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Later that afternoon, President Kennedy got further word of his father's illness. His Bermuda conference with Brit ain's Harold Macmillan was less than 48 hours away. But there could be no doubt that Jack Kennedy would fly first to his father's bedside. "I'm going," Kennedy told Salinger. "Get things ready...
...Kennedy Lawford flew in from California; Ted Kennedy came by military jet from Boston, bringing with him Dr. William T. Foley, a Manhattan vascular specialist. From Washington came Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on the same plane that brought Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Palm Beach en route to the Bermuda conference. Ted Kennedy. Jean Smith and Ann Gargan spelled one another in a round-the-clock vigil near Room 355. where Joe Kennedy lay. Across the hall, doctors kept their own vigil. On the door to the doctors' room was a bronze plaque: "In Memory of Joseph P. Kennedy...
Between visits to the hospital. President Kennedy conferred with his aides, tried to keep abreast of his official duties. From Bermuda. Harold Macmillan offered to fly to Palm Beach for his talks with the President, or to call off the conference altogether. But when the doctors reported that Joseph Kennedy might continue in his semicomatose condition for weeks. the President decided to go ahead with his Bermuda plans...
...Kennedy showed "improvement." according to his doctors. He was still unable to use his vocal cords, still being fed intravenously and sleeping under sedation most of the time. That afternoon, the military jet carrying Rusk. Ambassador to Britain David Bruce, AECommissioner Glenn Seaborg and other members of the Bermuda conference team arrived in Palm Beach. They left from the airport for the Capton Paul residence (TIME, Dec. 15). where the President was staying. Waiting for them, Jack Kennedy received a telephone call from the hospital. It was his brother Ted. Their father, Ted reported, had awakened and was alert. Abruptly...
Behrendt's cartoon was memorable-but in fact, the eagle, the lion, the lamb and the bear were far from harmonizing about peace on earth. And it was a gloomy day when President John Kennedy arrived in Bermuda last week for his fourth series of somber talks this year with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Sitting in Hamilton's pale pink Government House. Kennedy and Macmillan conversed for as long as five hours at a stretch-with only a few minutes out for tea-but. inevitably, they were able to produce little in the way of hard solutions...