for William) Marvin Watson, 40, assistant to the president of Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co., chairman of the Texas State Democratic Com mittee, and skilled political organizer who helped in the President's election campaign. As all-round administrative assistant, Watson will get $28,500 a year, will perform liaison work with Governors, and in effect will take over the official duties once performed by former Aide Walter Jenkins. Said President Johnson of Watson recently: "Marvin is as wise as my father, gentle as my mother, and loyal to my side as Lady Bird."

> To be Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations: Douglas MacArthur II, 55, nephew of the late general, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1957-61) and Belgium (1961-65).

> To be Ambassador to Spain: Angier Biddle Duke, 49, for four years the State Department protocol chief, onetime Ambassador to El Salvador, nephew of the late Anthony J. Drexel Biddie, himself a onetime Ambassador to Spain.

The President presumably will soon be making his third Cabinet appointment (after Commerce Secretary Connor and Katzenbach). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week told newsmen that he would not be around to shepherd the new excise-tax reduction bill through Congress, and thus confirmed longstanding rumors that he would leave the Administration within a few months. The man most often mentioned for the job: American Electric Power Co. President Donald Cook (TIME, Sept. 11), who was once Senator Lyndon Johnson's counsel on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair. I don't think there's an abler man in Government."

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