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...parental problems. Leaving the J.C.S. conference on Berlin, Kennedy changed into white tie and tails to preside at a state dinner for Peru's President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (see THE HEMISPHERE). As Hurricane Esther swept toward Cape Cod, he put a call through to his father in Hyannisport, asked if Daughter Caroline and Son John ought to be moved from the summer house to higher ground. At 5 a.m. on Thursday, the President's children, along with six of their cousins, were awakened and driven 18 miles through the rain to refuge at Otis Air Force Base...
During his weekend at Hyannisport, he discussed, phrased and rephrased the ideas for his General Assembly speech this week. Among Kennedy's main points...
...projection room. And still another night he ordered up a batch of mystery novels for his bedtime reading (the President also recently reread Alfred Duff Cooper's Talleyrand, and declared to friends: "It's a great book"). Finally, at week's end, he flew back to Hyannisport for a few hours with his family...
...Hyannisport the President seems to be able to throw off the cares of his office, discussing Massachusetts politics with his brothers or, as on one recent occasion, turning to a nonplussed dinner guest to demand a listing of the world's 15 most beautiful women. But such respites are brief, and there is always the return to Washington and the job. There, behind the closed doors of the big oval office, Jack Kennedy works and paces in the loneliness that only a U.S. President can know...
Scarcely 50 minutes after the White House had announced the Soviet nuclear test, President Kennedy flew off to his. summer home at Hyannisport. There, over the Labor Day weekend, he relaxed with his family, loaded 18 of the clan's small fry onto a golf cart and drove off to the candy store. Obviously, if Nikita Khrushchev had tried to panic John Kennedy, he had missed the mark...