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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...
Amid all the gaiety, the first flakes of snow were barely noticed. But they kept falling-and falling and falling. By nightfall on inaugural eve, confusion was complete. At least 10,000 cars were stalled and abandoned. Airplanes stacked up over the airport, then flew away; Herbert Hoover, winging up from Miami, had to turn back, never got to the inaugural. It took Pat Nixon 2½ hours to get from her Wesley Heights home to the Senate Office Building, where her husband was holding a farewell party for his staff. Secretary of State Christian Herter got stuck...
...conference with Nixon (reportedly prearranged by a telephone call between Joe Kennedy and his old friend Herbert Hoover) was outwardly just a good-will trip, to heal the recent campaign wounds. After greeting each other warmly in front of Nixon's stucco villa, the two recent adversaries retreated behind the screening around the Vice President's sun porch and talked animatedly for more than an hour. They talked some about the problems of transition and foreign policy, discussed the subject of possible Republicans in the Kennedy Administration, and agreed to meet again in about two weeks (when Nixon...
...letter from President Woodrow Wilson-a letter that Robinson last saw when he donated it to Stanford as part of an $8,000 collection of 43 historical documents. Robinson promptly called library officials. All the documents were gone, along with another batch of presidential autographs, from Washington to Hoover...
...well-publicized debater against Khrushchev and sponsored by an immensely popular President. In 1964 the argument of experience and continuity of office will be on the side of Jack Kennedy. Only twice in the 20th century have Presidents lost their second-term bids-Taft lost to Wilson, Hoover to Roosevelt...