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Inevitably, the ceremony ran behind schedule. Jack Kennedy, waiting in a small chamber near the rotunda, whistled softly to himself. At last he got the word that everything was ready, walked out onto the windswept platform, sat down next to Ike, and the two passed a few minutes in an animated discussion of Cornelius Ryan's book on DDay, The Longest Day, which Kennedy had been reading. It was 12:13 o'clock-and even though he had not yet taken his oath of office, Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since...
...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...
...Then Ike, a 40-year veteran of Army life, turned to what he, surprisingly to some, considered a danger of a different order: the possible domination of Government policy by "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" and an "immense" military establishment. "In the councils of Government," he said, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Nor, he added, should free scholarship become the handmaiden of the Federal Government. "The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct...
...message stirred New York's irreverent Daily News to a catchy headline: BEWARE OF EGGHEADS, MUNITIONS LOBBY: IKE...
...Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture was right, but he was never able to translate it into a workable farm program. Democratic Congresses, unwilling to give Benson what he wanted and unable to produce something better of their own, share the blame that Ike was more than willing to put on them. But not once in his eight presidential years did Eisenhower come fully and forcefully to grips with the most scandalous single drain on the U.S. taxpayers' purse...