Capital Notes: Behind the Scenes

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Signs of the Dollar. The expenses of Jack Kennedy's shadow government between election and inauguration will run about $210,000 for salaries, hotels, office space, supplies, phones and travel, including costs incurred by some Kennedy appointees on their revolving-door visits to Palm Beach or Georgetown. Other happy invitees have been paying their own way, and some regular Kennedy staffers are on Kennedy's senatorial payroll budget. The Democratic National Committee will have to pick up the check (as the Republican National Committee did for Ike in 1952).

But President Kennedy will probably ask Congress to appropriate funds for the next incoming Administration.