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...while much changed on Inauguration Day 1961, much remained unchanged. If John F. Kennedy intends to head toward a New Frontier, he will have to start out on the old paths. He could not abolish the legacy of the Eisenhower Administration even if he wanted to-any more than Ike could or wanted to undo the New Deal...
Arriving in Washington, Kennedy kept on the move. He watched Ike's farewell speech on TV, struggled into his formal clothes and hurried over to Sister Jean's house for a dinner dance. Then, after dropping in at a party tossed by West Coast Financier Bert Lytton, Kennedy took off again, in a chartered DC-6, for New York and a peaceful night away from the social demands of the capital. He got his final fittings for his inauguration outfit (cutaway, grey waistcoat, striped pants, topper), ordered a few business suits at $225 apiece, got a checkup from...
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...
...presiding, the group reviewed the problems of state that would soon become the responsibility of the Kennedy Administration. Each Eisenhower Cabinet member explained programs and policies existing in his particular field, and after each presentation Kennedy asked sharp, probing questions. At the end of the session Jack Kennedy thanked Ike for his help and cooperation. Replied President Eisenhower: "You are welcome-more than welcome. This is a question of the Government of the United States. It is not a partisan question...
...plea for creation of 40 new judgeships died in Congress-a victim of the same partisanship that had buried earlier Administration requests for additional judgeships. Democrats did not want to establish posts to be filled by a Republican President. In the interest of getting a bill enacted, Ike offered to split the new appointments evenly between the two parties, but still the Democrats stalled. Democratic leaders de cided to bet that the next President would be a Democrat, and that their party would then get a lot more than 50% of the new judgeships...