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...transition from Dwight Eisenhower to John Kennedy was unflawed by the personal and political feudism of the Hoover-Roosevelt and Truman-Eisenhower changeovers. During the span between election and inauguration, members of the Eisenhower Administration, at the President's orders, cooperated fully with Kennedy and his appointees. Eisenhower and Kennedy met face to face for three hours in early December. Last week, the day before the inauguration, they conferred again, then met with Cabinet officers of the old and new Administrations in what a joint communiqué called a "full discussion of the world situation...
Alone in the back seat of his cream-colored Lincoln, he rode to the White House for his last preinaugural meeting with Dwight Eisenhower. The two talked privately for about 45 minutes, during which Ike demonstrated the procedure for evacuating the White House in case of emergency. Ike lifted the phone, spoke a few words; five minutes later, an Army helicopter was hovering over the White House lawn. Suitably impressed, Kennedy strolled over to the Cabinet Room with Ike to meet with incoming Secretaries Dillon, McNamara and Rusk and their outgoing opposite numbers. Laughed Ike: "I've shown...
...using 700 plows and trucks, had worked throughout the night removing almost eight inches of snow from Washington's main streets. Jack Kennedy's big day began when he attended Mass at nearby Holy Trinity Church, then drove to the White House with Jackie for coffee with Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, the Lyndon Johnsons, the Richard Nixons and several congressional leaders. Then, the day's preliminaries done, President Dwight Eisenhower and President-elect John Kennedy emerged in top hats and smiles, stepped into the black, bubble-top presidential limousine, and drove down Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill...
...week that closed out his eight years in office, Dwight Eisenhower had a final briefing for John Kennedy, held his 193rd and last presidential press conference, greeted the last ambassador accredited to the U.S. during his stay in office (goateed Konan Bedie of the Ivory Coast, at 26 the youngest ambassador ever to serve in Washington). Ike also delivered his final televised presidential address to the nation. It was his farewell message, and he meant it to be remembered...
...future, Dwight Eisenhower had decided that he was going to write, to talk, and to work for his ideas of government. As he bade godspeed to his friends of the White House years, he also served notice that they would be seeing him in the future: "Believe me, I'm going to be heard from...